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Volume 5, No. 27, March 29, 2006 On the Cover: Travis McLain (photo by Linda Sickler)

News Cover

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Fighting hate crimes

Jane Fishman

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Plant swap!

Community

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Tybee campground saved

Blotter 10

From SPD reports

News of the Weird 13 Strange but true

Cover Story 6

Earthweek 14 This week on your planet City Notebook 19

News bits from around town IN ill ill

Culture HoTHo Books 15 Beach Institute special events Theatre Review 17 The Sound of Music Art Patrol

Community 9

22 Exhibits & openings

Vibes Connect Recommends 22 Concerts of the week Music Menu 23 Regional concert listing Soundboard 26 Who’s playing and where around town

Now Showing 28 All the flicks that fit

5 Our best bets for cool stuff to do

Weather 14 News from the sky Happenings 31 All the stuff, all the time Free Will Astrology 34 Rob Breszny’s look at your stars

Books 15

Classifieds Sudoku Puzzle 42 It’s all the rage Crossword Puzzle 40 Mental fun Classifieds 46 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

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Savannah Music Festival: Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience

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What: A zydeco dance party! When: March 30 at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Where: Orleans Hall. Cost: $20. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

What: This dramatic presentation of the Muslim minister’s evolution from militant advocate of black separatism to proponent of racial harmony stars Marlin Johnson. When: March 30, 31 and April 1 at 8 p.m. and April 2 at 6 p.m.

The doors will open 90 minutes before curtain Where: Tybee Theater for dinner and drinks.W Cafe on U.S. 80 and Jones Avenue above Las Cost: $15.

Palmas restaurant on Tybee Island.C Call: 786-6384 for reservations.

Georgia Historical Society Presents Bob Shieffer of CBS What: The award-winning broadcast journalist will be the keynote speaker for the GHS’s 167th annual meeting. When: Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: Free. Call: 651-2125 or visit www.georgiahistory.com.

Savannah Music Festival: Derek Trucks and Oteil Burbridge

Fri, Mar . 31 Sound of Music continues What: Cultural Arts Theatre performs the beloved musical. When: March 31 and April 1, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. and April 2 at 3 p.m. Where: Black Box @ SPACE, 9 W. Henry St. Cost: $15 adults and $10 for children and students. Call: 651-6783.

32nd Annual Savannah Boat Show What: Dealers and vendors will present the latest in boats and boating accessories. When: Friday, March 31 and Saturday., April 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: National Guard Armory on Eisenhower Drive.

Savannah Garden & Antiques Expo What: Lectures, tours, demonstrations, vendors and more. When: March 31 through April 2.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum. Cost: General admission is $10 per day. Call: 236-4795 or visit www.savannahgardenexpo.com.

Music at Midday What: Organist Tim Hall in concert. When: March 31 at 1 p.m. Where: St. John the Baptist Cathedral. Cost: Free. Call: 525-5050.

Savannah Music Festival: Rebirth Brass Band What: This great brass band hails from New When: March 31 at 8 and 10 p.m.W Where: Orleans.W Orleans Hall. Cost: $20. Call: 525-5050 or 2343378.

Savannah Music Festival: Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington & The Roadmasters What: Deep soul vocals and funky guitar. When: April 1 at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall.

Cost: $20. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Savannah Music Festival: Katia and Marielle Labeque and Daniel Hope & Friends

Tybee Theater Cafe Presents The Transition of Malcolm X

What: Derek Trucks is a standout in the world of progressive music, and Oteil Burbridge is best known as the Allman Brothers’ bassist. When: March 30 at 8 p.m. Where: Trustees Theater.

Cost: $10, $20, $25 and $30. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

What: This concert will feature Bob Seeley, Mark Braun, John Cocuzzi and Bob Page. When: April Cal l : 1 at 4 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall. Cost: $20.C 525-5050 or 234-3378.

SCAD Presents ‘Swinging Bridge’ What: This is a traveling literary exhibition comprised of painting, sculpture, short stories and poetry from artist Brian When: March 31 from 5-7 p.m.

Siagle and writer Jason Tinney.W Where: Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St.

Savannah Music Festival: Sam Bush, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer with Special Guest Daniel Hope What: This concert will celebrate the boundaries between classical, world, jazz and American traditional music. When: March 31 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $10, $20, $30 and $35. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Sat., April 1 Native American Festival What: The Georgia Southern Museum will host the fifth annual Native American Festival with dancers, beadwork and pottery demonstrations, plus authentic foods and activities for children.

When: April 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: Recreation Activities Center on Old Register Road in Statesboro. Cost: Free. Call: 912-681-5444.

Savannah Music Festival: The Gospel Truth What: Gospel at its finest with The Campbell Brothers, Sacred Steel Band, The Sweet Singing Harmony Harmoneers, Kenny Carr & The Tigers and the Savannah Music Festival Mass Choir with James Bignon. When: April 1 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Cost: $5, $10, $15. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

What: This world-renowned piano duo will be accompanied by an all-star cast of musicians to present St. Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, Schubert’s Fantasie in F Minor and Mozart’s Sonata in D Major. When: April 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $15, $30, $40 and $45. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Sun., April 2 Savannah Music Festival: Sensations IV: The Soldier’s Tale What: This concert will feature Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat (The Soldiers Tale) under the direction of Jonathan Moore. When: Sunday, April 2 at 3 p.m. There will be a pre-concert talk at 2 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $15, $30, $40 and $45. Call: 525-5050 or 234-3378.

Pianist Donna Lee in Concert What: Pianist Donna Lee of Kent State University in a guest artist recital. When: April 2 at 3 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: $5.

Call: 927-5381 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

Asian Awareness Month Reading What: Four creative writers will read their work.

Poet Mary Kim, Feifei Sun, Man Hall and Thom Hall will share their work. When: April 2 at 3 p.m.

Where: Barnes & Noble.

Mon., April 3 Savannah Reads Selzer What: Armstrong Atlantic State University will host its third annual city-wide read. This year, the community will read and discuss Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, a collection of essays by surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

When: April 3-6. Where: Discussions hosted throughout the month at Barnes & Noble, AASU, the Sentient Bean and Live Oak Public Libraries.

Call: Beth Howells at 927-5218. For a listing of events, visit www.faculty.armstrong.edu/read.htm.

Wed., April 5 ‘Confederate Medicine’ What: The Savannah Grays present this Civil War Roundtable with speaker James Cavanah. When: April 5 at 7 p.m. Where: Mulberry Inn, 601 E. Bay St. Cost: Free. Call: 236-0876. ◗

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What: Organist Jeff Lewis in concert.W Wh e n: March 30 at 12:30 p.m. Where: First Call: 525-5050 Presbyterian Church. Cost: Free.C or 234-3378.

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Victim NO MORE

St. Patrick's weekend attack on Travis McLain sparks new focus on hate crimes

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Lovett responds to charges A DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH OF TRAVIS MCLAIN and his friend Christina Mulligan taken on St. Patrick’s Day depicts two happy, smiling faces.

But hours after the photograph was taken, McLain was lying unconscious and bleeding on a parking garage floor and Mulligan had sustained a fractured wrist.

The two say their injuries occurred because McLain was the victim of a hate crime, perpetrated because he is gay.

But they say an even bigger injury was inflicted after the crime, when Savannah police refused to investigate it.

“They said there was too much St. Patrick’s traffic and they didn’t have time to deal with it,” McLain says. “They weren’t interested in pursuing it.”

McLain, Mulligan and another friend, Robbie Smolko, had entered the Liberty Street Parking Garage on Saturday, March 18 about 1:30 a.m. to use the restrooms. While Mulligan was in the ladies room, a man entered the garage.

“I was standing outside the front bathroom of the parking garage, waiting for Christina to come out,” McLain says.

“The guy saw me and came to me and started calling me a faggot.”

McLain says he tried to avoid the man, but was attacked anyway.

“He started kicking me and beating me. He hit me on both sides of the face.

He hit me several times,” McLain says.

“I was pretty out of it. I didn’t know much about it until I left the hospital and was able to talk to Christina,” he says.

McLain’s injuries landed him in a local hospital, where he had several tests, including a CAT scan and x-rays.

“I had four broken teeth and a concussion,” he says. “I was kicked and hit in many places.”

Because the man called McLain a “faggot” before hitting him, McLain believes the attack was a hate crime.

“I think he thought I fit a stereotype that fits a gay person,” McLain says.

“He didn’t beat me up because I have pink hair. He beat me up because he thought I was gay.”

Mulligan exited the bathroom in time to see the first blow land and McLain fall to the floor, so she tried to pull the man off McLain. The attacker then began kicking and striking McLain in the back of the head.

Mulligan relates, “I came out and saw him getting hit. Everything happened so fast. I just know I jumped on him and we fought each other. Another friend tried

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to rip the attacker off me. He stopped fighting me when he realized I was a woman,” she says.

“I hurt my wrist from reaching up to hit him. Also, I dug my nails in his neck.The cop was agitated that I was crying,” Mulligan says.

“I was upset. I was scared.”

Smolko also was struck when the attacker elbowed him in the face, but was not injured. Finally, the man ran to the elevator. Smolko called 911 and handed the phone to Mulligan, who told the dispatcher about the attack.

The police arrived within minutes, but McLain was unable to give them much information because of his condition.

The garage’s parking attendant began helping Mulligan and Smolko look for the attacker by shutting the gates so the parking garage could be searched before the attacker had a chance to exit.

However, McLain and Mulligan say a search was never conducted and the man was allowed to escape. McLain says he requested medical help because he was in extreme pain, but the police left the scene before an ambulance had arrived.

(See sidebar to read our interview with Savannah Police Chief Willie Lovett in response to the incident.)

After the parking gates were reopened, Mulligan saw the suspect leaving in a black Chevy low-rider pickup truck and pointed him out to police. She was told nothing could be done because the vehicle was already leaving the garage.

Then, McLain says, the officers also left. McLain was examined at the scene

by MedStar emergency medical technicians, who found his blood pressure was extremely high. They gave him an IV. McLain has not yet filed a formal complaint with the police department,

but says he will. He continues to seek medical and dental treatment for his injuries.

“I’m in a lot of pain.

Everything I eat has to be soft. I can’t eat or drink anything that is cold. I have headaches. The concussion is still causing me to have double vision,” McLain says.

“They did ask if I would prosecute and I said yes. We gave the officer a full description of the attacker.

They should never be too busy to pursue someone,” he says.

“The officer was more concerned with the St. Patrick’s Day traffic than with someone who has ben beaten,” McLain says.

“I plan to file a complaint with internal affairs. The police didn’t do their job. He didn’t pursue the attacker. He acted as if he didn’t care.”

McLain said his attacker stood about 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed approximately 180 pounds.

“He was wearing a blue, white and yellow polo shirt,” McLain says.

The incident report that was filed after the attack has factual errors, McLain says.

“They said I was 5 feet 6 inches tall and 140 pounds with dark skin and brown eyes,” he says. “I’m 5 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 123 pounds. My skin is not dark, and my eyes are green.”

The report also describes the incident as a fight.

“This was one-sided,” McLain says.

“A fight is between two people.”

The beating of McLain comes on the heels of two other local incidents this month that many local observers say are clearly hate crimes -- though local police have sometimes had a different interpretation.

On March 5, five soldiers from Fort Stewart’s 3rd Infantry Division were arrested after they beat a bisexual man outside Blaine’s Back Door Bar, a gay bar. Police said David Bennett was punched, kicked and stomped during the attack.

After the soldiers were arrested, at least one bragged to police about the beating, going so far as to call the victim a “motherf****** faggot.”

However, police declined to press charges against the soldiers after finding out that Bennett had stolen one soldier’s wallet.

Further investigation revealed that Bennett was wanted on warrants from Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.

It was a tough week for Interim Police Chief Willie Lovett.

Journalists throughout the state are calling him for interviews about allegations the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department is not pursuing perpeLovett trators of hate crimes.

Even though the heat is on, Lovett isn’t saying much about the allegations -- for now. He has ordered an internal investigation into the matter, however, and says he can’t really speak about the incident “until we get all the information and all the facts are in.”

“This internal affairs investigation is being done at my request to find out if the officer neglected any part of his duty,” Lovett says.

Further investigation also is ongoing to try to find the man who attacked McLain, even though thus far McLain has not filed a formal complaint against the officers, Lovett says.

Reports over the weekend indicated that security cameras in the parking garage may be enough of a lead to identify suspects.

Even though the initial report stated the incident was a fight, that may not be the case, Lovett says. “I don’t really know what happened, but what I’m hearing is it was an assault,” he says.

Even though the initial incident report termed the incident a fight, that does not mean it will not be taken seriously, Lovett says. “Depending on the amount of injuries received by the victim, a fight can be a felony,” he said.

Lovett declined to say if the case would have been handled differently if it had occurred at any time other than St. Patrick’s Day weekend. However, he did say the officers involved were not assigned to patrol the festival events.

“They were nor part of that detail stationed in the festival area,” Lovett said.

“They were doing what they do every day.

For them, this had nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day.” Savannah police officers already are given diversity training, Lovett says.

“Every year, our officers are required to do this as part of their training,” he said.

“They learn that you don’t profile people.”

Lt. Mike Wilkins, a public information officer for the department, confirmed that officers receive diversity training. “Every year, we are required to do three days of training,” he says. “We have had and will continue to have diversity and sensitivity training as part of it.” ◗

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Kevin Clark, who is a member of the Georgia Equality board of directors, heads the Savannah chapter of the group.

“Those of us in the gay community are all really fed up with this. I want to commend the courage this man has,” Clark says of McLain. “It has taken a tremendous amount of courage to come forward.”

Clark says incidents such as the attack on McLain are not rare in Savannah. “It has got to stop,” he says.

“This happens frequently.”

If something isn’t done, the impact could affect all of Savannah, not just the GLBT community, Clark says.

“We have a huge gay population here,” he says. “The organized community is not that large, but we are working on it. This needs to be dealt with severely and harshly.”

Clark is co-owner of Under the Rainbow, a local bed-and-breakfast catering to the gay community.

“As a gay business owner, I fear if it continues, that it will hurt tourism, specifically gay tourism,” he says. “That will have an effect on all tourism, which is our number-two industry. We rely on it heavily.

This needs to be taken seriously.”

Clark says he served on Mayor Otis Johnson’s crime task force. He has harsh words for the Savannah police department.

“We have the most inept, dysfunctional, ineffectual police department in the entire state of Georgia,” Clark says.

“There’s always an excuse and I’m very sick and tired of it. They’re understaffed, morale is in the toilet, they are disorganized and dysfunctional.” ◗

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Chuck Bowen is the executive director of Georgia Equality, an Atlanta-based, statewide advocacy group for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The group held a press conference in Savannah in response to all three incidents that have occurred in Savannah during the month of March.

“Over the past year and a half, we have shifted our focus from lobbying to becoming more involved locally,” Bowen says. “In order for change to happen, we must address the local level first.

“Three individual cases in as many weeks have involved hate crimes and hate speech we feel the Savannah police department did not adequately address,” he says.

“The police allowed the attacker to go free and refused to investigate. An openly gay man was brutally assaulted for no other reason than that he is gay.”

Bowen said police excused the soldiers’ actions in the second incident because they had just returned from Iraq, and also because they were intoxicated.

“The police department completely downgraded the seriousness of the nature of the attack,” Bowen says. “There is no excuse for that attitude.”

Bowen also took local media to task, especially the Savannah Morning News.

“The Savannah Morning News recently issued an editorial in which it said it opposed the state hate crime legislation,” Bowen says. “That is very sad.”

Bowen also noted that an article in the Savannah Morning News detailed arrests made for indecent exposure and public urination that occurred during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

“The police had time to make those arrests, but didn’t have time to look for this attacker,” he says.

“The Savannah Police Department sent a clear message -- don’t expose your breasts or urinate in public or you’ll be arrested and hauled off to jail and the

keys will be thrown away,” Bowen says.

“But beat someone near death because they are different from you, and they’ll give you the keys to the city.”

Bowen says the officer who left McLain unconscious and bleeding should be fired, while the officer’s supervisor should be disciplined.

“We call on the chief to implement diversity training on hate crimes,” Bowen says. “The media have the obligation to tell the real stories. Ask yourselves if this would have happened if it was a woman who had been attacked.”

A state hate crime law should be enacted, Bowen says. However, the State Senate has refused to consider a recommendation by the Senate Judiciary committee to adopt such legislation.

“Georgia is one of the few states that doesn’t have a hate crime law,” Bowen says.

Bowen says McLain is “courageous and brave.”

“A lot of times, victims of hate crimes are afraid,” Bowen says. “He felt he needed to step up.”

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Despite the soldiers’ inflammatory language as quoted in the incident report, police determined that the attack occurred because the wallet had been stolen, not because of Bennett’s sexual orientation.

Bennett himself declined to press charges.

One week later on March 12, three 3rd ID soldiers from Fort Stewart, who are white, were arrested after a fight with two African-American men. One of the soldiers has been charged with aggravated assault because he allegedly stabbed one of the men.

That fight broke out at the corner of Bay and Whitaker streets after one of the soldiers allegedly used racial slurs, including the “n” word, because the two black men were with a white woman.

One of the black men confronted the soldier, who used the slur again, and all five men began fighting.

One of the black men was stabbed in the back. The other was treated for a dislocated shoulder.

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River’s End Campground allows many visitors an entree to Tybee that they would not otherwise have. Over the years, the RVs parked there have gotten quite a bit more affluent, but for those dedicated to the rough, the facility also features tent camping and cabins. The cabins have been sold separately and will not be a feature of the city’s campground, however.

Wolff sees few other changes in the campground’s future, though he would like to make the facility’s pool open to the public.

That would make a number of people on Tybee, like Mary Ann Bramble who has been lobbying hard for a public pool, happy, he notes. The campground has beach access and Wolff hopes to make it easily attractive to kayakers by adding a kayak launch, as well.

Buelterman says the campground will remain under its present management through August 31, “providing the city with the necessary time to locate an operator for the facility.�

Greenspace advocate Rachel Perkins says the property could have been developed as single-family residences within sound ecological principles. But other Tybee residents were concerned about the future of the campground’s forest.

The city does have an ordinance that specifically protects mature live oaks with a $1500 per tree fine for condemning them to the chain saw.

Innovative building designs can preserve trees by wrapping roads and structures around them rather than clear cutting.

For others, the issue is Tybee’s history and traditions. “Tybee Island has lost many of its most treasured attractions to development and the city’s leaders decided that enough was enough,� says Buelterman. “The old amusement park, the old waterslide, and many other unique parts of Tybee are now things of the past. We as an elected body did not want to stand by as another Tybee treasure was lost.� ◗

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THE PAST FEW WEEKS had many Tybee Islanders wearing their black arm bands for River’s End Campground, one of only two camping facilities in east Chatham County.

Rumors that local developer Bobby Chu had a contract to purchase the facility and that it was zoned to allow construction of 31 single family houses were, in fact, true.

But in an unprecedented move (at least on Tybee), Tybee’s city council stepped in and saved the campground -for camping.

The City of Tybee Island has agreed to purchase River’s End from Chu for $7 million. The purchase will be financed with a bond administered through the Chatham County Recreational Authority. The loan must be paid back within twenty years.

Tybee’s elected officials may weather some criticism for locking in the acquisition without first getting public input, but Tybee Mayor Jason Buelterman notes that the purchase is “consistent with the public’s wishes as expressed in surveys, the master plan, and numerous public hearings.�

In the short-run, Tybee taxpayers may pay some of the campground’s costs.

Tybee’s elected officials typically roll back the millage rate every year to keep local homeowners paying more or less the same in city taxes as they paid last year. The city doesn’t need to increase the millage rate to increase revenues, because property values keep rolling upward.

Tybee City Council Member Paul Wolff indicates that leaving the millage rate where it is could provide revenues to cover the campground. “The increase in our tax digest should satisfy our yearly debt service,�

Buelterman says.

Over the long term, Buelterman and Wolff believe revenues from the campground will make the loan payments by themselves. The city’s yearly payment on the loan will be roughly half a million.

The campground grossed $704,000 last year and netted $224,790.

Management costs were $200,000, Wolff notes. He is confident that the city can find someone to manage the campground for substantially less than that, which would increase the facility’s revenues.

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31-YEAR-OLD U.S. ARMY Capt. Eduardo Cuebas was arrested on River Street on St. Patrick’s Day for urinating in the gas tank of a marked Savannah police car. Officers in another police car saw Cuebas pressed against the other patrol car and called him over. Cuebas then ran away, “simultaneously placing his penis back in his pants,” the report says. Ignoring further police calls to come back, Cuebas “began to run up the ramp.” He was apprehended and charged with public indecency, criminal trespass, and interference with government property.

• An officer responded to a Cordell Street address in response to a complaint of damage to property. The man who called police said he was in the process of moving because he had been evicted. He went to the location to retrieve the rest of his belongings, Because the eviction notice was for that same date, he had not moved any furniture prior to that date. The man said that he immediately noticed a very large hole in the wall and saw that the glass top was not attached to his coffee table. The man said he questioned the landlord about the glass and hole in the wall. He said the landlord first told him he didn’t know anything about the damage, but then said the damage might have occurred while the carpet was being pulled out. The complainant responded that at first, he thought the glass might have been stolen, until he found a piece of it behind the entertainment center. The landlord then admitted that the men he had pulling the carpet out might have broken the glass.

• While on patrol, an officer was driving around Forsyth Park to see if anyone was drinking alcohol. The officer observed a man sitting on a bench and placing paper from one side to the other. As the officer got closer, he saw there was a box at the man’s left side and packaging paper from the box at his right. There was a bronze star at the man’s feet and to his left.

The officer asked the man if the box was his, and the man began walking away quickly. The officer picked up the box and saw that it was a UPS parcel addressed to someone other than the suspect. A witness said he saw the man bring the box into the park. The officer caught up with the suspect at Tatnall and Huntingdon streets. The suspect became agitated and hostile.

After some time, the officer was able to handcuff him. The suspect was arrested and charged with theft by receiving stolen or mislaid property.

from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

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• Two officers in the area of Utah and Nevada streets observed a vehicle with a man exiting the passenger side. The man looked at the marked patrol car and made a sudden shift around his vehicle and got behind a van that was parked in a driveway. An officer found the man concealed behind the van. The man began to walk towards the gate of a fence surrounding the property. The officer told him to stop and come back to talk. Instead, the man took flight around the house. The officers pursued on foot and the man was taken into custody. One officer retraced the path the man had taken and recovered a clear plastic bag with an off-white rock-like substance suspected to be crack cocaine. A search revealed two razor blades in the man’s pants pocked. When asked if he used the razors to cut the rocks, the man said he did. The rocks were fieldtested, revealing a positive result for cocaine. The man was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school, loitering and prowling and obstruction by fleeing. He was taken to jail.

• A woman said her 3-year-old daughter was injured at a Waters Avenue fast-food restaurant when a bulletin board came loose from the wall and fell on her head. The little girl was attempting to get bubble gum from a vending machine when the board fell.

EMS responded to the scene and advised the mother that her daughter needed treatment, so she was taken to the hospital. Doctors treated her for a gash to the head, and closed the wound with one staple. The mother and the restaurant manager were given case report number cards. ◗

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

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tree house, 40 feet up, which he built nearly 20 years ago, and which has a generator-powered elevator, a shower and a propane heater, according to a January Associated Press dispatch. (Mr. Kapila Pradhan, also 45, has also been living in a tree, for the past 15 years, but that is in a village in Orissa state in India.

He sought solitude after a fight with his wife, according to a January BBC News dispatch.)

Names in the News Arrested in February in Town Creek, Ala., on drugrelated charges: University of North Alabama basketball player Reprobatus Bibbs (“reprobate,” in the dictionary, is “morally depraved” or “beyond hope of salvation”). And sought in a February shooting death in New Orleans: 20-yearold Ivory Harris, whose nickname is “Be Stupid.”

Unclear on the Concept

(1) In January in Kyoto, Japan, a 32year-old nurse was sentenced to more than three years in prison after she was

Life Imitates a GEICO Commercial: A teenager lost control of his car in Kettering, Ohio, in March, and smashed into a house, causing major damage.

According to police, he had swerved to avoid hitting an albino squirrel (which, unlike in the commercial, did not survive).

Another squirrel caused a four-car collision in March in Mount Pleasant Township, Pa., but no injuries were reported. Neither human was cited by police.

“What She Really Wants to Do Is Direct”: When Tamara Anne Moonier filed rape charges against six young men in Fullerton, Calif., in June 2004, she seemed the disconsolate victim of vicious predators. However, shortly afterward, one of the accused gave police a video of the entire incident, and Moonier consequently was indicted in 2005 for filing a false police report and defrauding a victim assistance fund. In February 2006, Orange County Weekly published several pieces of dialogue from the video and described numerous “scenes” in which Moonier is shown laughing (27 different times), dominating action, ordering certain sex acts and positions, compliment-

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Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently surprised diplomatic observers in Britain in January when he declined to expel four U.K. diplomats who had been accused of espionage. Reasoned Putin, according to a January dispatch in Britain’s Guardian, these four weren’t smart enough to avoid getting caught, and if he expelled them, the U.K. would just send replacements who are more clever.

No Longer Weird Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: (77) The disgruntled debtor who finally agrees to pay, but obnoxiously delivers it all in pennies, or in $1 bills, as William Lewis Jr., did on a foreclosure judgment in Sebring, Fla., in March. (78) The latest recycling laboratory breakthrough that makes possible the conversion of manure, urine or methane gas into a new energy source, as was Japanese professor Sakae Shibusawa’s March announcement that, by pressure and heat, he can produce an ounce of gasoline from 5 pounds of cow dung.

Readers’ Choice A February BBC News story, citing a local newspaper in Upper Nile state in Sudan, reported that village elders had required a Mr. Tombe, as punishment for having been caught having sex with a female goat, to pay a dowry to the goat’s owner and to care for the nanny as if they were “married.” (The story ran worldwide, with Australia’s News Limited’s Web site reporting it with a file photo of a goat, adorned with a black bar across its eyes, to protect its privacy.) ◗

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(1) When the U.S. Department of the Interior was ordered to reimburse lawyers for American Indians $7 million for their successful lawsuit over missing royalty payments on Indian land, the department decided that budget considerations would force it to raise almost half of that $7 million by cutting back programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (2) According to a November Washington Post poll (whose results were published in February), 94 percent of Americans said they are “above average” in honesty, 89 percent “above average” in common sense, 86 percent “above average” in intelligence, and 79 percent “above average” in looks.

convicted of relieving her overwork-induced stress by tearing off the fingernails and toenails of immobilized patients. (2) British dentist Mojgan Azari was de-licensed in January after a conviction for allowing her unqualified boyfriend to do fillings on more than 600 patients. (3) Terra Linda High School (San Rafael, Calif.) wrestler D.J. Saint James, a senior, was profiled in February in the Marin Independent Journal for his sterling record, including a freshman match in which he suffered a ruptured testicle (which eventually swelled to the size of a fist) but toughed it out for three minutes before summoning up an almost-miraculous burst of energy to pin his opponent.

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Because perhaps hundreds of Japanese Yakuza gangsters are nearing retirement age, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has drafted rules for the former gambling, loan shark, and protection workers to qualify for benefits, according to a March dispatch from Tokyo in The Times of London.

Since organized crime leaves no employment paper trail, ex-mobsters must supply a letter of retirement from their crime boss in order to sign up, although local governments are expected to accept as partial proof gang tattoos, criminal records, demonstrations of missing finger tips (the sign of traditional Yakuza punishment for mistakes).

Victoria Lundy, 41, in custody in Chillicothe, Ohio, in January for a barroom shooting, apparently smuggled her gun into the jail at the time of her arrest by putting it inside her vagina. A shot was fired in a holding cell, and according to a fellow prisoner interviewed by the Chillicothe Gazette, the gun had gone off when Lundy sat down on a bench in the cell. (No one was hit.)

Among the places of business particularly affected by Americans’ cell-phone rudeness was the Green Oaks Family Dentistry clinic in Arlington, Texas, according to a February USA Today story.

Office manager Lisa Teague said patients were carrying on phone conversations while hygienists worked in their mouths. “It was very disruptive,” she said.

Andrew Thurnheer, 45, was elected in January as the highway superintendent in Danby, N.Y., even though he still lives with his parents. He doesn’t sleep in his old bedroom, though; he sleeps in his

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Tropical Cyclones The most powerful cyclone to strike Australia in 30 years 4.2 unleashed widespread 3.9 damage to structures and 3.7 crops across the northeastern state of +111 0 Queensland. Cyclone Larry Matam, roared into the community Senegal of Innisfail, a popular jumping-off point for the Great Barrier Reef. Marine biologists said the Category 5 cyclone’s powerful waves inflicted severe damage to the reef, which could take decades to heal.

• Cyclone Wati formed quickly off the coast of Queensland as Larry lost Week Ending March 24, 2006 force inland. But the storm gained only Category 1 island warned the elderly, children and strength and passed well offshore. those with respiratory problems to stay • Cyclone Floyd churned the Indian indoors to avoid inhaling fine dust parOcean off Australia’s northwestern coast. ticles in the air.

Prairie Drought Parts of the Canadian Prairie grain belt have been left so parched by a dry winter they will need regular rains during the next month to allow for spring planting. Surveys show soil moisture is below average across much of Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan, where winter precipitation was spotty. Aston Chipanshi, climate specialist for the federal Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, cautioned that farm water supplies for livestock could also be threatened in the western Prairies.

Dust Storm Fierce winds across Mongolia and interior parts of China created a huge cloud of dust that blew as far away as the island of Taiwan. Health officials on the

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The disaster has left many villages without water or electricity, and destroyed or damaged houses and roads.

Eruptions Mount Bulusan, the Philippines’ most active volcano produced an explosion that sent a cloud of ash soaring almost a mile into the sky above Sorsogon province, 280 miles southeast of Manila. Officials ordered all people living at the foot of the volcano to stay out of a 2.5-mile danger

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• A violent eruption of a volcano in New Zealand’s remote Kermadec island group left one researcher feared dead and sent the remaining five members of the team fleeing the island. It was the first time the volcano on Raoul Island had erupted since 1964.

Earthquakes A sharp tremor near Algeria’s northeastern coast killed four people and injured 68 others near the town of Laalam.

Officials said 38 homes collapsed during the shaking.

• A moderate aftershock of last October’s South Asia temblor spread panic among residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The latest shaking jolted people out of their beds just before midnight.

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A winter of regular rainfall in Spain has prompted the country’s meteorological Wati office to say a second year of severe drought is becoming less likely.

“Broadly speaking, it’s rained about twice as much as last year,” said meteorologist Antonio Mestre. The amount of water held in the country’s lakes and rivers is now only about 19 percent below the average for the same time during the last 10 years. Severe drought and heat waves last summer sparked a record number of wildfires across the Iberian Peninsula and caused widespread water shortages.

Deadly Feast Brief periods of heavy rain broke the scorching drought in parts of Kenya, but scores of starving wild animals died after gorging on too much vegetation, which had sprung up due to the rain. Wildlife officials in Hell’s Gate National Park in the Rift Valley province said at least 100 animals — mostly gazelles, zebra and buffaloes — had died due to overgrazing. At least 40 people have perished in northern Kenya during the recent drought, and livestock are also dying at an alarming rate.

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‘LEARN – that is your liberation’ Best-selling author Austin Clarke is part of Beach Institute author series

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Jan Spivey Gilchrist Art Opening -Gilchrist has illustrated more than 50 children’s books. Friday, April 7 at 7 pm at the Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. N o v e l i s t s J a m a i c a K i n c a i d & Austin Clarke -- Moderated by Charles Rowell, Editor of Callaloo. Antiguan writer Jamaica Kincaid is the author of numerous award-winning novels. Barbadian/Canadian writer Austin Clarke has published 9 novels and six short story collections. Saturday, April 8 at 2 pm at Orleans Hall (SCAD), 201 Barnard St. Novelist Gloria Naylor -- Moderated

by Dawn Baker, WTOC. Naylor’s first novel, The Women of Brewster Place became an instant classic.

Sunday, April 9 at 3 pm at First Bryan Baptist Church, 575 W. Bryan St. All events free and open to the public. For more info: www.kingtisdell.org or call 2348000.

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Legends of Literacy Tour -- TV Star Tommy Ford (Martin, New York Undercover) hosts, along with childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book writers and illustrators, Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, and Ashley Bryan.

-- Friday, April 7 at 4 pm at the Bull Street Library

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X talked about black power, we imitated that, too.â&#x20AC;?

Clarke describes the seminal event of his youth, an adventure he describes as a sort of â&#x20AC;&#x153;graduate seminarâ&#x20AC;?: Going to Harlem in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s as a young man and immersing himself in its political and cultural melting pot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went headlong into the diaspora. I ceased to be West Indian. I became a black man,â&#x20AC;? he recalls powerfully. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For my own salvation I started to behave like a black man. My views about myself were shaped by immersion into America in the sixties.

It was very instructive.

It showed me all the things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed living in Barbados, and more recently in Canada.â&#x20AC;?

Clarke says that while technically Canada was a much more positive environment for blacks than the United States, in some ways thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a superficial assessment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Canada you can rent a room in any district. Nobody is going to erect a cross on your front lawn. People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call you â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;niggerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to your face,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then you realize thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no difference at all.â&#x20AC;?

It was that epiphany, Clarke says, which led him to become, in his word, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americanized.â&#x20AC;?

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IN AN UNPRECE DENTED local literary event, the Beach Institute will host some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest black writers in a King Tisdell Cottage Foundation lecture series called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Understanding the Global Village: Literary Voices of the African Diaspora.â&#x20AC;?

A key goal of the series April 6-9 is to encourage readership of important works by the authors featured, such as Jamaica Kincaid and Gloria Naylor, both of whom will speak during the series.

One of the literary lions in attendance will be Austin Clarke, author of the best-seller The Polished Hoe. Born and raised in Barbados, Clarke has lived in Canada most of his life, always following the advice his mother gave him: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mother in Barbados was always telling me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Learn, learn, learn -- that is your liberation,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to understand what is happening to us and understand the big picture.â&#x20AC;?

Despite his wideranging cultural background, Clarke is quick to credit black America for its contributions to the cause of black liberation worldwide. He spoke to Connect Savannah from his Toronto home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we talk about the African diaspora, really weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about our admiration for things American. Most black movements took their lead from American blacks,â&#x20AC;? Clarke says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We imitated MLKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy of integration. When Malcolm

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EARTH DAY 2006

FESTIVAL IN THE PARK Saturday, April 22 Forsyth Park Savannah Electric/LEPC Recycle Rama 8am to 11am Get rid of old paint, motor oil, batteries, cell phones, printer cartridges, aluminum, metals, newsprint, magazines, tires and used eyeglasses.

Goodwill will also be on hand to take donations of clothes, furniture and old computers Earth Day Family 5K Fun Run Registration Starts @ 9am Run Begins @ 9:30am Join the Chatham County 4-H for a breath of fresh air and a little exercise. This run will feature a 5K run/walk around the park before the festival begins. To register call 652-7981 City of Savannah/Jiffy Lube Festival 11am – 3pm See the Disc-Associated Frisbee dogs (sponsored by MPC), Less Waters, Savannah Electric’s Louie the Lightning Bug, GSU Birds of Prey, touch tanks, and over 80 exhibitors and activities For more information call 651-2221

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“My life in Canada became mean“No one can read Baldwin’s Go Tell it ingless, too materialistic, too clouded by on the Mountain and fail to understand that his description of a storefront in my own success,” he says. “Whereas the Harlem is more about America than it is truth lay in the streets of Harlem.” about Harlem,” he says. “Baldwin Perhaps his most memorable single showed you how America has diasexperience in Harlem came when Clarke porized human beings to give them new – a working journalist at the time – intermeaning and identity.” viewed Malcolm X, whom Clarke Clarke decries the increasingly describes as “the most all-encomnarrow cultural vocabulary of the passing, most important black figure of modern media. his time.”

“We have got a situation now, since For two weeks, Clarke tracked down the emphasis of world has changed with the elusive leader. Finally, when he made this thing called terrorism, that ignores contact, Malcolm X offered him a mere any consideration of ourselves as worthfive minutes for the interview. while citizens,” he says. “We must “I said, ‘five minutes is all I need,’” change this, Clarke recalls. perhaps by protest But when the or perhaps by the interview started, political energy of that five minutes bringing society turned into 53 The Beach Institute has chosen one back to the considminutes, all capbook from Jamaica Kincaid, Austin eration of what’s tured on tape.

Clarke, Gloria Naylor, and Tina Ansa human.”

Clarke recently McElroy and provided links for further As for the had an assistant information about the book. image of blacks in transcribe the Annie John , by Jamaica Kincaid -- a general, Clarke interview. says, “We’ve got to “A student haunting and provocative story of a start resenting our asked me why at young girl growing up on the Island of image as rappers the end the Antigua. www.fsgbooks.com/ readersguides/kincaid.htm only. We cannot volume suddenly continue to be falls off. It’s The Women of Brewster Place , by Gloria defined through because Malcolm Naylor -- The story of seven strong the vagaries of X suddenly white commerremembered he women, neighbors on a run down dead cialism. We’ve got had another end street, who each, in their own way, to understand appointment that rise above poverty, racism, and the there’s a need for same morning for cruelty of men. www.readinggroupguides.com/ Life magazine – another message.” guides/women_of_brewster_place.as p an interview for But while excowhich he was riating “white comThe Polished Hoe , by Austin Clarke -- -already late,” mercialism,” Clarke Clarke recalls.

When an elderly West Indian woman also spares no “So he was calls the police to confess to murder, the wrath for members walking through call results in an all-night vigil that of his own comthe door on the brings together every element of the munity he calls way to the other African Diaspora in one epic sweep. “false prophets.” www.thomasallen.com/ interview. That’s “The Bible says ThomasAllenPublishers/catalogue/ why his voice there are false readingGuides fades.” prophets, and we In 1968 Clarke should look at The Hand I Fan With , by Tina McElroy was instrumental them and what Ansa -- Lena McPherson, the “baby of in setting up Yale they’re saying. In University’s histhe family” from Ansa’s first novel, is all this case the false toric Black grown up, rich, beautiful and successful. prophets are Studies Program.

The only problem is she is also lonely, people like Al Clarke says overworked and unappreciated as the Sharpton, Jesse despite mar“hand” the whole town of Mulberry, Jackson, Harry keting efforts to Georgia, “fans with.”

Belafonte,” Clarke www.tinamcelroyansa.com/ compartmensays. fan/index.html#readersguide talize black liter“We need to go ature into its own back to Leroy niche, “all literJones, James ature is a maniBaldwin, Richard festo intended to define ourselves and Wright. And of course the musicians: our society. We need to look at black litThelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie erature as defining narrative not only of Parker, Otis Redding, Nina Simone,” he black people not only of black people says. but of all people all over the world.”

“We need to go back to the artists, Clarke uses the example of the great painters and playwrights. They are African-American author James Baldwin talking to us.” ◗ to teach this lesson of universal imporTo comment, e-mail us at tance. letters@connectsavannah.com

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RARELY HAS A SHOW had a more Trapp and Liesl’s paramour Rolf (richly fitting name than The Sound of Music. played and sung by Kyle Merritt, a perPlot, character and dialogue all take a former sophisticated beyond his years). back seat to instantly recognizable For some reason, the first quarter of Rodgers and Hammerstein classics this show was excruciatingly slow, with such as “Climb Every actors, lights and musicians all Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” a half-beat behind on their “Sixteen Going on cues (though to be fair, I saw Seventeen,” “Edelweiss,” and the show the night after it of course the title song. opened, traditionally the In directing Cultural Arts lowest-energy performance of Theatre's production, director any theatrical run).

D.J. Queenan wisely chose to The production didn’t take off cast the best singers available until Ray Ellis hit the stage as the and let the acting work itself out, rather dryly humorous Uncle Max. Ellis' focused than the other way around. presence and comic gusto was the catThe Sound of Music is unusual in that alyst to wake the cast out of their colthe entire production depends on the lective slumber. Literally the moment Ellis casting of a single character: Maria, walked onstage you could feel the young nun-turned-governess to the Von intensity level in the building rise. There’s Trapp family. Because Maria is onstage no explanation for this phenomenon, nor virtually the entire time and is the only is there anything else like it in the world. fully-drawn character in the script, a It’s the magic of live theatre, and it’s why casting flub here is catastrophic. we keep coming back.

Queenan is fortunate that Stefanie I’m old-school about casting. Sure, a Selai was available for the role. Not to say good actor is a good actor regardless of there aren’t other talented what they look like, but the young women in town audience also must be able TRIVIA TIDBIT: who could also handle it, Contrary to popular opinion, to willingly suspend disbelief. but there isn’t one who So I admit I became ‘Edelweiss’ isn’t a traditional can match Selai's powdistracted when a group of Austrian tune. It was written erful, professionally “Nazis” in this show included specifically for trained voice and who can two African-Americans and The Sound of Music. so believably combine an Asian -- truly absurd if one Maria’s youthful energy is concerned with historical with the strong maternal instinct the characcuracy. Still, the city funded this proacter must have to bond so quickly and duction, so Queenan can hardly be deeply with seven children not her own. faulted for erring on the side of inclusion Ah, and what of those zany Von Trapp by indulging in the vogue for ethnicitykids? In descending order of age they blind casting. are: Lauren Fruits (Liesl), Daniel Wilson Two more technical notes: (Friederich), Eve Butler (Louisa), Cassidy One, the first act was poorly lit, with a Tootle (Brigitta), Zach Logan (Kurt), spectrum ranging from soft white to cool Blakely Wall (Marta) and tiny Bailey Keith white to operating-room white. Not until as Gretl. Each brings a unique aspect to the second act were warm colors introhis or her role, and all seven work well duced to the palette. I have to think that together. Mark Rand solidly plays the the harsh, clinical lighting in the first act largely thankless role of their widowed helped sap the energy of the performers father, Captain Von Trapp. and contributed to their sluggishness.

A wonderful added treat involves the And two, some performers -- perhaps nuns of Maria's abbey. Queenan lets the deceived by the comparatively intimate sisters have the stage to themselves for black box setting -- do not project some strikingly choreographed set-piece enough to be heard over the drone of numbers, all sung in Latin.

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Together the nuns sing like -- well, But those are minor quibbles, each of they sing like angels, and I just can't say which can easily be addressed in time for enough about the warmly enveloping the remaining two weeks of the run. ◗ singing voice of Tressa Woodard as the Performances of The Sound of Music are Reverend Mother herself. set for March 31 and April 1, 7 and 8 at 8 For those who’ve only seen the hit p.m. and April 2 at 3 p.m. in the Black 1965 film, the stage version features a Box @ SPACE, 9 W. Henry St. Tickets are twist. I won’t give it away, but it involves $15 for adults and $10 for children and the confrontation between Capt. Von students. Call 651-6783.

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‘Silverbeauty’ -- Jody Schiesser’s artistic nudes in black & white and color mounted on oak. April 1 - May 15 Reception Sat., April 1, 6-8 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Company21 W. Bay St.

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‘Thing One and Thing Two’ -- Abstract and representational paintings by local artists Justin Kuhn and Liz Park at DesotOrow Gallery, Starland District March 31-April 5. Reception Friday March 31, 7 p.m., at 2427 Desoto Ave.

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'Walking Through Tomorrow; Savannah After Midnight' -Photos by Adam Kuel through April 13 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception April 1, 6-8 p.m.

Jepson Center for the Arts -- Inaugural exhibitions include: “Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories”; “Darryl Pottorf: A 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.

‘Address Unknown’ -- Solo show by Margaret Edmondson at Iocovozzi Fine Art, 12 W. Harris St. Through March 31.

‘Tribute to Musicians’ -- New paintings by Sandy Branam at Off The Wall Gallery in the 45 Bistro at The Work by Adam Kuel is at Gallery Espresso Marshall House, 123 E. Broughton St. Lesa Mason lecture - Sun., April 2, at Hospice Savannah Featured Artist -1:30 p.m. art history professor Lesa Mason gives a gallery talk on “Tudor Pastels and oils by Robert Isley through Court Portraiture and the Northern April 30 at 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

Renaissance” at the SCAD Museum/ Roger Surprenant -- Photos at Moon Newton Center, 227 MLK Jr. Blvd. Free.

River at 21 West Bay St. and Angel's ‘Surrogate’ -- Joel Jonientz' thesis exhiBBQ at 21 West Oglethorpe Lane. bition displays painting, drawing and Group Exhibition -- Show at Gallery 440. video/multiples. March 31—April 5 at 440 Bull St., features Charlotte Dunlap, Starland Center, 2428 Bull St. Reception: Morgan Kuhn, Cissie Victor and Frances March 31, 7-10 p.m.

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‘Figurative Works’ -- An exhibition by vis‘Art Brut’ -- International folk art through iting artist Jerry Schutte, in Alexander April 30 at The Hurn Museum of Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St., through April Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker St. 10.

‘Contemporary Classics’ -- New works

by Chroma Gallery artists. Reception March 31 at 7 p.m. at 31 Barnard St.

‘Light and Atmosphere’ -- Paintings, pastel, and screen prints by Harriet Zabusky-Zand at Alvida Art Gallery, 7303 Abercorn St. Reception April 1, 7-10 p.m.

‘Three Generations of Pleasant’ – Works

by Savannah’s gifted Pleasant family.

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 MLK Jr. Boulevard through April 7.

‘Behind the Curtain’ – Works of Larry Moore at the Grand Bohemian Gallery at The Mansion, 700 Drayton.

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

‘Africa’s Legacy in Mexico’ – Photo exhibit by nationally known photographer Tony Gleaton through April 23 at the Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. ‘Transfigures’ – A collection of drawings and paintings that examine the dynamic relationships between space, form, and spirit, at the Black Orchid Gallery, 131 Drayton St.

‘The Art of Music’ -- Extravaganza of folk and fine art celebrating the joy of music.

Through April 2 at The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker St. Tues. – Sat., 11 – 4; Sun., 12 – 4; closed Monday. Adults $4, Students $3.

JEA Art for March -- Paintings by Alexandro Santana at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Gallery 209 Featured Artist -- Paintings

by Gwen Flynn through April at Gallery 209, 209 E. River St. Call for Artists: The Starfish Café is seeking tax-deductible donations of art for silent auction at its fundraiser, The Savannah Starfish Gala. Contact Laura Webb at 238-2777 ext 11 or at lwebb@unionmission.org/. ◗

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

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THIS MAGIC MOMENT: Below, Vale Rideout gets a congratulatory kiss from runner-up Kylie Watson as Rideout realizes he’s won the American Traditions vocal competition. Considered one of the Festival’s hottest tickets, the finals were held last Friday night in front of a full and eager house at the Lucas. Other finalists are pictured in inset photos.

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DEL-ICIOUS, Y’ALL: Bluegrass legend Del McCoury and band jammed out Saturday night at the Trustees Theatre.

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GENERAL TROUBLE: At right, Buster Keaton in full antic mode in 1927’s silent comedy classic, The General, commonly considered one of the greatest films ever made, while the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra performs in the Lucas pit. Festival Director Rob Gibson reminded the audience before the movie that the Lucas was specifically designed for silent film screenings with orchestras. A nearly full house attended the screening last Sunday.

PARAGONS OF VIRTUE: At left, Rick Benjamin directs the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, which uses all period instrumentation. On Sunday they played the original 1927 score intended for performance during The General.

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HOPEFULLY YOURS: Above left, Festival Associate Artistic Director Daniel Hope led a string quintet through Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2 and Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, on Sunday in the intimate confines of the Telfair Rotunda. Hope told the audience that the Telfair was the perfect setting for such a performance, and very much as the composers intended. At upper right, violist Philip Dukes basks in applause following the Mozart; at right, cellist Josephine Knight in rapt concentration.

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IMAGINE YOU GREW UP without access to the vast majority of popular music.

No rock, no rap, no hip-hop. No soul, no blues, no jazz, no country and Western. About the only sounds you heard on a regular basis were within the confines of your conservative church.

Sounds pretty dismal, right?

Now imagine that the music played as a key component of your family’s style of worship was every bit as powerful as the grittiest down-home blues, the fieriest Southern rock, and swung like the devil (well, strike that last one).

Chuck, Darick and Phillip Campbell don’t have to imagine such an environment. They lived it. As devout, lifetime members of the House of God, they were raised in a rigid, insular environment that centered around Christian faith and praise.

Forbidden to buy or actively listen to any genre other than what was routinely heard in their congregation, the only mainstream music the 48-year-old Chuck was exposed to for at least the first two decades of his life was whatever chanced to fall into his open ears in public.

However, despite an upbringing devoid of sonic variety, Chuck and his brothers have recently emerged as some of the most celebrated –and exciting– gospel musicians in the world.

“In fact,” says Chuck with a mixture of pride and amazement, “I’m given a lot of credit for updating this style. I even won a National Endowment for it.”

The style he’s referring to is called Sacred Steel, and while it’s been commonplace at House of God gatherings for close to a century, it’s brand-new as far as most of the rest of us are concerned. Based around the haunting tones of electrified steel guitars, it finds dexterous pickers coaxing moans, wails, screams and trembling bolts of melodic noise from their horizontal, slide instruments.

Though Sacred Steel has only been on public display for a little over a decade, in the past few years, its popularity has grown by leaps and bounds, and it has begun to trickle down and cross-pollinate other genres – finding a home in (most notably) the high-octane jam-rock approach of Robert Randolph, one of a few pioneering acolytes.

We spoke with pedal steel man Chuck Campbell by phone the morning after he and his band (which features Darick on lap steel and Phillip on electric guitar and MIDI interface, as well as drummer Carlton Campbell, and vocalists Denise Brown and Katie Jackson) returned from a triumphant run of dates in France and The Netherlands – including a live appearance on a highly rated Dutch TV show.

Connect Savannah: A lot of folks outside the African-American community have never even heard of Sacred Steel before.

Chuck Campbell: Well, unfortunately, it’s not very well known inside the AfricanAmerican community, either. (laughs) This tradition started in our church back

in the ‘30s. Over the decades, things evolved, and now it’s our dominant instrument. The organ, guitar and piano all back up the steel! It’s largely unknown because it was extremely taboo for us to play at other churches or venues of any kind. You would be looked on as not being a true believer if you did something like that. People could always come to one of our churches and hear it, but if any of our members ever sat in as a guest at another type of church, they wouldn’t dream of playing like this.

Connect Savannah: And yet now, your band and a few others play openly – and to great international acclaim.

Chuck Campbell: Around 1992, a folklorist from Florida named Bob Stone wanted to document this style of music for posterity. He got a grant to tape some of it in one of our churches down there, and when Arhoolie Records heard it, they wanted to put it out commercially.

The Florida bands directed him to us up here in Rochester, N.Y., as we’ve been recognized as being at the forefront of this style. This is the first time in history people outside our church have been made aware of this.

Connect Savannah: You play pedal and Darick plays lap. Do you ever swap off?

Chuck Campbell: I started on lap and progressed to pedal, so I stick with that now. I’ve been playing since the ‘70s, and helped adapt the instrument to our style, which is closer to blues than country and Western. Now, I love tradi-

21 tional country –and Texas swing– but I could never play it as well. (laughs) Darick is the youngest, but to compete with me, he went the other way, back to the old style – and he’s become a monster of the lap steel.

Connect Savannah: Being brothers, is there ever any sibling rivalry?

Connect Savannah: I’m surprised there’s that much of a throwdown going on.

Chuck Campbell: Our church got a new national leader around 1990, and he pretty much blessed our going out and sharing this, and having outside people come in and document our ways. It’s funny, me and my family were some of the very first folks to make records, but that was back in ‘87, and we tried to make it sound like contemporary gospel of the time, which meant synthesizers and drum machines.

Connect Savannah: Polka dot shirts and Miami Vice vests and puffy jackets?

Chuck Campbell: It got to be about that bad, yeah. (laughs) People liked the record, but most of ‘em said, hey, this doesn’t sound like you do in church. It never dawned on us to record that. It felt like we’d be doing something primitive.

Now I realize this is a style of gospel a lot of people can really connect to. It’s been embraced by the roots music and

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Chuck Campbell: We’ve sat in and played with The Allman Brothers a few times, and Derek Trucks’ band, too. We got along famously. Greg has just been beautiful, man. When we first came out, people assumed I based my playing on the way Duane played the slide. The thing was - I didn’t even know who they were! (laughs) I told Gregg that I could really her a lot of spirituality in their songs. He told me, “When I’m singing, I enjoy the fans, but it’s just about me and God.” I never thought someone of his stature would be singing from his soul like that. That’s been a major adjustment for us. But now that we’ve played with Al Green, Mavis Staples and B.B. King, I’ve learned they all feel the exact same way.

Now other churches want to learn how they can use Sacred Steel. We’ve made some instructional videos, and we’re encouraging other denominations to add it to their services.

Connect Savannah: Aren’t you worried that’ll dilute the one thing that makes the House of God’’s worship so unique?

Chuck Campbell: There’s two trains of thought to that. One says that God gave this to me, and if he wants to give it to someone else, he will. I believe God gave me this to share around the world, and if it comes back in different forms of inspiration, like meeting good people such as yourself, then that’s the least I can do to show thanks. I’m glad to do what I can. ◗

The Campbell Brothers appear with The Sweet Singing Harmony Harmoneers, Kenny Carr & The Tigers, and The Savannah Music Festival Mass Choir with James Bignon at The Johnny Mercer Theatre at 7:30 pm, Saturday.

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Connect Savannah: Why is it not taboo anymore to play this music in public?

Chuck Campbell: We get many offers to play in bars or clubs, and we take a lot of them. At first it was very strange, but you know, in 1999 we played Morocco, and this whole palace full of Islamists were screaming right along, in Jesus’ name! We feel it’s our duty and a great honor to share what we do with people of different faiths, nationalities and walks of life. This is our way of praising God. Ultimately, that’s our only goal. Not that people have to join in with us. We’re not trying to Evangelize them into being Christians. We’re trying to show by example. If you’d like to join us, that’d be great. Doesn’t Gregg Allman live in Savannah?

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Chuck Campbell: It’s nothin’ but a head cuttin’ contest! In fact, Darick married a girl from Macon, and I distinctly remember going down and playing with him while he was living there. It got to the point that I told our father –who was the Bishop of the Diocese– that we couldn’t play together any more. It wasn’t until this band hit the road that we even considered sharing the stage again. (laughs) Arhoolie likes things a little more raw, and prefer my brother’s style because he’s more old-school, and I’m more rock-oriented. Now, our shows are about head-cutting between me and Darick, and the singers as well. The steel guitar’s always gets everybody participating at a fever pitch, so if the audience winds up active as well, there can be very inspirational chaos.

Connect Savannah: Your band plays festivals like ours, and at huge gatherings like Bonnaroo. What about nightclubs?

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Chuck Campbell: (laughs) At all times! (laughs) We like to say there’s no room for two steels in one church. (laughs) The Sacred Steel has a long tradition of “gunslinging.” It’s always been a friendly competition in our churches, but make no mistake – it’s a competition! Some may deny it, but onstage, nobody takes any prisoners. (laughs) In fact, over in Europe, we were travelling with Calvin Cook, my steel mentor, from Detroit, and it was the exact same thing. We ride in the same van and eat together and love one another, but when it comes to the show, it’s all about reaching a hand out to God and doing your very best for Him. No prisoners.

blues communities. The secular crowds are where we find a lot of fans. They wanna hear that real deep soulful praise.

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They play uptempo boogies, spirituals, rags and grooves, and have shared bills with everyone from The Grateful Dead to The Meters. Prepare yourself for a rousing set of infectious, feel-good, toetapping barnstormers, the likes of which are rarely –if ever– heard ‘round these parts. Call 5255050 or go to www.savannahmusicfestival.org for tickets. Fri., 5:30 pm, 8 pm & 10 pm, Orleans Hall.

Two familiar faces at The Savannah Music Fest for years now, Roberts is an internationally-celebrated jazz pianist (and Jacksonville, Fl. native) who has been criticized by some for fetishizing the past exploits of his chosen genre.

Still, it’s hard for anyone to claim this protegé –and former sideman– of horn master Wynton Marsalis (another amazingly gifted player who himself gets pegged as a heartless anachronist) is anything less than an electrifying artist with an uncanny command of the keyboard.

Even more impressive is the fact that he has been without sight since birth.

Trombonist Gordon, a longtime associate of Roberts who first came to national attention during his tenure alongside Wynton and Marcus in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, runs his own distinguished music school in Augusta, and composed the current theme song for NPR, as Above, Wycliffe Gordon, at right, well as as a new score for Paul Delbert McClinton Robeson’s 1925 silent film Body and Soul. The two men are blessed with the sort of musical empathy that only years of collaboration –and highly trained ears– can bring. Along with a combo that includes drummer Jason Marsalis, they’ll offer up original arrangements of material by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Anytime these talents grace the stages of this festival, Savannah’s own large-scale R & B wonderful and bewitching sounds result. show band, The Sapphire Bullets open for Call 525-5050 or go to www.savannahmuTexas music legend McClinton at this sicfestival.org for tickets. Wed., 7:30 pm annual outdoor event that’s geared & 9:30 pm, Orleans Hall. toward the entire family. The “Lone Star Troubadour,” known to many as the singer behind the ‘70s crossover hit Generally considered one of the top 2 “Givin’ It Up For Your Love,” McClinton is groups playing vintage New Orleans-style beloved among musicians for his impecmarching music (the other being the cable vocal chops and mouth harp work, iconic Dirty Dozen Brass Band), this killer as well as for his knack for penning tunes outfit brings a heavy dose of contemthat defy easy categorization. Is he a porary funk to what can –in lesser hands– country artist, a bluesman, a honky-tonk

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The Sapphire Bullets boast a full horn section (and some of the area’s best players). They flat-out tear up danceable soul hits from the past 50 years, as well as obscure roots-rock tunes. Fri., 7 pm, The Riverfront in Darien, Ga.

Sam Bush, Mike Marshall & Edgar Meyer w/Daniel Hope Here’s another one of those great, one-off “summit meetings” the Savannah Music Fest is becoming more and more known for.

Along with stints in Strength In Numbers and Emmylou Harris’ Nash Ramblers, mandolinist and fiddler Bush founded and led legendary progressive bluegrass act New Grass Revival, which updated the traditional genre with elements of rock, jazz and reggae. Mando man Marshall is a titan of the stringed instrument world who’s worked with David Grisman and Mark O’Connor, among others, and is known for an abiding interest in –and knack for– Brazilian folk. Classical bassist Meyer has been hailed by the New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the... history of his instrument.” This trio was nominated for a Best Classical Crossover Grammy for their 1999 CD Short Trip Home. For this event, they’ll be joined by Grammy-nominated British violinist (and Festival Associate Artistic Director) Hope, who’s world famous for both his instrumental prowess and his willingness to venture outside the narrow confines of the classical idiom. This should be a mesmerizing evening of daring acoustic composition. Call 525-5050 or go to www.savannahmusicfestival.org for tickets. Fri., 7:30 pm, Lucas Theatre. ◗

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Unplugged offshoot of local houserockin’ blues act Bottles & Cans. Sun., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Songwriter and guitarist playing rock originals and covers solo, and (on weekends) with his band The Rock Mob. Wed., 7 pm, The Island Grill (Pt. Wentworth) + Thurs., 7 pm, Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill) + Fri., 9 pm, Jukebox Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill) + Sat., 10:30 pm, The Bayou Café.

The Christy Alan Band Popular rock and soul covers. Fri. Sat., 9 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach.

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Raw and unhinged Delta blues from a captivating and refreshing local act. Wed. & Sat., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

The Breakneck Quartet w/S.O.L. Local organic hip-hop act that offers both contemporary and old-school beats and grooves, with a full rhythm section and clean funk guitar. Of late, they’ve teamed up with Sounds Of Life, an upstart “conscious rap” trio, and together, both acts are exploring the nexus where improvisatory wordplay and loose grooves meet. Fri., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub (Downtown).

Tim Brooks & The Alien Sharecroppers Macon-based Southern blues-rock group led by an award-winning slide guitarist. Highly recommended for fans of The Allman Brothers and The Jeff Healey Band. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Carroll Brown Acoustic guitarist specializing in “Coastal County,” which incorporates shag, Celtic folk, and pop. Mon. - Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

Thomas Claxton Rock covers and originals sung and played with conviction on acoustic guitar.

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Jason Courtenay & Hazzard County Upbeat modern and classic country, Southern rock and party music. Sat., 8:30 pm, Pogy’s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill).

Kenneth Cowan & His Band of Crooks & Perverts Locally-based anti-folk guitarist/songwriter from NYC whose dour, dreamy vocals and almost preternaturally blasé manner reads like a junk-sick cross between Leonard Cohen and Elliot Smith.

Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Eric Culberson Blues Band Internationally-known Chicago-style guitarist/singer with a tight rhythm section, flashy fretwork, and a great new live album under his belt. Tues. (hosts Open Jam) - Wed., + Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Sat. - Sun., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Jeremy Davis & The Equinox Jazz Ensemble Local straightahead jazz and hard-bop led by a recently transplanted Louisiana saxman. Sat., 9:30 pm, Il Pasticcio. continued on page 24

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The second Gypsy Jazz ensemble to play this area in a few weeks, this acoustic New Hampshire string trio is dedicated to the spirit of Django Reinhardt. They play originals, contemporary tunes, and standards by Hoagie Carmichael, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Their members have played with Vassar Clements, Rick Danko and Taj Mahal, and two of the members spent time at Berklee. Great stuff, and no cover. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

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Eat Mo’ Music Instrumental soul jazz quintet (featuring wah guitar and trombone) made up of area music educators. Ideal for dancing or going on the nod. Thurs., 6 pm, Savannah Garden Expo (Roundhouse Complex) + Fri., 9:30 pm, Il Pasticcio + Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

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Harry O’Donoghue Traditional and contemporary Celtic ballads and originals on acoustic guitar and bodhran. Wed. - Sun., Kevin Barry’s.

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High Velocity Popular regional cover band with a setlist approaching 200 songs’ worth of Southern and classic rock, and modern country and western. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tubby’s (Thunderbolt).

Experienced, guitar-playing veteran of the local club scene, specializing in blues and jazz-influenced material – joined by an up-and-coming mouth harpist. Fri., 8 pm, Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill).

JeWop Hyper, bass-anddrums hardcore duo from Florida – featuring a member of the long-gone Savannah underground act Clownknife. With local tongue-in-cheek punk/metal/new wave pranksters Armadildo, and Made In China, an impressive and promising underground hiphop/metal hybrid whose bassist is the nephew of the late, great Jaco Pastorius.

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Established Celtic rock band from Columbia, S.C., that throws in a healthy dash of Appalachian twang. Sat., 10 pm, Finnegan’s Wake.

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

Sat., 8:30 pm, Pogy’s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill).

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Two brothers (guitar and percussion) who –as members of local indie-rockers Argyle– have crafted a strange hybrid of ska, rock, reggae and jamband music, and infused it with manic punk energy.

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Huxsie Scott Beloved local gospel, jazz and R & B singer who’s now back on the scene after an extended leave of absence.Sun., 3 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach.

“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 (w/Fiddlin’ Scott Holton) + Thurs., 7 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (Tybee) + Fri., 7 pm, AJ’s Dockside (Tybee) + Sun., 10 pm, Café Loco.

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The Train Wrecks Local acoustic guitar-based rootsrock trio fronted by songwriter Jason Bible, that offers crowd-pleasing original romps and covers. Sat., 7 pm, The Warehouse.

The Allan Vaché Quintet w/Christian Tamburr This clarinetist has played with the likes of Gene Krupa, Dick Hyman and his brother, the famed cornetist Warren Vaché, Jr.. Now based in Florida, he’s joined by Tamburr, a highly-praised 25year-old vibes sensation. Fri. - Sat., 7:30 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

Voodoo Soup Greasy and swampy Southern-fried jam rock with the accent on soul. Thurs., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

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Local blues and soul music-inspired chanteuse, who accompanies herself on guitar and is soon to release her 3rd indie album of original material.Thurs., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub.

Prolific local blues/folk/rock songwriter who’s toured nationally and in plays regularly in remote outposts such as Los Angeles and Nashville., and whose original tunes have been used in indie films and network TV dramas.. Fri., 10 pm, Jen’s & Friends + Sat., 6 pm, Cobblestone Conch House.

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Local jazz cover trio of bass, guitar and drums whose repertoire runs the gamut from instrumental standards to more modern fare from Keith Jarrett and Wes Montgomery, among others.Thurs., 9:30 (duo show), The Martha’s Vineyard Seafood Authority (above Fernando’s) + Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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WHILE OTHER AFRICAN-AMERICAN DIRECTORS have had to either sell themselves short or simply sell out -- who ever thought talented filmmakers like Bill Duke and John Singleton would be handed sloppy seconds on the rancid order of Sister Act 2: Back In the Habit and 2 Fast 2 Furious respectively? -- Spike Lee has always held true to his convictions.

But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think for a New York minute that Inside Man suggests Lee is on the road to churning out Scary Movie sequels. Inside Man kicks off in standard play mode, with a quartet of intruders -- decked out in paintersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; overalls, sunglasses and masks -- commandeering the Manhattan Trust bank in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wall Street district. Armed with machine guns, these three men and a lady order the hostages to hand over their cell phones, strip down to their underwear and don outfits identical to the ones worn by the robbers. Once the hostage situation is secure, gang leader Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) patiently waits for the police to arrive to assess the situation and listen to demands. After initial contact is made, the NYPD turns to hostage negotiators Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to take charge of the facilitating. In Inside Man, the upper-crust is repped by Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder and the person most worried about the robbery unfolding at his institution. He employs the services of Madeleine White (Jodie Foster), an enigmatic woman who has made a career out of helping wealthy clients out of sticky situations. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely with the introduction of these two players that Inside Man veers away from the expected narrative developments and instead starts piling on the plot twists and character about-faces. While delivering the goods with a thriller premise, Lee is once again more interested in making astute observations about contemporary society, especially as it relates to a post-9/11 mindset. Inside Man doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t delve into 9/11 as deeply as his 25th Hour -- in that film, the central characters actually take time out from the central plot to view the decimated Ground Zero and reflect on the tragedy. Yet racial profiling isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only talking point, as he also touches on the proliferation of violent video games (Russell admonishes a young boy for playing a gore-splattered game called Kill Dat Nigga), the casual racism that becomes more prevalent the further one scales up that social ladder, and the notion of New York as a big melting pot in which no language or culture is unrepresented.

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One irate citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Margaret Thatcher is anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Thatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been torn apart by

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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. Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) is a lowlevel worker at the TV station, yet sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the daughter of political activists who were dragged off -- and summarily

murdered -- by government thugs when she was still a child. She meets V (Hugo Weaving), an eloquent swashbuckler who sports a Guy Fawkes mask and speaks of a regime change.

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? Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission involves blowing up lots of prime real estate (indeed, the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s November 2005 release was delayed partly to distance it further from last Julyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s London bombings), and those in charge refer to him simply as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the terrorist.â&#x20AC;? But when a

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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.

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.

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,

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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

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

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 continued on page 30

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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-year-old 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

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 jumpstart 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 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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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.

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.

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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MS WALK - SAVANNAH DATE: April 29, 2006 TIME: Registration - 9:00 am/ Walk 10:00 am LOCATION: Hesse Elementary Community Park DIRECTIONS: FROM THE ISLANDS & DOWNTOWN: Take Truman Parkway South until it ends. Exit right on Whitfield Ave. The school and park are on the right.

FROM I-16: Exit on Montgomery St. (I-16 will dead end into Montgomery). Stay on Montgomery until it ends at a square. Turn right half way around the square and continue on Montgomery to Bay St. Turn right onto Bay. Stay on Bay until it merges into President St. Turn left onto Truman Pkwy. Take Truman Pkwy S. until it ends. Exit right on Whitfield Ave. The school and park will be on the right.

FROM 516/DERENNE AVENUE: East on DeRenne until Waters Avenue. Turn right on Waters. Cross Montgomery Crossroads. The road name changes to Whitfield Avenue at Montgomery. The school and park will be on the left.

FROM I-95: Exit on 204 toward Savannah. Stay on 204 til Montgomery Crossroad.

Turn right onto Montgomery Crossroad and follow to Waters/Whitfield. Turn right onto Whitfield. The school and park are on the left.

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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.

EIGHT BELOW ✰✰1/2

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 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.

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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 tart-tongued Englishwoman who's 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 as precisely as Wolf Creek aped the slasher film formula. 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.

NANNY MCPHEE ✰✰1/2

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). ◗

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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-in-kitchen furnished with stove and refrigerator, newly refinished hardwood floors, off-street parking, water included in the rent. Pet-friendly apartment. $525/mo.

1314 East Victory Drive Large 2BR, 1BA apartment with a separate dining room, refinished hardwood floors, central heat and air and off street parking. Views of Daffin Park and steps away from Spin City. Petfriendly apartment. $625/mo.

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29 East 34th Street Spacious 1BR, 1BA in the Thomas Square District. Separate dining area, hardwood floors, kitchen with stove, refrigerator, washer and dryer. Gas heat and window air units. Shared backyard, a few short blocks to Forsyth Park. Pet-friendly apartment.$650/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. Petfriendly apartment. $900/mo. Currently under renovations.

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All brick 3 BR/2 BA home, hardwood floors thoughout, sunroom, sits on a wonderful lot with a huge fenced backyard that backs up to green belt. This home is ready for your family!

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219 East 31 st Street Circa 1905 Victorian Home offering over 3,000sq. ft. of impressive details. Triple parlors, 6 fpl’s, crown moldings, medallions and pocket doors. This Southern Lady boasts 5 Bdr., 3 ? Ba. large lot and is waiting for your personal attention. Own a piece of old Savannah . Offered at $435,000.* Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

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1224 East 48 th Street Craftsman Style Cottage located in the Parkside Community. 3 bedrooms/1 bath, separate Dining room and Living room, 4 working fireplaces. Refinished heart pine floors throughout and ceiling fans in many rooms. Rear garden with a patio for entertaining along with additional large side yards. Asking $199,900.

Call Scott at 912-596-8791.

529 E. 31 st Street Recently renovated duplex.

Wonderful details throughout offering 2 BRDS, 2 BA, High ceilings, fully equipped kitchen and fenced back yard. Area of active renovation.

Great investment. Just $199,900 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

404 East 40 th Street Arts and Crafts fixer. Over 2400 square feet of 1930’s charm!

Hardwood floors, 2 FP’s, separate LR & DR, 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 porches. Would be a super home for the first-time buyer or an investment property. Offered at $219,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

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

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517 East Harris St. Beautiful 3 story free standing home in the historic district on a great street, great neighbors! 3 bedrooms/2full baths, 2 half baths, enclosed porch, 2 fireplaces, brick courtyard, 2 off street parking spaces. Walk one block to Troup Sq. Over 2300 sq.ft. for $515000.

Call for an appointment! Sun coast realty, Rhondda 912 507-9800 201 W Broughton Street.

Totally furnished condo with granite counter tops and custom made cabinets. Very spectacular. Large airy rooms, huge tv, a must see!!!! $485,000 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!

Call Michael McCormick 441- 8285 Steven A McCormick Appraisals and Realty*

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!

Call Michael McCormick 441- 8285 Steven A McCormick Appraisals and Realty* 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.

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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*

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 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*

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*

Gated Effingham Community.

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* Beautiful back yard with trees, in the heart of Pembroke. Schools within walking distance. Garage remodeled into heated bonus and separate storage room. New flooring in kitchen and baths. 3 bed/2 bath. For your personal viewing call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4436 $142,900

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Pine floors, 10’ ceil., tons of light, new kitchen floor/counters, pedestal sink/tile bath, tons of closets & bonus room, + huge backyard w/off-street parking. Rent to tenants for $950/mo or move right in! $199,000.

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629 EAST 53RD STREET Fully renovated 4 bedroom, 2 bath, Ardsley Park home. Hardwood floors everywhere, jacuzzi tub, separate dining room and living room, office, 1-car garage with power and water, updated kitchen, must see! Owner/Agebt. $299,900 Call William at 912-412-5517.

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This home sits on a beautiful cul-de-sac in desirable Wilmington Island.

Features include a relaxing hot tub, a spacious deck and an outside shower. The inside of this gorgeous home features over 3,000 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths, a dramatic cathedral ceiling in the living room, a slate entry way and a stunning kitchen. This home if one of a kind! A must see to a

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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.

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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

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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*

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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*

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

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners, (912) 704-3545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com *.

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This home has more than the usual light and airy feel. So many windows! Master bedroom and bathroom are huge!

Back patio is covered. Front and back yards have silent doggy fence. 3 bedrooms/ 2 baths. Large eat in kitchen, separate dining room and fireplace in the great room. Call LaTrelle for your personal viewing @ 659-7777 H-4446 $238,900

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314 West Penrose Drive Sale Pending!

Huge brick Colonial big enough to house a small army offers 6 bedrooms, 3 full & 2 half baths, eat-in country kitchen, BBQ pit, 2-car garage & tons of storage. In-law suite perfect for home office or rental. $319,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners, (912) 704-3545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com *.

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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

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*

96 Cherry Street REDUCED-$210,000 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, office/nursery, laundry room, separate living room, den, dining room, sunroom, new hardwood floors, new privacy fence, new roof, new chp/air, inground pool w/deck, jacuzzi, large storage shed, two-car carport w/workshop. 4000 sqft. covered. Call for appointment, 912764-6467 or 912-210-7196.

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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.

Available 4/20 - $1500 a month. Call 507-9800

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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* 517 E Harris totally furnished, month to month, all utilitites included, cable tv, off street parking, sheets, towels, working fireplaces! 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half, enclosed porch. 1850 Per month. Historic District! Call Rhondda 912 507-9800 14 Fairground Street Godley Park, a gated community with 3 bedrooms/2 baths and 2 car garage! Totally new, includes washer/dryer, all appliances, pool, club house! Only $1100 per month!

Beginning in June! Call Rhondda 912 507-9800.

210 West Broughton Street Totally furnished, very New York!

Huge TV with cable, granite counter tops, custom kithcen, custom condo! 2 bedrooms/ washer/dryer, very spacious. Month to month $1935, call Rhondda 912 507-9800

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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

THINKING OF SELLING? What’s it worth, ask Tom the Realtor.

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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!!!!

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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

225 East Bolton St .

2 bedrooms/1.5 baths, porch, upstairs condo with soap stone counter, custom kitchen, hearpine floors, washer/dryer and just restored to perfection. Must see this one! Great location! $1300 Call Rhondda 912 507-9800 *

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.

Call Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 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

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!

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

Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 907 Montgomery St. Adorable Victorian duplex awaits your arrival. Each unit is 2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, new central HVAC, washer/dryer, new appliances.

Walking distance to Forsyth Park. $850/$900 Call Dana at Judge Realty 236-1000.* 1505 Grove Street.

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

Move-in for $825/ month.

Call Dana at 912-236-1000. Judge Realty.* 705 East Henry 2BR/1BA newly remodeled, hardwood floors, fresh paint, new appliances, off-street parking $750/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 116 West 39th Huge 3BR/1BA duplex in up and coming Starland District! Newly remodeled with 12 foot ceilings, 4 fireplaces,hardwood floors, security alarm, and tons of historic charm.$750/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000*

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

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Ask Tom the Realtor 912-272-6557 Mopper-Stapen Realtors WILMINGTON ISLANDBeautiful low country home on large wooded lot. 3-bedrooms plus bonus room, 2-baths, central heat/air, 2-car garage with remote entry, great room with fireplace, furnished kitchen, huge deck, fenced back yard, $1200/monthly plus deposit, 1year lease. 616 Penn Waller Rd. Call 912-897-6615 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

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Apartments for Rent 123 E. 40th St. Newly renovated duplex, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, LR, Large kitchen, washer/dryer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, 2 F/P, Large courtyard & deck $1000/month Contact: 912-220-1020 or 912-484-5181*

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.

HISTORIC DISTRICT NEAR FORSYTH PARK. 2 bedroom, new appliances & w/d, CHA, freshly painted, off street parking. $850/month. Call 2324750.

Rooms For Rent LARGE VICTORIAN near Library, walk in closet, fireplace, large windows on 2 sides, mini kitchen, phone, cable, internet, washer/dryer, $150/weekly or $540/monthly. Call 912-2319464 7 days a week.

Roommates Wanted 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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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

STARLAND DISTRICT. Beautiful 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartment. Recently renovated, with hardwood and tile floors, HVAC, off-street parking. $950/month includes water and trash. 22 1/2 East 39th Street. 912-658-8550.

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RENT TO OWN! 1108 E. 38th Street, 2-bedroom 1-bath, hardwood floors, new central heat/air, new ceiling fans, new 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.

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VICTORIAN DISTRICT-3-bedroom 2-bath, newly renovated, central heat/air, off street parking, washer/dryer, dishwasher, convenient to SCAD buildings, $1050/month. Call 912-5074637

2-3 BR APARTMENTS. 509 Duffy St. Just updated, perfect layout for roommates. Huge apartments with double parlor & porches. Includes all appliances & of f street parking, $900-$1050.

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Spacious 2-bedroom with art studio, new hardwood floors/paint, fenced back-yard, 3-blocks from Daffin Park. $900/month. 912-234-8654

2 baths, hardwood floors, laundry room, fenced yard, central heat/air, all electric. Pets OK. $875/month. Call 912-8444043.

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