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Fishman Is there life after Mac?

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Beau Jest

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Be lost Giants

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Table of Contents

Volume 6, No. 1, Sept. 27, 2006

On the cover: Kevin Benderman (photo by Jim Morekis)

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Cover Story Kevin Benderman on the record City Notebook Goin’ around the town Feedback Readers have their say Jane Fishman Is there life after Mac? Blotter From SPD reports News of the Weird Strange but true Earthweek The week on your planet

Vibes City Notebook 12

Music Feature Jazz Festival Music Interview Pat Greene Connect Recommends Concerts of note Soundboard Who’s playing and where around town Music Menu Local gigs a la carte

Culture Books Walking through the Civil War Theatre Preview Beau Jest 21 Art Patrol Exhibitions and openings

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28. Culberson will perform at 7 p.m., the Sapphire Bullets at 8 p.m. and Haywood Gregory at 9 p.m. Where: Forsyth Park. Cost: Free.

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What: The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical was written by Jonathan Larson. Set in the East Village of New York City, it’s about being young and learning to survive, falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. When: Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre Cost: Tickets range from $32 to $52. Call: 651-6556.

What: Speaker Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will present On the Brink: Israel, Lebanon and the Future of Peace. When: Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. behind the Savannah Visitors Center.

Latino Heritage Week

What: Tony Award-winner and Def Poetry jam performer Mayda del Valle will present Mayda’s Language Revolution. When: Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Memorial College Center Cafeteria. Cost: Free.

fri, Sept 29 Latino Heritage Week

What: The festival will come to a close with Latin dance lessons. When: Sept. 29 at 10 a.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Shearouse Plaza.

Cost: Free.

AASU Presents Ernie Watts

What: Saxophonist Ernie Watts will rehearse with the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble. When: Sept. 29 at 1 p.m.Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Free.

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What: Author Mike Yankoski lived as a homeless man for 5 months and gained a unique understanding of the homeless.

Since writing about the experience, he has appeared on several national broadcasts. In this presentation hosted by Old Savannah City Mission, he will provide some solutions and also will sign copies of his book, Under the Overpass. When: Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. Where: Bull Street Baptist Church, 17 E. Anderson St. Cost: Free. Visit: oscm.org.

Savannah Jazz Festival

What: Concert features the Benedetto Players featuring guitarists Jack Wilkins, Howard Paul and Frank DiBussolo; the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble featuring saxophonist Ernie Watts; and Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers. When: Sept. 29. The Benedetto Players will play at 7 p.m., the Jazz Ensemble at 8:15 p.m. and Pucho at 9:30 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park. Cost: Free.

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Ron White’s You Can’t Fix Stupid

What: The comedian made famous as “Tater Salad” on the Redneck Comedy Tour brings his act to Savannah. When: Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Cost: $39.75. Call: 651-6556.

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What: Internationally known medical herbalist, “Herbal Ed” Smith will present a lecture, Herbs for Stress, Detoxification and Immune Support. When: Sept. 29 from 7-9 p.m. Where: The Atrium at the DeSoto Hilton Hotel. Cost: Free. Info: Brighter Day at 236-4703 or www.brighterdayfoods.com.

What: Volunteers will be out in force in observance of National Public Lands Day, and are needed to work on the park’s new Lighthouse Overlook Trail. Members of the 8th Georgia Regiment and National Park Service rangers will provide a variety of living history demonstrations inside the fort, including cannon firings and musket demonstrations. When: Sept. 30. Registration begins at 7:30 p.m. Free breakfast during registration.

Living history events will begin at 1 p.m. Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument on U.S. Highway 80. Cost: Free. Info: 786-5787 or www.nps.gov/fopu.

An Evening With Pat Green

What: This country singer is noted for his last Top 5 single, Wave on a Wave. When: Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. Where: The Lucas Theatre. Cost: Tickets range from $17 to $45.

Call: 525-5050.

Tue, oct 3 Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series

What: This annual lecture series brings in scholars from around the region to discuss topics relevant to the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, fought on Oct. 9, 1779. Dr. Dan Morrill of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will represent the British and Dr. Rory Cornish of Winthrop University will represent the Americans in A Revolutionary Debate: The British v. the Americans. When: Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. Where: Savannah History Museum Theater. Info: 651-3673 or www.chsgeorgia.org. w

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Savannah Council on World Affairs

What: Savannah Actor’s Theatre will present new live comedy every Friday and Saturday night through October. Formats will vary from night to night. All performances may contain adult content. When: Every Friday and Saturday through October, beginning at 10 p.m.

Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703 Louisville Rd., Suite D. Cost: $5. Call: 232-6080.

What: Concert opens with performances by the Savannah Arts Academy Skyelite Jazz Band and the Merit School of Music, followed by guitarist Barry Greene, the Ben Riley Trio featuring Randy Weston, saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman and blues singer Kevin Mahogany with the Savannah Jazz Orchestra. When: Sept. 30. The Skylite Jazz Band and the Merit School of Music will perform at 4 p.m., Barry Greene at 5 p.m., the Ben Riley Trio at 7:30 p.m., David “Fathead” Newman at 8:45 p.m. and Kevin Mahogany and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra at 10 p.m. Where: Forsyth Park. Cost: Free.

Info: www.savannahjazzfestival.org.

What: William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winner is set in a small Kansas town in the middle of the twentieth century and tells of the constraining life choices women faced at the time. When: Sept. 28-30, Oct. 1, and Oct. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. (3 p.m. only on Sunday, Oct. 1). As part of the Masquers’ 70th anniversary celebration, at 7 p.m. Sept. 28, alumna Bettye Morekis introduces the show by recounting her days in Savannah theatre.

Where: AASU’s Jenkins Theatre. Cost: General admission $8. Seniors, military and non-AASU students $7 each. Call: 927.5381

What: Directed by Skye Whitcomb, it tells the story of a young Jewish woman who is so desperate to please her parents, she invents the perfect Jewish boyfriend -- then must hire an actor to portray him. When: Sept.

28, 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Where: The Ark Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: Free, but donations will be accepted. Call: 232-6080.

Savannah Jazz Festival

AASU Masquers Open Picnic

Savannah Actor’s Theatre Opens Beau Jest

Project Improv (Fri. & Sat.)

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Objector Sgt. Kevin Benderman is no one’s idea of a typical antiwar activist.

Forty-one years old and built like a linebacker, he has a deep, commanding voice with a distinct Southern accent. Given to neither hyperbole nor overly demonstrative gestures, he speaks and moves slowly, but with quiet confidence.

Until the moment in 2005 when he was convicted of “missing movement” -- failing to re-deploy to Iraq for a second tour after being reassigned to Fort Stewart’s Third Infantry Division -- he had a sterling record to show from his ten-year military career, going back to the first Gulf War. In page after page of glowing recommendations, Benderman’s superiors in the First Squadron of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division, laud his resourcefulness, his commitment to teamwork, and his courage in the face of the enemy.

But sometime during Benderman’s six months in Iraq, something changed.

In 2004, he took the drastic step of applying for Conscientious Objector, or CO, status. While there’s an accepted procedure for becoming a CO, it’s a lengthy process with many legal and bureaucratic obstacles and no guarantee of success.

His application was rejected, and when he didn’t show up for deployment -- Benderman maintains he was given leave while his CO application was pending -- the Army arrested him. Though initially facing 17 years worth of potential charges, including desertion, by the time his trial concluded in July 2005 Benderman was convicted only of missing movement. He was released last August after doing 13 months of a 15-month sentence in the regional military correction facility -- “stockade,” in old school lingo -- at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

I spoke with Benderman and his wife Monica at their quiet, cozy home off an easy-to-miss side street in Hinesville, Ga., not far from Ft. Stewart’s main gate, where they live with her son Ryan, three dogs and a family of cats.

Monica also defies stereotypes. Far from the usual image of a docile, sheltered and long-suffering military wife, she exhibits a quick, articulate wit and shows a deep understanding not only of her husband but of the world at large and how it works.

The Bendermans have harsh words for what they see as the backward priorities of the military system -- and of the society that supports it -- but they’re also blunt in their assessment of the peace activists who

usal Sgt. Kevin Benderman talks about his ref future to fight in Iraq, his imprisonment and his

have latched on to the couple as the latest cause celebre.

Rolling their eyes at the mention of Cindy Sheehan, the Bendermans regard much of the antiwar movement as undisciplined and counterproductive to what’s really important: Guaranteeing soldiers’ rights under the law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the U.S. Constitution.

Connect Savannah: Kevin, what was Ft. Lewis like?

Kevin Benderman: It’s an older facility, built in 1952 or thereabouts. I had to go through a three-day evaluation before I went in. They bring a chaplain in, and then a mental health guy. I guess they want to make sure you’re not going to commit suicide. Most of the prisoners are put in bays, with several guys to each bay. There are some individual rooms for solitary confinement, I guess for the troublemakers.

Connect Savannah: You weren’t a troublemaker?

Kevin Benderman: (laughs) I guess some people would say I was the biggest troublemaker. But some of the guys I did time with had actually been charged with murder for things they’d done in Iraq. They told me they were just following orders their commanders had given.

Connect Savannah: You’ve done your time, but you’re not done with this case. What’s the goal of your current appeal?

Kevin Benderman: My goal is to get the conviction overturned. I want to be reinstated, and go back to being honorably discharged as a sergeant. I’m definitely not going back to Iraq.

Connect Savannah: You say you weren’t the only guy in your unit to not go back.

Kevin Benderman: After I was charged, and before the trial started -- a period of about seven months -- they had me processing soldiers who had gone AWOL. Here I was supposedly a “deserter,” and the Army put me in charge of a bunch of guys who had gone AWOL. I was walking around free the whole seven months. They let me go on leave and everything.

We had one guy who had basically been AWOL for four or five years. He even used the GI Bill to get a degree. He was finally arrested in Texas on a public intoxication

Kevin Benderman with his wife three dogs, at thei Monica and Dylan, one of their r home in Hinesvi lle charge and October 2005. brought back, and the army put me But then they in charge of him. put a stop/loss order out that would have There was another guy who actually kept me in until April 2006. That happened lived right near here. His sergeant would all over. Some guys have been extended go by his house to get him to report for again and again, until God knows when. duty, and he’d just sit there smoking a joint If they hadn’t done that, I could have just and tell his sergeant, no I’m not gonna go. waited until 2005 to get out and then gone All that happened to him was he got kicked on my merry way -- which was what I out with a less than honorable discharge. originally intended to do.

My battalion S2 officer -- that’s an intelligence officer -- was selling body armor Connect Savannah: Set the scene for us as plates on eBay and pocketing the money. you deployed to Iraq with a Bradley fighting Not the vests themselves, but the plates vehicle maintenance company. that go inside. They convicted him, gave him 45 days confinement and made him Kevin Benderman: We first got to Kuwait resign his commission. That’s it. As far as I in March 2003. We took our vehicles off know they didn’t even make him pay back the ships and established a vehicle mainany of the money he made. tenance area to prepare to cross the berm They told me the reason they had to into Iraq. We got into Iraq the first week in make an example of me was because by not April and went to an area about 50 miles going back to Iraq, I was putting other solsouth of Baghdad. We went from there up diers at risk. And here’s this intelligence ofto Tikrit, and from Tikrit up to Khanaqin. ficer going on eBay and selling body armor That’s about six miles from Iran. We acmeant for our soldiers. tually had a small group of Bradleys and tanks positioned looking into Iran. We Connect Savannah: So did you actually could see Iranian soldiers over the border “miss movement” as the Army maintains? watching us watching them.

We were positioned as a forward repair Kevin Benderman: No, that’s erroneous. unit. It was set up so we followed guys diI was called into a meeting to discuss my rectly into combat. But wherever you are, CO application. At the end of the meetyou’re never completely out of danger over ing they specifically released me from that there. You’re always taking mortar fire and assignment. Just to make sure, I asked two getting shot at. They were telling us about more times, and got an affirmative answer IEDs almost as soon as we got there, long each time. It was just a cooked-up charge before those became commonly used. after the fact.

The first real operation we were tasked with was guarding an abandoned oil Connect Savannah: You had actually just pumping station. reenlisted not long before the war started.

Connect Savannah: Was guarding an oil Kevin Benderman: I reenlisted in 2002. So well the initial thing that made you questhat would have put me out of the Army in tion why you were in Iraq?

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Connect Savannah: You’ve said repeatedly there was no one moment that made you decide not to go back to Iraq.

did serve in World War II, tried to explain it to me one day. It wasn’t until I was in Iraq that I fully understood what he was trying to tell me. When you cut right down to it, war is just base killing. You don’t realize that until you’ve been there.

I’ve been there. I’ve seen a mass grave filled with rotting bodies of women and children. When you’ve got to stay there and beat the dogs away so they won’t dig up the bodies and eat them, man, it’s a whole different program.

I turned on CNN one day and they were like (mimics nasal voice of a self-important TV reporter), “And here we see the smart bomb, going down the AC shaft into this part of the building, where it will then make a ninety-degree right turn and target this office.”

But right down the street from that same building -- do you know what a Vulcan anti-aircraft gun is?

Connect Savannah: Yeah. Six-barrel 20mm Gatling gun, fires 100 rounds a second.

Kevin Benderman: Yeah. Right down from that same building was where we bulldozed the bodies of Iraqis we hit with the Vulcans. We just bulldozed them all into a mass grave and covered them up, hundreds of them.

Connect Savannah: What was left of them.

Kevin Benderman: There was no epiphany, if that’s what you mean. The angels didn’t come down and sing in my ear. It was basically the cumulative effect of seeing what happens to people who are in these warzones, the soldiers and the people who live there.

One day we were driving along a highway into Baghdad. There was an older woman and a little girl walking on the side of the road. As we drove by, we saw that one of the little girl’s arms was burned up.

It was all black. We kept on going. The mission didn’t dictate that we stop to help a little girl with a burned-up arm.

Kevin Benderman: What was left of them.

Each individual has to make up his or her own mind. I didn’t do this to lead a group of soldiers into doing the same thing, or going AWOL or anything like that. The only person I talked to about it was my wife. I tried to talk to a chaplain, but the first one I talked to didn’t seem that interested.

I guess in this Jerry Springer world we live in, no one wants to hear that I really only talked to my wife and family about it.

Monica Benderman: People preach this epiphany thing, that some light is supposed to come down. But if they’re really honest about it, they’ll see that the point where the light sort of comes on is actually the result of an accumulation of events. It’s part of anyone’s educational process. It’s when all that knowledge you’ve stored up finally comes together.

Kevin Benderman: There’s a clear outline of the process. You fill out that form -- it’s a form for personal action, kind of a catchall form. So I gave it to my company commander. What he’s supposed to do then is to set up a mental health evaluation and a visit with the chaplain, to make sure you’re not crazy and to make sure you’re sincere.

When you first join you don’t get any of that. You can sign up and say you want to go kill people, and you don’t get evaluated for mental health. But you tell them you don’t want to kill anybody, and then they want to evaluate your mental health.

Anyway, I guess my company commander decided to do his own evaluation, and he evidently determined I was insincere. He threw the form back in my face and said, “Get out of my office. You’re on your own.”

Connect Savannah: You say you oppose all war, but clearly there was something about this particular war that finally brought you to your decision.

Kevin Benderman: We all have a concept of a situation, but until we experience it we can’t know for sure what it’s like. I wasn’t in Vietnam or World War II or Korea. But I know if they’re all like this one...

If you take the names off the wars and look at them all for what they are, it’s just people killing other people. My father, who

Connect Savannah: How did the military first respond to your CO application?

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Kevin Benderman: Well, that’s part of it.

To my mind there was no military objective there. But it’s a lot of things. It’s hard to put six months of experience into one interview.

I looked at these young kids I was over there with, and they all seemed to think it was kind of a video game -- that they could just push a reset button and start over.

One day I was going down a highway in an armored personnel carrier, a 113, and my driver was this 18 or 19-year-old kid. We were moving up Highway One and came under fire from small arms. It turned out to be a few people in a van shooting at us with AK-47s. So we all pulled our vehicles into the classic herringbone pattern for defense, like we’re trained to do in situations like that. Next thing I know my driver had jumped up into the hatch with a video camera. We were getting shot at and the first thing this kid wanted to do was poke his head out and videotape stuff! I told him to put the damn camera down and pick up his rifle. I said, I don’t want to have to tell your mom I let her son get killed because he wanted to videotape something.

But I don’t bash these kids. It’s just their mechanism for dealing with the insanity of it all.

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Monica Benderman: If they had handled his CO application according to regulations, everything else wouldn’t have happened the way it has. They were challenged by his sincerity, and everything that’s happened since was a result of that challenge.

He was asking questions of them.

Kevin Benderman: I ended up kind of adopting one kid -- of course his name would have to be Mohammed (laughs). It’s like “John” over there.

Connect Savannah: That’s the key right there. I’m trying to get to the bottom of how Kevin, in particular, came to ask those questions. He doesn’t fit the profile.

Kevin Benderman: So one day the company commander says, “If any of those kids gets back on that wall, shoot ‘em.”

Monica Benderman: He adopted dogs, too. We’d send biscuits sometimes.

Connect Savannah: What did you do then?

Kevin Benderman: I actually started talking with a chaplain in May of 2004, about Kevin Benderman: We all just sort of my feelings that war is wrong. I didn’t want looked at each other, like, “What?” My to take lightly my commitment to the miliinitial reaction was that he was out of tary, and the commitment of my family his fucking mind. I mean, is the guy that history on both sides. My family has a trascared that he has to say things like that? dition of military service going back to the American Revolution.

Monica Benderman: You Growing up in the look at some of these situaI can’t tell you how South with that Southern tions that have come up since many Vietnam-era military tradition -- my dad then, with soldiers being guys have come up to accused of things, and ask, was from Tennessee, I was me and said, “I wish “How can something like this born in Alabama -- to be a military Southern man was I had had the guts to happen?” Well, this is how. to be at a very, very high got a bunch of 18, 19, do what you’re doing You’ve status. There are monu20-year-old kids over there, instead of running.” ments to the Civil War -- I told to always follow orders, hate that phrase -- the War and some company comBetween the States everymander says, “Shoot ‘em.” where in the South. Growing up I had that big bag of 10,000 army men. We used to Kevin Benderman: You’ve got to undergo shooting with a BB gun in the woods, stand -- it probably sounds funny to you play cowboys and Indians. So I always had -- but you’ve got to get a real game mindset that commitment, that sense of duty and going. So these young guys are all getting respect for what the military was. pumped up while they sit around at Ft. But the first chaplain I talked to seemed Hood, Texas, waiting to go. We were first to take it as more of a philosophical contold to expect to go to Iraq beginning in versation. He didn’t really get what I was December 2002. I mean, I didn’t expect to trying to explain to him. I mean, my comstill be in the United States at Christmas of pany commander ordered us to shoot kids. that year.

So you all get pumped up... and don’t Connect Savannah: That would be enough go. Get pumped up... and don’t go. Meanfor me right there. while we’ve all got images of glory in our heads about coming down through Turkey Kevin Benderman: We had taken over an and kicking down doors and taking names. old customs building in the PUK, the area controlled by the Kurds. It had been abanMonica Benderman: A soldier doesn’t doned and there were still stacks of paper, prepare alone. His whole family prepares, stacks of records and forms, all over the his wife prepares, his children prepare. place. The Kurdish fighters, the peshmerYour entire life is put on hold. Everything’s ga, were basically our friends, but we told entirely out of your hands. them they had to leave the area.

I could see the level of frustration build.

There was this brick wall about six feet From January through March of 2003, tall around the customs building. These 8, especially, every week was like that. You 9, 10-year-old kids would always be climbcould see it in everybody, I could see it in ing on top of the wall, saying “USA Numhim. Finally everybody was like, “Let’s get ber One,” or “Saddam a donkey” -- that this over with. Let’s just go and get it done.” being a big insult over there.

Occasionally some of the kids would Kevin Benderman: These are not bad peopick up these little stones that were all over ple per se. This is just what war turns you the place -- pebbles really -- and throw into. The military doesn’t want anyone who them our way. It was no big deal. This can think. You’re told when to eat, what to wasn’t like 18-year-olds throwing big rocks. eat, when to sleep, when to go to the bathWe’re talking little kids. I’d just go over and room, how to wipe, when to brush your tell them to cut it out and give them some teeth, how long to brush your teeth. You’re chocolate or something. just bombarded constantly with orders and instructions about every little detail of your Monica Benderman: I used to send bags life. of hard candy for you guys to hand out to them.

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Monica Benderman: I think everybody, every American citizen, should go to a military base, spend some time there, and see how it is. You can get a one-day pass.

Drive around and see for yourself what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re paying for. See everything they have laid out for these soldiers.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sent to basic training and broken down completely, told that all of their thinking will be done for them. Then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re put on a military installation -- and usually not paid enough money to buy a car so they can go off the installation. They live in barracks on the installation, eat there, shop there, everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right there for them. They have youth groups just for the installation. There are neighborhood associations, with neighborhood association presidents and everything, all just on base.

If you never assimilate, then what happens when you get to Iraq and are given orders? You follow the orders. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all they know.

Connect Savannah: Yet neither of you identifies with the antiwar movement.

Kevin Benderman: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hate to be placed within that group. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to Canada.

Most of these activists are at the opposite end of the spectrum from what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been talking about. Most of them weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met have no personal discipline whatsoever. You go in their houses and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full of filth. They come out on the weekends with their banners and do their vigils and then go back to their jobs on Monday.

But whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the substance in what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing? Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the responsibility of a U.S. citizen that the Constitution gave us?

When do you accept the responsibility that goes along with these rights?

Monica Benderman: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a need for order. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what peace is all about. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re chaotic in your thoughts and your actions, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not very peaceful, is it?

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always telling the soldiers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, go AWOL, just stop fighting, just walk away.â&#x20AC;? But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to pay that soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal bills or his house payments or his truck payments. Believe me, I know!

They want soldiers to stop fighting because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an illegal war. But until some legal authority makes that decision, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an illegal war. How can you complain about a war being illegal if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not following the law yourself? What you have to do is set up the laws and follow them so that soldiers can speak out, so that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go to jail for three years.

Recently some church was offering sanctuary for any soldier that deserted. I said, are you crazy? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give them sanctuary! That leads to ruin.

Kevin Benderman: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell soldiers to break laws. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ignorant. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you how many Vietnam-era guys have come up to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish I had had the guts to do what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing instead of running.â&#x20AC;?

Monica Benderman: A lot of people put Kevin on a pedestal and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh thank you, thank you for making such a sacrificeâ&#x20AC;?

-- the part they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say is, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willing to lose everything so we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like, wait a minute -- by us stepping up weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to get people to see that ordinary people can do this for themselves. Then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not our â&#x20AC;&#x153;sacrificeâ&#x20AC;? anymore.

Some woman called us from Wisconsin the other day. She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You answered the phone!â&#x20AC;? I said, well, yeah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our phone, I usually do. She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hear dogs barking in the background!â&#x20AC;? I said, yes, we have three and they sometimes bark. She started crying! She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so beautiful.â&#x20AC;?

She couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe we were normal people doing normal things. I told her, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And right now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m mopping the kitchen floor, in my bare feet. Sometimes I even mop it twice a day.â&#x20AC;?

Connect Savannah: But by the same token, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made speeches to antiwar groups and done interviews with some of the more antiwar media outlets.

Monica Benderman: We learned early on that we have to step up major pressure to get any results. We have to be as public as we can about it to get the appeal process started. There are some guys that have already served full sentences waiting on a convening authority. And this is all to get the commander to just do the right thing.

Connect Savannah: It seems like with this war real leadership seems to be lacking at all levels. The same mistakes keep getting made over and over. Can you explain that?

Monica Benderman: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know versus the people that do know.

You get these officers coming in just out of Officers Candidate School with no experience, usually with English degrees, and they take command of these units with a lot of older guys, hardened veterans with experience, like Kevin. They figure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone this far and they have to continue to look like they know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing even though theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made so many mistakes.

Look, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been over there longer than we were in World War II, OK? And they just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring themselves to admit theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made mistakes, take responsibility, and correct their mistakes. So they just keep filling the pot. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pride thing.

Kevin Benderman: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an arrogance thing, more than that. Prideful arrogance.

Connect Savannah: The legal appeal of your conviction isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t free.

Kevin Benderman: We have a fund going for legal defense, and any money we collect over the lawyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fee is going to go to start a foundation to help get the word out about these issues, about soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights under the Constitution. We just want to put this

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out there and get people to take on more of a sense of responsibility about soldier’s rights, so soldiers can get proper body armor, better care when they come back home, things like that.

Did you know between the first and second deployments to Iraq there were 191 documented cases of child abuse that took place at Ft. Stewart?

That’s just on the installation, and just in the time between those two deployments. And that’s just what got reported.

11 search on that, by the way -- did you know that out of that $2 you pay for a “Support the Troops” magnet, only about five cents goes to a soldier’s support organization?

Connect Savannah: And it’s made in China.

Monica Benderman: Civilians have oversight of the military, but the flip side of that is civilians need to understand what’s being asked of the military. The whole reason these soldiers are doing what they’re doing is to defend the Constitution.

That’s what Kevin was doing when he realized he had to take other actions. But even then he followed the guidelines laid out for him in the Constitution and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It was other people who let the system break down.

The Constitution is the outline for this country, and it’s based on what? The laws of humanity. A conscientious objector is adhering to these laws. They’re saying, you can ask me to do this but it goes against the laws of humanity. But it’s not just saying it -- it’s taking a stand.

Kevin Benderman: When the first Gulf War broke out, I was like, “Can I do this?”

But I put it all away and said, if I have to kill people I will. That’s where I was for that war, and this is where I am for this one.

To go to war I had to shut off all the emotions that made me a human. To survive in war you can’t have emotions in your way.

I remember one kid in Iraq -- it’s always kids, isn’t it? -- about 7 a.m. or so we saw him standing across the road from us holding an RPG round way up over his head -- not the launcher but just the projectile itself. The guys down the road at the checkpoint said, “What are you waiting for? Shoot him!” I just went over and got the kid to put it down. He was just trying to help us. He was trying to show us where the weapons were being hidden. So I let a superior know, and the sappers came over with some C4 and blew it all in place.

You’re always told you have the right - no, the duty -- to disobey an illegal order.

But if you actually do that, you go to jail.

And if you follow orders you go to jail, like those guys I was at Ft. Lewis with.

It takes more than a $2 “Support the Troops” magnet on your car. I did some re-

voiced support?

Connect Savannah: How have you been treated locally since all this began?

Has anyone in Hinesville

Monica Benderman: Oh, more than you’d think. You’d be amazed. See, it’s not a political thing with us.

The whole time Kevin was at Ft. Lewis, I’d go to the post office here and the workers would always ask how he was doing.

Sometimes they’d give me free stamps.

We’ve gotten at least 15,000 pieces of mail, from all over the world, from all types of people. I’d say only about five percent of the communication we’ve received has been negative.

Kevin Benderman: People here understand that soldiers have the right to valid justice, the right to have citizens understand what they’re going through, and the right not to be on welfare. Did you know there are active duty soldiers right now who are eligible for welfare and WIC? There’s a welfare office right there on Ft. Stewart.

One time Monica and I went out to eat at a restaurant here in town, and all of a sudden I heard this loud voice across the room say, “Sgt. Kevin Benderman?” I was like, OK, here it comes.

It was a guy in his thirties, white collar, nice clothes. He comes up to me and sticks out his hand and says, “I just wanted to thank you for what you’re doing.” w To comment on this story, e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com/.

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“You can sign up and say you want to go kill people, and you don’t get evaluated for mental health. But you tell them you don’t want to kill anybody, and then they want to evaluate your mental health.”

Kevin Benderman: Right. Go to Ft. Stewart right now and look at the tags on the BDUs in there, all the uniforms they sell. What does the tag say? Made in China.

I understand the whole thing about the global economy and all, but I think with all the effort they’re going to and everything they ask of the soldiers, they could at least have the uniforms made in America.

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The Oatland Island Medieval Festival featured a host of entertainment, including Society for Creative Anachronism “knights.” At left, a victor is declared; at bottom, a lighter moment as an SCA member shows a youngster the finer points of rapier work

Below, Vint Keener with Wa-Hoo-Hoo, Oatland Island’s resident barred owl, whom Keener raised from a fledgling; the Tshirt is screened directly from a photo of Wa-Hoo-Hoo

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Savannah’s First Annual Peace Festival in Telfair Square on Saturday gave Darcy, above, an opportunity to show her true colors

At right, members of Karis Stuart and her Latin Girls perform at Peace Day in Telfair Square; bottom, great moments in face painting

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Chavez was right

Editor, The â&#x20AC;&#x153;my country right or wrongâ&#x20AC;? crowd is howling about the remarks about President Bush by President Chavez of Venezuela and President Ahmedinajad of Iran.

Chavez is actually justified in calling Bush the devil; the devil is after all the â&#x20AC;&#x153;father of lies,â&#x20AC;? and Bush plays this role to a tee.

As for Ahmedinajad, well yes he does deny the Holocaust took place, but if Israel would stop exploiting the Holocaust for its own selfish reasons then perhaps the Iranian leader would stop pretending it had never happened.

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You, too, Canada?

Editor, What bothers me about the Maher Arar case is not so much the incompetence and inaccuracy and violations of policy by Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

A mistake can be understood. A mistake can be corrected. A mistake can be forgiven.

What bothers me is the acquiescence, by the RCMP, by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, and by Foreign Affairs, in the U.S./Syria kidnapping and torture of a Canadian citizen and the RCMP feeding of questions for Syria to ask Mr. Arar under torture.

But evil? Torture? All the Canadian officials involved should at the least lose their jobs, and at most face charges of conspiracy to torture. These people have moral flaws that will take a lifetime to correct.

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Editor, It was a delight to see Ayn Rand mentioned on your cover and to learn that her play, Night of January 16th, was being offered on Tybee Island. Because of your article, my wife and I attended, with high expectations, the Tybee Arts Performing Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (TAPS) opening night presentation.

It was exciting to attend a small, intimate, live performance with good lighting, fair sound and a professional courtroom setting. The legal atmosphere was enhanced by getting the audience to rise for each entrance of the judge, and also by having the witnesses come out of the audience when called to take the stand and testify.

TAPS took more artistic license in the production by moving the trial from New York to a rural Georgia courthouse complete with southern accents, mannerisms and stereotypes. Disappointingly, they excluded a lot of the philosophical dialogue that made the play thought provoking.

The performers did an excellent job (Bonnie Terrell as Karen Andre and Arnie Correa as Guts Regan both were superb), but the attempt to lighten the seriousness of the drama rubbed me the wrong way.

I think they really wanted to perform a comedy.

The police inspector was portrayed as a Clouseau crossed with Colombo; the night watchman was presented as a bumbling, hard-of-hearing, Captain Kangaroo, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;middle-aged, precise, dignified â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? professional hand-writing expert became a shuffling, raspy-voiced, dowdy graphologist.

On the night I attended, the jurors, who were asked beforehand if they would willingly serve, included a giggly woman who refused to play along once in the box.

Encouragingly, at the end, the jurors did return the correct verdict.

It was disheartening to me that TAPS wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able do justice to Ayn Randâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work despite having the talent to make a sincere presentation. I might have been forewarned had I read TAPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; web site (www. tybeearts.org/performing-arts.html) where they stated that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This play is a quirky murder trial with the Jury selected from the audience.â&#x20AC;?

The Night of January 16th is ingenious, original, and inspiring, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;quirkyâ&#x20AC;? it is not. I encourage everyone to read the play, ponder its message, and reach their own verdict.

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Ayn Rand, in her 1968 introduction to the play, wrote that the idea dominating the culture then was â&#x20AC;&#x153;the belief that if a literary work is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;serious,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; it must bore people to death; and if it is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;entertaining,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; it must not communicate anything of importance.â&#x20AC;?

Well, sadly, things havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. To paraphrase Ayn Rand, although the Night of January 16th played in our part of the world, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produced.

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Fishman

Life after Mac? It was only one glass of wine, albeit a full glass. The first of the night. The last in a bottle of medium-priced Shiraz that had been opened three nights earlier.

Only one glass. But that’s all it took. In one clumsy, graceless, boneheaded gesture more out of fatigue than inebriation, I inadvertently swiped the glass and spilled the contents unto and into the keyboard of my laptop computer.

Erggh! Not what you’re supposed to do.

Not what the directions say.

These may feel like toys after a while, these sleek, polished and amazing creatures that suck our energy, change our moods, enhance our memory, alter our consciousness, lift our spirits, connect us with old friends, introduce us to new friends and substitute for real, live exchanges with redblooded, two-legged creatures that look like you and me, but they’re not. They’re expensive, complex, cranky and sometimes more than a little sensitive.

And they really don’t appreciate libations of any nature.

I moved quickly. I wiped everything down, turned the silver miss upside down to drain, unplugged all cords and walked the dog, more or less in that order. Then I killed a little more time before plugging her in and assessing the damage.

Since I removed her battery a few weeks ago in response to a universal Product Recall, i.e. bad battery, one that could blow up at any moment, I’m already working on an eviscerated, disemboweled and gutted version of what used to be known as the PowerBook G4.

So I’m not really in any kind of mood for any other disturbances.

Still, these are amazing beasts. They can take a lot of abuse. There’s nothing they don’t know or can’t do. Maybe I could slide through.

Wrong. All I got when I plugged her in was a giant hiss, a loud sucking sound, not unlike a commercial vacuum cleaner or a Shop Vac gone amok.

I felt lost, discombobulated, disoriented. What else could I do with myself? I turned on television and watched an informercial for a DVD, a ribald and mischievous roasting of Johnny Carson with shots of Milton Berle, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Don Rickles. Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Or had I? The humor was working.

They were really funny, better than the following informercial of Donald Trump selling his seminars about why it’s so great to be rich.

Twice I woke up in the middle of the night with feelings of dread. One episode

involved a recurring dream that I’m in a room with a pile of yellow legal pads I’m supposed to write on. The second time it was the memory of the intoxicated PowerBook. So I padded over to the thing and tried to power her up. Still nothing.

The same sucking sound. Out cold on the couch. Sleeping off a bad drunk.

I tried again in the morning. More hissing. It wasn’t looking good. From a book of random I keep I found the name of a Mac guy I knew before. He’d try to get over later.

In the meantime, I reverted to old behavior. I coughed up fifty cents, bought a newspaper, walked over to a restaurant and started reading. Felt kind of good being out in the world with other people. Then I went to the public library, found a seat behind a desktop computer, read some more news, got caught up on the not-so-all-important email, deleted the junk mail and did some work. That felt good, too.

The woman next to me was researching jobs in the Scottsdale area. Didn’t she have a computer at home? I asked. Yes, but she was on a break from work and couldn’t do that kind of thing in the office.

Once home, free of the compulsion to check my email, check on Derek Jeter’s hitting streak, look up a review of Bob Dylan’s new recording or find an intelligent explanation of sustainable agriculture, I read an old New Yorker, drew a chestnut and watched the evening network news long enough to see why I don’t watch it. If they’re not on the public relations payroll for the White House, then my name isn’t Jane.

Then, without my toy, my roommate, my compatriot, my security blanket in a box, I went to a tavern up the street to eat dinner and watch a football game. I ended up sitting at the bar wedged between some diehard fans and an older man drinking scotch and soda, a retired newspaper man, a cop reporter who used to write his stories on a Remington typewriter, three copies,.

Nice to know there are some other dinosaurs roaming the earth, said a friend of mine still in the business.

At the end of the day, I was still depressed at possibly losing my Mac but not as depressed as I would have thought. As flawed as we human beings are, plagued with faulty memories, short tempers, limited intelligence, overly sensitive natures and jealous minds, we’re still pretty interesting.

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â&#x20AC;˘ While on routine patrol, an officer saw five or six people standing and sitting in front of an address on 32nd Street.

The people were asked if they lived there.

The officer noticed one man in the group begin to walk away with a white trash bag that contained a large, unknown object.

The man was stopped at Jefferson and 31st streets, where the officer learned the trash bag contained a DVD/VCR combo player.

The suspect said at first that he was hungry and was attempting to get some money for food. He then said that the DVD/VCR was his, but he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a reason as to why he had it in the trash bag. Although he gave a name and date of birth, the man couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a picture ID. He did have a medical card with his name on it.

The man then became vulgar and began using curse words and told the officer that he was trying to get drugs with the DVD/VCR. He was arrested and charged with loitering, prowling and disorderly conduct.

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â&#x20AC;˘ An officer responded to a Cottondale Road residence, where he was met by a man who told him that he and the mother of his children were arguing and she had struck him in the back. The man said the woman was only a guest in his house and that he wanted her to leave.

After further investigation, the officer learned that the woman had in fact been living at the residence for the past three months, and that she had lived there on previous occasions. The officer advised the man that the woman wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being placed under airiest for simple battery because a red mark on his back did not appear to have been caused by the slap of a hand. â&#x20AC;˘ Police were called to meet with a 15year-old boy and his mother. The boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother said her son told her he was going to â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoot you with my nineâ&#x20AC;? if she threw him out of her house.

Two officers had a long conversation with the boy about his behavior towards his mother and her boyfriend. They also spoke to him about his goals in life.

The boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother said she was going to throw the boy out of the house. An officer advised her that if she wanted him to stay with someone else, then she would need to make arrangements.

However, if she threw the boy out with nowhere to go, she could face child abandonment charges. The boy said he never threatened his mother and that he feels unloved and unappreciated. He also said his mother was upset because â&#x20AC;&#x153;he called her boyfriend a clown.â&#x20AC;? w

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

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A woman called police after her alcoholic husband cut the power wires to their homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s air conditioning unit, as well as the cable television wire. She said her husband also had pulled the fuse from the power box of the air conditioning unit. She said â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is not the first time that he had done something like that.â&#x20AC;? She said usually he pulls the fuse from the air conditioning power box and unscrews the cable connections from the outside box.

She said â&#x20AC;&#x153;her husband was drunk and was still drinking the next morningâ&#x20AC;? when she left their residence to go to work. Everything in the house was working properly when she left, the woman said. The man didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to work, and called the woman at her job later that day. She said she could tell he was drunk because his words were slurred.

She told him to â&#x20AC;&#x153;go sleep it off â&#x20AC;? and ended the conversation.

When she returned home that evening, she found the temperature inside the house was 92 degrees and the cable on the television was not working. She then found her husband passed out on the couch with a fan blowing on him. The woman went outside to plug the fuse back into the air conditioning unit, but found that the power wires had been cut. She then walked to the other side of the house to the cable box and found the cable television wire pulled out of the ground and cut. She told the officer she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to prosecute her husband, she just wanted to make a police report. She then left the house with her children to stay at a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house.

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Trial judge Florentino Floro was fired by the Philippines supreme court in April, and his appeal rejected in August, after investigators found that he had claimed to rely on three mystic dwarves (Armand, Luis and Angel) for psychic powers and the ability to write while in a trance. (Floro protested media accounts of his firing to The Wall Street Journal in July, denying that dwarves helped him decide cases and writing that Armand, Luis and Angel are merely “spirit guides” and that he himself is “gifted” from God “to heal and to prophesy.”)

“I shouldn’t even be doing this,” said Judge Gary F. McKinley in a Kenton, Ohio, courtroom in August. “I’m cutting you somewhat of a break,” he told two star athletes of Kenton High who had just been convicted of vehicular vandalism in a prank that caused two men serious, life-long disabilities. The kids’ sentence: 60 days in juvenile detention (plus community service), but only after football season.

(The families of the victims were appalled, especially the family of the one who was brain-damaged.)

Judge Paul E. Zellerbach was admonished by California’s judicial agency in August for behavior in October 2004, when he left a jury deliberating a murder charge in order to attend an Angels-Red Sox playoff game and declined to leave the game when notified that the jury had reached a verdict (forcing everyone to return the next day).

Unclear on the Concept

In July, according to a Canadian Press report, a Wal-Mart in St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, received a bomb threat and immediately dispatched about 40 employees on duty to look through the store to find the explosive. (Customers were allowed to leave, though, and ultimately, it was a false alarm.)

Can’t Possibly Be True: (1) School bus driver Delores Davis faced termination in Coushatta, La., in August after she decided to arrange seating on her bus, with whites up front and all nine black kids into the back two rows. (2) In a suburb of Nashville, Tenn., in July, reserve Army Capt.

John Parker was let go as a criminal-justice in by a delivery truck; he rammed the teacher at Wilson Central High School betruck to get away, provoking an argument cause he had volunteered for a second tour with the driver; the dye pack exploded; of duty in Afghanistan. School officials ofand the mask and gun got left behind. (2) fered him his job back after the first tour, Twice in a week in August, gangs (or maybut after the second, they terminated his be the same gang) of bank robbers in Kuala course, suggesting that he was insufficientTerengganu, Malaysia, tried to haul ly committed to teaching. away an ATM. In the first, they misTammie Lee Doss, 43, and two takenly yanked loose a check-defriends were charged with unlawful positing machine instead of the imprisonment in September in AthATM, and in the second, their There will be ens, Ala., when Doss held her brothno internet in excavator’s digging arm got er Randy at gunpoint and prayed for stuck in the bank’s ceiling. the end times! him. According to police, Tammie Recurring Themes had confronted Randy, even firing In September, police in a shot near his head to keep his atNew Zealand dropped the tention, and urged him to redress dangerous-driving charge against his childhood mistreatment of her. the armless driver reported in Unintelligent Design News of the Weird in April, satisA puppy with six legs and two fied that he steers well enough with penises was reported outside the his left foot (though his speedKwang Sung Temple in Malaysia in ing ticket remained). In August, June, according to that country’s Star though, the St. Petersburg Times newspaper. And a kitten was born with profiled Michael Wiley, 39, of Port Richey, two faces in July in Grove City, Ohio, and Fla., an enthusiastic driver despite having another with just one eye and no nose was lost both arms and half a leg in a childhood born in Syracuse, N.Y., in April. And the accident. Wrote the Times, “He guides the World Aquarium in St. Louis, Mo., ran an key into the ignition with his mouth. Turns exhibit in August featuring 10 two-headed it with his toes. Shifts with his knee. Bites snakes and turtles. And a 24-year-old busithe headlight switch. Jams his stump of a nessman, in a hospital in New Delhi, India, left arm into the steering wheel and whips in August, was reported to have two funcit around.” On the minus side, his license tioning penises. was revoked long ago, and reckless drivSanju Bhagat was admitted to a hospital ing charges flourish, including the latest, in Nagpur, India, in August, where doctors one day after the Times story ran. (And in expected to find a very large abdominal September, he was charged with domestic cyst, but instead, said surgeon Ajay Mehta, assault, with his head.)

“To my surprise and horror, I could shake Thinning the Herd hands with somebody inside.” Bhagat was Reuters reported in August that a man a victim of fetus in fetu, in which his birth was killed in his workshop on the outskirts twin had migrated to the inside of his body of Rio de Janeiro when he tried to open a and continued to leech off of him. Mehta rocket-propelled grenade (probably to reextracted feet, hands, hair and jaw. cover scrap metal) with a sledgehammer.

Least Competent Criminals And two days before that, in the Indiana Hapless: (1) The guy in the Ronald Reatown of Brazil (near Terre Haute), a 31gan mask who robbed a Bank of America year-old man was accidentally killed in the in San Diego in August got away, but all explosion of the pipe bomb he was carryhis money was dye-stained, in a caper that ing (probably to be used to help him catch went wrong from the start. According to fish in Birch Creek). police, the mask covered his eyes; he wore By the Way, What Stories a cape that tangled with his gun, causing him to drop it; his getaway car got blocked Have Been No-Longer-

Weirded? (Part VIII)

Eighty such themes have occurred so frequently that they have been “retired from circulation” since News of the Weird began publishing in 1988, and here are more of them: A jar with a loved one’s ashes is sometimes inadvertently given away or sold, as at a yard sale. Or a spouse agrees to reconcile even though he or she was recently the victim of attempted murder by the other. Every couple of years, reports surface from Africa about rumors of people able to make penises disappear.

Increasingly now, judges punish young noisemakers by forcing them to listen to demographically unappealing music (classical or polka or Barry Manilow). Those things were once upon a time weird, but no longer. w

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Global Cooling

A new study by the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research suggests that global warming can be combated with a combination of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and periodic injections of climate-cooling sulfates into the stratosphere. The findings, published in the journal Science, say that a “grace period” for global warming could be achieved by injecting sulfate particles, or aerosols, every one to four years into the upper atmosphere. Author Tom Wigley says amounts comparable to those lofted by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 could provide another 20 years before large cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions would be required.

Nigerian Swarms

Farms in central Nigeria were invaded by millions of locusts, which destroyed more than 123,000 acres of crops. “These pests migrated from neighboring Cameroon and they moved like clouds (to descend) on crops that were ripe for harvest,” Taraba state agriculture commissioner Diyos Auta told the French news agency. He warned that the insects threaten other areas, and said measures were being taken to combat them.

Earthquakes

Residents of Argentina’s Mendoza province rushed into the streets in panic when a magnitude 6.1 temblor struck the region. There were no reports of significant damage or injuries.

Arctic Ozone Hole

• Earth movements were also felt in southeastern and northeastern Iran, southwest Pakistan, northwest Sumatra, Indonesia’s Seram Island and central New Zealand.

Greenland Meltdown

Greenland’s massive ice cap, the world’s second largest reservoir of frozen fresh water after Antarctica, is now melting faster than previously thought, according to a new University of Colorado study. A report published in the journal Nature calculates that the rate of ice loss increased by 250 percent between May 2004 and April 2006 compared with the previous two years. Satellite observations indicate the continent’s ice is now being lost at around 59.5 cubic miles per year, which is equivalent to a rise in global sea level of about .02 inches per year. The U. N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously predicted that the melting of Greenland’s ice cap could create a rise in sea level of anywhere between a

Temperatures

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fraction of an inch to up to 35 inches over the next 110 years, depending on various factors.

Tropical Cyclones

The remnant of Hurricane Gordon knocked down power lines and uprooted trees as it skirted Portugal’s Azores Islands. The storm later whipped up high surf and strong winds in parts of Western Europe.

• Hurricane Helene briefly attained Category-3 force during its path across the open waters of the Atlantic.

• Key agricultural areas of northwest Mexico’s Sinaloa and Sonora states were swamped when Hurricane Lane roared ashore. The storm was responsible for at least three deaths. Tropical Storm Miriam formed briefly off Baja California.

• High winds and flooding from Typhoon Shanshan killed nine people and injured 328 others when it lashed southern Japan’s Kyushu Island. Typhoon Yagi passed to the east of Japan.

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Measurements of the ozone hole over the Arctic last winter indicate that Earth’s protective stratospheric ozone layer may be recovering due to restrictions on ozone-depleting chemicals. The World Meteorological Organization announced that the thinning of the Arctic ozone in January was less than the losses that occurred during eight of the last 11 winters. But the agency noted that the region’s ozone hole is far more erratic that the one over Antarctica, often shifting to provide less protection against ultraviolet light in Canada, northern Europe, Siberia and Alaska.

Undersea Wonders

Scientists surveying the heart of Asia’s “Coral Triangle” say they have found dozens of previously unknown species, including a shark that walks on its fins and 52 other new species in what they describe as the richest marine habitat on Earth. The team from Conservation International made the discoveries in an area known as Bird’s Head Seascape, off eastern Indonesia’s Papua province. The researchers said they also found a new species of “flasher” wrasse fish. The males keep harems of several female fish and suddenly flash bright yellows, blues, pinks and other colors on their bodies in an apparent part of their mating ritual. The researchers warn that the teeming waters are under threat from fishermen who use dynamite and cyanide to make their catches. Both those techniques threaten to destroy the extensive coral reefs in the region that make the biodiversity possible. w

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A walk through history New book explores

D’Arcy had already been putting material together for a book when he was contacted by Schiffer Publishing about doing a tour book. At the same time, Mammina was taking photographs of Civil War sites in Savannah for D’Arcy’s book.

Together, D’Arcy and Mammina compiled more than 1,000 photographs.

“We looked at them very carefully,” D’Arcy says. “If we didn’t agree on them, they didn’t get in.”

There are 98 color photos in the book, plus back and white historic photographs and maps. “There’s a full-color print for every site in the book,” Mammina says.

“The cover shot is a cannon firing at Fort Jackson,” D’Arcy says.

“It’s the best I’ve ever seen.”

You don’t have to be a Civil War buff to enjoy the book. “You can use the book if you want to see images of Savannah or use it to drive or walk around,” D’Arcy says.

Many of the buildings that stood in Savannah during the Civil War are still standing. “We walk through them every day and don’t even realize it,” Mammina says.

A second edition of the book already is being planned. “We’ll add more photos, locations and maps,” D’Arcy says.

“We’re going to do a series -- Gettysburg, Charleston, Chickamauga, Richmond,” Mammina says.

The two have started working on the Gettysburg book. “We already have almost 500 images for it,” D’Arcy says. “That will be the biggest one.”

A book release party and book signing for Civil War Walking Tour of Savannah will be held Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at Stogie’s on West Congress Street. In addition to food and drink, there will be live music.

“This is not a boring book,” Mammina says. “You get to see all of Savannah, and learn about it during the Civil War. It’s written for everyone from the history buff to someone who doesn’t know anything about it.” w

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Civil War Walking Tour of Savannah is a 192-page soft-cover book printed by Schiffer Publishing. It can be purchased in local stores or online from most book sellers. To purchase from the publisher, visit www. schifferbooks.com. A book release party and book signing will be held Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at Stogie’s on West Congress Street.

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Though General Sherman didn’t burn Savannah, the city and its residents suffered during the Civil War. “It could be argued that the Civil War started at Savannah at Fort Jackson,” says historian David D’Arcy, author of a new book, Civil War Walking Tour of Savannah. “Savannah was an economic leader, so she became one of the first targets.”

Originally from Syracuse, N.Y., D’Arcy moved to the South in 1992 to teach school on Hilton Head Island. He says he’s been fascinated by the Civil War since he was a child.

“I got down here and just stayed,” he says. “About nine years ago, my mom said, ‘Okay, you’ve been in the South long enough.’

I’ve been in the South CarolinaGeorgia area for 15 years and I’m not going back.”

His interest in the Civil War began when he started reading biographies about people who fought in the war.

D’Arcy’s parents encouraged his enthusiasm, and during summer vacations, they explored battlefields in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

Later, during breaks from college, D’Arcy worked at Fort Ontario, where he interpreted 1860s military life and trained in both infantry and light artillery tactics.

After earning a degree in history at Oswego State University, he earned a master’s degree of education at Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Since then, D’Arcy has visited most of the battlefields east of the Mississippi River.

Photographer Ben Mammina, who collaborated with D’Arcy on the book, is originally from Chicago. After moving to Savannah more than six years ago, his interest in the Civil War grew as he explored and photographed many of the historic sties and buildings in the area.

During the writing of the book, D’Arcy and Mammina found some things that surprised even them. “A lot of people don’t realize how much Civil War history is here,” D’Arcy says.

Some of the photos in the book were taken at living history events at Old Fort Jackson. The Coastal Heritage Society, which manages the fort, also allowed D’Arcy and Mammina to use its library for research.

The guide is divided into four chapters.

Two of the chapters outline walking tours through downtown, including a narrative of the events, people and hardships experienced along the route. The other two outline driving tours that take readers along the city’s defenses and battle lines.

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by Linda Sickler

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When you go to see Beau Jest at The Ark Theatre, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a melodrama about the French Foreign Legion. That would be Beau Geste, and it has nothing to do with this comedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a charming little play,â&#x20AC;? says director Skye Whitcomb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primarily about family. A young woman who is Jewish is dating a man who is not Jewish.â&#x20AC;?

Knowing that news wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit well with her parents (such a tsimmes they would make!), Sarah Goldman tells her family that she is dating a Jewish man. Since such a man doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really exist, she decides to invent the perfect Jewish boyfriend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She hires an out-of-work actor to play the part,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says.

But can tsures be avoided? Of course not! â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he arrives, she discovers heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not Jewish -- although he has been in Fiddler on the Roof,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says.

The play was written by James Sherman, who began his professional career as an actor and writer with the famed Chicago acting troupe, The Second City. The play ran for a year in Chicago, and then was an Off-Broadway hit for two and a half years.

Sherman also has written Magic Time,

Savannah Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre presents a tale of love, br i s k e t a n d o u t- o f- w o r k a c t o r s

Jamie Keena, Melinda Stein, Derek Randall The God of Isaac, Mr. 80%, The Escape Artist, This Old Man Came Rolling Home, Romance in D, Door to Door, The Old Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friend, Affluenza! and a sequel to Beau Jest called Jest a Second!

The local production actually debuted at Temple Mickve Israel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the summer, Rabbi Belzer approached (Savannah Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre Director) Sasha Travis and asked if she would produce a play for the temple,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After looking at everything, we chose this one,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then we asked the rabbiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval.â&#x20AC;?

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be Jewish to enjoy the play, but being Jewish might make it a little bit more funny. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not being Jewish, there were a lot of jokes I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb admits.

Apparently the audience at Mickve Israel laughed and laughed.

So did the actors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three of our six actors are Jewish,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During rehearsals as we were doing a readthrough, they would be laughing their heads off.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, the production was so well-received at Mickve Israel, that the Savannah Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre decided to do a reprise production Sept. 28, 29 and 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving it back to our home,â&#x20AC;?

Whitcomb says.

The production came together in a remarkably short time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actually didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have one of our cast members until Sept.

10,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a bit of a problem getting the cast together. Our audition notices didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to enough people.

We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough people to cast it.

We were literally calling in favors.â&#x20AC;?

The lead role of Sarah is played by Beck Sarfati. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a SCAD student and was

away visiting family in Connecticut,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mailed the script to her,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She got back on the 8th and already had the script memorized.â&#x20AC;?

Others in the cast are Devon Garbus as Bob, the actor Sarah hires; Michael Brown as Chris, Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goyim boyfriend; Derek Randall as Joel, Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother; and as her parents, Jamie Keena as Abe and Melinda Stein as Miriam.

Once they got together, the cast bonded like family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cast has become incredibly close,â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have a great interaction and have made an amazing connection, considering the short amount of time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had.â&#x20AC;?

That may explain why Whitcomb and his actors are enjoying themselves so much. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were flying by the seat of our pants, but it came together,â&#x20AC;? he says. w The comedy Beau Jest will be performed Sept. 28, 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. at The Ark Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Admission is free, although donations will be accepted.

For information, call Savannah Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre at 232-6080 or e-mail mail@savannahactorstheatre.org.

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‘In the Mix Act III’ - A collaborative graffiti performance celebrating the art of street culture. Five graffiti artists paint live on five individual panels. Show runs Sept. 22-Oct.4. Closing reception Friday Sept. 29, 7 p.m. 2427 Desoto Ave. between Whitaker and Bull on 41st in Starland Design District.

‘Snowbound’ -- Color photography by Lisa M. Robinson is on display at Jack Leigh Gallery. 132 East Oglethorpe Ave. Closing Reception: Thursday Oct. 5, 2006 5-7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

‘Aftermath’ -- Edna Dapo’s SCAD MFA solo thesis exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints, centers on people’s experiences and their immediate surroundings after tragedy. Sept. 28 - Oct. 12 at the Alexander Annex Gallery, 668 Indian Street.

Free and open to the public and will be featured on the Oct. 6 Gallery Hop, 5-7 p.m.

New Savannah Art Association Gallery -- The Savannah Art Association opened its new gallery space Sept. 14 in the Board Room of the Senior Citizens Building, 3025 Bull St. The Savannah Art Association was founded in 1920 and is the oldest art association in Georgia.

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Call for Entries -- The Sentient Bean will hold an art show and silent auction next month to benefit the Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center. Donations of original artworks are now being sought; all donations are tax-deductible. Call Karen or Kris at 236-1401 for more information.

while dining with one of Savannah’s premier Eclectic Southern Cuisine Restaurants.

‘Noteworthy Art’ -- Savannah Folk Music Society exhibit and auction features 14 unique guitars to be exhibited the month of September 2006 at the Lobby Gallery in City Market. These one-of-a-kind works of art will be auctioned at the midpoint of the Folkfest in City Market, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 and the midpoint of the concert at the Roundhouse, about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15. Artists participating this year are: Richard Adams, Lawrence Carson, Zola Delburn, Harry DeLorme, Sharon Dobbs, Barbara Gentry, Rachel Green, Betsy Haun, Ching Levy, Sharon McIntosh, Chris Roberts, Andrea Strak, Albert Seidl and Deborah Stewart. In addition the auction will feature guitars signed by such noted musicians as Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Kenny Rogers and Don McLean, and other items signed by Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt and the Brothers Four.

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Chroma Gallery 5th Anniversary -- Show opens to the public with an artist reception on Friday, Sept. 29, from 5-8 p.m. On hand will be the founding artists, Lori Keith Robinson, and Jan Clayton Pagratis, as well as many of the strong roster of artists represented by the gallery, including Elena Madden, Penelope Moore, Jeff Markowsky, Aaron Memmott, Ikeda Lowe, and Colin Douglas Gray.

Chroma’s fifth anniversary show features work by Penelope Moore, left, and Lori Keith Robinson, below; opening reception featuring all artists is this Friday, 5-8 p.m.

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Hebermehl at Hang Fire -- Work by this local artist is on display Sept. 22- Oct. 13 at Hang Fire, 37 Whitaker Street downtown.

Barbara Archer Gallery -- The Barbara Archer Gallery in Savannah is presenting a selection of works by innovative new and established contemporary artists, as well as masters in the field of American self-taught art. Open by appointment only at 341-8369 or 273-8184. 306 E. Huntingdon St. ‘From Freedom’s Shadow: African Americans and the United States Capitol’ -- Savannah State University presents this exhibit from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Sept. 6-Oct. 5 in Adams Hall on the SSU campus.

Savannah Art Works -- New gallery at 240 Bull St. marks its opening with an exhibit of new work by Georgia Nagle and H. C. Warner.

‘All Over the Lot’ -- Hospice Savannah will showcase a new body of photographs by local photographer, Margaret Brennan, Sept. 1–Oct. 31 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, at Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

Whitney Gallery -- New artists Carrie Christian, Melody Postma, Chris Revelle, Gerome Temple and Ben Ward are being showcased Sept.–Oct. Whitney Gallery is at 415 Whitaker Street.

‘Linda Cohn was here’ -- Chicago native Linda Cohn will exhibit her works at Gallery S. P. A. C. E. (Savannah’s Place for Art, Culture and Education) Sept. 5-Oct. 27.

Admission is free. Gallery S.P.A.C.E. is at 9 West Henry Street in Savannah. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.

‘Borrowed Time’ -- New works by Juliana Peloso at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St., Sept. 7-28.

JEA Artist of the Month -- The Art Show at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St., beginning September 1 will feature the works of Ardis Wood.

‘Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien’ -- At the SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., through Oct. 6.

‘Darkly Carved Treasures: Traditional Plants and Flowers of China’ -- At the SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., through Oct. 6.

Gallery 440 -- Gallery 440 between Monterey Square and Forsyth Park, welcomes Charlotte Dunlap, Morgan Kuhn, Cissie Victor and Frances Walter. Also upstairs are works by Tim Coy and Billy Herrin.

Now showing on the first floor, a group exhibition of figure, still life and landscape paintings by Fran Thomas, figurative watercolors and oil still life paintings by Jorge Alvarez, landscapes by Barbara Jones, watercolors by Jill Chafin and Brenda Turner and more.

Jepson Center for the Arts – Exhibits include: “Helen Levitt: Photographs from the Permanent Collection”; selections from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art; and “Myrtle Jones: A Tribute.” 207 W. York St. Call 790-8800.

Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences --121 Barnard St. Call 790-8800. w Art Patrol is for rotating shows, exhibitions and receptions. Send art info to jim@connectsavannah.com

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by Jim Reed

Has the Jazz Fest lost its mojo?

25 Years on, annual free event boasts supporters, detractors

The Jazz Fest is financed primarily by the City of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs Commission, and supplemented through private donations and sponsorships. This weekend, thanks to those two revenue streams, locals and tourists alike will be treated to three days’ worth of live musical entertainment by nationally, regionally and locally-known artists.

Eileen Baker, Director of the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs, says that over the years, her department has been mostly pleased with the job the Coastal Jazz Association has done marketing the event to a broad spectrum of the community. She says the Commission monitors the progress of projects they fund, and is thrilled this event has long been viewed as one particularly focused on finding ways to involve young people “both as performers, as well as audience members.”

If there’s any one aspect which causes concern, Baker says it would Ben Riley, left; be the CJA’s longstanding reliance on Kevin Mahogany at public funds for the vast majority of right their operating costs. “This festival has been going on for 25 years,” she says. “Our hope is that the organizers will find new ways to bring in additional funding.”

Skip Jennings has been the Jazz Fest’s onstage MC for almost two decades, and recently rejoined the CJA’s board of directors after many years. A tireless music enthusiast and supporter of such events, he also volunteers with both The Savannah Music Festival, and the annual Blues & BBQ Fest.

He says that a recent infusion of new blood in the CJA’s leadership already bodes well for the future of this event.

“Andy Blalock is our new president,” explains Jennings, “and he’s increased private sponsorship by $10,000 this year, in big and small donations. We’ve needed this for years.”

Jennings says it’s inherently unfair for detractors of the Jazz Fest to compare its talent roster with that of the Savannah Music Fest, which often books superstar acts, but usually charges between $10 and $35 for tickets to those shows.

“One of the things Jazz Fest prides itself on is that it’s completely free,” he muses. “As I’ve often noted from the stage, we draw folks from Hitch Village to The Landings. However, many artists at this year’s festival are still top-notch names.”

Jennings also acknowledges a perception of complacency within the CJA. “I think we’ve not done a good enough job in the past at demonstrating our successes to the Cultural Affairs Commission,” he concedes.

It seems Baker would tend to agree, although it should be noted that she is quite optimistic and positive in this regard.

“I think the organization needs to re-examine itself and its mission, so the public has a clearer understanding of what they’re all about, and can join more in the celebration.”

Jennings agrees the festival could be “more than it is,” and that he feels the board is committed to seeing this happen.

“Under the leadership of our current president, there are a number of business-style reforms being enacted that hopefully will allow this to become an even greater celebration of jazz heritage than it’s been over the past few years. I also see significant room for cooperation and joint ventures among all local music festivals for everyone’s betterment,” he says.

“In the end, it really is all about the music. It’s not a turf battle, no matter who might want to make it seem that way.” w To comment e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com More info at: www.savannahjazzfestival.org

As in years past, famed drummer and Savannah native Ben Riley returns from NYC as a featured headliner. Though he’s recorded and performed with everyone from Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz to Woody Herman and Ron Carter, Riley is perhaps best known for his 1960s tenure with the late, great Thelonious Monk. Also appearing among many others will be saxman David “Fathead” Newman (whose 2005 release I Remember Brother Ray hit #1, and was named Record of The Year by JazzWeek Magazine), and Kevin Mahogany, whom Newsweek called “the standout jazz vocalist of his generation.”

Wednesday

Cobblestone Conch House:

8:00pm - Dixieland w/The Beer Parlor Ramblers.

Thursday

Forsyth Park:

7:00pm - “Blues Under The Stars” w/The Eric

Culberson Blues Band.

8:00pm - The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love.

9:00pm - Haywood Gregory.

Mercury Lounge:

10:30pm - After Fest Jam Session hosted by Eric

Culberson & Teddy Adams.

Friday

Forsyth Park: 7:00pm - The Benedetto Players.

8:15pm - University of North Florida Jazz Ensem

ble feat. Ernie Watts.

9:30pm - Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers.

Cobblestone Conch House:

11:15pm - After Fest Jam Session feat. local, re

gional & national artists.

Saturday

Forsyth Park:

4:00pm - Savannah Arts Academy’s. SkyeLite Band

& Chicago’s Merit School Of Music.

5:00pm - Barry Greene Quartet.

6:00pm - Coastal Jazz Association Hall of Fame

All-Stars.

7:30pm - Ben Riley Trio feat. Randy Weston .

8:45pm - David “Fathead” Newman.

10:00pm - Kevin Mahogany w/The Savannah Jazz

Fest Orchestra.

Cobblestone Conch House:

11:00pm - After Jazz Fest Jam Session feat. local,

regional & national artists.

Sunday

Forsyth Park:

4:00pm - Savannah Youth Jazz Fest w/the SkyeLite

Band, the CJA All-Stars & “Ronald

McDonald” All Forsyth Park events are open to ALL-AGES. in the event of inclement weather, those events will be held at Savannah State University’s Tiger Arena.

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An awful lot can change in 25 years.

Children become adults, fashions long thought passé come mysteriously back into vogue, and some rare comic books become as valuable as large houses.

In the world of music festivals, it’s much the same. Artists whom most had consigned to the dustbin of history often roar back to reclaim many of their old fans; legendary gatherings (i.e., Woodstock) are brushed off and reborn as crass, commercially-driven Doppelgängers of their former namesakes; and sometimes, can’t-miss happenings become brittle and cautious with age.

It’s no secret that there’s been much ado made by some in the local press about the Savannah Jazz Festival. In fact, most of the none-too-subtle innuendo that’s been dropped by the daily paper would have readers believe that many powerful people have already pegged the Jazz Fest as having grown into just such a fragile and irrelevant state.

Reading between the lines, it appears that what’s being said publicly (albeit hesitantly) merely reflects grumblings that have been made privately for some time among many in the local music and arts scenes, as well as city government. Namely, that there’s a very real sense among some longtime observers that the Jazz Fest has lost its way.

What could that mean exactly?

Well, it’s hard to say. And not only because it’s by nature a vague sentiment. Some will tell you that recent headlining artists have paled in name recognition compared with those of years past. Others counter that as time goes by and jazz becomes a more rarefied art form, the bigger names are simply priced out of reach for a festival whose stated mission includes being free to the public.

Still others have begun to compare the time-honored Jazz Fest with the newer and certainly more glamorous Savannah Music Festival, another annual event which often draws even bigger names in the jazz world, but which also benefits from a far more elaborate marketing campaign.

Truth is, this complex issue is being manipulated by a number of parties with vested interests, and plenty of armchair pundits. In this day and age where public funding for the arts finds itself under increased scrutiny from all sides, ensconced government-subsidized traditions like our beloved Jazz Fest have become easy targets for those who would seek to rail against perceived largesse. They have also become easy targets for those with their own agendas and/or axes to grind.

To believe otherwise would be to blind oneself to the harsh realities of the nexus between politics and culture.

However, admitting that such machinations are unfortunately commonplace —and likely at work to some degree here— should not preclude one from taking a closer look at the current state of the Savannah Jazz Fest. That’s because, a quarter of a century into its existence, this wonderful annual event may be nearing a major turning point in its history.

How it weathers such a change, and the direction it ultimately takes should be of great interest to this community.

25th Annual Savannah Jazz Fest Schedule

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Interview

by Jim Reed

The human cannonball

Country’s newest sensation, Pat Green, plays the Lucas Saturday It’s hard not to find a soft spot in your heart for a guy who pens a song that opens with a heartfelt “Let’s jump in my El Camino,” and then proceeds to wax poetic on the simple joys of barrelling carefree down the highway with a loved one while “Born To Run” blasts on the radio.

On some very basic level, Pat Green knows this to be true. And anyone with a modicum of skepticism regarding such things —such as myself— would be a fool not to think that on some other basic level, Pat Green is milking that reflexive, vaguely patriotic goodwill for all he can take. How else would a jaded bastard such as myself add Green’s physical image (a grinning, towheaded, maybe ex-high school jock who traded the wrestling mat for an acoustic guitar) to his populist, feel-good country-tinged rock and not view the total package as more than a bit contrived?

In this business, writers are conditioned to size artists up at a glance. To judge songs on a first listen. So, at first glance, here’s my initial, admittedly shallow take on Pat Green, which I would ordinarily not put on paper: He looks like a cross between Shawn Mullins and the bully who got coldcocked by Crispin Glover in Back To The Future.

His 10th and latest album, Cannonball (the first on a major label — the BNA imprint through Sony/BMG’s Nashville division) sounds like Dave Matthews (who he’s opened for) with more balls and less ersatz jazz noodling, or like John Cougar Mellencamp with a much shorter stick up his ass.

And yet, this well-scrubbed Texan with the “Honeycomb big” voice, and a knack for wrapping monstrous pop hooks around earthy, everyman lyrics —that have People magazine crowning him “the Bruce Springsteen of the Southwest”— is much more than the sum of his all-tooobvious parts. There’s something unmistakably legit about his act that resonates with the kind of MOR listeners who’ve given up on the vast majority of sonically-similar artists out there. It’s that intangible sense of sincerity that no doubt contributed to his steady rise to the uppermost regions of the Billboard Country Charts (his recent single “Feels Like It Should” was the highest-charting country debut of the year, hitting #2).

That affability is unmistakable and it

comes off Green in waves — even over a long distance phone connection. I caught up with the artist on tour as he was headed to a radio station interview in Columbia, S.C..

“We’ve been out on the road now for 2 months,” he offers.

“And we can just tell the difference this new label and record are making. At our last label, it just never seemed like the big red button in the back office ever got pushed, you know?

Now, at BNA, it seems like every single person there really cares about us and this album. They’re trying hard on our behalf.”

Green says proudly that he and his band made no noteworthy concessions of any kind in signing this new deal.

“Absolutely not. We have creative control ‘cause we’ve been doing it so long our way, with great success. They want us to do our own thing, so it won’t seem contrived.”

There’s that word again — contrived.

And yet, Cannonball doesn’t come within a country mile of some of the more crassly opportunistic music coming out of Nashvegas these days. There’s a directness in its songs that Green says he’s looking forward to putting forth to the Savannah’s audience.

“We play big honky tonks, college auditoriums, you name it. But in those old historic theatres like yours, we can definitely get more intimate. The crowd’s more up for hearing someone really speak to them. That’s the job description of a stage performer. We gotta know how to read stuff like that really carefully, and play it by ear.” w Pat Green plays an ALL-AGES show at the Lucas Theatre Saturday at 8 pm. Get tickets at 525-5050 or at www.lucastheatre.com.

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Malcolm Holcombe

I’ve sung this Blue Ridge Mountainsbred singer/songwriter’s praises in the pages of this magazine before, and I’ll likely continue to do so as long as he has the strength to step on a stage. A mesmerizing and almost preternaturally captivating lyricist, vocalist and guitarist, Malcolm is literally the type of artist that most others can only dream of being. After years of battling personal demons and record label politics that unfairly kept his talents from being properly exposed to the public at large, he’s now in the midst of an awe-inspiring career renaissance that has resulted in two spectacularly arresting albums (2005’s I Never Heard You Knockin’, and his latest,

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the brand-new Not Forgotten), that have critics falling all over themselves to recommend. Rightfully so.

I Never Heard You Knockin’ was a bare-bones slice of raw, unvarnished Holcombe that The Wall Street Journal called “a stunning aural equivalent of found art.”

Recorded quickly and without artifice, it captured the sound of Malcolm alone with his acoustic guitar and a couple of fistfuls

Boys, guests on banjo as well.

It’s thrilling to hear Malcolm back in a full-band situation again, and the simpatico he’s found with these musicians is being embraced worldwide, as a featured track from the CD is already hovering near the top of the Americana charts in Europe.

This intimate local show finds Holcombe appearing solo, but don’t let that fool you — the lack of a band will in no way diminish the power of his art. It will not be contained.

Fri., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Ellis Marsalis

Malcolm Holcombe of the most intense, soul-baring first-person ruminative songs of regret and redemption you’ll likely ever hear.

Now, with Not Forgotten, this screenedporch poet dives headfirst into the world of sidemen and collaboration which begat his earliest critical success, the almost mythical mid-’90s LP A Hundred Lies —which was buried by its initial record company, and only saw a belated push almost a decade later after being heralded by everyone from iconic Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke to fellow songwriters Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle as the kind of record they wished they’d had the ability to make.

The new record finds him buttressed by a small combo of versatile and sympathetic players, including bassist Bill Reynolds (of jam-rock faves Donna The Buffalo), songwriter David Wilcox’s dobro ace Jared Tyler. Malcolm’s longtime friend and songwriting peer, Ed Snodderly of East Tennessee’s “new hillbilly” legends The Brother

It’s been 4 years since this piano great (and the patriarch of the ridiculously talented Marsalis clan that also includes trumpeter Wynton, saxophonist Branford, trombonist Delfeayo, and drummer Jason) played in Savannah, and what better way to kick off the grand opening of the city’s first dedicated live jazz venue in years than to welcome back such an esteemed artist?

Regarded by many as New Orleans’ premier modern jazz pianist, he cut his teeth in the ‘60s and ‘70s as a regular fixture in the Big Easy’s Playboy Club and the legendary Al Hirt’s own nightspot. He would later go on to become one of the foremost jazz educators in America, ultimately becoming the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans. He’s released several criticallypraised albums, many of which prominently feature his famed sons. w Both of Marsalis’ Saturday night shows at this 100-seat jazz bar and art gallery (with an adjoining 100-seat restaurant) feature both local and New Orleans-based sidepersons, and are free to anyone 21 and above. Appetizers will be available in the listening room, but not during the performance.

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Local trombonist and Coastal Jazz Association linchpin Teddy Adams hosts this no-holds-barred late-night jam session following the “blues night” of the 25th Savannah Jazz Fest in Forsyth Park. This annual tradition is eagerly anticipated by both regional musicians and listeners alike. The players get a rare chance to let their hair down in a public space, and do their best to cut heads and generally have a blast, sitting in and collaborating extemporaneously with both longtime acquaintances and complete strangers.

Back in the day, many of the cats which help keep our local jazz scene alive today were mentored and encouraged in their youth at annual jam sessions just like this one. They (and especially Mr. Adams) have made it their business to keep that spirit alive, bringing other young or less experienced players than themselves into the fold the old fashioned way. This unpredictable and laid-back event promises a gaggle of local blues and jazz veterans (and newcomers) plucking, strumming, blowing, singing and beating their hearts out. It makes a perfect capper to the events in the park, or a great diversion merely on its own.

Thurs., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

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AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (7

SEPTEMBER 27TH Manning (7 pm)

B & D BURGERS (Southside)- Trivia w/Artie &

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BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler)- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ (upstairs)- Chief (9 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER ST.- The Blend (9 pm) CLUB ONE- #@*! Karaoke COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.)-

Dixieland w/The Beer Parlor Ramblers (8 pm) CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee)- Live Trivia (8 pm) DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- DJ Sam Diamond (Savannah Shag Club) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)- Chuck & Bucky (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (9 pm) FROZEN PARADISE- Slimm Duddy GILLEY’S (Hinesville)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) GUITAR BAR (348 MLK, Jr. Blvd.)- Open Mic Night THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)- Buddy Corns (7 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Terry Rini Powers (6 pm), Lavon Stevens & Louise Spencer (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Greg Snyder (7 pm) THE JINX- Rock & Roll Bingo w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S- Danny Doyle THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)- Open Mic Night (9:30 pm) LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown)- Team Trivia w/ Ben Bennett (7 pm) THE MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK- Pianist David Duckworth (7 pm) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm) MURPHY’S LAW (409 W. Congress St.)- Celtic Karaoke w/Kerr (9 pm) ONE HOT MAMA’S BBQ (Bluffton)- Live Music TBA (8:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond SAVANNAH BLUES- Bottles & Cans (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER- DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B) SAVANNAH SMILES- Dueling Pianos SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (8 pm) SLUGGERS- 5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE (formerly The Monkey Bar)- Live DJ (10:30 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)- Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE- Thomas Claxton (5 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ- Karaoke Night

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BAYOU CAFÉ (upstairs)- Chief (9 pm) BARNES & NOBLE (Oglethorpe Mall)- Open Mic

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Relentless showcase of up-and-coming (and newbie) metalcore acts from Savannah and the outlying areas, with plenty of razorblade-gargling vocals, over-the-top drumming, and furious guitar riffing. Featuring Shy Step Back, Crestfallen Presence, Practically Athens, The Guillotine and Lightweight. This is one of the only dedicated ALL-AGES venues for miles around, and as such, there’s no smoking or alcohol allowed on the premises. For directions to this massive club about 45 min. from downtown, go to www.myspace.com/studiobga. Sat., 8 pm, Studio B (Glennville) - ALL-AGES.

Band In The Park

Tight and experienced Wilmington Island-based classic rock and soul cover group featuring frontwoman Mary Davis, and well-known local guitarist/vocalist Pete Love. Fri., 8 pm, Pogy’s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill).

The Jeff Beasley Band

Guitar-based blues, early rock & roll covers, and Cajun-influenced R & B. Fri. - Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Tony Beasley

Local acoustic guitarist who —under the alias Whiskey Dick— usually serves up ribald outlaw country that’s both politically incorrect and at times downright vulgar. For this show, he sheds his stage name to spotlight a trove of rarely heard originals which don’t fit with his WD image. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Recently formed local original rock power trio —led by guitarist and vocalist Bill Sabo (formerly of And Sometimes Why? and Splitfinger)— with a decidedly late-’80s and early ‘90s sound. This show finds them debuting some brand-new material. Sat., 10 pm, The Caledonian.

Bottles & Cans

Terrific local electric blues band that draws on Nuggets-esque garage rock, Vaudevillian swing, Golden Age C & W, Tom Waits-inspired lunacy, and even early roots reggae. Entertaining and relatively unpredictable. Wed., 10 pm, Savannah Blues + Thurs., 8 pm, The Warehouse + Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park + Sat., 8 pm, The Warehouse.

Chuck & Bucky

Acoustic guitar duo playing rock, pop and country hits. Wed., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (Sandfly) - ALL-AGES + Thurs., 7 pm, Baja Cantina (The Landings).

Deep Cuts

Local classic rock band that boasts a wide repertoire of cover tunes (everything from Pink Floyd to CCR) as well as a few originals. Sat., 9 pm, King’s Inn (2729 Skidaway Rd.).

Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Eighteen Visions, Bullet For My Valentine

Package tour of ridiculously-coiffed emo and pop-punk acts that should appeal mostly to the Hot Topic crowd, while making most everyone else in the so-called “rock intelligentsia” roll their eyes. Thurs., 8 pm, Monkey Business (Hilton Head).

Eat Mo’ Music

Instrumental soul-jazz quintet which enjoys a growing following. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., 10 pm, Tantra Lounge (formerly The Monkey Bar).

The 8-Tracks

Augusta-based theatrical cabaret rock act based heavily around the junkyard pirate blues shtick developed by Tom Waits on his classic Swordfishtrombones LP. Despite their derivative nature, they put on a captivating live show, and are a breath of fresh air in the occasionally stale Savannah club scene.

Opening quintet The Juan Prophet Organization relocated to middle Tennessee from Louisiana, and have become the hottest Vaudeville-inspired act in that area. They draw on Middle Eastern and Baltic influences, as well as the more typical European gypsy flair. Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

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Southern and classic rock and modern country cover tunes. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, The Red Leg Saloon - formerly Silver Dollar Café.

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Young, local male/female electronic duo with a self-consciously antagonistic image, and a snarky attitude reminiscent of a more naive and cocky Suicide. Sat., 8 pm, Metro Coffee House - ALL-AGES.

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Passafire

Terrific, locally-formed reggae-rock outfit that tours the region, and has amassed quite a loyal and large following while maintaining a relatively low profile. With the nationally-known ska-punk-pop act Rude Buddha. Thurs., 9 pm, Locos Deli & Grill (downtown).

The Howard Paul Trio

Fantastic 7-string jazz guitarist, who gigs often with such luminaries as Jimmy Bruno and Bucky Pizzarelli. For this regular weekly gig, his able band is usually joined by a surprise guest musician. Mon., 8 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

Phantom Wingo

Southern rock-tinged jams (a la the Allmans, Panic) with stinging lead guitar and soulful vocals. Sat., 8 pm, Molly MacPherson’s’ Scottish Pub.

Red Eye Jedi

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Solid, acoustic guitarist and singer who honed his own take on folk, country, blues and rock on the Northeastern coffeehouse scene before returning home to the Peach State. Wed., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Thurs., 7 pm, AJ’s Dockside (Tybee).

Slick Nickel

Country and Southern rock covers. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Red Leg Saloon (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204).

Slimm Duddy

New, Decaturbased rap artist, who claims to be the first ever rapper to win “a real talent show at Georgia Southern,” promotBill ing his new single and forthcoming indie CD. Wed., Frozen Paradise.

The Christian Tamburr Quartet w/Kenny Barron

One of the hottest young vibes players on the East Coast welcomes world-famous former Yusef Lateef collaborator Barron (named Best Pianist by the Jazz Journalists Association for the past 4 years!) for a 2-night stand at this intimate supper club.

Simply put, this should be one of the finest gigs of its type in all of 2006. Fri. - Sat., 8 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

The Train Wrecks

old friends. Fri., 9:30 pm, Murphy’s Law.

Rambunctious roots-rock trio featuring members of regional alt.rockers Hazel Virtue and songwriter Jason Bible. They’re known for lively shows which combine Americana covers with their own catchy originals. Fri., 10 pm, Wild Wing Café + Sat., 10 pm, The Britannia (Wilmington Isl.) + Sun., 6 pm, Dewey’s Dockside + Tues., 7 pm, The Caledonian.

The Twilight Collective

California-based folk/ blues/rock guitarist and songwriter who’s a member of the famed Traum family of upstate N.Y. (known as seminal figures on the Woodstock area folk scene). He lived for many years in Savannah, so this rare solo acoustic tour stop should bring out many

Established local singer/songwriter (with great vocal chops) who’s known for his stint in the now-defunct Back River Ramblers, and who’s well-versed in the idioms of blues, country, folk and Americana. Sat., 7 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee). w

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Post-hardcore/singalong pop-punk from Philly. Similar-sounding but slightly more tuneful and slick NYC emo quartet Southcott open. Tues., 10 pm, Guitar Bar.

Greg Williams

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An adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the solid 1949 movie version of All the King’s Men has found its standing diminished over the passage of time; even with a handful of Oscars to its name (including Best Picture), it’s rarely brought up when discussing the notable films of 50-odd years ago. Still, it doubtless will beat the life expectancy of the new screen take on All the King’s Men, as it’s hard to imagine anyone discussing this bomb 50 days from now. Warren’s book centered on boisterous, larger-than-life governor Willie Stark, but really it was just a thinly disguised look at the career of Louisiana politician Huey Long. If high school memory serves me, the novel spent more time on Willie’s right-hand man, former newspaper reporter Jack Burden, yet still presented Long as such a dynamic figure that the roles were essentially balanced. In crafting his 1949 feature, writer-director Robert Rossen wisely made Willie Stark the unequivocal central character, with Burden relegated to the sidekick part of conflicted narrator. The earlier film is by no means perfect, yet Rossen did a masterful job with the exposition. Steven Zaillian’s new film is an unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period (oddly, the time frame has been shifted from the 1930s to the 1950s) and no clear delineation of its central themes. Let’s start with the grotesque miscasting of Sean Penn as Willie Stark. Broderick Crawford earned the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Willie, and while that might have been an overly generous gesture on the part of the Academy, there’s no denying that Crawford’s bluster and burly frame were perfect for the role of a self-proclaimed “hick” whose folksy charms endeared him to his state’s rural population. West Coast kid Penn, on the other hand, is about as folksy as a

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interested in making a name for himself and romancing the local cutie (Melissa Sagemiller) than in actually saving lives. For a long while, The Guardian wears its cliches pretty well, but because this is a Kevin Costner film -- and because Costner spends more time playing mythic, larger-than-life Christ figures instead of ordinary mortals -- we sense this can only end one way. Director

itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to ascertain whether the film is, at its core, deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful. An American remake would naturally be expected to dumb down the entire experience. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly what happens with the new stateside take on The Last Kiss. To a startling degree, this version retains many of the prickly elements that made the original so memorable; it only

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Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it too soon to be subjected to another showing of Flyboys all over again? At least thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sense of deja vu that settled in after viewing the two films in consecutive weeks.

Here we have the same running time (an overextended 135 minutes), the same degree of quality in the CGI work (impressive), and the same fortune-cookie-level pontificating about the need for sacrifice, bravery and personal responsibility. Even more than Flyboys, though, this resembles An Officer and a Gentleman, right down to the scene where our handsome hero bursts into his girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place of employment to declare his everlasting love (sign of the times: Instead of the Oscar-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;Up Where We Belong,â&#x20AC;? the soundtrack swells with a treacly Bryan Adams tune). Kevin Costner plays Louis Gossett Jr., the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer instructor whose tough-love approach to training works wonders for the young recruits; Ashton Kutcher is Richard Gere, a narcissistic pretty-boy student more

"ARNARD 3TREET UNDER THE '!0 Andrew Davis and scripter Ron L. Brinkerhoff tease us by hinting that the final act might actually stray from its preordained path, but no: When push comes to shove, the pair pummel us with the shameless ending we dreaded from the minute the opening credits appeared on the screen.

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A major award winner both at Sundance and in its Italian homeland, 2001â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Last Kiss (Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ultimo Bacio) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward and emotionally honest manner that by the end,

falters at the very end, and even then by a far lesser degree than one would reasonably expect. The Last Kiss places its primary focus on the relationship between Michael (Zach Braff) and Jenna (Jacinda Barrett).

Michael is about to turn 30 and elects to have his mid-life crisis about a decade earlier than planned. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeply in love with his longtime girlfriend Jenna, but once she announces that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pregnant, he freaks out, deciding that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not prepared to cope with either being a husband or being a father.

Kim (Rachel Bilson), a college student whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perpetually perky, spots Michael at a wed-

ding and is instantly attracted to him. Initially, Michael feebly fights off her advances, but soon heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one dropping by the campus to see her and making plans to go with her to a party. The situations presented here are strikingly similar to the ones on display in the Italian original, which means that this film rarely backs away from confronting thorny situations head-on. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a key difference, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the personalities of these various players. The characters in Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ultimo Bacio felt in every sense like real adults, grown people with a passion for life and, for the most part, a determination to ultimately face up to their own shortcomings. This latest Kiss, on the other hand, fits more comfortably into the niche of recent films that portray the American male as a man-child incapable of achieving and/or sustaining the level of maturity and clear-eyed vision enjoyed by his female counterpart. The final sequence is more open-ended than whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typically served up in American films of this nature, yet I still found myself wishing it had gone farther. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been 3-1/2 years since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ultimo Bacio, yet whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stuck with me the most is the nicely ambiguous coda that not only drolly illustrates the dilemma of keeping any given relationship perennially fresh but also beautifully tips the balance in the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central skirmish between the sexes. The Last Kiss inexplicably lops off this epilogue, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a regrettable omission.

In this instance, imitation wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just have been the sincerest form of flattery; it would also have been the most honest.

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Set in Austria, The Illusionist stars Edward Norton as Eisenheim, an enigmatic stage magician so skilled at his profession that the locals suspect he might actually possess otherworldly powers. One of the few skeptics is Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a cruel ruler who sets out to prove that Eisenheim is a fake. He enlists the aid of the corrupt Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti), yet matters become more tangled when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revealed that Leopoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiancee (Jessica Biel) was once Eisenheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood sweetheart. For a good while, The Illusionist is topflight entertainment, with its lush period setting, its assemblage of captivating magic tricks, and a delightful relationship between Eisenheim and Uhl, two men sharing a wary respect for each other (both Norton and Giamatti are excellent). But then the film makes the fatal mistake of morphing into a mystery, the type thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agonizingly easy to figure out even before its gears can really be placed in motion. Viewers who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t figure out the big twist should dig out those old Encyclopedia Brown paperbacks and begin rebuilding their sleuthing skills from there.

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Until it derails while heading into its final turn, The Black Dahlia represents Brian De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most assured moviemaking in at least a decade, a glorious and gritty neonoir which reminds us that only Scorsese and maybe a couple of others can match this maverick filmmaker when it comes to astonishing feats of technical derring-do.

Based on the novel by James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential), it presents a fictionalized take on the real-life slaying of Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Short (touchingly played by Mia Kirshner). Dwight â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buckyâ&#x20AC;? Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are the cops on the case, with Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson) and the mysterious society woman Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank) set up as the potential femme fatales. Working from Josh Friedmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sharp screenplay and backed by tremendous production values, DePalma spins a compelling murder-mystery that clicks until the last act, at which point the movie madly dashes through its messy resolutions, pausing only long enough to succumb to some ill-placed camp. Yet even if the movie had kept its head from start to finish, it still wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have survived some critical miscasting. Along with Kirshner, Eckhart takes top acting honors, infusing Lee with a sense of moral indignity that might potentially run counter to some less savory qualities. Johansson and Swank are adequate as the women in the copsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives, though neither brings enough force of personality to their respective parts to truly make them their own. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the selection of Hartnett that immediately sabotages this pictureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances at complete success. His Bucky Bleichert doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like a detective as much as a Boy Scout shilling for a sleuthing merit badge. But factor in Hartnettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete inability to project anything more than glazed befuddlement, and The Black Dahlia has a cavernous hole right where its noir heart should beat.

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The most startling thing about World Trade Center is that it’s by far the least controversial movie Oliver Stone has ever made.

Conversely, it’s also hard to get terribly excited over the final product. World Trade Center focuses on the Port Authority Police Department officers who would eventually be recognized as two of the only 20 people to be rescued from the rubble of the Twin Towers. September 11 begins as any other day for John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena), but like everyone else on that fateful morning, they soon are having to digest incomplete messages involving an airplane crashing into one of the towers. Springing into action, they’re among the men who enter the building with the intention of aiding any potential survivors, even as they try to decipher additional news items suggesting that the second tower has also been hit by a plane.

Timing’s not on their side, however, as the towers collapse just as they begin making their way up from the ground to the floors above. Their colleagues lose their lives, but John and Will somehow survive, though at a great price. Meanwhile, their wives (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal) wait impatiently at their respective homes with other family members, eager to find out whether their spouses are dead or alive. Working from a script by first-timer Andrea Berloff, Stone keeps his rabble-rousing methods fully in check -- even his typically frenetic shooting style has been replaced by a more somber m.o., with lengthy camera holds on saintly faces and nary a rapid jump-cut in sight. Unfortunately, the end result is a movie that feels oddly impersonal. Despite the strong performances by Bello and Gyllenhaal, the numerous sequences centering on the strong-willed wives are no different than similar moments from countless WWII dramas, when the women are seen

staring wistfully out of windows while their men are off trying to make the world a better place. Like United 93, World Trade Center also tries to keep politics out of the picture; instead, it focuses on the day as a shining example of American solidarity, before the government began reshaping the tragedy for its own exploitive means.

Yet for all of Stone’s timidity, the material brings out some undeniable truths. The movie’s most poignant sequence comes when Stone chooses to briefly show the international community learning about this monstrous terrorist attack. It’s the moment when the U.S. had the sympathy and support of practically every country around the globe, and as we watch this segment, we’re heartbroken upon realizing how the Bush Administration has spent the last five years pissing away all that goodwill, in effect turning us into a country that’s now feared and despised rather than embraced and adored. A political perspective also appears through the character of Dave Karnes (Michael Shannon), a Marine who claims God personally ordered him to Ground Zero. Karnes is clearly a hero -- he’s the guy who found McLoughlin and Jimeno -- yet he’s also the sort of mindless warrior too easily swayed by those in charge. He swears vengeance against those who destroyed the WTC, a sentiment we can all share. Except a footnote reveals that he served two tours of duty in Iraq -- like so many others, fighting in the wrong war for the wrong reasons. Stone prefers that we don’t think too much of such sticky situations, and that’s his prerogative. This nonpartisan treatment certainly allows the movie’s wholesome humanity to shine through, which in turn leads to some strong sequences detailing the manner in which John and Will deal with their hellish situation. This is often powerful stuff, but in the final analysis, it’s still a sanitized, Hollywood version. For a harrowing experience that feels more like the real deal, United 93 is the one to see.

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For a while, it seemed like the greatest marketing ploy since The Blair Witch Project, as well as a revolutionary new way to make and promote movies. Come up with a catchy title, cast a way-cool actor, build the buzz over the Internet far in advance of the opening, let the online fanboys think they have a hand in actually shaping the finished product via their suggestions, refuse to hold critics’ screenings not because the product is unspeakably awful (indeed, most postopening reviews have been positive) but because it guarantees more ink in newspapers, and then settle back as the record-breaking grosses pour in. Well, it all worked out except for that final point. The film’s lackluster box office take (no disgrace, but certainly nothing special) should convince studios that banking on computer-weaned kids to actually leave their keyboards to venture out of the house and pay for a movie was, is and will remain a bad idea. As for the picture itself (yes, there is an actual film buried beneath all the hype), it doesn’t quite deliver on its thrill-a-minute premise -- even star Samuel L. Jackson’s highly publicized quip about the “motherfuckin’ snakes” registers

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At 145 minutes, Dead Man’s Chest ends up providing too much bang for the buck.

That’s just about the same running time as its predecessor, but that film wore its length better, given that the screenplay had its hands full establishing setting, introducing characters, hammering out its weighty plot, and still finding time to include action scenes in the best swashbuckling tradition.

Certainly, those expecting amazing feats of derring-do won’t be disappointed by this new film. The effects-driven action scenes are clearly the picture’s highlights, and they alone make Dead Man’s Chest worth the price of admission. But on the heels of Superman Returns, a movie of substance that nevertheless made sure not to skimp on its adventure quota, this one too often rings hollow. The first Pirates felt like both a stand-alone movie and the theme park attraction on which it was based; this one just feels like a roller coaster ride, full of momentary thrills but leaving little in its wake except a sudden desire to rest for a minute. Those who found Curse’s plot a bit on the convoluted side might as well not even attempt to unscramble the goings-on this time. 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 damnation; it’s possible that his scheme will require sacrificing his friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), but that’s a compromise the self-serving Jack can accept. Depp’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, and there’s no effort on the parts of scripters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to make up for that by deepening the character in any way. But the best fantasy tales are often the ones in which the special effects are subservient to the characters, not the other way around. Depp’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, and there’s no effort on the parts of scripters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to make up for that by deepening the character in any way. Bloom’s Will and Knightley’s Elizabeth are even less developed, and except for a couple of quips (him) and tirades (her), it’s hard to remember anything of substance that they do during the course of the film. Instead, it’s the makeup-sporting actors who steal this one, particularly Nighy as the ruthless Davy Jones and Stellan Skarsgard as Will’s spectral father, “Bootstrap” Turner. A word of warning: Since this is the middle film in a proposed trilogy, it follows the lead of The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future II and The Matrix Reloaded. In other words, there’s a beginning and a middle, but no end: In true cliffhanger fashion, the picture concludes with one final twist, requiring viewers to come back in a year to see how the storyline plays out. Here’s betting that this will be one return engagement that audiences won’t skip.

MONSTER HOUSE

 The eighties may be disparaged in some

quarters for giving us eight Friday the 13th installments and the notion of Judd Nelson as a movie star, but it also provided us with endless hours of imaginative, unpretentious fun in the form of roller coaster movies that left audiences breathless rather than exhausted (compare Raiders of the Lost Ark to the current Pirates of the Caribbean sequel to understand the difference). Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis were two of the leading practitioners of this form of slam-bang entertainment -- Spielberg with E.T. and the Indiana Jones trilogy, Zemeckis with Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- so it makes complete sense that they’re attached as executive producers to the new animated adventure Monster House. At its best, this film harkens back to the fantasy flicks of that period, movies in which innocent children leading sheltered suburban existences often had to cope with the supernatural terrors that lurked around every corner and often even under the bed (other examples include Poltergeist, Fright Night and The Lost Boys). Monster House’s protagonist, DJ (voiced by Mitchel Musso), is recognizable from just about any cinematic time period: a shy outcast who’s light on the brawn but heavy on the brains. He’s the only one in his neighborhood who realizes that something’s not right within the creepy house across the street, a rotting mansion owned by a nasty old man named Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi). After Nebbercracker suffers a heart attack and is whisked away to the hospital, DJ, his obnoxious best friend Chowder (Sam Lerner) and savvy new pal Jenny (Spencer Locke) all come to the realization that the house itself is alive, perhaps inhabited by Nebbercracker’s cranky spirit. People as well as objects begin to disappear, leading the three kids to summon up the courage to put a stop to these otherworldly occurrences. What

Local Film Series Reel Savannah presents: Who Killed the Electric Car? Sunday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre. $8, cash only.

A social document largely structured like a murder-mystery, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest nonfiction feature to indict today’s twin threat of corporate greed and governmental corruption. If there’s any doubt left (and why would there be?) that the bald eagle should be replaced by the gas pump as the symbol of the United States, this movie closes the lid on that case.

With the usual mix of talking heads and vintage footage, the film details how during the 1990s, California elected to fight its smog by passing the Zero Emissions Mandate. General Motors led the charge in coming up with a way to work for cleaner air by creating the EV1, a revolutionary car that ran on a battery and therefore required no gasoline or oil changes.

But almost immediately, a fearful GM began sabotaging its own product, aided by the oil companies, the Bush administration, the shady head of the California Air Resources Board and uninformed consumers who opted for gas-guzzling SUVs that (as one person puts it) “could crush their neighbors.”

And because the EV1 could only be leased rather than purchased (another sign that GM wasn’t serious in the first place), it was no problem to take back all of the vehicles and have them crushed or shredded.

Like An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car? isn’t a partisan project -- even right-wing nutjob Mel Gibson is shown extolling the virtues of the EV1, along with the leftie likes of Tom Hanks -- but rather a sobering look at how the welfare of this country is repeatedly sabotaged by the avarice of those wielding all the power.

-- Matt Brunson initially appears to be a straightforward haunted house tale morphs into a haunting tale about love, retribution and acceptance. This is that rare toon flick that’s been slapped with a PG instead of the customary G, and while that’s because the material might easily frighten very small kids, it also signals that, when it comes to its themes and emotional content, this mature movie isn’t mere child’s play. w

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of Yanni, Will Ferrell is one of those acquired tastes that satisfy devotees while perplexing everyone else. While some folks swear by his 2004 starring vehicle Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, I’m not one of them. This onenote movie struck me as annoying rather than amusing, meaning I wasn’t exactly anticipating Ferrell and director Adam McKay reteaming for a comedy about a NASCAR redneck. My mistake. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is often uproarious, and it’s clever in a way that Anchorman rarely attempted. Like Ron Burgundy, Ricky Bobby is also an egotistical, none-too-bright boor. “I piss excellence,” he declares, and his standing as NASCAR’s best driver certainly signals that he’s excellent at something. He has a best friend (John C. Reilly) who’s even dumber than he is, a blonde trophy wife (Leslie Bibb) who’s always looking to get ahead, and two obnoxious sons named Walker and Texas Ranger (“But we call him TR for short”). Ricky has spent his life trying to work out issues with his deadbeat dad (Gary Cole, delivering the film’s shrewdest comic performance), but that doesn’t excuse his repellent behavior and the way he takes everyone and everything for granted.

Clearly, Ricky Bobby is primed to receive a comeuppance, and it arrives in the form of Jean Girard (hilarious Sacha Baron Cohen), a French homosexual race car driver whose prowess on the track leads to Ricky’s fall from grace and his subsequent (and humbled) climb back to the top.

as much ado about nothing (besides, most of the truly classic movie lines arrive honestly rather than being carefully test-marketed, packaged and pre-sold). Jackson stars as an FBI agent assigned to protect an eyewitness (Nathan Phillips) to a mob slaying; once the villains ascertain which flight they’ll be taking to make that important court date, they manage to fill the aircraft with rattlesnakes, cobras, boa constrictors -- indeed, the only snake missing seems to be Snake Plissken.

Director David Ellis and his three scripters have the title terrors chomp down on lips, eyes, breasts and even a penis, but given the overall lack of creativity invested in this project, it ultimately feels as rote and joyless as a typical slasher flick. For a more imaginative 2006 release that ably mixes R-rated horror and humor, check out the box office bust Slither, due on DVD October 24.

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Activism & Politics 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 at 691-2934 or email kshe62@aol.com..

Chatham County Democratic Committee

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

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

Chatham County Young Democrats

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

Chatham County Young Republicans

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

Coastal Wind Energy Roundtable

will be held Oct. 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Skidaway Institute on Skidaway Island. It will feature wind energy experts

Walt Musial and Larry Flowers from the Natinoal Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Early registration by Oct. 15 is $25 and $40 after that, which icnldues a continental breakfast and lunch. Details and registration materials are available at www.gawwg.org.

For info, call 404-659-5675 or send e-mail to wind@gawwg.org.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County

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 enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. For information, visit www.

DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

Planned Parenthood

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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 anyone 18 and older.

meets each Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. Call 3083934 or visit http://www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

National Council of Negro Women

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

Savannah Area Republican Women

meet the first Wednesday of every month at the Johnny Harris Restaurant Banquet Room on Victory Drive. The social starts at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is at noon. The cost is $13. Make reservations by noon on the Monday preceding the meeting by calling 598-1883.

Savannah Area Young Republicans Call 572-8528.

Savannah Branch NAACP

For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah Republican Club

Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

Savannah Area Young Republicans

will meet Thursday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Exchange on Waters. Mike Wiggins, who is running for the Georgia Supreme Court, will be the speaker. Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528.

Skidaway Island Democrats

will meet Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in the conference room of The Landings Association, 600 Landings Way south.

Several candidates will sepak and be available for questioning, including Jim Nelson for Congress and Mell Traylor for State Senate. The public is welcome to attend. Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.

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Auditions History Theatre

New downtown dinner theater venue will hold auditions for its first production, Wings to Fly, a Savannah historical drama with dance and music. The play will open in late October and run 4-6 times a week.

Performers will be paid. Cast needs include black female and male actors/dancers and singers, and white male actors/dancers.

Auditions by appointment only. Call 7866384.

Benefits

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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.

The Hidden Treasure

A book of photography taken at Tybee Island by Dr. Gustave “Stavie” Kreh is being sold with proceeds going to the Chatham Academy at Royce Center for Children and the Marine Science Center of Tybee Island. The book costs $29.95 and may be purchased online at www.tybeetreasure.com and in area gift shops.

Memory Walk 2006

will be held Saturday, Sept. 30 from 10 am. to 2 p.m. at Johnson Square to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Coastal Office.

Food, fun and a walk through the squares.

To raise money or register, visit www.alzga. org or call 920-2231.

St. Frances Cabrini Fall Festival and Craft Sale

will be held Saturday, Oct. 28 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 11500 Middleground Rd. Crafts booths are available. Space and table rental is $30 is available through Sept. 30. A limited number of covered booths also are available for $45. Call 925-4725.

Tybee Turtle Tour

This program is sposnored by the Tybee Arts Association to raise money to help save turtles through ecological education in a public art forum. Fifty fiberglass statues of sea turtles have been placed around Tybee Island and vicinity, and volunteers are being sought to decorate them. Organizational meetings are being held Wednesdays at 7pm, at the old school behind the new gym on Tybee. Visit www.TybeeTurtleTour.org. The tour will be active through autumn, 2007.

Call for Donations

Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center Art Show/Sale Donations of original artwork are being sought for this benefit. All donations are tax-deductible. Call 236-1401.

Classes, Camps & Workshops AARP Drivers Safety Program

Classes will be held Oct. 3 and 4 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smart Senior. Call 352-4405.

Adult Education

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

Applied Behavior Analysis

The Kicklighter Resource Center is offering applied behavior analysis training. On Sept.

29, Building Basic Skills Utilizing the ABLLS will be offered. The cost is $50. Call Pennie Lightfoot at 355-7633.

Art Classes Classes in clay hand-building, open studio, intermediate drawing and painting are offered at CarosArt Studio in Windsor Forest. Very small clases with lots of extra attention by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Classes are held Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon and Mondays from 6-8 p.m. Inquire about other days. The cost is $100 per six weeks of instruction. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-5465 to register.

The Art School

Class offerings include children’s art classes, with afterschool art instruction for ages 6 through teens. Ages 6-8 attend one hour a week for $55 per month. Ages 9 through teens attend one and a half hours per week for $70 per month. Tuition includes supplies. Classes also are available for adults and advanced teens 16 and up Mondays 7-9 p.m. and Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. to noon, with students working in the medium of their choice. Weekly figure drawing sessions are held Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $60 for six-week sessions or $15 drop in. Artists bring their own materals. Preregistration and pre-payment are required.

Figure drawing weekends will be held Friday

and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 67 and Dec. 1-2. The cost is $35 per day. A pastel portrait workshop with a live model and instruction by Chin-Chen Hung will be held Nov. 10-11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $170 and class size is limited. The Art School is located at 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd., No. B-2. Call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151 or visit www.TheArtSchool-Sav. com.

Art Studio Sessions

Six-week sessions on Tuesday evenngs or Wednesday mornings are offered at the Remshart Row Gallery and Studio on West Jones Street. Small groups. Oils, acrylics and pastels. Help and encoruagement in creating successful artwork. Prior experience is helpful but not necessary. Tuition is $125. To register, call 234-5737.

Baby sign classes

Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 8-14 months and their parents. The cost is $50, which includes materials. To register, call 355-4601

Cappa Approved Labor and Postpartum Doula Training

This workshop will be held Oct. 13, 14 and 15 on Hilton Head Island. The cost is $525 and the deadline to register is Oct. 2. Call Jennifer Giattino at 843-683-8750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo.com.

Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish?

Come to the mesa de espanol the second Thursday and last Friday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For information, send e-mail to cafecontigo@gmail.com.

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

Draw to Paint Class

Take the mystery out of drawing as you learn the “natural way to draw.” The elements and principles of design will be emphasized in preparation for successful pauintings in this course taught by certified art instructor Carolyne Graham. The sixweek class begins Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon at The Art School, 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd. The cost is $120. Class size is limited. A supply list is available. Call Carolyne at 925-5465 to register.

Fall Visual Arts Classes

The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is now registering students for its fall visual arts classes. Day and evening classes are offered in ceramics, painting, portfolio preparation, jewelry making and stained glass for children, teens and adults. All classes are held at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St.Call 651-4248 or visit www. savannahga.gov/arts.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

First Steps parent education program

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

Free Tax School Earn extra income after taking this course. Flexible schedules, convenient location. The class is free, but there is a small fee for books. Call 352-3862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

Georgia Center for Nonprofits will present Learn to Plan and Conduct a Major Gifts Campaign on Sept.

29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. The cost is $70 for members and $85 for non-members. Call 234-9688.

Get Published

Coaching and editing services by Christopher Scott, published author and long-time writing teacher. One-on-one coaching, manuscript editing for fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction and memoirs. Call 398-1727 or send e-mail to cscott613@comcast.net for details and rates.

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, 927-3432.

Highest Praise School of the Arts

of Overcoming by Faith is offering vocal, piano and dance classes that are open to anyone from Pre-K to adult. Visit overcomingbyfaith.org or call 927-8601.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

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

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The Millionaire Women’s Club of Savannah will hold a fundraiser Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 5:30-8 p.m. to benefit the charity Girls On the Run, a prevention program that encourages preteen girls to develop self respect and healthy lifestyles through running.. Broughton by Twilight will be a shopping scavenger hunt where participating merchants will offer special discounts.

Refreshments will be served at some stops and shoppers will be encouraged to buy items. A portion of the proceeds will go to fund scholarships. For information, send email to kelley@millionairewomensclub.com or visit www.millionairewomensclub.org.

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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. On Sept. 28 from 23:30 p.m., When Enough is Enough! about substance abuse and addiction will be presented.

Life Challenge Consulting

When would now be a great time to engage yourself in life-changing strategies. Career; stress reduction; spirituality. Free initial half-hour 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.

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Painting the Figure in Oil

is an art class that will be offered as part of the Savannah Art Association Workshop Series at AASU on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The class will be taught by portrait and figure artist Ron Schaffer.

Participants will be guided to the completion of a painting during the workshop.

Register 10 days in advance. A supply list will be available upon registration. A bagged lunch is suggested. The cost is $50 for members, $65 for non-members. Call 2327731 or 897-5612 or visit SavannahArt.net.

Personalities: Creating Harmony at Home and Work

Discover how learning more about personality types and communication styles can affect your daily life and relationships both at work and at home. Participants will have the opporutnity to take the Myers-Brigges Type Indicator to help identy personality type and facilitate class discussion. The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Thomas Hollis, a Savannah psychologist, and will meet for three sessions on Tuesdays Oct. 3, 10 and 17 from 7-9 p.m. at the Amrstrong Conference Center, 11935 Abercorn St. The cost is $49 for single or $69 with spouse, which includes test materials. Call 927-5322 to register.

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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352-0709

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

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

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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

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

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

is held 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.

Blackbeard’s Scuba Club

Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

Buy Local Savannah

will meet Sept. 28 at 11:30 a.m. at The Pirates’ House. The cost is $15, which includes lunch, drink and tip. The event is open to the public. Speaker Alice Jean will present Tackling a Turnaround - Reinventing Your Company. Call Joe Ippolito at 844-6991 to RSVP or visit www. buylocalsavannah.com.

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

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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 Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. 728-5989.

Daughters of Destiny

Discussion Group for Unsung Heroes You may not require 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.

Introducing the Work of Byron Katie

is a group that meets every other Wednesday afternoon in Savannah and every other Friday afternoon in Statesboro at 3 p.m. Free of charge and open to the public. See what happens when you question your stressful beliefs with this powerful and simple tool.

It has been life changing for many people.

Introductory video or audio CDs will be presented in each session. Call 484-0134.

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.

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Meet new friends and enjoy a welcome break. Hear guest speakers on topics relevant to mothering, along with discussion time, creative activities and more, because mothering matters. Call for the location, date and time of the next meeting. MOPS is for all mothers with children from birth to kindergarten. Child care is provided. Visit www.mops.org or call 898-4344.

No Kidding!

is the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first social club for single and married adults who do not have children.

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Savannah Browns Backers

This is an official fan club recognized by the Cleveland Browns NFL football team.

Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at McDonoughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the corner of Drayton and McDonough streets. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at

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

meets the second Thursday of the month from 6-8 p.m. Call 232-7731.

Savannah Brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; League

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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.

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visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier.

656-2410.

you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

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.

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.

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

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

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 Ski Club

The purpose of the club is to bring all snow skiers/boarders in the Lowcountry area together, Membership is $30 for a single and $45 for a family. Call 713-7655 or e-mail SavhSkiClub@bellsouth.net.

Savannah Toastmasters

Savannah Jaycees

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.

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

Call 961-9913 or visit www.savannahjaycees. com.

Tybee Performing Arts Society

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

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

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Urban Professionals

meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun,

Dance

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.

Adult Ballet Classes

at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun.

All levels and body types welcome. $12 per class or $90 for eight classes. Beginner Adult Ballet is held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Intermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:307:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thrusdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. A variety of youth classes (ages 3 to teen) are available. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Adult Jazz and Tap Classes

The Gretchen Greene School of Dance is offering ongoing adult classes. There are two levels, Beginner and Intermediate, which both meet on Wednesdays. The intermediate program is from 6:30-8 p.m. and the beginner program is from 8-9 p.m.

Both classes consist of a jazz portion and a

Argentine Tango Practice and Lesson

Breffni Academy of Irish Dance

has opened a location in Richmond Hill and is accepting students. The academy is located at Life Moves Dance Studio, 10747 Ford Ave. For information, call Michael or Nicola O’Hara at 305-756-8243 or send email to Dance@BreffniAcademy.com. Visit www.IrishDanceClasses.com.

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.

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome.

Call Mahogany B. at 272-8329.

by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Love isn’t as simple as you wish

it would be. On the other hand, it’s nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda at whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant.

Celebrate through surrender.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear StarMan: I want to be

a famous actress like Scarlett Johansson. I know my natural talent is as good as hers, but I’m not especially beautiful. On one of those ‘am I hot or not?’ websites, I was rated 3.2 out of 10. Can you look into my future and see if I’ll ever make it big in Hollywood? And would it help if I got cosmetic surgery? - Taurus Dreamer.” Dear Taurus: It’s a favorable time for you Tauruses to explore ways you might be kidding yourselves about your destiny. So let me ask you this: Does the dream you articulated express the primal truth about your purpose here on earth? Or is it a fantasy your ego has fabricated out of a deluded longing to pursue inappropriate ambitions that won’t satisfy you in the long run? Instead of saying, “I want to be a famous actress,” try this desire on for size: “I want to be a good actress.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I was in Seattle recently,

I was impressed with the extravagant requests of three seedy-looking homeless guys downtown. Their cardboard signs made it clear they wanted far more than the usual alms. “Need cash to buy fuel for my Lear jet,” read one. “Girlfriend needs liposuction--please help defray costs” and “Desperately need new set of golf clubs for golf date with Donald Trump” said the other two. Draw inspiration from these cheeky fellows. Dream really, really big; ask for more than you’ve dared to before.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Is your schedule too rigid to al-

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tap dance portion. The instructor is Travis Dodd. For information, call 897-4235 or visit ggsod.com.

low magic to seep in? Then mutate that schedule, please.

Is your brain so crammed with knowledgeable opinions that no fresh perceptions can crack their way in? Then flush out some of those opinions. Is your heart so puckered by the stings of the past that it can’t burst forth with any expansive new invitations? Then unpucker your heart, for God’s sake.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture a bridge that once upon a

time allowed cars to cross over a river, but that now has nothing but hard dirt and scrubby bushes beneath it. In other words, the river that once compelled the building of the bridge has dried up. This is a useful symbol for you. Metaphorically speaking, you’re thinking about erecting a bridge over a barrier that won’t be a barrier much longer. If you wait a while, it won’t be necessary to do all that work.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Jeff Greenwald (www.ethical-

traveler.com) has traveled extensively all over the planet for the last quarter of a century. “Do the citizens of the world revile us Americans more each year?” I asked him. He said that while millions upon millions have come to despise the U.S. government, most don’t actually hate us, the American people. That’s because they know firsthand the corruption and tyranny of their own countries’ politicians, and so they don’t hold our awful government against us. Let this distinction serve as a guide for you, Virgo. The time is right for you to fight inept institutions and rotten traditions and bad ideas, but without hating anyone.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Emilio Estevez was experienc-

ing writer’s block as he worked on a screenplay about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In his desperation to get unstuck, he jumped in his car and started driving north along the California coast. He stopped at the first random motel that had a vacancy, resolved to make this the place he’d plow ahead on the screenplay.

The motel clerk recognized Estevez’s famous face and

asked him what he was up to. When he told her about his stalled project, she gasped. She had been at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. on June 4 and 5, 1968, the place and time Kennedy was killed. As she told Estevez her recollections of that night, he felt his writer’s block dissolving. In the ensuing days, he wrote up a storm. I predict, Libra, that you’re about to experience a similar synchronicity. It will jump-start a labor of love that has been on hold.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Last year actress Michelle Ro-

driguez was arrested for drunk driving in Hawaii. She was given the choice of spending five days in prison or doing 240 hours of community service. She surprised everyone by choosing to be incarcerated. Some observers theorized that she felt it would be a good chance to do research for future film roles as a bad girl. Rodriguez said, “I’m a gypsy. I can see beauty in a jail cell.” While I’m not predicting you’ll end up behind bars in the coming week, Scorpio, I do suspect you’ll have a bout with limitation. If you do, regard it as an invitation to accomplish three things: (1) Develop more compassion for people who’ve undergone comparable adventures; (2) expand your ability to find beauty in challenging circumstances; (3) cultivate your skill at creating opportunities for yourself in the midst of perplexity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Miami’s Hotel Victor has

a “vibe manager” on the staff. This person’s job is to ensure that the hotel’s ambiance is soothing and cheerful. As I see it, Sagittarius, one of your important tasks right now is to be a vibe manager for the environments you share with people. (It’s in your selfish interests to do so.) In addition to keeping the atmosphere relaxing, however, you should also keep it invigorating. Don’t let comfort lapse into stagnancy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s not whoring if you do it for free,” read both of the matching t-shirts on a couple

I saw at a San Francisco café. Being a curious sort, I went up and asked them what exact activity they were referring to. “He loves to give away his top- notch psycho-spiritual advice,” the woman said, pointing to her companion, “and I love to give out compliments without expecting anything in return. Need any free advice or compliments?” Her earnest statements were in sharp contrast to the glib humor of the t-shirt quip. The next day, as I meditated on your astrological omens, I realized my experience with them was a foreshadowing of the oracle I should give you. Here it is: Be both playful and sincere as you deepen your commitment to generosity. Cultivate a blithe intensity as you bestow more of your gifts on the world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Your job,” my philosophy

teacher Norman O. Brown told me back in 1981, “is to find the holy in the mundane, and, failing that, to *create* the holy in the mundane.” I’ve done my best to carry out his directions all these years. Now I’m going to ask you to do your part, Aquarius. Believe it or not, one of your important tasks in the coming week is to feel awe and reverence while you’re in the midst of the everyday routine. Penetrate to the deeper layers as you seek out divine beauty that gently shocks you into a state of heightened awareness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her role as DJ Debi New-

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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

Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 927-9439.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

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.

Fitness

A balanced life

Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www. ssomt.com.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes

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

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Gentle Yoga

Savannah Danse Theatre and Equinox Jazz Orchestra team up for a high-energy performance Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre.

Ongoing classes include Hip Hop/Funk on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Adult Beginner Ballet on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. There are a variety of advanced classes daily. The Studio is located at 2805 Roger Lacey Ave. just off the intersection of Skidaway and Victory. Call 695-9149 or 356-8383 or visit ww.thestudiosav.com.

Wheelchair Ballroom Dance

The Moon River Dancers now offer ballroom dance classes for people who are disabled. Classes are held the fourth Saturday of the month from 2-4:30 p.m. at the Delaware Center, 1815 Lincoln St. For information, call Charleen Harden at 3087307 or send e-mail to cwh0869@yahoo. com.

Youth Dance Program

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program

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

Evening classes offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:45 p.m. and lunch classes Monday from noon to 1 p.m. $12 per evening class, $10 per lunchtime class. $75 for an eight-week session. Classes at The Yoga Loft at Womancare, 800 E. 70th St. Call Lisa at 398-2588.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:3011:30 a.m. and Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Dropin 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.

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

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

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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 3558111.

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

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.

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.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club

Yoga For Round Bodies

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.

Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Explore yoga postures for the larger body while experiencing stress relief and the healing power of yoga. Six-week session is $70. Classes at The Yoga Loft at Womancare, 800 E. 70th St. Call Lisa at 398-2588.

Pregnancy Yoga

The Yoga Room

An eight-week session will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7:15 p.m. in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mother-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery.

The instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $90 for once a week or $150 for twice a week for the 8-week session. Call 596-0584 or send email to ann@aikyayoga.com.

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 Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 10-11:30 a.m. and Level Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;and IIâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday Power Yoga from 6:307:30 p.m. Friday Level Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday Power Yoga from 9-10 a.m. Sunday Vinyasa from 10:30 to noon and Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. Private sessions are available. Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom. com or call 898-0361.

Savannah Yoga Center

Classes offered seven days a week.

Community Easy 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 schedule is: Monday, Community Flow Yoga from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and All Levels Flow Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Tuesday: Dynamic Flow Yoga from 10-11:15 a.m. and Yoga Basics from 6-7:15 p.m.; Wednesday, Level I/II Flow Yoga from 9-10:15 a.m. and Gentle Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Thursday, Level I/II Flow Yoga from 9-10:15 a.m., Community Flow Yoga from 4:15-5:15 p.m. and Dynamic Flow Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Friday, Dynamic Flow Level I/II Yoga from 10-11:15 a.m.; Saturday, All Levels Flow Yoga from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.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. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Center 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.

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First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

First City Network Community Center and Library

The FCN Community Center & Library is open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visitors are welcome to check out gay/lesbian books and obtain information on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gay Savannahâ&#x20AC;? businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

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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 3522611.

Health

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Can’t Sleep?

Can’t sleep or stay asleep? Hypnosis and guided imagery works. Call 927-3432 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 447-6605 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.

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.

Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify. 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

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

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

This monthly cancer survivors’ walk is free and open to all survivors and their loved ones. Call DeDe Cargill at 398-6654.

are conducted at three locations within St. Joseph’s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

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feeding college students for less than $10 a month.

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.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session

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

Georgia Cares Medicare Part D Assistance

The toll-free hotline is 1-800-669-8387.

Got a drug problem? Need help?

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

Group Facilitated Smoking Cessation Program

will hold an orientation class Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. in the second floor conference room of the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion.

Call 819-6718.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/ AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Call 231-8727.

La Leche League of Savannah Call Phoebe at 897-9261.

Lose Weight

like Mark Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. The Alpha Institute, 9273432.

Mammograms

St. Joseph’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 Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Chatham County Health Department Drayton Street Clinic as part of Uninsured Day. Patients must be at least 40 and without insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. Call 651-2024. Mammograms will be performed Oct. 3 and 17 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Rincon. Call 354-9357.

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

Memorial Health CPR training

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

Memorial Health group meditation sessions

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

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

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.

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

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

Stop Smoking

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

927-3432.

Environment

Blackwater River Paddle

Your Wilderness Southeast guide will give simple canoeing instructions and lead the way dowstream past cypress and tupelo. Look for herons, egrets and listen for the noisy rattle of the kingfisher. This event will be held Sunday, Oct. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Ebenezer Creek. The cost is $35 per person. Reservations are required. Call 8975108.

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.TheDolphinProject. org.

Endangered Forest Slideshow

A presentation about looming social and environmental threats to the forests and communities of the Southern U.S., Chile and Brazil posed by genetically engineered trees and industrial tree plantations will be presented Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, Room 111, 306 Fahm St. There will be a discussion about how to get involved in the campaign.

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.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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.

Pets & Animals

Coastal Pet Rescue Adoption Day and Microchip Clinic

will be Saturday, Sept. 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coastal Middle School. The cost of microchipping for dogs is $10. All dogs must be on a leash and have proof of current rabies vaccinations.

St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 4:50 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Call 234-3336.

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

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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.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

Tea time at Ola’s

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

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

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

Ekklesia, The Church

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

Free Spiritual Classes

Through Oct. 16, The Four Agreements will be presented Monday evenings from 7-9 p.m. Study the book of the same title by Don Miguel Ruiz, which is available in the Unity book store. From Sept. 24-Nov. 19, Revelation: The Road to Overcoming will be presented Sunday mornings from 9:45-10:45 a.m. Both classes will be presented in the Fellowship Hall at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Go within, access intuition and inner peace.

This free meditation group meets every first Saturday day from 9-10 a.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.

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

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)

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 Beloved Community Church Services begin Sunday at 10 a.m. at 707 Harmon St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. On Oct. 1 at 10 a.m., the topic will be Latino/Immigration Issues. For information, call 233-6284 or e-mail UUBC2@ aol.com. Affirming the worth and dignity of each person.

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

Unity of Savannah

A church of unconditional love and acceptance. Sunday service is at 11 a.m. Youth church and childcare also are at 11 a.m.

2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Wildwood United Methodist Church

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

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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.

Savannah Shamrock Rugby Club

is always looking for new players, no experience necessary. Open practice every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Forsyth Park. Call 663-7415 or visit www. savannahrugby.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

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 920-2231.

Amputee Support Group

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

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

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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

Bipolar 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 &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195.

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.

Compassionate Friends 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.

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

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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CASA Support Group

This support group is for parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCSâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;and/or returned to your custody after being 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. Call Madison at 447-8908 or email madison@savannahcasa.org.

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

Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline

18+. No liability. Restrictions apply.

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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.

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.

Debtors Anonymous

meets Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, 225 W. President St. in the third floor New Beginnings Room. Enter on President Street through the left-hand set of glass doors between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Entry doors are locked promptly at 5:30 p.m. E-mail DAsavannah@yahoo.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.

First Line

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.

Food Addicts Anonymous

will meet every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and every Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Candler Hospital Medical Library Conference Room.

Call 659-2669.

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center

a program of Hospice Savannah, offers the free counseling services for anyone dealing with loss. Call 355-2289.

HIV/AIDS:living with HIV/AIDS? My Brothaz Homeis 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 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Services Conference Room at the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial Health. Call 350-7845.

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25 EAST 34th STREET: Totally restored large Victorian home with porches, decks and loads of fireplaces. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and huge rooms! $1850/month. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

319 EAST HUNTINGDON LANEfurnished and all utilities included! Month to month lease for $1500/month. Parking space included, cable TV, and all you need are your clothes. Walk to stores, restaurants, Forsyth Park!

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507 POINT SOUTH - Wilmington Island - and on a lake! $1200/monthly. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, loads of decks, and relaxing view. Art studio included.

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Freshly painted, 4 or 5 BR, 2 BA, upstairs kitchen, fenced yard, in cul-de-sac, etc. $1100.00 per month. Deposit of $600.00 required.

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Walk to stores, back river, etc.

Rents off season for $600/week, $1350/month. In season rents for $925/week. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

234-0606 1226 East Victory Drive Large 2BR, 1BA apartment with a separate dining room, hardwood floors, kitchen with stove & refrigerator, central H/ A and off-street parking. Views of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daffin Parkâ&#x20AC;? and a block away from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spin Cityâ&#x20AC;?. Petfriendly. $635/mo.

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40 Thackery Place Thackery Place is between Bull and Montgomery off of 61st Street. Close to Montgomery Hall and Habersham village, this spacious 2 BR, 1 ½ BA apartment has a formal dining room, wall-to-wall carpet, central H/A, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, W/D connections and off street parking. NO PETS. $650/mo.

44 Thackery Place Spacious 3 BR, 2 BA apartment (over 1,400 sq ft) with a formal dining room, refinished hardwood floors, central H/A, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, W/D connections, shared front balcony and off street parking.

Pet-friendly. $750/mo.

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TYBEE ISLAND - Like New! 1-bedroom efficiency, totally furnished, no pets, great location.

Also 2-bedroom, 1-bath duplex.

No steps, quiet area. Call 305 EAST BOLTON #202: 871 sqft, 912-507-7304 or 770-435-4708.

2BR/1BA, brand new construcConnect Savannah tion. Community pool, off-street Classifieds parking, upscale finishes & appliances, laundry room, private storage. $1700/month. Contact Alex, 912-220-1700.

Call 721-4350 or go to connectsavannah.com SOUTHSIDE CONDO: 1 bedto place your ad today. room, 1.5 baths, all appliances, w/d, pool. $675/month + deposit. Available October 1st. 895 Call 912-927-1380.

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2004 MAZDA MIATA, 4-cylinder, auto, cruise control, tilt wheel, abs, alarm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;LOADEDâ&#x20AC;?. Special Edition, Silver exterior with blue leather package, extras, pin/stripe, CD player, LOW LOW MILES, only 4600. IMMACULATE, garage kept, one owner. $18,900.

Call Allen Woods at 912-231-9554.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;97 VOLVO 850 WAGON: 94K, silver w/tan leather, auto, AC, AM/FM/CD/MP3. $5590/OBO. FURNISHED BED & BATH. Quiet, 912-352-1848. safe, exquisite! Cable, utilities included, 5 minutes from Down- 99â&#x20AC;&#x2122; MUSTANG GT: V8, standard town. $125/week (monthly ren- transmission, 45K Vorteck supercharger, over 20K in parts & latal). Call 843-683-2566. bor, 500HP. Call 912-604-8666 LARGE VICTORIAN near library. for more info.

Walk-in closet, fireplace, mini kitchen, phone, cable, internet, Fender Bender? w/d utilities, nicely furnished.

Paint & Body Work $140/wk, $504/mo. Seven days.

Reasonably Priced Call 912-231-9464.

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1994 GMC SUBURBAN: Custom paint (burgundy & grey), A/C, Cars leather seats, 3rd row seat, wood grain, keyless entry, Kenwood stereo CD w/remote, custom 2002 LINCOLN LS V-8, pearl wheels, tinted windows. For the white w/black leather, wood- low price of $6500. Call grain trim, Alpine stereo, w/6 912-507-2461. disc changer, sunroof, excellent ac/heat. FULLY LOADED! Like CHEVY TAHOE LT â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;03, Brown, new. $19,000. 912-977-1763 or DVD & 6 disc CD changer, tan leather, 3rd row, loaded. Sacri912-977-1407. fice $18.9k. Call 912-704-3124.

2003 FORD Explorer XLT Fully loaded, AM/FM CD cassette FOR SALE: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;06 Jeep Wrangler SE, player, leather interior, sunroof, 5K miles, 4WD, 2.4ltr, 6-spd running boards, excellent condi- manual trans. $16,000/OBO. Call tion. $13,900. Call 912-530-8775 912-354-8266. or 912-294-1090.

MOVING SALE, MUST GO! 2005 Explorer XLT: V-6, autoBuy. Sell. Find. Free! Ford www.connectsavannah.com matic, ethanol safe engine, 20MPG, 3rd row seat. Factory warranty still applies. Call Vc HZ 8 Ryan at C-803-517-1175 or Y V b V aa O-912-927-9524.

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117 LINCOLN STREET: Fully furnished, 2BR/1BA, washer/dryer, full kitchen, $2000/month. Contact Alex, 912-220-1700.

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH APT. in Baldwin Park. $800/month plus deposit includes washer/dryer, does not include utilities. Call HOUSE AVAILABLE 10-1-06, 1507 912-604-8556.

East Ott Street: 3BR/2BA, living 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH apartment: room, dining room, breakfast Gated community on Wilmingroom, kitchen w/appliances, sep- ton Island. Call 912-897-4872. arate utility room, fenced yard, utility shed, green porch. No 2 BEDROOMS + Trunk room, 1 pets. $950/month, $950/deposit, bath, large renovated kitchen, Call 912-596-4954, leave mes- off-street parking, washer/dryer connections. New AC and fans. sage.

West Henry Street close to ForSPACIOUS 1950â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BUNGALOW: syth Park $850/month. No dogs.

Quiet Midtown location. 2 bed- Call 619-913-0185 or email rooms, 1 bath with small bonus julie.russel@sbcglobal.net. room. Hardwood floors/tile, cen324 EAST 39TH STREET: tral heat/air, fenced yard/carport, 2BR/2BA large upstairs unit. Exfull attic, shed with electricity, cellent condition, jacuzzi tub, gaslog fireplace. All appliances, balcony, washer/dryer, dishwater/garbage, pest service and washer, central heat/air, alarm window treatments provided. A system. No pets, no smoking. yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease/references required. $950/month.

Please call $765/month with $765/security 912-856-7472. deposit. Pet welcome with additional $200 deposit. Please call ARDSLEY PARK Duplex: 704 East 49th. Great neighborhood. Large 912-786-9302. renovated 2+ bedrooms, living WILMINGTON ISLAND RENTAL: room, dining room, sunroom, 6 Cromwell Place. 2 bedrooms, washer & dryer and garage.

2 baths. No smoking, no pets. $900/monthly. Call 596-1355. $850/month. 10 mins to beach, 15 to downtown. PATIO HOMES in a Private setting. 1 and 2 bedrooms with 912-656-3590. central air $495-$715. Townswoods Apt. 920 Mohawk www.connectsavannah.com Street. (954) 927-3278.

536 East 49TH Street Large 2BR, 1BA apartment in the heart of Ardsley. Located next to the Savannah Arts Academy, this apartment features a large front porch, hardwood floors, central H/A, and newly renovated kitchen and bath. W/D connections, offstreet parking and Pet-friendly.

AVAILABLE OCT 15TH $775/mo.

16 West 40th Street Beautifully renovated 2BR, 1BA upper half of duplex in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starland Districtâ&#x20AC;?. Features include a formal living room with a large front balcony, formal dining room, refinished heartpine floors, ceiling fans, bathroom & kitchen w/ceramic tile floors, separate laundry room and private courtyard.

Central H/A, total electric and paid security system. Petfriendly. AVAILABLE OCT 15TH $975/mo.

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HONDA 1978 CM400A Hondamatic - The perfect city bike! Experience the joy of clutchless manual shifting. 2-speed transmission, classic older bike style and more power than your buddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scooter. $1200.

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