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Table of Contents

Volume 5, No. 43, July 19, 2006

On the cover: Photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher

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Cover Story 6

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Cover Story Summer doesn’t have to suck Jane Fishman Sandy West’s dream City Notebook News bits from around town News of the Weird Strange but true Blotter From SPD reports Earthweek The week on your planet

Culture Books Savannah Ghosts 20 Book Review Keenan for kids 21 Art Patrol Exhibitions and openings 23 Cuisine Czech out this Pooler bakery 19 City Notebook 10

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Recommends 17

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Music Feature Gra Music Menu Local gigs a la carte Connect Recommends Concerts of note Good Show, Will Travel Regional concerts Soundboard Who’s playing and where around town

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The 411 Week at a Glance Our best bets for cool stuff to do 13 Weather News from the sky 31 Happenings All the stuff, all the time 37 Free Will Astrology Rob Breszny’s look at your stars 5

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Classifieds Sudoku Puzzle It’s all the rage 38 Crossword Puzzle Mental Fun 42 Classifieds They call it “junk,” you call it “couch” 39 Now Showing 27

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Thur , july 20 AASU Masquers Continue Meshuggah-Nuns

What: The singing, dancing nuns from the hit comedy musical Nunsense return. The Little Sisters of Hoboken go on a cruise. Almost everyone on board gets seasick, including most of the cast of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which is going to be presented during the cruise.

The captain of the ship asks the nuns to join forces with the actor who is playing Tevye to save the day, resulting in hilarity. When: July 20-22 at 7:30 p.m. and July 23 at 3 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Jenkins Theater. Cost: $12 at the door.

Advance tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, military personnel and students and may be purchased from the AASU Fine Arts Box Office. Call: 927-5381 weekdays from 2-6 p.m.

What: This is a revised encore performance of the City of Savannah’s Cultural Arts Theatre production of the beloved musical.

When: Thursday, July 20 at 8 p.m.; Friday, July 21 at 2:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23 at 7 p.m.; and Monday, July 24 at 8 p.m.

Where: New Tybee Gymnasium Cost: Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and TAA members, and will be available at the door. Purchase online at www.tybeearts.org.

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mon, july 24 Savannah Sand Gnats

What: The Savannah Sand Gnats take on the Lexington Legends in a four-game series. When: July 24, 25 and 27 at 7:05 p.m. and July 26 at 12:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium, 1401 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Box seats are $9.50, reserved seats are $7.50 and general seating is $6. Call: 351-9150.

TUE, july 25 Tuesdays at Tybee

What: Alan Power, research scientist with the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service, Shellfish Research Laboratory, will present Georgia Whelks, a program about the biology, ecology and commercial importance of whelks. He will feature their classification, morphology, anatomy, evolution, feeding and reproductive behavior, as well as the local fishery, and ongoing research projects. When: July 25 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Tybee Island Gym Complex on Butler Avenue and 5th Street. Cost: Free. Call: 786-5917 or e-mail info@tybeemsc.org. w

Summer Concerts in the Squares

What: The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs will present free concerts every Friday in July.

This week, the Sandra Embly Quartet will perform standards. The series has been arranged by Local No. 447704 of the American Federation of Musicians. When: July 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Where: Johnson Square. Cost: Free.

What: This film combines the look of an American western with the power of an ancient Greek tragedy. It is set in a Moravian village under German Protectorate in the summer of 1943. Sekal is the illegitimate son of one of the village elders. Shunned and ridiculed by his community, he sees the war as a long-awaited opportunity to pay back his abusers, so he collaborates with the Gestapo as their informant and becomes the most feared man in the village. This Czech-Polish production has won several Polish and Czech film awards, but is virtually unknown in the United States When: July 21 at 7:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5. Call: 232-4447.

Reel Savannah Presents Look Both Ways

What: This black comedy from Australia mixes animation and live action. It follows the misadventures of Meryl, a woman who imagines disaster everywhere. One day, she witnesses a real accident that connects her to the lives of others affected by the tragedy, among them Nick, a photographer emotionally inhibited by his own fears. The film won four Australian Academy Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. When: July 23 at 7 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $7.

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5th Annual Southern Isles Bodybuilding and Figure Championships

What: Does the next Arnold Schwarzenegger live in Savannah? This annual bodybuilding contest also offers door prizes to some lucky attendees, including a stay at the Forsyth Park Inn. When: Pre-judging begins at 10 a.m. and the finals/show is at 7 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Call: Tony or Mary Ann at 897-1263.

Savannah Film Society Presents Philadelphia Story

What: This film from 1940 stars Cary Grant and James Stewart When: July 22 at 7 p.m.. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $6. Call: 525-5050 or visit www.lucastheatre.com or www.trusteestheater.com.

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by Robin Gunn

Midsummer in the garden of good and evil

How we learned to stop complaining and love summer in Savannah

is.

The Savannah Music Festival. The SCAD Film Festival. St. Patrick’s Day. The Telfair Art Fair.

The food festivals—Greek, Jewish, Asian, Seafood.

The list of things to do in Savannah seems to go on forever—from September until the end of May, that

Just past Memorial Day, the activity ceases, or so the Savannah lore goes. From early June through mid August, Savannah’s pace drops from slow to slower, with July seeming to be the ebb tide of the year-round tsunami of area events. Anything that might happen in late August is just a warm up for the real action, which commences after Labor Day. Never mind that this very magazine bursts at the seams each Wednesday all through the summer with bands, art shows, theater performances, and community groups from the Audubon Society to Yogalates classes. The legend of “There’s Nothing to Do in Savannah in the Summer” is as firmly planted in this town as the statue of the Waving Girl. The paradox of this Savannah myth is that “doing nothing” is the truest form of summertime entertainment in these parts.

(And by the way, don’t let anyone tell you that by mid-July summer is nearly over. Everyone who’s spent a summer season in coastal Georgia knows the truth—for us it’s the longest season of the year. The school kids may go back to class in August, but for the rest of us, the calendar says that September 21 is the first day of fall, and around here the weather actually abides by that timetable.)

In Savannah, we are not sheepish about our do-nothing midsummer “activities,” but neither do we embrace them pridefully. The most skillful local artisans of summer nothingness practice their craft with an understated grace. The trick to doing nothing is to approach the art with just a touch of creativity, but not too much energy, lest the Zen of nothingness be inadvertently swallowed up in mild frenzy.

Here, then, is a short primer to aid any “do nothing” novices, or a review guide for readers with some experience who may be feeling rusty in their “no-it-all” summer livin’ skills.

As a practice run, take this paper, head to Café Ambrosia or the Legion, and have a beverage. Just one.

Don’t delay—why put off until tomorrow what you can not do today?

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In early June, with two months of summer break stretching out in front of her, Savannah kindergarten teacher Jane Camacho had some time on her hands.

“When school let out I was thinking, ‘What can I do other than taking courses and workshops?’ “ “I was riding down the road and I saw a Meals on Wheels van, and I thought, ‘I can do that.’

“I went in the next day [to Senior Citizens, Inc.] and filled out an application. I was trained a couple of days later and then I was on my own.”

Now Camacho spends about an hour each Wednesday and Friday delivering hot lunches to elderly people who live in the Ardsley Park and Rendant Avenue neighborhoods.

She is covering Meals on Wheels routes that are regularly served by volunteers who are out of town this summer. For Savannahians looking for a useful break from the strain of doing nothing all season, filling in for vacationing volunteers is a sure fire win-win.

“That’s our biggest summer need,” says Tim Rutherford, Vice President of Senior Citizens, Inc, the agency that operates the Meals on Wheels program. “We have lots of regular route drivers who go on vacation.”

Meals on Wheels isn’t the only seasonal volunteer opportunity available through Senior Citizens. Rutherford notes that their summer projects run the gamut “from administrative help in the building to mowing a senior’s lawn to painting projects to helping out at our adult day care center.”

Camacho likes the fact that Meals on Wheels volunteer routes are designed to be doable in under an hour. “It’s a short period of time. It doesn’t mess up your day,” she says. “You’re automatically smiling because everybody is so appreciative.

Sometimes you get a hug. Sometimes you get a story.”

“The other aspect of Meals on Wheels beyond the nutrition is that our volunteers are often the only point of contact for the seniors,” says Rutherford. The volunteer training includes information on signs indicating the senior is in trouble. If problems come up, volunteers are armed with phone numbers for the clients and for Senior Citizens staff.

“During the training the staff go with you on the route,” says Camacho.

“They introduce you to the people, give you telephone numbers for contacts. It’s all very organized so we know what we are giving to everybody.

“It’s great fun. You’re always greeted with a smile and you leave with a thank you. I’m enjoying it more than I expected I would enjoy it.”

In early August, Camacho will turn in her route slips and return to Esther S. Tim Rutherford Garrison Elementary School to prepare for the 2006-2007 school year, but she’s not saying goodbye for too long. “I plan to do it again next year,” she says.

Contact Meals on Wheels through Senior Citizens, Inc. Darla Cady, Volunteer Coordinator.

236-0363.

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Acting cool

Rachel Green and Lynda Mock at the JEA Pool

In a city of great air conditioners, one theatre’s chilly history

themselves tak ing to the water at the JEA

Case studies in doing nothing are plentiful at the beach or at poolside.

Sitting and sipping, talking with friends, then slipping into the water for a quick cool down is de rigueur Savannah summer activity.

Sound relaxing? For adults who don’t know how to swim, this seemingly easy activity can be anything but restful. This summer two friends have turned their aversion to the water into a call to action.

When Rachel Green and Lynda Mock found out they’d be heading off to Boy Scout camp in July with their sons, they decided they’d better use their summer to learn how to swim. They were worried that as chaperones they might have to take the required swimming test that is administered to all the campers.

“We decided we needed to work on our strokes,” says Green, a 45-year-old art professor at Armstrong Atlantic State University. “I was a beginner. I could dog paddle. That was about it.”

“We both sort of knew how to swim,” says Mock, 40, the CFO of Power Brake and Wheel in Savannah. “We knew how to keep ourselves afloat, but neither one of us had any formal training. I grew up at the beach, but you never swim laps at the beach.”

“I was a major beginner,” Mock adds. “I could hold my breath and get through the water but as far as any formal training, I hadn’t [had any].”

Through other parents, Green heard that adult swim lessons were offered by appointment at the Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) on Abercorn Street.

The series of four 30-minute classes are typically taught one on one, instructor to student, for four consecutive weeks. Green and Mock decided to take the classes together. After completing their first class series, the women signed up for a second; they have one class left before they head out of town. They try to practice swimming every week, and both plan to continue lessons after they return from camp. As a result of their efforts, each woman has progressed from being unable to swim a lap to being able to swim eight or ten laps.

“If you’re going to live in Savannah you need to learn how to swim,” says Drew Edmonds, the JEA’s sports and wellness director. “There’s too much water around.”

Of the six or so adult students they teach each month, “we’re getting a lot of beginners,” says Edmonds.”People who have never been in the water, who are afraid of the water. The people who were afraid, they could never put their head under the water. They come out of the sessions losing that fear.”

Prior to swim classes, “I had a little nervousness about going in over my head,” says Green, “but I jumped in over my head today and it worked out fine.”

“Being a teacher, I’m all for learning things you don’t know how to do,” adds Green. “My teacher [Irene Daigle] says the same things to me that I say to my art students: ‘Believe you can do it and you can. Make that effort and practice.’

It’s all the same principles.”

“We have the most wonderful coach,” says Mock. “She relates to us very well.

She’s very patient.

“I’ve been very apprehensive about swimming over the years,” adds Mock.

“It has really been a liberating thing. I enjoy it so much and physically it has made me feel so much better. I think it’s been a great mental health thing as well. It relieves a lot of stress.”

Says Green, “It’s a good thing to try. My father died in May. When that happens it’s so hard, and then you feel a little bit like you don’t want to try new things, just a little diminished. This has helped to tell me I can do something new.”

Contact Drew Edmonds at the JEA to schedule adult swim classes for members or non-members. 355-8111.

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On July 19,1956, the high temperature in Savannah was 95 degrees, according to the National Weather Service daily summary. On that same date in 1966, the Coastal Empire experienced a veritable cold snap, with temperatures topping out at a frigid 89 degrees. Last year’s July 19 hit 93 degrees, and the all time record high for this date was noted in 1986 when the mercury climbed to 104.

Savannah’s sweltering summers are nothing new but that doesn’t stop the locals from talking about it. What has changed in the past 50 years is the number of indoor spaces in which Savannahians (and unsuspecting tourists visiting from cooler climes) can seek respite from the one-two punch of high temperatures and high humidity.

Asking to name the Savannah building with the best air conditioning system is a difficult riddle to answer. A long roster of public spaces lists contenders for the prize.

The Bull Street Library and the Oglethorpe Mall are two potential winners that offer other attractions besides chilly air—namely, stuff to borrow and stuff to buy.

Most any grocery store is bound to be nominated, with a special nod to the Red and White on Habersham Street. A posthumous hall-of-fame award is in order for the nowclosed Smith Brothers’ on Habersham; in its day the check out clerks wore thick cardigans all summer long to counter the frosty air from the open freezers.

More recently constructed candidates for best local AC? The condensation-coated windows at Savannah Mall’s Target Store warn approaching shoppers that a deep freeze lies ahead.

In downtown Savannah, the Jepson Center for the Arts children’s gallery’s extra-cool temperatures defy the laws of physics in a building constructed almost entirely of heat-magnifying glass.

But the top prize in Savannah’s “Best AC” contest must go to the Lucas Theater on Abercorn. Not only does the theater stay cool with a consistent kick, it also is home to the most famous condenser in town.

Built by Arthur Lucas in 1921, the theater claims to be the first in the south, and one of the earliest in the United States, to be constructed with air conditioning.

“They boasted of that because it was a way to get people into the theater,” says T. Mills Fleming, a Savannah attorney who is the former president of the Lucas Theater for the Arts, and a great grandson of Arthur Lucas. “I don’t know if we could 100 percent verify that, but we found that claim in some old placards and advertisements.”

The system was state-of-the-art in its design, and many components of that original system are in use in the restored theater.

“When we were redoing the theater we could still use the original duct work,” says Fleming, who spearheaded the theater’s restoration and is the unofficial authority on all things Lucas.

“It was sheet metal that had been wrapped with cork board as the insulation. There wasn’t anything wrong with it.”

Part of the original cooling system is a giant fan above the domed ceiling that operated like a heat pump, pulling hot air out of the theater so that the cooler air could come in.

“It’s about a ten-foot diameter fan. It’s so well-calibrated you can move it with your pinky,” says Fleming.

Necessary elements of the AC system like pipes to carry cool air and ventilation registers were incorporated into the decorative design of the theater, notes Fleming.

“When they talk about LEEDS [environmental design] awards, well the Lucas Theater had this hands down, just because of the way it was built. Those guys knew what they were doing,” says Fleming.

“The Lucas is to air conditioning what the Owens Thomas House is to plumbing.”

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The road to nowhere These teenage brothers came 500 miles to do nothing on Tybee

It’s nearly noon on a Wednesday, and Kelsey Parker and Justin Wright have just stirred from their tent at the Rivers’ End Campground on Tybee Island. The Chesapeake, Va., teenagers are stepbrothers who are part of a 50-person family reunion spending a week at the beach.

Most of the family is staying together in a house near the main curve on Butler Avenue, but Kelsey, Justin, their parents and their eleven-year-old sister Gabi have opted for the shady, quiet campground at the north end of the island.

“I love this place,” says Justin. “It’s nice to get away.” The 18-year-old graduated from high school earlier this year and will head to Lackland Air Force base for basic training in September. Kelsey, at 17, is a rising high school senior.

This is the family’s second consecutive year at Tybee. After their visit last year the young men couldn’t wait to come back.

In describing their typical Tybee schedule, it’s clear they’re spending their time doing what many island visitors and residents do. Not a lot.

“This is our day. We wake up…whenever,” says Justin.

“Eleven or twelve,” says Kelsey.

“We go out and find something to eat,” continues Justin. “We go to the beach. We pick up girls.”

“We go find something else to eat,” adds Kelsey.

“At some point we go the house where the rest of the family is staying,” says Justin. “Then we do typical teenager night-life Top: Kelsey Parker and Justin type things. We don’t usually come back to the campsite until like four in the morning, which is why we get up so late.”

Wright at their campsite at River’s End For these guys, the fluid schedule is what makes the 500-mile trip from home worthwhile. “We don’t get bored,” says Justin.

Campground on Tybee Island; bottom, “We have no concept of time. Yesterday when we left the beach, I said ‘What time is it?’ It was like 8:00 p.m. We’d been there all day. This sister Gabi Wright joins them is the kind of place if you’re going to come here, you’re not going clubbing.”

“If you want all that upbeat stuff, go to L.A.,’ says Kelsey.

The family rents bikes for the week for their main mode of island transportation. The boys sleep in a tent and the rest of the family stays in their pop-up travel trailer. For about $400 for the week, the entire family has a place to stay that includes showers, restrooms, cable TV and electricity hook ups, water, and recreational amenities.

The electricity powers an air conditioner and other appliances in the travel trailer, says John Wright, a City of Norfolk firefighter who is father to Justin and step-father to Kelsey.

“He’s not really camping!” say the teens.

The boys’ wardrobe needs are simple. “I wear my bathing suit all week,” says Justin, “because no matter where I go I might be getting in the water.”

Although the duo is enthusiastic about their island experiences, their stories lack a certain level of detail, as if trying to avoid self-incrimination in front of John. For his part, he doesn’t seem too worried about them getting in harm’s way. “I think they’re safe down here—perhaps a little safer now that Justin is headed off the Air Force. He’s having to be a little more careful.”

When asked to elaborate, John smiles. “I really don’t want to know,” he says. “What happens on Tybee stays on Tybee.”

Robin G unn

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She reads, she sells, by the seashore

Summer reading’s not just for kids anymore

Summer Reading. By uttering those two simple words, an adult with a sadistic streak can ruin any teenager’s July mood and cause grown ups to grimace with painful school day memories. Nothing takes the fun out of diving into a book like being told you have to do so—not to mention the dreary reporting postscript that most middle and high schools mandate for their students’ so-called summer free time.

Between the tedium of cranking out the book report and the tendency for many teens to emulate the seize-the-day grasshopper instead of the plan-ahead ant, (causing some to attempt a multi-book reading marathon in the last week before classes) the ages-old vacation reading assignment may have done more to boost the sales of Cliffs Notes “study guides” than any other event.

And the internet has infinitely expanded the ways that 21st century students can access “supplemental information” to help them better understand the required literature.

The sad reality of summer reading is that most of the novels selected for that dubious honor are truly good books. When read without the prejudice that accompanies their assigned status, most hook the reader from the first page.

Many have a nearly universal appeal. Some of these books were the Harry Potters and Da Vinci Codes of their day, living their lives as magazine serials or bestsellers before they were awarded with the mixed-blessing “classic” label.

Since most novels on assigned lists were written for adults instead of teens, a twenty-something or mid-life reread of a classic will probably clarify details that didn’t make sense in 10th grade, and the experience might just prove to be…well… fun. With no mandate, no deadline, and no homework, there’s no reason not to pick up that long forgotten Hemingway novel instead of another John Grisham.

Besides, if over 15 years has passed since your last glance at Pride and Prejudice or A Tale of Two Cities, a lot of your memories of the story are probably hazy.

Savannah’s original book lady, the late Anita Raskin, was quoted as saying “It’s a new book if you haven’t read it.” Go ahead and reread one of your summer book list titles. It’s also a new book if you can’t remember it.

Some classics to read again

Here’s a list of the top five summer reading selections required by public and private schools in the Savannah area, as identified in an unscientific survey by the staff of E. Shaver, Bookseller, in downtown Savannah.

1. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. 2. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

3. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.

4. The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck.

5. Night, by Elie Wiesel.

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, is a close sixth place, they say, and stands out as the only book mentioned that was written in the 21st century. w

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Sandy West’s travels with Hermes This is a book about friendship, curiosity and expansiveness. it’s about two women with active minds, busy imaginations and antennae that extend in every direction. It’s about two friends who never stop wondering, never stop marveling or shaking their heads, never stop piecing together clues about their time on the planet.

Reading between the lines, we surmise these are two upper class women with rich husbands, perfect children, multiple homes, multiple staffs of workers, societal responsibilities. But there is none of that in this book because it’s not the ironed slacks, fine hats, leather gloves and matching pocketbooks that define these women.

What gets their attention is what goes on between the ears, what raises the hair on the back of their necks, what causes their stomachs to flutter. That’s what they’re about.

The motif for the book is travel, for which they obviously have the resources, the inclination, the desire. At a suggestion from either woman they might end up in Jamaica, Montreal, Nova Scotia, Santa Fe, Key West, Bermuda.

But this is no travel book. It’s not where they go that’s interesting but what happens to them when they get there, what particular thing catches their fancy. And finally -- and this is what makes them so extraordinary -- what they do with what they see, how they pursue what they call “symbols� and where, intellectually, their paper chase takes them.

In their search for serendipity or meaning, be it rainbows, circles, unicorns, sneezing, bells, labyrinths, harlequins or coral, they are relentless. Wherever they are, they will immediately retire to the closest library or duck into the nearest book store to research the symbolic meaning of whatever they perceive is dogging them.

Theirs is a life of mischief, tricksters, belly-laughs, discovery and enlightenment. Along the way they become intimate with characters in mythology (especially Hermes), the field of alchemy, the extent of androgyny. Modern science, they would both agree, especially physics and chemistry, is enemy No. 1.

Without saying it, how they lived is exactly what Shakespeare’s Hamlet had in mind when he said, “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.�

Now for the title. “God of the Hinge� is a reference to a Walt Whitman line in “Song of Myself.� “Cloud Cuckoo Land� comes from Aristophanes’ play, The Birds, and refers to the idealistic state between heaven and earth. w

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For years Sandy West has been talking about the book she was writing with her good friend and soul mate, Elizabeth Pool, who happens to be her sister-in-law.

I’d ask about the book but never really got an answer I could understand, particularly -- make that especially -- when I’d hear the title: The God of the Hinge: Sojourns in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Still curious, I’d try another line of questioning, but it’s hard to tie Sandy West down. At age 93, she doesn’t have to do anything, answer to anyone or make the least bit of sense if she doesn’t want to.

So I gave up. It’s probably some nature book, I thought. Something about pigs or dogs or horses, all pals and/or best friends of Sandy’s from her decades on Ossabaw Island, a barrier island of some six inhabitants off the coast of Georgia that Sandy owned with her family before donating it to the state of Georgia.

Something about the politics of giving away an island to a governmental body.

There’s not exactly much precedent for that. Or the stipulations she attached to the deal.

Or maybe it’s a book about all the brilliant people who have spent time there -- artists, scientists, writers -- because the woman is generous to a fault, always encouraging, inviting, inspiring people to experience (for a time) life without electricity, telephones, garbage trucks, bills, locks, even doors. She has something great -- not fancy, but great -- and she wants to share it with people who use their minds, their hands, their imaginations.

Yes. That’s it. It’s a book about famous people and what can happen if they get away from the familiar.

Except Sandy isn’t like that. She’s not a name-dropper. She’s not easily impressed.

And for all the wealth she came from in Grosse Point, Mich., she’s doesn’t seem to give a rat’s ass for people with money, unless they have something interesting to say.

Otherwise she’d just as soon find a shady spot near her house on Ossabaw Sound and using the backside of her pig Mrs. Musgrove as a pillow enjoy a good read and maybe a vodka martini a few hours later.

If anything, I thought, once I got the book in my hands, it’ll be a nostalgic memoir about a century past when good and evil were a little more easily defined, when people acted a little more civilly toward one another (regardless of how they felt).

Like Sandy’s house on Ossabaw, it would tell of safaris, cruises, family jaunts.

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Jack Kingston: pretty fly for a white guy

The regular weekly “Frantic Rabbit” poetry slam took over the Sentient Bean this past Thursday night, featuring poets from the Art Amok collective. At left, Clinton Powell warms up the crowd, seen at right issuing judgement for a slammer (this particular poet seems to have been awarded a range from 8.5 to 10). The three poets down the page are, from top to bottom: organizer Rushelle Frazier, local poet Stoney, and Arts Amok’s Jessica Hand.

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Area Congressman Jack Kingston (R1st District) was the only Republican in Georgia’s congressional delegation to vote in favor of a full extension of the Voting Rights Act last week, joining such unlikely political bedfellows as Democrats John Lewis and Cynthia McKinney.

There had been an effort — voted down overwhelmingly — by some Southern GOP lawmakers to change provisions of the law, chiefly in order to relax federal electoral supervision. With the exception of Kingston, all of Georgia’s GOP representatives voted against the full extension of the historic civil rights legislation, first passed in 1965.

“The Voting Rights Act is fluid. It evolves, it changes,” Kingston said in a floor speech supporting reauthorization.

“This is the first time we’ve been voting on it in 25 years.... This is going to impact lots and lots of minorities,” he said. “We tend to think of this as black vs. white. There’s a huge growing Hispanic population that is almost totally removed from this argument today. Those are the ones ten years from now that this will have the most impact on.” w

girls that twirl will rule the world The national baton-twirling championship provided a week of entertainment in the cool confines of the Civic Center. At left, Encore from Sacramento, Calif., performs, while below, a twirler with Illusions from Arnold, Md., prepares backstage.

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Can’t Possibly Be True

During his 17 months’ federal incarceration in Atlanta, Wayne Milton sneaked out nights at least 50 times in order to continue the high-stakes mortgage-fraud business that had landed him in jail in the first place. In May, he received a fresh, 20year sentence for having bribed the prison guards who allowed his freedom. The smooth-talking Milton (who deftly quoted the Bible, preying on small-town preachers in the South) is such a relentless promoter that within days of his re-incarceration, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitutional report, he was secretly recorded on a prison phone lining up another mortgage loan.

Inexplicable: (1) The Rhode Island Supreme Court in June affirmed a $400,000 judgment for Charles Lennon, 68, who had sued the now-bankrupt Dacomed company after his Dura-II penile implant remained constantly erect for 10 years.

Lennon said embarrassment had forced him to become a recluse. (2) In Waupun, Wis., in June, a 36-year-old man filed a police complaint against a female bartender at the Alcatraz Pub because she injured him by aggressively nuzzling him to herbosom during horseplay at the bar.

Speaking to an international medical meeting in Prague in June, Israeli fertility doctor Shevach Friedler said his research team had found that women exposed to brief entertainment by clowns were successful at in-vitro fertilization at almost twice the rate of women who had no clown exposure. Friedler, who is also a trained mime, attributed the difference to greater stress reduction.

In June, three protesters dressed in clown suits broke a lock at a supposedly secure North Dakota missile facility and attacked the top of the underground housing that holds a live Minuteman III missile by beating it with hammers and painting antinuclear slogans on it. They were arrested within minutes, but publicly, the govern-

ment seemed unalarmed that the trio had broken in so easily.

Unclear on the Concept

Joseph Weir, 23, who confessed to New York City police in May to forcibly licking the feet of as many as 70 women, said he didn’t mean to hurt anyone but just wanted “to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me.”

“I get on my knees, grab their feet and bow,” he said (according to a New York Post story).

“I compliment women, I bow to them.”

The Meek Win a Few

(1) In June, British worker Mr. Sivanadian Perananthasivam was awarded three months’ paid leave plus medical expenses after proving that a supervisor had used two colloquial terms for the man’s posterior during an angry office exchange. (2) The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed in June that a woman divorced seven years ago is still so fragile from her husband’s leaving her that she should continue to get spousal support (in spite of Canada’s no-fault divorce law). (3) Two New Jersey schoolboys separately complained recently that in yearbook sports photos, a tiny portion of their genitals can be seen up the legs of their shorts. (A Colts Neck High School student’s lawsuit was dismissed in June, and a Phillipsburg High School student is pondering a lawsuit, even though a school official ordered the offending page ripped out of all books.)

police officer, “I am a (expletive omitted by the Martinsburg Journal) medical doctor, and you are below me.”

Chutzpah!

(1) The Nigerian government began recently to warn its citizens traveling to Europe that those countries are full of scam artists. (The travel advisory mentioned pickpocket schemes, but apparently European e-mail scams are less of a problem.) (2) General Motors executives, trying to explain the dwindling stock market value of the company, have repeatedly complained of oppressive pension benefits owed under United Auto Workers contracts; however, according to a June Wall Street Journal investigation, GM’s fund for worker pensions is “overstuffed with cash,” while its fund for executive pensions is $1.4 billion in the red and getting worse.

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(1) The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in June that a marijuana user need not actually be intoxicated to violate the state’s “operating (a vehicle) under the influence” law if the prosecutor can prove that the psychoactive ingredient THC was still in his system. (2) A federal judge in Albany, N.Y., dismissed a state prisoner’s lawsuit that claimed that housing two inmates in a cell designed for one was cruel and unusual punishment. The judge rejected the petitioner’s toilet-smell argument by using the Pythagorean Theorem to show that the odor-wafting-distance difference was minimal.

(1) Enrique Mora of Montclair, Calif., said that within a few days of his gold detector’s having sounded in his front yard, he had dug a hole six stories down (but had come up empty). He said he had only planned to dig three or four feet, but got “carried away,” according to a June Associated Press report. (2) Martinsburg, W.Va., physician John C. Veltman, 52, was arrested in May after he (likely intoxicated) commandeered a backhoe and hit a building and a tree and crashed through two fences. Veltman allegedly told an arriving

(1) A 23-year-old woman and her 27year-old companion were accidentally run over and killed, apparently while standing in a far left lane of Interstate 10, arguing (Ocean Springs, Miss., June). (2) A 46year-old man, breaking through a bedroom window in the home of his estranged wife in violation of a restraining order, accidentally slashed an artery and bled to death (Milwaukee, June). (3) A 51-year-old man, trying to drive around a traffic jam on Interstate 10 as he was fleeing a gas station where he had just pumped $60 worth of gas without paying, fatally struck another car (with only minor injuries to the other driver) (Welsh, La., June). w

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The Texas insanity-defense law requires that a delusional person acting under “orders” from God be judged not guilty by reason of insanity, but that a delusional person acting under “orders” from Satan be considered sane, according to prominent forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz (according to a June USA Today story). Thus, Dietz believed that Andrea Yates (at press time being retried in Houston) knew that drowning her kids upon command of someone “without moral authority” (such as Satan) was wrong and thus that she did not qualify for insanity-law protection. Dietz later concluded the opposite in another Texas childkilling case because God had supposedly assured that mother that her kids would be better off dead.

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Two brothers are behind bars after stealing an SUV in front of a River Street cafe. John Walker, 24, and Adam Walker, 22, were charged with felony theft by taking as a result of the July 11 incident, which occurred around 8 p.m.

The SUV belonged to a family that was getting out of the car to dine at the restaurant. The Walkers took the car for a sevenminute joy ride before they were captured by members of the robbery intervention detail. The driver of the car had just pulled in front of the restaurant, and his wife and two of their three children got out. As the father got out to get the smallest child out of the vehicle, the Walkers commandeered it and drove east on River Street. Adam Walker was later identified as the driver. The victim made a 911 call and a description of the SUV was broadcast. Although the Walkers thought they had gotten away, they were quickly snared by a saturated police presence. Cpl. Gerald Fedak saw the SUV on Bay Street and followed it until it reached West Boundary Street.

When Fedak turned on his blue lights, the Walkers found themselves boxed in by police cars. John Walker was on parole at the time of the incident. In addition to other charges, Adam Walker was found to be driving while his license was suspended.

• A woman was fired after talking on her cellphone during work at a Skidaway Road restaurant. The manager who fired the woman said that the restaurant began receiving threatening phone calls that were directed at her. The suspect threatened to break the windows on the manager’s car, and said she would assault the manager and her 5-year-old son. The victim said the calls were constant and that when an employee would answer the phone, the caller would curse at them. She said she believes the calls were coming not only from the woman who was fired, but her friends and family, as well. The manager was advised on peace bond and warrant procedures, and given a case report number card. Her residence was placed on extra patrol.

• While on routine patrol in the area of 31st and Montgomery streets, an officer observed a woman who appeared to be ill or very high on a controlled substance.

The woman’s eyes were red and glassy and she continuously rubbed her arms and abdomen with her hands. The officer spoke to the woman, who said that her stomach was hurting, however, she did not wish to have EMS on the scene. A black handbag was found in the area. The woman said she had no knowledge about the owner of the bag. When the officer checked the bag, prescription medication with the woman’s name on it was found. There also was a

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rocklike substance that appeared to be crack cocaine, a ceramic pipe with black residue and a copper filter, plus a large open bottle of Glenmore London dry gin and a package of small plastic alcohol shot cups. The substance tested positive for cocaine. The woman was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug-related objects and an open container violation and taken to jail.

• Two officers responded to an apartment on Holland Drive in reference to a prowler. A woman who lived at the complex said she heard banging and voices.

Her husband went and checked out a nearby apartment and found a woman inside the apartment, talking to herself. The man called another resident to the scene.

When the officers arrived, the suspect was standing in front of the apartment, holding two closed containers of alcohol and an open container in her right hand. One of the officers asked why she at the apartment, She said she was visiting someone, however the apartment she had entered was vacant. The woman had entered the apartment through an open rear door.

Other residents at the scene watched the woman lock the door. An officer told the woman to gather up her items and go home. She responded, “You can’t make me go anywhere.” The woman was then told to put the containers down. Instead, she threw them the closed ones down. She was arrested and taken to jail. w

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

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Mega Ice Meteor

Chinese Flood Fatalities

The worst storms to ravage eastern China’s Anhui and Jiangsu provinces for 45 years brought torrential rain, floods and landslides that killed at least 30 people. The official Xinhua news agency reported that the storms destroyed more than 14,000 buildings and affected some 13 million people in the neighboring provinces. Jiangsu recorded its greatest rainfall amount since 1961 from June 21 to July 5 — nearly four times the average precipitation for the period.

Deadly Heat

Temperatures that soared to 115 degrees Fahrenheit in southern parts of Pakistan’s Punjab province killed at least 49 people within 24 hours. Meteorologists predicted that the deadly heat would ease soon, but further relief from monsoon rains was nowhere in sight. Hundreds of

Iberian Blazes

Soaring summertime temperatures across the Iberian peninsula sparked wildfires in Portugal that killed six firefighters trying to contain them. The victims perished as a blaze tore through the countryside and woodlands near the northeastern town of Famalicao. An unexpected shift in wind patterns altered the fire’s path, trapping the men. Officials said they arrested a 19-year-old local farmer who is suspected of starting the fire.

The country’s national fire service said 301 firemen with 81 vehicles and waterdropping aircraft were working to extinguish the wildfire. It was one of six that were burning out of control across the country as temperatures hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas.

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At least five people in South Korea died as a result of high winds and flash flooding as Typhoon Ewiniar roared ashore along the country’s southern coast.

• Tropical Storm Bilis was approaching central Taiwan late in the week, and was predicted to eventually dissipate over China’s Fujian province.

• Hurricanes Bud and Carlotta moved westward over open waters off Mexico’s Pacific coast.

Earthquakes

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolted the Philippine capital of Manila and other parts of Luzon Island, but no damage or injuries were reported.

• Earth movements were also felt in northern and central parts of New Zealand, eastern Indonesia’s Irian Jaya province, Japan’s Izu Islands, southern Iran’s Fars province, the Cayman Islands, the Los Angeles Basin and Melbourne, Australia.

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Decreased activity at Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano allowed government vulcanologists to downgrade the alert status of the eruptive mountain from its highest level on all but its southern slopes. Merapi had been determined to be extremely dangerous when activity in early May appeared to indicate a violent eruption could be imminent. More than 15,000 villagers evacuated the danger zone as searing clouds of volcanic debris and flows of lava came down Merapi’s slopes. Two people were killed when pyroclastic flows buried them inside a bunker in which they had taken shelter.

Jelllyfish Explosion

Researchers from Scotland say that intensive fishing operations in the South Atlantic off Namibia are the likely cause of an “explosion” in the number of jellyfish in the Benguela Current. The team from the University of St. Andrews conducted a study on the creatures after striking changes were detected in numbers of the large jellyfish species Chrysaora hysoscella and Aequorea forskalea. A report summary says that fish stocks, including sardines and anchovies, have been heavily exploited there since the 1960s, and their numbers have fallen significantly as a result. The volume of jellyfish in northern parts of the Benguela Current outweighs that of fish. It has become so large that the jellyfish now significantly interfere with fishing operations and water intake systems. w

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The giant ice ball that fell out of a clear sky in a +1210 Johannesburg Death Valley, suburb on July 7 California was determined to have been 3.8 one of Africa’s first known 4.5 impacts from a meteorological mystery known as a Bud megacryometeor. The impact Carlotta created a small crater in a parking lot, which was left covered with pieces of broken ice. Such phenomena have been reported since the 19th century, and a swarm of falling ice balls that lasted for a week six years ago in Spain caused extensive damage to vehicles and an industrial Week Ending July 14, 2006 storage facility. Some experts believe the ice chunks may be people perished in pre-monsoon heat created in moist air fluctuawaves during April and May in various tions at the top of Earth’s troposphere. parts of Pakistan and India.

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An all-ages venue finally opens, to little fanfare Over the past decade and a half, a handful of enterprising young souls have put a lot of work into giving the kids what they want. Namely, a place to see the kind of raucous, punk and metal that’s become popular among music fans from 15 to 30.

The niche genres of Indie-Rock, Emo, Screamo, Metalcore, Grindcore and even Christian Hardcore have eclipsed almost all other types of music for rebellious and angsty youth in that age range — and in most similar markets across the USA, underage kids have some outlet in which to regularly see live shows of that ilk.

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From Top: Too Late the Hero, My Epic, Our Finest Hour such as Tim Walls (through his fondly remembered Coastal Rock Productions) steadily booked metal and punk acts from the mid-’90s through the early part of this decade, but invariably, every time they began to attract major names capable of drawing a few hundred folks at a time, the bottom dropped out, usually because neither Walls nor his peers could ever muster the will and/or the capital to actually lease or purchase their own freestanding venue and professional PA system.

While existing clubs like The Jinx often allowed those 18 and up to enter their premises provided they not imbibe, once the City of Savannah railroaded through a ham-fisted law a few months back prohibiting minors from any bar even if they were providing live entertainment, scores of young people were forced to go without seeing bands at all, or resort to packing themselves like sardines into unlicensed and uninsured “house shows,” where punk and hardcore groups set up in dens and living rooms, hoping to make it through a full set before complaints from neighbors about the noise made the police shut them down.

So, one would think that if someone took the time, money and effort to open a place that was A) legal, B) insured, C) safe, D) free from noise ordinance worries, and E) designed with the needs of both the audience and the performers in mind, it would be an instant success, right?

Think again.

For the past few weeks, there has been a massive, brand-new all-ages club in our area that features both established and upand-coming punk and metal bands.

Studio B is a no-alcohol and no-smoking facility that boasts an off-duty deputy Sheriff on hand for security — plus, parents are encouraged to come with their kids, and hang out in a VIP balcony that overlooks the stage and the inevitable mosh pit.

Unfortunately, the building —which doubles as a new community center— is off the beaten path, and despite word of mouth publicity and grass-roots marketing via MySpace, attendance has been sparse at best. Their most successful show drew only 25 people to a room which they claim would comfortably hold at least 500!

Restaurateur Bob Rodriguez, who built the club adjacent to his pizza joint (on Highway 196 East between Hinesville and Glennville), says he did so to give his son Michael and others like him a safe, drugfree place to hang out and be inspired by music. Michael books the bands, but Bob oversees the process, and makes the groups sign an agreement promising to behave.

“There’s no cussing here,” he enthuses.

“My vision is for this to be a gathering place for people of all ages. Folks can order pizza, hot dogs, soft drinks, whatever and have them delivered next door. We’ve got a big stage, and a nice PA, and the bands have their own green room. We tried to really do it up right!”

Michael says he fears the reason more people aren’t coming to the shows is that they imagine the club is too hard to find.

“It’s only 15 minutes from Hinesville,” he explains. “Every band that has played here loves it and can’t wait to come back. They feel like they’re the focus of the show, not just stuck in a corner of a bar.”

This weekend, a quartet of noteworthy indie-rock and metal bands appear. To hear samples or for detailed directions, go to www.myspace.com/studiobga or call (912) 237-3085. w Our Finest Hour, Emerson, Too Late The Hero and My Epic play Studio B Friday at 9 pm.

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A Nickel Bag of Funk

Thomas Claxton

The Christy Alan Band

Deep Blue 3

Female-fronted cover act laying down poly-rhythmic dance grooves. Sat., 7 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee) + Sun., 10 pm Vero 44 (above Il Pasticcio).

Longtime area bar band playing a wide variety of rock, pop and soul hits. Fri. Sat., 9 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (Tybee).

John Banks

Instrumental jazz, blues and rock from an ace electric guitarist from local R & B revue The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love. Fri. - Sat., 5 pm, Cobblestone Conch House.

Brash singer/songwriter who cut his teeth playing acoustic guitar versions of classic rock, and now focuses on original material. Sun., 5 pm, The Warehouse.

Tight and versatile regional electric blues combo formerly known as Mama’s Mojo. Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

The Robbie Ducey Band

Keyboard-heavy South Georgia band that plays blues-rock crossover material typified by that of Robert Cray and late-

From Exile

Wickedly impressive Atlanta group that combines the trappings of symphonic composition with the speed and technicality of thrash metal. With Hope and Suicide, a new Fl. metal band featuring members of Bloodlet, Measured In Grey and Bibleoftheself. Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

The Norm Cagne Trio

Mainstream, hard bop and cool jazz from a talented pianist, backed by bassist Dave Keller and drummer Billy Hoffman.

Sat., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

‘Gods of Rome Toga Party’

As the name implies, this event finds sheet-clad revelers getting their decadence on as DJ Analog Kid spins a neverending stream of dance music. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Down Under Invasion Level 3.

The Beer Parlor Ramblers

High Velocity

Longtime players offering a huge and varied setlist of classic and Southern rock, modern country and roadhouse covers.

Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, VFW Club (Hinesville).

The Hitmen

Led by guitarist and singer Brett “Hitman” Bernard (who was recently named Best Blues Artist in our annual Readers’ Poll), this local power trio is known for a hard-hitting, inyour-face approach to straight-up blues.

Tues. (hosts Open Mic) - Wed., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Bluesonics

Energetic electric quartet known for upbeat, danceable Chicago-style blues. Sat., 7 pm, The Warehouse.

Bottles & Cans

Lowdown R & B that’s a cross between Detroit soul, Tom Waits’ unhinged preaching, and Fat Possum-style juke-joint blues.

Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Carroll Brown

Touring acoustic guitarist and singer who plays a mixture of twangy pop, Celtic and beach music that he terms “Coastal Country.” Wed. - Sun., Kevin Barry’s.

Chaos Inc.

Young, energetic, local psychedelic rockers known for long-winded, hard-driving jams. Fri., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

I Am Sound

New local “psychedelic metal” quarSuperhorse (top), Bottles & Cans tet that cites Placebo, QOTSA and Jucifer as period SRV. Sat., 10 pm, Savannah Blues. influences. With Tusk and Milledgeville’s Dueling Pianos Flames of Troy. Sat., 10 pm, Guitar Bar Two talented keyboardists with a wide(348 MLK Jr., Blvd). ranging repertoire of pop, rock, soul and Jah Creation showtunes interact with audience memRoots-style reggae from Wilmington, N.C. bers who try to stump the duo with odd(covers and originals). Fri., 10 pm, Dolphin ball requests. It’s one part music, one part Reef Lounge (Tybee). standup comedy, and one part audience participation. Tues. - Sat., Savannah Smiles.

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Eric Jones

Facile and tasteful jazz pianist who’s one of the shining lights on our local scene. Fri., 5 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Keith & Ross

Acoustic guitar duo known for countrytinged vocal harmonies and popular tunes.

Fri., 6 pm, Wild Wing Café (formerly Malone’s) + Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

The Flight Out

This newish SCAD-based indie-rock band took top honors at that art school’s recent Battle of The Bands, and features a former key member of the little-known Mumblelily. Also on this bill, the progressive, guitar and keys-based experimental rock of Jeanne Flight, the pleasantly retro Dinosaur, Jr-esque power trio Flamin’ Yawn, and alt.rockers Lando. Fri., 10 pm, Guitar Bar (348 MLK, Jr., Blvd).

Little Brown Peach

Valdosta-based acoustic jam band. Fri., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub.

Lurid Miscreants

Local, original modern metal and hard rock act. Thurs., 10 pm, Wind Rose Café.

The Magic Rocks

New local power trio playing rarelyheard rock, new wave and Americana cover tunes — featuring members of The 8Tracks. Fri., 7 pm, The Warehouse.

Moonshine Still

Randy ‘Hatman’ Smith

Excellent Middle-Georgia jam-band that plays Hammond organ drenched “Macon music” close to 200 dates a year. Fri., Riders Lounge (Hilton Head).

Guitarist using sequenced backing on a mix of blues, pop and shag he calls “Tybee Music.” Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Stingray’s + Sun., 2 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (Tybee).

Superhorse

Popular Savannah garage-rock septet featuring members of GAM, City of Lindas, Hot Pink Interior and The Hall Monitor.

They play infrequently, and appeal to fans of The VU, The Stooges and The Ramones.

Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

One Leg Up

Up-and-coming Asheville, N.C. gypsy jazz group playing hot, French acoustic music in the style of the late Django Reinhardt. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

G.E. Perry & Strange Brew

Rock and blues cover band led by a veteran and versatile guitarist. Fri., 9:30 pm, Luna Lounge @ Il Pasticcio + Sun., 6 pm, Belford’s (G.E. Perry solo).

Phantom Wingo

Fiery Southern jam-rock that takes its cues from Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers Band and looser moments of The Black Crowes. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

The Positions

Acoustic gig from this established local pop, rock and soul cover group. Sat., 5 pm, Wild Wing Café (formerly Malone’s).

Roy & The Circuit Breakers

The Train Wrecks Jah Creation Dewey’s Dockside (Tybee).

‘Georgia Kyle’ Shiver

Acoustic rock, country and blues from this self-described “gypsy boy.” Wed., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Fri., 7 pm, AJ’s Dockside (Tybee) + Sat., 7 pm, Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House (Wilmington Isl.) + Sun., 10 pm, Café Loco (Tybee).

Silver Lining

Happenin’ jazz trio (bass, guitar and drums) playing standards and originals. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., 8 pm, moon River Brewing Co.

Solo artist playing popular covers on guitar with sequenced backing. Sat., 2 pm,

Increasingly in-demand roots-rock trio led by singer/songwriter Jason Bible. Thurs., 7 pm, Warehouse + Fri., 7 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee) + Sat., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law.

Turtlefolk

Locally-based percussion-heavy jamrockers. Sat., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub.

Greg Williams

Prolific, guitar playing singer/songwriter drawing on blues, rock and pop genres. Fri., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub + Sun., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Robert Willis

A versatile singer and guitarist offering a wide variety of popular tunes to prerecorded backing tracks, and who’s known for altering his vocal delivery to emulate the artists he covers. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Dewey’s Dockside + Sun., 3 pm, Stingray’s (Tybee). w

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Is this band joking, or serious? It seems they’re very serious about being a joke.

With cheesy keyboard and drum machinedriven tunes filled with nasal vocals and triple-entendres, ACD’s albums sound like some cutting room floor outtake of Ween playing a prom scene in a straight-to-video Revenge Of The Nerds sequel. Sun., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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The Fundamentals

This scaled-back version of the 13-piece R & B show band The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love may not take up as much room on stage, but even with just drummer Bill Norton, saxman Craig Saxton, guitarist John Banks, vocalist Tim Love and bassist Phil McDonald, they still cast a mighty long shadow. With a setlist that ranges from Stax and Motown nuggets to more recent soul, pop and rock hits and misses, they’re a versatile party band with an undeniable groove that can only come from years of steady gigging with each other.

Better yet, if you don’t mind braving the afternoon heat, this is a free, ALL-AGES show. Sun., noon, City Market Ctyd.

The John Jorgenson Quintet

Profiled in last week’s issue, this worldfamous guitarist is a founding member of both the chart-topping ‘80s country act The Desert Rose Band and instrumental cult sensations The Hellecasters. He recently made a hit bluegrass album of Van Halen tunes on which David Lee Roth supplied guest vocals, but his heart lies in the reinvigorated world of gypsy jazz.

For this intimate show, he’ll pay tribute to the art form pioneered by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, but up the ante on the genre, by incorporating traces of New Orleans funk into the mix. At press time only a handful of tickets remained unsold for this ALL-AGES gig, so call 748-1930. Sun., 7 pm, Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (1304 E. Hwy 80, Bloomingdale).

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One of the absolute best bands to emerge from Charleston in over a decade, this loud, over-the-top power trio channels the teenage angst of The (pre-Who) High Numbers, The MC5, and early Cheap Trick into a distinctly Southern-fried mold, without resorting to shtick. With a guitarist/frontman who sings blue-eyed soul with a ferocity and familiarity that’s at odds with his tender youth, and a fatbottomed rhythm section that finds their drummer playing a massive, custom-made kick drum for maximum oomph, these guys put on a fiery, old-fashioned rock show that has the potential to whip a crowd into a quite sincere frenzy. Catch ‘em know, as they’re on their way to better things. Opening for local garage-rock septet Superhorse.

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The Lenore Raphael Trio

This wonderful pianist was highly influenced by Clifford Powell’s bebop of the ‘40s and the ‘50s romanticism of the great Bill Evans, however, astute listeners will discern traces of the work of Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell in her playing as well.

She enjoys heavy airplay on major jazz stations around the world, and tours nationwide. This 2-night stand at the area’s finest jazz venue finds her tracking a live album, so why not be part of history? Fri. - Sat., 7:30 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

TNT (AC/DC Tribute)

What more needs to be said? Either this band can pull off the near impossible and sound like the British rock giants, or not. Either way, it’s probably worth it just to show up and see if their singer’s throat pops out and falls on the floor. I wonder if a certain low-profile downtown resident will be lurking in the shadows for shits and giggles... Thurs., Wild Wing Café. w

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Calling themselves “The originators of Ghetto Rock,” this Killeen, Tx., rap-metal hybrid fell off the same truck as Rage Against The Machine and Limp Bizkit, which means that you’ll either love ‘em or hate ‘em. To be sure, sound is rather formulaic (crunching guitar riffs over pounding SOL Essential drums, laced (above), with aggressive, Leslie macho lyrics), but they do it about as well as anybody, and they’ve been embraced by Clear Channel (again, a line drawn in the sand for many listeners). New local moody alt.rockers Element Unseen open. Sat., 10 pm, Guitar Bar (348 MLK Jr., Blvd).

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Frontiers: A Tribute To Journey - Andrews Upstairs, Atlanta Guster / Ray LaMontagne - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta The Working Title, Blackpool Lights, Rookie Of The Year - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta Paul Thorn - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Angie Aparo - Headliners @ Banana Joe’s, Columbia Corey Smith, Sam Thacker - The Handlebar, Greenville Randall Bramblett - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte The Kingston Trio - Phillips Center For The Performing Arts, Gainesville, FL Matchbook Romance, Rock Kills Kid - Plush, Jacksonville

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“Star 94 Star Fest” w/ Pink, Train, Nickel Creek, The Whigs, Mat Kearney, 13 Stories, Aqualung - Atlantic Station Park, Atlanta Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull), Lucia Micarelli - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta Blueground Undergrass - Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta Randall Bramblett - 40 Watt Club, Atlanta David Allan Coe - The Handlebar, Greenville Jani Lane - Amos’ Southend, Charlotte Blue Dogs - Visulite Theatre, Charlotte

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by Linda Sickler

Blending history with mystery

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Savannah Ghosts is unlike any other local haunted history book that you’ve read of Art and Design’s foundation studies program. “I’ve done a little bit of writing here and there,” he says.

Previously, he worked at WTOC-TV as a news photographer, and he’s also done writing on a freelance basis. “This is my first published fiction,” he says.

Savannah Ghosts and a second book called Savannah Tavern Tales were compiled over about a year’s time. Both are being published by Schiffer Publishing, and both have the same type of format

mation into one page without giving it all away. You understand what is happening without it ruining the story for you.”

The drawings put the reader into the time and place of each story, David says.

“Some are lighthearted and fun and some are foreboding,” he says.

“The nice part of the project is that we were living in the same house,” David says.

“At any time, I could ask, ‘What do you think of this idea?’

“Another thing that separates this book

with both stories and illustrations.

“I took them on simultaneously,” David says. “It sort of fell into my lap.”

David was working as the general manager of Savannah Walks when one of Schiffer Publishing’s vice presidents came into town. “She knew I was connected in this industry,” he says. “We sat down over coffee. I had three or four pitches I wanted to talk to her about.”

The VP listened to the pitches, then said, “Why don’t you write a ghost book?”

The rest, as they say, is history.

David didn’t have to look far to find an illustrator for his book. Julie is an award-winning illustrator and the first female professor in SCAD’s sequential art program.

“I have illustrated books for Sterling Publishing, Albert-Whitman and Co. and Walker Publishing,” Julie says. “I recently finished a graphic novel for NBM Publishing called Trailers, on which I collaborated with my colleague, Mark Kneece. I also illustrate covers for Canon, a comics anthology put out by Dove McHargue of Picsure Press.”

“She didn’t come into this because she’s my wife,” David says. “She’s a very talented illustrator over all. “I thought her work was very well suited for the stories,” he says.

“She has the ability to condense the infor-

from the other ghost books is the illustrations,” he says. “Everyone else used photographs. Julie did a fine, fine, fine job.”

“The images for each of the stories came about quite naturally,” Julie says. “David would portray such a vivid picture in his stories, and the image would just pop into my head. I did try for an ‘in between moment’ in each illustration, meaning I would try to portray the characters in the story in mid action or just before an action happened, or just in a quiet moment.”

Eventually, the book will be available in bookstores throughout Savannah. For now, it can be purchased at schifferbooks.com or at Savannah Walks, 37 Abercorn St. The cost is $12.95.

In addition to the Rene Rondolia and Alice Riley stories, there are accounts of the pest house that once stood beside Lazaretto Creek, the story of the duel that resulted in some of the hauntings at Moon River Brewing Co., the tale of shipbuilder Henry Willink and the tragic loss of his wife, an explanation for the haunting of the building at 9 Drayton St. that once housed Churchill’s Pub and the story of 6-year-old Gracie Watson, whose life-sized statue at Bonaventure Cemetery enchants visitors to this day.

Some of the stories come from the African-American storytelling tradition, in-

cluding Bo-Cat, the story of a murder, Hag Ridden and No Mo’ Mojo. All of the stories in the book are based on research.

“These are stories that were taken from actual histories, journals, diary accounts or the Georgia Writers Project,” David says.

“There are a multitude of sources that tell where the stories come from. They are all based in fact. This was a chance to try to make them a better read.”

David’s version of the Rene Rondolia story suggests that Rene may be been autistic. “If you look at that period of time, if someone was insane or malformed, they were locked in the basement or attic,” David says. “They never talked about you.

I really wanted to show in this story that the monster isn’t Rene, the monster is us.

“My father works with autistic students,” he says. “Some of the points he relates come out in Rene. If you do the detective work and piece the story together, Rene may have been autistic.

“All the stories agree he was a very large child,” David says. “In all folklore, there is a grain of truth.”

In the book’s preface, David says all stories are true, even if all the facts in them aren’t. “Rene’s story may have started as a way to teach children to stay away from strangers,” he says. “It’s a morality tale.”

David is originally from northern Vermont. “I came down to Savannah to get my MFA in illustration from SCAD,” he says, which is how he and Julie met. “I graduated one year ahead of her,” he says.

Julie hails from southeastern Alabama and was hired by SCAD right after graduation.; “I really enjoy all the stories, but I guess my favorites would be Rene -- I cry every time I read it -- the story of Alice Riley, Bo-Cat, and the hag story,” she says.

“David and I have actually been working together on many projects over the years,” Julie says. “These books are the first to actually come to fruition. We are currently scheming up another book, this time a graphic novel. Stay tuned!”

In the meantime, readers will want to take a look at Savannah Ghosts. “The book is designed to turn the tale into a good story with illustrations,” David says.

“I think what we are trying to do is return storytelling to the audience,” he says.

“Something that has been missing is good storytelling from sitting down with a book of short stories at night and reading a good story, then starting again in the morning with another story.

“That has been absent for a long, long time,” David says. “There is a lot of sentiment behind this book.” w Meet David H. Rousseau and his wife, Julie Collins Rousseau, at a book signing on Thursday, July 27 from 5-7 p.m. at the Marshall House, 123 E. Broughton St.

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With its long, rich and fabled history, Savannah has produced a treasure trove of ghost stories over the centuries.

Even after nearly 300 years of war, fire, plague and famine, parts of the city look much as they did 100 or even 200 years ago. Spanish moss drips from the trees, and verdant greenery creates dark shadows, adding to the haunting ambience.

In such a setting, it’s easy to imagine tormented spirits roaming the streets and hiding behind the facades of so many historic buildings. Everyone in Savannah knows at least one good “true” ghost story, and an entire industry has been built around visitors’ fascination with our ghostly inhabitants.

Many of these stories have been repeated time and again over the decades.

Some have been compiled into collections of ghost stories, resulting in a thriving industry of home-grown ghost books.

Then David H. Rousseau and his wife, Julie Collins Rousseau, come along and turn everything upside down with their book, Savannah Ghosts. Rather than simply recount the tried and true legends and lore, what he calls “the stories Mama an’ them swear by,” David has added meat to the bones by novelizing the stories, while Julie has given the characters a face through her haunting illustrations.

Thus we find out that Rene Rondolia, the boy giant of a long-vanished east-end neighborhood known as Foley’s Alley, was not a callous and cruel serial killer as the legend goes, he was simply misunderstood. We come to realize that Alice Riley, the first person executed in the colony of Georgia back in 1734, was an indentured servant from Ireland and therefore could not expect much sympathy from the English judge who sentenced her to hang.

David gives these characters, both real and imagined, personalities and histories that help us understand their motives.

“There are a ton of books done in a journalistic style,” he says.

“In my experience, people want to be entertained, not just informed,” David says.

“If you retell a story that someone else tells, it has the same bullet points. Why not go one step further and tell it for the entertainment?”

As a tour guide for Savannah Walks, David knows what people want to hear. He says his approach to the stories gives modern residents and visitors to Savannah a view into the past.

“It all suggests what life was like during those times,” David says. “People say, ‘Now I understand what was going on back then.’ It goes deeper than simple retelling of folktales.”

In addition to conducting general history, Civil War and some ghost tours for Savannah Walks, David is a part-time teacher of design in the Savannah College

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Review

by Jim Morekis

365 Ways To Keep Kids Safe: How to make your child’s world safer, ages birth to 16

by Don Keenan (Balloon Press)

I’ve been called an overprotective father more than once.

But eagle-eyed, and let’s face it, borderline paranoid as I can be, my blanket-coverage overprotection apparently is nothing compared to the eternal vigilance of Don Keenan, founder and executive director of the Keenan Kids Foundation.

A trial attorney and consumer rights advocate based in Atlanta, Keenan brings to bear the exhaustive documentation and killer instinct you’d expect from years of court experience taking on large companies and the governments that are often so reluctant to regulate them.

In his latest (Oprah-recommended!) book, 365 Ways to Keep Kids Safe, Keenan painstakingly documents specific threats to your child’s safety -- yep, one for each day of the year! -- and provides checklists for overcoming said threats.

The thing that sets Keenan’s book apart is that, unlike any cable news chan-

nel you might care to name, it does not simply scare the crap out of you and leave it at that.

Oh, it’s scary all right, but Keenan also offers practical suggestions about what to do in certain situations and steps you can take to make your child’s environment, if not perfectly safe, as safe as you can reasonably make it.

The looming disasters range from the obvious (gun safety) to the less-obvious (window covering pull-cords) to the distressingly commonplace (power windows in cars, which apparently close on children’s heads and necks with alarming regularity in this country).

Some of the factoids in this book are intriguing and quite unexpected. The highest child fatality rate of any sport?

Baseball, with 3-4 children dying each year from related activities. (Cheerleading, what with all the throwing girls into the air, is dangerous too, with 25,000 injuries requiring ER care in 2001.)

Over 80 percent of auto child restraints are used or installed incorrectly... Taxi passengers are three times more likely to suffer serious injuries than in other vehicles... Twenty percent of drowning victims at pools drown in the presence of a lifeguard..... The list goes on and on.

Keenan is always quick to point out that, contrary to public opinion, government’s role in your children’s safety is anything but Big Brotherly. Often, Keenan says, elected officials are simply unwilling to offend corporate interests by regulating them unless their hands are forced by a high-profile incident.

For example, Keenan says that there is almost no federal legislation regarding gun safety at all (gee, I wonder why that would be?) He lists all the potential gun safety bills that never even made it out of committee, much less to a vote.

As someone who was beyond outraged by the Catholic Church’s recent molestation scandals and subsequent cover-ups, I was happy (if that’s the word) to see a chapter devoted to child safety from molestation by church officials -who in protecting each other, often warn potential plaintiffs that all the embarrassing info will become public in a trial, and that it would be a “a sin” for parents to allow such a thing.

As is always the case with consumer protection data, the devil is in the details.

While I have no basis for thinking Keenan’s data and numbers are anything but accurate, in my experience one should always be skeptical of quoted statistics (though to Keenan’s credit, when an industry has countering data to his own, he often cites it).

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‘Mountain Waves’ -- Acrylics by Mike Segal through July 27 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. ‘Parting the Veil’ - New works by Ruth Hunter at the Alvida Art Gallery, 7303 Abercorn St. one block south of Eisenhower. Reception is Saturday, August 5, 7-11 p.m.

Irene Mayo & John Duckworth -- Dual exhibition through August 6 at the Grand Bohemian Gallery in the Mansion on Forsyth Park.

‘Icarus’ -- SCAD present this multimedia group exhibition featuring work by students, faculty and alumni July 29–Aug. 27 at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. A reception will be held Aug. 4, 5-7 p.m., Free and open to the public. “Icarus” focuses on bird imagery in artwork.

‘Homo Hominis’ -- Exhibition by Mikhail Truovsky, Jorge Alvarez and Kiril Jeliazkov on display at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. through July 25.

New works -- New paintings by Daniel E. Smith and Melody Postma; also on display are June Stratton, Corinne Adams, Barbara J. Brown, Stephen Kasun, James Allen, Leslie Kneisel and Adela Holmes. Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St. ‘Abstract and Abstracted’ -- Chroma Gallery hosts a show featuring Loja; a collaboration of two favorites Jan Clayton Pagratis and Lori Keith Robinson; Ikeda Lowe; Ursula Brenner Elena Madden; and Heather Lindsey Stewart. 31 Barnard St. ‘Poly-Rhythmic Explorations’ -- Exhibit

by Savannah-born artist David Pleasant, Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 16-30 at the Penn Center School National Historic Landmark District on St. Helena Island, South Carolina.

and Mark Uzmann; quilting by Julie Rittmeyer; and stained glass by Connie Wright.

Gallery 440 -- Gallery 440 welcomes Charlotte Dunlap, Morgan Kuhn, Cissie Victor and Frances Walter, artists in residence.

Also upstairs are works by photographer Tim Coy and paintings by Billy Herrin. 440 Bull St., open 11-5 Wed-Sat. JEA Art for July– The Art Show at the Jewish Educational Alliance will feature the art of Vietnam War veteran Roland Wolff beginning July 3 at 5111 Abercorn St. Jepson Center for the Arts– Exhibits include: “Jack Leigh: Late Photographs”; Selections from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art; and “Myrtle Jones: A Tribute.” Call 790-8800. w Art Patrol is for rotating shows, exhibitions and receptions. Send art info to jim@connectsavannah.com

Isle of Hope Artisans League -- July 1–August 31 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Show includes woodturnings by Noel Wright; ceramics by John Jensen and Polly Cooper; paintings by Pat Myers, Angela Oliver, Bellamy Murphy, Nancy Solano, Nancy Hughes, Betty Weeks, Camille Nelson and Dorie Nichols; photography by Linda Jensen, Bruce O’Donnell,

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ECH it out CZ Pooler establishment is first kolache bakery on the East Coast and hot dog buns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is made with the same kind of dough,â&#x20AC;? Lynn says.

Breakfast rolls, made with ham, sausage, egg and cheese, are popular with customers. So are the apple fritters.

The bakery also offers specialty items that must be ordered 24 hours in advance, such as apple, peach, pumpkin and pecan pies, and cheesecakes. The cheesecakes come in New York, Oreo, Reeseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Peanut Butter Cup, eggnog and pumpkin flavors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our cheesecakes are becoming very popular,â&#x20AC;? Lynn says.

The kolaches come in an even wider variety of flavors: apple, apricot, Bavarian cream, blueberry, cherry, cream cheese, peach, poppy seed, prune, raspberry, strawberry, strawberry cream cheese, chocolate Bavarian, pineapple and lemon.

There also are sausage kolaches that come in mild or hot blend, with or without cheese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re our version of pigs in a blanket,â&#x20AC;? Katie says.

Kolaches are the health food of the dessert world. One kolache has 110 calories, compared to 248 in a donut, and 2 grams of fat, while a donut has16 grams of fat.

Only 20 percent of the calories in a kolache are from fat, but 58 percent of the calories in a donut are from fat.

Because there already was a cake bakery in Pooler when they opened, Katie and Lynn refused to compete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make cakes,â&#x20AC;? Lynn says.

In addition to baked goods, the shop offers Barnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is like the Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Florida,â&#x20AC;? Lynn says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has started to move up the East Coast.â&#x20AC;?

The bakeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catering service has started to flourish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would really like to get into catering,â&#x20AC;? Katie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do a lot of morning meetings and that kind of stuff.â&#x20AC;?

Currently, the bakery is open until noon, but Katie and Lynn are thinking about expanding their hours.

The bakery opened February 27, and already has its faithful regulars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of our customers are repeat customers,â&#x20AC;? Katie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good feeling when they do that.â&#x20AC;? w The Kolache Depot Bakery is at 1014 E. Highway 80, Suite 200, in Pooler. It is open M-F from 6 a.m. to noon and Saturday 7 a.m. to noon. Call 748-4343.

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Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a riddle: What has less than half the calories and 1/8th the fat of a donut, yet is just as sinfully rich and delicious? The answer is a traditional Czech pastry called a kolache (pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;coal-AH-sh.â&#x20AC;?

Katie Riley grew up eating the kolaches her mother baked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandparents were Czech,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She always made kolaches.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up in a Czech community called Belleville in Kansas,â&#x20AC;? says Katieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Lynn Uhrich. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My aunt was the one who taught me to make kolaches. I thought everyone knew about them.â&#x20AC;?

Katie and Lynn are hopeful that soon everyone in the area will not only know what kolaches are, but want them. They have opened a bakery in Pooler called the Kolache Depot Bakery.

Sometimes, kolache is spelled kolace, kolach, or kolacky, from the Czech plural kolĂĄÄ?e. The pastry is a bit like a Danish -- a baked pastry with different types of fillings.

As Czech immigrants came to the United States, they brought their favorite kolache recipes with them. Kolaches have become popular in several parts of the United States that have Czech settlements.

They are particularly popular in Texas, where several restaurants and bakeries specialize in kolaches and towns host kolache festivals. There are other Kolache Depots in Texas, but Katie and Lynn say theirs is the first one on the East Coast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of people come in who originally came here from Texas,â&#x20AC;? Lynn says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another place our customers come from is Chicago,â&#x20AC;? Katie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They get really excited when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re driving by and they see our sign. We have a pretty steady customer base of people who came here from Texas and say they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;t had kolaches since they were in Texas one or two years ago.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to kolaches, there are all types of baked goods available for purchase, including cinnamon rolls that are positively decadent. There are even sugar-free pastries for diabetics, plus dinner rolls and hamburger

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There’s so much terribly wrong with the terrible You, Me and Dupree that we can afford to be charitable and look at its positive attributes -- uh, better make that attribute, singular. Roughly 60 seconds in this film rank as among the most charming and romantic ever committed to celluloid, moments so magical that one’s faith in the power of cinema is momentarily restored.

Unfortunately, that minute consists of footage from the Audrey Hepburn-Gregory Peck classic Roman Holiday, which slacker Dupree happens to be watching on TV. Shoehorning Roman Holiday into this cesspool of a movie seems almost cruel, the cinematic equivalent of throwing a newborn kitten into a pen full of rabid Rottweilers. Then again, inflicting pain - both on its characters and on hapless audience members -- seems to be the play of the day as far as this movie is concerned. Owen Wilson plays Dupree, a man-child (Hollywood’s favorite character type of late, as evidenced

by The Break-Up, Failure to Launch, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and any Will Ferrell vehicle) who, left without a home or a job, is invited to stay for a couple of days with his lifelong best friend Carl (Matt Dillon) and Carl’s new wife Molly (Kate Hudson). It takes about 10 seconds before Dupree starts being a nuisance in the eyes of his hosts -- watching TV instead of searching for a job, sleeping naked on their beloved couch, and nearly setting the house on fire during a lovemaking session with a librarian that

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The visual effects in Little Man wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic out of business, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only fair to note that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re surprisingly effective. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the good news.

The bad news is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the service of a feeble comedy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nowhere near as outrageous as one might reasonably expect from the makers of Scary Movie and White Chicks. Marlon Wayans stars as Calvin Sims, a dwarf whose first action upon being released from prison is to steal a valuable diamond. The heist goes off as planned, but subsequent developments lead to the priceless bauble ending up in the home of unsuspecting couple Darryl and Vanessa Edwards (Shawn Wayans and Kerry Washington). In order to gain access to the house and take back the diamond, Calvin disguises himself as a baby whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been left in a basket on the Edwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; front porch. A robustly performed sequence involving a rectal thermometer is mildly amusing (or maybe I just felt compelled to laugh at something), but the rest is rather slapdash and bare, despite Marlonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Herculean efforts to turn Calvin into a notable comic creation.

ing weekend without breaking a sweat. Yet at 145 minutes, Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chest ends up providing too much bang for the buck. The effects-driven action scenes are clearly the pictureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highlights, and they alone make Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chest worth the price of admission. The central thrust finds Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) tangling with the ghostly Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) in an effort to save his own soul from eternal damnation beneath the seaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that his scheme will require sacrificing his friends

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As Miranda Priestley, the ice-cold and rock-hard editor of the fashion magazine Runway, Meryl Streep speaks volumes with a quick glare here or a terse quip there. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrific comic performance, as rich as the ones she delivered in Postcards from the Edge and the otherwise unwatchable She-Devil. But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not undervalue Anne Hathawayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contribution to the film. Hatha-

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ď&#x201A;śď&#x201A;śď&#x201A;ś Once again employing the rotoscoping

process that he used in 2001â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Waking Life (basically, filming in live-action and then tracing over the images), writer-director Richard Linklater this time unleashes the technique on Philip K. Dickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1977 novel -- a match made in hallucinatory heaven. Seven years from now, 20 percent of the population will be comprised of junkies, and the US government, with the aid of an organization whose motives might not be squeakyclean, is trying its best to break the nation of its habit. It sends an agent known only as Fred (Keanu Reeves) into the field to track down the suppliers of a deadly drug called Substance D. Posing as a slacker named Bob Arctor, he forges relationships with several dopers (Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane), but as his own use of Substance D continues to fry his brain, he finds it increasingly difficult to ascertain whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagined.

Even with its animated overlay, A Scanner Darkly is far more restrained in its storytelling methods than other notable â&#x20AC;&#x153;drug flicksâ&#x20AC;? (Requiem for a Dream, Naked Lunch), though the uniqueness of its visual style (that â&#x20AC;&#x153;scramble suitâ&#x20AC;? is a wow!) nevertheless insures that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always something eyecatching on view.

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The fan frenzy surrounding Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chest has reached such a fever pitch that had producer Jerry Bruckheimer merely shot two hours of Johnny Depp filling out his tax returns and released it under the Pirates moniker, it still would have scored a $75 million open-

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Today, the 1978 film version of Superman (directed by Richard Donner) may look primitive to young eyes weaned on PlayStation 2 and new-and-improved Tolkien tales, but it still holds up beautifully, with dazzling special effects, plenty of heart and spunk, and career performances by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.

Director Bryan Singer, the X-Men and X2 helmer who jumped ship to steer this franchise, chose to take the road less traveled.

His movie is neither a remake of the 1978 staple nor a direct repudiation of it; instead, he imagined Superman Returns as a continuation of the original saga. Learning that scientists had discovered the remains of his home planet of Krypton, Kal-El (Supermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth name) went to check it out for himself, only coming back to our planet after a five-year hiatus. Once again donning his human disguise as bumbling news reporter Clark Kent, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to get his old job back at the Daily Planet, but other chapters of his life have been radically affected. Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), now a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (for an essay titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why The World Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Need Supermanâ&#x20AC;?), has tried to suppress her love for Superman: Having moved forward, she now has a young son (Tristan Leabu) and a fiance (James Marsden). Meanwhile, Supermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is back in play and has ideas on how to assert his authority through unusual real estate ventures while also acquiring a chunk of kryptonite to put the Man of Steel out of business. Singer has some problems with rhythm and pacing while Bosworth appears too young and delicate to be playing a tough, award-winning journalist. Yet in the central role, Routh manages to command our attention.

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"ARNARD 3TREET UNDER THE '!0 Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a compromise the self-serving Jack can accept. Deppâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a lot of fun as the scurrilous Sparrow, but a headline-grabbing performance that seemed blazingly original the first time around no longer has the power to surprise. Bloomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Will and Knightleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elizabeth are even less developed, and except for a couple of quips (him) and tirades (her), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to remember anything of substance that they do during the course of the film.

way (last seen in Brokeback Mountain) has the largest role as Andy Sachs, a college grad whose cluelessness about the fashion industry proves to be a drawback in her stint as Mirandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked-to-the-bone assistant.

Hathaway is to Streep what Tom Cruise was to Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- a young talent carrying the load while allowing a more established star to shine in smaller doses -- and she works around her characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predictable arc to allow Andy to come alive on screen as her own person.

Adam Sandler earns his hefty paychecks for comedies like The Wedding Singer and the execrable Big Daddy, but he satisfies his thespian aspirations with films like PunchDrunk Love and the underrated Spanglish. With Click, he attempts to have it both ways. Spending more time sucking up to his unctuous boss (David Hasselhoff) than bonding with his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and kids, Michael Newman (Sandler in familiar man-child mode) is so distracted that he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even keep track of the household remotes. Venturing into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyondâ&#x20AC;? section of Bed, Bath & Beyond, he stumbles upon eccentric employee Morty (Christopher Walken), who gives him a universal remote that allows him to program his life as well as his TV set. For the first half of the film, this clever concept yields some genuine laughs but more often gets buried under the sort of adolescent humor that long ago became the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calling card (how many times do we have to watch the family dog hump a stuffed animal?). Then the movie shifts its course dramatically: Morphing into an update of Frank Capraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Wonderful Life, it chronicles how the remainder of Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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For a movie that many people (including me) tagged as this summer’s off-the-beatenpath sleeper hit, Nacho Libre turns out to be a surprisingly mild affair, one of those films where the creative juices dried up at some point between conception and execution. The premise held promise: Nacho (Jack Black), the lowly cook at a Mexican monastery that doubles as a home for orphaned boys, realizes that becoming a Lucha Libre wrestler would not only earn him enough money to better take care of the lads under his watch, but it might also instill enough self-confidence so that he won’t remain tongue-tied around the lovely new nun (Penelope Cruz look-alike Ana de la Reguera).

But because the monks frown upon wrestling, Nacho is forced to disguise himself by donning a mask. After a while, this disappointing film just lays there, like a wrestler body-slammed one time too many.

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Sandra Bullock’s performance in 1994’s Speed rushed through auditoriums like a welcome breeze on a summer day. But with the exception of those imbecilic Miss Congeniality comedies, it’s hard to recall a recent picture in which Bullock has been allowed to draw upon her natural charisma. On the other hand, Reeves in ‘94 was just emerging from a period in which his repeated miscasting left critics and fellow actors scratching their heads as to his ability to repeatedly land such high-profile roles. Since then, he’s excelled in a handful of diverse roles: iconic in The Matrix, funny in Thumbsucker and, in his best work, disarmingly

romantic in Something’s Gotta Give. The Lake House, which brings the stars together for the first time since Speed, serves as an exclamation point to the evolution of their respective careers. Bullock plays Dr. Kate Forester, whose new position at a Chicago hospital convinces her to move into the city and leave behind the lake house she’s been renting. Before departing, she whips off a welcome note for the next tenant, who turns out to be an architect named Alex Wyler (Reeves). But Kate’s comments in the letter, concerning the condition of the house, don’t jibe with what Alex sees, so he writes her back to clarify. As the missives keep flying back and forth, both parties come to the startling realization that they’re actually corresponding over the years -- she’s writing and receiving his letters in 2006, he’s doing likewise in 2004 -- and that the lake house mailbox serves as the magic portal through which they’re able to communicate. The Lake House’s central idea could conceivably work under the right set of circumstances.

But The Lake House doesn’t even begin to inspire that level of swoony romance on our parts.

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Robert Altman’s best film since the one-two punch of Short Cuts and The Player back in the early 1990s might at first glance seem like a minor work. For all its levity, the central theme focuses on the specter of Death -- how it hovers around us, how it haunts us, and how it can inform our every move.

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guiding light, takes it all in stride (“Every He’s a prick; she’s a saint. Why exactly would show is your last show; that’s my philosowe have an interest in whether these two rephy”), more concerned that all the talent is main together? Simple answer: We don’t. in place. And what talent! First, there are the singing sisters Yolanda and Rhonda JohnX-MEN: THE LAST STAND son (Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin). Then 1/2 there are the cowboys Dusty (Woody HarIt’s a testament to the durability of the origirelson) and Lefty (John C. Reilly), adept at nal comic created by crooning cowpoke tunes.

Stan Lee and Jack Backstage, the characKirby that the movie ters are no less colorsurvives this hostile ful. Guy Noir (Kevin takeover. A “cure” Kline) handles security, has been found for Savannah Film though his bumbling mutancy, leading to manner recalls InspecSociety Presents divergent viewpoints tor Clouseau more Philadelphia Story among those afthan it does Sam Spade.

This film from 1940 stars Cary flicted with extraorYolanda’s daughter Lola Grant and James Stewart. July 22 at 7 (Lindsay Lohan) mopes dinary powers. p.m. at the Lucas Theatre. Cost: $6. around in the dressing room while Mom Third Friday Foreign performs. When the DA VINCinema Presents Sekal radio performers are CI CODE front and center, the Has to Die movie is nothing less Set in a Moravian village under Ger1/2 than a joyous celebraman Protectorate in the summer of No instant classic tion of both Americana 1943. Sekal is the illegitimate son of and it won’t sweep and the arts. Streep and one of the village elders. Shunned next year’s Academy Tomlin make a formiand ridiculed by his community, he Awards. Conversely, dable duet, while Harsees the war as a long-awaited opalso not a turkey for relson and Reilly break portunity to pay back his abusers, so the ages. Steered by through any lingering he collaborates with the Gestapo as his Apollo 13 direct melancholy with their their informant. July 21 at 7:30 p.m. or Ron Howard, steady stream of quips. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Tom Hanks plays Cost: $5. Call: 232-4447. the central role of Robert Langdon, a CARS Reel Savannah Presents Harvard symbologist Look Both Ways 1/2 whose book-signFor all its NASCAR This black comedy from Australia ing stint in Paris is trappings, Cars is ulmixes animation and live action. It cut short when he’s timately a paean to follows the misadventures of Meryl, summoned to the Route 66. The cars are a woman who imagines disaster evLouvre to hopethe characters -- no erywhere. The film won four Austrafully shed light on humans exist in this lian Academy Awards, including Best the strange circumworld -- and the most Film and Best Director. July 23 at 7 stances surroundprominent vehicle is p.m. at the Lucas Theatre. Cost: $7. ing the murder of an Lightning McQueen elderly curator. What Psychotronic Film (voiced by Owen WilLangdon doesn’t son), a rookie sensation Society Presents Fallen initially know is that on the NASCAR circuit the detective on the Angel: Gram Parsons (the name is doubtless case, the gruff Bezu Nearly three decades after the unan homage to Steve McFache (French natimely death of songwriter Gram Queen, a real-life racing tional treasure Jean Parsons, German director Gandulf enthusiast). Lightning Reno), is convinced Hennig teams with Parsons acolyte, is cocky, conceited and that he’s the killer. the Long Ryders’ Sid Griffin, to creconvinced that he needs With a police crypate a portrait of Parson’s tragic life. nobody’s help to make tologist named SoIt will be presented Wednesday, July it to the top. Clearly, phie Neveu (Amelie’s 19 and Thursday, July 20 at 8 p.m. at Lightning is due for Audrey Tautou) as The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. a comeuppance even his only ally, LangSeating will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tucmore than he’s due for don evades capture jets are $5. Call 232-4447. w an oil and filter change. and begins a jaunt across France and, later, England in an THE BREAKattempt to solve an ancient mystery that, if UP revealed, could potentially spell the end of There’s a fine movie trapped inside The Christianity as we know it. Seeking guidBreak-Up, and it’s a shame that it couldn’t ance, Langdon and Sophie turn to British break free. Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anscholar Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen, easily iston play Gary and Brooke, whose initial earning MVP honors) to fill in the missing meeting and courtship are dealt with during pieces. w the opening credits. From there, an argument over a dinner party proves to be the catalyst for the pair deciding to call it quits.

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AMBUCS

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

League of Women Voters

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

Chatham County Democratic Committee

Libertarian Party of Chatham County

National Council of Negro Women

Chatham County Democratic Women

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

For information, callâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Chatham County Young Democrats

Planned Parenthood

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

Chatham County Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyr.com or call Brad Morrison at 596-4810.

Coastal Democrats

will meet Monday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at Claryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe in the Habersham Shopping Center. Earnestine Jones, member of the Board of Education, will speak on the way elections and ballots are handled. The public is invited. For information, call Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or 484-3222 or send email to R1999MHAR@aol.com.

Democratic Unification Rally

The Chatham County Democratic Committee invites all volunteers, voters, activists and candidates to a rally on Saturday, July 29 from 3-6 p.m. at The Caledonian, 2517 Abercorn St. A donation is requested. Call Carolyn Bowden, 897-5455.

Drinking Liberally

meets at The Caledonian at the corner of Abercorn and 41st streets, just north of Victory Drive. Promoting democracy one pint at a time -- share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, left-leaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Heather Holloway at 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Volunteers are needed for Planned Parenthood, and will meet the second Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean. For information about volunteering, call Megan Burgoyne at 3524052 or megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Abyssinia Players

New company players are needed for the fall production of a new musical. Three tenors, three altos and three sopranos in their 20s or 30s are needed. Must be able to sight-read and to commit to rehearsals. Send email to Dr. Ja A. Jahannes, Artistic Director, at aiconcerts@aol.com if interested. Attach a brief resume of singing experience, a recent sound file and contact information. The deadline is Aug. 25.

Benefits & Fund Raisers Give for the Gulf

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

Tybee Turtle Tour

This program is sposnored by the Tybee Arts Association to raise money to help save

For information, call 233-4161.

Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

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

Skidaway Island Democrats

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

Voter Registration Hours Extended

The Voter Registration Office at 1117 Eisenhower Dr., Suite E, is offering extended hours of operation for those who need photo ID cards before the July 18 primary election. The office will be open Thursday, July 13 and Saturday, July 15 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Call for Applications Grassroots Arts Program

The City of Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Cultural Affairs is seeking applicants for its 2006-2007 Grassroots Arts Program, which supports activities that provide arts, heritage and culturally based learning opportunities for the general public. Funding of up to $2,000 per program is available through a competitive review process. The deadline for project proposals is Friday, Sept. 1 at 5 p.m.

Applications and guidelines can be found at www.savannahga.gov/arts or call 651-6417.

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Classes, Camps & Workshops

First Steps parent education program

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

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Summer 2006 classes run for a week at a time. Students attend Monday through Friday. There are two sessions a day, one for ages 6-10 and the other for ages 11-teen.

The morning session is 9 a.m. to noon and the afternoon session is 1-4 p.m. The price per week is $160. Art supplies are provided.

A class called This Land is Your Land is set for July 24-28. For information, visit www.

TheArtSchool.-Sav.com or call Lind at 9211151.

Art with Clay

Free pottery lessons. Coiling, slab building, pinch pots or try the wheel. Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Glazed Over Pottery Painting Place, 1190 King George Blvd., behind Steamers. Call 9614494 or send e-mail to glazedoverppp@aol. com.

Baby sign classes

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

Babysitters training class

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St. Joseph’s/Candler Childhood Injury Prevention Program offers a class for boys and girls 11-15 who want to become babysitters. The cost is $35. Call 819-8583.

Clay Classes in Hand-building

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

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

Construction Apprentice Training Opportunity

Project SAV is recruiting persons interested in an upcoming training program.

Orientation sessions will be held Thursday, July 20 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Family Recourse Center at 705 E. Anderson St. and Tuesday, July 25 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St. Call 604-9574.

Culinary Arts Training Program

The Employment & Training Center of Union Mission, Inc. and Savannah Technical College are accepting students into this 18week program at the Starfish Cafe. To enroll, attend an assessment on July 27 at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Union Mission’s J.C. Lewis Health center, 125 Fahm St. or call Mindy Saunders at 234-0525.

Davenport House Docent Training is conducted every February, July and October. Call 236-8097 or send email to jcredle@savbusiness.net.

Estimating Future Returns

is a free investment seminar that will be held July 25 at noon and 7 p.m. at Smith Barney, 7402 Hodgson Memorial Dr., Suite 200. Seating is limited. For reservations, call Kathleen Patterson at 308-9815.

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register.

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

Free Lunch and Learn Session

Guided Imagery

Change your life with guided imagery.

Read about it in Oprah magazine, January 2006. Ditch anxiety, manage deadlines, lose weight, recovery from surgery. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

Free classes will be offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Some classes are on-going.

Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. The Community Computer Lab is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Job Readiness will be offered July 25 from 9 a.m. to noon. A Budgeting Seminar will be held Monday, July 24 from 9 a.m. to noon. Call 232-4232, Ext. 115 to register.

July Business Connection The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce will hold this event Thursday, July 27 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cobblestone Conch House on River Street. Cost is $5 for members and $15 for member guests. Call Susan Smith at 644-6434.

Life Challenge Consulting

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

Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

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

Orientation for Family Partners

Step Up, Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative, is seeking community members who are interested in tackling poverty in Savannah through volunteer work with families as Family Partners. An orientation session will be held Thursday, June 20 at 6 p.m. at St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St in the Cuyler-Brownsville neighborhood. Call 6446439.

Puppet Shows

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

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swill be conducted by Christopher Scott Aug. 4-6 in Killington, Vermont. The cost is $495, which is all inclusive. Call 398-1727.

Safe Teen Driving Program

The Chatham County Youth Commission has partnered with State Farm to provide this program for youth between 14-18.

The program consists of 6 1/2 hours of classroom training with lunch, which will be provided. Classes will be held July 22 and 29 and Aug. 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center. In order to receive a certificate and be eligible for an insurance discount, a parent or guardian must attend the first hour of the class. Call 652-7886.

Savannah Children’s Theatre Camp

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center offers a variety of business classes. The center is at 801 E. Gwinnett St. Call 6523582.

Sign Language Course

will be held for six weeks on Thursday evenings from 5:30-7 p.m., beginning July 27, at Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th St. The instructor will be Donna Reeder. Pre-registration is required.

Call 355-4601.

Skills of Fiction-Writing

Christopher Scott Writing Courses teaches self-contained evening classes Tuesdays or Thursdays throughout the year on specific aspects of writing and publishing fiction.

For details, schedules, fees and reservations, call 398-1727 or visit www.cscottwriting. com/savworkshop.htm.

S.T.A.R.S. Summer Camp

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St., is offering a summer camp for students in kindergarten through 8th grades that provides arts and crafts, swimming, outdoor games and academic skill building through July 21, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. Call Program Coordinator Artinique Thomas at 447-0578.

TIRED OF PUTTING YOUR LIFE ON HOLD EACH MONTH?

Thinking of Starting a Small Business is a workshop set for July 27 from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40 if you pre-register and pre-pay, or $50 the day of the workshop.

Call 651-3200.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

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

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Campers will be cast in, rehearse and perform in summer productions. The Wiz camp will be open to 6th through 12th graders and will be held July 24-Aug. 6.

Camp will be held Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs $375. Call 355-8003.

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weekday (evening), full weekend and single-day weekend classes for writers of all standards. Learn the basic Skills of Writing Fiction (plus a two-evening preparatory course entitled I’ve never written anything since leaving School!) or take the Advanced Fiction Writing course designed for more experienced writers. Other classes include The Publishing Scene and Writing Family Memoirs. Learn to write and get published.

Find details, schedules, fees, etc. at www. cscottwriting.com/savworkshop.htm or call 398--1727.

YMCA Summer Day Camp

is registering kids ages 2 to 12. This year’s camp theme is Feel the Spirit. Camp will run through Aug. 11 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Activities include swimming, arts and crafts, sports, music, field trips, movies, spiritual enrichment, dance, character development and cultural and educational programs. Registration is $40 per child and the weekly fee ranges from $50 to $80 per week based on household income. Call 233-1951.

Clubs & Organizations

AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

This is an official student club of Armstrong Atlantic State University that accepts non-students as associate members. It is devoted to the exploration and enjoyment

of the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

Activities include book discussions, movie screenings, role playing game sessions, board and card games, guest speakers, episode marathons and armor demonstrations. Provides guest speakers to educators upon request. Call Michael at 220-8129, send e-mail to lightmagus@yahoo.com or mccauln1981@hotmail.com. or visit http:// aasuscifi.proboards105.com/index.cgi.

Bike Night with Mikie

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

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

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

Civil Air Patrol

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

Clean Coast

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

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

Visit www.cbtc.org for meeting schedule and more information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubby’s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. 728-5989.

Daughters of Destiny

An ongoing seminar for women who want to make changes in their lives through spirituality and positive reinforcement meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Daughters of Destiny House, 12 E. 41st St. Facilitated by Miriam Center. Call 663-0894.

Discussion Group for Unsung Heroes

You may not requrie recognition but someone else may want to know your story and it could make a difference in your life.

Discussion groups or meetings will be set up. For info, send e-mail to unsung-heros@ hotmail.com.

English Style Table Soccer

Savannah Subbuteo Club. Call 667-7204 or visit http://savannahsubbuteo.tripod.com.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. between Park Avenue and Duffy Street. Call 236-8546.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 184 in Thunderbolt. Call 786-4508.

No Kidding!

is the area’s first social club for single and married adults who do not have children.

Meet other non-parents at events and activities. For information on No Kidding! visit www.nokidding.net or send e-mail to luluette@prodigy.net.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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

St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting).

Meet at 6:25 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Call 234-3336.

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord. Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Spiva Law Group, 12020 Abercorn St. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This nondenominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance.

Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 6550994.

Savannah Art Association

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

meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not having fun, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

Savannah Brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; League

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

Savannah Fencing Club

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

Savannah Jaycees

Savannah Kennel Club

meets the fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. from September through May at the Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier. 6562410.

Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Savannah Toastmasters

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

Tybee Performing Arts Society

The Young Professionals of Savannah

For information, contact Jacob Cottingham at Jacob@thesouthmag.com.

Dance

Adult Ballet &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Modern Dance Classes

at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun. All levels and body types welcome.

Beginner-Intermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Beginner Adult Modern is Mondays from 1-2 p.m. Intermediate/ Advanced Modern is Mondays from 10-11:30 a.m. A variety of youth classes ages 3 to teen are available. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Argentine Tango Practice and Lesson Learn the dance while having fun Sundays from 1:30-3:30 at the Doris Martine Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. $2 per person.

Call 925-7416.

Flamenco Enthusiasts

Dance or learn flamenco in Savannah with the Flamenco Cooperative. Meetings are held on Saturdays from 1 to 2:30 or 3 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance. Any level welcome. If you would like to dance, accompany or sing, contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com.

Salsa Dance Lessons

Salsa classes for beginners are offered every Friday from 6-7 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance Studio, 2212 Lincoln St. You do not need a partner. Call 898-2296 or send e-mail to irdelatoru@yahoo.com.

The Savannah Shag Club

Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holidayâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 927-9439.

meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the old Tybee school All interested,

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

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing

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

has ongoing classes throughout the summer.

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet is Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m., Intermediate and Advanced Jazz is Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Hip Hop is Thursdays at 7 p.m. A Summer Ballet Intensive with Kristin Sloan of New York City Ballet will be held July 25-Aug. 4. Fall classes begin Aug. 7 and registration is being accepted now. The Studio is located at 2805 Roger Lacey Ave. just off the intersection of Skidaway and Victory. Call 695-9149.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:30-11:30 a.m. and Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Drop-in rate is $10, $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome. Look on the web at www.jadelotustaichi.com.

Youth Dance Program

The Jewish Education Alliance

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.

Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at 6:15 am. Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 355-8111.

Events

Ladies Living Smart fitness club

6th Annual Southern Isles Bodybuilding and Figure Championships

provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

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

will be held Saturday, July 22 at Armstrong Atlantic State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Arts Auditorium. Pre-judging is at 10 a.m. and the finals show is at 7 p.m. Special door prizes, including a stay at the Forsyth Park Inn, will be given away at the finals. For tickets, entries or information, contact Tony or Mary Ann at 897-1263.

Pilates Classes

are offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Preregister by calling 819-6463.

Fitness

Pregnancy Yoga

An eight-week session will be held Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-7:15 p.m. beginning Aug. 22 in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approache to the challenges of pregnancy, continued on page 36

A balanced life

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

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

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ouerves. There is no cover charge. Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

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

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labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. The cost si $90 for once per week or $150 for twice per week. Call 596-0584 or email ann@aikyayoga.com. will hold an open house on Thursday, July 13 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. with free yoga classes all day. Classes offered seven days a week. Community Flow yoga is offered three times a week at a cost of $5 per session.

For other classes, the drop-in rate is $13, the student drop-in rate is $11 with ID and active duty military/dependents rate is $9. The summer schedule is: Monday, Community Flow Yoga from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and All Levels Flow Yoga from 5:30-6:45 p.m.; Tuesday: Yoga Basics from 6-7:15 p.m.; Wednesday, Gentle Yoga from 5:306:45 p.m.; Thursday, Dynamic Flow Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Friday, Community Flow Yoga from 10-11 a.m.; Saturday, All Levels Flow Yoga from 10:30-11:45 a.m.; and Sunday, Community Flow Yoga from 5-6 p.m. Located at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton Street. Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-6653, email kelley@savannahyoga.com or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

Yogalates Classes

are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions. Call 819-6463.

First City Network Board Meeting First City Network Community Center and Library

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

First City Network’s Workforce project offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

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

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969.

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

Standout

is First City’s gay youth support group.

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

Call 657-1966.

What Makes A Family

is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from

10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611.

Health

Be Stress Free

Learn to go within, raise awareness and access inner wisdom and peace. Thsi meditation group meets every second Sunday from noon to 1 p.m. at 6205 Abercorn St., No. 203. Arrive by 11:55 a.m. and go to the front door. To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@ comcast.net or call 247-4263.

Can’t Sleep?

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

Case Management Program

St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St., will sponsor a client assessment and referral service that assists individuals in obtaining health care and medical assistance, indigent services, housing and other social services. Call 4476605 or 232-2003.

Circle of Healing

Connect, discuss, meditate and share energy with live-minded individuals in this free, inspirational circle of healing at the Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St. Call 236-2131.

by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m pleased to announce the

imminent arrival of a new chapter in your own personal soap opera. It could include any of the following plot twists: midnight confessions, madcap sex farces, thumb-sucking saints, an invitation to pl ay leapfrog with a unicorn, work turning into play and vice versa, a showdown between the reptile brain and mammalian brain, a chance to bob for lollipops in a fountain, a thunderstorm coming just in time to douse a raging fire, samurais wearing pajamas, a supernatural ham sandwich, and opportunities to tinker with your “Me Against the World” attitude.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Has a baby ever been born

with two umbilical cords? If so, he or she would be a good symbol for you in the coming weeks. Why? Because you should be extremely aggressive about getting the nurturing you need--even to the point of doubledipping from a primal source. In my astrological opinion, it’s your responsibility to make sure you’re flooded with blessings. Trust your unprecedented hunger. was a brilliant Cambridge-educated scholar and poet who won numerous awards for her poetry in the U.K. and France. Many of her colleagues were towering intellectuals, but she herself wanted “to get away from the Sherlock Holmes misconception that everything has a rational explanation.” She gravitated instead toward “the sacred springs of life, which are the imagination and the heart.” She’s your role model right now, Gemini.

I hope she’ll inspire you to apply all of your high-powered ingenuity to an exploration of soul-awakening mysteries that can’t be encapsulated with neat analyses.

It’s a perfect moment for you to celebrate the indescribable bounty of fertile chaos. der you numb or even dumb? What experiences tend to shut you down? When you’re gliding along in your natural rhythm, are you sometimes interrupted by blips

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

Monday Level I and II 6:30-8 p.m., Mommy and Me Yoga 4-5 p.m. Tuesday Level II and III from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday Level I from 10-11:30 a.m. and Level I and II from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday Vinyasa Flow from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday Level I from 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday Vinyasa Flow from 9-10 a.m. and Level I from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Sunday Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. There are openings for private sessions on weekends.

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361.

are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are there influences that ren-

The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393. classes taught by Debra Whalen R.Y.T. are offered Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. $10 drop-in fee.

Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

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Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30 or eight sessions are $50. Call 819-6463.

that make you feel lost and unresponsive? According to my reading of the astrological omens, Cancerian, you now have extra power to fight back against these little outbreaks of black magic. It’s a perfect moment to get the upper hand on anything that closes you off from the world or locks you away from your own intuition.

cries as she struck the ball, and since then many other players have made it a part of their game. This is a favorable time for you to experiment with what they have discovered: that making loud mouth noises loosens your inhibitions, boosts your confidence, and lubricates your power. Liberate your GRUNT, Libra!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Hebrew word “shalom” is both

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In preparation for my public

a hello infused with a goodbye and a goodbye leavened with a hello. That’s why it would be wise and fun for you to make it your word of power in the coming days.

You’ll be spinning through a transitional zone in which it won’t always be clear which direction is up. You’ll be coming and going simultaneously, embarking on new journeys and ending old ones. Whenever you say “shalom,” whether it’s a greeting to someone else or a mantra uttered in solitude, you’ll remind yourself that the threshold you’re in is pregnant with a thousand possibilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some scientists believe our

brains are in a continual state of war. Writing in LiveScience.com, Bjorn Carey reports that our grey matter is a battleground where competing thoughts and impulses struggle for supremacy, brawling and jousting for our undivided attention. I have reason to believe that this ruckus will be far more pronounced than usual for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. All of your pairs of opposites will intensify their conflict, with each side clamoring and maneuvering to be declared winner. What I recommend may surprise you. I think you should just sit back with amused tolerance and let them fight it out. There really is no pressing need for you to be anything other than a radiant bundle of fascinating contradictions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not a big fan of excessive

decorum. That’s why I’m opposed to the efforts by some professional tennis officials to stop the spread of grunting among female tennis players. The great Monica Seles started the trend some years ago, emitting war

readings and performances, I often ask my hosts to make sure that there are pussy willows and pomegranates placed near the podium, along with a pint of absinthe, a jump rope woven from hemp for use in my interactive rituals, and a box of slave-free, non-GMO, organic vegan chocolates. What about you, Scorpio?

What items would you demand in your rider if you were asked to speak about your philosophy of life to a curious audience? It’s an ideal time to meditate on this matter.

According to my astrological analysis, you will soon be in the spotlight, will be encouraged to spread your influence more forcefully, and will have openings to ask for what you want with aggressive clarity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Austin artist Scott Wade

likes to let layers of dust collect on the rear window of his car. That allows him to express his specialty: detailed “paintings” carved out of the dust with his fingers and paintbrushes. The most exquisite of his temporary masterpieces was a black-and-white reproduction of one of the famous “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings. I recommend you make Wade your role model, Sagittarius.

Create unexpected wonders and exuberant curiosities out of stuff that’s used in a different way than it’s “supposed” to be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I recently found out there’s a famous guy out there with a name similar to mine. Rob Brzezinski is an administrator for pro football’s Minnesota Vikings. He’s regarded as a “cap guru,” meaning he’s highly skilled at manipulating the National Football League’s Byzantine “cap” system of rules about how much money a team can spend on its players. That’s

pretty funny given the fact that I’ve been working really hard in the last few months to become a “Cappy guru,” by which I mean someone who understands Capricorns really well. I mention this because it’s prime time for you to seek out and learn from people who are to you what Rob Brzezinski is to me: your counterpart, soul twin, shadow, doppelganger, or other half.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Imagine asking fundamen-

talist nutcase Jerry Falwell to evaluate a book about evolution by a renowned science writer like Richard Dawkins. Imagine handing poet Allen Ginsberg’s masterwork *Howl* to a janitor in Bangladesh and paying him to write his opinions about it. The effect would be similar to an event that actually occurred recently. *The New York Times* invited ex-Marine sniper Anthony Swofford, author of the Gulf War memoir *Jarhead,* to review a subversive metaphysical experiment penned by visionary philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck. As you might expect, Swofford’s screed was 85 percent hallucination. Let the Times’ gaffe serve as a warning beacon, Aquarius. It’s now crucial for you to gather a range of discriminating opinions about yourself and the possibilities you’re considering. Don’t rely on people who have no familiarity with, understanding of, or respect for the issues you want feedback about.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Neurologist Oliver Sacks writes books in which he describes the ingenious adaptations some of his patients have made when faced with limitations that other people might have found debilitating. One example is an artist whose car accident caused him to lose his ability to see any other colors besides black and white. In response, he became a specialist in creating black and white paintings, and ultimately developed a mastery that won him acclaim. Later, when offered a chance to undergo treatment to restore the full spectrum of vision, he declined. Take heart from his story, Pisces. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you, too, to capitalize on one of your seeming liabilities or inadequacies. w

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Community HealthCare Center

is a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for uninsured individuals who work or live in Chatham County and do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. All patients receive free examinations, medicine through the patient assistance program and free lab work. Women receive free pap smears and mammograms. Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify for services. Located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5, Medical Center.

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc.

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

Dual Recovery Anonymous

This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@netscape.com for information.

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

This monthly cancer survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; walk is free and open to all survivors and their loved ones. Call DeDe Cargill at 398-6654.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings are conducted at three locations within St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center.

No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Free hearing & speech screening

Every Thursday morning from 9 a.m.-12 noon at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. will be held July 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Islands YMCA. To register, call 819-3368

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session

Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium with Dr. John Angstadt and other staff

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HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

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

La Leche League of Savannah

This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:15-7:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

Lose Weight

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

Call the Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at 1-800-334-3322.

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

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

Mammograms

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. SJ/C accepts most insurance plans. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

Mammograms will be performed July 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/ Candler Medical Group in Pembroke. Call 819-3368 for appointments. Mammograms will be performed July 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Landings on Skidaway Island. For appointments, call 354-9357.

Mammograms will be performed July 26 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Bryan County Health Department in Richmond Hill. Call 756-2611 for appointments.

The Midwife Group of Coastal Georgia

The Midwife Group offers a free program to women at any stage of pregnancy that includes free information on pregnancy, birth and parenting, an opportunity to talk to other pregnant women and information on a certified nurse midwife-assisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital.

Call 826-4155 or send e-mail to birthcenter@alltel.net.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

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

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

Project SAVE

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

Memorial Health CPR training

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

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

The Quit Line

a toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for all Georgia residents 18 or older and concerned parents of adolescents who are using tobacco. Call 1-877-270-STOP or visit www. unitegeorgia.com.

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Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture

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will meet Monday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 508 of the Candler Professional Building, 5354 Reynolds St. Babies are welcome at the meetings. Call Phoebe at 897-9261.

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and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. Call the Alpha Institute. 201-0071.

Super 2 Access Clinic

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

Third Annual Multi-Generational Health Fair

Men can get free prostate, blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol checks Saturday, June 24 from 1 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Georgia Infirmary, 1900 Abercorn St. Appointments must be placed for the prostate screening by calling 819-3438.

Wanted:â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;CPR and First Aid Instructors

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

Nature & Environment Beach Birds

Join a Wilderness Southeast expert birding guide for a look at the gulls, terns, skimmers and more that lounge on the beach in midsummer on Sunday, July 23 from 4-6 p.m.

Meet at the end of Polk Street near Tybee Recycling. The cost is $10. Call 897-5108 for reservations.

Dolphin Project of Georgia

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

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

members, who discuss obesity and the surgical process. Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

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Summer Canoe Excursion

On Saturday, July 22, Fort King George in Darien will host a canoe excursion up the Altamaha River to explore the natural wildlife and environment of Cathead Creek.

All participants must meet at the Fort King George Historic Site at 8 a.m. Canoes, paddles, life jackets and transportation to the launch will be provided. The cost is $20 per person. Call 912-437-4770. The site is located 3 miles east of Interstate 95 at Exit 49.

Take a walk on the wild side

at the Oatland Island Education Center.

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

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Savannah Ghosts Book Signing

Blending history with mystery, this book features 10 ghostly tales based on some of Savannah’s best-loved folk tales. It was written by David H. Rousseau and illustrated by his wife, Julie Collins Rousseau.

They will be signing books on Thursday July 27 from 5-7 p.m. at The Marshall House, 123 E. Broughton St.

Tea time at Ola’s

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

Whip Triplett Book Signing

Local author and hotelier Whip Triplett has compiled a collection of vintage postcards that are published in his book Savannah. He will sign books Saturday, July 22 at 3 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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8 One fifth of one quarter 14 Fraternity letters 15 “Gotcha” 16 Where chat rooms are found 17 Chaim Potok book, at the convention?

19 Streisand TV special, at the convention?

20 Composer Debussy 21 Harold Ramis, in “Ghostbusters” 23 Derek and Diddley 24 Oregon, once: abbr.

25 Cattle rancher’s tool 26 Game that involves a rope and a wrench 27 It goes away when you stand 28 1998 Ken Loach movie, at the convention?

30 Holes in a shoe 32 Giant gains?: abbr.

33 Late son of Bill Cosby 35 Pinocchio’s protrusion 36 Rap persona, at the convention?

38 World Cup shout 40 Without ___ (doomed) 41 Show that once featured Julia Louis-Dreyfus: abbr.

44 Crack the code 46 Primus song, at the convention?

47 Distance runner Sebastian 48 Singer James or Jones 49 Actress Russo 51 David Beckham fan, often 52 “Take On Me” group 53 ___ mojado (“Wet floor,” on some signs) 54 Half-assed response 56 2004 A.N. Wilson novel, at the convention?

58 Phrase that’s seen on each conventiongoer’s nametag 60 Steamy 61 Art ___ 62 Gnarls Barkley member ___-Lo 63 Richards of “Wild Things”

64 NBC sitcom, at the convention?

65 Charlemagne’s domain, for short

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44 Grammatically incorrect word with “wheeled” 45 Funky R&B song, at the convention?

50 ___ plume (pseudonym) 51 Ask for, as a cigarette 53 Luau spreads 54 Growth in profit: abbr.

55 Lock-up, in Liverpool 57 “Is ___, Lord?” (disciple’s query) 59 Senate vote

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

Volunteers needed for Tybee Marine Center

Tybee Marine Science Center is looking for volunteers interested in supporting educational programs. Help is needed with touch tank presentations, animal care, special events, sea turtle monitoring, outreach programs, gift shop and office duties. Call 7865917 or visit www.tbeemsc.org.

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline

The Service of Compline, ”Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ Church Savannah (Episcopal), located on Johnson Square. The choir, made up of singers from churches around the city, sings in the darkened nave of Christ Church by candlelight. Compline, the last of the monastic prayer services before retiring, is a service in which one is invited to meditate and reflect on the day or week past and then enter into the little death of sleep to rise with hope and thanksgiving for the days ahead.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

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

Ekklesia, The Church

Pets & Animals St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 6:25 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Call 234-3336.

SSavannah’s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

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

Meditation Group

Learn to go within, raise awareness and access inner wisdom and peace. Thsi meditation group meets every second Sunday from noon to 1 p.m. at 6205 Abercorn St., No. 203. Arrive by 11:55 a.m. and go to the front door. To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@ comcast.net or call 247-4263.

Nicodemus by Night

Readings & Signings

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

He received revolutionary understanding that compelled him to forsake everything to become a disciple. Jesus was considered a heretic for his radical teachings that people should give up their own possessions and care for one another instead of themselves.

Would Jesus’ teaching require anything less today?

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

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

Site Launched for Reclaiming Lost Pets

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

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

the 411|Happenings Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group

meets Sundays from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square. Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m.

Sitting and walking meditation and Dharma talk or reading. All practices are welcome.

Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction.

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA)

Wildwood United Methodist Church

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

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

Women’s Bible Study

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

Sports & Games Savannah Area Tennis

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

Savannah Disc Golf Club

holds an Open Doubles Tournament at 10 a.m. each Saturday at Tom Triplett Park on U.S. 80 between Dean Forest Road and Interstate 95. New players are welcome.

Free coaching in driving and putting skills is available. Teams are chosen by luck of the draw. Entry is $5. For information, visit savannahdiscgolf.com.

Support Groups

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027.

Al Anon Family Groups

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

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group

The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected

by Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementiacausing illnesses and meets the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111 of the Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway. Visit www.alzga.org or call 9202231.

Amputee Support Group

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

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient

basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity Meets once a week. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents of Children with Bleeding Disorders

meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Health. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group

for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

Better Breathers support group

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Tina Nelson at 819-7340 or Cindy Balkstra at 819-8032.

Bipolar Support Group

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

Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline

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

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SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call Gil at 659-1917 after 7 p.m. or e-mail gilhigh@hotmail.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On July 23, the Rev. Emmy Lou Belcher will speak from the topic The Evidence of Redwood. The service will be held Sunday, at 11 a.m. in the Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast.net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

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

Cancer support group

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

Caring for Us

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

Celiac Support Group

for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 507-2592.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

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

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 3551221.

Compassionate Friends Support Group

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195.

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250.

This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com.

Depressive/Manic support group

Open to persons diagnosed with depression.

Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 920-0153 or 927-2064

Diabetes support group

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

Domestic violence community support group

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

Domestic Violence Hotline

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

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

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

Fibromyalgia support group

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

and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 8196743.

Memorial Health Cancer Challenges Support Group

The Parents of Difficult Teens group

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

Memorial Health Diabetes Support Group

Rape Crisis Center

First Line

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center

a program of Hospice Savannah, offers the free counseling services for anyone dealing with loss. Call 355-2289. Grief 101 is a seven week support group for individuals who have suffered a loss by death. Pre-registration required. Tuesda­ys 6-7 p.m. Grief Support Network is an on-going peer-run support group. Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. Children’s Groups, call for times. Specialty Groups such as Spouse Loss Group and Loss by Suicide Group are offered when needed.

HIV/AIDS :living with HIV/AIDS? My Brothaz Home

is a support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House

provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, followup care and parent-child activities funded

by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families.

Please call 236-5310 for information.

Huntington Disease Support Group

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

Keeping hope alive while living with cancer

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

Koolostomy Accessories

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

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

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

Living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999.

Lowcountry Huntington’s Disease Group

will meet July 25 at 6 p.m. at Panera Bread, 8108 Abercorn St. in the Abercorn Commons shopping center for an “Internet Cafe” night hosted by Paul Bratz. The website at www.LowcountryHD.com will be shown online. Call Sandra at 964-0455 or visit www.LowcountryHD.com.

Lung Cancer Support Group

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

Lupus Encouragement Group

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

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

for parents having problems with their teens and pre-teens. 353-7699.

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

assists survivors of rape and sexual assault.

The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 233-7273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families. Call 233-RAPE.

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

Memorial Health Pancreatic Cancer Support Group’

For information, call Jennifer Currin at 3503988.

Memorial Health POPPS! Group

for children with cancer and their parents and caregivers. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Memorial Health PRIDE Bleeding Disorders Support Group Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Memorial Health SET Focus

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

Mommy and Me: Life With Your Little One

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

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

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

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

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

For information, call Martyn Hills at 6514094.

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

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

St. Joseph’s/Candler Emory transplant support group

The group meets every other month, Jan. 12, March 9, May 11, July 13, Sept. 14 and Nov. 9, in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. For information, call Terria Manning at 8192171 or Karen Traver at 819-8350.

Call 653-5878.

Sarcoidosis support group

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

Savannah Chatham Truancy Intervention Project

Multiple Sclerosis support group

Muscular Dystrophy support group

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

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

meets the third Sunday from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Sports Education Building, Room 226. 3517035 or 353-7143.

Overcoming the Stigma of Seizure Disorders

meets the fourth Thursday at the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church at Abercorn and Gordon streets. A free story/coloring book, I’m Feeling Just Ducky!, is available for children to better explain seizure activity.. Call Pam Steadman at 2331006.

Overeaters Anonymous

Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Does your weight affect the way you live your life? No dues, no fees, no weigh-ins. Meets Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. at 1030 Shawnee St., Unit F2.

Call 728-4028.

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

PRIDE Support Group

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

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, Noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. 692-2032. meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 428 Bull St. in the United Way Building. The project can educate you regarding the new truancy law and how it impacts your child.

The Savannah Parkinson’s Support Group

meets the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. Call 355-6347 or 2384666.

Senior Citizen’s Inc. Alzheimer’s Support Group

This monthly support group is for families of persons suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia and is held the second Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Stacey Floyd at 236-0363.

Sexaholics Anonymous

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

S-Anon Family Group

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

Smoking Cessation Support Group

is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking.

Call 819-8032 or 819-3361.

the 411|Happenings Speak with someone who has survived a stroke, who will listen and understand stroke patients’ experiences. Groups meet in three locations -- every Tuesday from 12:303:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.; every Friday from 10-11 a.m. at Savannah Speech and Hearing, 1206 E. 66th St., (call Jane Medoff at 355-4601); and every third Thursday of the month from 4-5:30 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church at 1 W. Ridge Rd. on Skidaway Island. Call Ann Farr at 598-1766 or Shirley Nack at 598-7047.

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

The Work

meets the fourth Friday at 7 p.m. at 2320 Sunset Blvd., (just off Skidaway at Carey Hilliards). The Work is for mentally healthy people who are stuck in some area of their lives. 355-4704.

Teen Mom Support Program

Volunteers

Transgender Support Group

The Chatham Branch of the Savannah Red Cross needs volunteers. Call Mark Stall at 651-5352 or send e-mail to stallm@savannahredcross.org.

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

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

United Way’s First Call for Help

Victim-Witness assistance program

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

Weight loss support group

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

Wheeze busters

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

America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

to sort, clean, & shelve salvaged foods from reclamation centers where bent cans or crumpled boxes of nutritious food is sent.

Apply as soon as possible. 912-236-6750 ext 109.

Become a mentor

Coastal Pet Rescue

Foster parents are needed. A volunteer coordinator is needed, as are vet techs with microchipping experience, Pet Expo volunteers, fundraiser volunteers, a PR/marketing coordinator, a trainer/behaviorist and Adoption Day volunteers. Fill out an online application at www.coastalpetrescue.org.

Community Cardiovascular Council

is looking for medical volunteers to check blood pressures for our walk-ins. Anyone interested in a few hours a week please call Sydney Oetgen at 236-7666.

Community HealthCare Center

This non-profit organization is looking for volunteer nurses, doctors, nurses practitioners and development/fundraising volunteers to work at the center, which provides free medical care for working uninsured individuals. Call Margarita Ruppe at 398-9720 or visit www.chcsavannah.org. The center is located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5.

Crafts and Ceramics Teachers Needed

CASA needs volunteers

The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers is seeking volunteers to teach crafts or ceramic classes on Mondays. Call Valeria Flowers at 447-5711.

Chatham County Truancy Intervention Project

needs boat owners, photographers and other volunteers to help conduct scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along the coast of Georgia. You must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit the Web site at www.TheDolphinProject.org.

Make a difference in a child’s life. Call Michelle Jones, 652-6710. to speak up for abused children in court for their best interests and to help ensure they are placed in safe and permanent homes. Call 447-8908 or send e-mail to infor@savannahcasa.org. matches volunteer attorneys and other professionals with children who have been brought before the court for excessive school absenteeism. They also provide legal representation and other resources to children and their families to prevent school failure. TIP is recruiting professionals in the fields of education, law enforcement and social service.

The Dolphin Project of Georgia

Faith in Action Multi-cultural Program needs volunteers. Your neighbors who are elderly or who have disabilities need your help with everyday activities, simple chores,

friendly visits, telephone calls and respite care. Call Linda Fields at 238-2960, Ext. 123.

First Steps at St. Joseph’s/Candler

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

is seeking volunteers. Greet visitors, maintain trails, catalogue historic photographs and assist in the gift shop and more. Call David Underwood at 786-5787.

Foster families and adoptive families are needed in Chatham County. Call 651-5437.

The Foster Grandparent Program needs volunteers

who are 60 or older to volunteer their time in educational facilities, day care centers and other social service agencies for 20 hours per week, working four or five days per week.

FGP offers a modest stipend and assistance with transportation fee. Call Linda Fields at 234-7842 or 238-2960, Ext. 123.

Georgia Cares

is a program of the Savannah Regional Office of Georgia Legal Services that provides free, unbiased information and assistance to Medicare enrollees on health insurance coverage, benefits, consumer rights and healthcare fraud. Volunteer training is required. Call Rose Beck, 1-800-559-8387.

Hospice Savannah volunteer training

needs volunteers to play music to pateitns, visit patients in their homes or nursing homes in Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Long counties, assist staff and families in Hospice House in Savannah, or help out in the administrative office on Chatham Parkway. Volunteer training is offered the second Monday and Tuesday of every month.

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American Red Cross needs volunteers

Become a mentor today and help make a difference in a child’s life. For information, call 201-2133.

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