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Volume 6 • Number 33 • May 9 — May 15 • Savannah’s News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly • www.connectsavannah.com

Baby boom Local expectant mothers enjoy more prenatal options than ever before page 6

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Spring

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Summer

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Volume 6, No. 33, May 09, 2007 On the cover: Photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher

HOW DO YOU MAKE IT A DAY SHE’LL REMEMBER? TREAT HER TO A BRUNCH SHE’LL NEVER FORGET.

Dance 32 Theatre 29

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Baby boom Options for birthin’ babies

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Editor’s Note Wallowing in nostalgia Feedback Readers have their say Free Speech Being exceptional FWD Interesting e-mails we got Feedback Readers have their say Blotter From SPD reports News of the Weird Chuck Shepherd’s latest Earthweek The week on your planet Talk of the Town See what you did last week

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Thursday, May 10 Daffin Park Centennial continues

What: The Georgia Historical Society presents a lecture about Daffin Park designer and landscape architect John Nolen. The lecture will be given by Dr. Bruce Stephenson, Director of Environmental Management Studies at Rollins College. When: May 10 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: www.georgiahistory.com or 651-2125.

Savannah Theatre’s Broadway on Bull Street continues

What: Excerpts of some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history. When: May 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,

22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. and May 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 3 p.m. Where: 222 Bull St. Cost: Adults $33 and 17 and under $16. Info: 233-7764.

Week at a

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Freebie of the Week

Big Band Concert

May 12 from noon to 6 p.m. Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, Habersham and E. Macon streets. Cost: Free.

Savannah Sand Gnats -- games this week What: The Sand Gnats take on the Kannapolis Intimidators in a four-game series, then begin a four-day series with the Columbus Catfish. When: May 12, 14, 15 and 16 at 7:05 p.m. and May 13 at 2:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium on East Victory Drive. Cost: Box seats $9.50, reserved $7.50 and general admission $6. Info: Call 351-9150.

Old Time Country Dance

What: Contras, squares and couples dancing to live music by the Glow in the Dark String Band. Beginners and singles are welcome. When: May 12. A lesson will be given at 7:45 p.m. and the dance is from 8-11 p.m.

Where: Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull St. Cost: $7. Info: www.savannahfolk.org or 925-2456.

Sunday, May 13

What: More than 20 stores from River Street to Gaston Street will participate. A free map will be distributed by all participating stores. To encourage people to learn more about shopping, dining and exploring downtown, the Downtown Business Association is sponsoring a scavenger hunt. When: May 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Downtown Savannah.

What: This musical/drama by Nancy Minsky teaches the influence of mothers, grandmothers and godly women through songs, monologues, poetry and Bible rap. When: May 13 at 11 a.m. Where: Quacco Baptist Church on Quacco Road. Info: 925-1735.

A Mother’s Influence -- A Godly Heritage

Wood Racket Tennis Competition

What: Presented by the Savannah Area Tennis Association, this round-robin tennis competition is for adult couples. Wood racquets and old-fashioned balls provided. Advance registration required. When: May 13 at 12:30 p.m. Where: Daffin Park. Info: karenbp@msn. com or 786-8848.

Savannah Sinfonietta Chamber Players in Three Concerts

What: The Savannah Sinfonietta’s professional brass quartet will present 400 Years of Canadian Brass -- A Tribute, with music that spans four centuries. When & Where: Friday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Richmond Hill Methodist Church; Sunday, May 13 at 3 p.m. at the Jewish Educational Alliance; and Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, The Landings. Cost: Tickets are $20 to $15 for adults, $10 military and free for students with a guardian present. Info: www.savannahorchestra.org or 800-514-3849.

Reel Savannah: Shy People

What: A sophisticated New York journalist is assigned to write an article about her family tree. She takes her sullen teenage daughter and goes to the Louisiana bayou to meet some of her relatives. When: May 13 at 7 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts. Cost: $6.

Monday, May 14

Savannah Community Theatre Opens Radio GALS

What: Savannah’s newest theater will celebrate its opening with a down-home musical comedy set in the 1920s.

A group of women start their own radio station, and when a government agent comes to shut them down, romance ensues. When: May 11, 12, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 and June 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. and May 13 and 27 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $25 general admission, $20 seniors and $15 students, children and Sunday matinees. Info: www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com or 898-9021.

Cultural Arts Theatre’s A Raisin in the Sun continues

What: Directed by Clinton D. Powell, this play by Lorraine Hansberry examines the Youngers, a three-generation African-American family that lives in a decrepit apartment building. The matriarch, Lena Younger, receives an insurance check after the death of her husband, and the family debates how to spend the money. Lena decides to buy property for her children, putting money down on a house in an all-white neighborhood. When: May 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. and May 13 at 3 p.m. Where: Black Box at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. Cost: $10 general admission, $7 senior or student with ID. Info: 651-6782 or 6783 or www.savannahga.gov/arts.

The PBR Show begins

What: The University of West Georgia Jazz Ensemble will present a big band concert. When: Thursday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: Free. Info: 355-8111. year is the Kid’s Division Tournament from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

When: May 12 from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: 1-A Old Tybee Road. Cost: Free. Info: 786-7472.

Tennis Festival

What: Presented by the Savannah Area Tennis Association, this festival features instructors, practice machines, raffles, pizza, prizes, music, refreshments and a junior tournament from 1-5 p.m. When: May 12 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Daffin Park. Cost: $7 for morning activities and $15 for junior tournament. Advance registration required. Info: 961-9862.

Tybee in the Spring Art Show begins

Saturday, May 12

What: Area artists will participate, rain or shine. When: May 12 and 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Memorial Park on Tybee Island. Info: Contact Douglas at 713-8647 or Mary at 655-9812.

What: A fishing tournament with prizes for first, second and third places, plus a grand prize of a chartered fishing trip. There will be drawings every 30 minutes. New this

What: The Covenant of UU Pagans will present children’s activities, workshops and presenters, a vendors’ court, a drumming circle, May pole, raffle and spiritual consulting. When:

Tybee Island Fishing Tournament

Spring Fling: Love Your Mother

What: Writers, actors and artists of the Savannah community share with participatory listeners stories and music, and peanut butter and jelly. When: Every Monday at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $2 and peanut butter sandwiches $2 each.

Info: 232-6080 or mail@savannahactorstheatre.org.

Tuesday, May 15

Poet Angela Merta to Read at AASU

What: SCAD prof Merta will read from a selection of her poems. Refreshments will be served. When: May 15 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Armstrong Center Ballroom B, 13040 Abercorn St. Cost: Free.

Savannah Danse Theatre Showcase

What: Classical, jazz and contemporary dance. When: May 15 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Fine Arts Auditorium, AASU. Cost: $12 adults, $10 seniors, $6 12 & under.

Info: 897-2100.

Wednesday, May 16

Psychotronic Film Society: Street Fighter

What: One of the most influential martial arts films ever made, this movie -- and iconic lead actor Sonny Chiba -- were famously referenced by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino in True Romance. When: May 16 at 8 p.m. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5. Info: 232-4447. w

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Friday, May 11

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t’s one of the most basic, natural things in life, but over the years childbirth has been turned, twisted and dropped on its head.

Before 1900, women were pretty much on their own. Babies were born at home, probably with a local “midwife” present.

It wasn’t uncommon for women and babies to die during childbirth because of complications that couldn’t be addressed, or shortly after from infections or illnesses brought on by exposure to germs.

My grandmother was delivered this way, but both she and her mother somehow survived the experience. When my mother came along, babies were still being born at home, but by then, a doctor almost certainly was on hand. However, of the seven children born to my grandmother, only four lived.

I was born in a hospital. My mother arrived at the hospital, was rendered more or less unconscious for the actual delivery, and didn’t see me until 24 hours later.

Everything was antiseptically clean, and no one was allowed to hold the baby but the mother. Even then, she had the baby only for carefully supervised feedings. My mother said she cried the whole time she was there.

The childbirth death rate fell dramatically during this time, but as a consequence, childbirth was treated as an illness. All the drama and emotion involved in giving birth were stifled in that antiseptic atmosphere.

By the time my own children arrived, there had been another dramatic shift. I chose natural childbirth, but to be honest, it wasn’t natural at all. I was tethered to a hospital bed by monitoring equipment and visited by a constant procession of people who came in to check everything from blood pressure to dilation. After babies were born, they were allowed to stay in the room with their parents, but nurses constantly hovered and there was little peace and no privacy.

Today’s expectant mother has many more options than ever before, not only when the baby arrives, but in the months before and after. It’s a brave new world out there -- and it’s about damn time.

Trinity Faye Brotherton was born April 18 at 5:29 a.m., weighing 9 lbs., 12 oz. and measuring 37.5 centimeters in length.

Her father, Cody, drove her mother Shelley all the way from Ludowici to the

Family Health & Birth Center in Rincon.

“We were pulled over by a cop on the way here,” Shelley laughs.

It didn’t take the officer long to figure out what was going on. The family was allowed to continue -- without getting a ticket.

Why did they travel so far? Because the birth center is the only one in this area and the only standing facility of its kind in the entire state of Georgia.

Trinity’s big sister, Naxy Jane, was born Aug. 18, 2004, in a hospital. “I didn’t want to have the same experience,” Shelley says.

So the family, including Naxy Jane and her 15-year-old babysitter, headed to Rincon. “This time was much better,” Shelley says. “I was much more comfortable. Everything went a lot smoother.”

Trinity was delivered by a certified nurse midwife. “Her head was larger than most newborns,” Above, Shelley Brotherton with Trinity at the Family Health Shelley says. “They and Birth Center in Rincon; bottom, Shelley, Trinity, Naxy Jane talked at times about and Cody transporting me to the hospital, but we didn’t the idea. It sounded like a better choice. It have to do that. I liked was much more private.” this setting much better.”

“Here, there are only a handful of peoBecause Trinity had such a large head, ple, although that night was a busy night,” the next time -- and Shelley says there will Shelley says. “Another woman delivered her be a next time -- she’ll probably choose to baby here at 12:30 a.m.” have the baby in a hospital, although she Shelley arrived at the center at 2:30 wants it to be delivered by a midwife. a.m. and Trinity was born just three hours Shelley remembers the frustration she later. While she labored, Shelley could walk felt when Naxy was born. “They wouldn’t around and do as she pleased. let me walk around,” she says. “I wanted my After the baby was born, Shelley was alwater to break naturally. If they had told me lowed to stay at the center as long as she that after the IV I couldn’t get up, I wouldn’t needed, up to 23 hours. “We ended up stayhave wanted it.” ing longer than we needed so we could get Shelley has nothing but praise for her Naxy’s nap in,” she says. husband. “Cody was a wonderful birth partThe Brothertons returned to the center ner,” she says. the next day for a quick check-up of both “I got to interact with her more than at mother and baby. The whole family was the hospital,” Cody says. “I didn’t know a lot comfortable there, walking from room to about childbirth centers, but I was open to Linda Sickler

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“I’m happy I got to do this here,” Shelley t says. “It was a very good experience. I’m thankful the midwives also deliver at the o hospital.”

Trinity was delivered by Gina Crabb, a w certified nurse midwife with the Midwife c Group of the Family Birth Center. “A birth c center is a safe haven,” she says. “We approach pregnancy, birth, even conception a naturally. If they’re educated, women have a t much easier time during labor. Women find n resources in themselves to make it through. t Sometimes I’m in awe of these women and B their strength.”

Not all patients at the birth center are t convinced they have such resources. “We B had one patient who just didn’t think she o could do it without an epidural,” Crabb says. o “But she had the most beautiful delivery. She was crying, her mother was crying, t t I was crying.”

Giving birth in a hospital is wonderful, l too, Crabb says. “But each pregnant woman in the hospital gets the same care,” she says. t “For the most part, when they have two to b three patients, they are treated the cookie- E “ cutter way.”

Crabb delivered her son 21 years ago in at military hospital and it was a miserable ex- p perience.

“I was strapped down with monitors,” a she says. “I threw up with every contraction, 5 and I had the most hateful nurse. It doesn’t i have to be that way. It won’t be that way for “ a any patient I’m taking care of.”

Midwifery isn’t an easy job. “I’m awake h with the patient while she labors,” Crabb t says. “If it’s five hours, I’m with her. If it’s

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Of course, before delivery, nine months of gestation occurs. For years, pregnancy was shrouded in secrecy, with the mother confined at home or swathed in layers of clothing designed to hide her condition.

Today’s expectant mother can be loud and proud. Kelley Boyd, founder and director of the Savannah Yoga Center, helps pregnant women commemorate their pregnancy through bellycasting and a program called Birth Art. “These are people who are performing the ultimate act of creativity -- giving birth,” Boyd says. “The bellycasting has really taken off. You don’t have to have gone to art classes or be an artist to do it.”

In bellycasting, women make castings of their pregnant bellies, then decorate them as they wish. “I’ve had some people who made lamps from theirs,” Boyd says.

Boyd, an artist and yoga instructor, got the idea for the bellycasting classes from a book called Birthing From Within, by Pam England. “It’s an amazing book,” she says.

“Bellycasting is just one of the examples she talks about in the book. She looks at being pregnant in a whole different way.”

The bellycasting classes are held monthly, and the next one is set for Saturday, May 5. “I had a couple of friends and family members I did this for first,” Boyd says.

“Everyone gets together for the camaraderie and to have fun.”

The process takes about two hours. “You have to oil every piece of skin that is going to be touched by plaster,” Boyd says.

‘Four-inch plaster strips are cut to go over the belly,” she says. “We do layers, about three layers. By the time you get to two layers, underneath it has already hardened. The castings are dry enough to take home the same day.”

Women who take the class have the option to come back later and decorate their casting. “The ones I’ve seen have done all kinds of stuff,” Boyd says. “Some women

have waited until the baby was born, then done collages with photos of the baby.”

Some participants have put paintings on their castings. “It is a good way to preserve their shape,” Boyd says. “Many won’t remember that they were once so big. It makes such a difference when it’s 3-D.” While bellycasting sessions are held once a month, Boyd also will work with women who can’t come to scheduled sessions.

“People can call me and schedule a time and I’ll go ahead and help them do a bellycasting,” she says.

“They also need to know that it is not completely 100 percent necessary to bring someone with them,” Boyd says. “I want people to know we are open to all women.”

In addition to bellycasting, Boyd also offers Birth Art. “It’s a four-week series,” she continued on page

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throughout the day and night, I’m with her. I call in assistance for the actual birth.

“I go without sleep and drink a lot of coffee,” Crabb says. “I have to shift gears a lot. It’s worth it in the end when I pass that beautiful baby from my arms to the mother’s arms.”

The birth center was founded more than 20 years ago by Margaret Dorroh and Nancy Belin. “Midwifery is here because of Margaret and Nancy,” Crabb says. “Margaret was doing midwifery even before the center evolved.”

The center is always growing, Crabb says.

“Over the last couple of years, midwives have gotten hospital privileges at Candler and Memorial.”

That means even high-risk patients can choose to have a midwife deliver their babies. “We can now take patients into the hospital where they can be observed more closely,” Crabb says.

At the birth center, more patients 35 and up are being seen than ever before. “Women are much healthier today at that age than they were 25 years ago,” Crabb says.

Because the center is the only one of its kind in the area, patients come from as far as Atlanta, Charleston and Jacksonville to give birth. “We had two women who drove together yesterday one hour and 40 minutes to get here,” Crabb says.

The center works with two consulting physicians, Reginald Robinson and Cliphane McLeod. “We get wonderful support from them in our midwifery,” Crabb says.

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says. “We meet once a week and explore different kinds of techniques, including painting, drawing, collage. We even make a little jewelry.”

Participants make a bracelet from glass beads that is to be worn when they are actually giving birth. Women also can choose to have henna tattoos painted on their baby bump.

For information visit www.savannahyoga.com, e-mail kelley@savannahyoga.com, or call 441-6653.

How do women know when it’s time? To get a bellycasting done, that is.

“The bigger the better,” Boyd says.

the class until they deliver,” she says.

Carroll says the class is fun for her, too.

Teaching pregnancy yoga led to her becoming a labor doula because women in her classes began asking her to help them during labor and delivery, so she took training to become a certified labor doula. The certification process includes a requirement to assist with three births.

“Since December, I’ve helped six babies be born,” Carroll says. “All girls, for some reason.”

“Doula” literally means “servant,” although today it also has come to mean someone who helps a pregnant woman through labor or deliver.

“We don’t help in any way medical. We work Ann Carroll is a with the mothers to edubanker by day, and cate them, explain what a pregnancy yoga is likely to happen. We instructor and labor offer education, comfort doula by night. She and support, not only became certified to for mom, but for dad be a pregnancy yoga and any other family instructor after a present,” she says. local obstetrician/ Carroll says today’s Some recent bellycasts from Kelley gynecologist asked mobile society makes Boyd’s workshop her to. She went on doulas’ services necesto train at Kripalu in sary. “The way we live Massachusetts. today, we don’t have a lot of family around After becoming certified (Carroll already us,” Carroll says. “People get job transwas a certified yoga teacher) she began fers and move somewhere where they don’t teaching classes at the doctor’s office. But know anybody.” soon, the class outgrew the waiting room.

When a woman is pregnant, that can be “I’m working out of an office building I difficult. Their husbands or partners also have access to at 7116 Hodgson Memorial benefit from a doula’s presence.

Dr.,” Carroll says. “No one’s there after 5 “It takes a bit of the pressure off the men, p.m. so we can use it.” too, to have someone there who knows what The class usually meets Tuesdays and to do and what is going to happen next,” Thursdays from 6-7:15 p.m. “The body Carroll says. changes so much during pregnancy,” Carroll Carroll suggests that women who are insays. “Yoga helps them be comfortable while terested in finding a doula start with dona. they’re pregnant. We do a lot of specific viorg or cappa.net/. sualization. I have them visualize rocking “The most important thing about the the baby out and in when they breathe.” birth is that it happens the way the mother After taking the class, women are physiwants it to,” she says. “Doulas support her cally better equipped to handle labor and in her decisions and do everything possible delivery. They also get companionship from to make it happen. It’s such an honor for a each other, Carroll says. doula to experience a birth. It’s one of the “You get a group of women who are biggest days of their lives and it’s wonderful meeting every week and who share what’s to be a part to it.” going on with them,” she says. “Some come in with symptoms and often find a solution What will childbirth be like in the furight there in the group. ture? Crabb has a humorous story to share “It also helps them begin thinking about that might shed some light. thinks they should be thinking about,” “One time, a 5-year-old girl was sitCarroll says. “Do they have a support system ting beside her 12-year-old brother when at home after the baby is born? They come her mother was delivering a baby,” she says. up with things are truly unique.”

“The brother said to her, ‘Just think, someSometimes bonds are made that last after day you’ll be doing this,’” Crabb says. “She the class has ended. Carroll says two women said, “Oh, no, my husband gets to deliver my learned they lived just blocks from each babies.’” other and now are good friends.

If only! w Pregnancy yoga is open to any pregnant woman, though Carroll says she doesn’t recTo comment e-mail us at ommend starting it until the second trimesletters@connectsavannah.com ter if you haven’t already been doing yoga or some other fitness regimen. “They can take JT Blatty

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Stages of life A

Jane Fishman is taking some time away from her column. This week we feature a contribution by everyone’s favorite Chatham Area Transit driver, Tom Parrish, on page 10.

For a city its size, there are a lot of talented dancers and choreographers in Savannah, working in a host of different styles from ballet to jazz to African to modern.

But one would never know that from reading the Morning News, which has lately gone from its usual benign neglect of the art

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form to open and outright hostility toward most local dance troupes and their efforts.

Whether the daily has an institutional ax to grind against the local dance community or it’s just a personal issue, I don’t pretend to know. Suffice it to say that Connect Savannah supports local dancers and their companies. As proof we offer a preview of Savannah Danse Theatre’s upcoming “Spring Showcase” on page 32.

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Voting is over, but we’re still accepting submissions from local artists and photographers for an image to grace that issue’s cover.

Send submissions to: artdirector@connectsavannah.com/.

While I’m wallowing in nostalgia, let me also say that reading Linda’s lead story this week about expanded local birth options really took me back. Both of my daughters were born at the Family Health & Birth Center in Effingham County, which features prominently in the piece.

When my oldest was born in 1989, the Center had only been open two years, and the concept was a bit much for some to take.

(It still remains the only free-standing such facility in Georgia.) In addition, the Center’s then-remote location seemed to reinforce the erroneous idea that you and your family were on your own if something unexpected should happen.

“There’s no hospital there?” people would ask incredulously, as if babies hadn’t been born for thousands of years without hospitals previously.

No, there’s no hospital there. But there is plenty of medical expertise and state-of-theart equipment on-hand.

Most of all, there’s a lot of experience there -- experience in knowing how to keep a mother-to-be focused on the path to healthy childbirth, in knowing how to optimize the experience for everyone (including us dads) and just in case, the experience to know when the facility is facing one of those rare times that more medical intervention is needed.

Thankfully times have changed, and few people bat an eye at the idea of a natural, midwife delivery. No offense to the more traditional practitioners in town, but speaking as a two-time closely engaged observer of the birth process, it’s the only way to go. w

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bout a million years ago -- actually 34 -- I took a theatre class from a young director named Tom Coleman III. The youth play we performed, based on the tale of Rip Van Winkle, featured yours truly as Rip and local actress Joan Taylor as his Conscience.

Proving the adage that everything old is new again, Tom Coleman is back in Savannah theatre after years of doing his magic in Athens, Ga. (No, the stretch of I-95 in Chatham County bearing his name isn’t in his honor; that would be his father Tom Coleman Jr., former state senator and Georgia DOT commissioner.)

Sharing a building with Kelie “Finding That 25th Hour out of 24” Miley and her Savannah Children’s Theatre in the old Belk building at Victory & Skidaway, Coleman’s Savannah Community Theatre hopes to fill the gap left by the demise of City Lights Theatre in mounting full seasons of true community productions that are amateur in the classic and best sense of the word, i.e., an “enthusiastic pursuer of an objective.”

(No disrespect intended to the Savannah Actors Theatre, who are doing the same thing from their homebase on Louisville Road, nor to the city’s Cultural Arts Theatre. Such is the impressive legacy of City Lights’ Jim Holt and Jody Chapin that it will take more than one troupe to fill their shoes.)

The Savannah Community Theatre’s first production, Radio GALS, opens this weekend, featuring the always-entertaining Grace Diaz Tootle, among many other favorite local actors. Read all about it in Linda Sickler’s preview on page 29.

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Bowled over

The physically and mentally challenged are the people sometimes I wish we could all be

I

drive a bus for a living.

Been doing it for 21 years, and I like it. Took awhile to get to that point, but I’m there now and it’s not only what I do, but also who I am.

I started driving a city bus with the Savannah Transit Authority and have stayed around long enough to be a veteran advanced operator for Chatham Area Transit.

You meet a lot of folks, and along with the skills necessary to operate a bus safely, you acquire a lot of people skills by default.

A couple of years ago I got involved with driving a motorcoach. What’s the difference between a motorcoach and a city bus?

Plenty. First, is size, a city bus is 35 feet long; a coach is 45 and a good bit wider and taller.

Then of course a coach is equipped with a bathroom, video and DVD, a much nicer ride with luxurious seating.

The clientele is certainly different too.

People who rent a coach are there for a specific reason, either enjoyment or business, but either way, it’s a chartered affair. Those who ride the city bus are for the most part merely trying to get from point A to point B. One of my most rewarding experiences while driving for CAT has been the inte-

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gration of the mentally and physically challenged into our general system. Seeing them take their first trip, and then being a small part of the lengthy process that has helped them become self-sufficient, has been very satisfying.

If you drive the same route every day, you form relationships with passengers.

Over the years, I’ve come to know many on a personal level. You become used to their habits and ways and likewise them to you.

It’s called life, and it has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence or social standing. It’s just people interacting on a daily basis. It’s what I truly enjoy about my job, and probably why I’m good at it I had a motorcoach charter come my way recently. I was assigned to take a group of Exceptional Bowlers on a two and a half hour drive from Savannah up to Columbia, for a bowling tournament. Exceptional Bowlers, I thought to myself. Must be the cream of the crop, the elite. They were.

It was Charley, Chris, Paul, John, Denise, Odessa and Andrew. I’ve left out so many names, but their faces are right in front of me. It was like old home day, they were all my favorite people from the transit system.

They were the AMBUCS group. For those

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After loading 56 bowling balls, two wheelchairs and last year’s trophy in my luggage bay, I got them all seated and hit the road. It was a high-spirited group behind me that laughed and howled over Shrek.

The physically and mentally challenged are a part of us all. They are the people I wish we could all be -- uninhibited, unashamed, lacking the pride and prejudice that make up our vainglorious lives.

Much later that day, I carried a more subdued crowd on the ride home. There was some disappointment you see because we had the same 56 balls, and 2 wheel chairs beneath us, but I’m afraid we lost the right to keep the trophy for another year.

I can hear them behind me, some are snoring, some are chatting and some are engrossed in the show. Up front, I’m all business. We’re doing 70 mph on the Interstate, it’s raining and the traffic is brutal. I’ve got 56 souls sitting behind me depending on my ability, and I can feel each one of them in my increased concentration, my grip on the wheel, and the tension that has found its

way into my shoulders and neck.

While I do what I’ve been trained to do and what comes naturally to me, I reflect on the precious cargo that I’m carrying. We all take what we’ve been blessed to be born with for granted, and we just forget. It took a trip like this to remind me of not only what I have in one sense, but also what I can give.

I have so much to give to others that just goes to waste, lies dormant. There are a million excuses I can come up with as to why, but I’m afraid none of them hold any water.

It was a day of hugs and help and giving and receiving, and all of it was as genuine as can be. Pretension, affectation, and all the everyday BS that we incorporate into our lives was stripped away.

I did a great job for this group -- I was on my game. They deserved it. They put complete faith in my ability and judgment, and I was only too willing to meet the challenge.

Sounds like I’m beating my own drum, and perhaps I am. But I’m very pleased with the fact that these Exceptional Bowlers brought out the best in Tom Parrish, and for that one day, I was Exceptional too. w To comment e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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Re: SCAD student, Jacob Buck, wins First Place in the TechFest 2007 student project competition

Savannah businesses invited to the TechFest event Friday, April 27, to scout local talent pouring out of the area’s colleges and universities were blown away by the caliber of student projects presented at this year’s TechFest. Jacob Buck, in particular, captivated them with an animation tool that allows animators to pose characters.

Using a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package called Maya, Buck was able to manipulate illustrations to move, pose and gesture just as a human body would. His presentation looked like the beginnings of a Pixar movie given he executed the very process and technology commonly used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games. ...Robert Hagedorn, a Computer Science Technology major at Savannah State University, earned second place with his RFID Helps the Blind project. He used an RFID (Radio-frequency identification) reader to effectively allow a blind person to hear what they are about to touch....

Hagerdorn graduates this summer and says, “This technology could also be used in books so a blind person could help themselves learn braille, and fine tuned for the medical field helping the blind become more independent.” -- received 5.4 from Angel Ratcliffe

Re: Starland Farmers Market

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Department of Cultural Affairs Summer Art Camp Now Registering

The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is now accepting registrations for its Summer Art Camp, taking place June 4 through Aug. 31 at S.P.A.C.E. studios, located at 9 West Henry St. Children ages 4 to 14 can participate in any or all of the eleven one-week camp sessions, each of which will provide an introduction to painting, ceramics, metalwork, mixed media and performing arts in age-appropriate group settings.

Each session includes one art-related field trip. Camp hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fees are $125 per child per session and include all necessary materials. A bag lunch must be provided daily. There will be no classes the weeks of July 2 and Aug. 6.

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Re: Savannah should issue apology The City of Savannah is a pretty lady with an UGLY secret. The City of Savannah was a MAJOR slave port ( at least one ancestor of every living African-American is rumored to have passed through here ) and happily bought and sold human beings to satisfy her unholy greed.

The City of Savannah owes her Black citizens SOMETHING for her generations of discrimination, up to and including this moment. City council candidate Nadra Enzi ( First District ) is asking Savannah’s Mayor and City Council to issue a FORMAL APOLOGY for the city’s major role in the Slave Trade and finally work to move this community forward. -- received 5.7 from Nadra Enzi

Re: World Fair Trade Day

World Fair Trade Day will be observed Saturday, May 12. This important and growing movement ensures an equitable and fair partnership between marketers in North America and artisans from developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Artists are paid a fair, living wage for their work. The practice of Fair Trade also keeps cultures and traditions alive while providing healthy and safe working conditions and educational opportunities. Consider a socially conscious Mother’s Day gift that has a story and true meaning behind it. Visit Folklorico at 14 West Jones St. to learn more. -- received 5.3 from Joe Berkeley

Re: LAPD attacks ordered from top

Caught red handed, the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Chief of Police are crying crocodile tears.

“We need an investigation.” We sure do.

A real investigation will reveal that the attacks on peaceful demonstrators - including women, small children and the elderly - were planned and choreographed weeks in advance. The Chief was directly involved and he took his orders from the Mayor of Los Angeles.

Now that FOX News had a chance to “vent” a little about its precious reportersgetting roughed up, watch the wall of silence come down.

I guarantee that with the “rubber” bullets used that day (heavy and dense as rocks) there were some serious injuries.

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Regarding “Tempting target” by Kathleen Graham: The article states: “Believing at the time that nuclear power plants made likely targets, the federal government spent over $1 billion beefing up security measures at plants nationwide.” (emphasis added) As the federal government owns no commercial nuclear plants, and is not responsible for site security at any commercial nuclear facility, this statement is misleading at best. What the federal government has failed to do in the area of security is to clearly stand behind their Constitutional responsibility to provide for the common defense against a 9/11/01 Kamikaze style attack. It would be more correct to state that, “nuclear power plant owners have spent over $1 billion beefing up security...”

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Open letter to the AJC

Editor, Greetings from South Georgia, the abandoned, misrepresented and underrepresented 2/3 of the state that since 4/1/07 has been deprived of the print edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Only 66 of Georgia’s 159 counties are now covered in your circulation area, leaving 93 counties without information about what the state government is up to.

Yes, the AJC has disappeared from all but the northeast quadrant of the state, leaving Savannah, Columbus, Augusta and vast regions of rural Georgia in the dark. A “business decision” according to Sen. Eric Johnson. He hasn’t responded to my question about how much he and the governor had to pay for that “business decision.”

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that need to be corrected. More laws is not the answer to laws already on the books that Editor, are not being enforced.

I don’t usually write to your paper, Mr. Livingston makes a rather inflammabut thought I might respond to Gordon tory statement that “the NRA would doubtLivingston’s recent piece “Lessons less be ecstatic if a decision were made to Unlearned,” advocating tighter gun control issue handguns to all entering students” in light of the horrible shootings at Virginia Suppose, just for a moment, exTech. As Mark Twain once said, there are actly that had happened. three kinds of untruths, lies, damned lies, Or more realistically, supand statistics. pose, for a moment, that one And let me say up front, I’m student out that 100 not now, nor have I ever been, had brought a weapon : or a member of the NRA. it e Ed m across Letters to thah prints letters fro does not in their book bag. Do Mr. Livingston mennn va Sa t Connec g a letter of ideas. Printin tions how rates of armed of the opin- you think the death the spectrum endorsement r ou ply im y be edited for toll would have been ay necessaril m rs robbery have dropped in tte therein. Le ions expressed higher, or lower?

Australia since tighter y. space and clarit vannah.com tsa ec nn Rudd Long co s@ gun laws were passed E-mail: letter 32 7, ite Su Fax: 912.231.99 in 1997. He does ., 00 E. Victory Dr Snail mail: 18 31404 not mention that Savannah, GA Editor’s Note: the rate of assault went Because the original columnist from 553 per 100,000 in 1995 and two letter writers all brought to 779 per 100,000 in 2001, while robup the issue of Australian gun conbery overall rose slightly during this period. trol, out of curiosity I did some re(source, Australian Government Institute of search myself.

Criminology) Since dramatically expanded gun conHe also does not mention that trols after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, the Australians did not have the same access rate of total gun deaths in Australia has been to guns as Americans do before 1997, and cut in half. Additionally, in the two decades never have had a constitutional right to own prior to the Port Arthur massacre there were weapons. One needed a reason to own a 18 mass shootings in Australia; in the decade weapon, for example, an occupation, memsince there have been none. ber of a sporting club, or collector to own a So based on that, it does indeed seem weapon. After 1997, pump action shotguns that if a society decides that decreasing mass and semi-automatic weapons were banned, shooting incidents is the primary goal, then unless, of course, a need was demonstrated, increased gun control is one very effective way not all guns. (Source: Snopes) to accomplish that goal.

We also do not have “unrestricted access” However, as you and others have written, to guns, well, in theory at least. I suspect one there appear to be some unintended consecould purchase a handgun on many corquences, as possibly evidenced by the measurners in Savannah, and would be able to do able increase in assault and robbery. And of so no matter how many laws were passed. course as you point out, historical compariHowever, one group of people that are prosons of gun ownership in Australia and the hibited from buying guns are those that have U.S. are tenuous at best. been involuntarily committed to mental institutions (Source: FBI) as Mr. Cho evidently had. Evidently there are flaws in this system

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Everything but the porn

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An officer was dispatched to Fernwood Drive after a woman called to say someone had left an X-rated video under her daughters’ window. The woman said she runs a foster home and has several girls of different ages living at the residence, ages 11, 12 and 15.

None of the girls had seen anyone leaving the videos, but the woman said one foster child who recently moved out always complained about a man who constantly made offensive comments to her. One of the other children in the house also reported that the man had made an offensive comment to her.

The woman said the girls woke up several mornings and spotted the man standing at the rear of the residence at the fence. The officer went to the man’s house, directly behind the woman’s. The officer asked the man if he or his family had seen suspicious persons in the area. The man said he hadn’t seen anyone suspicious, but has seen young men in the area.

When the officer asked him about being seen standing behind the victims’ house, he said he puts the trash cans back in the neighbor’s yard after the trash is picked up in order to keep the neighbors from being fined by the city.

The officer logged seven X-rated videos into evidence: Golden High Heels, Red on Top and Wet all Over, Young and White, Ultimate First (Adam and Eve), Beautiful Starlets Who Crave Sex, Adventures of Footman and Lick My Panties. The movies appeared to have been sitting in the weather for a period of time. Each had a price of $19.95 written on them.

• A woman walking her dog about 1 a.m. in the Merritt Apartments parking lot at Godley Station in Pooler reported a small child walking alone in the complex.

She reportedly tried to identify the child but was unsuccessful. The reported toddler, ranging in age 2-3, ran off as the woman approached. The child was described as a White or Hispanic male with curly hair, wearing a diaper and white pullover shirt.

As a precaution, Savannah-Chatham Police began canvassing the complex at 1515 Benton Boulevard and areas nearby, although no missing child reports had been filed. K-9s were summoned as police and emergency rescue officials went doorto-door in the complex with no results. The search ended about 7 a.m. Anyone coming in contact with a lost child is urged to call 651-6742.

• A routine traffic stop ended with a known drug trafficker behind bars. Kevin Tyrone Sullivan, 28, a convicted felon, was arrested shortly after 3 a.m. on April 30.

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Officer Kevin Jarriel stopped Sullivan on Ogeechee Road for driving without headlights. Sullivan appeared to be impaired during questioning and couldn’t produce a driver’s license. He was arrested for driving under the influence. The officer tried to put him in the back of a patrol car, but Sullivan became combative and ran. He managed to get about 5 feet away before Jarriel was able to subdue him.

When Sullivan’s car was searched, Jarriel found more than 17 grams of heroin, 4 grams of crack and powdered cocaine and several prescription painkillers.

He was charged with trafficking in heroin, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, obstruction and DUI. He was denied bond in Recorder’s court on May 3 • One of two men who attacked an elderly woman and stole her purse April 30 outside a Southside department store was arrested just moments after he fled the scene. The victim, who is 64, sustained minor bruises and refused medical treatment. She was getting into her car after leaving Oglethorpe Mall after 2:30 p.m. when she was approached by the suspects.

Police say John Douglas Thompson Jr., 19, pushed the woman to the ground and snatched her purse. He jumped in a silver Buick with tinted windows and tape over the taillight. The car sped out of the parking lot and headed north on Hodgson Memorial.

Officers spotted the car and stopped it on Stephenson Avenue. Thompson, the passenger, jumped out of the car, still clutching the woman’s purse, and ran, while the driver sped off. Officers chased Thompson on foot and caught him just north of Stephenson Avenue. He was charged with robbery by force, and additional charges are pending.

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Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre most recently made News of the Weird in 2004 because of continued petty territorial fighting among the six Christian denominations that share management of the church, which is home to some of Christianity’s holiest sites, including that of Christ’s resurrection. As Easter approached this year, three of the groups that control one 10-stall restroom could not agree how to divide responsibility for repairing it, leading to a pervasive stench in the building. Furthermore, the path of the outflow sewage pipe (which needed enlarging) passes under property of a fourth denomination, which has resisted helping unless it is granted control of one of the 10 stalls.

Our litigious, anger-fueled, dispute-intensive society took a break in a Folcroft, Pa., courtroom in March, as landlord Genevieve Zumuda, 77, was suing tenant La Tina Osborne, 32. In the middle of Osborne’s defense, Zumuda started shaking and suddenly stopped breathing, but Osborne interrupted her argument and gave Zumuda CPR until paramedics arrived.

“When people are down,” Osborne said, “if you can help them, you help them.”

The Continuing Crisis

Unclear on the Concept

The Scandia Family Fun Center, which operates a super thrill ride (168 feet high, spinning at 60 miles an hour, pulling 3.5 g’s) called the Screamer, in Sacramento, Calif., decided in March that because of neighborhood residents’ noise complaints, riders would be prohibited from screaming (and subject to ejection from the park).

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, released in February, revealed that 12th graders’ reading ability is at an all-time low, yet their grades for English class are at an all-time high (averaging 2.82 on a 4.0 scale, up from 2.52 15 years ago). Also, Washington state legislators, faced with 10th graders’ declining achievement test scores in math and science, are poised to just eliminate the tests altogether (while retaining those for reading and writing, which do not show declines), according to a March Seattle Times report. (Some math and science would still be tested, but only right after math and science classes, when memories are fresher and, presumably, scores would be higher.)

Family Values

(1) In Bridgeport, Conn., in March, Fermin Rodriguez, 21, was charged with assault for stabbing his wife several times (after an argument over her alleged infidelity); police said that following his attack, he apparently handed his knife to the couple’s 2-year-old son and said, “Now, you stab Mommy.” (2) According to the manager of BJ’s Pawn Shop in Gretna, La., a customer came in with his diaper-clad boy of about age 2 in April and handed the kid an AK-47 from the store’s shelf, instructed him how to hold it in order to “mow (people) down, kill everybody,” and told him that “Daddy’s going to buy you this chopper.” The manager, incredulous, said he took the gun back and shooed the pair out.

People Different From Us Officials in Apex, N.C., finally confis-

cated the 80 sheep that David Watts had long been keeping in his home as pets (he slept upstairs, they downstairs), with the final straw coming when some of the sheep wandered into the local cemetery and munched on fresh floral arrangements. The town had apparently tolerated Watts’s eccentricity for years because of his pleasantness. Said a next-door neighbor, “(Officials) felt like he was (merely) living an alternative lifestyle.”

Least Competent Criminals

(1) South Carolina Highway Patrol officers arrested Howard Fisher, 54, in March and seized 43 pounds of marijuana from his car, after he for some reason was unable to avoid crashing into one of their cruisers, with which they had blocked two lanes of Interstate 95 while investigating accidents.

(2) Three men, allegedly carrying $4,000 worth of drugs, were arrested at a toll station on the Triborough Bridge in New York City in March because, between them, they lacked $4.50 to pay the toll. (They had asked an officer if they could mail it in, but a check of the driver’s license revealed it had expired, after eight suspensions.)

The Classic Middle Name (all new)

Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Gary Wayne Ray Jr. (Oklahoma City, February); Larry Wayne Brigman (St. Paul, Minn., charged in February for a 1989 murder, but already in prison for a different murder); Lewis Wayne Fielder Jr. (Laurens, S.C., February); Robert Wayne Wyant (Charlottesville, Va., February). Confessed to murder: Timothy Wayne Shepherd (Houston, March). Sentenced for murder: Jimmy Wayne Bass (Mobile, Ala., February, life in prison for DUI homicide). Re-captured after a brief escape: convicted murderer Michael Wayne Brunner (La Grange, Ky., March). w

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Britain’s General Dental (2) In April, near New Orleans, Defined Council found dentist Alan motorcyclist Charles Warren, Hutchinson guilty in April of minding his own business in several hygiene violations, inthe left lane of Interstate 12, cluding frequent hand-washwas hit by a bathtub (which had ing lapses, failure to sterilize fallen from a pickup truck in the instruments that he had taken off right lane) and was hospitalized treatment trays to clean his own with severe injuries. ears and fingernails with, and, Tentatively scheduled for July more than once, urinating in his (nearly two years after Hurricane surgery sink. The council said it Katrina forced the chaotic evacuaneeded another hearing to decide tion of New Orleans) is the resoluwhether Hutchinson’s habits imtion of two dog-ownership cases, paired his treatment of patients. in which a judge in Pinellas County, Fla., Following a three-year inveswill decide, after months of relentless hagtigation by federal and local authorities in gling, whether the Louisiana owners, Steven Orange County, Calif., the owners of at least and Dorreen Couture, “abandoned” their 10 massage parlors were arrested in March dogs as they complied with evacuation orand accused of running prostitution estabders, or merely left them temporarily at a lishments. Among the investigators’ findshelter, which wrongly offered them for ings was that, to reduce the cost of supplying adoption. Two Florida women claimed the condoms, the salons urged customers to dogs separately, and have fought doggedly to use plastic food wrap, which management retain them. (One is an assistant district atbought in large quantities. Said District torney in Tampa who has been represented Attorney Tom Rackauckas, “I really don’t in part by one of the city’s highest-priced think about (plastic food wrap) in the same lawyers.) way anymore.”

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NYC ‘voicestrumentalist’ Lipbone Redding blows through town

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ou know a musician has it goin’ on when critics just can’t agree on which other, more famous artists to liken them to.

Such is the case with Lawrence “Lipbone” Redding, a New York-based singing guitarist who’s spent the past several years developing his own unique approach to soulful, jazz-influenced funk/pop.

A perusal of the overwhelmingly positive press both he and his Lipbone Orchestra (actually just the ace rhythm section of standup bassist Jeff Eyrich and drummer Rich Zukor) have received finds journalists name-checking everyone from Sly Stone to Jack Johnson and from Dizzy Gillespie to Tom Waits — all in an effort to easily encapsulate the smorgasbord of styles Redding and company blend together.

That’s a compliment to the versatility of what Lipbone’s puttin’ down.

Each of those artists —along with such other obvious musical touchstones as Spearhead’s Michael Franti, inspirational groove pioneer Curtis Mayfield and the almost unimaginably sublime crooner Little Jimmy Scott — have all left their mark on Redding, but rather than slavishly nicking their signature licks and mannerisms, he’s chosen to combine them into a powerful, beguiling persona that’s both comfortingly familiar and decidedly different.

So, what’s so different, you might ask?

Well, for starters, the former NYC subway busker travelled for a couple of years throughout South America, Europe and India, studying classical ethnic musics and Eastern philosophy. However, it’s his devotion to the art of “voicestrumentalism” that is perhaps most striking: a gift that’s easy to brand a novelty, but which is far too well-developed to be dismissed as shtick.

“Voicestrumentalism” is the art of imitating actual musical instruments solely with one’s vocal chords. A close cousin to “vocalese” —the time-honored jazz tradition of transposing horn, guitar or keyboard solos to the human voice— it’s a little-known approach that has adherents worldwide, but is rarely heard outside of the insular world of avant-garde jazz.

Redding (who’s also been known to toss in some ultra-low register Tuvan throat singing on occasion) is capable of simulating a variety of instruments, from percussion to brass to keyboard to strings (including his trademark “mouth trombone” or Lipbone).

And we’re not talking about childish mimicry, either. His interpretations are as serious as though he were actually playing the instruments himself — something he’s quite incapable of.

“I wouldn’t even attempt to,” he says. “I

wouldn’t know how to approach one properly! I just kinda go with what I hear. I listen to lots of Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson, and Miles (Davis). People like that — and Satchmo, for sure. I have no idea how they mechanically operate their horns, but I can make the same noises.”

“Sometimes, I’ll do the Lipbone at gigs, and the crowd’s looking around, confused. It takes ‘em a while to grasp where the sound’s coming from. Once they understand what’s going on, their eyes light up. It’s like a wave moving around the room.”

When Redding speaks, it’s in the same lazy, conspiratorial, hipster drawl one hears from Southerners like Dr. John or Levon Helm — a by-product of his upbringing in the N.C. backwoods. He also peppers conversation with occasional asides that hint at a bawdy sense of irreverent humor, something which comes out in his songs.

“I notice while I’m playing and singing that I kind of slip into a character of some sort,” he admits. “I tend to do a lot of talking during shows... Flirting with the wait staff.

(Laughs) You know, improv. Whatever it takes to get everyone involved.”

While the band plays to packed houses in NYC (“there’s always a line around the block and a lot of champagne,” says Redding), this will be their first trip this far South — although his bandmates have played here before to great acclaim in the sultry pop-jazz combo Dave’s True Story.

“A lot of people say our music reminds them of New Orleans,” he comments, noting the group’s sassy mix of swing and attitude. “It’s a happy, fun sound to me. Dave and Rich say Savannah’s like that, too, so I’m really lookin’ forward to the show.”

He also says prospective audience members should be aware that he and the band aren’t shy about having a good time.

“You know, we’re not above getting into the crowd for some fun. That’s what I do a lot in NYC at our Sunday afternoon gigs.

Walk around and give ‘em a little Lipbone.

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the perfect rock n’ roll voice when combined with Regine’s backup vocals -- so beautiful it could paint a picture.

They played three more songs, and Win told the crowd,

thing I have ever seen performed live. It was the most remarkable display of a band reacting with the fans.

They ended their set with the phenomenal “Keep the Car Running.” They performed it perfectly. What a way to end the night, I Regine & Win at the show May 1 thought, until not a single soul left the building, and so they came out for an encore.

The fans loved it, they waved goodbye and said thanks.

Again, not a single soul left the building, and cheered their hearts out. So again the band came out and played one of their hit songs “Rebellion Lies” from Funeral.

The band leaves and says goodbye once again. No one left the building, nor did they stop cheering.

In my mind there was no way the band was going to come out for a third time, but believe it or not, they came out for the third and final encore, playing “Wake Up,” a song that will make your heart beat faster and “If you guys want to come closer I don’t faster. mind, let them closer.” So of course the Everyone in the building could have lismasses made their way to the front, forcing tened to Arcade Fire until the sun rose. Find their way as close to the front as they could. a way to get your hands on their music. w Now with the lower seating jam-packed, the show went from amazing to beyond any-

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or all of those who have no idea who Arcade Fire is, don’t feel bad. There are many like you -- but thousands more unlike you. Let me fill you in.

I haven’t heard a band this good in a long time, too long. Arcade Fire is a Grammy-nominated band formed in Montreal including: Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara.

They’ve released two albums, the first one being critically acclaimed Funeral, and recently released Neon Bible; both are musical masterpieces.

So I leave Savannah around 3:30 p.m. and I get to Atlanta about an hour before show time. The National opened up with a 7-song set; they were good, but with everyone waiting in anticipation of Arcade Fire, their talent was overlooked.

The time is 9:20 p.m. and the crowd, just shy of 5,000, is getting very anxious. And then lead singer Win steps out first, and the venue exploded with excitement. They started the night out with “The Well and the Lighthouse”; it was amazing.

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Popular rock, soul and pop covers from a bar and party band that’s a longtime area favorite.

Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Fannie’s on The Beach (Tybee).

ALL-AGES Punk/Metal Show

Massive bill of 5 loud, aggressive hardcore, metal and punk-based bands (both up-andcoming and established), including Call To Preserve, Jump The Shark, Sights Set High, The Guillotine and Chevy Chase Stabbed The King. For info on these local and regional acts, and directions to this large venue approximately 45 min. from Savannah, go to www. myspace.com/studiobga.

Sat., 8 pm, Studio B (Glennville).

Grill (Pt. Wentworth) + Fri. - Sat., 10:30 pm, Bayou Café.

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The Cripple Lillies

In addition to the house DJs, late-night breakdancing and freestyle rap battles that normally make up this weekly showcase of local and regional talent, this installment features live sets by the increasingly popular Dope Sandwich, plus touring guest artists The Smile Rays and Simple Complexity.

Tues., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Argyle

Local quartet playing a hard-hitting mix of originals and covers — influenced by ska, punk, reggae and alt.rock. Tues., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

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Fat Possum-esque Delta garage rock with lots of mouth harp and attitude. See also Connect Recommends. Wed., 9 pm, Bay Street Blues + Mon., Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

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Fri., May 18th & Sat., May 19th

Local guitarist and singer (who also accompanies himself on percussion) playing blues and early rock and roll standards plus similarly-themed originals. Wed., 7 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar (solo) + Thurs., 8 pm (solo), The Warehouse + Tues., 7 pm, Jen’s & Friends (solo).

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BC & The Rock Mob

Classic rock and blues band (covers and originals) led by talented local guitarist and prolific songwriter Buddy Corns. Thurs., 8 pm + Sun., 5 pm (solo shows), The Island

The WIYOs

Nuanced, female-fronted, Fla.-based Americana/acoustic indie-rock act that sounds a little tiny bit like Wes Anderson movies look — playfully somber. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL-AGES.

Eric Culberson Blues Band

Local electric Chicago-style combo that tours the East Coast and has released 3 solid independent CDs. Mon., 6 pm, The Boathouse (Hilton Head) + Tues. (host Open Jam Night) - Wed., Mercury Lounge + Thurs., 7 pm, Dawg House Grill.

Darryl & Allie

Married, touring acoustic country duo, whose male half ’s former project played the Grand Ol’ Opry and hit the Top 40 charts. Their slick, pop-oriented twang should make a nice backdrop to Friday’s Low Country Boil and Saturday’s Prime Rib Buffet... For ticket info to either gig, call (912) 308-4372. Fri., 8:30 pm, American Legion Post #184 (Thunderbolt) + Sat., 8:30 pm, Wilmington island Club.

Darsombra

Led by a key member of the infamous über-heavy Baltimore band Meatjack, this crushing, punishing combo sounds like angst and foreboding incarnate. Bring earplugs for this all-night onslaught of brutal aural savagery (featuring kindred spirits Destructo Swarmbots, Celephais and upand-coming locals The Guillotine). Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Daughter of Alexander

Young, female-led Christian acousti-pop from Brooklet, Ga. influenced by Guster and Sheryl Crow. Fri., 8 pm, Monkey Love (pooler) - ALL-AGES.

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Mary Davis & Co.

Rock, pop, soul and beach music covers, featuring members of popular Wilmington Island group Band In The Park. Sat., 6 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee).

Eat Mo’ Music

Instrumental, dance-oriented soul-jazz quartet. Sat., 9:30 pm, Tantra Lounge.

David Flannery

Solo acoustic guitarist/singer offering classic and soft rock hits. Fri., 9 pm, Steamer’s (Georgetown).

I Cantori’s “Sing a Song of Shakespeare”

Mallory Jen

Young female singer/guitarist playing acoustic covers and originals. Fri., 7 pm, Dawg House Grill.

Kingsbury

Delay-drenched Fla. quintet playing hushed, pocket symphonic-leaning odes to disaffection. Wed., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse - ALL-AGES.

The Landon Knoblock Trio

This “introspective” jazz pianist has been called a “young lion” by the jazz press, and critics are heaping praise on his high level of musical sophistication and artistry. He’s backed trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and vocalist Kevin Mahogany, and has received two coveted Downbeat Awards. His debut CD has just been released and features his own compositions as well as completely improvised pieces. $5 cover per set. Thurs., 8 pm, 10 pm, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

Jude Michaels

Longtime local bar musician playing covers and originals on guitar, cello and percussion. Fri., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s.

Sean Mills

Solo show by a key member of the Widespread Panic tribute band Machine Funk. Fri., 10 pm, Loco’s (downtown).

The Nerd Parade

Rocking, atmospheric indie-pop. Sat., 8:30 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL-AGES.

Old-Time Country Dance

Traditional contra-style foot-steppin’ with The Glow In The Dark String Band.

Sponsored by the Savannah Folk Music Society, and open to ALL-AGES, both novice and experienced. Sat., 8 pm, Notre Dame Academy Gym (1709 Bull St.).

Perception

Regional group playing classic, Southern rock and nü-metal covers. Fri., 10 pm, Jukebox Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill).

G.E. Perry & Strange Brew

Blues-based rock band featuring bassist James Mills, drummer Paul Cooper, guitarist Perry, and harmonicat James Gay. Sat., 8 pm, Robin’s Nest (Pooler).

The Savannah Sinfonietta

This local orchestral group’s Chamber Players offers “400 Years of Canadian Brass,” featuring famous arrangements of works by Morley, Debussy/Bach, Mozart/ Frackenpohl, Bizet, Puccini and others. Sat., 7:30 pm, Richmond Hill United Methodist Church + Sun., 3 pm, Jewish Education Alliance (5111 Abercorn St.).

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Excellent local jazz trio (featuring female vocals) that recently released an impressive debut CD of original compositions. Sat., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Impressive local Christian-themed modern rock/metal band that’s (hopefully) inaugurating a new round of shows at this long-defunct DIY basement venue. With Sonset Down and Divide The Sea. Sat., 8 pm, Sweet Melissa’s (basement of 35 Whitaker St.) - ALL-AGES.

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Young, local psychedelic rock band given to improvisation. Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

Classically-trained vocalist and thespian who’s earned a devoted local following for his engaging, cabaret-style approach to the Great American Songbook as well as more recent pop favorites. Thurs., 8 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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Toward The Son

Critically-acclaimed Savannah-based singer/songwriter, sitting in with members of a popular area Southern rock/jam band for a night of covers and originals. Fri., 8 pm, Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill).

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Two performances by this long-established traditional choral group. Thurs., 8 pm, Skidaway Island United Methodist Church + Fri., 8 pm, Lutheran Church of The Ascension.

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Bottles & Cans

This offbeat quartet play so frequently around town that it’s easy to take them for granted. However, their full-bore sets of radically re-arranged Delta blues, Americana, psychedelic rock and Basement Tapes-era Dylan are never anything less than quite entertaining, and often more like breathtaking and minorly revelatory. For the month of May, they’ll hold court on Wednesday nights at this funky bar. Wed., 9 pm, Bay Street Blues.

Doug Carn & Jimmy McGriff

Savannah’s most serious venue for touring jazz artists throws down with 2 nights of swirling organ-based grooves. Carn is a Fla.based keyboardist and vocalist who lived for a time in Savannah, and is a worldwide cult figure for his tenure on the esoteric and pioneering Black Jazz record label of the ‘70s.

McGriff is one of the last true living legends of the Hammond B-3 organ. This small dessert bar and art gallery is only a block away from Jazz’d Tapas Bar where Lipbone Redding appears Saturday (see Music Feature), and if you’re like me, you’ll make plans to catch some of that show either before or after one of McGriff ’s sets, for a full evening of wonderful music. $10 cover per set for Carn, $15 per set for McGriff. Fri. (Carn’s Quartet) & Sat. (McGriff ’s Quartet), 9 pm, 10:30 pm, midnight. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, 10:30 pm, midnight, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

Michael Glabicki

Captivating and charismatic singer/songwriter and guitarist who came to prominence in the ‘90s as the frontman of the ground-breaking alt.rock/world-beat act Rusted Root.

Note: due to a typo, this show was inadvertently listed in our last issue as taking place this Wednesday. The correct date is: Fri.,Wild Wing Café.

Junkyard Angel

KIX-96 Birthday Bash

In case you hadn’t heard, Mr. “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” himself, Trace Adkins, will return to a town that’s always been good to him for an arena show next week. The Louisiana native will be joined

by Rincon’s own hometown hero Billy Currington, and rising sensation Luke Bryan, an aspiring artist who normally plays pizza joints and county fairs.

Call 651-6556 or go to www.savannahcivic.com for tickets. Thurs., May 17, 7:30 pm, Savannah Civic Center.

Sharon Van Ettan

Free show by a regional group (whose members hail from Savannah and Athens) plays reverent interpretations of soulful classic rock-style tunes based around country and blues. Their vibe is a mixture of Rolling Stones posturing and The Drive-By Truckers’ studied red clay grit. Featuring members of Stewart & Winfield. Sat., 1 pm, Bonna Bella Yacht Club.

Polyrhythm Workshop

Held in association with the Black Men’s Gathering 2, this hands-on demonstration and class by Fullbright Senior Specialist and noted author (and Savannah native) David Pleasant is based around his recently published manual: African American

Root Patterns: A Gullah-Geechee Inspired Riddimic Exercise Book. Using a variety of drums, cymbals, tambourines and maracas (as well as his entire body and voice), he puts on an instructive show that Time Out New York called “wall-to-wall music-gospel, hip-hop, drumming-African flavored dance.” Pleasant has worked with such noted musicians as Erykah Badu, Paul Simon, Cecil Taylor and Jack De Johnette. For more info, visit www.blackmensgathering. org. Sat., 9 am, Baha’i Unity Center (2414 Waters Ave.).

The Tennessee Rounders

Chattanooga-based honky-tonk act whose indie albums tackle everything from outlaw country declarations to tear-in-yourbeer weepers to haunting murder ballads. A truly above-average example of this genre.

Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Sharon Van Etten

Hushed and ethereal post-modern acoustic low-fi anti-folk that’s one part Cat Power, one part Mazzy Star and one part mysterious Greenwich Village ‘60s legend Karen Dalton. Last time this singing N.J. guitarist’s tour brought her to this room, I’m told it was a captivating performance that held the crowd in rapt attention. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL-AGES. w

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WEDNESDAY MAY 9TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Joey Manning (7 pm) B & D BURGERS (Southside) Trivia w/Artie & Brad (10 pm) BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler) Karaoke BAY STREET BLUES Bottles & Cans (9 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ Chief (9 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER ST. The Blend (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) Lafeyette CHEERS TO YOU (135 Johnny Mercer Blvd.)

Karaoke (8 pm) CLUB ONE #@*! Karaoke COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.) Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm) CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (7 pm) DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE (Tybee) Live Music TBA DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) DJ Sam Diamond (Savannah Shag Club) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) Voodoo Soup (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm) GILLEY’S (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm) GUITAR BAR Damon Matland (7:30 pm), Open Mic (9 pm) HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.) Karaoke (10 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) The Bobby Ryder Quartet (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR Jeff Beasley (7 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE JINX Rock & Roll Bingo w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (11 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S Danny Quinn KING’S INN Karaoke (9 pm) KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.) Abebi Stafford (6 pm) THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.) Open Mic Night (9:30 pm) LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown) Team Trivia w/Ben & Senae MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK Pianist David Duckworth (7 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE Barry Johnson MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Celtic Karaoke (9 pm) ONE HOT MAMA’S BBQ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (8:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Gail Thurmond

SAVANNAH BLUES

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) Dueling Pianos (9 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE Jukebox Journey (8 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE Kingsbury (8 pm) SLUGGERS 5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler) Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB Karaoke w/Michael (10 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) Live Music TBA (7 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) VENUS DE MILO Industry Night w/George THE WAREHOUSE Thomas Claxton (6:30 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ Karaoke (8:30 pm)

THURSDAY MAY 10TH

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) Mama’s Mojo (8 pm) B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA B & D BURGERS (Southside) Live Music TBA (10 pm) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings) Live Music TBA (7 pm) BARNES & NOBLE (Oglethorpe Mall) Open Mic (8 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ Chief (9 pm) BAY STREET BLUES Karaoke (9 pm) BENNIE’S (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET Karaoke (9 pm) BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR #@*! Karaoke THE BREW PUB (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (10 pm) BUFFALO’S CAFÉ (Hinesville) Karaoke (7 pm) CHUCK’S BAR #@*! Karaoke (10 pm) CLUB ONE Insutrial Resurrection w/DJ Shrapnel (10 pm) COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.) Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm) CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) DAIQUIRI BEACH Karaoke (10 pm) DAWG HOUSE GRILL The Eric Culberson Blues Band (7 pm) DINGUS MAGEE’S Live Music TBA (9 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee) Roy & The Circuit Breakers DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) Jon Doe (9 pm)

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TOMMY’S (Pooler) Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB

DJ Southstar spins Top 40 (10 pm)

TUBBY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) Live Music TBA (6 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DE MILO Hip-Hop Night w/DJ Life & DJ Valis (10 pm) THE WAREHOUSE Jeff Beasley (8 pm) WASABI’S Thomas Claxton (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ The Courtenay Brothers Band (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10:30 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head) Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root (11 pm) WIND ROSE CAFÉ (Tybee)

Lurid Miscreants (10 pm)

FRIDAY MAY 11TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) AMERICAN LEGION POST #36 (Thunderbolt) Karaoke

AMERICAN LEGION POST #184 (Thunderbolt) Darryl & Allie (8:30 pm) AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) Greg Williams & Phantom Wingo (8 pm) B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA B & D BURGERS (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm) BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler) Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings) Live Music TBA (7 pm) BAY STREET BLUES Karaoke (9 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ Thomas Claxton (9 pm), BC & The Rock Mob (10:30 pm) BENNIE’S (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET Karaoke (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) Nancy Witt CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE #@*! Karaoke CLUB ICE DJ Southstar: Hip-hop (10 pm - 6 am) CLUB ONE Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor) COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.) Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm) CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn) Karaoke DAWG HOUSE GRILL Mallory Jen (7 pm) DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) The Train Wrecks (6 pm) DINGUS MAGEE’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (9 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee) Roy & The Circuit Breakers DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm) EL PICASSO (319 Main St., Garden City) Karaoke (8 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) The Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) WormsLoew (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm) 514 WEST (514 MLK, Jr. Blvd.)

Kim Polote & David Duckworth (noon & 6:30 pm) FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) Treas In Season (9 pm) FRIENDLY’S TAVERN 2 #@*! Karaoke GILLEY’S (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm) HERCULES (Pt. Wentworth) Chief (8 pm) HUC-A-POOS (Tybee) Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE HYATT Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) The Kevin Bales Trio (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR David Lugo’s Latin Jazz Motion (9 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE JINX Darsombra, Destructo Swarmbots, Celephais, Guillotine (10 pm) JUKEBOX BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Perception (10 pm) * KATHLEEN’S (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (9 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S Danny Quinn KING’S INN Karaoke (9 pm) KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.) The Doug Carn Quartet (9 pm, 10:30 pm, midnight) LOCO’S DELI & GRILL (downtown) Sean Mills - of Widespread Panic Tribute Band Machine Funk (10 pm) LUNA LOUNGE @ IL PASTICCIO Live Music TBA (9 pm) LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (10 pm) LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION I Cantori’s “Sing a Song of Shakespeare” (8 pm) MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK Pianist Peter Tavalin (5 pm), The Jeff Beasley Band (9 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS Live Music TBA (8 pm) MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke

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THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.) DJ KZL (10 pm) HERCULES (Pt. Wentworth) Live Music TBA (7:30 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) Buddy Corns (8 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) The Lavon Stevens Project Feat. Claire Frazier (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR Trae Gurley (7 pm) THE JEWISH EDUCATION ALLIANCE (5111 Abercorn St.) The University of West Ga. Jazz Ensemble (1:30 pm) THE JINX Dance Party w/DJ D-Frost & Friends (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S Danny Quinn * KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.) The Landon Knoblock Trio (8 pm, 10 pm) LOCOS DELI & GRILL (downtown) Open Mic Night (10 pm) LOCOS DELI & GRILL (Southside) Team Trivia w/Ben Bennett & Senae (7 pm) MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK Pianist David Duckworth (5 pm), Vocalist Roger Moss (8 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE Nancy Witt MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE Live Music TBA (10 pm) METRO COFFEE HOUSE Erich DeFeo, Chris Palmore (8 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO. Live Music TBA (8:30 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB The Train Wrecks (10 pm) MYRTLE’S BAR & GRILL (Bluffton) J. Howard Duff (7:30 pm) ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (5 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA THE RAIL PUB “Helium Karaoke” w/Wrath Nasty SAVANNAH BLUES Live Music TBA(10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3 DJ Nick J - ‘80s, house, breaks, D & B (10 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) Dueling Pianos (9 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE The Cripple Lillies (8 pm) SKIDAWAY ISLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH I Cantori’s “Sing a Song of Shakespeare” (8 pm) SLUGGER’S Trivia w/Charles & Mikey (10 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (8 pm) STEAMER’S (Georgetown) Live Music TBA (9 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE

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MERCURY LOUNGE Live Music TBA (10 pm) MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB Jude Michaels (10 pm) MONKEY LOVE (Pooler) Daughter of Alexander (8 pm) MULBERRY INN The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Live Music TBA (10 pm) NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Gail Thurmond PLUM’S (Beaufort) Live Music TBA POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (8 pm) RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204) Live Music TBA (9 pm) RETRIEVER’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (8 pm) RICHMOND HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Savannah Sinfonietta’s Chamber Players’ “400 Years of Canadian Brass (7:30 pm) ROBIN’S NEST (Pooler) G.E. Perry & Strange Brew (8 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3 DJ Analog Kid (10 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee) Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE The Nerd Parade (8:30 pm) SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (8 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S The Bluesonics (8 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.) Karaoke (9 pm) STEAMERS (Georgetown) David Flannery (9 pm)

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WET WILLIE’S Live DJ (8 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (9 pm) WISEGUYS (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (8 pm) YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SATURDAY MAY 12TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Joey Manning (7 pm) THE ALE HOUSE (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10 pm) AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) Mama’s Mojo (9 pm) B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA BAHA’I UNITY CENTER (2414 Waters Ave.)

African-American Polyrhythm Workshop w/ David Pleasant (9 am) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)

Friday

$5 Jager Bombs $2 Cuervos

STINGRAY’S (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) STUDIO B (Glennville) Call To Preserve, Jump The Shark, Sights Set High, The Guillotine, Chevy Chase Stabbed The King (8 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE Andres Garcia (9 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler) Live Music TBA (9 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) Live Music TBA (9 pm) TURTLE’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (10 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island) Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO Live DJ VFW CLUB (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm) VIC’S ON THE RIVER Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE Quarter Tank (8 pm) WAYS STATION TAVERN (Richmond Hill)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

FRI & SAT

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BAY STREET BLUES Karaoke (9 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ

Thomas Claxton (9 pm), BC & The Rock Mob (10:30 pm) BENNY’S (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET Karaoke (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) The Joseph Michael Duo (6 pm) BOGEY’S Chief (9 pm)

BONNA BELLA YACHT CLUB Junkyard Angel (1 pm) THE BRITANNIA (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (10 pm) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE #@*! Karaoke CHUCK’S BAR #@*! Karaoke CITY MARKET COURTYARD Live Music TBA (2 pm) CLUB ONE DJ Jason Hancock spins Progressive House (10 pm) THE CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (7 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn) Karaoke DC2 DESIGN (104 W. Broughton St.) DJ Kiah (10 pm) DEB’S PUB & GRUB #@*! Karaoke (9 pm) DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) Jason Bible (1 pm), The Prodigal Sunz (6 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee) Roy & The Circuit Breakers DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee) A Nickle Bag of Funk DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) The Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) Mr. Wiley (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm) 514 WEST (514 MLK, Jr. Blvd.)

Live Music TBA (7 pm) FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (9 pm) GILLEY’S (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE HYATT Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) Live Music TBA (5 pm) THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) The Kevin Bales Trio (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR Lipbone Redding & The Lipbone Orchestra (9 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE JINX The Tennessee Rounders (10 pm) JUAREZ MEXICAN RESTAURANT (Waters Ave.) Karaoke KEVIN BARRY’S Danny Quinn KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.) The Jimmy McGriff Quartet (9 pm, 10:30 pm, midnight) LOCO’S DELI & GRILL (downtown) Zach & Friends (10 pm) MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK Pianist Abebi Stafford (5 pm), Silver Lining (9 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS Live Music TBA (8 pm)

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MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE Live Music TBA (10 pm) MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB The Thomas Baker Band (10 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO. Live Music TBA (8 pm) MULBERRY INN The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Live Music TBA (10 pm) NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee) Mary Davis & Co. (6 pm) NOTRE DAME ACADEMY GYM (1709 Bull St.) Old-Time Country Dance w/The Glow In The Dark String Band (8 pm) PANINI’S (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE PLANTATION CLUB The Courtenay Brothers (6 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE RAIL PUB

VIC’S ON THE RIVER Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE The Train Wrecks (8 pm) WET WILLIE’S Live DJ (8 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ Chuck Courtenay (1 pm) Mystic Production Reggae Show (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (10 pm) WILMINGTON ISLAND CLUB Darryl & Allie (8:30 pm) YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3 Old School Dance Party w/DJ Analog Kid (10 pm) SAVANNAH JAZZ & BLUES BISTRO (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (8 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee) Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) THE SEA GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE Sharon Van Etten (8 pm) SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (8 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S Live Music TBA SPANKY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (10 pm) STEAMERS (Georgetown) Live Music TBA (9 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) SWEET MELISSA’S (35 Whitaker St.) TANTRA LOUNGE Eat Mo’ Music (9:30 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler) Live Music TBA (9 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) Live Music TBA (9 pm) TURTLE’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (9 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island) Curbside (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Joey Manning (7 pm) AQUA STAR RESTAURANT (THE WESTIN) Ben Tucker & Bob Alberti (11:30 am) AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (9 pm) B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler) Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ Chief (9 pm) BELFORD’S Live Music TBA (6 pm) BERNIE’S (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) Diana Rogers CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE #@*! Karaoke CHA BELLA Live Music TBA (10 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn) Karaoke DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) Robert Willis (6 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island) Live Music TBA DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (7 pm) EL POTRO (13051 Abercorn St.) Karaoke w/Michael (9 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) Randy “Hatman” Smith (8 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) Listen 2 Three (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (6 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) Buddy Corns (5 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) Deas’ Guyz (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR David Keller & Abebi Stafford (7 pm) THE JEWISH EDUCATION ALLIANCE (5111 Abercorn St.) Savannah Sinfonietta’s Chamber Players’ “400 Years of Canadian Brass (3 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S Danny Quinn MALONE’S (309 W. River St.) Live Music TBA

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RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204) Live Music TBA (9 pm) RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES

DJ Maytag (10 pm)

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MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK Guitarist Jackson Evans (11 am) MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE Live Music TBA (10 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO. Live Music TBA (7 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Irish Pub Acoustic Session (7 pm) NORTH BEACH GRILL Live Music TBA (7 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Gail Thurmond RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204) Karaoke w/Frank Nelson (9 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) “Piano-Palooza” Karaoke (9 pm) SEA DAWGS (Tybee) Live Music TBA (1 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE The WIYOS (8 pm) SLUGGER’S 5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S Live Music TBA (3 pm) SPANKY’S (Pooler) Live Music TBA (8 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.) Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) Live Music TBA UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE Thomas Claxton (5 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ The Courtenay Brothers (1 pm)

MONDAY

BLUEBERRY HILL Karaoke DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) DJ spins Beach Music DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) Bottles & Cans (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) The Howard Paul Quartet w/John Brackett (8 pm) THE JINX DJ KZL’s Kaleidoscope (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S Harry O’Donoghue KING’S INN Karaoke (9 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS Live Music TBA (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Open Mic Night (7:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Live Piano Music TBA RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head) Jon Doe (11 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

SAVANNAH NIGHTS Karaoke SCANDALS (Tybee) DJ Marty Corley (9:30 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE Old-Time Jam Session w/Joe Nelson (7 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE Live DJ (10:30 pm) WET WILLIE’S Karaoke (9 pm)

TUESDAY

MAY 14TH

MAY 15TH

BAYOU CAFÉ Chief (9 pm) THE BOATHOUSE (Hilton Head) The Eric Culberson Blues Band (6 pm)

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Tom Coleman III returns to the local theatre scene with Radio GALS

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“The government finds out they’re broadcasting without a license, and sends a guy to shut them down,” Coleman says.

“He becomes enamored with a woman in their group, and ends up on the air rather than shutting them down.”

The cast includes Grace Diaz Tootle as Hazel Hunt, a retired music teacher who creates radio station WGAL in her home. Members of the Hazelnuts, an all-girl orchestra, are played

by Suzanne Coleman Cone, Mickey Dodge, Sandra Nix and Kim Albright Shabi.

There’s a lovesick flapper named Gladys Fritts, played by Nicole Koplik. Mark Rand is Above, Nicole Koplik as Gladys and Mark Rand as the the government agent government agent who loves her; at right, Grace Diaz with a tenor voice and a Tootle as Hazel Hunt, founder and star of WGAL hankering for love.

In looking for a Community Theatre is now in the back. venue, Coleman talked Each company maintains separate stages, reto Kelie Miley, director of the Savannah hearsal spaces, workshops, box offices and Children’s Theatre, about using her theater. entrances. Coleman designed and built the “Kelie has something going every hour 144-seat, three-quarter round theater with of the day,” Coleman says. “She told me the the help of friends and family. woman who owns the building (the old Belk One of Coleman’s former students is building at 2160 E. Victory Dr., where the helping with publicity. Mary Ann Goldman Savannah Children’s Theatre is located) was says the changes at the building are dralooking for another tenant. matic.

“I contacted a bunch of people I knew “The dressing rooms from the old Belk when I was in Savannah 20 years ago,” department store are now dressing rooms Coleman says. “The main thing I heard for the actors. There’s rehearsal space upabout community theater in Savannah was stairs,” she says. “I’m excited about it because that there wasn’t a space where people could right now, Savannah hasn’t had consistent go and do shows.” community theater in years.”

Many people mentioned the long-deFuture productions include Beehive funct Savannah Little Theatre on Gwinnett the 60s Musical in July. Other producStreet where theater buffs could put shows tions are Blood Brothers, 84 Charing Cross together, or just hang out. “They wanted a Road, Shirley Valentine, Mid-Life: The Crisis community theater like the Little Theatre Musical and Blithe Spirit. w used to be,” Coleman says.

Returning to the old Belk building, The Savannah Community Theatre will presColeman learned it had a huge second floor ent Radio GALS May 11, 12, 18, 19, 24, that wasn’t being used.

25, 26, 27 and 31 and June 1 and 2 at 7:30 “Then we found one large obstacle after p.m. Matinees are May 13 and 27 at 3 p.m. another,” he says. “The building wasn’t handThe theater is at 2160 E. Victory Dr. Tickets icapped accessible, so I contacted an elevator $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 55+ and $15 company. It would cost $80,000 to install an for Sunday matinees, students and children. elevator, so there could be no theater on the Season tickets on sale May 11. second floor.”

A compromise was reached. The Call 898-9021 or visit Savannah Children’s Theatre is in the www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com. front of the building, and the Savannah

Savannah Actor’s Theatre plans 2008 ‘Pulitzer Season’

Based in The Ark Theatre on Louisville Road, the non-profit Savannah Actor’s Theatre has announced a 2008 calendar that they say makes its venue Savannah’s only full-time theatre, “with a performance every night of the year.”

During ‘Pulitzer Season’, the company will produce twelve productions back to back, one for each month.

Each is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from the last half century.

The announced 2008 schedule is: Jan. -- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957), Feb. -- How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1962), March -- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (1971), April -- Seascape (1975), May -- Buried Child (1979), June -- Night Mother (1983), July -- The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Aug. -- Lost in Yonkers (1991), Sept. -- Topdog/Underdog (2002), Oct. -- I Am My Own Wife (2004), Nov. -Doubt (2005), and Dec. -- Rabbit Hole (2007).

Each title will run twelve performances on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 8:00 p.m.

Single tickets are $15 (general) and $10 (student/senior).

Subscriptions for the twelve-show season are available to the public at $150 and to students and seniors at $100.

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f you’re a native Savannahian, over 40 and into theater, chances are you’ve taken a class from Tom Coleman III. “When I was in college at the University of Georgia in 1971 through 1975, I completely, truly stumbled into children’s theater,” Coleman says. “I ended up with a degree in it.”

About that time, theaters were required to establish educational status to be considered not-for-profit. To comply with this requirement, the Savannah Little Theatre began a program called the Savannah Young People’s Theater.

“Since I had a theater degree, the Little Theatre called me,” Coleman says. “I was here in Savannah until 1986.”

Coleman taught classes in theater and directed performances. Then his life took a dramatic turn.

“I thought I wanted to go to seminary and become a priest and teach high school,” Coleman says. “I went to Pennsylvania and went into a monastery.”

During his third year at the monastery, Coleman got a call from the University of Georgia at Athens. He left the monastery to become the artistic director of the Athens Creative Theatre, a position he held for 20 years.

“Suddenly, I was 55 and trying to decide what to do with my life,” Coleman says. “I could retire at 55, 62 or 67.”

A desire to be closer to his family here helped Coleman make the decision to retire at age 55. But since he’s come home, he’s been busier than ever launching the new Savannah Community Theatre.

“I decided to do something and keep running,” Coleman says. “It’s taken a lot of energy to do what I’m doing, but I’m still excited about it.”

So are many local theater buffs.

“Everyone who has something to do with the arts who are 40 and above know me or know someone who was a student of mine,” Coleman says. “They’re all really coming and helping us out.”

The Savannah Community Theatre will celebrate its opening with the musical comedy Radio GALS May 11-June 2. If you’ve never heard of Radio GALS, it comes from the creators of Pump Boys and Dinettes and is a down-home musical set in the 1920s.

“It’s a musical about two old women who’ve retired,” Coleman says. “Their former students give them a radio transmitter that allows them to broadcast six miles, covering the town of Cedar Ridge, Ark. Every morning, they give the weather report, the farm report and read the newspaper. It’s a fun, silly kind of show. The neighbors all come by and perform on the radio.”

Even in musical comedies, there has to be a villain, and in this production, it’s an entire government agency.

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dia by SCAD senior Dru Blumensheild, inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Opens at the desot O row Gallery May 11. Reception: Friday May 11 79 p.m. Show runs May 9-April 16. Hrs. Tues-Sun 12-4 p.m., 2427 DeSoto Ave, between Bull and Whitaker off 41st.

Savannah Arts Academy/ Historic Preservation Academy student work is displayed for National Preservation Month. Area high school student posters will be on display April 26May 15 as part of Historic Savannah Foundation’s Preservation Month at 109 West Broughton Street.

‘A Scene of Green’ -- A collection of

student photos that show Savannah’s environment and how it’s changing. May 831 at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Reception 6-8:00 p.m. May 11. ‘idioms’ -- SCAD presents South African

artist Nicholas Hlobo’s first solo exhibition in the United States, May 4- June 10 at Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

‘Scene of Green’ is a collection of student ‘Remnants’ -- Masters thesis exhibit photos at The Sentient Bean; reception is by Aliza Lelah, May 4-26 at Rosewood Contemporary Art, 113 E Oglethorpe Friday 6-8 p.m.

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Margaret Dulohery -- eGarrett Gallery presents the paintings of native Savannah artist Margaret Dulohery. Exhibit opens Friday, May 4, 7-9 p.m. 2408 Desoto Ave. Joel Wittkamp -- This SCAD industrial design professor will display 30 years of products created by his company April

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Photos by Roger Surprenant are at Moon River thru 5/18 Local artists featured include painter Gale Bolton, Debbie Zepp, Nancy 23-May 18, 8 a.m. -6 p.m., at Gulfstream Adams and Allen Fireall.

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‘SOMA’ is Dru Blumenshield’s new show at desot O row in Starland; reception is Friday 7-9 p.m.

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‘Art Saves Lives’ -- Indigo Sky

Community Gallery at 915 Waters Ave. presents the work of the late Zoe Briscoe, who was largely responsible for the research for the Yamacraw Square Public Art Project. Through May 19. Hours by appointment (233-7659).

‘Architectural Gestures’ -- by Siddharth Parasnis, through June 3 at Chroma Gallery, 31 Barnard St. Roger Surprenant -- Photo exhibit at

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Dancers rehearse ‘Steam Heat’ from the Broadway hit Pajama Game, using Bob Fosse’s original choreography

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ance companies generally hold recitals to conclude the season; no news there. But Savannah Danse Theatre and its educational arm, Islands Dance Academy, are taking things to the next level with an ambitious “Spring Showcase” this Tuesday night at the Fine Arts Auditorium at AASU. Perhaps best known for its yearly Nutcracker in Savannah productions accompanied by a live orchestra, the troupe will cover an unusually large amount of ground for a year-end production.

“I’m calling it a classical and jazz contemporary evening,” says Savannah Dansse Theatre Artistic Director Suzanne Braddy. “We’ll be opening with a pas de deux from Swan Lake. We’re also doing the third act of Coppelia.

And we’ll have two guest artists for the evening, Serguei Chtyrkov and John Cronin. There will also be a couple of new pieces choreographed by Karen Burns.”

Not only will students of the Islands Dance Academy be performing; the school’s adult class, taught by Kathleen Collins, will also take its turn on the stage.

“We’re doing a piece I choreographed several months ago called ‘Variations on a String,’ referring to the strings of the violin, cello and double bass. It uses three very different pieces, performed by Bach, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O’Connor, and also a piece by Alison Krauss,” Collins says.

“The first section is very contemporary and frenetic. The second section very lovely very lyrical and very melodic,” she says. “The third section is heavy in not just steps, but expression – it’s like the end of a harvest. There’s been a fabulous crop and this is the hoedown.”

Braddy, whose usual venue for Savannah Danse Theatre productions is the Lucas Theatre downtown, says while it’s unfortunate that a scheduling conflict kept her from her normal venue, the temporary move to AASU “will be a nice change. I’ll miss downtown, but I don’t know if anyone will miss downtown parking.” w Savannah Danse Theatre/Islands Dance Academy performs its Spring Showcase Tuesday, May 15, in the Fine Arts Auditorium of Armstrong Atlantic State University at 7:30 p.m. Tix are $12 adults, $10 seniors and $6 under 12 years. Call 897-2100.

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Looks like deja vu all over again Sequels again set to dominate summer movie season

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10 Most Promising

WAITRESS. I was a fan of Adrienne Shelly back when she was a noteworthy indie actress in the 1990s, so it was heartbreaking to hear that this wife and mother was murdered last year under deeply disturbing circumstances. So it’s a shame that she wasn’t around to enjoy the positive buzz that surrounded Waitress at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Shelly wrote, directed and appears in a supporting role in this comedy-drama about a pregnant waitress (Keri Russell) with a cruel husband (Jeremy Sisto), a sensitive doctor (Nathan Fillion) and a knack for making killer pies. All this, and Andy Griffith, too!

(May 25) KNOCKED UP. The 40-Year-Old Virgin holds ground as the best stupid-smart/ crude-sensitive comedy of the last few years, so yeah, I’m in line for the follow-up picture from writer-director Judd Apatow. Seth Rogen, the most slovenly of Steve Carell’s pals in Virgin, plays a slacker whose onenight stand with a rising TV journalist (Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl) results in her pregnancy. Expect both vulgarity and poignancy -- I know I am. (June 1) MR. BROOKS. Is this jockeying to become the ultimate career revival flick? William Hurt, Kevin Costner and, to a lesser extent, Demi Moore each ruled a piece of Hollywood in the past but have long since seen their careers evaporate like water left in a

boiling kettle too long. Mr. Brooks gathers them all up and thrusts them into a thriller about a businessman (Costner) whose alter ego (manifested as Hurt) orders him to kill, a nasty habit that catches the attention of a homicide detective (Moore). Hard to imagine a middle ground on this one: It will either be bloody good or bloody bad -- and either way suits me. (June 1) RATATOUILLE. If the trailer is any indication, the latest from the Pixar factory looks cute but nothing more. Then again, I initially thought the same when seeing the previews for Toy Story ... and The Incredibles ... and Cars ... and, well, it’s safe to say all three soared far beyond “cute.” In other words, let’s not bet against Pixar just yet, shall we? One positive: The

director is Brad Bird, who gained notice for The Iron Giant and a Best Animated Feature Oscar for The Incredibles. One negative: It’s a questionable decision to give a children’s flick a moniker that requires an accompanying pronunciation (rat-a-too-ee) in the ads.

(June 29).

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. I’ve already seen the one summer sequel that interested me (SpiderMan 3), but of the remaining glut, this one’s my pick. The first four pictures in the franchise give me no reason to assume that this one will slack off significantly: Doubtless, the kids (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) will remain appealing, the Brit vets (among them Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and series newcomers Helena

Bonham Carter and Imelda Staunton) will lend conviction, and the series will continue to darken and deepen. (July 13) THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. “I’ll teach you to laugh at something that’s funny!” Homer Simpson yells at son Bart as he attempts to strangle the lad. Homer better get used to the chortles, since it’s hard to imagine the faithful not responding to the first bigscreen outing of the doughnut-loving dork and his brood. Theatrical spin-offs of television series are always a risky proposition -- why pay for something you’re basically used to watching for free? -- but a feature film Simpsons just seems natural -- if a tad late (the show’s been on FOX since 1989).

(July 27) BECOMING JANE. I feel for Anne Hathaway, the fine young actress who watched all her costars grab the accolades for showier roles in both Brokeback Mountain and The Devil Wears Prada. So it’s encouraging to hear that the early notices claim that this Yankee’s just dandy as British author Jane Austen in a period romance loosely based on a romance in the young Jane’s own life. (August 10) A MIGHTY HEART. If done well, this has the opportunity to be another in a long line of exceptional and hard-hitting dramas set in dangerous foreign territories (Missing and Under Fire spring to mind).

Certainly, having the no-nonsense Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo) at the helm ensures that there won’t be much in the way of bottled melodrama in this truelife story about Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie), the widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by terrorists back in 2002. I even liked Jolie’s last international thriller, the critically maligned Beyond Borders, so I have high hopes for this one. (No local date set) SICKO. Sicko doesn’t open until June, yet go to the International Movie Database’s message boards for this title and you’ll see approximately 50 discussions (containing hundreds of reader comments) either supporting or praising the film’s theme. Of course, we would expect no less, since Sicko comes from Michael Moore, the man who previously lambasted the evils of profit-hungry CEOs, gun-toting yahoos and an imbecilic president in, respectively, the career-making Roger & Me, the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine and the record-breaking Fahrenheit 9/11. Here, Moore tackles this nation’s pathetic health care system and examines the benefits of universal health care. It’s not as “sexy” a subject as continued on page 34

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ill 13 prove a lucky number for Hollywood? That’s the staggering amount of sequels being released this summer season, a hefty amount of in-demand titles that could make this the most lucrative hot-weather period ever.

That baker’s dozen includes Spider-Man 3, which unofficially kicked off the threemonth relay race two weekends ago, as well as eagerly anticipated follow-ups featuring gnarly pirates, smelly ogres and boy wizards. And if that’s not enough recycling for you, the season also brings at least one remake (Rob Zombie tackling Halloween), one Broadway adaptation (John Travolta in drag for Hairspray), and one TV spin-off (D’oh!).

Over 50 films are slated for release between now and August 31. In preparation, we’re offering peeks at (in chronological order) the 10 most promising movies, the 10 least promising, and five that fall in the middle. In addition, there’s a checklist of 25 other titles that will be competing for your summer dollars.

All opinions were formed after poring over the press material, checking out the trailers, and noting whether or not the cast includes Larry the Cable Guy.

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his past targets, so box office will be more subdued, but at least those Americans who truly care about this country instead of just paying it lip service will line up. (No local date set) TALK TO ME. Too often used in support, Don Cheadle more than proved he could carry a major motion picture (and earn an Oscar nomination in the process) with Hotel Rwanda. Here, he’s center stage in another film based on fact: the story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, a former convict who became a controversial radio DJ during the 1960s. Sample quip from the trailer: “My guest tonight is a pimp that I wouldn’t trust to wash my car, but ya’ll done elected him city official!” (No local date set)

10 Least Promising

DELTA FARCE. Back in 1987, Disney sneaked the lowbrow, low-budget Ernest P. Worrell comedy Ernest Goes to Camp into theaters before the real summer blockbusters took hold and ended up with a minor sleeper hit (Premiere Magazine headlined their mention of this feat “While America Slept...”). Lionsgate is apparently trying a similar tactic with this good ole boy romp about three buddies (Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls) who believe they’re in Iraq serving their country when they’re really only in Mexico. The trailer offers Larry’s insufferable “Git-r-done!” catchphrase and the sight of Qualls in a dress. I’m laughing already. (May 11) HOSTEL: PART II. Alas, I didn’t see Part I. And since I’m certain the plot is so, so terribly complicated and heavy with symbolism -- for example, does the systematic maiming and dismembering of innocent folks stand as some sort of metaphor concerning Dubya’s War On Terror, or is it simply an piercing analysis of people who prefer smooth over crunchy peanut butter? -- I’m just certain I’ll be lost within the first 10 minutes. (June 8) SURF’S UP. First March of the Penguins, then Madagascar, then Happy Feet, and now Surf ’s Up. Unless it’s The Bloom County Movie starring Opus, enough with the flightless fowl already! And since you’ve heard the one about the misunderstood penguin who likes to tap dance, how about the one about the misunderstood penguin who likes to surf? (June 8) NANCY DREW. Hey, I totally understand the need to update in order to snare a history-challenged teen audience that probably believes George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Elvis Presley were all contemporaries. But there’s something about the trailer that’s tres tacky, most likely its blatant lunge to be a new Clueless (right down to the appropriation of “Kids In America” on the soundtrack). (June 15) DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE. Originally slated for a stateside release last winter (it’s been playing the rest of the globe since September 2006), this adaptation of the popular video game finally makes it to US theaters. Given the quality of most video game adaptations, something tells me this

won’t have been worth the wait. (June 22) TRANSFORMERS. Geez, I didn’t even like the Transformers back in their 80s heyday - whether on TV, movie screens or toy store shelves - and knowing that Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) is at the helm of this live action epic doesn’t exactly warm the cockles of my heart. (July 4) I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY. Adam Sandler comedies are always full of “gay panic” jokes, and here the actor decides to place them front and center.

I know I’m in the minority, but I don’t think that’s especially a good thing. I mean, 100 minutes of Sandler and Kevin James performing supposedly ho-ho-homosexual acts in order to collect their firefighters pension while at the same time trying to assert their manhood whenever possible? Still, it’s gotta be better than Big Daddy, which still managed to gross $163 million (expect comparable loot for this one). (July 20) UNDERDOG. Personally, I think people who humiliate their pets by dressing them up in sweaters or hats or whatever should be taken out and shot between the eyes, but I guess spandex tights and a cape aren’t quite as offensive. Still, a live action version of the animated series Underdog? I dunno, this has a slight whiff of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle surrounding it. Then again, at least Robert De Niro isn’t on hand whoring his talents in this one -- his “You talkin’ to me?” Taxi Driver mockery in R&B remains one of this new century’s most depressing movie moments. (August 3) DADDY DAY CAMP. Daddy Day Care made a nice bit of change ($104 million, to be exact), but it wasn’t exactly the sort of hit that begged for a sequel, especially not one in which star Eddie Murphy wouldn’t even be involved. So who’s headlining? Why, Murphy’s foil in Norbit, the can’t-a-fellowget-a-break? Cuba Gooding, Jr. (August 10) RUSH HOUR 3. A fun time was had by all (well, by most, including me) with the original Rush Hour, but that sequel was simply painful. And now we get another one a full six years later? I mean, really, is the demand still there? (August 10)

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END. The trailer is full of sound and fury, but does it signify anything? It certainly signifies that, after the resounding twin flops Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven, Hollywood is taking a wait-and-see approach to Orlando Bloom’s A-list clout: Of the eight movie stills on the Disney website, Bloom appears in none of them, and his trailer time is reduced to looking like a lost puppy dog. At least it’ll be fun watching Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush try to outeyebrow-arch each other. (May 25) SHREK THE THIRD. I enjoyed the first two installments well enough, though I would have hoped that at some point, the DreamWorks animation team would have taken a hint from Pixar and old-school Disney and grasped that toon flicks age better over time when they’re not weighted

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to a Broadway smash musical to ... a motion picture flop. Hairspray hopes to avoid that last designation as it makes its journey from John Waters’ beloved movie to Broadway staple and back again to the silver screen.

John Travolta plays the role previously (and more naturally) essayed by Divine (film) and Harvey Fierstein (stage), and costars include Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah. (July 20) THE INVASION. Nicole Kidman in a summer popcorn flick, a sci-fi yarn that costars Daniel “007” Craig and was directed

by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall)? Sounds good. But wait. Nicole Kidman in a summer popcorn flick, period? It’s been a while since that career-boosting summer that saw her in The Others and Moulin Rouge; more recently, a Nicole Kidman summer flick has meant Bewitched and The Stepford Wives. I’m cautiously optimistic. (August 17)

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down by flatulence gags and hit-today-forgotten-tomorrow pop songs. But what do I know? The second Shrek film stands as the third-highest grossing film ever (under Titanic and Star Wars), so this one should see similar bank. At least scene-stealing Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) is back on board. (May 18) FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. A Fantastic Four movie was decades in the coming, so Marvel fans were understandably perturbed by the pisspoor feature film that appeared on the scene two summers ago. So let’s hope they get it right this time: If nothing else, the trailer at least indicates that this time, more than $19.99 were spent on the visual effects. Too bad no amount of money could improve Jessica Alba’s atrocious line readings. Then again, is Meryl Streep available for voiceover work? Or even Hilary Duff? (June 15) HAIRSPRAY. I’m nervous about this one, though not as nervous as the suits at New Line. The Producers went from a hit movie

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The appeal of Spider-Man has always reached far beyond the comic book crowd: Over the decades, he’s become an icon of enormous proportions, a larger-thanlife figure who, in the superhero genre, is matched perhaps only by Superman and Batman. With this in mind, director Sam Raimi and his various scripters have fashioned three Spider-Man flicks that have all managed to remain true to the spirit -- if not always the letter -- of the comic series.

What’s even more notable is that the three pictures have been remarkably even-keeled in quality and ambition: None have reached the giddy heights of, say, 1978’s Superman or 2005’s Batman Begins, but they have all achieved what they set out to do: provide solid entertainment for the summer movie crowd. With a script by Raimi, his brother Ivan, and Oscar winner Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People), this third installment is packed to the rafters with activity and excitement. On the domestic front, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) find themselves struggling with relationship woes, while on the battlefields of NYC, Spider-Man must face off against the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom (Topher Grace), a resurgent Green Goblin (James Franco), and his own dark impulses. With so many spandex hijinks going on, it’s a wonder that the movie isn’t wall to wall with pounding action. But with a generous running time of 140 minutes, Raimi is able to occasionally slow down the pace and allow more introspective moments to take center stage.

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One of the weakest adaptations yet of a Philip K. Dick story (“The Golden Man”), Next is most notable for how it shunts the vibrant, 46-year-old Julianne Moore off to the sides while it gives 43-year-old Nicolas Cage a noticeably younger love interest in 25-year-old Jessica Biel. (In similar fashion, the movie’s poster makes it look like Biel’s bodacious ta-tas are the leading characters.) Biel is basically filling the same function as she did in last year’s The Illusionist, which is serving as girlfriend-pawn to a magician hoping to keep her out of harm’s way. Cage’s Cris Johnson actually uses his Vegas “magic man” act to cover up the fact that he can see two minutes into his own future and therefore shape his destiny to his liking. Cris considers his gift a curse, but FBI agent Callie Ferris (Moore) believes it can help her locate a Eurotrash terrorist outfit plotting to destroy Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb. Into the mix walks Liz Cooper (Biel), a teacher who’s been frequently appearing in Cris’ visions and who might hold the key to... well, something; the movie never bothers to elaborate. Next quickly loses altitude once it becomes apparent that Cris’ powers will conveniently come and go as needed to keep the screenplay lurching forward. Yet even this slip-

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shod quality is tolerable until we reach the final portion of the film, a monumental copout on the level of those overused “It was all a dream” stories that our fiction writing professors would urge us not to pen back in college.

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Director Curtis Hanson has spent the last decade delivering nothing but winning hands, so it’s not without a measure of irony that his luck has run out with Lucky You. After the incredible run of the critical darlings L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys, the box office hit 8 Mile and the underrated In Her Shoes, Hanson (co-scripting with Eric Roth) finds himself at the helm of a film so disowned by its parent studio (Warner Bros.) that not only has its release date already been changed at least twice, but it ended up serving as the sacrificial lamb chosen to open against SpiderMan 3. In truth, it deserves a less gruesome fate, even if it never reaches its full potential.

Eric Bana, nicely underplaying, stars as Huck Cheever, a Las Vegas poker ace who’s allergic to responsibility and constantly at odds with his father L.C. (Robert Duvall), a poker champ who abandoned him and his mother decades earlier and now haunts the same casinos as his son. But Huck finds his heart softening -- and his infrequently employed principles hardening -- once he meets struggling nightclub singer Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore), whose sincerity and naivety win him over. The romance between Huck and Billie isn’t credible, partly because Billie isn’t sufficiently fleshed out but mainly because Barrymore delivers an atypically flat performance that leaves her costar stranded. Far better are the scenes between Huck and L.C., and Hanson and Roth make sure to surround this pair with a wide array of interesting characters, including Little Children’s Phyllis Somerville as a pawnbroker and Jean Smart as a fellow card enthusiast (even an unbilled Robert Downey, Jr. and Borat’s manager make appearances!). But did it all have to end with, yes, a championship poker tournament?

It’s not quite a case of “like father, like son,” but Jonathan Kasdan, the offspring of the excellent writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, shows that he at least harbors some of Dad’s easygoing way with words with this engaging if underwhelming comedy-drama. In his first theatrical endeavor as writer-director, the young Kasdan shows plenty of promise in relating the tale of Carter Webb (Adam Brody), a screenwriter of softcore erotica who hopes that by leaving L.A. to stay with his crotchety grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) in Michigan, he’ll have time to refocus his energy and start on that autobiographical high school tome he’s always dreamt of penning. Having just endured a heartbreaking split with a beautiful French model (Elena Anaya), women are the farthest thing from his mind, yet upon arriving in the Michigan ‘burbs, the 20something Carter instantly draws the attention of the neighboring Hardwicke women: middle-aged housewife Sarah (Meg Ryan), her teenage daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart), and her precocious youngest, Paige (Makenzie Vega). How Carter copes with this sudden influx of females provides the picture with its spine, as his presence forces all the characters to confront their own foibles and learn to properly relate to one another.

Brody’s scenes with Ryan are the film’s strongest, as Sarah provides Carter with a stabilizing sense of maturity while he allows her to rediscover both her inner and outer beauty. More haphazard are Carter’s tête-à-tête interludes with Lucy, which range from authentic to awkward and often betray Kasdan’s ear for natural dialogue.

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The team that brought us Shaun of the Dead -- writer-director Edgar Wright, writer-star Simon Pegg and costar Nick Frost -- now take a shot or 12 at the police procedural with Hot Fuzz, a funny if distressingly overlong comedy that also manages to evoke memories of The Wicker Man, Plague of the Zombies and other spooky yarns centering on eccentric villagers inhabiting the less-traveled paths of the British Isles. Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a dynamic, by-the-book cop who’s so efficient at nailing the bad guys that his three superiors (cameos by familiar English actors) ship him off to the remote hamlet of Sandford so he won’t keep embarrassing the rest of the London force. Upon arriving in Sandford, he realizes that his commanding officer (Jim Broadbent) is a flake and his peers are morons, although

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he does strike up a friendship with Danny Butterman (Frost), a well-meaning cop who finds spiritual guidance in the movies Bad Boys II and Point Break. But a string of gruesome accidents convinces Angel that some dark secret exists in Sandford, and he enlists the bumbling Butterman to help him get to the bottom of the mystery. Hot Fuzz appears to be England’s attempt to prove to Hollywood that it can make brawny, blustery blockbusters every bit as noisy as those churned out by Tinseltown on a weekly basis, but even this pissing-contest mentality can’t drown out the sharp satiric edge that earns this a recommendation. But did the film have to feature almost as many fauxendings as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?

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ous to predict every twist resting just over the horizon. The film does grow flabby in the midsection thanks to a superfluous subplot involving Willy’s romance with his new boss (Rosamund Pike), but once it gets back to focusing on business rather than pleasure, it straightens itself out. Hopkins is solid in a role that occasionally veers toward Hannibal Lecter terrain, but it’s Gosling who gooses the proceedings, allowing his character’s expected arc from self-centered SOB to compassionate defender of justice to progress at a believable clip. More than anyone else, he holds this thoughtful thriller together.

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Chalk it up to wishful thinking or poor taste (or both) for Warner Bros. to have released an R-rated, FX-driven horror yarn about the Biblical plagues on the day before Good Friday, but at any rate, studio suits are probably more fearful of the apathy of disinterested moviegoers than the wrath of God. Hilary Swank, whose second Oscar still wasn’t enough insurance to save her from shoddy efforts like this, stars as Katherine Winter, a university professor who, after losing her faith in God about the same time she lost her husband and daughter to tragedy, has gone 48-for-48 in exposing so-called “miracles” through scientific means (with so much globe-trotting, when does she have time to grade test papers?). Her latest investigation takes her to the small town of Haven, La., where a blonde child (Bridge to Terabithia’s AnnaSophia Robb) is believed to be a satanic emissary sent to unleash the 10 plagues on this quiet hamlet. Stephen Hopkins, who directs every film as if it were a NASCAR vehicle gunning for the finish line, doesn’t have much faith in the screenplay by Carey W. Hayes and Chad Hayes, since he orchestrates much of the picture (most notably the flashbacks, dream sequences and CGI orgies) with all the delicacy of a lumberjack in ballerina slippers.

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For the most part, Hollywood has grown so inept at staging whodunits that it’s a blessing to come across a film like Fracture, which lets audiences know from the outset that he-done-it. The “he” in question is wealthy engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), who has just exacted his revenge on his cheating wife (Embeth Davidtz) by firing a bullet into her brain. With the identity of the villain in place, Fracture can then borrow a page from the Columbo playbook, by following the protagonist as he tries to piece together the details of the crime. But the lawman in this picture is a far cry from Peter Falk’s lovably rumbled detective. In a role that Richard Gere might have played in past years (indeed, Fracture director Gregory Hoblit previously oversaw Gere in a similar part in 1996’s Primal Fear), recent Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) portrays Willy Beachum, a hotshot attorney who’s used to winning and who agrees to prosecute Ted because, hey, the man has already signed a confession, right? But in his arrogance, Willy has underestimated Ted, and it’s a disastrous move that might end up costing him his burgeoning career. Fracture has its fair share of plotholes -- enough that you might be tempted to grab a shovel and a bag of cement mix -- but it features an exquisite cat-and-mouse game that makes it easier to overlook its flaws. And for once, here’s a film in which it’s not instantly obvi-

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Berry plays Rowena Price, an investigative “You’re like a 15-year-old girl,” taunts Chazz, reporter who seems to specialize in scandal“only not hot.” After a sluggish beginning, ous “gotcha” exposes (making her less New the laughs pick up during the midsection, York Times and more National Enquirer). and I appreciate that Queen’s Flash Gordon Her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) theme plays a prominent role in the finale. claims she’s been having an affair with adBut otherwise, this is one more assembly vertising king Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), line comedy by the Ferrell-Stiller-Vaughnso when Grace turns up dead, Rowena and Wilsons conglomerate (Owen Wilson and her colleague Miles (Giovanni Ribisi) susVince Vaughn are AWOL here, but Ben pect that Hill, a notorious womanizer, was Stiller serves as a producer and Luke Wilson responsible. Grace creates two fake identipops up in a tiny role). ties in an attempt to nail Hill -- she poses as a temp at his office and as an online party girl looking for action -- but as she contin300 1/2 ues to juggle separate personas, she begins Positioned as the Ultimate Fanboy Movie, to realize that other parties might also be this adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic involved. This might be the first film in hisnovel is indeed ferocious enough to satisfy tory in which product placement (in this basement-dwellers with its gore, violence case, Victoria’s Secret) might indirectly infer and chest-pounding machismo while savvy the guilt or innocence of a major character, enough to downplay the homoeroticism that though it’s certainly not the first movie in will ever-so-subtly cause heretofore unexwhich the tiresome Ribisi plays a patented plained stirrings in the loins of these same nutjob. armchair warriors. Beyond its demographictargeting, however, its greatest claim to fame is that it’s positioning itself as the next step

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Chatham County Democratic Party meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. at 143 Houston St. at the corner of Oglethorpe and Houston. Call Karen Arms at 897-1300 or David Bonorato at 921-7039 or visit www.chathamdems.com.

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

Chatham County Young Democrats is dedicated to getting young people ages 14 to 39 active in governmental affairs and to encourage their involvement at all levels of the Democratic party. Contact Rakhsheim Wright at 604-7319 or chathamcountyyds@ yahoo.com.

Nonprofits: We will list your event or service at no charge if you are a bona fide nonprofit.

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

Walk for Women’s Lives Georgians for Choice will hold its fifth annual march on March 25 at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta.

Auditions

Aspiring Artists Looking for a keyboard player, electric guitarist, drummer nad bassist for an R&B/Soul group. Contact writinglive@yahoo.com.

Casting Call The SCAD Film and Television Senior Project class is conducting a casting call for men, women and children of all ages on Saturday, May 12 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Adler Hall, 532 Indian St. For info, email lsipse20@student.scad.edu or kakalk20@ student.scad.edu.

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AARP Senior Drivers Safety Program Instructors are needed to teach this program in Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties.

For information, call Chuck at 598-1011.

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.

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. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required. 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 encouragement 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.

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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.

Feng Shui workshops Barbara Harrison will host free classes every Thursday through May from 5:30-7 p.m. at the International Center for Leadership & Coaching. A $5 donation is requested, which will go to Park Place Outreach. Visit www. internationalcoach.org.

First Steps -- Parents of Newborns This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. Registration for training for new volunteers is being ac-

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

Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. The Community Computer Lab is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dealing with Family Conflict will be offered Thursday, May 10 fro 2-3 p.m. Choosing New Behaviors: Self Management of Anger will be held Thursday, May 24 from 2-3 p.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m a big fan of facing your problems head- on and dealing forthrightly with your pain. But what if that approach isn’t always best? Renowned psychologist Richard Lazarus said he wanted to “challenge the view that psychological health demands full realism.” He believed that some sick people get healthy faster by refusing to admit how serious their problems are. To those in stressful situations, he recommended that they could reduce their anxiety by describing their predicament in a matter-of-fact way. “Avoiding what is painful, to a great extent, seems to serve a positive function,” he concluded. Although I’m not sure this strategy is universally applicable, I do recommend it for you right now, Aries.

your own head.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To get misguided tips about how to invest, check out Henry Blodget’s “The Complete Bad Advice Column” (tinyurl. com/ys4al8). For crabby, mean-spirited counsel about how to conduct your personal life, listen to Dr. Laura’s syndicated radio show (drlaura.com). For silly chatter about trivial subjects, read the “most intelligent woman in the world,” Marilyn vos Savant (marilynvossavant. com). But if, on the other hand, you’d like brilliant guidance about where to direct your substantial life energy next, tap into your own intuition. The astrological omens suggest that it’s working better now than it ever has. It’s far more useful to you than any so-called expert’s blatherings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2005, former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was paid $100,000 for speaking at a fundraiser for tsunami relief. That’s a prime example of giving a gift with steel cable-like strings attached. Be wary of this phenomenon popping up in your own life, Leo. Don’t accept such mixed blessings, and don’t offer them, either. That’s the cautionary news. The encouraging news is that if you’re vigilant in guarding against generosity-that-isn’t-really- generosity, the coming weeks will be favorable for the giving and receiving of modest gifts that have a big impact.

Visualize Giuliani getting, say, an honorarium of $5,000 for his help in raising money for a good cause, and you’ll plant the right seed in your subconscious mind.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Yanyuwa aborigines of northwestern Australia believe that music literally has curative properties. In one traditional method, the healer sings a medicine song directly into the top of the head of the patient. The sound circulates through the body, driving out the illness or unease. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, something resembling this approach could help chase away your current malaise. Do you think you could find a shaman or shaman wannabe to perform the musical “surgery”?

If not, do the job yourself. Spend 20 minutes a day singing the most potent healing songs you know into

cepted. Call 819-6910.

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.

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.

Getting Money for Your Small Business is a workshop that will be held Thursday, May 17 from 6-8 p.m. in the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40. Call 651-3200 or visit www.georgiasbdc.org.

Got Students?

Space available soon for teachers - education, fitness, spiritual - of all types who need a space for their classes. Reasonable rates. Call Tony at 655-4591.

Guided Imagery Change your life with guided imagery. Ditch anxiety, manage deadlines, lose weight, recovery from surgery. Call the Alpha Institute, 927-3432.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The counsel I’m about to offer is not given lightly. If you choose to heed it, it could wreak discomfort and disorder, at least initially. And you’ll have to pump yourself up with more courage than you’re used to feeling. Still, I’m convinced it’s the right thing for you to hear; I believe that any breakdown it might engender will ultimately lead to a breakthrough. So here’s the advice, courtesy of Franz Kaka: “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I was enjoying a leisurely bike ride in a rural neighborhood where I’d never been. The houses were sparsely placed amidst overgrown meadows. The temperature was balmy. My endorphins had kicked in and the fragrance of wildflowers had rendered me giddy. Then my mood shifted suddenly. While rolling downhill on a one-lane road, I hit a speed bump--freakishly, unexpectedly, right in the middle of paradise. Why was it there? My bike stopped cold and I flew through the air, landing awkwardly.

The damage was minimal, and the shock was a bit

invigorating. Still, I advise you, Virgo, to watch out for and avoid a comparable speed bump out there in the frontier you’re exploring. There’s no inherent karmic necessity for you to experience an inconvenient interruption like mine. Add 10 percent more caution to your roving and rambling.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Ordinary life does not interest me,” wrote Anaïs Nin in one of her diaries. “I seek only the high moments. I am searching for the marvelous.” Normally I might discourage you from pursuing that approach, Libra. You’ve got money to make and appointments to keep and groceries to buy, after all. And doing those tasks can make it hard to specialize in the marvelous. But for a limited time only, the planetary powers-that-be are granting you an exemption from the ordinary. More than that, actually: They’re *insisting* on it. You need intimate contact with unreasonable beauty, sweet anomalies, beguiling ephemera, inexplicable joys, and small changes that inspire reverence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’ll be fine to eat ice cream with a fork this week. It’ll be kind of cool to enter through exits, too, and you may generate good luck if you smash a mirror with a hammer or talk about subjects you’re normally too superstitious to broach. You should also consider fixing things before they’re broken, and listen ravenously to what’s *not* being said. But please avoid trying to drink coffee with a sieve, Scorpio. Refrain from saying what you don’t mean. And don’t you dare try to fall *up.* SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We were expelled from Paradise,” wrote Franz Kafka in *The Blue Octavo Notebooks,* “but Paradise was not destroyed.

In a sense our expulsion from Paradise was a stroke of luck, for had we not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.” Do those ruminations strike a chord in you, Sagittarius? I hope they move you to turn your thoughts towards your own personal version of paradise-on-earth. Consider the possibility that it

was important for you to have been exiled from that land of bounty once upon a time. Meditate on what you’ll need to do to prepare yourself to return to it when it becomes accessible again in the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most painting in the European tradition involved painting the person’s mask,” wrote abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. “Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter has been the person behind the mask.”

Your next assignment is similar to that of modern art’s, Capricorn: to recognize everyone’s persona, but delve deeper to explore the maddeningly complex, crazily inscrutable, gorgeously wounded soul that’s hidden beneath everyone’s persona. Strip away the surface, in other words, and investigate the essence lurking below.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The zoo in Anchorage, Alaska built a treadmill for its four-ton elephant. The cost was high--$150,000--but hey, if you own an elephant, you’d better take good care of it, right? Use this vignette as your operative metaphor, Aquarius. What’s the symbolic equivalent of an elephant in your life--some exotic resource or giant responsibility or out-of-place treasure? Whatever it is, it needs extra care and attention. I’m not saying you have to spend a load of money. But you should at least spend some of your high-quality time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dear Pisces: We need a break from all these words we use, all this rational discourse. So how about if we sing to each other in a made-up language? Or we could use felt-tip markers to draw pictures and symbols on each other’s bodies. Let’s jump in over our heads and dance for each other underwater. Let’s pretend we’re two Helen Kellers tapping out codes on each other’s wrists and ankles.

Let’s scrawl the stream-of-consciousness truths we want to express to each other on golden cards, and read them aloud to each other like we’re announcing Oscar winners. w

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Brush with Clay Classes in Raku, brush work, relief work, surface decoration, figurative and more in clay with individual attentnion are offered at CarosArt Studio by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Costs $100 for 6 classes, or $30 per class. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-7393 to register.

Camp CoDiak for kids ages 5-13 with diabetes will be held June 3-8 at the New Ebenezer Retreat in Rincon. To register, call 819-6146 by May 21.

Construction Apprentice Program A free 16-week training program for men and women who have an interest in learning construction skills that will lead to career level jobs. Call Tara H. Sinclair at 604-9574.

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.

Crochet and Crafts will be offered May 12 from 11 a.m. to noon at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

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Saturday. The $95 cost includes kayak, gear and lunch. An intermediate class is available on Sundays. Reservations are required. Call 341-9502 or visit www.savannahcanoeandkayak.com.

Introducing the Work of Byron Katie A technique developed by Byron Katie can provide a framework to solve problems.

Workshops that introduce the process of “inquiry,” also known as “The Work,” are offered to the public free of charge and include a 35-minute vidoe presentation The Work of Byron Katie and an individualized sample “Inquiry.” For an appointment, call Ursula Sterling at 598-8233 or send e-mail to sterling@bellsouth.net.

Joy & Vitality Inc. presents a line of attraction workshop that meets each Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. at a downtown location. Make all your wishes come true. Study and practice how you can have, do and be anything you desire. Call 656-8156. Space is limited. Cost is $10 per session.

Kicklighter Academy has immediate openings in its preschool for typically developing children from 6 weeks through 5 years of age. Call 355-7633 to schedule a tour.

Kitchens on the Square is offering cooking classes taught by caterers and chefs, which include copies of the recipes, a generous tasting of the dishes prepared with a beverage, and a 10 percent discount on items bought in the store, including the next class. All classes start at 6:30 p.m. and last about 2 hours. The store is located at 38 Barnard St. Call 236-0100 or visit www.kitchensonthesquare.com. On May 11, Taste of Georgia will be taught, and on May 16, Quick & Easy Hors d’oeuvres will be presented. Each costs $40 and both are taught by Linda Anderson.

Life Challenge Consulting Engage yourself in life-changing strategies. Career; stress reduction; spirituality. Free initial half-hour consultation. Call Cindy Beach, M.S., at 429-7265.

Lift Smart Weight training for youths will be held June 3 from 2-5 p.m. at the Candler Wellness Center. The cost is $25 or $20 for groups of five or more with an organized team. Call 819-8800.

Masterpiece Series Mark McDonald, executive director of Historic Savannah Foundation, will discuss Savannah ironwork on May 17 at noon at the Chatham Club as part of the Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty’s The Masterpiece Series. The cost is $25, and payment must be received by May 14. Visit www.celiadunnsir.com.

Mayan Medical Astrology This seminar with Robin Murphy, N.D., will be held May 26 and 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the DeSoto Hilton, 15 E. Liberty St. The cost is $175 if paid by May 15. Learn to use the Mayan Calendar as a health and healing diagnostic tool. The workshop will cover Mayan-Egyptian Medical Astrology; Day Signs; Medical Biorhythms and Health; Growth, Aging and Health Cycles. For a flyer, email Barbara Harrison at coastalchi@ comcast.net.

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.

Newest Internet Trend Imagine 24 months to financial freedom, 645 percent growth and huge profits. Call 228-5649 to reserve a spot at a free information session.

Photo Safari with photographer Frank Barevich is an ongoing class offered in conjunction with the Savannah Art Association. Take photos in downtown and learn how to compose a photograph and shoot for the best effect.

Call 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

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.

Riding Lessons Norwood Stables in Sandfly near the Isle of Hope is offering riding lessons for ages 6 through 76, including Hunt Seat (English) or Dressage. The stables also offers summer camps, rentals, leasing, boarding and horses for sale. For a tour, call 356-1387.

SCAD Preservation Week will be held May 7-11. On May 7, Justin Gunther, curator of buildings and collections, will discuss durrent projects at Fallingwater. On May 8, John Jeanes, director of restoration at Montpelier will speak about the $23 million restoration under way there. On May 9, architect and engineer Steve Kelley will speak about his work on log churches in eastern Poland.

On May 19, Mark Barnes will speak about the evolution of historic preservation in America. On May 11 at noon, Mark McDonald, executive director of the Historic Savannah Foundation, will speak about ironwork in Savannah. All lectures will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Orleans Hall, 201 Barnard St. Call 525-6914.

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

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes Be bilingual. The center is located at 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Call 272-4579 or 308-3561. e-mail savannahlatina@yahoo. com or visit www.savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Savannah Shakespeare Festival Classes A scene study class with an emphasis on this year’s Shakespeare Festival production will be presented Sundays from 4-6 p.m.

The class is free and open to all local talent.

It will be held on Sundays at the STUDIO, 2805B Roger Lacey Ave. Call Mark Niebuhr at 695-9146.

Seventh Annual AASU Visual & Performing Arts Camp for Children will run weekdays June 11-22. The camp is open to ages seven thru 13. Tuition and fees total $225, or $205 if paid by May 1.

Appications are available at the AASU Fine Arts building. For info, call 927-5325.

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The Wisdom Center A series of free workshops for the “evolved” will be presented every week through May. Spiritual Awakenings and Meditations for the Evolved will be presented on Mondays, Masterminding: Thoughts are Things will be presented Tuesdays and previews of the DVD The Secret with a workshop facilitated

by Veronica Nance will be presented on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, Feng Shui in Your Life with Barbara Harrison of Coastal Chi will be presented. A $5 donation is requested. Call 236-3660 for reservations.

Yin and Yang: Dancing Together in the Universe and Your Home is class that will be held May 17 at the ICLC/Wisdom Center, corner of Drayton and 40th streets. One of the quickest ways to change the feeling of any space is to shift the balance of yin and yange. For more info or to register, contact Barbara Harrison, Coastal Chi, 961-0104 or coastalchi@ comcast.net.

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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.

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A family-based, age-specific, behavior modification intervention that addresses food, activity, social and family issues. Call 819-8800.

Spring Visual Art Classes The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is registering students for its spring visual arts classes. Day and evening classes are offered in ceramics, painting, jewelry making and stained glass for children, teens and adults. All classes are held at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. Class fees include instruction, use of studio space, use of equipment and all materals and tools required. Visit www.savannahga.gov/arts or call 651-4248.

Thinking of Starting a Business Workshops will be held May 10 and 24 at 6 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40 before the class begins or $50 at the door. Call 6513200 or visit www.georgiasbdc.org.

Train Smart A strength and conditioning camp for kids ages 10-18 will be held June 6 through July 27 at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Wellness Center and adjacent Hull Field. The cost for four weeks is $70 and the cost for eight weeks is $130. Call 819-8800.

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.

U.S. Power Squadron University is offering a course that can be appplied to Inshore, Coastal, Advanced Coastal and Offshore certifications. Using VHF & DSC Marine Radio will be offered May 12. For information, visit usps.org/localusps/tybee or call JB at 898-9460, email jbanddale@ comcast.net or call Squadron Education Officer Wilford H. Ross Jr. at 756-3277.

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Value, Texture & Perspective Workshop will be held May 12 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Senior Ciziten’s Gallery, 3025 Bull St. The cost is $25 for members of the Savannah Art Association and $35 for nonmembers. Contact Grace Rohland at 5988217, Ila Scolla at 897-5612 or Francis Mills at 355-0448.

Volunteer 101 This 30-minute course will cover several topics, including finding a volunteer

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Blackbeard’s Scuba Club will meet Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Tony Roma’s, 7 E. Bay St. Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

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

Civil Air Patrol is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road.

Visit www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

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

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

Code Pink is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. Meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Queenies To Go Go, 1611 Habersham St. Contact mimi.thegoddessfactory@gmail. com or visit http://fearnoarts.com.

Daughters of Destiny An ongoing seminar for women who want to make changes in their lives. All religions, all ages, are welcome. Meets the first Monday of the month and every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at The Little Red House, 12 E. 41st St. Call 663-0894.

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.

Geechee Sailing Club meets the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr. in Thunderbolt. Open to all interested in boating and related activities. Call 234-1903.

Historic Savannah Chapter of the ABWA will hold an open house on Thursday, May 10 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Cobblestone Conch House, 225 W. River St. RSVP to 660-8257.

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.

Low Country Turners This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

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

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

PURE: Photographers Using Real Elements Join with other photographers and artists to celebrate the authentic photography processes of black and white film and paper development using chemicals in a darkroom. Help in the creation and promotion of Savannah’s first cooperative darkroom space to enhance the lives of working photographers and introduce the community to the magic of all classic photo chemical processes. Meets Saturday at 1

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| Happenings Savannah Jaycees for young professionals ages 21 to 39 is a Junior Chamber of Commerce that focuses on friendship, career development and community involvement. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is included and there is no charge for guests. Call 961-9913 or visit www. savannahjaycees. com.

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Savannah Kennel Club meets the fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. from September through May at the Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier. 656-2410.

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

Savannah Newcomers Club is open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends. Call 351-3171.

Savannah Scooter Gang Connecting local riders to swap tips, stories, parts, mods and secrets. No obligation other than networking, and possibly arranging a monthly weekend ride to take over the streets downtown. Show off your scoot and ride with pride -- put ‘em in a line and watch the stares. Contact Travis at pittsillustration@gmail.com or myspace.com/travispitts.

Savannah Shag Club offers shag music every Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive.

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 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.

Sea Scout Venture Crew The Coastal Empire Council Boy Scouts of America has teamed up with the Tybee Light Power Squadron to organize a co-ed program for high school students that will

give them an introduction to sailing, boating and water safety. Students must be currently enrolled in high school. Call 9277272.

Take Back the Night Collective meets every Monday at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. The group will meet until the event, which is scheduled for Friday, April 13 at Forsyth Park. Call Kara at 867-0487.

Telfair Academy Guild -- Women in Business will host a networking social on Thursday, May 17 from 5-7 p.m. at the Owens-Thomas House. Call Rosie at 356-1444 or email Rosie@pstrain.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.

Urban Professionals meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356.

The Young Professionals of Savannah For information, contact Leigh Johnson at 659-9846..

Dance

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 6:30-

7:30 p.m.

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

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

Argentine Tango Practice and Lesson Learn the dance while having fun Sundays from 1:30-3:30 at the Doris Martine Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. $2 per person. Call 925-7416.

Ballroom Dance Party The Moon River Dancers will hold their monthly party Saturday, May 19 at 7 p.m. with a basic lesson on the Samba. The social dance will be from 8-10:30 p.m. at Islands Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for non-members. Beginners and singles are welcome. Covered dish. Call 961-9960 or 655-4985.

Basic Ballroom Class Learn the Rumba and the Samba from the Moon River Dancers on Saturday, May 5 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Broad YMCA, 1110 May St. The cost is $3. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960 or 6554985 for information.

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.

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p.m. at the Metro Coffee House, 402 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Contack Kathleen Thomas at PUREdarkroom@gmail.com.

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

St. Almo The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meets at 6 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. (Time changes with the season.) Call 234-3336.

Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its Taste of Southside Business Connection on Thursday, April 26 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Armstrong Center at AASU. The cost is $5 for members and $15 for non-members. Contact Susan Smith at 644-6434 or ssmith@savannahchamber.com.

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

Savannah 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 McDonough’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 Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States has a dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club, Hunter Army Airfield. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

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

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May Events

For more information on the Daffin Park Centennial, including historical data, a walking tour guidebook, photo gallery and complete listing of events, visit www.savannahga.gov/arts

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Thursday, May 10 John Nolen and the Renaissance of a New South Presented by the Georgia Historical Society 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church 520 Washington Avenue A free lecture on Daffin Park architect John Nolen, by Dr. Bruce Stephenson, Director of Environmental & Growth Management Studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. 912-651-2125 | www.georgiahistory.com Sunday, May 13 Wood Racket Tennis Competition Presented by the Savannah Area Tennis Association 12:30 to p.m. in Daffin Park Celebrating the Centennial and tennis as played in years past. A round robin tennis competition for adult couples.

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Dance, located on Wilmington Island. Call 897-4235 or visit www.ggsod.com.

The Savannah Shag Club Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Doubles Lounge in the Holiday Inn Midtown and Fridays at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah 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.

The Studio 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 and Disabled 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 Memorial Health’s The Rehabilitation Institute, 4700 Waters Ave. . For information, call Charleen Harden at 308-7307 or send e-mail to cwh0869@yahoo.com.

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

Design & Fashion

Andy Spade Lecture Marketing guru and co-founder of Kate Spade Handbags will present a lecture May 17 at 3 p.m. at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Fashion Lecture Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley will present a lecture on May 15 at 10 a.m. at Eckburg Hall, 115 W. Henry St. Furniture Lecture Furniture and industrial designers Dakota Jackson will present a lecture Change Your Mind? on May 14 at 7 p.m. at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Queen of Fashion Author and historian Caroline Weber will present a lecture, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution on May 15 at 6 p.m. at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. A book signing and reception will follow at 7 p.m.

Film & Video

2007 Savannah Film Festival Passes on Sale The 2007 Savannah Film Festival will run Oct. 27 through Nov. 3. Passes range in price from $150 to $750 and are available now.

Call the Trustees Theater Box at 525-5050 or visit www.scadboxoffice.com.

UU Film Group meets the last Friday of each month. Movies range from foreign, documentary to the eclectic. There is no fee. Call for details at 655-0482 or e-mail savdeca@aol.com.

Fitness

A balanced life Student massage is offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $30 to $40 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt. com.

Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training will be offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:306:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 8-9 a.m.

Participants should wear comfortable clothing and will be required to sign a waiver form before participating. All classes are free. Call 652-6780 or 965-9629.

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. call Kelley at 441-6653.

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing by certified nutritional consultants. Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

Gentle Yoga 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.

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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.

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

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Community Flow Yoga w/ Amanda (cost is $5). The Savannah Yoga Center is located at 45 E. 40th St. Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-6653, email kelley@savannahyoga.com or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

Senior Power Hour is a program for people over 55. Health and wellness professionals help reach fitness goals. The program may include, but isn’t limited to, strength training, cardio for the heart, flexibility, balance, basic healthy nutrition and posture concerns. Call 8987714.

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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.

Teen Yoga Class Savannah Yoga Center is offering a class for teens 13 and up on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. The cost is $13 per class, $11 with a student ID, or an 8, 12 and 20-class card can be purchased for a discounted price.

Call Kelley J. Boyd at 441-6653 or visit www. savannahyoga.com.

Water aerobics at the JEA The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393.

Women on Weights is a series of one-hour training sessions led by a certified personal trainer who develops different routines throughout the month.

The routines may include but aren’t limited to strength training, cardio training for the heart, flexibility, balance and weight management. Meets twice a week for a one-hour session. Call 898-7714.

Yoga For Round Bodies Explore yoga postures for the fuller figure 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.

The Yoga Room Monday: Vinyasa from 5-6:15 p.m., Open Flow Level I and II 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday: Yoga Flow Level II and III from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Yoga Flow Level I from

10-11:30 a.m. and Open Flow Level I and II from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday: Power Yoga from 6:30-7:45 p.m. Friday: Vinyasa from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Yoga Flow Level I from 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday: Yoga Flow Level I from 10-11:15 a.m., Power Yoga from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Seated Meditation from 1-1:30 p.m. Sunday: Vinyasa from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Yoga Flow Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. Drop-ins welcome.

Single class $12, 8-class package for $75 and 15-class package for $120. Eight-week sessions in Kripalu Yoga, Mommy and Me Yoga and Prenatal Yoga also are available for $75 for the session. Call 898-0361 or email svnnhyogaroom@aol.com..

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’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.

Gay & Lesbian

First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org.

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

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

Savannah Pride, Inc. meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St. Everyone is encouraged to attend, for without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call Patrick Mobley at 224-3238.

Standout is First City’s gay youth support group.

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

Call 657-1966.

What Makes A Family is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611.

Health

Better Speech and Hearing Month Savannah Speech and Hearing Center is hosting an open house every Thursday in May from 9-11:30 a.m. with complimentary hearing screens and hearing aid checks.

Audiologists will be available to discuss current trends in amplification. Light refreshemnts will be provided. Call 3554601.

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Kids Fitness An ongoing fitness class for kids 8-16 with weight concerns meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-5:45 p.m. at the Candler Heart & Lung building. Call 819-8800.

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

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

Meditation Class Savannah Yoga Center is offering a meditation and Pranayama (breathing) class on Saturday mornings from 8:45 a.m.-9:15 a.m. from January through March. Led by Amanda Westerfield, the class is free with a suggested donation of $5 per class. All donations will go to Park Place Outreach, formerly Savannah Runaways. Each quarter, SYC will choose a different local charity to donate to. Call Kelley J. Boyd at 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp All fitness levels welcome. M, W, Th, F at 6 a.m. at Forsyth Park. Meet at the statue on Park Avenue. Also meets at 7:30 a.m. at Daffin Park at the circle near the playground. $150 for unlimited classes, $15 for a single class. To register, call Jennifer at 2240406 or visit www.structurefitness.net.

Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50.

Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Savannah Yoga Center Three new classes will be offered in 2007.

Drop-ins are welcome. The new schedule is: Monday, 9-10:30 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Sally; and 6-7:15 pm Yoga Basics w/ Heather. On Tuesday, 9-10:30a.m. hot yoga flow levels 1 and 2 with Brent, 6-7:30 pm Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Brent.

On Wednesday, 12-1:30 p.m., Iyengar All Levles with Laura, 6-7:30 pm Hot Yoga All Levels w/ Katie. On Thursday, 6-7:15 pm All Levels Flow w/ Kelley. On Friday, 10–11:15 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Sally; and 5:45-7 pm, Mellow Flow Yoga w/ Kate. On Saturday, 8:45-9:15 a.m., Free Meditation with Amanda (suggested donation is $5.

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

Choose to Be Healthy Learn to go within, find balance/healing and access inner wisdom and peace. Offering free sample of Reiki Energy Medicine.

Contact Ellen Farrell, MA, NCC, LPC at ellenjfarrell@comcast.net or 247-4263.

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 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.

Expression Session for anyone living with, through or beyond the diagnosis of cancer and their support persons will meet May 9 from 6-7 p.m. at the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street. Free. Call 819-5723.

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

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

Free hearing & speech screening Every Thursday morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

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Space available soon for teachers - education, fitness, spiritual - of all types who need a space for their classes. Reasonable rates. Call Tony at 655-4591.

Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler and Emory.

Patients can receive pre and post-operative care at the clinic rather than travel to Atlanta. Call Karen Traver, R.N. Transplant Coordinator, at 819-8350.

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, 927-3432.

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Mammograms will be performed May 10 at the Bryan County Health Department in Richmond Hill. Mammograms will be performed May 15 at the Largo Tibet Elementary School.

Mammograms will be performed May 16 and 22 at the SJ/C Medical Group in Rincon. For appointments, call 819-6800.

SJ/C accepts most insurance plans. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

Natural Family Planning Classes will meet May 16 at 7 p.m. at Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2. It is offered by the Savannah Catholic Diocese and costs $75 per couple for materials, introductory class and several followup classes.

Call 819-3360 to register.

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

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

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.

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Fibroids is a seminar May 10 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

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Buddhist Workshops Dr. Daniel Levine, SCAD art history professor, will conduct three workshops that explore the development of Buddhist imagery. This program is sponsored by the Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group. Call 4297265 for information.

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

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

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

Energy Share Circle at Dovestar Experience the power of healing energy through reiki, alchemical body work, shamaballa and yoga bodywork every Friday at 7 p.m. Free. 11911 Middleground Rd. Call 920-0801.

Manifestation Gathering at Dovestar is Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Learn ancient techniques to connect with your personal power to insure success for all your wishes for prosperity on a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level. Free. Call 920-0801.

Meditation Group 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.

Path of the Pagan The group will teach and learn from each other, creating a sacred space. Free. Meets Sundays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church Fellowship Hall, East Macon Street. Call 356-9343.

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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 SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church Services begin Sunday at 11 a.m. at 707 Harmon St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. Religious education for grades 1-8 is offered. For information, call 2336284 or 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

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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.

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. w

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48 Thackery Place Spacious 3 BR, 2 BA apartment (over 1,400 sq ft) with a formal dining room, wall-to-wall carpet, central H/A, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, W/D connections, off street parking. No Pets. $750/mo.

735 East 52nd Street Spacious 2 BR, 1 Bath apartment in Ardsley Park with a front balcony, formal living and dining room, refinished hardwood floors, k i t c h e n , w i t h s t ove a n d refrigerator, W/D connections, central H/A, off-street parking.

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EOE. GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, a unit of the University System of Georgia, with an enrollment of approximately 16,425 students, invites applicants for the following vacancies: Painter II (Req. # 1583); Custodian I - (Req. #1582) - 1st shift; Custodian I - (Req. #1581) - 3rd shift; Maintenance Worker I (Req. # 1563) - SEARCH EXTENDED. For more information, call the 24-hour Job-Line at (912) 681-0629. Georgia is an open records state. Individuals who need reasonable accommodations, under the ADA, in order to participate in the application process should notify Human Resources, 912-681-5468 or ( TDD) 912-681-0791. Georgia Southern is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution..

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THE EXPRESS CAFE & BAKERY 39 Barnard Street Has immediate need for an Experienced Cook. Knowledge of preparation of Breakfast items, pastry, baking and Cafe cuisine helpful. Must be able to work well with others, be creative in developing new menu items, be dependable and have reliable transportation. Must be available weekdays & weekends. Drug screen and background check required. For all applicants, to apply Email your resume to expresscafe@comcast.net or come by between 10:00am to 10:30am or between 2:00pm to 2:30pm, Monday-Thursday and ask for Beth. EOE. Pay based on experience.

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HOUSEKEEPER SUPERVISOR: min. 1 yr. experience. Excellent work skills. Quality counts!

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349 Tattnall Street Beautifully restored 3-story historic home, c. 1844.

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4bd/2.5ba home $300/mo! Bank Repos/Foreclosures! Listings/Info 800-720-7042 xT316 HUD HOMES! 4bd/2ba $200/mo.

3bd $200/mo. 5% down, 20 yrs @ 8% APR! Listings: 800-536-8517 xT310 MIDTOWN 2 bedrooms, 1 Bath plus Sunroom. Renovated, central heat/air. $650 monthly.

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ONE BED, ONE BATH Condo on Wilmington Island.

Screened-in porch, W/D included, C H/A. Safe, Beautiful area.

Pool, parking, small pets OK. $685/month. Available May 15.

Call 912-713-5563.

Q U E E N A N N V I C TO R I A N HOUSE! Large 1 bedroom apartment. Living room, dining room, large kitchen area.

Washer/dryer, updated kitchen, central heating/air - water included! $700/month. Call 912-233-5246.

STARLAND AREA 2 bedroom 1 bath apartments. Close to SCAD, off street parking. 201 W. 42nd St. $550-$700. 912-596-9739

STARLAND DISTRICT

3 bedroom, 2 bath, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, off-street p a r k i n g, 2 2 1 0 W h i t a k e r S t . $1100/month.Call 912-660-4593.

UNIQUE 1 BEDROOM ATTIC APT. in Queen Anne Victorian house.

Central heat/air, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, water included.

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3bd/1.5ba Home only $250/mo!

4bd/1.5ba only $270/mo! More from $199/mo. Listings: 800-536-8517 xT275

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Roommate Wanted ROOMMATE NEEDED

to share 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment (Southside Location). $400/month, all utilities included!

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Cars 1969 VW BUG, FAIR CONDITION, $500 OBO. CALL 912-508-3724 2005 HONDA CIVIC LX, Special Edition: alloy rims, 6-CD/MP3 premium sound, 5-spd, AC, p/mirrors, PW, cc, tilt, air bags, spoiler, leather steering wheel.

34K miles, $13,900 OBO. 912-330-9409.

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Fender Bender?

Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks

355-5932

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Trucks & Vans 1989 Ford F350 crew cab 4 door truck with only 32,660 original miles! Enclosed utility body 460ci V-8 gasoline engine.

Professionally maintained and will make a great work truck for a business. Truck located on southside of Savannah available for inspection during normal business hours. $7200 OBO. Call 912-354-1011 if interested.

Boats & Accessories SEADOO CHALLANGER; jet boat, 18 ft 2006; garage kept, less than 15hrs, 21HP supercharged intercooled, conv top, CD, built-in storage, cooler, $500. Cover new in box, never opened, 2 anchors, ropes, drive on custom trailer, like new! Call for price and details. Priced to sell 912-728-8790.

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2003 CHEVY ASTRO VAN

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$11,000. Excellent condition.

Runs Great! Great Work vehicle! Has metal bins & shelves.

Call 843-247-4699.

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Motorcycles/ATVs 2006 HONDA RANCHER 4x4 4-Wheeler

$5000. Excellent condition.

Brand new Mud grip tires.

Hasn’t even been riding 10 times. Cover included. Call 843-247-4699.

2007 Harley Davidson Sportster Low XL1200L, 200 miles, white, perfect. Must sell, $9000.

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Savannah Condos from the $150s.

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VICTORIAN DISTRICT 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments Off-street parking, washer/dryer, central heat/air. Short walk to Kroger and Forsyth Park. Call 912-236-7560 or 912-704-6934.

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Luxury Real Estate Sales & Development

aCt by may 31s t tO r eCe ive 8% iNCe Ntive s plus ONe year Of HOa fe e s paid.

Montgomery Quarters 455 Montgomery Street

NEW coNtEmporary coNstructioN

2 bdrm 2 bath 3 bdrm 2 bath one level, elevator, secure gated parking, lge walkin closets,all appliances, wood 2 bdrm 2 bath & 3 bdrm 2 granite, bath flooring, All on level, elevator, secure off street parking walk to scad buildings

Prices starting@ at $349,000 startiNg $349,900

Sales Office: 348 Jefferson St. Savannah, GA 31401 Historic Downtown Savannah 912.234.1255 www.gardensdistrict.com

WE MAKE BUYING YOUR HOME SIMPLE AND EASY! Visit our gated, tranquil community featuring swimming pool, tennis courts, clubhouse with 24-hour fitness center and picturesque Tidal Creek Marsh views. Located on an exclusive inland island, 10 minutes from historic downtown Savannah and Tybee Beach.

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100 Walden Park Drive Savannah, GA 31410 Take Highway 80 east.

Turn right on Whitemarsh Island Road.

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1601 EAST 59th STREET: 3-bedrooms, 2-baths, fully renovated brick house w/garage. Near Midtown & hospital. $950/month.

Call 912-429-9600.

Ask About Opportunity for Deep Water Dock Use D E E P WAT E R D O C K : N e w Home - 5 Rio Road: 3BR, 2BA, home w/wrap-around porch.

Near malls, hospitals & downtown. Island Living, Marsh view & Island Breeze, Public boat ramp 1 block away. www.savannahsbest properties.com COUNTRY Living at its best In the City: 621 Derrick Inn Rd.: Good starter home w/2 bedrooms, 1 bath, large yard. www.savannahsbest properties.com HUGE 2 acre yard - Bring your farm animals: 421 Hinesville Rd: 2BR, 1BA, deck, large yard with mature trees and country setting. www.savannahsbest properties.com 29 Pointer Place: Brick Townhome conveniently located on S a v a n n a h ’s S o u t h s i d e .

2BR/1.5BA, close to Savannah Mall & on bus line. www.savannahsbest properties.com Forest River: Deep water, dock and furnished efficiency apt.

Breathless sunsets. 1 block to Sav’h Mall. Includes all utilities (except cable & phone).

Available June 1st $850/month.

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