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Table of Contents Volume 5, No. 26, March 22, 2006 On the Cover: Derek Trucks (photo by Josh Mintz)

News CoverStory I 6 Cover Story II 8

Derek Trucks on the record Bobbie Rodgers

Cover Story III 10 Ushering at the Savannah Music Festival Jane Fishman 14 Blotter 15

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Livin’ large in Savannah -- at last From SPD reports

City Notebook 16 News bits from around town IN ill ill News of the Weird 18 Strange but true Earthweek 19 This week on your planet

Culture HoTHo Art Review Art Patrol

City Notebook 16

20 The Jepson Center for the Arts 22 Exhibits & openings

Theatre 23 Jahannes play & Sound of Music

Vibes Soundboard 24 Who’s playing and where around town Connect Recommends 26 Music Menu 27

Concerts of the week Regional concert listing

Film

Art Review 20

Local Cinema 29 SCAD student makes action flick Now Showing 30 All the flicks that fit

The 411 Week at a Glance

5 Our best bets for cool stuff to do

Weather 19 News from the sky Happenings 33 All the stuff, all the time

Recommends 26

Free Will Astrology 37 Rob Breszny’s look at your stars

Classifieds Sudoku Puzzle 38 It’s all the rage Crossword Puzzle 39 Mental fun Classifieds 41 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

Local Cinema 29

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Thurs, Mar . 23 Music at Midday What: Bach’s Lunch I features violinist Benny Kim and cellist Zuill Bailey. When: March 23 at 12:30 p.m. Where: Temple Mickve Israel. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival: David Russell

Waet ea k Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

What: This classical guitarist won a Grammy in 2005. When: March 23 at 6 p.m. Where: Telfair Academy Call: 525-5050 of Arts. Cost: $45.C or 234-3378.

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What: This Baroque ensemble is conducted by Andrew Parrott. When: March 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $10, $25, $35 and $45.

Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Paperdolls in Candied Denim What: Savannah native Finease Smith, a designer and owner of the Vintage Diva Boutique, will present this unusual fashion show. When: March 25 at 8 p.m. Cocktail hour is 6:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Starcca Gallery, 2428 Bull St. Cost: $10. $7 for students. Call: vintagediva12west@yahoo.com or 4126643.

Savannah Music Festival: Del McCoury Band

Savannah Music Festival: Brazilian Duets

Fri, Mar . 24 What: One of the world’s most beloved musicals. When: March 24. 25 and 31 and April 1, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. and March 26 and April 2 at 3 p.m. Where: Black Box @ SPACE, 7 W. Henry.

Cost: $15 adults and $10 children. Call: 6516783.

Music at Midday What: Organist Edie Hochspeier will perform.

When: March 24 at 12:30 p.m. Where: Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival: Tango Meets Jazz

Savannah Music Festival: Buster Keaton’s The General What: A screening of the classic 1927 comedy with live music performed by Rick Benjamin’s Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. When: March 26 at 3 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $10, $15, $20 and $25.

Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

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Sat., Mar . 25 Annual Sheep to Shawl Festival What: The festival will feature the shearing of Oatland’s sheep and alpacas by members of the Fiber Guild of Savannah. Other activities will include carding, spinning and weaving, plus children’s crafts, candlemaking and Civil War reenactments.

When: March 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Oatland Island Education Center. Cost: $5 ages 4 and up. Call: 898-3980.

Savannah Music Festival: ‘Mark Twain’s America’

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Savannah Music Festival: American Traditions Final Round What: Who will win this year’s vocal competition? When: March 24 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $10, $30, $50 and $65. Call: 5255050 or 234-3378.

Fertig on Edinburgh What: AASU history prof Barbara Fertig lectures on "Edinburgh, David Hume, and Where I Live."

When: March 24 at 12:15 p.m. Where: Room 156 of University Hall. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival: American Classics What: Arianna and Natalia Zukerman, Sebastian Knauer and Kristian Bezuidenhout. When: March 26 at 1 p.m. Where: JEA. Cost: Free. Call: 525-5050.

What: One of the tightest jam bands in the world in concert .

When: March 24 at 9 p.m. Where: Trustees Theater. Cost: $10, $20, $25 and $30. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Cultural Arts Theatre Opens The Sound of Music

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What: Pianist Jacqueline Schwab will perform the standards of Americana. When: March 25 at 3 p.m., pre-concert talk at 2 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $10, $15, $20 and $25. Call: 5255050 or 234-3378.

Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly! What: A commemorative play by Dr. Ja Jahannes and starring local community leaders, marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. When: March 25 at 2 p.m. Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival: Bill Charlap Trio What: Jazz with special guests Slide Hampton and Frank Wess.

When: March 25 at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall.

Cost:$25. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Savannah Music Festival: Sensations II: Quintessence What: a concert of string music. When: March 26 at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Where: Telfair Academy of Art. Cost: $25. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Mon., Mar . 27 Music at Midday What: The First Jesus Christian Choir in concert.

When: March 27 at 12:30 p.m. Where: Second African Baptist Church. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival: Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout What: Music from Mozart and Beethoven. When: March 27 at 6 p.m. Where: Telfair Academy of Arts.

Cost: $30. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Savannah Music Festival: Metta Quintet What: Resident ensemble for the acclaimed JAZZREACH. When: March 27 at 6 p.m. Where: Beach Institute. Cost: Free. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Music at Midday What: Organist Brian Taylor in concert. When: March 27 at 12:30 p.m. Where: St. John’s Episcopal Church. Cost: Free.

Savannah Music Festival Presents Sensations III: Simply Schubert What: The music of Franz Schubert. When: March 28 at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Where: Telfair Academy of the Arts Cost: $25. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378. ◗

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What: Tybee Theater Cafe will present the plays of Tennessee Williams during March. The Glass Menagerie is set for Thursday, March 23. The Gnadiges Fraulein (The Gracious Young Lady) will be Friday, March 24. Small Craft Warnings is set for Saturday and Sunday March 25 and 26.

When: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Where: Tybee Theater Cafe, at the intersection of U.S. 80 and Jones Avenue above Las Palmas restaurant.

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Bottles N Cans What: This free blues and rock concert is sponsored by the Savannah Music Festival. When: Saturday, March 25 at 2 p.m. Where: City Market.

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What: Traditional bluegrass at its finest. When: March 25 at 8 p.m. Where: Trustees Theater. Cost: $10, $20, $35 and $45. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

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What: This concert pairs SMF favorite Mike Marshall and Brazilian great Hamilton De When: March 23 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Holanda.W Where: Orleans Hall.C Cost: $25.C Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

What: The Pablo Ziegler Quartet Wh e n: with guest Dave Samuels.W March 24 at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall. Cost: $25. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

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FOR MANY OF US who’ve followed the local music scene since the mid-1980s, the ongoing success of Derek Trucks has been a pleasure to watch unfold.

Initially earning a cult of notoriety as a child prodigy slide guitarist who just happened to be a blood relative of one of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, Derek’s visibility in the music industry (and among rock, blues and jam fans worldwide) increased twenty-fold when he was eventually tapped to officially join the Allmans – a move which he maintains took him greatly by surprise, despite his close proximity to the group’s organization.

Juggling the responsibilities which came along with playing in one of the world’s most famous rock bands of all time as well as leading his own critically-acclaimed blues and jazz-influenced rock group have honed his talents far more than inestimable years of woodshedding, but they’ve also colored his worldview.

The Derek Trucks of today is a centered, dedicated performer, quick to smile and laugh, openly thankful for the opportunities his gifts and hard work have brought him and his compatriots, and in possession of an almost Zen-like attitude toward crossing his fingers and wishing for the flashes of creativity that spark off serious musicians in close proximity to one another.

In the midst of raising a family with his wife Susan Tedeschi (a chart-topping blues guitarist and singer in her right), Derek has also found enough time over the past few years to cut a new record with his own band, sit in with a few world famous Indian folk musicians at last year’s Savannah Music Festival, and accept an invitation to join iconic guitarist Eric Clapton on his upcoming world tour.

I caught up with Derek by phone the morning after a scorching set with the Allman Brothers Band in New York City. A few short days after our conversation – in what is sadly proving to be an all-too frequent news bulletin of late – word came down the line that virtually every piece of his own band’s gear (much of it rare and vintage) had been stolen in Atlanta, Georgia.

The mood was still jovial at the time of our extended chat, however. What follows are selected excerpts.

Connect Savannah: I know you had a late night. I hope I didn’t wake you.

Derek Trucks: Man, my days start around 7:30 a.m. I’ve got two young kids! (laughs)

Connect Savannah: Are things as busy for you right now as they usually are?

Derek Trucks: I’m up here for the Allman Brothers Band’s annual run of shows at the Beacon Theater. We’re doin’ 13 shows, and I just finished up a tour with my guys. We did the Conan show, and only had two days off in between that and the Beacon. My band did an East Coast run and a West Coast run this time around, and it really went well.

Spirits were high all around. It helps when you have a record comin’ out that you feel really strongly about.

Connect Savannah: Tell me a bit about the brand-new album, Songlines.

Derek Trucks: This album was a change of pace for the band. We utilized the studio a lot more than we have in the past. We tried to actually make a record this time rather than just document what we do live inside a recording studio. Everyone’s mindset was different. It was like starting from scratch. Jay Joyce, who we used for the first time, was a great producer. He helped us to deconstruct the tunes, rethink them and then replay them. I was quite happy with the risks that we took, and I think most of them worked out for the best.

Connect Savannah: How did your band go about selecting a producer?

Derek Trucks: You read through the liner notes of the CDs of all the people you wind up playing with on the road, and a few names start to jump out at you. We listened to Jay’s reel, and he had a cool way of getting a current sound, but it was organic at the same time. Urgent – but not overly modern. That’s a nice combination, and it’s kind of how we view our band anyway. With a group like this, we’re trying to put a new spin on things that are classic. His mindset was a good fit with us. It was actually great timing that we met him. We were all ready to do something slightly different – including him. You know, I don’t think he’s recorded more tunes over four minutes long in his entire life! (laughs) You know us, we’ve got a lot of songs that are nine and ten minutes. The closest he’s come to what we do was recording newgrass guys.

Connect Savannah: How’s the CD being received so far?

Derek Trucks: Well, the initial response has been really strong in the first few weeks. We got great press in unexpected places like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. It exceeded our expectations, and actually sold a few records! That never happens with us right off the bat! (laughs) I actually knocked my wife off the top spot on the Blues charts. It only took me five or six years! (laughs)

Connect Savannah: At last year’s Savannah Music Fest you jammed on slide guitar and sarod with two of the finest young sarod players in India. What are your memories of that rather unexpected collaboration?

Derek Trucks: That was the first time and it was an eyeopening experience. I’ve been heavily into Indian music for a long time. I listen to it a lot, and had been out to Ali Akbar Khan’s music school on the West Coast and seen a few performances there. But to be out there on that stage was pretty amazing. I’d met the other guys about 20 hours before showtime and we went over some stuff in the hotel room. They were incredible players and great guys to hang with. Luckily, I had ingested that type of music enough

that it clicked and I was able to get by. Hopefully I didn’t seem like a fish out of water the whole time. (laughs) That was definitely the most I’ve had to woodshed in a one day period in my life, but things like that are good for you.

A week or so before the show I got a CD of what they were doing, and there was one raga on there they told me to key in on.

So I learned that melody, and I learned a couple more the night before that I could attempt to join in on. It was one of the great moments in time for me.

Obviously, if I could go back and change things a little bit, I would.

But I was pretty happy with the way it went down.

There was plenty of mutual respect on the stage in all directions, so it was relatively enjoyable and easy. I think me coming into it cold was really good in a way because it put a different slant on it. It felt spontaneous because it truly was! If I did it again I’d take a bit more time, but it was nice to get on stage a little blind. When you’re really wondering if you’ll make it all the way through to the end of the show, that’s when some magic can happen. I so enjoyed that aspect of it. I felt like a real rookie again. It’s good for a musician – to have a trial by fire in front of a packed house every once in a while.

Connect Savannah: Since then, have you done anything similar in public?

Derek Trucks: It was a one-off deal. I’ve kept in touch with those guys and would love to do something in the future, but aligning our schedules has been chaos! I’d love to do anything in that realm, really.

Connect Savannah:Your band plays all sorts of venues, from club shows to blues festivals and even jam-band type situations. Besides the Savannah Music Fest, are there any other gigs you’ve played, where there’s everything from opera to traditional African music on the bill, or is this an unusual booking for you?

Derek Trucks: You know, this is one of the most unique festivals in the whole country right now. There’s not a lot of opportunities out there for stuff like this. For the past two or three years we’ve been trying to distance ourselves from the traditional scenes that people associated us with.

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra worked up some of our tunes, which was awesome, and so we’ve been trying to run in that realm a little bit. We’ve been playing more jazz fests in America and overseas as well. The Savannah Music Fest has turned out to be one of the most unusual in the whole country.

There’s not many left that are solely ticket-driven anywhere in the U.S. anymore. This fest is driven on the quality of the music alone, instead of just selling tons of tickets no matter who’s on stage. You know, things like Bonnaroo are not purely musical adventures! (laughs) It’s refreshing to see someone get it together and make it happen. It reminds me of Bill Graham’s early mentality. He would just throw together an amazing mix of music and humans and hope for the best.

We were out at the Fillmore West a while back and they have posters for almost every show they’ve ever done out there. You’ll see concerts where they had Albert King, Big

7 Brother and The Holding Company, and Miles Davis – all on the same bill! I’d like to see somebody try to go on after Albert King. (laughs) I guess Miles could. Hell, in a situation like that, half the fun is just working harder to try and get over to somebody else’s crowd.

Back then, in that particular time and place you could get away with things like that a lot more than you can now. That’s two-sided though. Sometimes you have to try to stand up and make it the right time and place. You have to step up and take a leadership role and explain to people what’s good about this stuff.

In Savannah, you can tell that a lot of people are buying tickets out of faith in the festival. They know by now that it’ll have class and so they show up for shows they know very little about – and more often than not, they’re better off for it. I can’t pretend to know the ins and outs of keeping a thing like that going, but I hope it goes forever.

Connect Savannah: Which is more personally gratifying to you, playing with your own group or the Allmans?

Connect Savannah: I remember playing videogames with you over a decade ago when you used to play Congress Street Station with your first band. You’ve had a loyal following here ever since. What’s your take on your Savannah fans?

Derek Trucks: On a musical level, it’s pretty much the same across the board.

As long as it’s sparking, you don’t put too much thought into it after the fact. As far as the career success, it’s more personal with your own band. I’ve been playing with these guys for twelve or thirteen years. To see it come around from 250 shows a year in a van to being in a tour bus feels good. I don’t have the same story with my other situations. When you play music long enough with the same folks it becomes a family. It’s personal, and you root for them in all situations.

My group has made amazing sacrifices to stick with something they believed in. I don’t see that too much in this business. To work so hard for something without financial return just doesn’t

Derek Trucks: Especially with the festival for the past few years, it’s one of the stronger spots for the band. Atlanta, Savannah and New York City have been good to the group. I live in Jacksonville and my band lives in Atlanta, so it’s great to have a place just down the road where we feel comfortable. ◗

The Derek Trucks Band plays Trustees Theatre on Thursday night, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. with Oteil Burbridge & The Peacemakers. For tickets, call 525-5050, or go to www.savannahmusicfestival.org.

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Derek Trucks: When you look back at his career, it’s amazing how he’s kept it all together. He’s on top of his game – completely clear minded and focused on what he’s doing. Every once in a while he’d

happen in 2006. It’s nice to see the faint light at the end of the tunnel ratchet up a bit!

For a long time we were on the chitlin’ circuit. We’re not looking to get out of hand now, but to play nice theatres and step it up a notch wouldn’t be terrible. I definitely don’t want it to change more than that. You know, to become insincere and impersonal and play sheds and stadiums. But there’s a nice middle ground there, and hopefully we can find a decent sized audience for our songs.

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Derek Trucks: This year it’s in and out.

Last year I was there for three days and could really check out some stuff. This year the timing is crazy. We only have a small amount of days on our tour, and then rehearsals for the Clapton thing starts in April. Right now it’s just a

Connect Savannah: What an opportunity, to get to work for an extended time alongside someone like Eric Clapton.

play a solo in the studio and I’d say, oh yeah, he’s still got it. He never lost his edge. You can’t say that for many guys who’ve done it as long or had as much success. Either you don’t make it physically, or you can’t maintain that fire.

Changing it up often has done it for Eric.

He surrounds himself with guys who spark his creativity. I didn’t realize at first all the guys he’s played with over the years. It blows your mind! From Howlin’ Wolf to John Lennon! (laughs) And he made it out alive.

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Connect Savannah: Will you get to hang out long enough to catch some other shows, or is this a one-nighter for you guys and then back out on the road?

European tour, but it looks like I’m playing in his band for a year. I only met him once at a session we did late last year with JJ Cale. It was a really relaxed session. (laughs) Then I got a call out of the blue.

He offered me the gig, and I just couldn’t pass it up. I went from having a year that was gonna slow down a bit to the craziest one yet, but all in a positive way.

It’ll be really chaotic, but all my projects feed off of each other. Hopefully having a band and playing as much as we do, having that road edge, will help me in the Clapton gig. It’ll spice it up. When I jump off my band into the Allman Brothers, it’s all sorts of fresh ideas and new surroundings.

On a personal level, playing with certain guys, you find a dynamic and you run with it. Then your playing gets awkward, but in a good way. I’m curious how playing with the Brothers and my own band will help me mesh with Clapton.

I have no idea what songs we’ll be doing or what role I’ll fill in the band. I won’t know until I get there. It should be fun, and I guess we’ll just see how it goes.

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Me & Bobby Lee Savannah guitarist plays with Col. Bruce at Festival IT’S BEEN MORE than music over the years – no 35 years since Colonel matter who he was playing Bruce Hampton first with, or how the bands unleashed his slightly might have been viewed at demented, acid-dipped the time, he’s always done jazz-boogie on an unsusbasically the same thing. pecting public.

That’s the way it is with Since that time, his The Codetalkers. This is debut album (the infamous just a slightly different Southern freak-rock flop format.”

Music To Eat by The “He’s never once said, Hampton Grease Band) ‘I’m gonna take this band has come to be regarded and change them around as something of a minor to my way of doing classic of “out” music, and things.’ He does this his subsequent forays into (forms bands) primarily to increasingly less antagoget other people whose nistic and avant-garde work he respects out groove music have been there in front of the public, met with widespread and then he bows out. He’s Bobby Lee Rodgers acclaim (pun intended), if done that with every band not massive sales. he’s ever been in.”

Though his most famous artifact to True to form, that’s exactly how The date is surely the live album he cut in the Codetalkers initially came together. early ‘90s before abdicating his position “It was about 6 years ago. He’d heard as leader of groundbreaking jam supera bunch of my material, and told me I group-in-training The Aquarium Rescue needed to get out and play this stuff. He Unit, other recording and live efforts with let me step to the fore and do my own such intriguing handles as The Late thing. I write most of the tunes Bronze Age and The Fiji Mariners con–although we write some as a group and tinued to enthrall adventurous listeners. do our own arrangements of tracks off Through it all one constant has Bruce’s older albums that have been fan remained: Bruce’s need for a foil. All of favorites for ages– and so far everyone his best work has been done in the seems to enjoy playing them and a lot of company of other musicians who folks seem to enjoy hearing them! brought their own strong wills and (laughs)” serious chops to the table. While The quartet (which also features Hampton may be the faceman for probassist Ted Pecchio and drummer Tyler moters to hang their ticket sales on, and Greenwell) boasts an elastic, heavily for cultish enthusiasts to ruminate over, improvised repertoire which veers wildly it’s always been as much about the other across the map, incorporating jazz and guys on stage or record as it has been “chank”-style guitar licks, elements of about their titular leader/resident elder Dada-esque vocal delivery and bursts of statesman of jam. syncopated, frenzied, and –yes– melodic Savannah’s Bobby Lee Rogers knows noise. Over the past half decade, they’ve this well, and seems unusually pragmatic earned a legion of fans though phenomabout his role in The Codetalkers, Col. enally tight (and loose) gigs at clubs, Hampton’s current bag of the last five theatres and major jamband festivals. years.

Many of their followers are quite To hear this guitarist and former versed in the long lineage of Hampton’s Berklee College of Music Professor tell musical pursuits, which Rogers says can it, he’s thrilled to be working with such a prove to be a bit of challenge to magnetic and truly inspired (and inspiraovercome, but the group finds it best to tional) composer, but Rogers at times simply confront that core group of sounds almost like he’s resigned himself cultists head on with Codetalkers to the inevitable conclusion that material. sometime, sooner or later, that part“(Bruce) hopes people will nership will undoubtedly come to an end acknowledge what we’re doing today, at Bruce’s own hand. not just what he has done in the past. It “Yeah, we’ll probably wind up going can be a bit of an uphill battle, but we do out on our own and he’ll move on and very well. The success of this band is become a coach for someone else. based on all of us. It’s never been done That’s how he always refers to himself – before.” ◗ as a Minor League Coach,” the guitarist The Codetalkers play Trustees Theatre 9 and songwriter offers up without being p.m. Friday. Call 525-5050 or go to prompted. www.savannahmusicfestival.org for “But he knows there’s always a place tickets. for him here. If you listen to Bruce’s

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by Jim Reed

It’s good to be the usher

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03.22.06

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Local music lovers ‘step right this way’ into sold-out Music Fest shows PSST... WANNA KNOW A SECRET? Well, it’s not really a secret, but it’s a little-known fact. Each year, the Savannah Music Festival requires up to 150 volunteers to help keep things running smoothly. While many of of those volunteers help out with marketing, merchandise sales and ferrying featured performers to and fro, most act as ushers.

They can be found handing out programs, checking tickets and showing people to their seats in venues such as the Lucas Theatre for The Arts, Trustees Theatre, and the Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre.

More often than not, they can also be found enjoying those same concerts from the sidelines – for free.

“I must admit, it’s a great perk,” says the festival’s Volunteer Coordinator Leilani Pacheco.

“Most of the ushers enjoy it a lot,” she adds. “I’ve only heard positive feedback from those involved in it this year.”

One member of her team who can attest to that is Mike Pinckney. A longtime local resident, the owner of Lawn Masters Lawn & Shrub Care is well-known to friends and acquaintances as an avid music enthusiast who relishes the live concert experience.

He sees scores of shows each year, and is not adverse to travelling far and wide for a chance to catch his favorite artists in a variety of genres (“I’m not scared,” he says with a smile).

This is his second year as a volunteer usher, and he says that so far, the job interacts nicely with his lifestyle.

“I can pretty much make my own schedule, so I’ve been ushering on weekends and in the evenings. I'd seen a few Music Fest shows before as an audience member, but nowhere near as many as I do now,” he says.

“You can request the shows you'd like to see, and they try to match people up with their requests. Once they’re filled,

Mike Pinckney with his SMF usher’s badge they’re filled, but if you volunteer early enough” -- he leans forward and lowers his voice -- “you have a better chance to see the shows you want to.”

Pinckney is an adventurous listener who’s open to all manner of new styles and artists, and says that for him, this is a great way to not only attend concerts of his choosing, but also wind up at ones he’d likely never select on his own.

“I think I requested four shows this year,” he continues. “I wound up getting eight or nine. Even though I didn’t select those others, I’m sure I’ll enjoy them because of the high caliber of the artists this festival attracts.”

Pinckney says the application process is relatively simple, and basically involves filling out a short form which allows the applicant to note which area of festival operations they’d like to take part in.

Those who are selected as volunteers take part in a short orientation (“they mostly teach you how to be courteous,” notes Pinckney) and are then given their assignments.

“Last year, I heard from some friends about the good time they’d had doing it, and I approached the festival about two weeks out,” he says – adding “It’s not hard to volunteer. People love volunteers!”

While his ushering gig has never afforded him “one-on-one time” with any of the artists, the up-close and personal nature of the Savannah Music Fest –whose mandate is as much about public education as it is public entertainment– offers the next best thing.

“Man, when I saw Buddy Guy last year, I was like three feet away from him.

You can’t beat that.”

“Another great thing about this festival that I notice as an usher, is the wide variety of people who come out to support it, older folks especially,” says Pinckney.

“The other night at the Bela Fleck show, I saw a guy I know who’s 86 years old. He was sitting next to teenagers.

You’re just not gonna see that at Bonnaroo or some of the other festivals.

I’m not sure if he really knew a lot about Bela before he came, but he showed up and enjoyed it.”

Pacheco says that there are still a handful of spots left open for ushers at this year’s festival, so those interested should call her office immediately at 2343378. She’ll also be glad to give them information on slots for next year.

Pinckney says he’s “absolutely” planning to reprise his volunteer role in 2007, and with a hearty laugh offers one final word of wisdom to potential attendees of the current Music Fest.

“Tell ‘em the usher says to be there on time!” ◗

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Editor, First I want to thank you for your outstanding work with this paper -- you are doing a great service for the Savannah area.

Regarding your recent interview with Andre Watts, I like most of the article -especially the background of Andre's identification with Franz Liszt.

However, one of your questions reads, “Small-market symphonies, like Savannah’s, are folding all over the U.S. What does this mean for the future of classical music?”

Last fall I heard a talk by Henry Fogel, president of the American Symphony Orchestra League, and he said that of over 370 orchestras in the league, only nine had gone bankrupt in the last five years, and out of those nine, five are back in operation.

Yes, we in Savannah have seen the demise of the SSO, but the reality is that this is an isolated incident. It is true that other orchestras have had problems and a handful have gone under. And when this happens, you hear about it in the news.

But when was the last time you heard something in the news about the vast majority of orchestras in the country that are doing just fine?

Peter Berquist

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Taking a ‘Free’ ride Editor, Back about ‘77 or so my best friend robert and I scraped up a few dollars and rode his 67 Beetle (it was loud and hot) to Jacksonville to see Paul Rodgers and Bad Company at the Jacksonville Coliseum (also loud and hot).

After a great show we hoped Paul might encore with one of our favorites, “All Right Now,” the classic song by his earlier band Free. Unfortunately Paul didn’t see it that way, but that’s how concerts go.

Last Sunday,almost 30 years later, I went back to Jacksonville to the new arena (loud, but not hot), this time in an SUV with my daughter (Robert’s godchild, by the way) to hear Paul Rodgers again in his new role as front man for Queen.

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Editor, Regarding “Do ask, do tell” by Nadra Enzi and the blog entry “Thoughts on the Ft. Stewart Five” by Jim Morekis: Thank you for being a publication that will say the truth about what is going on referring to the article about the recent assault on the gentleman outside of Blaine’s.

This week alone I have had two friends assaulted by drunken Rangers who didn’t like the way they looked, and the local police once again shrugged it off.

One friend was outside of his front door having a cigarette. He was asked for a light, he reached in his pocket for one and was punched and then beaten up by several men. Why? Because they didn’t like the way he looked?

I guarantee you if my two friends were assaulted by someone who was black, it would be on the front page news and there would be a virtual manhunt. The City of Savannah only seems to acknowledge crimes committed by black people. I see this -- and as a white girl -- and I’m appalled.

Many men of our local military bases have struck fear in the hearts of “artsy,” “gay,” or anybody who isn’t a jacked-up guy who looks for fights. They are taking an honorable job that is supposed to be about “freedom” and coming home and violating civilians’ freedoms.

If these men do not approve of someone’s lifestyle, that is their right, but they are crossing the line and breaking the law when they choose to express those opinions with violence.

The local police need to acknowledge this and the military should be dishonorably discharging these men for bringing shame and embarrassment to the uniform.

It is a shame it takes a man nearly being beaten to death for his sexuality to bring attention to these crimes, but at least they are being acknowledged.

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I KNEW GOOD things were in the air when I had the nerve to order that peanut butter and jelly club sandwich at Back in the Day bakery on Bull Street.

I choose one of these puppies every six months or so, long enough between experiences to forget that beside the third piece of bread, the thick slab of peanut butter, the luscious and rich jam, the cook has the cheek to add a layer of butter -- the good kind, sweet butter.

A PBJ club with butter to boot. Now that’s living large.

I didn’t have to eat it all. I knew that. I could save part for later. But I didn’t want to. Because this is a sandwich with that “morish” taste. Take one bite and you want more, no matter how much room you do or do not have left.

But I’m embarrassed to be able to polish off the whole thing in one sitting.

It’s somehow indelicate and unbecoming -- piggish, really. So I wrap up a section in that wonderful waxed butcher paper and make like I’m going to eat it later.

Only I don’t. Once I’m at my garden, out of the public eye, I sit under the brittle and brown vines from last year’s passion flowers, unwrap my sandwich and finish it off.

It’s that kind of happiness, that kind of week. The whites of the spring trees are brilliant, the pinks are psychedelic, the dogwoods -- not particularly happy in this part of the country -- are splendid, and new growth on the live oak trees -right on schedule -- are doing their job to push off last year’s leaves, producing our own kind of autumn in the South.

There’s a frenzy in the air verging on delirium. Even the Democrats are showing signs of life. Watching Wisconsin’s Russell Feingold step away from the pack to introduce a proposal to censure Bush for his sneaky eavesdropping ways gives hope.

So does realizing that Barack Obama, who everyone says is too young to run for president, is close to John F. Kennedy’s age when he, also a first-year senator, ran for office. So maybe come next election we’ll have a horse race.

After all, Savannah has a new art museum that some people thought would never happen -- and a section of Barnard Street we never expected to use again.

And make no mistake. The Jepson Center is stunning. Under the soaring and curving ceiling I feel about two feet tall. Standing outside on the sculpture garden, I wonder what rooftops I’m looking at, what city I’m visiting.

I can’t find enough excuses to ride my bike or drive my car past the place.

Already I heard about one car accident when a driver, navigating the square but

looking through the once-controversial glass facade at the building, spaced out and hit a parked car in his route.

I’m grateful to the indefatigable Diane Lesko, the museum’s director, and to the people who ponied up the big bucks. I wish I could write each one of them a thank you note. I hope their largess is still around when the electric bill of summer comes due.

Not to be outdone by the Jepson, we get to move straight into the Savannah Music Festival, the brainchild of the unflappable Rob Gibson, who never ages, never gains an ounce, never backs away from thinking large.

While I could wish for a sexier name, I can’t argue with the festival’s subtitle -a “paradise for music lovers.” It is that.

And there are choices. After a big disappointment at not being able to get tickets to Emmylou Harris, I took a step sideways and saw the “Living Legends of the Blues” at Orleans Hall. An excellent choice.

Although we’re lucky in this radiodeprived town to hear blues -- and jazz -from Ike Carter and other dj’s like Larry Dane-Kellogg out of Savannah State University, for which I am eternally grateful, this was the real deal, up close and personal.

Held together by the venerable guitarist “Steady Rollin” Bob Margolin (who played knowing his record company had sent CDs of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir instead of his), we got to see the raunchy, animated, mid-70-ish showman, Nappy Brown, resplendent in a yellow, double breasted suit that he nearly removed entirely while singing and acting out, “Let me squeeze your lemons.” Later he was singing from the floor on his back, his legs up in the air like a cockroach.

But the piece de resistance sat at the piano. With little fanfare, Pinetop Perkins, 93 years young, helped by an assistant and carrying a cane decorated by an octave of black and white piano keys, took his seat and wailed away.

For some of us middle-class white folk, this antiseptic, smoke-free venue may be the closest we ever get to a Mississippi juke joint on the side of the road.

Afterwards I learned Perkins, who had played earlier in the week in Boston and New York with the Allman Brothers and other blues legends, went down to River Street after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

“His idea,” said his assistant. “I put him in a wheelchair and we went. He loved it.”

Forget butter on a PBJ. That’s living large. ◗

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A MAN IS IN jail after injuring two people and breaking a police officer’s finger during an altercation. Nathan Christopher Self, 27, of Savannah, is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, felony obstruction, and one count of battery. The incident happened around 2 a.m. March 14 when officers responded to a burglary complaint at a home in the 100 block of West 37th Street. Neighbors directed officers to the side of the home where Self was standing. As Officer Ashley Brown approached, Self attacked him, stripped away his radio, and tried to take his gun. After subduing Self, Police later learned that he “was acquainted with both assault victims and had left their home earlier after visiting.” The circumstances surrounding his return to the home are still being investigated.

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• Police were called to Bay Lane and Whitaker Street in response to a report of a person being hit by a backhoe. Two men from one company were working at the scene, as were two men from another company. One of the companies was doing some contract utility work for the city, while the other was locating underground utilities at that same location for another project. One of the men was operating a backhoe, another was observing and the other two men were in the hole created by the backhoe to guide the operator. One of the men in the hole was struck by the bucket. The man was not injured and was working at the scene when the officer arrived. The officer observed that the man was the only one of the four who was wearing a hard hat and reflective vest at the time of the incident. The four said there had been previous incidents and animosity between them the past. However, both sides agreed that the man who was struck may have been in the operator’s blind spot. The workers were given case report numbers.

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• A Yamacraw Village resident told police she was beaten by her boyfriend so severely she lost consciousness. The woman said she had to go to a neighbor’s house to call police because the suspect had yanked the phone cord from the wall. She said her two children were present when the attack occurred.

She said the man cut up her Georgia OLN and EBT cards, three Medicaid cards and her credit card. She said he slapped her in the face on her left cheek and that he choked her with two hands while facing her. The woman said she was standing by the front door when she lost consciousness. When

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• Police were called to West Oglethorpe Street in reference to a man who had been in a fight and had a head injury. When an officer arrived at the scene, the man immediately advised him that he had been trying to claim his belongings when the woman he had been living with attacked him. The officer then asked the man for his name. When he gave it, the officer recognized him as a suspect he had helped arrest in January at the same address. The man said he had been trying to move out because he was breaking up with the woman. When she came home, a verbal argument ensued.

During the argument, the man shoved the woman and she broke a dinner plate over his head. The woman confirmed that the man had started the fight. The man was arrested and charged with simple battery and criminal trespass. He was taken to a hospital for stitches for the cuts, then taken to jail. The officer learned that the man is banned from public housing. At the time of his arrest in January, the woman had been advised he was on the banned list.

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HISTORY@JOHNNY MERCER THEATRE: The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed in Savannah for the first time ever, accompanying special guest Andre Watts. Watts is pictured at right shaking hands with maestro Roberto Minczuk (left) after Watts’ scintillating performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second

NEVER TOO OLD TO BOOGIE: Nonagenarian pianist Pinetop Perkins sang and played with the gusto of a much younger man during two sold-out shows at Orleans Hall

LOONY LUNASA: In the larger photo, Lunasa’s bodhran and flute player Kevin Crawford (left) wears a long wig he found backstage in a costume room at the Savannah Theatre while piper Cillian Vallely stoically carries on at right. Lunasa’s performance kicked off the Savannah Music Festival on St. Patrick’s Day. The band actually performed for a short while on a float during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade a few hours prior to this show. Inset photo shows fiddler Sean Smyth playing a reel

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RHYTHM OVERLOAD: Clockwise from upper left, dancers with Peru Negro brought a bouncy, salsatinged vibe to the Lucas; a Peru Negro dancer in flight; after the intermission, drummers and dancers of Les Ballets Africains provided an uproarious and unbelievably physical show displaying the folk dancing and tribal drumming traditions of Guinea. The combined performance of Peru Negro and Les Ballets Africains in Savannah marked the first time the two groups have ever shared the same bill

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FLECKS OF GENIUS: Above, jazz banjo great Bela Fleck, centerstage, wowed the crowd at the Trustees Theatre; to his left is bassist extraordinaire Victor Wooten and to his right is saxman Jeff Coffin. Inset photo shows Future Man and his one-of-a-kind synthax drumitar

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Homeless New Jersey man Richard Kreimer said in February that he had settled, on undisclosed terms, part of his most recent lawsuit, against a transit company and two drivers, for having denied him rides because of his foul odor.

Kreimer’s history includes a $150,000 settlement in 1991 with the public library in Morris County, which had tried to keep him out because of the odor, and, by his count, $80,000 in additional lawsuit-related income (though some went for legal expenses). Kreimer dropped another foulodor lawsuit in February, against a transit company and a train station in Summit.

(1) In January, history professor David Weale of Canada’s University of Prince Edward Island offered B-minus grades to any students in his overcrowded class if they would just go away, and 20 of the 95 accepted. (However, the administration found out, and Professor Weale, who had retired last year but returned to teach that one course, re-retired.) (2) Former Fairfield University student William Rom, 24, won $111,000 from the school in a February verdict because he was improperly suspended four years ago.

At the time, Rom was accused of entering a women’s restroom, fighting, ripping posters off walls, dumping water on students from a second floor, smashing a bathroom mirror, running naked on campus, and (underage) drinking (and subsequently vomiting in the dorm.)

Cultural Diversity (1) Health authorities in Thailand began warning teenage girls in January of the dental risks of do-it-yourself orthodontics (colorful metallic teeth braces worn for fashion to match girls’ outfits, according to an Associated Press dispatch). (2) In Lunar New Year celebrations in January in China, 120 million rural peasants traveled to and from cities via jam-packed trains, despite meager restroom facilities. As a result, according to a Reuters dispatch, there was a massive holiday run on adult diapers.

A 300-page indictment detailing more than 1,000 allegations of election fraud was returned in February by a grand jury investigating the coal-mining town of Appalachia, Va., following reports of absentee-ballot bribery by two town officials. Prosecutors accused candidates’ operatives of offering the locals such goodies as beer, moonshine and cigarettes and, in one case, a supply of pork rinds.

School Daze (1) The head of the Jo Richardson comprehensive school in Dagenham, England, prohibits students from raising their hands in class, according to a January Daily Telegraph report, to keep those not called on from feeling “victimi(zed).� (2) And rules drawn up in February by the Welsh Assembly called for schools in Wales to ban all kissing, even in school plays (but an assembly spokesman said Romeo could give Juliet “a peck on the cheek�).

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Home, Sweet Home Developer Ryan Pedram was finally ordered to stop work on his new threestory home in the Bronx in New York City after he had begun building it flush with a disputed property line, including constructing one cinder-block wall to encompass the trunk of an oak tree that ostensibly belongs to his neighbor. (He had figured on winning the property dispute and removing the tree; his plan, in case of loss, was not reported.) Also, in Brooklyn, a judge recently allowed industrialist Simon Taub to install Sheetrock walls in several rooms in his home as a temporary solution in a pending divorce, to allow both husband and wife to share the house (reminiscent of the 1989 movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;The War of the Rosesâ&#x20AC;?).

People Different From Us Unusual Obsessions: (1) orchids (When collector Sian Tiong Lim, 32, was recently jailed for four months in England for orchid-smuggling, orchid expert Eric Hansen told United Press International, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a lunatic fringe to the orchid world, and a fine line between the average grower and the horticulturally insane.â&#x20AC;?) (2) rare bird eggs (Collector Gregory Wheal, 42, also was jailed recently for four months in England after a 30-year history of stealing from hundreds of nests. His lawyer told the judge that Wheal needs professional help.)

When Travis Frey, 33, was charged in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in February with kidnapping his wife, she gave police a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contract of Wifely Expectationsâ&#x20AC;? that he had allegedly written for her (subsequently published on TheSmokingGun.com, which called it a contract â&#x20AC;&#x153;for the agesâ&#x20AC;?). In painstaking detail, the husband prescribed the micro-

management of her life, including what she would wear in public and to bed and the exact times she would be available for specified sexual relations.

Instructions on hygiene and body-shaving were given. Eight explicit, non-subservient wifely reactions were banned.

She could earn â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Behavior Daysâ&#x20AC;? with exemplary performance but would lose them on specified misbehaviors, including complaining about the contract.

Least Competent Criminals Police in Milford, Texas (just south of Dallas), arrested a man in February who had fled a traffic stop, and in the ensuing chase, saw him tear open and toss out bag after bag of a substance (but some blew back in the car). When finally stopped, said police chief Carlos Phoenix, the man was â&#x20AC;&#x153;literally covered in marijuanaâ&#x20AC;? from the blowback. And in January, in Anchorage, Alaska, a man who had painted his face Smurf-like blue robbed the Super 8 Motel, and police put out a description. A short time later, a caller reported a man with blue smudges behind his ears, and police soon arrested Daniel Peter Clark, 19.

Update In 2003, News of the Weird reported that the Pentagonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Defense Threat Reduction Agency had been Internetmonitoring a facility on Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Isle of Islay whose webcam was showing images suggesting a chemical weapons lab but that, after lengthy surveillance, the agency had found it to be a whiskey distillery. In February 2006, that distillery (Bruichladdich, one of the U.K.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most adventurous) announced it is preparing to make a 92 percent-alcohol whiskey whose recommended dose is two spoonfuls. Said the managing director, â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be honest, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just hoping the distillery doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explode.â&#x20AC;? â&#x2014;&#x2014;

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Earthquakes A sharp aftershock of last October’s devastating temblor in northern Pakistan killed one man and injured 16 other people in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

• Eastern Indonesia’s Maluku province was rocked by a magnitude 6.8 quake that killed two people and damaged more than 100 homes on the island of Buru.

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The Ant Stroke A scientist in Australia says he has found the only species of ant that can live underwater and will deliberately enter the water to swim. Evolutionary biologist Simon Robson says he stumbled on the previously unknown skills of the mangrove ant while working with a film crew in Queensland. He placed one of the ants on a rock in the water to keep it in place for the crew, but it unexpectedly swam away.

“The ant sticks its back legs out straight and maintains surface tension, and then its front pair of legs looks like they are doing the Australian crawl,” said Robson.

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Our resident art critic reviews Savannah’s newest museum

by Bertha Husband

Jepson Center:

First Impressions

THE QUALITY OF LIGHT in Savannah is definitely the town’s main attraction.

Filtered through a canopy of trees, it plays softly on the surfaces of buildings and along the ground among the cast shadows of leaves. Inside, light enters through the slats of blinds and shutters and rests in patches on objects.

Is this what slows us down and creates the sweet desire for unproductive idleness? Given a chance, one could sit and watch this play of light for hours.

The Telfair’s new Jepson Center for the Arts is a work of art in itself, a kind of kinetic sculpture that uses this Savannah light filtering through its numerous skylights.

Natural light of this intensity is however the enemy of any man-made visual art that is not made of impervious stone or steel, so the galleries have to be protected from it.

Here then is the challenge: how to find contemporary art that will draw viewers away from the wide open indoor/outdoor experience of the walkways and into the necessarily artificial light of the galleries. An art that will not be upstaged by the architecture.

To have chosen Robert Rauschenberg for the main inaugural exhibition makes sense for a number of reasons: he is blue chip brand name artist from the middle of the last century, whose reputation, according to the critic, Robert Hughes “suffered a dip in the 1970s, but now is on the rise again.”

Currently, there is a major exhibition showing at the Metropolitan Museum in New York devoted to his Combines from 1953-1964. The Jepson Center is showing recent works, four from the Short Story series (2000-2001), each 7’ x 5’, and ten works from the more recent, Scenario Series, using an even larger format, 7’ x 10’ each.

This new work continues Rauschenberg’s method of constructing paintings by piling on transfers of photographic images, often overlapping and duplicating so that they read as flat surfaces or bulletin boards. The result is a

mirror image of our image-saturated society. All surface with no illusion of depth, a dizzying effect similar to a familiar style of film editing in which each frame is a disconnected and seemingly unrelated picture.

Rauschenberg’s images tend to conform to accessible categories: vehicles of all kinds - trucks, cabs, and bicycles- assorted street and traffic signs, various foods, construction sites, public buildings and monuments. The most recent Scenario series departs from the usual format in that it incorporates large areas of negative space.

But the images don’t float freely in that space; they are anchored to the

strangers, providing opportunities for the pranks of children or the amusement of bored office workers.

Whatever Rauschenberg’s intention with this work, it may say something about the playful and arbitrary nature of his image assemblages - an apparent meaningless babble created by the seduction of the crossed lines of noncommunication.

However, the intention may be merely more formalist, his point being to deconstruct the illusionistic space and linear perspective of photography by adhering to the modernist convention of integrity to the picture plane.

Christopher Rauschenberg’s ‘Pompeii’ surface through constant cropping by the frame.

“Party Line” (Scenarios, 2003) has two image columns, one a two-way street sign, the other a traditional British red telephone box. They are joined together by two telephone wires, and four rectangular images showing a yellow cab door, two street scenes and a stained glass window.

A party-line is a telephone line shared by two or more subscribers. Party lines used to be common in Britain, at least until the 1980s, when Thatcher privatized the phone company and phased out the old, red street corner phone booths.

The reality of the party line was that you were constantly entering the phone conversations of (usually) complete

There is another approach to breaking down the unnatural perspective prison of photographic representation.

In fact, we do not see the world from one unmovable position or, as the painter, David Hockney puts it, with our head stuck in a clamp.

In reality, our eyes are always moving.

If you stand in a room and draw or photograph one corner of a facing wall, then turn your head to do the same with the other corner, the line that joins the two is a curve.

Human vision is, in fact, panoramic.

In the small Kane Gallery that leads off the larger one that contains the Rauschenbergs, there is an exhibition of works by his photographer son, Christopher Rauschenberg. These pho-

tographs have been constructed in three parts, by shooting to the left, then to the center, then to the right of a scene, and assembling the parts seamlessly.

The result is a curved panorama in reverse perspective that is close to our visual perception of the world. It is as if we are walking through the scene rather than viewing it voyeuristically from a window.

But what is particularly haunting about the experience of these photographs is that whether the view is Milan, Pompeii, Potsdam or Louisiana, in the work of Rauschenberg, the younger, the viewer walks alone.

Walking alone is not however what his father has chosen to do in life. From his close association with Jasper Johns in the 1950s, his work with John Cage’s “happenings” and the Merce Cunningham dancers in the 1960s, his Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange in the 1980s and his entourage of devoted helpers, he has always seemed to be an artist in search of collaborators.

In the individualist, celebrity atmosphere of the art world, this cannot be easy.

At the Jepson he shares the main Steward Gallery, with one of his assistants, Darryl Pottorf, whose photo transfers with their rich accumulation of images and iconography of street signs and monuments reveal a debt to Rauschenberg. But while Rauschenberg’s imagery has a pollyanna Americana feel to it, Pottorf’s obsession with barbed wire and monochrome suggests a darker vision.

The best works here however are the collaborative series with the collective title, “Quattro Mani” which means four hands and refers to the musical composition created for two pianos. These collaborations are two-layered works, the first being Rauschenberg’s color photo transfers on paper of fruit and flowers and buildings, which have been then overlaid with Pottorf’s black barbed wire images on lexan (a transparent material).

The sunny American optimism is threatened by imminent catastrophe, a little like finding a Robert Mitchum scene

21 from Night of the Hunter inserted into the Sound of Music. It would seem that in creating meaning, four hands are better than two.

In his long review of Rauschenberg’s current exhibition at the Met in New York, Robert Hughes suggests that Rauschenberg may be the best American artist of the 20th Century.

Hughes claims that he has been underrated (because his work is open and not

tical rectangle. The first square contains an image obscured by vertical stripes, the second, a swirling galaxy or maybe the eye of a storm, and the third, a 19th Century photograph of a family group portrait.

Below these in the horizontal rectangle is a night sky with a full moon or planet, disappearing at the left, top corner. And at the right side, the vertical rectangle contains a lozenge design and

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Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Party Line’ intimidating), in comparison with Jasper Johns, who is regarded by the majority of critics as more intelligent.

“So the notion grew that joyous and woolly Rauschenberg wasn’t really as smart as the retentive and poker-faced Johns,” Hughes says.

Apart from the fact that this smart aleck “Which is the best product?” comparison between “brand names” is pretty silly, it also harks back to the “painters have to be stupid” cliche that Duchamp rebelled against.

But fortunately at the Jepson we now have an opportunity to develop our own opinions. The two small Levitt and Varnedoe Galleries are now showing a collection of works, predominantly small prints donated to the Telfair by twentytwo artists in memory of Savannah native and Museum of Modern Art curator, the late Kirk Varnedoe.

Most of the names of American Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism are here, and some others less classifiable.

But of all these works, there are only two I would want to take home with me: a small, untitled photogravure of a spider’s web, 2002, by the Latvian artist, Vija Celmins, an artist whose work I have admired for over a decade; and an untitled intaglio print, 2001, by Jasper Johns.

Johns’ print, in two shades of brown, contains five sections, made up of three small squares and a horizontal and a ver-

three small stick figures at the very bottom. A rope image loops from the lower left of the print to the top right, as if pinned, with the excess lengths hanging down.

This intriguing work does not explain itself, like prose, nor is it arbitrarily constructed to mystify. We may not know the possible personal references of the symbols, but its meaning is communicated through its geometric structure. It is built on the Golden Section and the Fibonacci series, that are the mathematical underpinnings of all nature, from the smallest organism to the cosmos.

“There will always be collectors, “ writes Robert Hughes, “who will line up to pay millions for some prissy piece of self-referential boredom by the immortal J. J.” It is hard to see, on the basis of this small, poetic print, what could possibly prompt such lashings of resentment.

But with the Jepson Center, we have at last in Savannah the opportunity to see for ourselves what the art world is talking about, ignore the critics and make up our own minds. ◗

Bertha Husband is a native of Scotland who has studied art at Oxford University and Ruskin School of Fine Art. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Her art criticism has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Somnambulist, and Left Curve.

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Stillmoreroots Group -- Art advocacy group speaks March 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sentient Bean about their upcoming Fourth Annual Art in the Woods Exhibition April 1 near Swainsboro.

‘Kinetic Sculpture’ Work by Margaret -- Exhibition by Tim Edmondson is at Prentice March 30Iocovozzi Fine Art April 30, Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Prentice will lecture Wednesday, March 29, 7 p.m. at Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.

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‘Address Unknown’ -- Solo show by Margaret Edmondson at Iocovozzi Fine Art, 12 West Harris St. Through March 31 with a reception Friday, March 24 from 6-8 p.m.

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‘Home Sweet Home’ – Showcase of fifteen local artists. Through March 28 at The Starland Center for Contemporary Arts, 2428 Bull St. Opening reception Friday, March 24, 7-10 p.m. Free.

‘Behind the Curtain’ – Works of Larry Moore at the Grand Bohemian Gallery at The Mansion, 700 Drayton. Opening reception March 24, 510 p.m.

‘Savannah to Tybee’ – Paintings by Tony Pandolfini through April 22 at the Irene Sullivan Gallery, 16th St.), Tybee.

Perspective”; work by Christopher Rauschenberg; and “Savannah Revisited.” Call 790-8800.

‘The Swinging Bridge’ -- Collaboration of artist and SCAD alumnus Brian Slagle and writer Jason Tinney, through April 4 at the Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. Reception March 31, readings at 5 & 6 p.m.

‘Tribute to Musicians’ -- New paintings

by Sandy Branam at Off The Wall Gallery in the 45 Bistro at The Marshall House, 123 E. Broughton St. Hospice Savannah Featured Artist -Pastels and oils by Robert Isley through April 30 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

‘Savannah Nocturnes’ -- Group show through April 1 includes James Allen, Barbara J. Brown, Adela Holmes, Daniel Smith and June Stratton. Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker Street.

Roger Surprenant -- Photos at Moon River at 21 West Bay St. and Angel's BBQ at 21 West Oglethorpe Lane.

‘Faces of Folk’ -- Exhibit thru March at The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker Street. Call 234-7322.

Group Exhibition -- Show at Gallery 440.

440 Bull St., features Charlotte Dunlap, Morgan Kuhn, Cissie Victor and Frances Walter, artists in residence.

‘Art Brut’ -- International folk art through April 30 at The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker St. Telfair Academy of the Arts -- In addition to its standing collection, the Telfair is now showing “David Delong: Passage,” a look at the work of this Savannah artist.

‘Africa’s Legacy in Mexico’ – Photo ‘The Art of Music’ -exhibit by nationally Work by Theodore Hendricks is part of Extravaganza of folk and known photographer ‘Art of Music’ at The Hurn fine art celebrating the Tony Gleaton through joy of music. Through April 23 at the Beach April 2 at The Hurn Museum of Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker ‘Transfigures’ – A collection of drawings St. Tues. – Sat., 11 – 4; Sun., 12 – 4; closed Monday. Adults $4, Students $3. and paintings that examine the dynamic relationships between space, form, and JEA Art for March -- Paintings by spirit, at the Black Orchid Gallery, 131 Drayton St. Alexandro Santana at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. ‘Do Not Be Afraid of the Flotsam’ – Work Gregory Myrick -- New prints by this local

by SCAD visiting artist John Bjerklie through March 27 at La Galerie Bleue, artist at www.yessy.com/gmyrick1/. ◗ 3515 Montgomery St. Art Patrol is for rotating shows, exhibiJepson Center for the Arts -- Inaugural tions and receptions. Send your art info to jim@connectsavannah.com exhibitions through June 4 include: “Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories”; “Darryl Pottorf: A

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‘A labor of love’ Local politicos help stage civil rights play

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A commemorative play, I Thought My “My objective is to show the youth of Soul Would today how Rise and Fly! glorious the will be preyouth of the sented as part 60s were,” of the closing Jahannes activities of says. “And I the monthwanted to long 50th show our anniversary seniors that celebration of their part in the Savannah these glocivil rights rious acts is movement. It not forgotten. will be preIt was a labor Coretta Scott King speaks at the First African Baptist sented Church in Savannah in 1963 (photo by Frederick Baldwin) of love.” ◗ Saturday, March 25 at 2 p.m. at the Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Admission is In another local production, the free.

Cultural Arts Theatre is presenting The Written by Ja A. Jahannes, the cast Sound of Music. includes State Sen. Regina Thomas, Director D.J. Queenan says the proCounty Commissioner Harris Odell Jr., duction combines the best of both the Judge John E. Morse Jr. and community stage play and movie version of the activist Diana Harvey Johnson. beloved musical. “The movie had a lot “They play four characters who are of changes (from the stage play),” he shown planning their part in the events says. of the 1960s in Savannah,” Jahannes “Some songs were added and says. “I looked for people who knew the some were taken away,” Queenan says. civil rights struggle.”

“If you’ve never seen the stage play, All four are a bit nervous about their some of the music will be new.” new stage careers, Jahannes says. “I’m The production features a cast of just hoping people will see them in their 30. “We have a dynamic cast,” new light as actors,” he says. “Sen. Queenan says. “There are seven wonThomas has been coming in from the derful young people who play the Von state legislature to rehearse.”

Trapp kids.”

The performance will follow a comThen there are the singing nuns. memorative civil rights march that will “We have 12 nuns who all sing in the end at the civic center. Jahannes’s play original Latin,” Queenan says. highlights civil rights events that When the call for auditions went occurred between 1960 and 1964. out, 142 people showed up to audition “I tried to compress it to give a bird’s for 30 parts. “It was very difficult eye view,” he says. “I wanted to honor because there is so much talent here,” the movement’s heroes, but not be Queenan says. “There are only seven preachy.”

Von Trapp children, but we had The Savannah Community Choir probably 75 children audition.” under the direction of E. Larry McDuffie Such a large turnout is encourwill perform, as will The Gospel aging. “We’re getting a very good repuTravelers. The Sankofa Dance Theatre tation for our productions,” Queenan will interpret the music in dance. says. “And The Sound of Music has The production will include video such a strong energy of its own. It’s a footage of civil rights leader W.W. Law wonderful family experience for young and photos of Savannah’s civil rights and old. People who don’t know The movement taken by acclaimed photogSound of Music will love it. Those who rapher Frederick Baldwin. “He happened do will love it even more.” ◗ to be in Savannah at that time,” Jahannes says.

Performances of The Sound of Music It was Savannah’s young people who are set for March 24, 25 and 31 and were the most strident in their search for April 1, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. and March 26 equality. “I learned a lot about Savannah and April 2 at 3 p.m. in the Black Box putting this together,” Jahannes says. @ SPACE, 9 W. Henry St. Tickets are “One of the things that stood out was $15 for adults and $10 for children and the way the students integrated Tybee students. Call 651-6783.

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With six Grammys under their belts (including two for Best Classical Album), these guys are far and away one of the world’s foremost string quartets. I won;t jerk your chain. It doesn’t get much better than this, anywhere, anytime. They’ll perform Mozart’s String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major, Op. 118, and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44/1. Call 525-5050 or go to www.savannahmusicfestival.org for tickets. Fri., 6 pm, Telfair Museum Rotunda.

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Bluegrass Music Association’s four-time “Bass Player of The Year,” and she’s been recognized for her fiddle work as well. Hurst is a two-time IBMA “Guitar Player of The Year,” who’s toured with Trisha Yearwood and Holly Dunn. When not making CDs of their own or out on the road together, they both tour and record with Grammy-nominee Claire Lynch. This is another great evening of top-

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venue to see a balls-to-the-wall musical firestorm of this sort. One of the leastknown live venues in town, the room is not for every act – but it’s got killer vibe and has Dash Rip Rock written all over it. Prepare yourself for one hell of a show. Sat., 10 pm, The Rail Pub.

Jimmy & The Teasers Drunk. Screaming. Drunk. Raging drunk. Icepick electric guitar. Atomic cavewoman trap drumming. Relentless psychobilly boogie. Cathartic.

Majestically wrecked. Insular and insolent. Axeman/vocalist Jimmy’s in charge, and that might be their saving grace – or one hell of a liability. Bring earplugs. Man, they’re gonna be so drunk. Greaser punks Rocket 350 and The Straight 8’s open.

Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Everytime this wonderful Americana group comes through town it is cause to raise a glass, cut a rug and celebrate. They’re a sorely underrated powerhouse This NYC-based postthat’s slowly burning modern cocktail jazz combo through the festival circuit Dash Rip Rock (featuring vocalist Kelly Flint, and earning loyal pockets guitarist Dave Cantor, and shelf acoustic of fans across the nation. versatile standup bassist/producer Jeff music at the area’s Jeff Burke is a demon on Eyrich) are a wonderful unit that works only dedicated the mandolin and banjo, together in sublime and intriguing ways.

Americana listening and Vida Wakeman’s a Equally at home in a large theatre or a room. Seating’s dervish on the acoustic small, smoky bar, they exude laid-back limited, so call 748guitar. Together, their Jeff & Vida Gotham cool. They –and the rotating 1930 to reserve a voices sound like Tupelo cast of drummers they tour and record ticket ASAP. Sat., 7:30 pm, Randy honey cookin’ in the noonday sun on a with– are adept enough at a variety of Wood’s Pickin’ Parlor (1304 E. Hwy 80, flat rock in gate City, West Virginia. After styles and idioms (many of which stretch Bloomingdale) - ALL-AGES. their packed duo gig at The Bean a while far beyond the boundaries of traditional back, longtime local supporters will be jazz, and into rock, electronica and tickled to know they’re bringing a Here’s a band that’s got one of their modern pop) to pull off grooves and standup bassist with them, as well as a collective boots in rock and roll and the winking references galore. Their latest fiddle player (a first for Savannah other in a swampy Southern bayou. album contains unusual and at times discrowds). Forget the hyped up action Minor national legends almost strictly on concerting reworkings drawn from the figures and Cabbage Patch Dolls of the the basis of their out-of-control live gigs, formidable song catalog of the great roots-rock industry. These guys are the Bob Dylan. Hopefully this return in 1989, five years after forming, they real deal, and you can still get in on ‘em famously lost a charismatic member to engagement at this hip, subterranean while the gettin’s good. Free show, so Cowboy Mouth (drummer/frontman Fred Po-Mo eatery won’t be as chatty as their stuff a wad of cash in the hat.

LeBlanc), but many feel they can still first Savannah appearance, but unfortuFri., 8 pm, American Legion Post #135 easily go head-to-head with those feronately, the sight lines tend to encourage (1108 Bull St.). cious roots-rock wack jobs (I mean that that sort of thing. Get there early for a in a loving way). good view.

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The Christy Alan Band Popular rock and soul covers. Fri. Sat., 9 pm, Fannieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On The Beach.

Bluesonics Long-running local electric blues group offering upbeat, tireless shuffles and slow burns in the Chicago style. Fri., 9 pm, Jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Tapas Bar + Sat., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Jason Courtenay & Hazzard County Upbeat modern and classic country, Southern rock and party music from a full band fronted by the other half of the wellknown acoustic cover duo The Courtenay Brothers. Thurs., 8 pm, Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Thunderbolt).

The Courtenay Brothers Surely I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go through this again, do I? Sun., 5 pm, Ellis Square Courtyard (by Sorry Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s).

Bottles & Cans Raw and slightly unhinged Delta blues that leans toward R.L. Burnside and T-Model Ford. Thurs., 10 pm, Savannah Blues + Fri., 7 pm, The Warehouse + Sat., 9 pm Jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Tapas Bar.

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Young local mandolinist who made a name for himself at an early age in the regional jamgrass scene. This show is free background music for brunchers at this posh hotel restaurant. Sun., 11 am, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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Funk, jazz, dance and house music from Eat Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drummer. Thurs., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Nuanced and tasteful solo pianist offering his own arrangements of jazz tunes and standards.. Wed., 7 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth park.

Brian Clees & The Electric Cowboys Country act fronted by an up-andcoming songwriter whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gaining regional notoriety. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Thunderbolt).

Buddy Corns Songwriter and guitarist playing rock originals and well-known covers both solo, and with backing group The Rock Mob. Wed., 7 pm, The Island Grill (Pt. Wentworth) + Thurs., 7 pm, Augieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub (Richmond Hill) + Sat., 9 pm, Caponeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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Trae Gurleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sinatra Tribute This local thespian and singer has crafted a popular revue focusing on Olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blue Eyesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; celebrated big band period.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather interpret Frank than mimic him, and occasionally add in similar material from other artists of the time.

Thurs., 7 pm, Jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Tapas Bar.

The Hitmen

Electric blues standards and originals â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kyle Shiver courtesy of Brett â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hitmanâ&#x20AC;? Bernard, and a rhythm section which includes former Jukebox Journey drummer Mark Cordray.

Modern and classic country covers Tues. (hosts Open Mic) - Wed., 10 pm, and originals, featuring a guitarist and Savannah Blues + Thurs., 10 pm (hosts singer whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one half of the popular Open Mic), Locos Deli & Pub acoustic cover act The Courtenay (Downtown).

Brothers. Fri., 8:30 pm, Pogyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

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Rock covers and originals from a young local acoustic guitarist and songwriter whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soon to release his debut indie CD of all original material. Wed., 7 pm, Pogyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill) + Thurs., B & D Burgers (Southside) + Fri. Sat., 9 pm, The Bayou CafĂŠ + Sun. 5;30 pm, The Warehouse.

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The Alex Nguyen Group

Former member of old-school Savannah cover band The Tremors, now out of retirement, and playing solo acoustic renditions of everything from The Beatles to Al Green. Sat., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (Sandfly).

Straight-ahead jazz combo led by an internationally-celebrated young trumpeter from our area, who’s barely out of high school and well on his way to bigger things. Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Industrial Resurrection w/DJs Triskyl & Shrapnel

Harry O’Donoghue Beloved local fixture on the Irish music scene, playing traditional and contemporary ballads and original material on acoustic guitar and bodhran. Mon. Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and assorted modern dance music spun by one local DJ Ace 7-string guitarist who (Shrapnel) and one always surrounds himself with guest from Augusta some of the best local ringers, (Triskyl), who hosts that and lays down immensely satiscity’s monthly Spectral fying jazz explorations. Sat., 9 Erosa happening, and pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Gail Thurmond tours the Southeast.

Park + Mon., 7:30 pm (w/vocalist There will also be a raffle to benefit a Ann Caldwell), The Jazz Corner (Hilton local electronic musician who recently Head). lost everything in a house fire. Thurs., 10 pm, Club One.

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pm, The Martha’s Vineyard Seafood Authority (above Fernando’s).

Randy ‘Hatman’ Smith Solo beach, boogie and blues from a local Parrothead. His Sunday show features “JJohnnyboy O’Neill & Chicago B.B.” Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Stingray’s (Tybee) + Sun., 3 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach.

Southpaw Modern and classic country and honky-tonk. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tommy’s (Pooler).

Tradewinds Motown, shag and soul covers from a sextet of veteran local players. Fri., 9:30 pm, Il Pasticcio.

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Intellekt Underground “conscious rap” artist, who recently relocated from Florida to Atlanta and signed with trendsetting Arcthefinger Records. After his set, there will be freestyle rap battles and breakdancing backed by local DJs DFrost and Selvis. Tues., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Keith Kozel & The Foxedos Present: Gumshoe Monthly local “anti-folk” showcase featuring The Foxedos, an instrumentswapping group which includes members of GAM, The Richard Leo Johnson Trio and Hot Pink Interior. Each month, they back up a local songwriter or group, and this time it’s the low-fi indie murmurings of Kevin Daiss’ Gumshoe. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Jude Michael Pop and rock covers and originals on guitar and cello. Thurs., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub.

Well-known danceable rock, pop and soul cover tunes, featuring a former member of the now-defunct SheAlice.

Fri., 5:30 pm + sat., 5 pm + Ellis Square Courtyard (by Sorry Charlie’s).

‘Georgia Kyle’ Shiver Blues and folk singer/songwriter who cut his teeth on the Northeastern coffeehouse and busking circuit. Covers and originals (Fannie’s show features The Tybee Two). Wed., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Thurs., 7 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (Tybee) + Fri., 7 pm, AJ’s Dockside (Tybee) + Sun., 10 pm, Café Loco.

Silver Lining Jazzy local trio featuring bassist and vocalist Maggie Evans and her guitarist husband Jackson, plus drummer Mark Cordray. For sunday night’s gig, Maggie will solely sing, and they’ll be joined by South Carolina bassist George Scheck, who’s worked with The Edgar Winter Group, among other notable acts.

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The Train Wrecks Local roots-rock trio fronted by songwriter Jason Bible. Known for highenergy shows which feature covers by folks like Springsteen, Dylan and Petty, as well as earnest, acoustic guitar and harmonica-based ballads, rave-ups and dirges. Thurs, 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

The Greg Williams Duo Twin-guitar attack of prolific local blues/folk/rock songwriter Williams and his longtime foil, flashy lead player Shane Baldwin. Sat., 7 pm, The Warehouse + Sun., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge (solo gig). ◗

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“The hardest part was getting used to the walkie talkies,” says Peter. “Being ready enough to announce directions to everyone was not as easy as I thought.”

Peter is more interested in working his way up through pre-production, in storydevelopment, assistant producer and up from to producer. He was offered an opportunity to go back to LA as a pro-

“I think I have a strong case to market the film to area businesses,” says Peter.

“Bringing in people from the industry will be good for everyone.”

The action film includes fiery scenes and stunts. Peter has enlisted the help of other SCAD students and local businesses to create his masterpiece. He has asked members of the Savannah Fire

MISSION Possible SCAD film student makes action movie Department for safety help and for use of their facilities to stage a scene.

Peter is planning on a large action sequence where he actually blows up a car. He has talked to the Savannah Fire department and asked them if he can do the pyrotechnics there. “They seem positive,” says Peter. “I am hoping to get a definite from them sometime soon.”

Student films are generally drama, said Peter. He wants to do something completely different. “You see a lot of the drama genre in student films,” says Peter.

“I want to steer away from that and do something outrageous.”

Peter wants a chance to win an award at the SCAD film awards, but he said he knows that might be a long shot.

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Peter and his wife Sara, a fashion major graduating this summer from SCAD, moved here from Sweden with their two children: Leia, 6 and Ben, 4.

Filming for The Vengeance should begin in April, but that depends on who helps Peter out and on funding. His budget for the film is $12,000; he has put in some money himself, his family gifted $2500 and the rest Peter is hoping comes from area businesses. The film is set to be completed by June.

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“You don’t really see many action films getting too many awards,” says Peter.

“One of the last films for any type of action award was Black Hawk Down, and that was because it was mainly a drama.”

“I would prefer to stay with action films,” says Peter. “It is a genre I enjoy. If I am going to watch a movie at home, nine out of ten times it will be an action film.”

Moving across the big blue ocean without knowing anyone here in Savannah was not easy. Sara and Peter are both in competitive programs and with two children, it was never easy.

Leia and Ben learned English pretty quickly, but it was a struggle at first.

SCAD staff helped find them day care and an apartment. Without that help, they would not be here at all.

“Since Sara and I are both in tough fields, we are going to go where the best jobs are,’ says Peter. “If something comes along in Savannah, we’d love to stay here so I can work on some upcoming films and build up my resume a bit.”

Peter says he would not have been able to come to the U.S. for film school if SCAD was not so welcoming.

“They really helped us out allowed us to apply for scholarships helped us find hosing,” says Peter. “It was an unusual thing, two parents wanting to attend full time, with two young ones who did not yet know the language.

“Everyone at SCAD had more than just open arms; they really made everything possible for us,” he adds.

Peter says when the going got tough, when they were out of their savings and the kids were sick, he and his wife got encouragement from overseas.

“Our families have really stuck by us and are proud.” says Peter. “It was a big leap to sell our house and move with the kids. They were worried. But they are not worried anymore.” ◗

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FILM STUDENT PETER ONSMARK knows how to blow things up -- on screen, that is. The Swedish SCAD student has a passion for action films and this spring, he plans on bringing a touch of Hollywood to town for his final film project, The Vengeance.

An action film co-written with student Nikki Dosedel, The Vengeance follows the harried life of a 35 year old man with a past, trying to protect what is left of his family after tragedy strikes. It’s chock-full of fiery scenes, explosives and surprises around every corner.

“The juvenile in me loves action,” says Peter. “And there is nothing wrong with that.”

Peter recently returned from an internship in Los Angeles, where he worked behind the scenes on Mission Impossible III. He learned the tricks of the trade from a few pros and realized it was not as easy as he thought. But he had the time of his life and made connections he can count on.

“I love Hollywood, it was the experience of my life,” says Peter. “MI 3 will be the best film of 2006. J.J. Abrams, director, is such a talented man.”

Roger Guyett, a visual effects guru who worked on Star Wars, Harry Potter and dozens more big name films, might come down to lend Peter a hand.

Stratton Leopold, the executive producer of MI 3 might try to make it also, according to Peter. Bob Shelley, the famed pyrotechnician has offered to come to Savannah and oversee the special effects in the production.

“Stratton is being very helpful to me and I appreciate it so much,” says Peter. “I was so lucky to work with him.”

Peter worked as a production assistant intern. He was an assistant to the crew on the set, given a chance to try all aspects of a set production assistant from securing areas of the set to assist the some of the cast. He spent 45 days on set, but was there for 10 weeks.

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About the only surprising element in Failure to Launch is that director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) feels the urge to show us a butt-naked Terry Bradshaw not once, not twice, but three times. This decision is certain to have Howie Long clucking his tongue on Bradshaw’s Fox NFL Sunday pre-game show, but it’s hardly the selling point to women lining up to ogle Matthew McConaughey (who only removes his shirt) for 100 minutes.

Then again, Bradshaw (clothed) and the other supporting players are the ones who provide any semblance of a pulse to this lifeless film that’s never able to sell us on its central conceit. McConaughey plays Tripp, a 35-year-old who still lives at home with his parents (Bradshaw and Kathy Bates). Anxious to move their grown boy out of the house, the folks hire Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker), a professional consultant who -- get this -makes a career out of building up the self-esteem of adult males still living at home by romancing them and then dumping them once they feel independent enough to move out on their own. (The film never once addresses the obvious morality issue: Wouldn’t these pudgy, LOTR-lovin’ fanboys relapse into self-doubt and depression once Paula drops them?) But Paula soon discovers that Tripp isn’t like her other clients, which leads to a sputtering romantic comedy that moves like clockwork through all the expected plot predicaments. McConaughey and Parker try, but they can’t save a premise as insipid as this one. Instead, the fun can be found in the margins: Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha have their moments as Tripp’s best friends, the always welcome Zooey

Deschanel adds some much-needed edge as Paula’s droll roommate, and Bates and Bradshaw invest their characters’ relationship with the humor and empathy that’s sorely missing from the top-billed stars’ dalliances.

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Imagine if someone decided to remake David Cronenberg’s excellent horror yarn The Fly as a wretched Disney family film, and you would basically get The Shaggy Dog. Borrowing elements from both 1959’s The Shaggy Dog and 1976’s The Shaggy D.A. but mostly wandering off in its own direction, this new Dog casts Tim Allen as an assistant district attorney who periodically turns into a canine after being bitten by a 300-yearold sheepdog. The lack of a speaking voice (aside from woofs) makes it impossible for him to communicate with those around him, but it’s after his metamorphosis that he realizes he’s not only been neglecting his family but also serving as counsel for an evil scientist (Robert Downey Jr., whose talents deserve better) who’s been experimenting on animals in his laboratory.

Allen, one of the least funny comedians around, is given far too many opportunities to grotesquely ham it up -- for his next film, how about a nice, quiet role as a corpse? -- while Spencer Breslin, arguably the most annoying child actor in cinema history, adds to our misery as Allen’s son, a dweeb with a jones for all things Grease (friends insist he’d be the “best” choice to appear in their school’s production, though his rendition of “You’re the One That I Want” sounds like a cat being shoved tail-first into a blender). In between Allen’s mugging

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A man of mystery, V subscribes to the theory of a radical revolution, of achieving freedom by any means necessary. What exactly divides a terrorist from a freedom fighter? V’s mission involves blowing up lots of prime real estate (indeed, the movie’s November 2005 release was delayed partly to distance it further from last July’s London bombings), and those in charge refer to him simply as “the terrorist.” But when a government is as rotten as the one seen here, does the end justify the means?

Because his face is hidden behind an immobile mask, Hugo Weaving relies on his voice and movements to bring life to the role of V -- he succeeds even when the script fails to sufficiently flesh out the role. Yet the performer to watch here is Natalie Portman. Heroines in fantasy flicks often get swallowed up by the extravagance surrounding them, yet Portman’s work is excellent, existing on a par with Aliens’ Sigourney Weaver, The Terminator’s Linda Hamilton and King Kong’s Naomi Watts.

One irate citizen’s Margaret Thatcher is another’s George W. Bush, which might explain why writer Alan Moore has distanced himself from V For Vendetta, the big-screen adaptation of his influential graphic novel. Penned in 1989, Moore meant for his work to be taken as an indictment of Thatcher’s conservative platform in England.

The screen version, filtered through the sensibilities of Hollywood players like debuting director James McTeigue, producer Joel Silver and the writing-producing team of The Wachowski Brothers (all of whom were involved in the making of the Matrix trilogy), has been upgraded for a new chapter in world history. Set in England in the year 2020, V For Vendetta envisions a world that’s been torn apart by all manner of conflicts. The United States, we’re told, has fallen as a superpower and now lays in ruins. England, meanwhile, struggled with a dreadful plague that killed thousands but has since reemerged under the rule of a fascistic government headed by Chancellor Sutler (John Hurt). Dissidents, intellectuals and homosexuals all meet with the same fate -- execution -- while all news is filtered through the sensibilities of a government-sanctioned TV network.

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Rapper-turned-actor Mos Def is paired with action vet Bruce Willis, but just because director Richard Donner is behind the controls doesn’t mean we should worry that this will turn out to be a pale imitation of Donner’s tiresome Lethal Weapon buddy flicks. 16 Blocks may be full of shootouts and laced with humor, but it’s mercifully free of the jokey nature and penchant for overkill that dogged the inexplicably popular Mel Gibson-Danny Glover franchise. Willis, admirably looking his age and then some, stars as New York detective Jack Mosley, a badge-carrying bum whose love for the bottle has reduced him to a has-been on the police force. One morning after working the night shift, he’s ready to head for home (or a nearby bar) when he’s ordered to transport a petty criminal from the jail to the courthouse 16 blocks away. He has two hours to deliver the man, but really, it’s a job that should only take 15 minutes, tops.

But it turns out Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) isn’t your ordinary punk picked up for snatching a purse or stealing a TV set.

Instead, Eddie is the key witness in a case in which he’s expected to testify against some crooked cops. Jack

doesn’t know this at the outset; it’s only when someone attempts to shoot Eddie en route that he realizes something big is going down.

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Bawdy period sex comedies are nothing new -- they’ve been around at least since 1963’s Tom Jones hightailed it back to England with the Best Picture Oscar in hand. At first glance, The Libertine appears to be a modern attempt to jump-start the sub-genre, to wrest the costume epic away from the prim and proper Austen adaptations and steer it back to a sensibility that owes as much to Benny Hill as to any literary tome. But it soon becomes apparent that The Libertine is marching to its own beat: The humor is dipped in poison, and the end result of its sexual revolution isn’t bare arses and jiggling breasts but rather the physical deformities and uncontrollable bowel movements brought on by syphilis. Based on a stage play (and it shows), The Libertine tells the story of John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), a.k.a. the second Earl of Rochester. At the film’s outset, this 17th century poet, playwright and sex fiend turns to us and insists that we won’t like him, at which point he proceeds to spend the remainder of the running time cruelly berating nearly everyone who enters his atmosphere, even Charles II (John Malkovich). The one exception is the budding stage actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), yet she proves to be the one person that a smitten Rochester cannot best. In casting the role of Rochester, the filmmakers had the right idea by turning to Depp -- this maverick has proven himself to be among the

31 most fearless thespians out there -- but ultimately, he’s not required to do more than mix profanity with profundity and allow himself to be subjected to lengthy sessions in the makeup artist’s chair. For all its attempts to startle us with its vulgarity, this underdeveloped movie never locates a defining method to its messiness; ultimately, it possesses all the shock value of a toddler yelling, “Poopy!”

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Except for her atypical (and smashing) performance in Iris, Judi Dench has been delivering the exact same performance dating back to 1997's Mrs. Brown and running through last fall's Pride & Prejudice -- that of the frosty, tarttongued Englishwoman who's clearly smarter than everyone else in the room.

She's at it again in Mrs. Henderson Presents, a predictable bit of piffle that follows the "quirky English film" template (see also: Calendar Girls, The Full Monty,

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Nanny McPhee may be based on Christianna Brand’s “Nurse Matilda” books, but its cinematic predecessor is clearly the family film that turned “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” into the longest household word ever recorded. Emma Thompson, delivering a sharp performance under pounds of facial latex, plays the title character, a snaggletooth, wart-sprouting nursemaid who mysteriously shows up to help a widower (Colin Firth) contend with his seven monstrous children. As Nanny McPhee helps transform these little devils into little angels, she also becomes involved in the family’s strained affairs with an interfering aunt (Angela Lansbury) and a husband-hunting harridan (Celia Imrie). continued on page 32

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Parents taking their kids to catch this at a matinee showing should reasonably be expecting a dog day afternoon; instead, those perky creatures known as actors keep getting in the way of total enjoyment. Based on a Japanese film that was itself inspired by a true story, Eight Below relates the tale of a scientific expedition in Antarctica and what happens when punishing weather forces its members to leave their eight sled dogs behind. As the animals spend months coping with exhaustion, starvation and a particularly nasty leopard seal, expedition guide Jerry Shephard (Paul Walker) desperately tries to find a way to rescue them. The dogs are gorgeous and wonderfully expressive (no creepy Snow Dogs-style anthropomorphizing here, thank God), and as long as

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Waking Ned Devine, etc.) as precisely as, say, Wolf Creek aped the slasher film formula or Hitch adhered to the romantic comedy blueprint. Based on a true story, this finds Dench cast as a wealthy widow who elects to invest in a dilapidated theater in 1930s London. Along with her gently combative partner (Bob Hoskins, faring the best), she decides to turn the Windmill Theater into a showcase for vaudeville revues staged with naked young women.

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Dave Chappelle, amusingly commenting that he's mediocre at both comedy and music yet able to make a fortune nonetheless, heads to his Dayton, OH, hometown to hand out golden tickets to attend his block party in Brooklyn.

Chappelle invites everyone from young black dudes to elderly white women to attend his shindig, which turns out to be a celebration of hip-hop music: Among those taking part in the musical mirth are Kanye West, Mos Def, Erykah Badu (removing her wig at one point) and the reunited Fugees. Dave Chappelle's Block Party, not so much directed as observed

by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), is unique in the manner in which it salutes AfricanAmerican culture and unity while at the same time exhibiting an exalted openness that makes it clear everyone's invited to take part in the merriment. The comic material is spotty -- some gags work better than others -- but the sizzling concert performances are the primary attraction anyway.

director Frank Marshall and debuting scripter Dave DiGilio focus on their part of the story, the movie succeeds in the grand tradition of past Disney live-action adventures. But the picture runs an unpardonable two hours (can little kids’ bladders hold out that long?), and its length is felt in the countless scenes centering on Jerry: his romance with a pilot (Moon Bloodgood), his bantering with a co-worker (Jason Biggs, heavy on the shtick) and his pity parties as he agonizes over the potential loss of his dogs (watching Walker try to convey brooding introspection and angst is never a pretty sight). At 95 minutes, this would have been a winner; maybe the DVD will include a function that will allow viewers to edit out the humans and leave only the remarkable canines.

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I daresay that even The Weinstein Company, the studio behind Transamerica, is pushing the movie as a one-hit wonder, as a rickety vehicle whose only noteworthy component is the stellar performance by Felicity Huffman in the central role. But Transamerica deserves more credit than that, as writerdirector Duncan Tucker has made a picture that is by turns funny, touching and blessed with a generosity of spirit.

Huffman, best known as one of TV's Desperate Housewives, inhabits the type of role that seems to automatically win trophies; indeed, she's already snagged several prizes, including Golden Globe and SEFCA awards for Best Actress. But this is no mere parlor trick: If anything, Huffman approaches her role of Bree, a transsexual ready to make that transition from "he" to "she," in a surprisingly understated fashion, playing up the character's conservative qualities while ignoring the more flamboyant elements. Bree's journey begins just prior to her operation, when she learns that her one tryst with a woman 17 years earlier has left her with a son, a street hustler named Toby (Kevin Zegers). Unable to reveal to Toby her true identity, she pretends to be a church lady involved in charitable activities, which in this case means allowing the boy to travel with her cross-country to get back to LA.

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Last year, this was one of the low-profile indie efforts that qualified for the dubious designation of Academy no-shows, along with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Estrada can at least rest on its laurels from Cannes, where it won the Best Actor award for Tommy Lee Jones and the Best Screenplay honor for Guillermo Arriaga. In that Peckinpah wanna-be, Jones (who also directed and produced) plays a cowboy who seeks a peculiar form of retribution from the border patrolman (Barry Pepper) who killed his Mexican buddy (Julio Cedillo).

The World's Fastest Indian is yet another uplifting movie inspired by a true incident -- in this case, the story of an old codger (Anthony Hopkins) who travels from New Zealand to Utah to try to break the motorcycle racing record for speed. Both movies have their strong points (most notably the caliber of the acting), yet without anything to set them apart during the year-end glut, it's easy to see why all were passed over for gold statue consideration. ◗

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Activism & Politics is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of people with disabilities Volunteers meet every first and third Monday at 7 p.m. at Fire Mountain Restaurant on Stephenson Ave. Call Kevin Sheehan at 691-2934 or send email to kshe62@aol.com..

Amnesty International

meets every Sunday at 10 a.m. to cook vegetarian meals to be served at noon on Franklin Square. Donations are accepted.

Cook for peace and help the community.

Call 201-618-8867.

Chatham County Democratic Committee

Chatham County Democratic Women For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

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.

Drinking Liberally

Libertarian Party of Chatham County

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.

meets each Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. Call 3083934 or visit 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

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.

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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.

will meet on Monday, March 27 at 6 p.m. at Barnes Restaurant on Waters Avenue. Bret Hulme will speak on his union’s role and issues for the upcoming elections. Each candidate present will be given a few minutes to speak. For information, call Maxine Harris at 352-0470.

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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.

Call Cory at 508-3335 or send email to c@depthllc.com.

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Call Brad Morrison at 596-4810.

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

Savannah Republican Club Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

Savannah Area Young Republicans Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528.

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.

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 Cultural Affairs Auditions Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday March 27 and 28 at 6:30 p.m. at S.P.A.C.E.

at 9 W. Henry St. for ages 8 through adult.

The play Forgetting Peter Pan: The Further Adventures of Wendy Darling will be staged May 13, 14, 20 and 21. Be prepared for cold readings.

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

Benefits & Fundraisers 10th Annual Ultimate Drive Program for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will be held Monday, April 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Critz BMW. A 19-car fleet of specially-badged BMWs will drive to Savannah, and members of the community are invited to drive. For every mile driving, BMW will donate $1 for breast cancer research. For information, call 354-7000 or visit www.critz.com.

2006 Girl Scout Cookie Sale Girl Scouts currently are taking orders.

Cookies are $3.50 a box, with proceeds ben-

efitting local girls. Call the Cookie Hotline at 888-223-3883 or visit www.girlscouting.org.

SOAR, 1304 N. Lightning Rd., Hunter Army Airfield, 31409-4719.

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Red Cross assists returning troops

The Skidaway Family Chiropractic Clinic at 5704 Skidaway Rd. is sponsoring a yard sale on April 1 from 8 a.m. to noon to benefit the Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center, which provides free services to sexually and physically abused children. The clinic is seeking donations of furniture, books, toys and household items for the sale. To donate, call Dr. Karen Voss at 356-5886 or Kris Rice at 236-1401.

The Savannah Chapter -- Liberty Branch of the American Red Cross is seeking donations of coffee, hot chocolate mix, tea bags, baked goods, snack foods, hot-serve cups, stir sticks, individual sugar and creamer packets as they welcome home 20,000 troops from Iraq. Call 912-876-3975.

Blessed Sacrament School Golf Tournament will be held Monday, April 10 at the Wilmington Island Golf Club. Registration is at 11 a.m. and the shotgun start is at noon.

The cost is $100 per person and corporate and individual sponsorships are available from $50 to $1,000. For registration forms, call Mark Bouy at 355-2626 or Kevin Halligan at 691-2420 or visit www.bss-savnnah.org.

Blessingdale’s thrift store at 2118 Bona Bella, at the corner of Skidaway and Bona Bella in the Bacon Park Shopping Center, sells clothes, furniture, electronics and household items.

Proceeds support The Living Vine Christian maternity home. Donations appreciated. Call 355-4339.

Coastal Pet Rescue is seeking financial donations to assist with the medical care for two dogs that are victims of animal cruelty. The dogs were discovered without food, water or shelter and were severely malnourished, requiring veterinary care. While the dogs are improving, Coastal Pet Rescue would like to give them further medical treatment and place them in foster homes so they can become adoptable pets. For information on how you can help, call 351-5161 or visit www.coastalpetrescue.org to see photos of the dogs.

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Savannah Friends of Music is throwing an array of Parties a la Carte to support local music education. Call Kristina Svenson at 598-9470 or Anne Dauray at 5980149 for information.

Southside Fire/EMS 2006 Calendar This project raises money for burn victims throughout the region. Models for the calendar are actual firefighters and emergency personnel from the Southside Fire Department. The calendars are $10 and are available at three SunCom locations in Oglethorpe Mall, on Hodgson Memorial near Kroger and at the Savannah Crossing Shopping Center on Abercorn Extension.

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

Springtime in Savannah Fashion Show This fashion show is sponsored by the Savannah Friends of Music and will be held April 4 at 11 a.m. at the Plantation Club at The Landings. A silent auction and cash bar will be followed by a luncheon and runway show. Summer fashions will be presented.

Proceeds will fund music scholarships, music camps, dance performances and more. Tickets are $40. The deadline for reservations is March 27. Checks should be made payable to Savannah Friends of Music and mailed to Mrs. Charles Johnson, 18 Cotton Crossing, Savannah, 31411.

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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.

Chatham County Chamber seeks musicians

Hurricane Katrina Benefit Website

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.

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

Irish Monument The Police Emerald Society of Southeast Georgia wants to erect a monument in Savannah to honor the Irish who fled the Great Hunger in the 1840s and 50s and came to the Untied States. The society is asking a donation or $100 for brick pavers that will be engraved with donors’ names or names of those they wish to honor.

Applications to purchase a paver are available at Saints and Shamrocks, located at Bull and Harris streets.

Make-A-Wish Walk for Wishes will be held Saturday, April 8 at Lake Mayer.

Registration is at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 9 a.m. Pre-registration is available at www.makeawishgeorgia.org. Call Carolyn Raines at 330-0476.

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

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

Cultural Affairs Artist Roster

Fiction Writers A new Savannah-based e-zine is seeking fiction writers for its upcoming editions. Call Jeff Brochu at 234-8682 or visit www.JeffsShorts.com.

Futuristic Youth of Promise Foundation is sponsoring competitions for area youth.

The FYP Logo Contest deadline is April 15.

A youth essay contest with the theme, The Importance of Youth Involvement in the Fight Against Crime in Savannah, Georgia requires text that must be typed, doublespaced, on 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper, on one side only. The deadline is April 15. There also will be a talent showcase for performers ages 9 to 19. For information, send e-mail to Martha at fyparts3@aol.com.

Interviews sought for Gulf War book Liz Desnoyers-Colas, assistant professor of communications at Armstrong Atlantic State University, has received a grant to conduct research for her book, Marching to War: Personal Narratives of African American Women’s Gulf War Experiences. She is conducting a nationwide search to find African

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American women who have served in the U.S. military in the MIddle East during the two gulf wars. To receive an initial survey, call 921-5597 or send e-mail to colaseli@mail.armstrong.edu.

Secret Works This exhibition planned for the Starland Center for Contemporary Art invites artists to explore different connotations and interpretations of secrets, things hidden or concealed from public view or knowledge. Work of any medium may be submitted or proposed via e-mail to Kristin Bramblett at starcca@gmail.com. Submissions must include an artist statement, photographs, dimensions and medium. Proposals must include an artist statement, sketches and technical description of the finished work.

Submission deadline is March 24. Work will be selected by March 26 and installed April 5 and 6 in time for the First Friday reception on April 7.

Spring Festival & Craft Sale

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Classes & Workshops

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

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.

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

Brush With Art Series

Children’s Creative Saturdays Every second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., children are invited to The Dragonfly Studio for projects in pottery, painting, planting, music and more. Every Saturday, a new project will be presented.

Children must be 6 or older to participate.

Parents may drop off children or stay and join them. Dragonfly Studio is located on Tybee Island, 1.5 miles past the Lazzaretto Creek Bridge on the right. Call 786-4431 or send e-mail to dragonflytybee@aol.com.

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.

Clay Classes in Hand-building will be held Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Carolyne’s Studio.

An open studio is available Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, call 925-5465.

Coastal Scooters 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.

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

will be offered beginning in mid-February.

Training includes studies in local history and decorative arts. Docents lead tours and assist with programming. Call Dottie Kraft at 236-8097 or send e-mail to jcredle@savbusiness.net.

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.Classes will be held Thursday and Friday, March 23 and 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church. Call Betty Ann at 352-1552. Classes will be held Wednesday and Thursday, March 29 and 30

Davenport House Docent Training

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.

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.

AARP Drivers’ Safety Program

Enroll now in a free culinary arts training program at the Starfish Cafe. This program is a collaborative effort of Union Mission, Inc., and Savannah Technical College. For information, call Mindy Saunders at 2382777.

Church Music Seminar

will feature classes in drawing, painting, clay and open studio, taught by Carolyne Graham, certified art teacher, at her Southside studio. These classes are offered in conjunction with the Savannah Art Association. Drawing to Paint is held Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6:308:30 p.m. Clay Play is offered Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Open Studio is offered Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost starts at $35. Register by calling 925-5465.

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

Culinary Arts Classes

Computer Classes

Contractor Application Assistance This session is designed to help contractors complete the Contractor Licensing Exam

Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. offers several classes and workshops, including sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

The Economic Opportunity Authority offers free computer classes in Computer Basics Level One plus the study guide program software for the Georgia High School Graduation Test. Call Gloria Ferguson at 238-2960, Ext. 153.

Experimental Retreat for Women who choose to make the journey as important as the destination will be held March 31-April 2 at Palm Key Nature Getaway. . This retreat is designed for the woman who is ready to make the changes necessary to consciously live the vibrant, balanced life that honors who she is. For information, call Elizabeth at 429-3089 or send e-mail to elizabeth@elizabethloyd.com.

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The First Annual One-Act Play Contest and Festival will feature original, unproduced plays under 40 minutes. Entrants can submit up to 3 plays, which are due by May 22. The winning plays will be produced and performed in July. Prize money will be awarded.

Send all entries to: Tybee Theater Cafe, P.O. Box 2944, Tybee Island, 31328. Call 7866384 for information

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Exemption Application, determine which category they qualify for and answer any questions about the new requirement. It will be held Monday, March 27 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett St. The deadline for applications is June 30. To RSVP, call 652-3582.

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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.

choose their hours between Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 447-0578.

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St. Frances Cabrini Catholic School, 11500 Middleground Rd., is seeking crafters to display and sell their work at the Spring Festival & Craft Sale set for April 29 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Space and table rental is $30.

Space only is $25. Call 925-4725.

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pooler Senior Center. Call Susan at 748-0912.

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Feng Shui Classes Now Forming Call Barbara Harrison of Coastal Chi at 9610104 or send e-mail to bharrison@coastalchi.com to get on the mailing list.

Food Education Learn how to eat and live a healthier lifestyle with proper education on the differences between commercial foods and free range meats and organic meal planning. This workshop’s date, time and place will be determined by the number of individuals who respond to this ad. The workshop is free. Call Irene at 653-4861 or send e-mail to healthyfoodeducator@yahoo.com.

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First Steps parent education program This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. Call 8196910.

Five Most Common Legal Mistakes made by small business owners is a

workshop set for March 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The fee is $40. To register, call 651-3200 or register online at www.sbdc.uga.edu/ce/savannah.

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

Free computer classes St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605.

Futuristic Youth of Promise Foundation This talent-based organization is for youth ages 9-19. Volunteers are sought to teach gospel, jazz, photography, visual arts, writing, theater, cooking, dance, videography and more. To participate, contact Martha Dawkins Massey at fyparts3@aol.com.

Guided Imagery Change your life with guided imagery. Read about it in Oprah magazine, January 2006.

Ditch anxiety, manage deadlines, lose weight, recovery from surgery. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

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

Free classes will be offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Borrowing Basics will be held Thursday, March 23 from 11 a.m. to noon, Depression will be held Friday, March 24 from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Budgeting will be offered Monday, March 27 from 9 a.m. to noon, Job Readiness will be presented Tuesday, March 28 from 9 a.m. to noon, Homework Help will be offered March 23 and 28 from 3-4:30 p.m. and Adult Literacy will be held March 27 and 29 from 4-6 p.m. Call 232-4232, Ext. 115.

Park Place Outreach

Inquiry Circle

Puppet Making Workshop

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

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

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

Call 652-3662.

Memorial Health positive parenting class The cost is $10 per person and is most beneficial to parents of children less than 4 years.

To register, call 350-9335.

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

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

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

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

Paralegal Certificate Program 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.

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

offers Wednesday night youth groups for ages 11-17 and tutorial assistance sponsored

by Park Place Outreach -- Street Outreach Team, formerly the Savannah Runaway Home.

Call Tonyour Bolden, outreach coordinator, at 234-4048 for a location.

Photo Safari with Frank Barevich Learn how to compose a photograph and shoot for the best effect. Take photos in historic downtown. Contact Frank Barevich at 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

The Savannah Coastal Puppetry Guild will present a workshop Thursday, March 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Puppet People Studio, 3119 Furber Ave. in Thunderbolt. Ages 10 to adult. $3 materials fee. Reservations are required.

Call 355-3366.

Puppet Shows are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler AfricanAmerican Health Information & Resource Center for schools, daycares, libraries, churches, community events and fairs. Call 447-6605.

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 Art Association Workshop 2006 How to Create a Portrait: Drawing, Watercolor or Medium of Choice, will be presented by Barbara Gentry from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the AASU Annex. The class will meet the first Saturday of each month. The fee is $50 for SAA members and $65 for nonmembers. To register for any of the workshops, call Ila Scholla at 897-5612, Grace Rohland at 498-8217 or Frances Mills at 3550448.

Spring Break Arts and Crafts Camp will be held April 10-14 from noon to 3 p.m.

Children and teens are invited to express their creativity at Glazed Over Pottery Painting Place, 1190 King George Blvd. behind Steamer’s restaurant. Projects include pottery techniques, ceramics painting and glazing, and mosaics. A new project wlll be offered each day. Children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult.

Call 561-4494 or send e-mail to glazedoverppp@aol.com.

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

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

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

37 Writing Workshop Meet and connect as individuals who have had major life experiences and want to share them. A local author is writing a book of short stories and would like to have people come share theirs. For information, send e-mail to writinglive@yahoo.com.

Concerts Coastal Jazz Presents The Alex Nguyen Quartet, featuring Alex Nguyen on trumpet, Delbert Felix on bass, John Lumpkin on drums and Tom McEvoy on piano, will perform Sunday, March 26 at 5 p.m. at the Cobblestone Conch House on West River St. Free hors d’oeuvres, free parking on River Street. $5 for non-members.

Call 661-2419.

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Clinical Social Work Association The 20th annual conference with Bob Bertolino will be held March 23 and 24 at the Coastal Georgia Center. The conference is co-sponsored by the Southeast Georgia Unit of the National Association of Social Workers and the Department of Social Work at Savannah State. Call Mary Hill at 354-1132 or Pat Brown at 201-4058.

Dance Adult Ballet & Modern Dance Classes at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun. All levels and body types welcome. BeginnerIntermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Beginner Adult Modern is Mondays from 1-2 p.m.

Intermediate/Advanced Modern is Mondays from 10-11:30 a.m. A variety of youth classes ages 3 to teen are available. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Flamenco Enthusiasts This group is looking for people in Savannah who want to dance, sing or play flamenco, also potential instructors. Contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com.

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

Events 1st Annual Monthly Birthday Bash will be held April 2 from 2-5 p.m. at the Delaware Community Center at 35th and Lincoln streets. The event is free to the public and parents are encouraged to bring children. Free food, fun and games. The Savannah police will be on hand to fingerprint and photograph children. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors d’ouerves. There is no cover charge.

Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

A community-wide celebration of the civil rights struggle in Savannah, Then, Now, Transition, Future, is being sponsored by the Interfaith, Interracial Community. It will culminate Saturday, March 25 at noon at the First African Baptist Church with A Tribute to Marchers: A Civil Rights Memorial March.

Also on March 25 at 1:45 p.m., there will be a church banner procession at the Savannah Civic Center.

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

Call 233-1951.

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Fitness Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Seventh grader Michael Kawa’s poem is about the official face he shows the world. “My mask helps me when I am scared and when I am embarrassed,” he writes. “My mask tells me to act like someone else when I want to act like myself. My mask tells me I should go on the Big Dipper roller coaster when I really want to go on the little rides. My mask hides me from girls and fights. My mask hides my mad mind.”

Now I invite you to write about your own mask, Aries. It’s the perfect time to take inventory of your persona--the official face you show the world--and to make changes to get it into closer alignment with the person you actually are in your depths.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Season of Dreams begins now.

While you’re sleeping, you’ll be working harder than usual as you dive deeper into your subconscious mind in quest of mythic stories that can transform your waking life. Here’s a list of some of the dream themes you might encounter, along with possible interpretations. Dreams of the circus coming to town mean that maybe you should indulge a barely acknowledged need to do something that seems out of character. Dreams of having a picnic in a tree house may mean you’d benefit from not having your feet planted so firmly on the ground. Dreams of doing something unethical that makes everyone mad mean that you should explore ethical, constructive ways to express your rebellious urges. Dreams of fighting a king or queen who stole money from you might mean you should fight back against an authority that ripped you off.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you’re doing work you love, Gemini, your prestige will rise in the next six months. If you’re doing work you merely tolerate, you’ll experience a sharp increase in inspirations about how to remedy the situation. In the event that you actually hate your current form of employment, I believe you’ll face a crisis that will force you to either quit or negotiate significant changes. But whether your gig suits you pretty well or not

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so much, I encourage you to start whipping up some magic that will move you closer to your dream job.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Many of us who were born under the sign of Cancer have always felt trepidation about the fact that we’re stuck with the same name as a disease. A while back I asked my readers to suggest alternate possibilities. One of the best ideas came from amateur astronomer Michael Bird. He said that within the constellation of Cancer the Crab there is a batch of 350 close-knit stars that are collectively known as the Beehive Cluster, and also as Praesepe, which is the Latin word for “manger.” Either “Beehive” or “Manger” would serve our tribe well in the coming weeks. The astrological omens say it’s time to give birth to and nurture a new brainchild, preferably with the support of an organized hive of our busy, buzzing allies.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even if you don’t literally take a journey to a distant place in the coming weeks, you will nevertheless be like a stranger in a strange land. I suggest that you adopt an attitude similar to that of an explorer. Here’s a list of traveling instructions from Patrick Harpur, author of The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination. “Don’t believe everything you have been told, either for good or ill. Observe local customs; respect local gods. Talk less than you listen. Don’t expect the inhabitants to speak your language; rather, try and speak theirs.

Try to see as well as sightsee. Be polite but firm; take advice but do not be gullible. If in doubt, smile. Do not laugh at the natives, but do not be afraid to laugh. Do not be superior or aloof, but don’t try to dress like a native. Don’t join in the dancing unless you have learned the steps.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The paradoxes are coming! The paradoxes are coming! It won’t be enough merely to solve a few amusing brainteasers. You’ll have to find a way to feel perfectly fine as you get squeezed by industrial-strength contradictions that might make a less intelligent person feel crazy. Can you do it? Is

it possible for you to remain poised and magnanimous in the face of the pressure to think impossible thoughts and feel indescribable feelings? Can you see how all three sides of every story are equally valid? The potential rewards are substantial: a crispy epiphany, a funky treasure, and the equivalent of a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you own a Jaguar luxury automobile, it’s an excellent time to redo the leather interior. If you live in a trailer park on the other side of the railroad tracks, the moment is right to cover up the faux wood paneling with fancy wallpaper. And if you don’t fall into either of those categories, meditate on how you might redecorate the inside of your world, from the physical environments you frequent to the interior walls of your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I wear my hair long, like Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Jesus Christ, and the majority of the men who have lived in the Western world during the last two millennia.

So even though I’m at odds with the cultural trends of the last 100 years, I’m right in alignment with more enduring ideas about masculine fashion. Try something similar, Scorpio: Meditate on how it might benefit you to get out of sync with prevailing attitudes about what’s right and good and true and cool, and instead be in style with more timeless and abiding modes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Neoteny” is a biological term that means the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood.

For instance, certain small dogs with big eyes and shortened muzzles have a resemblance to puppies even after they’re fullgrown. Most of us humans have personality characteristics that are for all intents and purposes neotenous. They’re throwbacks that may make us appear cute and cuddly, but that on the other hand keep us in a state of arrested development. It’s prime time to ask yourself if you have qualities like that, Sagittarius. If so, do you really want to keep cultivating them?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s the Introspection Season, Capricorn. I encourage you to write copiously in a journal. Here are several themes that would be fruitful to explore: (1) Your most amazing qualities and your worst qualities. (2) The hundred things you want to accomplish in the next 30 years. (3) Your bitter complaints, horrendous pain, and lost dreams. (4) Everything you love and everything that’s beautiful and everything that works. In addition to writing your heart out and your ass off, paste in cutout pictures from magazines, draw pictures, and ask friends to write messages to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Once the software and brain implants are developed, we’ll all be able to benefit from the kind of instant education that was at the disposal of the dissident heroes of the three films collectively known as The Matrix. Want to learn how to pilot a helicopter? The entire skill set will be downloaded into you in a few minutes. Planning a journey to Tanzania? You’ll become a fluent speaker of Swahili in time for your departure. The technology is still years away, Aquarius, but in the coming weeks you’ll be able to enjoy the closest current approximation to it. You’ve entered the super-learning season.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I don’t know why we are here,” wrote philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” His feelings contrast sharply with that of the poet Robert Bly, who edited a book of sacred poems entitled The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy. Which of these two approaches are you inclined to follow, Pisces? I believe you’re at a crossroads: The direction you choose to endorse and emphasize now will shape your destiny for a long time.

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The University of Maryland’s 15-member Jewish a capella group Kol Sasson will present a concert Thursday, March 23 at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. The group will perform Jewish music from around the world. The group was selected to perform for President and Mrs. Bush at the 2005 White House Hanukkah Menorah lighting.

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offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com.

Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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

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.

Pilates Classes

Savannah Yoga Center

Yogalates Classes

offers water aerobics classes, open lap swimming, learn-to-swim classes and lifeguard training classes. Call 652-6793.

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.

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.

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing

Pregnancy Yoga

by certified nutritional consultants. Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

An 8-week session of Pregnancy Yoga will be held Tuesdays and Thursday from 6-7:15 p.m. beginning May 30 in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $90 for once per week or $150 for twice per week for the 8-week session. Call 667-8877 for information or space availability or send e-mail to ann@aikyayoga.com.

Peace of mind in an energized body. Dropins welcome. If you are breathing, then you can do yoga. Come sweat, relax and get energized. Yoga Basics, all levels, Tuesday 6-7:15 p.m. Flow Yoga, all levels, Wednesday from 6-7:15 p.m. and Saturday from 10-11:15 a.m. Drop-in rate $13, Student drop-in rate $11 with ID. Active duty military/dependents $9. Best value with multi-class card purchase -- 8 class card $85, 12-class card $120, 20-class card $190. Taught by Kelley Boyd Crane. Located at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton Street. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

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

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Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am. Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 3558111.

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Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:3011:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Drop-in rate is $10, $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome.

Fundamental/beginner instruction available for the first hour. Call Jeff at 352-7057 or send e-mail to jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com.

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Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

The Jewish Education Alliance

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

Private Yoga Instruction Have you always wanted to try yoga but were unsure about participating in group classes? Do you need a safe, gentle and effective method of creating radiant health, reducing and even eliminating stress, and increasing happiness and joy in your life?

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

Instruction will be tailored to fit your individual needs and help you create a daily,

Scaravelli Yoga Workshop will be held Saturday, April 8 from 1-5 p.m. at Epsworth Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. The cost is $50 before March 29. Call Kelley Boyd Crane at 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

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

Food and Beverage 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

The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393.

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.

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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 Flow classes taught by Debra Whalen R.Y.T. are offered Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. $10 drop-in fee.

Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

Yoga Master Doug Swenson will present a workshop hosted by the Savannah Yoga Center on Thursday, May 21 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Epworth Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. The cost is $55 before May 25 and $65 at the door. Call Kelley Boyd Crane at 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

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.;

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.

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

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

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The Midwife Group of Coastal Georgia

Project SAVE

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. 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.

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.

The Midwife Group offers 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 826-4155 or send e-mail to birthcenter@alltel.net.

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.

Health

Hearts n’ Parks Annual Fun Walk and Health Fair

The National Wellness Foundation

What Makes A Family

Avoiding Breastfeeding Difficulties is the topic of a La Leche League meeting that will be held Monday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 508 of the Candler Professional Building 5354 Reynolds St. Babies are welcome. Call Phoebe at 8979261.

Can’t Sleep?

Can’t sleep or stay asleep? Hypnosis and guided imagery works. Call 201-0071 for more information.

Community HealthCare Center

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc.

Dual Recovery Anonymous

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.

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

Free Trigger Point Massage Workshop A free community workshop on trigger point massage and stress reduction will be held Tuesday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m. Bring a partner and learn to reduce stress and decrease headaches, neck, shoulder and lower-back pain. Call 355-7300.

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

Got a drug problem? Need help?

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

La Leche League of Savannah Call 897-9261.

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

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 March 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Pooler YMCA. Call 748-8271 for appointments.

Mammograms will be performed March 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Habersham YMCA. For appointments, call 692-0713.

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

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.

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

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

Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:157:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

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

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

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

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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.

Learn whether these products are helpful or harmful in a free seminar presented by Dr. Charles L. Harris on March 28 at 7 p.m. in Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. To make a reservation, call 819-3368.

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

Herbals and Vitamins for the Eyes

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

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.

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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.

will be held Saturday, March 25. Registration is from 7:30-8:15 a.m. at Grayson Stadium.

The walk will begin at 8:30 a.m. Call 3513841.

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effective way to stop smoking. Call the Alpha Institute. 201-0071.

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.

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

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

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.

Shopping Center and the Armstrong campus. Call 596-4077.

Living the Questions Trinity Church offers an “unapologetically liberal alternative to the Alpha Course.”

Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Trinity Church on Telfair Square. Free and open to the public.

Call 233-4766.

Messiah in the Passover Demonstration A demonstration showing how Jesus fulfilled the ancient feast of Passover will be held April 2 at 11 a.m. at Cresthill Baptist Church, 9120 Whitfield Ave. This program is open to the public. Call 355-1505.

Nicodemus by Night

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.

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus was a religious leader who came to Jesus by night looking for a way out of the darkness.

He received revolutionary understanding that compelled him to forsake everything to become a disciple.

Tongues of Fire: erotic poetry

Overcoming by Faith Ministries

meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

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

Pastor Ricky Temple and the Life Changers College-age Ministry will hold a free “Let’s Talk Cafe” on March 25 from 7-10 p.m. at Overcoming by Faith. The “Men’s Night Out” will be held Monday, April 3 at 7 p.m. at the OBF Community Room. Call 927-8601.

Georgia Historical Society Annual Book Sale

Writers Workshop

will benefit the GHS library and archives. It will be held Friday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 501 Whitaker St. Call 651-2128 or ghslib@georgiahistory.com.

Host Trevor Noble and aspiring authors will meet with local author Margaret DeBolt on Tuesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble.

meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 247-4903.

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

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

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

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

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

Participants can talk about any book.

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

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is held every third Sunday at 7 p.m. at Thread’s at Coastal Coffee at the corner of Victory and Skidaway. Free admission.

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors

Readings & Signings

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Music and Poetry Reading

Tea time at Ola’s

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

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

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

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Reading the Bible Again A 5-week course based on the book by Marcus Borg will be held Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30 p.m. or 7-9 p.m. (choose one) at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. The textbook may be purchased at Unity Bookstore. A love offering will be taken at each class. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

SPICE Single People in Christian Education will host a 10th anniversary celebration on March 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church’s Hortan Hall. Magician Rob Moreland will perform and Jennifer and Wes will provide music. There will be a covered dish dinner. Donations will be accepted, but this event is otherwise free for singles. RSVP with a name and head count to spicesingles@yahoo.com.

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.

Sokagakkai of America (SGI-USA) SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call Gil at 659-1917 after 7 p.m.

Tent Revival will be held March 27 through April 1 at 7 p.m. nightly with a different preacher and community speaker and music each night at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2020 Tennessee Ave.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church Affirming the worth and dignity of every person. On March 26, Robert Ludgate will present Justice Sunday: A Living Wage. The church is located at the corner of Houston and Oglethorpe streets. Religious education is provided for K-12 youth and in February, will be Dr. Seuss’ spirituality for children.

Also during February, a three-part series, Jane Goodall, Modern Day Prophet, will be presented. Call 233-6284 or send e-mail to UUBC2@aol.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. The service will be held Sunday, at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall behind the church’s Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast.net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

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

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Hardwood floors, 2 FP’s, separate LR & DR, eat-in kitchen, large back yard and a wonderful generous sized porch to relax and take in the neighborhood. Just waiting for your touches and Offered at $192,000.

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635 East Henry Street Wonderful Newer Construction on a tremendous lot. This 3BDR, 2 ? BA home offers a great floor plan, completely fenced, front and side

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517 East Harris St. New on the market: Amost 2400 sq.ft. and 3 stories on a wonderful street in the Historic District.

Includes all the furniture and appliances! Even dishes and sheets. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half, 2 fireplaces, enclosed sun room, brick courtyard, 2 paved parking spots, hardyboard, and more! $515,000.

912 507-9800 * W. Broughton St. Condo fully furnished with nothing but the best, and very upscale with 2 bedrooms. $489,900!

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1116 East 51st Gorgeous2 story 1915 home with hand split cedar shingles, 3 bedrooms, 2 enclosed sun rooms, new kitchen, granite counters, fantastic property with beautiful landscaping, 2 car garage, loads of room, loads of extras. Don't miss this one! $355,000 Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800*.

110 Marsh Side Dr. Wilmington Island $199,000 This 3BR/2 full BA home is located on a cul-d-sac in quiet Marsh Creek Subdivision Off Quarterman Rd. It features a large fenced yard backing up to Greenbelt, hardwood floors and carpet, greatroom, built in gas BBQ grill, and patio. Must see, in great condition!

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14 Harlan Dr. Great Location! $215,000 All brick 3 BR/2 BA home, hardwood floors throughout, sunroom, sits on a wonderful lot with a huge fenced backyard that backs up to Greenbelt. This home is ready for your family!

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continued from page 41 39 Bull River Bluff Upgraded 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo in popular Bull River Bluff with a stunning marsh view. Seller has added new wood floors throughout, new kitchen counters and appliances, glassed in sun porch, and much more. The best buy on the island at $149,000 Call Shelly with RE/MAX at 604-8177 or 355-7711.* 135 East 53rd Street Large Ardsley bungalow with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, dining room, sunroom, kitchen, and breakfast room. Upstairs master suite with walk-in closet, and large bathroom with double vanities and whirlpool tub. Office, and sitting room. New paint, carpet, refinished hardwood floors, new tile, and recoated lifetime metal roof. Seller is a licensed real estate agent in the state of Georgia. $335,000.

Call Shelly with RE/MAX at 604-8177 or 355-7711.* 611 East 49th Street Great Ardsley bungalow with 3 bedrooms, 1-1/2 baths downstairs, new updated kitchen complete with new cabinetry and appliances, large open rooms with beautiful hardwood floors, and upstairs bonus room with bath. Living room, dining room, and large kitchen. Great location, great lot, and lots of house for the money. $285,000.

Call Shelly with RE/MAX at 604-8177 or 355-7711.* 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 912-220-1700 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 912-220-1700 Coastal Real Estate Group*

518 East Duffy Street A beautiful newly re-done 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*

9' plus ceilings, plantation shutters, surround sound speakers, sprinkler system in yard. 4 bdrms/3 baths, bonus room, separate study, eat in kitchen/separate dining room.

Bonus has closet. Can be used for 5th bedroom. Great room w/fireplace.

Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777.H-4370 $338,500 View video tour @ www.VideoHomeGuide.com/media/ 305flatbush.wmv* ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550

For the hobbiest in the family, a 3 car garage with 1/2 bath. Plenty of room for that workshop in the garage.

For the decorator a beautifully appointed 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath home with fireplace, covered back porch and fenced yard.

View www.VideoHomeGuide.com/media/ 109stadium.wmv for more pics and info or call LaTrelle for your personal viewing @ 658-7777. $286,900 H-4337* ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550

All brick with interior arches, wood floors, brick fireplace in Great Room. Crown molding, 9 ft. plus ceilings, oversized whirlpool tub, separate shower and sitting room in master suite.

For your personal viewing call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 H-4375 244,900 View our video @ www.VideoHomeGuide.com/media/ 307flatbush.wmv* ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550

All brick 3 bedrooms 2 ? baths, greatroom with fireplace, kitchen with roll around island, even the fridge remains. Master bath/sep. shower, jetted tub, wall vacuum system and double garage.

Call Latrelle @ 658-7777 for your personal viewing of this lovely home. ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 $268,000 H-4394 View our video for more pictures at www.VideoHomeGuide.com/media/ 303flatbush.wmv* ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550

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 H- 4211 Call Latrelle for details @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

Beautifully appointed 3 bed/2bath home. Second floor overlooking great room and cathedral ceiling.

Great room features a clerestory that illuminates the front rooms in the home. Upstairs has a bonus room and master retreat has loft/study that can be converted into additional bedroom. Above ground pool overlooking beautiful 2 acres.

For more pictures view our video @ www.VideoHomeGuide.com/media/ 211magnolia.wmv For your personal showing of this lovely property call LaTrelle @6587777 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-4292 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

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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. $269,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550* continued on page 44

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Stay in Your Current Job Keep your employment stable unless it’s absolutely necessary to make a job change. Lenders like to see a consistent work history and changing employers can create an uncertainty about your future, particularly if your salary is commission-based. Also avoid a change to self-employment.

When approving a loan, lenders usually like to see a two-year track record of self-employment income. In addition, self-employed workers tend to include a lot of expenses on their tax returns, especially when initially getting off the ground. These expenses reduce your income to qualify for a home loan.

“When you are approved and underwritten for a loan, it is contingent upon your financial situation at the time of application,” said Tim Doyle, senior director of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. “If there is a change in your financial position, you need to contact the lender, and they may have to reunderwrite your loan, particularly if the change is significant. This can cause delays in your closing.”

Wait to Move Money Around To ensure quality control and eliminate potential fraud, many mortgage lenders require you to document the source of all of your funds. You may have to provide a paper trail, including cancelled checks, deposit receipts and other seemingly trivial data, which can get quite exasperating.

Moving money around between checking and savings accounts, money market funds, stocks, mutual funds or even retirement accounts—even if you are consolidating funds to make it easier— could leave you and your lender with an extreme headache trying to properly document it all.

Hold Major Purchases Until AFTER Closing Why? The biggest reason is to stabilize your debt-to-income ratio, the percentage of your gross monthly income (before taxes) that you spend on debt such as monthly housing costs, credit cards, student loans, installment debt and car payments. A major purchase reduces the amount of income you have available for your home mortgage. And reduced income may convince the bank you can’t afford a new home. Your best bet is to wait for that new car or home entertainment system until after closing.

“At closing, lenders often are required to recertify your loan application to ensure its accuracy,” said Doyle. “If you’ve taken on more risk since your initial approval, such as buying a car or new furniture, or opening a new line of credit, you could put your loan in jeopardy.”

Use a Third Party to Manage a FSBO Deposit Many war stories have been told about For Sale By Owner (FSBO) sellers who spent “good faith” deposits prior to closing. When the transaction is canceled for valid reasons such as repair or financing issues, buyers have to battle for a refund. A better choice is to put the deposit in a trust account and find an attorney or other third party who will safeguard the money until after closing.

Be sure to state in your contract what happens to the deposit if the transaction doesn’t occur.

Keep Your Emotions in Check Most likely you have fallen head over heels for your new home, but be careful not to let Cupid’s arrow lead you astray. Buying a house is a business transaction, and you must have a cool head throughout the deal. Try not to fall so much in love you that ignore major repairs that you can’t afford, while keeping in mind no home is perfect. Avoid walking away from a terrific home because of a seller’s refusal to do a small repair.

Work with Builders and Be Realistic “If you’re building a new home, be proactive and work with your builders early on,” said Bill Watson, Member, Institute of Residential Marketing (MIRM), and president of Bill Watson and Associates, Inc. in Aurora, Colo. “By getting involved early on with decisions such as color and carpet selections, you will receive more cooperation from the builder and a wider variety of choices. And most importantly, you won’t be waiting to close because your dream home isn’t ready.”

On another note, if your new home’s closing is contingent on selling your old home, Watson suggests being realistic about its sale and marketing. “You don’t want your new home purchase to fall through because your old home is still on the market.”

Estimate Closing Costs Well in Advance In many cases, closing costs can be as much or more expense than the downpayment required to purchase a new home. “Always have sufficient funds for closing costs,” said Doyle. “Keep a buffer of extra money as well to cover unanticipated costs.” It’s also advisable to keep in close contact with your lender so that you know what to expect come closing day. Understand the numbers and don’t hesitate to ask questions, so that you fully understand the lender’s requirements. The more you know going in, the easier it will be to buy your new home.

Remember to Hire Representation Chances are the seller has a broker. Make sure you have good representation on closing day, whether it is your broker, attorney or both. Having representation ensures that all bases are covered and no detail is missed.

234-0606 40 Thackery Place 2BR, 1 /2 BA apartment- Spacious apartment (over 1,200 sq. ft. with separate dining room, hardwood floors, kitchen furnished with stove & refrigerator, central H/A, total electric and off street parking. Petfriendly apartments. $625/mo.

4906 Bull Street 1BR, 1 BA apartment located on Bull Street between 65th and 66th. Close to Montgomery Hall and Habersham Village. This cute apartment has an eat-inkitchen furnished with stove and refrigerator, newly refinished hardwood floors, off-street parking, water included in the rent. Pet-friendly apartment. $525/mo.

1208 East Victory Drive Large 2BR, 1 BA apartment with a separate dining room, hardwood floors, new windows, central heat and air and off street parking. Views of Daffin Park and close to Spin City. Pet friendly apartment. $625/mo.

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. Pet-friendly apartment. $900/mo. Currently under renovations.

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234-4406 317 LORCH STREET • UNIT B 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, kitchen, washer/dryer. $1,000/mo.

548 EAST MCDONOUGH STREET Parlor Apt. 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome, living room, dining room, kitchen with dishwasher, wet bar off kitchen, washer and dryer, central heat and air, off-street parking. $1,100/mo.

5404 REYNOLDS STREET 3 bedroom, 2 bath home located across form Candler Hospital, living room and dining room with hardwood floors, W/D conn. fenced back yard. $900/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.

12 WEST TAYLOR STREET • 2B Studio apartment with separate kitchen and bath. Shared courtyard. $675/mo.

210 WEST 31ST STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, kitchen, hardwood floors. $575/mo.

122 EAST 48TH STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath garage apartment, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, gas heat. $800/mo.

Water included.

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MIDTOWN 21 Colony Park- Wonderfully convenient 2 bd, 2 ba condo, new carpet and paint and a great screened in back patio, swimming pool privileges 3 D E. 67th ST.-Beautiful condo with off street parking, 2bd, 2.5 ba, fireplace, den, washer& dryer 220 E. 53RD ST.-3 bd, 1 ba, fenced yard, hardwood floors in living room, great screened in front porch 703 W. 58th ST.- Newly remodeled 4bd, 2 ba home close to the fairgrounds

SOUTHSIDE 90 Stonelake- 2bd, 2 ba townhome, high ceilings throughout, amazing master bath with double vanity, glass enclosed shower and a jacuzzi tub 131 Wax Myrtle- 4 bd, 2 ba home, newly constructed home, be the first to call this place home, community pool privileges included

ISLANDS 237 Andrews Rd- 1 bd eclectic home on Talahi Island, perfect for the artsy type 121 Palmetto Bay- 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 car garage, fireplace, formal dining room, vaulted great room

2003 BULL STREET UPPER DUPLEX Large 2 to 3 bedroom, living room and dining room, all wood floors, view of Bull Street Library. 2-1/2 baths, front and back porch. Washer/dryer included, private parking space. Available now. $1,110/mo.

528 EAST BOLTON STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath with clawfoot tub. Living room, kitchen with gas stove, hardwood floors, washer/dryer connections, gas heat.

Pets OK. Available April. $825/mo.

102 TABBY LANE Bull River Schoals. Unit F2. 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo with view of community pool.

Approx. 1,100 sq. ft., cathedral ceilings. $1,000/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. $1,000/mo.

306 A WEST 41ST STREET 2 bedroom with bonus room, 1 bath, furnished kitchen with dishwasher, window heat and air, includes water. $575/mo.

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Reduced by $10,000! Beautifully appointed Savannah Grey Brick 3 bed/ 2 bath home. Custom built by Douglas Leonard. 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.

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Two fully renovated 2BR/1BA townhomes. A lot of original detail, including hardwood floors and four fireplaces. Each unit has their own off-street parking space and are currently furnished for short-term rentals. Buy them together or separate (they are in the process of being subdivided). Furniture is also available to purchase. Won't last! Offered at $244,900 each.

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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.

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517 E. Harris New on the market: Amost 2400 sq.ft. and 3 stories on a wonderful street in the Historic District. Includes all the furniture and appliances!

Even dishes and sheets. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half, 2 fireplaces, enclosed sun room, brick courtyard, 2 paved parking spots, hardyboard, and more! $515,000. 912 507-9800

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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Sweet renovated 2BR/1bath Victorian just 3 blocks from Forsyth Park! Beautiful refinished pine floors, original mantels, 10’ ceilings, tons of light, new kitchen floor and counters, new pedestal sink and tile in bath, tons of closets and just steps away from the Historic District, plus huge backyard w/offstreet parking. Rent to tenants for $950/month or move right in! Priced to sell at $199,000

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2-car garage & tons of storage. Inlaw suite perfect for home office or rental. Bring us an offer!

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5 Hawkins Lane Landings Lot with Views Gorgeous eastern marsh lot with .37 acres, mature live oaks & lovely views of Tybee and Wassau Islands.

Perfect for stunning primary residence or second home. Island living at its best! $469,000.

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Huge brick Colonial big enough to house a small army offers 6 bed-

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695-7733. $30,000 Take over Payments ($1100/month). 1-1/2 story, Quacco Road. 912-660-5322.

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 107 Whitaker St. Commercial space - basement level.

Brick walls and unfinished. 4764 sq.ft. in a great location corner of Whitaker and Broughton. Great investment opportunity. $595000.

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102 Acres of Effingham Co. Land Great property for residential development.Priced at $20,500 per acre for 57.71 of upland acres.Will yield at least 128 units.County water & sewer on Hwy. 30 access for property. Won't last! $1,183,000 Call Lori Judge 912-236-1000*

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912-429-9600 (We are not Realtors) House for Rent 735 East 40th St Charming Newly Renovated 3BR/2BA Home in Baldwin Park.

Home offers a fenced yard, hardwood floors, Washer/Dryer, New HVAC and Appliances & Off-Street Parking (avail 3/15) $1,200/MO CALL DANA AT JUDGE REALTY 236-1000 If interested in having your home or condo managed short term, long term, or executive furnished rentals call us and we will be happy to find you a tenant. We have many people waiting for rentals right now!!!!

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800* 225 East Bolton St .

Totally restored and brand new, with up scale kitchen! $1300 per month.

Call Rhondda @507-9800* TYBEE www.tybeecoquinacottage.com 2 bedroom/2 bath, 1/2 block to the ocean and walking distance to most everything! $850 weekly, plus tax and maid fee. Call 507-9800 or visit the website.

319 E Huntingdon Lane cute townhouse with 2 bedrooms/1.5 baths, all utilities included, washer/dryer, dishwasher, totally furnished, cable TV, everything you need, including sheets and towels!

Available 4/20 - $1500 a month. Call 507-9800 Summer Rental beginning in June facing Troup Sq. This historic home has 3 stories, exquisite courtyard with 2 off street parking spaces, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all utilities included, beautiful furnishings! Just bring your clothes. $2500 per month, call 507-9800 Charlton Street on Troup Sq. Availalbe for the months of June thru Sept. Will rent month to month, fully furnished with all the furnishings - 3 story home with 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a beautiful courtyard, bricked, and covered parking for 2 cars!!! $2,500 per month. 912 507-9800*

2210 Atlantic 2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, new appliances & countertops, marble accents, new HVAC, plumbing and electrical. Large fenced yard. $900/month.

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Completely renovated charming 3br/2ba bungalow in eastern Victoriandistrict. Hardwood Floors, quiet street, close to Downtown.

Move-in for $825/ month.

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DOWNTOWN 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment for rent. 215A E. Henry St. Within blocks of Forsyth Park, SCAD buildings and bus route. Updated with refinished hardwood floor, french doors, mantle, new appliances, and CHA. Amenities include washer/dryer, off-street parking and fenced yard. $675/month. Contact 912-2345219 for appointment or prodigalproperties@yahoo.com

611 EAST PARK LANE Great 2 bedroom, 2 bath cottage in Olde Mill Village Condominiums. Stainless kitchen, laundry, parking and much more!

Call today for an appointment. $152,000.

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214 WEST 41ST STREET Large duplex on 2 lots, almost 3,000 sq. ft. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath each. Central heat and air, good roof, structurally in great shape. $275,000. Call Frankie at 398-5994 for an appointment.

OLD LOUISVILLE ROAD Beautiful 2-story farm house with over 2,400 sq. ft. on 1.5 acres. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, separate family room, country kitchen everything upgraded, exterior building includes weight room with all machines and workshop. Fenced yard with fruit, pecan trees and grapevines. $250,000. Call Frankie at 398-5994

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paint inside and out, alarm system. Appraised 12/05 $86,000. $750/month for 24-months, 2ND mortgage possible, will pay 5% toward closing costs.

912-844-1403 Steve DOWNTOWN LIVING! Totally renovated 2-bedroom 1-bath, living room, HVAC. 3-blocks from Forsyth Park. Offstreet parking, hardwood floors, washer/dryer, pets ok. $775/month. 912-844-3320

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CUTE HOUSE FOR RENT! E. 32nd Street. Totally renovated 2-bedroom 1-bath, living room, fenced yard, HVAC, washer/dryer, hardwood

2878sqft! beautiful 4-bedroom 3-bath home on cul-de-sac on the Southside. Master bedroom downstairs, master bath with whirlpool tub, family room with vaulted ceilings $1500/month. Call 912-4419597 (color)

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1003B Lincoln Street 2BR/1BA beautifully renovated victorian, all new appliances.

Walking distance to Forsyth Park and Kroger. Hardwood floors, W/D hookup, balcony.$950/mo Call Dana at Judge Realty at 912-236-1000.*

floors, pets OK, $625/month.

912-844-4043 or 912-844-3320 BRADLEY POINT-3 bedrooms, 2 baths, totally remodeled.

Parquet floors, fenced yard.

Convenient Downtown/Beach.

912-507-7304 or 770-435-4708.

14205 COFFEE BLUFF RD. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, fireplace, deck, $750/month. Open immediately. Call Augie 912655-0227.

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TERRIFIC 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath apt. in Historic District. Fireplaces, balcony, central heat/air, security system, washer/dryer, hardwood floors. Ideal for roommates. Available on about April 1st. $1300/month. No pets. Call 912-790-7780.

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Moving Or Improving?

People often move for job or educational opportunities, to follow family, or any number of other motivations. But what if you’re simply too “cramped” in your home? You face a dilemma: move, or just improve?

First consider how long you might stay where you are. It doesn’t make much sense to pour money into improvements if you’re planning to sell any time soon. Potential buyers may not agree with your choice of improvements, and with all the turmoil and inconvenience involved in most remodeling projects, your biggest benefit comes from remaining and enjoying the fruits of your labor!

Investigate how your planned improvements will impact the value of your home against others in your neighborhood. Your home could actually take longer to sell in the future if it’s in the “upper end” of choices. Buyers historically opt for the least expensive home in the most expensive neighborhood they can afford.

Of course, there are many improvements that will add to your home’s resale value down the road, without pricing you out of the market. Visit the National Association of Home Builders website at nahb.org for information about the potential value of a range of improvements.

Regardless of market conditions, your home is where you should be happy. “Improve or move” is an emotional as well as a financial decision that requires deep and honest evaluation.

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2-BEDROOM 2-BATH APARTMENT, gated community on Wilmington Island, $800/month.

Call 912-897-4872 HISTORIC DISTRICT, 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath refurbished historic townhouse. 1300 sq ft, hardwood floors, 4 fireplaces, living room, dining room, back porch/yard, washer/dryer and security system. $1150/month.

Near Whitfield Square, pets ok, call 843-298-2315.

STARLAND DISTRICT. 2-3 BR APARTMENTS. 509 Beautiful 2-bedroom, 2-bath Duffy St. Just updated, perfect apartment. Recently renovated, layout for roommates.

Huge with hardwood and tile floors, apartments with double parlor HVAC, off-street parking. & porches. Includes all appli$950/month includes water and ances & of f street parking, trash.

22 1/2 East 39th Street. $900-$1050.

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DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH-705 E. Henry Street, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Newly renovated, central heat/air, new appliances, ADT security, fenced backyard. $675/month. 912-944-6336.

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LARGE VICTORIAN near Library, walk in closet, fireplace, large windows on 2 sides, mini kitchen, phone, cable, internet, washer/dryer, $140/weekly or $504/monthly. Call 7 days 912231-9464

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Roommates Wanted ROOMMATE NEEDED - 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment on Southside. $365 includes utilities. Available April 3rd or sooner. Call 912-660-9849.

RESPONSIBLE ROOMMATE to share 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. Corner or Oglethorpe and Whitaker. $400/month + 1/2 of utilities. Call 912-604-6545.

Commercial Rentals OFFICE SPACE Do you work from home or alone in an office and wish you had a furnished office with office equipment, a receptionists and close FREE parking; conference and training space to meet with your clients? On flat rate!

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2000 Infinity I30t Mint, nonsmoker, silver, 67K miles, newish tires, heated leather seats, 6 disc CD changer, etc. $13,500. Call 912-598-5124

2001 VW JETTA GLS, 106k miles, one owner, $6600. Price reflects need of some mechanical work. 4-cyl. 5spd, AC, power windows/doors/mirrors, cruise, AM/FM, front and side air bags, ABS, newer tires, clean. Call 912-655-6242

Boats/Accessories 1988 19” Grady White Walk Through Console 150HP Yamaha engine with power trim and tilt and trailer.

Good running condition, $6500 OBO. Call 912-598-0107

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309, 315, AND 317 WEST GWINNETT STREET Spacious, charming condos in area of active restoration. Approx. 1400 sq. ft. with covered front and back porches. Living and dining rooms have brick fireplaces, Fully equipped, eat-in kitchen. Beautiful Victorian district.

Call agent for completion dates.

Southside / Midtown Office (912) 927-1088 Islands Office (912) 898-3600 Richmond Hill Office (912) 459-1088

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Great opportunity for sales professional. Must be goal-oriented self-starter with exceptionally strong work ethic. Competitive salary plus commission/ bonus package with benefits, including 401K. Please send cover letter and resume to address below or email to: sales@connectsavannah.com.

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Parkersburg Court Court –– Isle Isle of of Hope Hope 22 Parkersburg Great brick brick home home on on huge huge corner corner lot. lot. Less Less than than Great one mile mile to to beautiful beautiful Bluff Bluff Drive Drive and and Marina.

Marina. 33 one bed/2 bath bath with with Mexican Mexican tile tile and and hardwoods. hardwoods. bed/2 Handpainted kitchen kitchen floor, floor, brick brick patio patio and and many many Handpainted updates. New Newly painted$283,000 interiors!with $283,000 updates. updates! $1,000with $1,000 allowance. design allowance.

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122 Broughton Street #207 –Kress Building New418 York luxury loft with southern charm.

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Thiscorner 2 bedroom / 2 bathroom loft featwo houses, lot, detached tures 1,422 and sq. ft. of such fine appointments garage, more. $210,000.

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314 East East 58th 58th Street Street 314 This Ardsley Ardsley Park Park bungalow bungalow has has just just recently recently been been renorenoThis vated with with new new bamboo bamboo and and limestone limestone floors floors throughout. throughout. vated Home has has 33 bedrooms bedrooms // 22 baths baths with with limestone limestone shower shower in in Home master, all all new new appliances, appliances, updated updated kitchen, kitchen, pool pool with with all all master, new pumps pumps and and filters, filters, and and much much more. more. Must Must see see to to new believe! Priced Priced to to sell sell below below appraised appraised value. value. Owner Owner is is believe! licensed real real estate estate agent agent in in GA. GA. $248,000 $248,000 Alexander Alexander licensed Grikitis 912-220-1700 912-220-1700 // John John Giles Giles 912-220-1667.

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311 Columbus Columbus Drive Drive 311 Charming 22 Bedroom Bedroom 11 Bath Bath Bungalow Bungalow Charming in Midtown.

Midtown. Oak Oak hardwood hardwood floors, floors, brand brand in new bathroom, bathroom, beechwood beechwood kitchen kitchen cabicabinew netry. Just Just one one block block from from Habersham Habersham netry.

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Shopping 1132 sq. sq. feet. feet. $220,000. $220,000. Call Call Catherine Catherine 1132 Harrison for for more more details. details. 912-856-5582.

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30 30 West West York York Lane Lane High High Voltage Voltage Loft!

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Each unit will include 2 off-street space. Each unit will include 2 off-street parking spaces and the rest of the finishes parking spaces and the rest of the finishes are are up up to to you. you. Call Call for for details. details. Alexander Alexander Grikitis Grikitis 912-220-1700 912-220-1700 // John John Giles Giles 912912220-1667 220-1667

317 West West Waldburg Waldburg Street Street 317 Gorgeous Victorian Victorian home home with with many many beautiful beautiful Gorgeous upgrades. Just Just 33 blocks blocks from from Forsyth Forsyth Park Park .. upgrades.

1,926 sq.ft. sq.ft. Home Home features features 44 bedrooms bedrooms // 22 1,926 baths, Italian Italian marble marble and and tile tile flooring, flooring, new new exteextebaths, rior paint, paint, 10’ 10’ ceilings, ceilings, Victorian Victorian details details throughthroughrior out, and and much much more. more. $320,000 out, $350,000Call CallCatherine Catherine Harrison for for details details at at 912-856-5582.

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216 West Park Ave. –West Park Avenue 3311 Bull Street Condominiums Remarkable Ardsley duplex located on corSavannah ’s newest converner lot. 1678 sq.ft. condominium with 3 bedrooms/2 sion. 1, Features 2, and 3 bedroom floor plans,and stainbaths. include new HVAC less steel appliance package, hardwoods, water heaters, hardwood floors, fenced yard, granite countertops, and manyIncludes more fine off-street parking, and more. lot features.

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Bolton Row Row –– A A New New Condominium Condominium Community Community Bolton Seven fabulous fabulous new new construction construction 11 bedroom bedroom // 11 Seven bath condominiums. condominiums. 827-1,045 827-1,045 sq.ft. sq.ft. Many Many bath fine appointments appointments and and amenities, amenities, including including offofffine street parking parking and and community community pool. pool. Please Please go go street by to to see see construction construction progress. progress. Call Call for for marmarby keting package package and and details. details. Priced Priced to to sell sell from from keting $240,000 -- $310,000. $310,000. Roy Roy Hill Hill 912-844-4000 912-844-4000 // $240,000 John Giles Giles 912-220-1667 912-220-1667 John

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Jefferson Jefferson Commons Commons Be Be the the first first to to own own one one of of these these six six -- 22 bedroom, bedroom, 22 bath bath condos condos in in the the heart heart of of the the Historic Historic District.

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