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Table of Contents Volume 5, No. 12, December 14, 2005 On the Cover: A young participant in the recent protest at Ft. Benning (photo by Robert Ludgate)

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Ft. Benning Blues

Feedback

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Letters to the Editor

City Notebook 10 News bits from around town Jane Fishman 11 Designing the perfect fish story

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Blotter 12 From SPD reports News of the Weird 13 Strange but true Earthweek 14

This week on your planet

Culture Cuisine 23 Great ribs THoTHo Art Patrol 24 Exhibits & openings

Cuisine 23 Theatre Review 25

A Christmas Carol Connect Savannah

Vibes Music Interview 15 Wrecking Ball time Music Menu 17

Local gigs a la carte

Connect Recommends 18 Concerts of the week

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Regional concerts

Art Patrol 24 Soundboard 26 Who’s playing and where

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Film Now Showing 28

All the flicks that fit

The 411 Week at a Glance

5 Our best bets for cool stuff to do

Happenings 31 All the stuff, all the time

Music Interview 15

Classifieds Weather 18 News from the sky Crossword Puzzle 39 Mental fun Sudoku Puzzle 40 It’s all the rage Classifieds 45 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

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The Wrecking Ball What: The City of Savannah will present the Wrecking Ball to celebrate the reclamation of Ellis Square. The party will be located in the area surrounding the current City Market garage and will feature Mayor Otis Johnson, the city aldermen, Magic Marc, the Puppet People, Trae Gurley, Two Blue and Liquid Ginger. There will be Moon Bounces and artwork for the kids and free hard hats, while they last. The event will end with a fireworks display. Merchants and restaurant will offer specials in honor of the Wrecking Ball. Free parking will be provided in the Robbie Robinson and Liberty Street garages with a shuttle running to and from the party. When: Saturday, Dec. 17 from 3-7 p.m.

Where: City Market. Cost: Free

Skatefest continues

What: Skate on real ice. Each session lasts one and a half hours. When: Dec. 15 at 4, 6 and 8 p.m., Dec. 16 at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Dec. 17 at 10 a.m., noon, 2, 4, 6., 8 and 10 p.m., Dec. 18 at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Dec. 19, 20 and 21 at 10 a.m., noon, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center’s Martin Luther King Jr. Arena. Cost: $7 per person.

Call: 651-6556.

Friday Dec. 16

The Abyssinia Players Present Black Nativity

What: This gospel-song play by Langston Hughes was adapted and is directed by Ja Jahannes. When: Dec. 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 18 at 5 p.m. Where: Abyssinia Playhouse, 1622 Ogeechee Rd. Cost: Donations accepted.

Call: 355-1300 for additional information or group reservations.

White Bluff United Methodist Church DriveThru Nativity What: Many scenes will be presented to portray the story of the birth of Christ. Cars will enter on White Bluff Road at the church and exit onto Abercorn Street. At the entrance, each vehicle will be offered a narrative on either CD or cassette tape, which will be turned in at the exit. When: Dec. 16 and 17 from 6-9 p.m. Where: White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd. Call: 925-5924.

Saturday Dec. 17

What: Discover Gyotaku, an ancient form of Japanese printing that blends art and science.

Fishermen once used this ancient art form, using an actual fish to create a print on rice paper, to record the size and type of fish that they caught. Learn about fish anatomy while using rubber fish molds to create your own modern work of art. Bring a T-shirt or tote bag to print on.

When: Dec. 17 from 10-11 a.m. Where: Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand on Tybee Island. Cost: $7 per person. Call: 786-5917. Reservations are required.

6th Annual Tour of Historic Houses of Worship What: Seventeen houses of worship will participate: Epworth United Methodist, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, St. Paul CME, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran, St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox, Bull Street Baptist, Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, First Baptist, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Trinity United Methodist, Independent Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension, Second African Baptist Church and the First African Baptist Church. Participants may begin at any participating house of worship. Churches with limited tour hours are the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist from 12:30-3:30 p.m., St. Philip’s Monumental AME from noon to 2 p.m. and Congregation Mickve Israel from 1-4 p.m. When: Dec. 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: Free. Call: 920-9395 or visit www.hhw.armstrong.edu.

Savannah Concert Association Presents Charles Wadsworth & Friends What: Wadsworth performs with top-rated musicians playing various master works. When: Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $35, $25 and $12.50. Call: 525-5050 or visit www.lucastheatre.com.

Reel Savannah Presents Travelers & Magicians

Sunday Dec. 18

What: A magical mixture of rustic road movie and mystical fable, Khyentse Norbu’s film is the first every shot in the tiny kingdom of Bhutan. It weaves parallel fables about two ment who seek to escape their mundane lives. Dondup decides he will be better off picking grapes in the United States than working as a rural government officer, while Tashi cannot bear the thought of a life consigned to his village. As the men embark on parallel yet separate journeys with a common yearning for a better life, the question remains: Is the grass truly greener on the other side? In Dzonghka, with English subtitles; 108 minutes in length. When: Dec. 18 at 7 p.m.

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What: Move over, Scrooge, it’s time for your old partner, Marley, to tell his story. This play is irreverent, yet affectionate and very moving. When: Dec. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with the door opening at 7 p.m. for light fare and drinks and 6 p.m. on Sunday, with the doors opening at 5 p.m. There will be a matinee Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. with the doors opening at 1 p.m. Where: Tybee Theater Cafe is above Las Palmas restaurant at Highway 80 and Jones Avenue. Cost: $20. Call: 786-6384, Reservations are required.

What: Three small dramas with big hearts -- The Gift of the Magi, The Ethics of Pig and He Also Serves -- will be presented by the Actors Repertory Theatre Company, formerly known as Fowl Brick. See a swindler get swindled with a swine, hear Hunky Magee tell of his adventure to South America and experience the love and sacrifice a couple makes for each other at Christmas time. When: Dec. 16-17 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. Where: Fellowship Hall at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2023 Tennessee Ave. Cost: $9 adults, $7 students and $5 children under 12. Call: 235-4414.

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by Robert Ludgate

Editor’s Note: Each November local peace and justice advocates take part in the annual vigil outside the former School of the Americas (SOA), a unique event that’s a mixture of protest march, street theatre and civil disobedience.

SOA is a taxpayer-supported counterinsurgency training center at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga., which a congressional investigation found was teaching torture and execution techniques to its primarily Latin American clientele. With the growing national debate over the role of torture in U.S. policy, we present this first-person report from one local advocate. You can decide for yourself if his is a cause worth believing in.

WITH A FIGURATIVE backdrop of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and with the vice president wanting to exclude the CIA from restraints in torturing detainees, an exceptionally large crowd of about 20,000 people took part in the annual vigil outside Ft. Benning to say, “No mas” -- no more.

Now referred to as WHISC, or Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, but more commonly known and still referred to as the SOA, the School of the Americas (or School of Assassins, depending on to whom one speaks) is headquarted at Ft. Benning. Over the decades it has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers, a preponderance of them from Colombia, a nation with one of the worst human rights records in the world.

Training manuals released from the school after a congressional investigation revealed that their training included instruction in techniques of torture, extortion and execution, all paid for by U.S. tax dollars.

My wife and stepson and I arrive on site Saturday around noon, and although thanks to an ACLU lawsuit filed after the 2003 vigil there were no body searches, there is a gauntlet of police to pass through. The unblinking eye of a videocam records the comings and goings of everyone present.

The local newspaper says that Columbus is spending $250,000 on beefed-up security, and I believe it. There is even an “eye in the sky” cherry-pickertype device with heavily smoked windows from which the crowd may be viewed, and I suppose photographed.

infamous past graduates of the SOA. We are provided with legally acceptable bamboo poles to replace the PVC, and while I wonder how they were considered less lethal, I confess they were lighter and worked as well.

As Lori and Drew prepare to march with the Puppetistas, I again become

A much larger than usual crowd gathered at Ft. Benning this year, apparently motivated by various torture and detainee abuse scandals in the news recently Were I there to cause trouble, I would be intimidated.

As we move into the entry area, we see a long list of banned items -- which unfortunately includes the PVC pipes which control the motions of the 20-ft. wingspan “peace dove” made by our Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community youth group. A quick intervention by one of the many SOA Watch Legal Collective Observers avoids a confrontation.

A short chat with the Observer reveals that they are there to watch for and document any civil rights violations, to meet beforehand with those intending to cross “over the line” to be arrested, and to make sure those about to be arrested understand the ramifications and consequences of their actions. The Observers will also help represent them when their day in court arrives.

As we talk the Observer leads us to the leader of the Puppetistas, the oversized caricatures bearing the names of

aware that this vigil is no ordinary street corner gathering like we’ve seen in Savannah, with just a handful of people working for peace. The maxim says there is strength in numbers, so imagine 1519,000 people in constant motion, packed into a space roughly the width and length of Victory Drive from McAlpin Square to Skidaway Road, focused on peace and justice.

From all over America, Canada, Central and South America and elsewhere they come -- black, white, yellow and red, retiree and student, military vet and conscientious objector. Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jew and atheist side by side with straight and gay -- to say in one voice, “Close the SOA.” Adding to the noise and bustle of the crowd, and reminiscent of a country fair, booths line one side of the street, where vendors of hats, buttons, T-shirts, books and magazines vie loudly for attention with the national grassroots organizations who see the SOA vigil as a face-to-

face nexus in a far-flung federation of peace and justice workers in congress, each with critical concerns on their agenda, including women and childrenís rights, environmental issues and ending the war in Iraq.

The organizations represented included Code Pink, United for Peace & Justice, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pax Christi, War Resisters League, Voices in the Wilderness, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and many others.

The unmistakable chop-chop-chop of a Huey close enough overhead to make out the profile of the pilot ratchets up the decibel level. The PA system contributes to the din with tales from those who have been kidnapped and tortured but were fortunate enough to escape, interspersed with music that includes choruses of “Close the gates of the SOA.” It is a sensory, especially auditory, overload, and though I am prepared, my earplugs cannot block out the presence and intensity of the crowd.

As I turn to leave I see, lying motionless on the pavement nearby, the “blood”-smeared body of a young man, labeled “campesino civilian,” with two unsmiling men tagged “paramilitary” looming over him.

In spite of the cacophony around me, the scene speaks to me with an eloquent silence, mute reminder of the thousands of ordinary people who have become “collateral damage,” murdered in militaryled massacres that for decades have been executed by those trained at SOA or under their command.

My search for Maryknoll priest Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch and leader of the efforts to close the SOA, is rewarded shortly. I find him surrounded by friends -- fellow clergy, political and union leaders, social justice activists of all persuasions, including Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, and many ordinary folks

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Under his regime, economic realities forced him to accept the help -- and the terms of -the International Monetary Fund, which led to enrichment for the elite and corporate leaders of the time, much to the detriment of the poor.

Back outside, I head for the Port-A-Johnny, and as I wait my turn I see a small group of perhaps 15-20 encircled, singing together from a hymnal.

When I step back out, the tune is familiar. I am handed a hymnal, and notice the group has now grown to 30 or 40.

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Knowing demands on his time were In spite of the seriousness of the great, I ask just two questions, and occasion, there is also a genuine source though I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there representing a of humor present here, embodied in major media outlet, his attention never Sister Missionary P. (for Position ) wavers from me.

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“PRE...SEN...TE!” before, and Sunday morning arrives and wonder how again we join the assemmany times. blage of those gathered for “So many the Memorial Service and times I can’t Solemn Funeral Procession. remember how Thousands are gathered in many,” is her orderly ranks, most bearing reply. “They small wooden crosses, each won’t arrest you with a name and an age and unless you do on many the name of a something I’m country. not capable of As the procession steps doing anymore.” off, I’m struck by the Back on the eeriness, the hushed silence stage, tales are of such a large group of told of torture people. As we walk, the and of progress cathedral-like stillness is in the struggle punctuated by the voices of against human men and women singing out rights violations alternately in rich baritone and their perpeor wavering soprano the trators.

95-year-old Peg McIntire says she’s names, ages and countries Professor forgotten how many times she’s been of those who were victims of Carlos Mauricio arrested over the years in acts of civil SOA trained soldiers, the from El Salvador disobedience; authorities at Ft. Benning names which are inscribed relates his experefuse to arrest her anymore on the very crosses we carry. rience of being In the silence after each abducted from recitation the crosses are raised high the classroom, tortured and beaten, over our heads, as comes the intonation while all around him hearing the screams from thousands of throats, of others being beaten, raped and tor“Pre...sen...te.” tured.

It is the Spanish word by which we, Mauricio escaped to the United the living, acknowledge the lives of States and filed suit against two those who have met a violent end by Salvadoran generals under the 1991 those trained just a short walk away. No Torture Victims Protection Act, which chit-chat, no laughter, damn little talk of provides that victims did not need to any kind is heard as the reverent gathprove the military leaders knew they ering makes its way down one side of were being tortured, only that they the broad avenue to turn and walk up to allowed a culture in which soldiers could and past the Main Gate. commit human right abuses against civilians with impunity.

The Salvadoran generals, both SOA graduates, were found guilty and ordered to pay millions in reparations to the victims.

Though the verdict was later overturned, and the case is yet under review, hope returned just this past week when a federal jury in Memphis, Tenn., under U.S. laws giving them jurisdiction over human rights claims abroad, found former Salvadoran Col. Nicolas Carranza The ‘funeral procession’ carrying symbolic coffins guilty of torture and murder.

Earlier in the day, the fencing and Because an amnesty which helped gates had been covered by a plain green end the Salvadoran civil war proscribes canvas, now torn and cut away by criminal charges, he was ordered to pay person or persons unknown, making $2 million in damages. space for those in the processional to Perhaps only time will tell if the fact place their cross, their ribbon, their that those who commit or oversee these flower, along with their prayers, into the atrocities can and will be brought to the mesh of the barbed wire-topped barrier. bar of justice. It is nonetheless a ray of The procession takes several hours hope and an inspiration to those who to complete. Near the end, I see my still suffer. friend Chris, who is shouldering a

wooden coffin as part of a procession of of white hair, eyes shuttered behind sunblack-shrouded individuals in white glasses, leaning forward, arms resting grease paint representing the dead. on her knees.

He knows I want pictures of those Is she praying, or is her spirit committed to acts of civil disobedience, readying for the next outburst, feeding “crossing the line.” As we speak he tells on the anger or guilt or remorse as she, me of the unfolding plot of which he is a like the young man, heard more than part. names and ages and saw things I could A large group forms to encircle the only guess at? area in front of the stage, which would In an unexpected and frightening shield what was about to happen from flurry she again bursts into activity, her the authorities. The coffin is laid inside body seemingly electrified, arms waving the “human shield” circle of bodies, and as its lid is removed a man whom I will only identify as Jamey comes forward and quickly climbs inside.

The lid replaced, it is again hoisted and as the music plays and the crowd cheers, it is placed against the Main Gate. Using the upturned coffin as a leg up, Jamey lays cardboard across the strands of barbed wire and with an assist from hands below, is quickly up and over the fence.

He stands calmly, smiling, as military police take him into custody.

My last view of him is Political theatre is part and parcel of the SOA protest; here is a on his knees, hands gathering of white-faced ‘ghosts’ representing those allegedly behind his back, murdered by Latin American soldiers trained at Ft. Benning restraints being applied.

As a cry of “Jamey!

Jamey! Jamey” goes up from the crowd, wildly at those walking past, her body he glances toward us and manages to struggling upward from the chair while get one hand part-way up in the air, the she remained seated, mouth working unmistakable “V” of the peace sign his frantically, yet uttering not a sound. benediction on us.

It sounds irrational, but my thought at Forty-one people are arrested on that moment is if she was seeing, Sunday, and an additional three at an hearing, or feeling the recent deaths in evening solidarity vigil outside the Colombia I had just read about.

Muscogee County Jail.

Members of a peace community, two Among those appearing at a Nov. 21 men, their wives and their three children bond hearing are an 81-year-old WW II aged 11 years, 6 years and 18 months veteran, two Franciscan priests, aged 68 hacked to death by members of the and 73. Their trial is on Jan 30, 2006.

Colombian Army, their heads and limbs severed, tossed into a shallow grave.

As the procession moves along, I I shiver as I realize my proximity to walk the crowd, looking for that one the facility where individuals capable of face, that one image I could carry with such things were trained, and where perme and share with others. petrators of future atrocities continue to I think back to the picture of a young train. Looking back at the old woman, I man I took here two years ago. His want another picture, but truth be told, I hollow eyes, stiff posture, slack jaw and find myself afraid to approach her. May unremitting tears brought me with a God give her peace. shudder to the conclusion that though As the vigil comes to a close a light his body is standing before me, “he ain’t rain begins to fall, and I feel a sense of here, y’all.” cleansing, of peace for having come.

Again this specter materializes -- this Taking shelter under the overhang of a time in the form of an old woman sitting strip mall, I listen to students from St. in a folding chair in the center of the John’s Jesuit High School and King’s street, surrounded by those walking the College in Ontario as they speak of funeral procession. I first become aware things learned, of friendships made and of her presence by the wild gesticularenewed, of vows to come back until, at tions of her arms. last, there is no need to return. ◗ As I kneel to take her picture, she To comment, e-mail us at suddenly deflates, now a small frail letters@connectsavannah.com figure, scarf draped over wispy strands

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Editor, If we are going to condemn our politicians and businesses for celebrating the American tradition of Christmas and the American tradition of embracing the Judeo/Christian ethics we must then condemn each and every one of our founding fathers who set the traditions in motion.

President Washington was not shy, expressing his faith in a manner that pales all the statements by President Bush.

Most if not all of the Presidents through

Editor, 1) John McCain replaces Richard Cheney as Vice President to position for 2008 and continue Bush policy; 2) Joe Lieberman replaces Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense and officially becomes the Republican he has always been.

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Editor, While reading your most recent column “Have they no sense of decency?” I couldn’t help but think that for an editor, you really are thin-skinned when it comes to your politics.

I’m guessing that Michael Ramirez’s cartoon was a response to Rep. Murtha’s request for troop withdrawals, since both incidents occurred within days of one another. As I see it, Ramirez is suggesting that Murtha’s idea and the subsequent support within the Democratic ranks are counter-productive to the political support we should be giving the Iraqi government, especially with elections right around the corner.

Was that cartoon the reason for his being let go by the LA Times? Who’s to say, but it should be noted that Robert Scheer, Ramirez’s political opposite and Op/ED writer was also let go by the Times.

Now, your issue is not only with the cartoon, but that the Savannah Morning News printed it. While you acknowledge the SMN editorial staff as “usually very professional,” you go on to comment that the editorial page has turned into a “vile cesspool” that suggests Democrats are traitors because they printed this cartoon.

And somehow, even after your admission that you’ve come to expect things like this from the SMN, you act shocked and hurt. Give me a break.

Political opinions are exactly that; opinions. Sometimes they ruffle feathers, but that doesn’t make them or those who wish to print them any less credible.

You ask for (but don’t expect) an apology from SMN (and others, like the local morning talk radio host), but who are they apologizing to? People who are too politically sensitive?

In these times politics are a hit for hit business. Or haven’t you taken a shot or two at a politician with whom you disagree?

The bottom line is, if you don’t like what the SMN is saying, you can always write the editor.

J. Stevens

history have expressed and acknowledged the greater God. President Clinton evoked God’s name, although probably less than any other.

To condemn religion now we must then condemn each signer for the words included in the Declaration of Independence that includes: “Nature’s God,” “their Creator,” “Supreme Judge of the world,” “divine Providence,” and “sacred Honor.”

The founders addressed their faith first in the Bill of Rights, as the first order of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that restricts government from regulating religion.

“Separation of Church and State” is a myth, not to be found in any U.S. founding document. To embrace the religious traditions of America is to embrace the values and fortitude of America’s founding fathers.

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Humane Society unveils new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;faceliftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of facility In a ribbon-cutting ceremony this past Tuesday, the local Humane Society held a â&#x20AC;&#x153;grand re-openingâ&#x20AC;? at its Sally Mood Dr. location. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve finally completed this phase of our renovations, and we want to give the public a chance to see what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accomplished with their help,â&#x20AC;? says Executive Director Robert Lee, who refers to the changes as a sort of â&#x20AC;&#x153;facelift.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to show the changes weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made to help facilitate more adoptions and to assure that the animals are able to be held here under better conditions.â&#x20AC;?

Some of the improvements include installing awnings over outside runs, additional workspaces, improved storage, a new cat facility with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;better, less-stressful environment,â&#x20AC;? Lee says, new nonporous flooring â&#x20AC;&#x153;for better hygiene,â&#x20AC;? and an upgrade of computer services and vet faciliites.

The event kicked off a weeklong â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home for the Holidays Adopt-athonâ&#x20AC;? to be held Dec. 13-18. During that time the Humane Society will hold extended adopting hours until 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday evenings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our theme for the adopt-athon is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Home for Christmas,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Lee says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to go home Christmas Eve and have this place completely empty. That may not be a totally realistic goal, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re shooting for.â&#x20AC;?

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A new childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book about local civil rights activist W.W. Law received an award last week. The book will also be presented to Savannah City Council at this Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting.

Delivering Justice, written by Jim Haskins, illustrated by Benny Andrews, and published by SCADâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Design Press, has been included in the New York Public Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual list of the 100 best books for children in 2005.

Delivering Justice also will be presented to Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson and City Council during the regular meeting at Savannah City Hall on Dec. 13, beginning at 2 p.m.

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Staff and volunteers of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler invite you to help decorate their speciallythemed tree this year.

"Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to recapture some of the aura of a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Home Front Christmas,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; when most of the decorations on the trees were home-made because of wartime restrictions," says Lee J. Maltenfort, volunteer coordinator for the Museum.

"Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking for photographs of any and all military veterans, both retired and those currently serving, to use as decorations on our tree."

The photos are scanned and reduced to fit a specially designed hanging paper ornament tied with a ribbon.

A museum spokesperson says that collected photos â&#x20AC;&#x153;so far have been a mix of carefully poised formal portraits and candid shots taken in a variety of situations.â&#x20AC;?

Those interested in participating in the project should email their photograph to judyandlee@basicisp.net, in a jpg file format [approximately 400 x 300 pixels] or copies of photos may be mailed to the Christmas Tree Project, Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, P.O. Box 1992, Savannah, GA 31402.

The museum stresses that they cannot return original photos.

You can have original photos scanned by bringing them to the museum Monday-Friday between 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;4 p.m. The photo will be scanned while you wait.

The Christmas tree, complete with lights and the unique ornaments, will be on display in the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lewis E. Lyle Rotunda through the holidays.

Visitors to the Museum will also see a different kind of Christmas celebration within its Prisoner of War exhibit. The POW tree is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a simple tree branch decorated with strips of tin and scraps of paper,â&#x20AC;? the spokesperson says.

The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum is at I-95 and US Hwy 80 [exit 102] in Pooler.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS-CASI) have allowed the SavannahChatham County school system off the probation list itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been on for the past year, local officials say. â&#x20AC;&#x153;According to the findings and observations of SACS-CASIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special Review Team, Savannah-Chatham County Public schools have made progress in addressing the violations of standards and recommendations stemming from the initial and interim visits,â&#x20AC;? a spokesperson says.

In a letter sent to new schools Superintendent Dr. Thomas B. Lockamy, the Special Review Team â&#x20AC;&#x153;sited progress made by The Board of Public Education through participating in training sessions conducted by the Georgia Boards Association, developing strong governance policies by revising and updating policies and procedures, and developing stronger communications with various stakeholder groups.â&#x20AC;?

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Katrina relief announced A local non-profit, Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Up the Pieces, announces a drive to â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring hope and cheerâ&#x20AC;? to victims of Hurricane Katrina through a holiday gift outreach.

Unwrapped new gifts of toys, clothes, ornaments, canned food, disposable diapers, books, etc. can be dropped off at any SunTrust location through December 17. Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Up the Pieces volunteers will sort, wrap, drive and distribute donations directly to the families and schools in devastated areas of Mississippi.

Simultaneously, Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Up the Pieces has joined with local businesses in an Angel outreach gift program. Three hundred children in heavily-hit schools in Mississippi have made holiday wish lists, and local groups are helping to make those wishes come true by purchasing a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wish. Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Up the Pieces will also bring these gifts to the children on December 17.

Businesses and organizations involved include Savannah Bank, Charles Ellis Academy, Brighter Day, Asbury Memorial Church, and the Savannah Bar Association.

For more information, call Michael or Linda Edwards at 429-4220 or visit pickinupthe pieces.org/.

Free parking downtown Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget: As part of an annual effort to sustain holiday sales, the city of Savannah will allow free parking Thursdays & Fridays from 2-5 p.m. within the area of River Street to Liberty Street and MLK Jr. Blvd. to East Broad Street through the end of the year. â&#x2014;&#x2014;

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Designing the perfect fish story sea nettles, moon jellies, sawfish, stingray, leafy sea dragon, fur-covered sea otters, sea lions, several whale sharks, African penguin and my personal favorite, the Casper-the-ghostlike Beluga whale, surely the most limber, carefree, amusing creature on earth.

There were crowds but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overwhelming, even on a Saturday. Even the lines at the restaurant - no fish sticks or fish sandwiches, by the way, and for some reason, no straws (they might hurt the fish) - moved efficiently.

Nearly three hours later we emerged, found the car, visited SCADâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Savannah Gallery in Buckhead, got a cup of coffee, passed Robert Mitchumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graffiti mug for the fourth time driving under an overpass, headed for an early performance of David Sedarisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sardonic and hilarious â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Santaland Diariesâ&#x20AC;? at the Horizon Theatre.

We even managed to put the appropriate distance between us and what we saw at the aquarium to eat some grouper at Six Feet Under, a restaurant situated across from Oakland Cemetery.

Darn. A whole weekend in Atlanta and no time for IKEA. Maybe next time.

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members could make reservations, we gave up the thought. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just drive by so at least we can get a visual,â&#x20AC;? I said. Consensus. Plenty of time after that for IKEA. We headed towards Olympic Centennial Park, the CNN center, Philips Arena, the Georgia Dome. Then, pulling onto Luckie Street - a good sign, I thought - we saw a corner of the new facility and the ornate G of the Georgia Aquarium, artfully scripted into the shape of a fish.

With sundry lines snaking this way and that, we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell how crowded it was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s try,â&#x20AC;? I said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on Luckie Street, arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we?â&#x20AC;?

After circumnavigating the ropes, reading the signs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; no guns, no lighters, no matches, no knives â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hearing the guards bark, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arms up,â&#x20AC;? and watching them run the wand up and down everyone who entered as if we were in an airport, and putting $21 on the old credit card - ka-ching, ka-ching - we got in.

Praise the Lord. Praise Home Depotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bernie Marcus and his millions.

I was psyched. Using foresight, the staff only admits a certain number of people per hour so it really was possible to get up-close-and personal with the

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when Marcus, who lives and works in Savannah, has an opening within driving distance, we follow because we like to tell everyone who asks we knew him back when.

Like his art â&#x20AC;&#x201C; complex, nostalgic and occasionally disturbing collages culled from childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book illustrations, vintage lithographs, coloring books, vintage paint-by-number images, personal papers, original typed sermons, canceled checks, Green Stamps, light bulbs, cigarette papers, vintage wallpaper and science book cutouts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Marcus and his choice of dress-up clothes are also vintage, also original.

For the opening, he chose a closefitted 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suit, a florid Maxfield Parrish tie, and a black, broad-brimmed hat, Amish-style. The show â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happily Ever Afterâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? is quintessential Marcus.

But come Saturday morning when we awoke to frost, I dreaded the worst. If we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get into the Aquarium - which looked doubtful - weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get lost on one of the Peachtree streets, lose our car in a parking lot, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to go to IKEA. We thought about buying tickets ahead to the Aquarium, but after hopping on someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsecured wireless network in the well-wired neighborhood and reading that only yearly

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THEY WANTED TO go to IKEA. And they were driving.

You can find me in the cafeteria, I said. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be eating Swedish meatballs and reading something Nordic, because if I can get through the rest of my life without ever buying anything at IKEA, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be pleased. I like what I see at other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes, but not enough to decipher the predictably cryptic instructions -- let alone hunt out the old Allen wrench to assemble the stuff.

We were heading for Atlanta. The sliver of wood (a â&#x20AC;&#x153;foreign body,â&#x20AC;? said the podiatrist, but not necessarily Italian) that accompanied me to England was out of my foot and we were ready to play tourist, which meant a visit to IKEA to buy all the things you never knew you needed, the Flying Biscuit cafe for its creamy grits, the Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market and possibly the Georgia Aquarium, billed as the largest in the world.

But first we had to find the Marsha Wood art gallery in Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Castleberry Hill Art District, among dozens of other galleries near downtown in an area of old vacant warehouses and factories. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Marcus Kenney fans and

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AN OFFICER FOLLOWED a pickup truck onto Interstate 16 after observing the driver turn left onto Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from the right lane of Bay Street. The officer then saw the driver repeatedly cross the dividing line several times.

The vehicle approached an exit ramp at a high rate of speed and the driver slammed on the brakes to make the ramp. The officer initiated a traffic stop and approached the driver’s side of the vehicle.

The woman inside did not look at the officer, but flicked the ashes from her cigarette, nearly striking the officer with the cigarette. The driver handed the officer her license and registration.

The officer advised her why she was being stopped and she said she was trying to get home but was lost. The officer noticed the woman’s speech was slurred and asked her to step outside of the vehicle.

The woman was unsteady on her feet and had to steady herself using the door of the truck. The officer told the woman what he had observed and asked her why she was driving like that.

“Well, honestly, I have no idea where the hell I’m going,” she said. “To be honest with you, these girls in the car with me, they’re directing me. That’s all I know. I’m following what they are telling me. That’s all.”

The officer detected a strong odor of alcohol on the woman’s breath. He asked her how much she’d had to drink. She replied, “I’ve had about, ummm, two beers, about four beers.”

The woman was asked to submit to the standardized field sobriety tests and agreed. The officer observed her swaying during the test and saw that her eyes were glassy and bloodshot.

The woman failed all the sobriety tests and was arrested for driving under the influence.

• A man called police to report a robbery after he returned home after being out of town and noticed the curtains in the master bedroom were out of place and the window had been broken. Although there was no other damage, the man reported that several items had been stolen, including a video game system, a camcorder, a watch with a silver band, a bag containing coins and a coffee can containing coins.

The man said the only people who knew he was going to be out of town were a neighbor and his sons’ friends.

A request for forensics was made.

from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

• Police were called to a West Montgomery Crossroads residence after two men forced their way into a woman’s apartment. One of the suspects called to tell his former girlfriend he was coming over, even though she told him not to come.

Shortly after the call, the woman heard a knock at the door. She tried to see who it was through the peephole, but it was covered.

She asked who was there and the suspect replied, “It’s me.” The woman replied that she would not open the door until she knew who it was.

The door was then forced open and the suspect, accompanied by another man, went into the residence. They picked up several items the suspect had given the woman, then took them to their vehicle and left.

Four witnesses corroborated the woman’s story. The woman told police that the items were gifts and that she had had them in her possession for about one year.

• A juvenile became angry with his mother and threatened to hit her with a wooden board with nails in the end.

The suspect did not want to go to a family outing, a birthday party.

A preliminary investigation revealed that this is an on-going problem and several reports have already been written. However, the mother has failed to follow-up on her complaints to police.

The juvenile intake officer was contacted and advised the officer that since the juvenile is not on probation, he could not be detained. The mother was advised to get an appointment with juvenile authorities as soon as possible. ◗

All cases from recent Savannah/Chatham Police Department incident reports.

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Are We Safer Yet? In October, the federal Department of Homeland Security announced a $36,300 grant to the state of Kentucky, earmarked to prevent terrorists from using charity bingo and other games of chance to raise money. (One astonished bingo worker in Frankfort told the Associated Press that the need to protect bingo parlors from terrorists “would never even enter my mind.”)

Also in October, the Tampa Tribune reported that two lower-tier Florida tourist attractions (the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaid show and Dinosaur World in Plant City) were on Homeland Security’s list of sites that the state had to “harden” against terrorist attacks, even though officials complained that major sports venues and more popular entertainment sites were not on the list.

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Things You Probably Didn’t Realize (1) A new land speed record for a blind driver was set in September (Mr. Hein Wagner, 33, reached 160 mph in a Maserati V8 GranSport on an airstrip in Mafikeng, South Africa, with help of a navigator). (2) Harvard’s libraries contain at least four books bound in human skin, including a treatise on Spanish law with an inscription calling the binding “all that remains” of a fellow named Jonas Wright (according to research by student Dan Alban, writing in the Harvard Law Record in November).

The Sacred Institution In accord with Thailand’s cultural traditions and accompanied by much pomp and circumstance, officials married off

Chuang Chuang and his gal Lin Lui, the country’s only giant pandas (at the Chaing Mai Zoo in November), and Thong Kham and his gal Thong Khaow, a pair of dwarf Brahman cattle in Sa Kaew province in July (both ceremonies before thousands of spectators).

Update In October, the Tennessee Supreme Court dashed Knoxville prosecutors’ hopes of convicting Thomas “Zoo Man” Huskey as a serial killer in a case we first mentioned in 1992. Courts had tossed out Huskey’s confession, finding that the incriminating statements were made not

by Huskey but by “Kyle,” his alter ego, and although Huskey himself had been given a Miranda warning, “Kyle” had not.

Thinning the Herd A 43-year-old motorcyclist was killed on Interstate 35 near Osceola, Iowa, when he tried to stand on his bike with his arms folded (and smashed into a guardrail) (October). A 19-year-old driver, performing for two pals who were videotaping, was killed in West Rutland, Vt., when he attempted a “Jackass”-like stunt by leaping from the car at about 30 mph (September). A 39-year-old bicyclist was killed when he raced, unsuccessfully, to beat an oncoming train through a railroad crossing in Oakland Park, Fla., and was knocked more than 100 feet (November). ◗

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(1) Michael Plentyhorse, 18, was charged with indecent exposure in Sioux Falls, S.D., in November, when he was

discovered partially undressed, in a store, fooling around with a semi-nude female mannequin. (Said a police officer, “There was inappropriate activity between him and the mannequin. That’s the only way I know how to put it.”) (2) Registered sex-offender Sean Cobin, 20, was arrested in Milwaukee in November on suspicion of reckless endangerment for his role in pressuring a woman to drink concentrated drain cleaner, allegedly because he gets excited by making women vomit. (He was convicted in 2004 in a similar incident.)

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Performance artist Tomoko Takahashi, 39, working on a British government grant of the equivalent of about $8,600, gave an exhibition of inebriation in October at the Chapter arts center in Cardiff, Wales. Dressed in business suit and high heels, Takahashi drank a large amount of beer over a three-hour period,

periodically checking to see how far she could walk across a narrow beam about two feet off the floor without falling. A Chapter spokesman called the demonstration a “powerful piece of art.”

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While Canadian “global warming” protesters express alarm at the dwindling outdoor hockey season (fewer months with ice, fewer days cold enough for hard ice), a growing number of “hockey” players are taking the game underwater, according to a November Associated Press story.

With six breath-holding players per team, passing a puck with sticks at the bottom of a pool, and players surfacing for air as seldom as possible, dozens of club teams worldwide play (nearly 50 in the U.S.), with a championship tournament scheduled next year for Sheffield, England. Said a Cincinnati high school player of the respiratory challenge, “(W)hen you’re close to the goal, you’re like, ‘Do I want to score a goal or breathe?’ Most of the time I say, ‘Score.’”

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Ozone Layer Recovery Vast reservoirs of ozone-destroying chemicals in the atmosphere may be delaying the expected recovery of Earth’s protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere. Researchers told a gathering of the American Epsilon Geophysical Union that the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole may not occur until 2065 because of lingering chlorofluorocarbon gases, despite a global ban on their production. Atmospheric scientists had expected a recovery to levels of the 1980s by about 2050 following the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned producWeek Ending December 9, 2005 tion of the chemicals. But that agreement did not bar the use of the 133 people known to be infected existing stockpiles, and researchers beworldwide have died. lieve they are still causing ozone destruction.

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Tropical Cyclones Heavy rains from Cyclone Baaz unleashed flooding that killed at least 15 people and forced the evacuation of 300,000 others in India’s southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

• Weak Cyclone Fanoos was approaching northern Sri Lanka and far southern India from the Bay of Bengal late in the week.

• Record-breaking and late-season Hurricane Epsilon threatened shipping lanes in the central North Atlantic.

Bird Flu Update A massive number of poultry died suddenly in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, where the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza was detected.

• Indonesia confirmed its eighth human fatality due to bird flu. Sixty-nine out of

Rising sea levels have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground in what may be the first example of a community being displaced due to modern global warming, a U.N. report says. Inhabitants of Lateu, on the Vanuatu island of Tegua, have dismantled their wooden homes and moved inland because surging tides have made their village uninhabitable four or five times a year. Off Papua New Guinea, about 2,000 people in the Cantaret Islands are planning to move to nearby Bougainville Island due to the rising ocean.

Tehran Smog Residents of the smog-choked Iranian capital of Tehran were told to take a two-day holiday from work and school in an unprecedented effort to reduce atmospheric pollution. Nearly calm winds and a tem-

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Several people were killed in East Africa’s Lake Tanganyika region when 6.8 their mud-and-thatch huts collapsed during a powerful magnitude 6.8 temblor. The seismic slip +110 0 along the Great Rift Valley was felt in Walgett, several countries and caused buildNew South Wales ings to sway 600 miles away in Nairobi, Kenya.

• Earth movements were also felt in western Iran, northwest Sumatra, perature inversion had allowed a blanket northern Thailand, northeast Papua New of yellow-brown smog to form over the Guinea and in southern and northeastern metropolitan area. Many residents in parts of Japan. downtown Tehran wore masks to protect themselves from the severe pollution, Officials in Australia’s western which is caused mainly by the availability Victoria state have hired an exof cheap, subsidized fuel used in a fleet of pert to investigate a local pheold cars that do not have emission connomenon of “drunken” wasps. trols.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports the Northern Grampians shire counAuthorities in the South Pacific cil says it has observed European wasps island nation of Vanuatu evacuflying in circles in what appears to be a ated thousands of villagers from disorientated state before dropping dead. homes near an erupting volcano Spokesman Ian Nicholson told the neton the island of Ambae. Shortly afterward, work he believes the behavior could be the volcano shot steam and toxic gases due to a chemical reaction in the pollen.

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goals. First, it encourages enthusiasm the process of rescuing what was lost.” for a massive construction project that is Stellberg laughs when asked if expected to take the better part of two anyone seems to be in mourning at the years to complete – and which prospect of losing the garage itself. will likely cause no small “Not a one that I’m aware of! We’ve amount of inconvenience to had very positive response to the plan. businesses, patrons and resiWe’ve had public meetings to get input, dents of the Historic and Savannah’s citizens are assisting in Downtown district. designing the new square. This can Second, it allows those of hopefully be the best of both worlds. us who have grown up with We’ll eventually have underground this clunky, utilitarian eyesore parking and the beauty of the old to reflect on its passing into ‘Marketplace Square’ at the same time.” the dustbin of history.

Stellberg says the event planners “This party is really for our have no real way to estimate how many citizens,” says Laurie-Jean people will be attending the street party, Stellberg, Coordinator for the City’s but they feel that word is getting out Tourism and Film Services Department. about the unusually wide variety of enter“It’s for everyone to tainment they have lined experience what exists up, and she expects there there now: the busito be a large turnout from nesses, the restaurants... all stratas of local society. everything that’s down in “We’re going to be that area. And to see the letting people write and garage as it is so they draw on the side of the can appreciate it when garage, so they can make the new square is there.” their final remarks – and Stellberg says that we’ll have a still photogLiquid Ginger this event has been rapher and a video camermodeled after a similar party which was aperson there to capture everything for held in 1953 on the occasion of the posterity. People can also see the razing of Ellis Square itself to make way architect’s model of the proposed for what was commonly deemed a prodesign,” she says. gressive development.

“We’re also supplying free parking However, at that time, many in the and running shuttles on a continuous community felt that a great disservice loop to and from the Liberty Street and was being done to the City’s fabled Robinson Parking Garages to make it master plan, as set forth by Savannah’s easy for folks to come down, enjoy founder James Edward Oglethorpe in themselves and hopefully finish their 1733. They and others have longed to holiday shopping at some of the great see the few squares that have been radisurrounding shops.” cally altered or eradicated over time The list of participating merchants returned to something approximating had yet to be finalized as of press time, their original splendor. but includes (among others) Kitchens “We know that some people were continued on page 16 very much in mourning when the parking garage went up in 1953,” Stellberg continues. “We look at this as a way to start

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WHEN AMERICANA SONGWRITERS John Doe and Dave Alvin composed 1985’s alternative country classic “Call Of The Wreckin’ Ball,” they celebrated a despicable character so nicknamed because there was little doubt he was “the baddest of ‘em all.”

Now, in the year 2005, an entirely different sort of celebration will be held Trae Gurley right here in downtown Savannah – yet the catalyst for both endeavors remains the same.

It’s all about destruction, baby.

However, whereas the protagonist in that tune (originally recorded by the seminal X offshoot The Knitters) was a no-account loser with a heart of stone, the protagonist in this public party is the City of Savannah – and by all accounts, everyone involved (from local government to the citizens to future visitors to our idiosyncratic gem of a destination) stands to come out a winner on this one.

Described as a celebration of the reclamation of Ellis Square, “The Wrecking Ball” is a four-hour-long public party that’s free to all ages. It centers around the scheduled destruction of the oft-maligned multi-level City Market Parking Garage (at the intersection of Barnard and Congress Streets), and the subsequent construction of a larger, subterranean garage on the same spot.

Proponents of the project say that not only will this ultimately help to alleviate downtown’s well-documented parking woes, but it will also facilitate the rebirth of one of Savannah’s earliest planned squares, which has been “lost” for over half a century.

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On The Square, Locos Deli & Pub, City bolic ceremony of sledgehammering the Market Cafe, Moon River Brewing side of the building. There’s no actual Company, Thomas Kinkade Gallery, and wrecking ball!”

Finnegan’s Wake Irish Pub. Another way that locals who feel a “We’ve put together a coupon book,” particular connection to either Ellis says Stellberg. “Everyone can get one.

Square or – for that matter – the old Then they can get a to-go order and sit parking garage, can purchase a brick and enjoy the entertainment from our that will be used in the final design and tables and chairs.” construction of the project. Each brick There will be two sells for $50, and can be stages used for The inscribed with the buyer’s Wrecking Ball. One name, the name of a loved will be located at the one, or some other short intersection of sentiment of their Barnard and choosing.

Congress Streets and “The design of the face South towards square itself has not been Telfair Square. The finalized,” adds Stellberg, other backs up to the “so we can sell as many garage itself and as there is a demand for, faces the City Market and it will help defray our Too Blue Arcade. costs.”

“We hope to have the live acts alterWhich brings us to what surely must nating seamlessly on the two stages,” be the single most pressing question on Stellberg says with a tone that suggests the minds of the more frugal taxpayers her fingers are crossed behind her back. who find themselves bemoaning the The lineup itself is impressive in its massive cost of such an elaborate scope; Local thespian and singer Trae undertaking: Gurley’s acclaimed tribute to the late Did anyone approach Magic Marc to Frank Sinatra; singing rhythm and blues find out how much he’d charge to simply guitarists Ray Lundy and Jeff Beasley’s vanish the garage like David Copperfield high-energy electric combo Too Blue; did with the Statue of Liberty back in the the modern rock and pop of regional early ‘80s? favorites Liquid Ginger; Angela Beasley’s Apparently, the answer is no, troupe of Puppet People; and local although, Stellberg wants to know if he magician and educator Magic Marc. could.

As if that weren’t enough, the entire “That would be a great idea! I bet show will end with a fireworks display. we’d probably get a lot of national press There will also be a number of free on that one (laughs).”

For what it’s worth, “Magic” Marc giveaways to the crowd while supplies Dunston also laughs loudly when asked last. The city has purchased hundreds of the same question. commemorative hard hats, stress balls “Well, I’m gonna tell you right now: (you know, the squishy things that build That would cost a fortune. Copperfield up your hand muscles), and popcorn making the Statue disappear was easily balls. Stellberg says the stress balls are a $2.5 million illusion,” says Dunston. only meant to carry on the whole “ball” “For me to do something like this would theme of the party, and that she doesn’t probably require at least $500,000 to expect anyone in the crowd to be overly $600,000 just to pay for all the mirrors anxious during the event. and everything. Well, the smoke and “No. That would be me,” she mirrors.” chuckles.

So is Dunston insinuating She’s also quick to point out that the Copperfield used mirrors to fool his “hard hats” they’re handing out are not audience? what one might call “up to regulation.”

“I’m part of the International Far from it.

Brotherhood of Magicians,” he responds “They do fit on your head,” she firmly. “We operate under a very specific smiles. “They’re stylish and chic, but and honorable code. I cannot release they’re just replicas. They say Ellis any secrets or tricks of the trade – and I Square Wrecking Ball on the front. But I refuse to say anything further!” ◗ think it’s pretty obvious you wouldn’t want to wear them for any sort of pro“The Wrecking Ball” kicks off Saturday at tection. They’re awful flimsy.”

3 p.m. with a show by illusionist Magic That may not be a problem, however, Marc. Trae Gurley does his Frank Sinatra as it turns out that for all this talk of Tribute at 3:30 pm, followed by Too Blue wrecking balls and the destruction of the at 4:30 pm, Liquid Ginger at 5:30 pm, garage, Stellberg says anyone who and a fireworks finale at 7 pm. comes to the event expecting to see The entire event is free and open to something even approximating a conthe public. For those who require handitrolled demolition will be sorely disapcapped access to the gated event, assispointed. tance will be provided at the intersection “That’s important for everyone to of Bay and Barnard Streets. understand. The garage will be closed that day, but it will then reopen at least until the end of the year. And the Mayor and Aldermen will participate in a sym-

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The Classic Struggle

Mary Davis & Company

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Monthly revue of acoustic artists, featuring: internationally-known Jen Woodhouse, who fuses folk with rock and jazz, and tops it off with scatinspired vocals; Texas-raised Jason Bible, who finds inspiration in the dustbowl balladry of Guthrie, Springsteen and early Dylan; recent Savannah transplant Jonie Blinman, led into modern folk from underground rock; and Lauren Lapointe, whose two DIY CDs helped her nab an upcoming slot at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Café.

Thurs., 7:30 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Thrash (influenced by both U.S. and European metal) that swears allegiance to pioneers like At The Gates. Sat., 7 pm, Le Morte Rouge (103 W. Congress St.).

Acoustic trio (pop and rock covers) fronted by the lead singer of Wilmington Island’s Band In The Park. Fri., 7 pm, Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House.

Tight, uptempo electric blues trio featuring former members of Bluesonics and Ignitors. Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Bryan Clees’ Electric Cowboys

The Kieran Daly Duo

Regional country act led by a budding songwriter and guitarist. His band has plenty of experience, and they mix popular covers with his originals.

Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tommy’s (Pooler).

Armadildo Part of the local Sofro alliance of almost insolently non-commercial indie rock and metal acts, this group’s tonguein-cheek act is starting to earn them a small group of diehard fans. The Bullets open the show. Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Funky instrumental soul jazz quintet with plenty of wah-wah guitar. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

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Consuelo’s Duelo This newish local jazz/blues quintet (featuring guitarist/songwriter Jon Dunn) utilizes drums, percussion, guitar, sax, bass, trombone and piano – and most of the members are barely out of high school. Fri. - Sat., 9:30 pm, Il Pasticcio.

I Cantori’s Crystal Christmas

Young, determined locals playing classic rock covers (think Free, Bad Company) and blues-rock originals in the vein of early ‘70s Robin Trower or Ten Years After. Fri., JJ Cagney’s.

Randy ‘Hatman’ Smith Acoustic covers (blues, rock, boogie, shag) sung and played to sequenced backing. A favorite of local Parrotheads.

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

Gail Thurmond A downtown fixture of sorts, this vibrant singing pianist has been playing jazzy standards and show tunes in this cozy darkwood bar for over a decade.

Tues. - Sun., Planter’s Tavern (beneath The Olde Pink House Restaurant). ◗

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15th Annual show by a local 24member chamber choir. Familiar carols and hymns – plus the world premiere of a piece by a noted Czech composer.

Sunday night will be a traditional Evensong. Tickets ($15 for adults, $10 for students) available at the door, or in advance at 925-7866. Thurs., 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church + Sun., 6 pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

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All Walks Of Life is a local organization staging monthly performances which combine poetry, prose, music and other forms of personal expression.

Their uplifting, thought-provoking familyoriented shows have become one of the most popular attractions at this venue.

Sun., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Cincinnati, Oh. “straight-up hardcore thrash” with throat-shredding Cookie Monster vocals. They cop plenty from Tragedy and Crass, and advise “shitty emo bands” not to approach them about sharing gigs. However, hometown openers Lost Hands Found Fingers seem to get a pass. Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

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This mandolin prodigy has already logged more than 1500 gigs in the past four years, both with The Lowcountry Boil Bluegrass Band and on his own.

He’s dazzled top educators and local jazz aficionados with his unique interpretations of works by the likes of the great Charlie Parker. This set will be a free show during brunch. Sun., 11 am, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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Mick Ayres A versatile entertainer who’s been a crowd-pleasing bluegrass-based act for the last quarter of a century, he’s a three-time winner of Florida’s Old-Time Music Championships. He plays claw hammer banjo, fiddle and mandolin, and he’s an ace storyteller.

In 2001, he was also named South Carolina Magician Of The Year by his illusionist peers, and he has authored six books on the art of magic. He’s a regular attraction at Disney’s Vacation Resort on Hilton Head – as he was prior at Florida’s Disney World. This family-oriented concert at one of the area’s finest acoustic showcases is a great alternative to noisy, smoke-filled bars, not to mention the nihilistic tone of much of today’s popular music. $15 advance tickets can be charged by calling 7481930. Sat., 7:30 pm, Randy Wood’s Pickin’ Parlor (Bloomingdale).

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Ross is also a new member of the compositions in a live setting without legendary percussionist Cyro Baptista’s carting around upwards of ten additional group Beat The Donkey. musicians and the sort of Clay’s new album is an PA system that had yet to instrumental pleasure, be developed – something grooving hard through a their fetishists ELO would number of genres, do several years later. including samba, In light of this (and the Sephardic jazz, swing, and crippling fame that meditative mantra music. A threatened their lives and native of Anderson, S.C. sanity), the band gave up (home of Skin Thrashers the road in August 1966, Hot Dogs!), Ross is and fans never got a wowing critics with his chance to hear what their tasteful, melancholic later period material might chops, and with the genhave sounded like live. erous way he spotlights his That’s where this AthensClay Ross bandmates. This CD release based tribute act comes in. party should be an inspiring Since October 2003 this evening of inventive, thought-provoking group (featuring members of such wellmusic. No cover, so arrive early for the known Classic City bands as the Grateful Dead tribute Cosmic Charlie and The best seats.

Sun., 7 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar. Fuzzy Sprouts) has periodically dusted off 1969’s Abbey Road in its entirety, but over the last few months, they’ve been This double bill of buzzworthy touring regularly, with a full evening’s modern rock bands offers a decent worth of Beatles music that includes that snapshot of the current state of underfamed album (often thought to be the ground (hoping to be mainstream) heavy band’s finest moment), and a setlist conrock. Look What I Did are touring behind taining 70 other rarely-heard tunes from their brand-new CD Minuteman For The throughout the band’s lifespan.

Moment. The quintet relocated to Los These guys don’t dress up like their Angels from their hometown of Nashville heroes – instead, they concentrate on with a disjointed and spastic sound pulling off the band’s more mature and that’s one part technical hardcore, one musically complex arrangements with part sour pop-metal, and one part vitality – without straying too far from the vintage Jane’s Addiction vocal posturing original, iconic versions. Many who have and guitar pyrotechnics. seen the group’s show rave at their St. Louis, Mo.’s Calico System have devotion to the material, and word is that been around since the late ‘90s, and watching them air out these majestic their slightly less daring blend of emo, rock gems only further cements one’s modern punk and thrash has seen them awareness of just how unique and tranopen for everyone from Hatebreed and scendent some of this stuff truly is.

Poison The Well to Open Hand. This Sat., Locos Deli & Pub. newly-opened ALL-AGES venue has already announced a full roster of A few weeks back, this downtown upcoming shows by touring bands of a venue more known for local acts enjoyed similar bent.

Mon., 7 pm, Le Morte Rouge (103 W. a full house for a set by NYC’s cult Congress St.). ◗ lounge music faves Dave’s True Story.

Hopefully they’ll do that again for this rare set by a great guitarist who was named a 2005 Jazz Ambassador by the U.S. State Dept.

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‘Abbey Road Live’ While disbanded for more than three decades now, the back catalog of the Fab Four continues to be one of the strongest-selling libraries of popular music in the world – and there are literally hundreds of tribute bands worldwide offering reasonable facsimiles of the group’s songs everywhere from tiny clubs and bars to large outdoor festival stages.

However, most of those groups concentrate on the band’s early years, when their Cuban heels, mop-top haircuts and matching suits-and-ties helped catapult them to superstardom. That particular era of Beatlemania makes for a wise choice to emulate, as the group had yet to immerse themselves in the sea of possibilities afforded them by almost unlimited time in some of the U.K.’s finest recording facilities.

By the last third of their short but prolific career, the band’s increasing reliance on state-of-the-art sonic experimentation allowed them to craft some of the most amazing records of their generation. However, that creative freedom drastically outpaced the ability of anyone (even The Beatles) to approximate those

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Michelle Malone - The Hummingbird, Macon Iron & Wine / Calexico - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Asylum Street Spankers - The Handlebar, Greenville Jimmy Thackery - Double Door, Charlotte Two Dollar Pistols, The Bo-Stevens Evening Muse, Charlotte Hot Tuna - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte

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Larry Keel And Natural Bridge, Big Daddy Bluegrass Band - Visulite Theatre, Charlotte

Saturday the 17th Clay Aiken - Atlanta Civic Center Theatre Dollsquad Burlesque Revue, PJ Olsson, Jen Foster, Sarah Bettens (of K’s Choice) - Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta As Cities Burn, The Chariot, Underoath, mewithoutyou Headliners @ Banana Joe’s, Columbia Matt Haimovitz - New Brookland Tavern, Columbia Cracker - The Handlebar, Greenville Jimmy Thackery Double Door, Charlotte Malcolm Holcombe, Stephanie’s Id, The Loft - Evening Muse, Charlotte Steep Canyon Rangers - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte The Codetalkers Featuring Col. Bruce Hampton, Hubert Sumlin - Freebird Live, Jacksonville Rick Derringer - Spare Time, Jacksonville Beach, FL

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Tuesday the 20th Cherish The Ladies - Symphony Hall, Atlanta Clay Aiken - Township Auditorium, Columbia

Wednesday the 21st Jane Siberry - Red Light Café, Atlanta Cherish The Ladies Symphony Hall, Atlanta Clay Aiken - Charlotte Bobcats Arena

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Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi Tribute) - Andrews

Upstairs, Atlanta Cherish The Ladies - Symphony Hall, Atlanta Perpetual Groove, Bump - Georgia Theatre, Athens

Friday the 23rd Sean Costello - Chip’s, Winder, GA Jim Brickman - Macon City Auditorium

Tuesday the 27th The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta

Wednesday the 28th The North Mississippi Allstars - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta The Derek Trucks Band - McGlohon Theater @ Spirit Square, Charlotte

“Andy Williams Christmas Show” Atlanta Civic Center Ricky Skaggs, The Widespread Panic - Roxy Theatre, Atlanta Whites - Symphony Sun Domingo - Peachtree Tavern, Atlanta Hall, Atlanta O utformation - Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta Testing Ground, The Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) - Tabernacle, Autumn Overcast, If Atlanta Not Winter - New Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band - The Brookland Tavern, Pour House, Charleston Columbia Jupiter Coyote, Blue Dogs - The Gary Handlebar, Puckett Greenville Newberry The North Opera Mississippi House, Allstars Newberry, Visulite SC Theatre, As Cities Charlotte Burn, The Nothin’ Chariot, Fanc y Underoath, Bluegrass mewith Band, outyou Albert of Perpetual Groove S te e p Plush, C a n y o n R a n g e r s , A u d i e B l a y l o c k& Jacksonville Redline - Bluegrass Festival, Jekyll Island, Calico System, GA ◗ Chiodos, Hand To Hand - Thee Imperial, Jacksonville

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‘Universal ribs’

Gourmet Ribs Savannah has barbecue that’s not only delicious, it’s healthy

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IT’S BEEN ESTIMATED that as many things from many other styles, but it’s The menu at Gourmet Ribs includes as one-third of the people who visit mostly my own. not only baby back ribs, but pulled pork Savannah end up moving here.

“We have people from all over who and Cornish hens. The side dishes are I won’t quibble with that. After all, like our ribs,” he says. “They’re universal potato salad, baked beans and cole that’s what happened to me -- Savannah ribs. They have components from almost slaw, with a choice of banana pudding just reached out and grabbed me. everywhere.” with caramel or warm peach cobbler for Meet Anita and David Brents, fordessert. The desserts are made fresh merly of Indianapolis. After daily. making Savannah their Believe it or not, David only annual vacation spot, himself is not a rib man. “I they decided to pack up prefer the hen,” he says. and move here permaWhatever they’re fixing, nently. the Brents enjoy cooking.

“We got bored in “We just love feeding Indiana,” Anita says. “We people,” Anita says. lived in the country, where “We used to serve a lot of all you have to do is mow people at our house,” David the grass. We kept vacasays. “Our first Thanksgiving, tioning here, and decided we had 16 to 20 people. We to move here.” had everything from turkey to And, oh my, they German chocolate cake. You brought their recipes with didn’t hear anything for an them. The result is hour.”

Gourmet Ribs Savannah, a “When I’m back behind new restaurant at the the counter and hear corner of Habersham and someone say, ‘This is good,’ I ‘The ribs have got to look good,’ says David Brents, pictured here with Anita feel like they are my dinner 34th streets in the old Carver State Bank guests,” Anita says. building.

“We don’t skimp on any“When we were in Indianapolis we The meat is so tender it falls off the thing,” David says. “I’ve seen too many had a catering business for four years,” bone. It also is juicy and flavored to perplaces that did. I’d rather make less Anita says. “We catered baby-back ribs.” fection. money than cut corners.”

The restaurant provides a place David has created his own sauces, a You can choose to dine in or carry where customers can come and eat, traditional barbecue sauce and a very food out. The gourmet baby-back ribs something the Brents could not provide non-traditional raspberry-chipotle sauce are $20 for a whole slab, $10 for a halfin Indianapolis. It’s small but homey, and that customers can’t seem to get slab or $5 for a rib sandwich. The the food is divine. enough of.

Cornish hens are $10 for a whole hen or “We really like it here a lot,” Anita “I feel our food is personal,” Anita $5 for a half, while the pulled pork sandsays. “We never had a place where says. “We make our own sides. We also wiches are $1.50 each. The sides are people can come in and eat our ribs. do them a little bit differently -- tradi$1.50 each and the desserts are $3 With the catering business it was only tional with a twist.” each. him and me. We had to go different “We do have people who come in “We have a lunch special that is really places. He’d go to the east side of and say they don’t eat ribs,” David says. good,” Anita says. “It has choice of a rib Indianapolis, I’d go south.”

“They say they’re too fatty and aren’t sandwich or two pulled pork sandNow the Brents get to the restaurant good for them.” wiches, one side and one dessert for together in the morning and start Not these ribs. “I’m scientific with the $7.50.” cooking. “We get the food prepared and ribs,” David says. “It has to have a good At some point, the Brents may start turn on the open sign,” Anita says. “Our flavor, but it has to be healthy, too.” catering again. For now, they are feeding customers say we have the best ribs A diabetic, David has learned a lot happy folks at their restaurant and they’ve ever had.” about cooking and eating healthy foods. enjoying Savannah.

David started fixing baby-back ribs “I take out 75 percent of the fat and I David admits to some culture shock when the Brents couldn’t find good ribs take 50 percent of the carcinogens out after first moving to Savannah. Most anywhere in Indianapolis. “My uncle of the charcoal,” he says. notable is the slower pace of life. used to do the best ribs in Indianapolis Carcinogens are those nasty cancer“It’s different than any place I’ve ever 40 years ago,” he says. causing particles. But don’t worry, you been in the South, and I went to college “I think I must channel him when I fix won’t miss them -- these ribs are in the South,” he says. “Just don’t get in ribs,” David says. “It seemed like five absolutely delicious even without fat and a hurry.” ◗ years ago, we couldn’t find good ribs, so carcinogens.

Gourmet Ribs Savannah is located at the I started doing them myself.”

They’re also photogenic. “The ribs northwest corner of Habersham and I’m a barbecue fanatic, and have tried have got to look good,” David says as he 34th streets. Hours of operation are it all: wet, dry, vinegar, mustard, presents a platter of real beauties, hot Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m.

Memphis, North Carolina-style, you off the grill. to 6 p.m., but those hours will be name it, I’ve tried it. The Gourmet Ribs “The Japanese have a passion for the extended in the summer. Call 233-1755 Savannah barbecue is in a class of its beauty of food,” he says. “I have that for take-out orders. own. passion.”

“We do wet ribs, but it’s my own Still don’t like ribs? There’s more to style,” David says. “I combine some choose from.

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'Disciples of Paper' -- Group printmaking exhibit featuring Curtis Bartone, Josh Peplinski, Robert Brown,and LeRoy Lottmann Dec. 8-29 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception Thurs. Dec. 15, 68 p.m.

Rosewood Studio opening -- New gallery at 113 E. Oglethorpe Ave. features painting, sculpture and photography by Kay Godawa, Daniel McInnis, John Jensen, Blanche Nettles Powers, Meryl Truett and Katherine Sandoz.

Small Works -‘Small Works’ -Various media by SCAD annual artists June holiday exhibition Stratton, Monica featuring work ‘Lottman’s Ukelele’ at Gallery Espresso Cook, Elena from students, Madden, Daniel E. alumni, faculty Smith, Corinne Adams, Leslie Kneisel, and staff, at The Red Gallery, 201 E. Barbara J. Brown, James Allen, Stephen Broughton St. All pieces are priced at Kasun and Adela Holmes, Dec. 1-23 at $500 or less and measure 18 inches or The Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St. less in any one direction.

‘Various Views’ -- Work by Fran Thomas, Morgan Kuhn, Charlotte Dunlap, Frances Walters, Angela Coonce, Carolyn Neely and Preston Russell is on display at Gallery 440, 440 Bull St. between Monterey Square and Forsyth Park. The gallery represents over 20 local and national artists.

‘millions of unusual small creatures lurking everywhere’ -- Black Orchid Gallery at 131 Drayton St. hosts this exhibit by Ladyboy, a Philadelphia based artist. The show runs through December.

‘A Host of Folk Angels’ -- New exhibit at the Hurn Museum, 1015 Whitaker St., Nov.

JEA Art for December -- The work of Tybee painter Steve Willis will be on display this month at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

15-Dec. 31. Closed Monday.

‘Faces of Folk’ -Rare portraits in a new exhibit at The Hurn Museum, 1015 Whitaker St., Nov. 15-Dec. 31.

Closed Monday.

‘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, ‘Sleepy John Estes’ by Alaine Daniel at Gallery 209 William Peterson, and Hillary Parker.

‘Under Pressure’ -- SCAD hosts this exhibition of new works by printmaking minors at the May Poetter Gallery, 342 Bull St. Healthcare showcase -- Art work by local healthcare professionals is at Hospice Savannah Art Gallery Nov. 1-Dec. 31. 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

Gallery 209 Artists -- Featured artists at this gallery at 209 E. River St. are Alaine Daniel and jeweler Angela Erdy.

Michael Banks -The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art presents work by this outsider artist Sept.

6-Dec. 31 at 1015 Whitaker St. Closed Monday. ◗

Art Patrol is for rotating shows, exhibitions and receptions. Send your art info to jim@connectsavannah.com

Theatre Review

CULTURE|

by Jim Morekis

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successful

Cultural Arts Theatre’s A Christmas Carol breathes fresh air into a Yuletide tradition ORDINARILY WHEN A THEATRE critic says someone is “perfectly cast” for a particular role, it’s a given that the gender of the actor and the gender of the character will match.

In the case of Rene DeRossett’s portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge in Cultural Arts Theatre’s recent oneweekend run of A Christmas Carol, the genders are totally opposite. However, DeRossett is indeed perfect for the role.

Making no effort to gimmick her way through the performance, DeRossett plays Scrooge simply as Scrooge -- an embittered, cynical old miser who drives away other humans like a roach in a restaurant drives away customers.

Rather than attempt a revisionist take on the role with a wink-wink, nudgenudge acknowledgement to the audience that she’s a woman playing a man, DeRossett instead uses every item in the character actor’s toolbox -- costume, makeup, props and careful mannerism -to overcome the gender difference and, in the end, to make it completely irrelevant.

At the risk of jinxing his current run of success, I think director D.J. Queenan continues to be what Savannah has needed for a long time: a director with a flair for creative casting and the discipline to properly organize a show.

We’ve had directors with one or the other of those key skills, but I can’t remember one with as judicious a blend of the Apollonian and Dionysian as Queenan. Here’s hoping he can steer clear of the usual backstage politics and bureaucratic infighting that make a director’s job in this town so frustrating.

Everyone knows the story of Charles Dickens’ classic yuletide tale, so I’ll spare you the synopsis. Suffice it to say that Queenan expertly lays out the twin storylines of the show -- Scrooge’s interplay with various ghosts and the internal drama of the hapless Cratchit family -without indulging in the kind of cheese that too often turns people off of holiday productions entirely.

Ryan McCurdy’s Jacob Marley is that rare thing nowadays -- a truly scary ghost (indeed, my seven-year-old daughter suddenly decided a trip to the concession stand was urgently needed during this scene). The ghostly triumvirate of Christmases Past, Present and Future each have their own distinctive personalities, especially Eve Butler’s delightful dominatrix take on the ghost of Christmas Past.

Though definitely a musical, there are not many vocal pyrotechnics in this show.

Indeed, the mix of trained and untrained voices in the cast reminds one of an oldschool Hollywood musical -- with character actors basically talking their way through the songs -- rather than a classic stage musical.

And here, it works. For example, Mark Rand may not wow the judges at the American Traditions vocal competition anytime soon, but his warm, expressive croon is perfect for his role of the vulnerable yet dignified Fred.

The accompanying band, directed by Keena Charboneau, is a crackerjack outfit, as they say, but about ten percent too loud for the room. With the band that loud the stage mics have to be jacked up, which leads to a brittle tinniness that fatigues the ears. And somebody give that drummer a pair of brushes!

There is a creative use of computerized back-projection during some scenes; while it doesn’t always achieve the desired effect, I do appreciate the effort to update and upgrade the production values. Keep working on it.

A lot of time and effort has gone into creating the set of this production. I especially enjoy the device of lowering different types of windows -- a dormer or a simple sash, for example -- to mark different scenes (a device which has the added advantage of creatively using the extraordinary height of the Trustees stage).

While I appreciate the professionalism and attention to detail in this set -- by no means a given in local productions -- I have to say it looks more like a McMansion in Richmond Hill than a gritty streetscape in Victorian London.

With amber lights on a beige-on-beige set inhabited by actors in primarily brown outfits, A Christmas Carol’s overall stage picture too often succumbs to the Savannah brown-out disease, wherein all color is inexplicably bled from the stage.

I don’t know why so many local productions are historically so timid about the bold use of color onstage. It’s an ongoing problem, and in my mind a relatively easy one to fix.

These small criticisms aside, though, this Christmas Carol is an overwhelming success, staying true to the spirit of Dickens’ original while letting some notable local talent breathe some fresh air into it. ◗

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But that’s their loss, and certainly not Jackson’s fault. He’s done his part by treating the property with love and respect, and, much to my surprise, his Kong is a -- pardon the pun -- roaring success. In essence, Jackson has taken the 103-minute original and stretched it out to a 190minute running time. The three-act structure remains intact, however. The first portion of the film details how visionary filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) elects to head out into uncharted waters to make his epic adventure movie, recruiting a struggling actress named Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) to serve as his leading lady. Denham is all business, meaning that Ann’s romantic escapades arrive in the form of Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), a sensitive screenwriter with the heart of a poet but the steely resolve of an action hero. The second part charts the sea voyage and the arrival on Skull Island, whereupon Ann is co-opted by the local natives for the purpose of serving as a human sacrifice to the great ape known as Kong. The climactic third act finds Kong captured and taken to New York, where, billed as “King Kong, The Eighth Wonder of the World,” he becomes the featured attraction in Denham’s lavish theatrical production. Naturally, Kong escapes and goes on a rampage. From there, it’s a quick jaunt up the Empire State Building and an even quicker trip back down. Despite a hefty $200 million budget, the film’s visual effects aren’t as seamless as one might expect, particularly when it comes to the dinosaurs. Yet the FX team comes through when it matters most: Kong himself is a visual marvel, with an expressive range of emotions, and the final battle between Kong and the fighter planes is one of the movie year’s defining spectacles. Jack Black’s turn as showman Carl Denham is especially memorable, even if I still prefer Robert Armstrong’s show biz bluster in the original over Black’s more Machiavellian demeanor. Ultimately, Jackson respects that King Kong is above all else a love story -- that’s why Fay Wray is remembered so fondly from the original picture, and why Naomi Watts will emerge the most triumphant from this new version. Watts plays her scenes opposite Kong beautifully, and it’s a measure of her skills as an actress that she generates enormous chemistry with an animal that’s created out of computer codes rather than flesh and blood. ◗

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feels cramped and on occasion even claustrophobic (cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s widescreen possibilities appear to hold little interest for him). But the child actors are appealing, Swinton makes a suitably chilly ice queen, the supporting critters add color, and the brisk storyline fuels the imagination. It may be kid stuff, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suitable for the whole family.

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Bob Barnes (George Clooney) is a CIA field operative who’s stunned when his years of service count for naught once his superiors decide it’s in their best interest to betray him. Bryan Woodman (Damon) is an energy analyst whose personal tragedy serves as a springboard for close ties with a prominent member of a Middle Eastern dynasty. Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) is a lawyer who finds himself navigating the choppy waters of a merger between two oil company behemoths. Syriana offers little hope and no answers, catering instead to the substantial number of Americans who feel that the bad guys -- chiefly, Big Business and Big Government -- have already won, and there’s not a damn thing we ordinary citizens can do about it. For those who already believe this, the movie’s a well-executed downer. For those seeking to educate themselves, the movie’s a must-see.

AEON FLUX ✰1/2

Based on an animated series created for MTV a decade ago, Aeon Flux opens by informing us that in the year 2011, 99 percent of the world’s population was wiped out by a virus. Flash forward to 2415, where the descendants of the survivors continue to live in the only established city on the entire planet. Fed up with the fascistic ruling class, a band of revolutionaries known as the Monicans seeks to topple the government; they order their best agent, Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron), to assassinate leader Trevor Goodchild (Martin Csokas), but she realizes the situation isn’t as defined as previously thought.

An impersonal slab of sci-fi sameness, Aeon Flux wears its lethargy as a badge of honor, with Karen Kusama’s draggy direction and Theron’s monotonous performance front and center in every scene.

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Puccini wrote his opera La Boheme in 1896, and it was exactly 100 years later that Jonathan Larson’s update Rent created seismic waves in the theater world. Rent faithfully follows the story structure of La Boheme, although Larson injected a sense of immediacy by adding AIDS to the equation. Unfolding in the late ‘80s, the story centers on a group of bohemians in New York’s East Village. If it sounds like Melrose Place on welfare, the story’s defining characteristic is that half of its leading players are HIV-positive, contracted through either sex or drug use. For a musical, there isn’t much dancing per se, and director Chris Columbus and choreographer Keith Young stage the few numbers competently if not excitingly.

THE ICE HARVEST ✰1/2

The Ice Harvest is being promoted as this year’s Bad Santa, but it’s just bad, period.

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Just as Ray lived or died on the powerhouse performance of Jamie Foxx, so too does Walk the Line depend on the mesmerizing work by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (who both do their own singing) to carry it over the line. Phoenix, all hunched shoulders and slow-burn stares, commands the screen, yet even he’s topped by Witherspoon in her most fully realized performance since Election.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE ✰✰✰

Director Mike Newell and scripter Steve Kloves, forced to whittle down J.K. Rowling’s enormous tome, steadfastly refuse to coddle the youngest audience members, “family film” status be damned.

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by Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and three older students, is fraught with such perils as firebreathing dragons and piranha-toothed mermaids. A key supporting character -- a likable one, at that -- is unexpectedly killed.

And the evil Lord Voldemort, who hasn’t been seen since he murdered Harry’s parents 13 years earlier, finally makes an appearance (Ralph Fiennes is suitably slimy in the role). Yet the series’ greatest strength -- namely, the dead-on portrayals

by Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry, Ron and Hermione -never fails to deliver.

YOURS, MINE AND OURS ✰

A descent into the pits of hell disguised as a motion picture, Yours, Mine and Ours is the sort of broad, insincere schmaltz that moviegoers eat up at this time of year.

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Director Joe Wright and screenwriter Deborah Moggach have done an exemplary job of making us care all over again about the plight of the Bennet sisters, five young girls whose busybody mom sets about finding them suitable husbands against the backdrop of 19th century England.

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK ✰✰✰1/2

This film looks at an inspiring moment in U.S. history, when broadcaster Edward R. Murrow did the unthinkable by standing up to Joe McCarthy, the junior Senator from Wisconsin who destroyed lives by denouncing everyone who didn't subscribe to his petty politics. At times, the laserbeam focus on both the setting and the situation at hand makes the film feel as if it's been sealed inside a Zip-Loc bagn. The movie's genius, however, is in its integration of actual newsreel footage into the fictionalized framework.

GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ ✰1/2

Rapper 50 Cent (or Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, as he’s billed here) may have set the music world on fire, but as a movie star, he’s relevant as a dead mike. ◗

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Activism & Politics Amnesty International meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave.. 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.

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

Chatham County Young Democrats Call Cory at 508-3335 or send email to c@depthllc.com.

For information, call Brad Morrison at 5964810.

Coastal Democrats Drinking Liberally Promoting democracy one pint at a time -share politics while sharing a pitcher at a local Democratic drinking club. 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.

Fellowship of Reconciliation 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.

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

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets each Monday at 8:30 p.m. at BOBA’s, 309 W. St. Julian St. Call 308-3934 or visit http://www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

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

Planned Parenthood 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 e-mail megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Savannah Peace Coalition meets every Tuesday on Yahoo Chat around 7 p.m. Send e-mail schmalk@yahoo.com to receive an invitation to join the chat.

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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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Skidaway Island Democrats Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.

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Local activist group focused on protesting the war in Iraq. Call Richard DiPirro at 4417167.

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

Benefits & Fundraisers Backus Children’s Hospital Ornament Sale The One Hundred is selling pewter bear ornaments designed by Phyllis Tildes and crafted by Woodberry Pewter for $8 each.

Proceeds will benefit the Backus Children’s Hospital. To place an order, call Kelly Dykes Claxton at 350-6374 or send e-mail to dykeske1@memorialhealth.com.

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.

Boy Scouts Holiday Wreath Sale These holiday wreaths are offered for sale in your neighborhood or drop by Savannah Toyota, Greyson Stadium, Keller’s Flea Market, and the Piggly-Wiggly and Kroger in Richmond Hill. You also can call 927-7272 to order them.

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.

Hurricane Katrina Benefit Website A community website/blog where local Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, fundraising events and other information are listed can be found at www.katrinahelp.gatherat.com.

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Savannah Republican Club Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

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GMAC, Piggly Wiggly grocery stores, West Broad Street YMCA, Media Play and 97.3 KISS-FM studios. Call Tom at 660-8364.

Night Stalkers Association In honor of the fallen soldiers who served in the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) out of Hunter Army Airfield, the Military Affairs Council of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce is encouraging donations. Call Linda R. Rogers at 352-6645 or send donations to: The Night Stalkers Association, 3/160 SOAR, 1304 N. Lightning Rd., Hunter Army Airfield, 31409-4719.

Pennies for Pets Coastal Pet Rescue is holding this fundraising drive throughout December. Call 351-4151 or send e-mail to info@coastalpetrescue.org.

St. Francis Men’s Club 2nd Boston Butt Sale

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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.

Mighty Eighth Seeks Photos for Memorial ‘The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum is seeking photos of any and all military veterans, both retired and currently serving, for a memorial Christmas tree. The photos will be scanned and reduced to fit a specially designed hanging paper ornament tied with a ribbon. Those who wish to participate can e-mail photos in a jpg file format to judyandlee@basicisp.net. Copies of photos can be mailed to Christmas Tree Project, Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Box 1992, Savannah, 31402. Do NOT mail original photos as they CANNOT be returned. Those with original photos can bring them to the museum library Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and they will be scanned while you wait. Please furnish names of people in the photos as well as the year, if possible.

at 1003 Victory Dr. will hold a Pre-K and Kindergarten round-up Tuesday, Dec. 6 from 9-10:30 a.m. Call 356-6987.

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 Adult Art Classes 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.

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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

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.

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.

Art and Theater Classes at S.P.A.C.E.

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

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.

The Art School The Art School provides quality art instruction for ages 6 through adult.

Register now for afterschool classes.

Classes provide a comfortable, non-competitive atmosphere for students of all levels.

Tuition includes professional art supplies.

Located across from Summit Gymnastics/Sharks Cheerleading at 74 W. Montgomery Crossroads. Call 921-1151 or visit www.theartschool-sav.com.

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.

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.

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Stained Glass Window Competition The Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah is offering a $500 award for the best design for a stained glass window to be placed in the apse behind the pulpit in the historic Jingle Bells church located on Troupe Square. The window must display

Many classes are ongoing, running every month. Payment is to be made two days prior to the class starting date. Call Anastasia at 443-9678.

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Classes at Familiar Pathways Several classes are offered, including Meditation 101 and 102; Aura 101; Tarot 101, 102. 103 and 104; Witchcraft 101 and 102; Henna 101 and 102; Herbology 101, 102 and 103; Deity 101 and 102; and The Art of Control: Principles and Tactics. Most classes cost $50 and lunch is included.

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

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

Computer Classes Basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Works offered at St. Paul’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.

Creative Minds: A Symposium of Ideas This seminar is presented by Savannah Country Day School and will feature William Damon, James Garbarino and Dan Kindlon discussing Raising Children of Character in an Age of Indulgence on Saturday, Jan. 7 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The school is located at 824 Stillwood Dr. The cost is $50 for the seminar plus $17 for lunch from Lady & Sons. Reservations are required. Call 9618828 or visit www.savcds.org and click on “Creative Minds.”

Culinary Arts Classes Enroll now in a free culinary arts training program at the Starfish Cafe. This program is a collaborative effort of Union Mission,

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Calendars also may be purchased at SSFD Headquarters on Norwood Avenue or by calling 354-1011.

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Discover Creativity Coaching Free initial consultation. Expert with two creativity degrees helps you kick-start your project, sort ideas, break through blocks, clarify intentions and plan approaches. Call 412-9199 or send e-mail to breakthru.creativity@gmail.com.

Drawing Inspiration From the Masters 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 Savannah Art Association in City market.

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Holiday Arts and Crafts St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource eCenter will present this seminar Dec. 15 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605.

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 www.thework.com/WhatisTheWork.asp.

Legal Secretary Certificate Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University is a series of 10 courses over a one-year period.

Each course meets once a week for six weeks. Fees are $135 plus textbooks. Call 927-5213.

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.

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 Bring your preferred medium to work in the company of fellow artists. No teacher, no 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.

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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.

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.

The Live Oak Public Library

Paralegal Certificate Program

Life Challenge Consulting

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

Call 652-3662.

The Armstrong Atlantic State University paralegal programs provide real-world skills and training. Each course meets once a week for eight weeks. Fees are $130 plus textbook.

Call the AASU Center for Justice Administration at 927-5231.

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.

SCAD Online Application Special Students who apply online to SCAD on any Tuesday in December will pay a reduced fee of $25, half the regular application fee.

Students who visit the college in person at 342 Bull St. also can take advantage of the discounted fee. Students may apply for SCAD programs in Savannah, Atlanta or online via SCAD e-Learning by vising http://scad.edu/admission/apply/index.cfm.

Savannah Art Association Life Drawing Drawing sessions will be held the first three Tuesdays of every month from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Savannah Art Association (located in City Market upstairs over Belfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). Bring your own drawing supplies. $10 per session for members.

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

Savannah Area Tennis will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a high-energy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at

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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.

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

Parent and Teen Driving Course

The cost is $10 per person and is most beneficial to parents of children less than 4 years.

To register, call 350-9335.

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offers several classes and workshops, including sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

offered the second, third and fourth Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Job Training Unlimited for ages 14-21 is by appointment. Adult Literacy classes are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. Call 232-4232, Ext. 115.

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Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Essay Contest 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.

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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 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.

ABATE (American Bikers Active Toward Education) 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.

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Art, Coffee and Conversation 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.

Ascension Lutheran Dinner and a Movie 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.

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.

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

Beanhead Writers Group

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.

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.

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.

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 House, 12 E. 41st St. Facilitated by Miriam Center. Call 663-0894.

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.

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

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

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

Gold Wing Road Riders Association

A special little club for special little dogs and their owners meets one Saturday each month at 10:30 a.m. For information, visit groups.yahoo.com/group/ChiSavannah/.

promotes education, safety and fun to motorcycle riders. Call Julian at 920-2700 or John at 858-5414.

Civil Air Patrol

A place for those interested in the Gothic subcultures. Visit www.Goth-NightSavannah.com.

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

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

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.

All instrumentalists interested in Celtic music are welcome. Meets the second and fourth Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at the Folk Traditions Store, 12 Price St. Call 341-8898. the game that will soon replace Chess as the intellectual strategy game par excellence., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Books-AMillion on Abercorn. Call Greg at 232-7549.

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.

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Irish Session

Meets the 3rd Saturday of every month. 9610602.

Georgia Christian Singles

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.

Gain confidence in public speaking. Meets Tuesday evenings, 7pm at 6206 Waters Ave, Rivers Edge Retirement Community. 3555450.

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Community Hymn Chorus

Philosophical sessions taking on a different topic each time at Barnes & Noble every Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Call 659-2930 or 443-9267.

Hostess City Toastmasters Club

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community. Call Dana Huffman at 350-6357.

Philo Cafe

Progressive Guys’ Discussion Group 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.

231-8841.

Low Country Artists’ and Artisans’ Society

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

sponsors a Country Textiles African American Quilt Making Guild. Call 447-1888.

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

There is a $700 jackpot.

MOMS Club for stay-at-home moms and their children.

For information, call Courtney at 921-1462, visit www.momsclub.org or send e-mail to momsclubofsavannahga@hotmail.com.

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.

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

MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)

Savannah Adventure Club

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.

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

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Millionaire’s Club for Women The purpose is to achieve wealth and success in personal and professional life and to share this wealth by mentoring others. Call 236-3660.

Objectivist Society of Savannah meets biweekly at the Lion’s Den Lounge.

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

Oglethorpe Business & Professional Women’s Club meets for lunch the second Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3619 or visit www.obpw.org.

Partners for Community Health is a group that meets every other month to discuss healthcare topics that impact the

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 tradition. This non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 6550994.

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Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion,

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Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

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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.

Savannah Chapter of the Sons of Italy 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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Savannah Chess Club 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 US 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.

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.

Savannah Italian Club 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 2326682 or visit www.savannahjaycees.com.

Savannah Linux Users Group The group meets the first Wednesday of every month. Call 210-9066.

Savannah Lions Club

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.

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

Savannah Express Network Chapter of American Business Women’s Association

meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. See www.savannahmug.org.

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Savannah Macintosh Users Group (SMUG)

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Call 351-3171.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary club

Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Society

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.

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.

Savannah Port City Lions Club meets every first and third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Ryan’s Restaurant on Stephenson.

For information, call 920-9081.

Savannah Psychogeographic Society 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.

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

233-1600.

Savannah Toastmasters

Savannah Ultimate Frisbee 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.

Single People in Christian Education (SPICE) 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.

Southside Optimist Club

For information, see www.savannahskiclub.com.

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.

Savannah Stitch-N-Bitch

Subbuteo Table Soccer

Savannah Ski Club

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.

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

Tybee Beautification Association 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.

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.

Waving Girl Smocking Guild meets the fourth Mondays at 6:30 p.m., August through May, at the Coastal Development Services, 7712 Seawright Dr. Those who love smocking and sewing are invited to attend. New members are welcome.

Weekend Warriors 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.

five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.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 355-8111.

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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.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will come to Savannah on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at the Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre as part of the 2006 Black Heritage Festival. Admission will be free, but tickets are required. Call 691-6847 to reserve tickets.

Unclaimed seats will be distributed to those waiting 10 minutes prior to the show.

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 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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cated 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.

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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. 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.

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.

Yoga @ Work A six-week series of Yoga @ Work will be held Mondays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in offices located in downtown Savannah starting in January. The series will incorporate discussions about stress and provide tools to use during the work day to combat the stress we all experience. The class is available to all ages and levels of physical ability. No special attire is needed. The instructor is Ann Carroll. The cost is $90. Call 667-8877 for information on space availability or send e-mail to yayaannie@bellsouth.net.

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.

Call 819-6463.

Food and Beverage 700 Kitchen Cooking Classes Holiday-themed classes for adults and children will be offered at Mansion on

Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. Art of Entertaining: Holiday Open House will be offered Dec. 15 from 6:30-9 p.m. The cost is $90. Holiday Cookies will be offered Dec. 16 from 2:30-5 p.m. and Dec. 20 from 6:30-9 p.m. The cost is $90. Kids Holiday Cookies will be offered Dec. 17 and 24 from 3-5 p.m. and Dec. 22 from 7-9 p.m. The cost is $50 per parent/child and $15 for each additional child. New Year’s Eve Hors d’ Ouevres will be offered Dec. 21 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Dec. 29 from 6:30-9 p.m. and Dec. 31 from 2:30-5 p.m. The cost is $90. Art of Entertaining: Christmas/Winter Brunch will be presented Dec. 17, 24, 25 and 31 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The cost is $90. Call 238-5158 and ask for cooking school reservations.

Calling All Cooks The Tybee Island Marine Science Center is planning to publish a cookbook that will feature seafood recipes along with illustrations and the natural history of the fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters, mussels, clams and so on featured in each dish. The cookbook also will include appetizers, salads, side dishes and deserts that will compliment the seafood entrees. Visit www.tybeemsc.org for information on submitting your recipes.

Gay & Lesbian 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 Network 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 offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

Call 236-2489 or send e-mail to bwooten@comcast.net.

Friends & Company bowling league meets Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at AMF Victory Lanes, 2055 E. Victory Dr. 354-5710.

Gay AA Meeting meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 441-4407.

Georgia Equality Savannah is the local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

Lesbian Potluck 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.

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. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 3522611.

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.

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group 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.

weight than any other method. The Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Loving Care Personal Home Bring your heart to us. Offers three meals a day, medical assistance, transportation, assisted daily living and more. Call 927-0671 or 921-4577 for more information.

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 Dec. 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Long County Health Department in Ludowici. Call 912545-2107 for appointments. Mammograms will be performed Dec. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical GroupPembroke. For appointments, call 912-6532897. Mammograms will be performed Dec. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Bryan County Health Department in Richmond Hill.

Call 756-2611 for appointments.

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

Massage by Certified Massage Practitioner 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.

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.

Free hearing & speech screening

Memorial Health group meditation sessions

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

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

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

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.

Got a drug problem? Need help?

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

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

La Leche League of Savannah Call 897-9261.

Savannah Gay Business Guild

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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.

like Mark Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more

The National Wellness Foundation sponsors a lecture every Thursday at 6 p.m. titled “The Essence of Chiropractic for the 21st Century.” Call 356-5887.

Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-2647154.

Project SAVE The program provides eye exams, education and care to those who have no health insurance, are unable to pay for care privately and meet certain qualifications. The clinic meets Thursdays by appointment. Call 352-2032.

The Quit Line a toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for

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Senior companions needed Citizens Inc. is seeking Senior Companions 60 or older to provide care to older adults.

Applicants must meet program requirements to apply. Call 236-0363, Ext. 120 or 121.

Super 2 Access Clinic Super 2 Access (After Cancer Cure Evaluation Strategy and Support) is a clinic for children and adolescents who completed cancer treatment at least two years ago. For information, call Pam at 658-2215 or Donna at 667-8943.

at the Oatland Island Education Center. The “Native Animal Nature Trail” features a variety of live animals and landscapes and winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats. Located 5 miles east of downtown off the Islands Expressway. M-F:9 a.m.-4 p.m. and most Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person for everyone over 4. 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

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

Visit the center to discover the Georgia coast. The exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures. Beach Discovery Walks are offered Fridays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. Call 786-5917 for information about current programs. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children 3-16. The center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesdays when it is open 9 a.m. to noon.

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

A new website has been launched to help people reclaim lost pets. It is located at www.thepetrescue.com. 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

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

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

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.

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.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Tongues of Fire: erotic poetry

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.

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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.

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Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research which will take place one weekend during the months of January, April, July and October. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit www.TheDolphinProject.org.

Join naturalist John “Crawfish” Crawford aboard Capt. Mike Neal’s Island Explorer on a discovery cruise through Georgia’s tidal creeks and saltmarsh. Look for dolphins, birds, oysters and other inhabitants of the coastal estuary. Venture ashore on Williamson Island, Georgia’s youngest barrier island. Reservations required. Cost is $40. Call 897-5108.

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The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for instructors. Call 6515371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross.org.

Adoptions in November and December will be rewarded with a free weekend of petsitting from At Home Pet Sitters, adoption treats from Winston’s Bakery, a $10 off coupon for pet first aid and CPR training from the Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross and coupons and information from Purina’s Rally to Rescue program. Call Lisa Scarbrough at 351-4151 or visit www.coastalpetrescue.org.

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tation or class. For directions, call 354-1678 or 352-2134.

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

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.

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Wildwood United Methodist Church

will be presented with orchestra Sunday, Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Christ Church, 18 Bull St. on Johnson Square. All of the choirs of The Mother Church of Georgia will perform this traditional service started in the last century at the King’s College in Cambridge, England. Call 232-4131.

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.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Sunday school is at 9:45, worship at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. 2502 Highway 80, Garden City.

meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 652-3496.

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 Dec. 18, Mike Freeman, M.Div., will examine the influence of materialism in Whatever Happened to Christmas? On Dec. 24, the Christmas Eve Service will be pre-

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Dec. 18 at 11 a.m., Kathleen Moore will speak from the topic, Yule Service. 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.

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

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sented with traditional hymns and classic popular Christmas songs led by Robert Ludgate. No service will be held on Dec. 25.

Services are held Sundays at 10 a.m. The church is located at the corner of Houston and Oglethorpe streets. Creating a Peaceable Kingdom is the curriculum for K12 youth in the religious education program.

Call 233-6284 or send e-mail to UUBC2@aol.com.

Woodlawn United Methodist Church

Women’s Bible Study at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

Sports & Games Savannah Area Tennis will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adults’ Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a high-energy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at 961-9862 or 507-9862 or send e-mail to ctcsavannahga@prodigy.net.

Savannah Masters Adult Swimming is available at the Chatham County Aquatic Center, 7240 Sallie Mood Dr., next to Lake Mayer. Levels are Beginner, Fitness, Triathlete and Competitive. Times are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:306:45 a.m., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7:15 p.m. and Saturday from 7-8:30 a.m. For information, call Scott Rabalais at 927-7016 or visit www.savannahmasters.com.

Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway. Visit www.alzga.org or call 920-2231.

Alzheimer’s Support Group This monthly support group is for families of persons suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia and is held the second Thursday at 6 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Amanda Christenson, 236-0363, Ext. 105.

Savannah Shamrocks women’s rugby team

Amputee Support Group

Practices are every Monday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Forsyth Park near the tennis courts. Call 404-449-5875 or send e-mail to savannahrugby@yahoo.com.

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Wheelchair Basketball BlazeSports Club of Savannah, a program of The Rehabilitative Institute at Memorial Health Medical Center, sponsors wheelchair basketball. Practices are held each Monday.

Beginners and intermediate players practice from 6-7 p.m. Advanced players practice from 7-8 p.m. Basketballs and sports wheelchairs are provided. Call 350-7268.

Support Groups African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027.

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Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity Meets once a week. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents of Children with Bleeding Disorders meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Health. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 5989860 or visit http://all-anonsavannah.freeservers.com.

Better Breathers support group

Alcoholics Anonymous

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.

If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, call 354-0993.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected by Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementiacausing illnesses and meets the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111 of the

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Tina Nelson at 819-7340 or Cindy Balkstra at 8198032.

Bipolar Support Group

Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline The Bulloch County Sexual Assault Task Force has announced a new 24 hour/7 day a week hotline staffed by trained volunteers to aid victims of rape, incest and sexual molestation. The number is 912-531-1771.

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Compassionate Friends Support Group

This support group is for parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care, or who have been given custody of a family member’s child who has been involved with DFCS and/or has been in foster care. The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 9255195.

Cancer support group meets every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon in the board room located on the first floor of St. Joseph’s Hospital. 819-2475.

Caring for Us is a support group for caregivers of ill or injured family members or loved ones. Call Kimberlee Mitchell at 350-3399.

Celiac Support Group for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. Call 507-2592.

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633.

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at Memorial Health in Conference Room A. Call Robin at 350-3843.

Domestic violence community support group SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Building at 325 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

Domestic Violence Hotline The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence, have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-80033-HAVEN

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

Fibromyalgia support group meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s possible there’s still enough oil buried in the earth to sustain our civilization’s exorbitant appetite for material comforts for another 100 years. Or it may be true, as some researchers suggest, that global reserves of black gold are rapidly dwindling, and 20 years from now we’ll all be farmers and hunters sitting around campfires at night telling stories. Whichever scenario comes to pass, Aries, you’ll be happiest and smartest and healthiest if you cultivate a simple and earthy relationship with luxury--maybe something akin to poet Omar Khayyam’s notion, which was “a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness.” The coming week is a perfect time for you to practice this approach.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your self-image is too small, in my opinion. You’ve crammed your identity into a few pigeonholes, and it’s dying to escape. To launch you on the path to expansion, let’s stimulate your imagination with some exercises. Start by visualizing yourself as being the opposite gender. What would your name be? Now picture yourself as being a different race and having an alternate ethnic background. How would that affect your philosophy of life? Imagine yourself working at a job or career other than the one you actually have, and living in a different city, and making $20,000 more a year than you actually do. Now dream up some more fantasies about other selves who might be lurking within you.

meets the fourth Monday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Women’s Services Conference Room at the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial Health. Call 350-7845.

Gay AA Meeting An Alcoholics Anonymous group for gays meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 233-4255.

HIV/AIDS :living with HIV/AIDS? My Brothaz Home is a support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House provides supportive housing for single mothers with one child. Please call 236-5310 for information.

Huntington Disease Support Group

Koolostomy Accessories is a support group open to anyone who has an ostomy and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group Each month, the group focuses on a specific topic related to blood-related cancers and also discusses ways to improve quality of life. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Living without Violence The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 2349999.

meets the last Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital, second floor, Room 2. Call Sandra at 9640455.

Lowcountry Huntington’s Disease Group

Journey Through Journaling

is for families who are going through lung cancer treatment and survivors of lung cancer. It meets monthly at Summit Cancer Care. Call Patty Thornton at 350-9385.

People whose lives have been touched by cancer are invited to this support group that delves into the creative expression of cancer experiences through journaling and craft activities. The group will meet Wednesday, Dec. 14 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Cancer

Call 964-0455 or visit www.LowcountryHD.com. Call 964-0455.

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the open secrets that have been hidden in plain view. Here’s your word of power: *lustertone.*

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian hero Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in a South African jail as a political prisoner. Once he was released, he became his country’s first democratically elected president, helped abolish its system of apartheid, and won the Nobel Peace Prize. You, my friend, are at a point comparable to the one Mandela was at right before he was freed. Although your confinement hasn’t been nearly as dire or as long as his, your release will be pretty glorious. I hope that in the ensuing weeks you will demonstrate at least a fraction of his ability to triumph over the adversity you’ve had to endure.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Kiss the back of your hand and remember a moment in childhood when you felt the perfect joy of being at home in the world. Give a gift to a river, lake, or ocean. Treasure the unique shape and contours of your beautiful face. For just 48 hours, be inflamed with the hypothesis that your soul will live forever. Imagine that your place of power is where the tree joins the earth. Playfully lower your expectations all the way down to the bottom, and tune in to the shattering sweetness of life exactly as it is. Put yourself under the protection of the raw elements. Write an epic three-page autobiography while sitting in the pitch dark. Seize the power to create magic that has always seemed impossible before.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve lived in the same house for ten years, but it was only yesterday I noticed that the top of my kitchen sink had a word engraved on it: *Lustertone.* The discovery was embarrassing, since it revealed how unperceptive I can be. But it was also a sign that maybe I’m waking up from my everyday trance and ready to register details that have been invisible to me before. I believe that a similar development is imminent in your life, Gemini. You’re primed to start gathering in

Keeping hope alive while living with cancer

is an after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A while back you heard a commotion coming from behind the door of opportunity. It momentarily buoyed you. But the silence since then has been disheartening.

Now you may even be on the verge of giving up. But here’s my advice to you: Start knocking on that door and don’t stop until it opens. Keep knocking patiently and politely for an hour, for a day, for three weeks or six months--for as long as it takes. I don’t know if the answer you’ll receive when the door opens will be

exactly the one you want, but it will provide you with the precise information you need to decide what to do next. And you’ll never get that insight if you walk away now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When T.S. Eliot wrote the first draft of his famous poem “The Waste Land,” it was about a thousand lines long. Wondering if maybe it was too sprawling, he asked another poet, Ezra Pound, to edit it. Pound crossed out more than half of the original, and Eliot published it in that slimmed-down form. I encourage you to locate your own personal equivalent of Ezra Pound right now, Libra. You need help in extracting your future masterpiece from the dross in which it’s still half-buried.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is prime time for you to burn away delusions that cripple your ability to act with maximum freedom. There are two particular misconceptions that you have special power to eradicate. The first is the belief that you can help someone else by diminishing yourself. The second is the notion that you can somehow benefit from the losses of other people. The truth in both cases is exactly the opposite: If you really want to contribute to anyone’s well-being, you have to do it in such a way that you, too, thrive. And vice versa.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Greenland is literally covered with rubies. “You can’t set foot anywhere without stepping on five or six rubies,” says gemstone hunter Andrew Lee Smith, quoted in *Discover* magazine. This omnipresence of valuable beauty is an apt metaphor for your fate in the coming week, Sagittarius.

Everywhere you turn, you will see treasure. You may find the abundance hard to believe. Ironically, your incredulity is the only possible obstacle that could interfere with you gathering up and enjoying the riches.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The British edition of *Cosmopolitan* still provides women with practical, no-nonsense

advice like “How to love yourself after a pig-out” and “8 sizzling sex lessons your man needs to learn,” but it has also added a spirituality column. “I’ve come to the painful realization that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy,” wrote Hannah Borno, introducing the new section. “The key to true contentment lies elsewhere.” Cosmo readers now get helpful tips on consulting their guardian angels, tapping into the wisdom of dreams, and trying out various meditation techniques. If this renowned hotbed of the sensual approach to life has finally acknowledged the subtler dimensions, maybe you Capricorns, traditionally the hardcore materialists of the zodiac, might also be inspired to expand your spiritual perspective. I hope so. It’s a perfect moment for you to get delightfully zapped with a sacred epiphany.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A friend gave me a live rosebush in a planter for my birthday last June. After a few weeks, its five red flowers withered and turned brown but didn’t fall off their stems. I left them there, perversely fascinated by the dead blooms that wouldn’t let go. Months later, in late November, five new flowers blossomed, and now the bush displays a mix of the living and the dead. It sort of reminds me of you, Aquarius. But I suggest that you do what I haven’t done yet: Start plucking off the dried-up old parts of your life today. Give the fresh parts more room to grow and shine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible,” wrote French philosopher Voltaire. I hope you will contradict him, Pisces, both in the coming weeks and throughout 2006. To be in alignment with the most exalted astrological possibilities, you should be the snowflake that at least tries to question the avalanche, and even makes an effort to stop it or reroute it. Maybe you don’t realize how much power your seemingly little crystalline self has to change history, but I’m here to tell you it’s more than you imagine. ◗

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meets the fourth Saturday of the month from10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 352-8383 or 927-8332.

Open to persons diagnosed with depression. Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

920-0153 or 927-2064

Institute Conference Room at Memorial Health. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

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Depressive/Manic support group

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Lupus Encouragement Group A support group that is open to patients with lupus, their family members and friends. 447-6605.

Memorial Health Diabetes Support Group meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Error Prevention Conference Room. A variety of guests discuss ways to improve health. Call Glenda at 350-3690.

Memorial Health Hemophilia Support Group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Memorial Health Pancreatic Cancer Support Group’ Call Jennifer Currin at 350-3988.

Memorial Health POPPS! Group for children with cancer and their parents and caregivers. Call Donna at 350-5616.

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SET Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For information, call Saundra at 350-3396.

Mommy and Me: Life With Your Little One is a support group that meets the first Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Candler Professional Building, Room 508A, 5354 Reynolds St. Call 819-6171 for information.

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meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, Noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. 692-2032.

Savannah Chatham Truancy Project meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 428 Bull St. in the United Way Building. The project can educate you regarding the new truancy law and how it impacts your child.

The Savannah Parkinson’s Support Group meets the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. Call 355-6347 or 238-4666.

Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose purpose is to help those with sexual addictions. 351-7440.

S-Anon Family Group is a fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For information, call 663-2565.

Smoking Cessation Support Group is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking. Call 819-8032 or 819-3361.

Teen Mom Support Program

Muscular Dystrophy support group

Hope House of Savannah provides support for teenage mothers between the ages of 13 to 19. Childcare, snacks and transportation provided. Call 236-5310.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill meets the third Sunday from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Sports Education Building, Room 226. 3517035 or 353-7143. meets the fourth Thursday at the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church at Abercorn and Gordon streets. A free story/coloring book, I’m Feeling Just Ducky!, is available for children to better explain seizure activity.. Call Pam Steadman at 233-1006.

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Sarcoidosis support group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523

Overcoming the Stigma of Seizure Disorders

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meets every other month, Jan. 12, March 9, May 11, July 13, Sept. 14 and Nov. 9, in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. For information, call Terria Manning at 819-2171 or Karen Traver at 819-8350.

Multiple Sclerosis support group

meets Jan. 28, April 19, July 19 and Oct. 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. 354-9576.

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St. Joseph’s/Candler Emory transplant support group

PRIDE Support Group This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

The Parents of Difficult Teens group for parents having problems with their teens and pre-teens. 353-7699.

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

Transgender Support Group My Brothaz Home, Inc. is sponsoring this support group. For information, call Lady Maverick or George at 231-8727.

United Way’s First Call for Help Telephone information & referral service that provides expertise and relief to individuals and families in need, with a database of more than 500 agencies and organizations. 651-7730.

Victim-Witness assistance program is for families of murder victims. The meetings are at 6 p.m. in the Chatham County Courthouse on Montgomery St. third Thursday of each month. 652-7329

Weight loss support group TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), a nonprofit weight loss group provides informative programs & info. Meets every Tuesday. from 6-6:45/6:45-7:45 at the Windsor Forest Community Center. 748-8700.

Wheeze busters

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinder-block wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique. In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

The Work

The group welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, and family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it.

For information, call Martyn Hills at 6514094.

Safe Shelter Outreach Program Providing services for survivors of domestic violence. All services are confidential and free. 3025 Bull St. 651-0004.

Women who love too much meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987. meets the fourth Friday at 7 p.m. at 2320 Sunset Blvd., (just off Skidaway at Carey Hilliards). The Work is for mentally healthy people who are stuck in some area of their lives. 355-4704.◗

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Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks

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DONATE Your car or boat get a Tax Break Call 927-7272 Coastal Empire Council Boy Scouts of America Proceeds from sales of all the sale cars and boats will go toward sending boys to summer camp.

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Sun Coast Realty is expanding and hiring real estate agents. If you are interested in high commissions, great working conditions, call for an interview. Located on the second floor of 820 Abercorn St, Savannah, near the Mansion!

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NEW in box. $999/retail, selling for $399.

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1711 East Gwinnett St .

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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Wonderful family home in Ardsley Park with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Included 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 $529,000. Sun Coast Realty, Rhondda Netherton 912 507-9800.

Historic district, historic home and best price in the district!

Free standing and large kitchen, plus screened porch.

3 fireplaces, restored, heartpine floors, and many extras.

223,900. Sun Coast Realty, Call Rhondda at 912 5079800.

404 East 40 th Street Arts and Crafts fixer.

Over 2400 square feet of 1930’s charm! Hardwood floors, 2 FP’s, separate LR & DR, eatin kitchen, large back yard and a wonderful generous sized porch to relax and take in the neighborhood. Just waiting for your touches and Of fered at $192,000.

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406 E. 35th Street Such a deal – Offered in “As-Is” condition, this 3bdr. 1ba. home is your opportunity to turn it into a showplace. Look beyond the vinyl siding and carpet and you will find clapboard on the exterior and heart pine floors. Don’t let this one pass you by. Just $139,000.

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519 E. 45th Street Great home completely restored with hardyboard ext. and 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, also an apt with 1 bedroom, 1 bath and fireplace that rents for 900!!!! great tenant too.

Lots of extras such as the moldings, stone and marble, fireplace, large closets, and so much more. Could be 5 bedrooms and 4 baths.

Hardwoods though-out and priced to sell at $529,000 Call for a private showing.

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515 E Huntingdon St .

1.5 acres on the lake! Midway lot with water, Isle of Wright location! Lot has been cleared and has the most beautiful views. Build your dream house or get-away home! $80,000. Sun Coast Realty, Call Rhondda at 912 507-9800.

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515 E Huntingdon St. Historic district, historic home and best price in the district!

Free standing and large kitchen, plus screened porch. 3 fireplaces, restored, heartpine floors, and many extras. 223,900.

Sun Coast Realty, Rhondda 507-9800.*

W Midway LOT - with water to the lot in place! ON A LAKE! 1.5 acres and ready to build! 80,000. 1 Island Dr, and 59 Pineland Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800.

223 E Bolton, Condo with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath and finished to perfection. 1080 sq.ft. $269,900. Must see this one!!!.

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 507-9800 W. Broughton Street Condos - 2 left, both with great views and large windows good sq.ft.

289900 and 295,900.

Call Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800 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*

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*

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

E 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*

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

Beautiful Design & Fantastic View are yours to enjoy in this brick home in sought after Royal Oaks Subdivision.

Open Foyer, Formal Dining Room, Great Room with fireplace, kitchen has custom cabinets, corian countertops, breakfast bar, 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths, bonus room w/ wet bar. Guest suite with full bath amenities, romantic evenings to be enjoyed around fireplace in the hearth room. Adjourn to your master suite and relax in the whirlpool bath while the kids enjoy the upper floor with game room and TV area.

Rear grilling porch great for the summer dinners with wonderful view. So much more! $419,900.00 Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777

L Beautifully appointed Savannah Grey Brick Home. Custom built by Douglas Leonard.

Hardwood floors and ceramic tile. 10 ft ceilings with crown molding. Custom built cabinets & built in bookcases. Golf course lot with private lagoon view. Many extras.

Call LaTrelle for list and viewing @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4226*

Beautifully appointed 3 bed/3 bath home on 5 +/- acres. Deck overlooking 1 1/2 acre stocked pond, inground pool and Koi pond with waterfall.

Large greatroom, separate dining room.

Jenn-Air cooktop in kitchen with large, separate eating area.

Skylights with remote control blinds. Dentil molding, wood floors.

30 x 50 insulated 3 bay metal building with electricity.

Many extras! $438,000 H4211 Call Latrelle for details @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550*

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 *

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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 1/2 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

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826-2550 A-4239*

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.

H-4201 Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 $82,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

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Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net ,

www.kwsavannah.com.* 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 *

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*

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

Reduced! Reduced!

Stop renting! 3 bedroom, 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,

626 East 53 rd Street Hate Bad Renovations?

Want an Arts & Crafts charmer with architectural integrity? Many original features: oak & heart pine floors, 4over-1 windows, front porch, cedar closet & brick fireplace. With 3BR/2BA & 1634sf, it’s a rehabber’s bargain in Ardsley.

Reduced to $209,500!

Katherine W. Oxnard,

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

Reduced! Reduced!

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

Landscaped yard with complete sprinkler system.

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

Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777.

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 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,

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

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.

7 East 33rd Street Six short blocks to Forsyth Park. Spacious 2 BR, 1 BA with formal LR & DR, kitchen with stove & refrigerator, hardwood floors, central H/A, W/D connections, large front porch. Petfriendly apartment. $775/mo.

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 February 2006.

14 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 February 2006.

1112 East Victory Drive Spacious 3 BR, 2 Bath house with large family room, hardwood floors, central H/A, W/D connections, wrap around porch, small backyard, garage & driveway. Pet friendly home. $975/mo. Available January 2006.

514-516 East Bolton Street Downtown NoBrainer!

Charming Historic District quadplex with over 1100sf/unit, 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)! A steal at $399,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net ,

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17 East 33rd St.

www.foxproperties.com 912-352-2747

MIDTOWN 2033 SKIDAWAY RD- 2bd, 1ba, $650.00 1628 E 51st ST- 3bd, 2ba, $1100.00

THUNDERBOLT 2612 WHATLEY Unit 11- 3bd, 2ba, $1,000.00

314 West Penrose Drive Room for the Brady Bunch…Or your growing family. Huge brick Colonial offers 4226sf, 6BR, 3 full/2 half baths, mother-in-law suite, eat-in country kitchen, barbecue pit, 2-car carport & fireplace. A bargain on the islands! $375,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net ,

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2804 WHATLEY AVE- 3bd, 2ba,$1,100.00 2812 WHATLEY- 3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00 2810 WHATLEY- 3bd, 2ba, $1,150.00

ISLANDS 103 OYSTERSHELL D-12 - 3bd, 2ba, $895.00 32 MAPMAKER LN- 3bd, 2ba, appt only$900.00 919 BETZ CREEK- 3bd,2ba,$1200.00 ( appt only) 103 RUNNER RD- 3bd, 2ba, marsh view $1400.00 211 REDAN DR- 3bd, 2ba, Avail mid Dec $1000.00

SOUTHSIDE 129 RED FOX- 3bd, 2ba, $1,250.00 10 PUTTERS PLACE- 3bd, 2.5ba, $1200.00 9 DELMAR- 3bd, 1.5ba, ($950.00) 2 RUSTIC LN -3bd, 2ba, $1050.00 136 BURBANK – 3bd, 2ba, $950.00

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234-4406 401 N. CROMWELL ROAD #R8 THE COMMONS 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo. French doors leading to screened porch, washer/dryer, kitchen nook. $875/mo.

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.

202A EAST GASTON 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, furnished kitchen, wood floors.

Great location near Calhoun Square and Forsyth Park. Available MidDecember. $850/mo. Includes water 210 WEST 31ST STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, kitchen, hardwood floors, CHSA approved. $575/mo.

12 COLUMBUS- 3bd, 2ba, $1200.00

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550. Prices starting as low as $35,000. A-4295*

1314 East Victory Drive Large 2 BR, 1 BA with separate DR, hardwood floors, C H/A, kitchen with stove and refrigerator and off-street parking.

Views of Daffin Park and steps away from Spin City. Petfriendly apartment. $595/mo.

WESTSIDE

509 EAST PRESIDENT STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath home. Heart pine floors and cabinets, exposed wood beams, washer and dryer, central heat and air, security system, courtyard.

Available January 2006. $1,300/mo.

2003 BULL STREET Upper. Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment with view of Bull Street Library, Washer and dryer connections.

Available March 6th. $1,100/mo.

201 EAST 49TH STREET Lower. 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. 2 offstreet parking spaces, living room, dining room, hardwood floors, Available mid-January. $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.

203 WEST WALDBURG STREET Garden apartment. 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen, shared courtyard. $850/mo.

5 WESTBOURNE-3 bd, 2 ba, $1175.00

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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

the office.

LaTrelle Pevey @ 658-7777

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$299,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 *

Sicay Management Inc.

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 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550.

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409 Cranman Drive No Hard Stuff The current owners of this well-built 3BR/1BA 1950s ranch have done all the hard work: new roof, windows, siding, appliances, water heater, flooring. All you need to do is move in your furniture and live happily ever af ter! $130,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net ,

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6007 Waters Avenue Cute Tabby Cottage Former Low Country parson’s house makes a great investment or starter home. Rented for $700 month-tomonth, with original tabby (stucco and shell) exterior, 2BR/1BA, new appliances incl. dishwasher & stackable washer/dryer ,plus large fenced yard with shed. $90,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net ,

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Happy Holidays from the gang at Judge Realty!

Lori, Lou, Albert, Sonja, Sheri, Christen, Gerome, Nicole & Miss Cleo www.judgerealtycompany.com lori@judgerealtycompany.com

669 East 32nd Street Adorable 2BR/1BA Bungalow in a mature neighborhood.New systems and appliances. House sits on a nice corner lot with a cozy backyard and offstreet parking. Nice location.

Asking $82,900. Could also berented for $700/month.

CALL SHERI OR LORI AT 912-236-1000.

JUDGEREALTY*

1505 Grove St Great investment or starter home!

Charming 3BR/1BA bungalow in the Eastern Victorian District is completely renovated and ready to

W E L move in. New fixtures, hardwood floors, central heat and air, electric and plumbing system. Lots of Southern Charm!

Offered at just $88,900 Could also be rented for $825/month.

Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

416 West 36th Street This 1920 grand home needs your final touch to bring it's lost splendor back. Hardwood floors, parlors, garage and so much more! Area of active restoration.$224,900 Call Sonja Bannon 441-4470*

1507 Grove St Absolutely charming Eastern Victorian bungalow! This move in ready 2BR/1BA home is remodeled with new central heat and air, electric and plumbing system. Fenced in yard great for entertaining. New fixtures and adorable paint job make this a must see property! Great for 1st time home buyer or investor! Move in today for just $85,000.

Could also be rented for $700/month.

Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

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 new appliances, electrical, HVAC and plumbing. Great Investment! $295,000 Call Lori Judge, Judge Realty 484-1514 *

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

Price includes bunga-

low 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.

Some furnishings for sale.

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 912-2245200 * 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.

Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com*

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 cabinets,Silestone counters, and stainless steel appliances.

Master suite with private sunroom and bath. Only $329,000.

Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com*

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 www.morehomesofsavannah.com*

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!

Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com*

Dazzling Queen Anne Interior details have been painstakenly restored while kitchens and baths have been updated with all new appliances and fixtures.

This 3,200 square foot home has four bedrooms, three baths, eight fireplaces, new windows, large walk-in attic (could be studio or apartment), hardwood floors and artistic detail. Offered at $574,900.

Call Christi Oates 695-5945 or Roberta Carver 596-0107. Celia W. Dunn Realty, Inc.

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Need to sell? Needs TLC? Call today.

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695-7733.

FAIRWAY OAKS/MIDTOWN SAVANNAH. 2050 sq ft. 2 story brick home. 2 bath, 3 bedroom, formal living room/dining room, updated kitchen, garage + 2 car carport, large patio, fenced backyard. Hardwood floors. Great neighborhood! $275,000. Call 355-8875

Commercial Property 111 West Anderson St. 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!

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Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200* Business Only For Sale Parcel Forwarding located at 7082 Hodgeson Memorial Drive.

Priced at $60,000. Make an offer.

Call Betty with Prudentialfor tax info and showing at 912351-0510 or 912-224-5200*

107 Whitaker St. Commercial space basement level. Brick walls and unfinished.

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

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734 E 48th Street Ardsley Park Coin Laundry Price includes 4BR/2BA brick bunga-

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907 Montgomery St. Adorable Victorian duplex awaits your arrival. Each unit is 2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, new central HVAC, washer/dryer, new appliances.

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

Owner financing available. $175,000.

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low at 734 E. 48th St. and Laundry Mat at 3107 Waters Avenue.

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50 669 East 32nd Street Adorable 2BR/1BA Bungalow in a mature neighborhood. New systems and appliances. House sits on a nice corner lot with a cozy back yard and offstreet parking. Nice location. Move-in today for $700/month.

CALL Christen AT 912-236-1000.

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1507 Grove Street.

Charming Eastern Victorian Bungalow.

2br/1ba, totally redone cozy home awaits you for $700/month.

Call Christen at 912-236-1000.

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1505 Grove Street.

Completely renovated charming 3br/2ba bungalow in eastern Victoriandistrict.

Hardwood Floors, quiet street, close to Downtown. Move-in for $825/ month.

Call Christen at 912-236-1000.

Judge Realty.* 1317 Bonaventure 3BR/2BA, freshly painted, hardwood floors, fenced yard, off-street parking, lots of closets. $900 Call Judge Realty 236-1000* T YBEE ISL AND Properties for rent. 1 bedroom efficiency, furnished, utilities included, $650/month.

Short term lease. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, unfurnished, water included, $850/month.

Long term lese.

Contact Tybee Vacation Rentals. 912-786-5853.

2409 LOUISIANA. 2/3 bedroom, 1 bath, CHA, fenced yard, $800/month.

Call 596-5489.

2210 WHITAKER STREET. Three bedroom, 2 bath, washer/dr yer, dishwasher, central heat/air, off street parking. $950 monthly/1 month deposit. Pets negotiable.

Available January 1.

Call 912-667-2928

TYBEE ISLAND 504 14TH STREET 2-bedroom/2-bath, HVAC, washer/dryer, dishwasher, screened porch, large yard. Pets negotiable. $900/mo.

(912)667-2928 HISTORIC DISTRICT (Price & Gaston) 2 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, CHA, off street parking, Yd, pet ok/dep. W/D, $950.

Call 912-308-8171.

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, cour tyard, and Of fstreet parking. $1200.00 Contact: 912-220-1020, fvenetico@hotmail.com * 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 * 414 East Park Avenue 2BR/1BA, all new appliances, central HVAC, off-street parking, available Jan. 1st $850.

Call Judge Realty 236-1000*

CHEAP APARTMENTS in Historic District.

Nicely updated student discount. www.R2inSavannah.co m 232-9799.

DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH-2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Newly renovated, central heat/air, new appliances, ADT security, fenced backyard. $750/month. 912-9446336.

2 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH. Available January 1st. 3 blocks from Forsyth Park. All electric, water and trash included, of fstreet parking, washer/dryer access. $700/month plus deposit. 912-596-4003.

1 AND 2 BEDROOM 1BATH Apar tments.

Newly renovated, wood and tile floor, appliances include washer/dryer & dishwasher, central heat/air, security doors/bars, porches, pets negotiable. 504/506 E. Duffy St. $740-$820/monthly plus security deposit, water/trash included.

Call 912-247-8216 SPACIOUS 3-BEDROOM apar tments, 909/917 Abercorn Street. $750$850/month. No pets or drug abusers.

Available immediately. sliding pocket door, fireplace, hardwood floors, and many extras.

Call 912-272-8883

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/Dr yer furnished, dishwasher, fireplace, kitchens by Ikea. Off-street parking, 6-month to one-year leases. $795/month William 912-412-5517 or Lazaro @ 912-272-0382.

3 or 4 BEDROOMS, 2 baths, livingroom, sunroom, full kitchen, hardwood floors, fireplaces, washer/dryer connection. Perfect for roommates. $1050/month $1000/deposit. Call 912-897-0438.

Condos For Rent LUXURY AND SECURITY! Just renovated 5th floor studio condo with great view of Forsyth Park, private parking, washer/dryer and many other amenities, must see! No pets, available January 1st. $750/month.

Call Kathryn 912-484-2104 or 912-234-8824

Roommates Wanted SHARE 5 Bedroom house on Tybee. $400 month. Parking and all utilities. Alternative lifestyle OK. No pets or drug abusers. 9am10pm, 912-272-8883.

ROOMMATES NEEDED! gourmet kitchen, private bedroom and bath, gated community, community dock, 15 minutes to Downtown, $600/month. Call 912429-9988

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INSPECTION SELECTION! Specials: 1 bedroom / 1 bath and 2 bedroom / 2 bath.

Receive 1/2 to 1 full month FREE! Six floor plans to choose from...

Students, Military, Gulfstream, and Hospital Employees receive half off security deposit. (Half of $250 = $125)

Imagine you’ve found a great new home and made your Offer To Purchase. What sort of guarantee do you have that what you see is what you’ll get? These days, most real estate contracts allow inclusion of satisfactory professional inspections as a requirement for completing the purchase.

You wouldn’t select a doctor by opening the Yellow Pages and blindly pointing to a listing, and you shouldn’t be uninformed in your choice of home inspector, either.

After all, this is a huge purchase, and you shouldn’t place your trust in just anybody’s hands.

The real estate agent will be able to recommend reliable local inspectors, but you’re still faced with making

the choice. What are some questions to ask?

Ask about the inspector’s experience in construction or building maintenance as it relates to his or her qualifications. Don’t be afraid to request a sample report, so you can judge if the job will be done in a thorough and detailed fashion. Also ask for references – and call them!

This is an excellent method of verifying the quality you can expect.

Finally, understand that even the best inspectors experience oversights, so kindly ask about their policy in such cases, and to what degree they are liable. Remember that no home is perfect, but be sure that you don’t get any nasty surprises after you’ve completed your purchase!

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