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Volume 6, No. 35, May 23, 2007

On the cover: “Luminescent Orchestra” 40” x 30” byBrian MacGregor View more of his art at www.Brian-MacGregor.com

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Editor’s Note Buzzed on the Best of Savannah Feedback Readers have their say Hear and now Robin’s world Jane Fishman David Starnes: RIP Community 200 Club run City Notebook Hurricanes R Us 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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Alex Nguyen & Co. 61 Connect Recommends Concerts of Note 62 Soundboard Who’s playing and where

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Exhibitions and openings 70 Art Review Two reviews 73 Theatre Let My People Go

Movies 75 Screenshots

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Thursday, May 24 Cliff Eberhardt in Concert

What: A driving force of the Greenwich Village New Folk movement, Eberhardt is touring in support of his latest CD, School for Love. This concert is sponsored by The Savannah Folk Music Society. When: May 24th at 7:30 p.m. Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue Cost: Tickets will be sold at the door for $10 to the general public and $8 for society members. Info: 786-6953

Savannah Council on World Affairs

What: A program, Pandemics and the Avian Flu, will be presented by Dr. Kathryn Rebecca Martin, chief operations officer of the Chatham County Health Department.

It will be preceded by a short film, Global Pandemics, created by the Great Decisions program of the Foreign Policy Institute. When: May 24 at 7:45 p.m. Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Cost: $5. Info: Call Christopher Scott at 398-1727.

History Theatre’s Let My People Go begins

Week at a

Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Freebie of the Week

Bacon Park Forest Discovery Walk

What: A spirited musical and history of slavery in Savannah, with the major theme of freedom through faith, with spirituals and other period music and dance sequences. This is the premier production of the new History Theatre. When: May 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 and June 1, 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and May 28 at 3 p.m. Where: The Ark Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $20. Group rates are available. Info: 877-EST-1733 or www.historytheatre.net.

The Historic Savannah Theatre’s Broadway on Bull Street continues What: Excerpts of some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history. When: May 24, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. and

May 26 and 27 at 3 p.m. Where: 222 Bull St. Cost: Adults $33 and 17 and under $16. Info: Call 233-7764.

Friday, May 25

Savannah Children’s Theatre’s High School Musical continues

What: The stage version of the popular Disney Channel series and film. When: May 25 at 7 p.m. and May 26 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $15-$20. Info: www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org or 238-9015.

Saturday, May 26

Savannah Starland Farmers Market

What: Buy fresh produce and other goods. When: May 26 and every Saturday through October from 9 a.m. to noon. Where: The area of the old Starland Dairy at 40th an Bull streets. Cost: Free. Info: 443-5355, maldorors@gmail.com or www.starlandfarmersmarket.com.

Fort Pulaski Ranger Program

What: To mark the official start of the summer season,

Sunday, May 27

Coastal Jazz Association Presents M’Morieal Weekend Jazz What: This concert will feature Brenda Morie, vocalist, guitarist and flute player, who will be accompanied by Eric Jones on piano, Steve Primatic on drums and percussion, Peter Berquist on bass and Kirk Lee on trumpet and flugelhorn. When: May 27 at 5 p.m. Where: Cobblestone Conch House, 225 W. River St. Cost: $10. Info: www.coastal-jazz.org.

Monday, May 28 Fort King George Memorial Day Celebration

What: Travel back in time to the 1720s as Fort King George comes to life with the signs and sounds of Britain’s first colony on Georgia soil. There will be guided tours of the fort and the surrounding grounds, and re-enactors will demonstration musket firing every half-hour and cannon firing every hour. When: May 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Fort King George Historic Site, Darien. Cost: $5 adults, $4.50 seniors and $2.50 for children.

Savannah Community Theatre’s Radio GALS continues

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 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 and June 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. and May 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.

8 p.m. Movie starts 30 minutes after dark. Where: Memorial Park on Tybee Island. Films are shown on the outside of the gym. In case of rain, the films are shown inside the gym. Cost: $5 donation. Children under 3 admitted free.

The PBR Show continues What: Bacon Park Forest is being redeveloped through a partnership between the City of Savannah and the Savannah Tree Foundation. Check out what they’re up to with certified arborist Patrick Grant for a guided walk in the 50-acre maritime forest. When: Sunday, May 27 at 1 p.m. Where: The walk will depart from the north side of the parking lot at the Bacon Park tennis courts, just east off Skidaway Road south of Bona Bella Drive. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 233-8733 or www.savannahtreefoundation.com. rangers and living history volunteers will offer musket and soldier demonstrations, guided fort tours and cannon firings using the park’s new 30-Pounder Parrott cannon, which is the largest functional Civil War reproduction cannon in the United States. When: May 26 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, U.S. Highway 80 on Tybee Island. Cost: $3. Ages 15 and under are admitted free. Info: 786-5787 or www.nps.gov/fopu.

Savannah Children’s Theatre’s The Little Princess continues

When: May 26 at 7 p.m. and May 27 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $5. Info: www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org or 238-9015.

Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theater opens

What: A wacky whodunit, Who Wants To Kill A Millionaire?, will be presented by Savannah Community Theatre. When: Opens May 26 and will be presented every Saturday through Monday, except for June 9-16, at 7:30 p.m. Cocktails from 7-7:30 p.m., seating begins at 7:25 p.m. Where: The Pirate’s House, 20 E. Broad St. Cost: $42.75 includes the show and choice of three Southern dinners. Info: Call 898-9032 for reservations.

2007 Memorial Park Movie Series Presents Monsters Inc.

What: This animated comedy features the voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal as lovable monsters who accidentally become saddled with a lost human girl. When: May 26 at

What: A little auditory show, inspired by the comfort, joy and sustainability of peanut butter sandwiches. Writers, actors and creative artists of the Savannah community will share with participatory listeners stories and music of fear and love, adventure and mystery, life and humanity and peanut butter and jelly. When: May 28 and every Monday at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: Admission is $2 and peanut butter sandwiches are available for $2 each. Info: 232-6080 or mail@ savannahactorstheatre.org.

Tuesday, May 29

Savannah Sand Gnats -- games this week What: The Sand Gnats take on the Rome Braves in a fourgame series. When: May 29, 30 and 31 and June 1 at 7:05 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.

Wednesday, May 30

The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah Presents Horror Express What: This 1973 overlooked gem stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. Shot in Spain, the plot revolves around a frozen Neanderthal man discovered by a British archaeologist, who places it on a train along the Trans-Siberian railway, and accompanies it from China to Russia. It thaws out and starts attacking people in the claustrophobic confines of the train. Or does it? Far from being a standard-issue “monster on the loose” thriller, this film is actually a canny precursor to the type of metaphysical sci-fi that would crop up later in The X-Files and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. When: May 30 at 8 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5 w

News & Opinion

| Editor’s Note by Jim Morekis

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The buzz about the Best of Savannah I

To be considered a “Buzzworthy” winner means at least one of the following four things is true: 1) The category is brand-new and we wanted to bring some attention to it; 2) The winner is a relative newcomer to

the local scene; 3) The winner is offbeat enough in some way to merit some added explanation; 4) We just felt like it.

Each “Buzzworthy” segment bears the initials of its author, to wit: (JM) is yours truly.

(JR) is Music Editor and man about town Jim Reed.

(LS) is News and Listings Editor Linda Sickler.

And (RG) is our regular contributor and Renaissance woman Robin Wright Gunn.

What a “Buzzworthy” ranking doesn’t mean is that the winners who aren’t rated as “Buzzworthy” are somehow getting disrespected. I say this for the record realizing that inevitably someone will accuse us of having a conspiratorial agenda.

But I guess the main reason we gave “Buzzworthy” assignments is because it’s something fun to do. Does anyone remember fun? You back there? OK, two of you?

Great.

Another small change is the addition of “Editors’ Picks” for most categories in the paper. Again, fully realizing the potential for hurt feelings on this front, let me say for the record that the “Editors’ Picks” are in no way intended to disrespect or overrule the true winners of the categories, as chosen by our precious readers, i.e., you.

It’s just a way to have a little fun, to provoke a little discussion. To stir up the proverbial stew a little bit, cook up some food for thought.

An editor’s pick is just another opinion.

And besides, as I’m quite often reminded: Who cares what editors think anyway?

So who are the editors making these impudent Editors’ Picks? Well, it’s either somebody on the editorial staff who has a special insight into that category or wanted to give someone some well-deserved credit, or a bunch of us just argued about it until we came up with a pick.

I don’t have room to thank everyone by name who put extra time and effort into this issue. I should however give special shoutouts to Brandon Blatcher (whose column on his vote-counting experience is on page 21), the aforementioned Ms. Gunn as well as our trusty photographers Jessica Ozment and Jen Blatty.

And of course the real thanks goes to you, our readers, who make this issue what it is -- an interesting, intriguing and sometimes surprising snapshot into the state of Savannah, Ga., each spring of each passing year. w Jim Morekis is editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah. E-mail him at jim@connectsavannah.com

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f this column sounds a little punchy, well, it’s understandable. We at Connect Savannah have been diligently working on this year’s “Best of Savannah” Readers’ Poll special issue, and at this point it’s safe to say we’re all a little crispy.

I guess I’ve put together about eight or nine of these “Best of ” issues over the years -- oh, let’s just call it an even ten, OK? -- and the feeling of accomplishment I get is just about perfectly balanced by the feeling of relief that it’s over for another twelve months.

It’s a daunting thing, to put together a double-size issue with the same staff and budget that you have the other 51 weeks a year (keep in mind this issue contains all our regular features in addition to the “Best of Savannah” stuff). But it’s a badge of honor that one wears proudly -- a sort of boot camp for alt-weekly journalists.

First let me highlight the winner of this year’s “Best of Savannah” cover contest, Brian MacGregor, with his winning entry “Luminescent Orchestra.” Brian’s studio is in City Market and his website is at www. brian-macgregor.com/. We chose Brian’s piece because it was colorful, innovative and highlighted some key aspect of Savannah life and/or culture, in this case music.

On the editorial side we’ve tried really hard this year to spice things up. We didn’t want to futz with the basic format too much, but there was definitely a consensus that the tried-and-true formula was pretty well played-out at this point.

Previous years, in order to make sure no one’s tender feelings were bruised, we wrote mini-blurbs about each and every winner. That’s about 200 winners. That’s a lot of blurbs, capice?

So to acknowledge that perhaps our readers were tiring of page after page of Pulitzer-grade journalistic insight like “We sure love our fried chicken down here,” or “Shoes: Everybody needs ‘em” or “Who among us doesn’t care for a fresh garden salad?” we made a few changes and/or additions to the way we present the winners -which, as always, are picked directly by our readers, i.e., you.

First, we decided to highlight some winners as “Buzzworthy,” signified by this nifty icon:

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our money wasted on, nuclear energy long enough. Let’s change direction and chart a new course for our energy future while we still have time.

Editor, Regarding Linda Sickler’s “Native Son”: I agree with Mary Ann Goldman, there hasn’t been consistent community theatre in Jody Lanier Savannah for years now.

Unless of course you count The Cultural Arts Theatre, owned by the city which D.J. Thanks, Tom Queenan has successfully run for the past 2 Editor, years.

Please give a “job well done” to Tom Oh, and there’s The Savannah Children’s Parrish for his splendid column “Bowled Theatre (with which the new Savannah Over.” Mr. Parrish is an excellent writer and Community Theatre shares a space) who an outstanding individual of sound characoffer plenty of production opportunities ter and integrity. He is a credit to your news for children (as well as a good number for staff. adults) every year.

Keep the good work up, Tom. I And then there’s The Savannah look forward to reading more of your Actor’s Theatre, which has work in the future. not only created a new Randolph Slay voice for theatre in : or it Savannah in the past Ed e th Letters to ah prints letters from across nn year but has always not Connect Sava g a letter does of ideas. Printin in- Funky Cold op e th of been generous in t the spectrum en m ply our endorse for im d y ite ril ed ssa be ce ay ne m Memory working with outtherein. Letters ions expressed Editor, siders to come y. rit cla d an m e spac nnah.co s@connectsava Jim Reed’s mention of and produce E-mail: letter 32 ite 7, Su Fax: 912.231.99 ., the first Tone Loc appearshows in their Dr ry cto 00 E. Vi Snail mail: 18 31404 ance in Savannah brought theater. And Savannah, GA back memories. My wife they just announced and I were one of the “100” who their new season with bought tickets. My son, who is gradutwelve productions. ating high school this year, wasn’t even But apparently that’s not consistent born and we had a teenage babysitter for enough. Now I’m always relieved when our then-four-year-old daughter (just gradthere’s a new opportunity for theatre in uated from grad-school at UGA last weekSavannah. And I believe all theaters should end). support each other, unlike some whose hope The babysitter couldn’t figure out why is to see them rip each other apart. these “old” people were going to see a rap But I get slightly confused when somesinger. She said: “Do y’all like have to go or one says in so many words that a new thesomething?” atre such as The New Savannah Community Larry Theatre is bringing community theatre back to Savannah. Has it not been around the past few years?

Happy feet Janson Lalich Editor, I saw what you wrote recently in regards to local dance groups. It’s nice that you strive Nip nukes in the bud to give equal coverage to all groups. I have Editor, had coverage in the Morning News, but ironIn her series about the planned nuclear ically never in Connect. power revival in Georgia, Kathleen Graham I have a group of very gifted dancers at did not point out a key flaw in the argument my school. The STUDIO is a small school for more reactors. and is focused on training dancers on a preNuclear power supporters claim the professional level. Our summer program technology doesn’t contribute to global brings Kristin Sloan from New York City warming. They fail to mention that greenBallet. house gases are produced at each step in I am also a contributor on the website the nuclear fuel cycle. When taken together www.thewinger.com -- you can visit there with the cycle’s other environmental impacts and click on my picture or go to the list of plus those of the reactors, there’s no way nucontributors, to see posts about my students. clear power can be called environmentally The Winger features a roster of ballet dancfriendly. ers from all the major companies like ABT We can take steps now to nip this nuclear and City Ballet and is a very interesting site revival in the bud. According to the Georgia that I am proud to be a part of.

Public Service Commission’s secretary, the Our Spring Showcase is June 3 at the PSC will rule on Plant Vogtle’s Early Site Lucas. This is not your typical “dance recital” Permit on July 12. Write, call or fax commis(it’s only about an hour long). You can go sioners and urge them to deny the permit. onto the Lucas’ website and see a description Second, use electricity more efficiently. of the show.

We can at least change our light bulbs to Veronica Moretti Niebuhr compact fluorescents, and even then a few at the STUDIO a time. If we all do what we can, there will be no need for more nuclear power.

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| Hear and Now by Robin Wright Gunn

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The Coen brothers. The Farrelly brothers. The Nauert brothers?

“It became their highest rated program ever,” says Eric. “His face may be familiar to a lot of people. On the flip side of that, our female lead, Karry McLean, she’s as fresh as can be. She’s never acted in a film before.”

The film’s trailer hints of the intensity of a David Mamet script and the grizzly suspense of the Coens, with a little Robert Altman gothic in the mix. Savannah movie buffs wondering will have to wait to find out if this 34-minute film includes knee-slapping scenes like “the chippah” from Fargo.

The Perpambollar team is submitting The Street Cleaner to this fall’s Savannah Film Festival. “We have such a respect for that festival we are holding off in hopes they’ll take us.”

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With their new film company, Perpomballar Productions, brothers Eric and Nathaniel Nauert and friend Jody Schiesser are showing signs of becoming another critically acclaimed sibling-based movie team.

In mid-May, at “Shorts on the Beach,” Hilton Head’s first short film festival, Perpomballar’s The Street Cleaner won three out of six prizes, including Best Picture in both the Judges Choice and the People’s Choice categories.

With over 30 films entered in the festival, Check out info on The Street Cleaner: the trio approached their film’s first public www.thestreetcleanermovie.com. screening as a laboratory experiment.

“We had no idea how it would look on the big screen, so we were nervous,” says Eric.

“We re-edited up until the day it showed, and as soon as we saw it we went outside and had a meeting in the parking lot. We have a re-edit going on this weekend.”

The idea for a film company sprang from a short story that Eric wrote for Not From Concentrate, the Savannah writing group where he and Jody met.

Nathaniel’s script sprung from a news story near A still from The Street Cleaner Boston and was transformed to a Savannah setting.

“We thought a short film would be a Gettin’ WIBI with it great way to start because we could learn all Last Thursday evening, while legions of our roles,” says Eric. professionals mingled in Reynolds Square “We had meetings literally every night at the Chamber’s Taste of Downtown, 35 of that went on until two, three, four in the Savannah’s smartest, sharpest women opted morning. When you have day jobs this for a party with a sense of history. means meeting in the evening and operating The quarterly social for WIBITAG, the on very little sleep. We did a lot of things newly formed women’s professional group ourselves” that larger companies pay for, inthat’s part of the Telfair Academy Guild, cluding graphic design and construction of brought together stock brokers, archian eleven-foot camera jib. tects, and marketing executives for white Jody’s career as a web and graphic dewine, gnoshes, and new connections in the signer, photographer and stay-at-home Orientation Gallery of the Owens-Thomas dad made him “the most thorough, orHouse. ganized, detail-oriented producer you Under original, 19th-century haint blue could ever want on your film.” Eric, the paint, the atmosphere was electric, mimickExecutive Producer, has theater experience ing the much-needed rainstorm threatening onstage, building sets and lighting “not to outside. The party was Gena Taylor’s first mention doing editing at Georgia Public visit to the OT House in decades.

Broadcasting week after week for 12 years” “Most of the time I’m in a social seras station manager for WSVH. vices arena,” says the Executive Director of Nathaniel, chief photographer at WJCLGreenbriar Children’s Home. “This is differTV, did all the camera work and directent. This is the arts. As a native Savannahian ing. Eric is 15 years older than Nathaniel.

I tend to take this for granted. I’m re-ignit“I raised him from a pup. I fed him his first ing the flame for it.” w comic books. I created the monster that he is today.”

Contact the Telfair for information on Lead actor Bill Oberst, Jr. was cast as WIBITAG (Women In Business In the Telfair General Sherman for the History Channel Academy Guild.) series while filming The Street Cleaner.

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| Jane Fishman

David Starnes: Rest in peace I

n the end it’s not about property, not about title, not about net worth or resources, not about who you know. Though maybe I’m wrong about that last part because a few days ago when someone behind me at Gamble Funeral Home, her blue eyes spilling over, leaned forward and whispered, “I didn’t know you knew David,” she might well have been channeling many people’s thoughts.

Because that’s how David Starnes lived his life. Private. Singular. Mysterious. He didn’t advertise what or who he knew. He wasn’t one to tell stories out of school. He was too smart for that. He knew that things change but friendships are forever. He knew that words carry weight, that once uttered, are tucked away and remembered.

He could see the big picture. Yet he knew the value of the personal, the details. If you didn’t see him for months or years, if you weren’t privy to the occasional “Starnes sighting,” as we were wont to say, so rare was he in town the last few years after he started teaching at Georgia Southern, so lucky did we feel if we caught a glimpse of that loping, loopy, slightly offbeat, low-to-the-ground walk, those dancing eyebrows and ironic eyes, the easy, well-timed pratfall, then

surely you could count on a birthday card - even, I understand, an anniversary card.

Every year. (How many people send anniversary cards?).

This, no matter how many times your address, your city, your zip code changed, no matter how many times you forgot to send him a card on his birthday.

When I heard about his death in a car accident some two weeks after my birthday -- which falls one day before his -- I knew I would return home from an extended outof-town trip to find a birthday card, and I did. It was stamped with Judy Garland, penned in his familiar script, addressed on the inside, as always, to Jane F., signed as usual, Love, David S. “Where are you,” he said, “and what did you learn today and how come you don’t write?”

This year’s Christmas card, filled with words circling around themselves, seemed to imbue a greater than usual sense of hope.

It was a Xeroxed copy of the classic Annie Leibovitz spooning-photo of John and Yoko and the words, never more appropriate, “Give peace a chance.”

This past week of mourning and celebrating, I heard talk of a lot of David details.

On the day of his funeral, one special friend of his allowed, quietly, “Everything I’m

wearing David gave to me.” Bracelet, pendant, earrings, skirt, blouse. And love.

As it turns out, the man we always regarded as shy and private was anything but a recluse. He was as apt to show up in my garden for a chat under the shade of the spreading sycamore tree as he was to appear at another friend’s front door asking, “Got any cookies?” There were other visits in the garden near a former wooden kayak factory, like the time when we each reached behind the front seat of our car, found our baseball mitts and played catch.

But because David Starnes, who just turned 64, was complicated and always changing, always growing, I never knew the effect nor imagined the consequences he could have on young, first-time writers or not-so-young first-time writers.

As Cormac McCarthy writes in The Road, Starnes was one of the good people, carrying the flame of hope and life in a world that sometimes appears filled with despair and despondency.

I met him during one of his many transitional periods, when in between writing poems and contemplating a return to school he was doing carpentry and painting houses.

I met him when he and friend Charlie Reeves gave a client of theirs (a client with a good sense of humor) a box of calling cards

advertising their services. Their motto?

“We’re slow but we’re expensive.”

But what I heard from students at the funeral, as pitch-perfect a celebration as any I’ve been to, signaled a different David Starnes, one who could inspire and influence, applaud and appreciate. A mentor.

Because he did not own property, Starnes had time to canoe, to kayak, to write poetry.

Because he did not have kids he could consider renting a Santa Claus suit, which he did, pop up at friends’ homes and, unbidden, unexpected, unasked, do his thing. ‘”He is the freest man I know,” said his father.

Because he was not married he could spend more time with more friends, which he was doing the last night of his life.

“This is as good as it gets,” someone who was at that dinner recalled him saying.

During the funeral Kristina Beaty sang a haunting and prophetic version of irving Berlin’s song, “What’ll I Do?” and it was lovely. But I sort of wish we could have heard The Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four,” which is what I find myself humming today.

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The race will be run in several heats, including five-year age groups, a family division and an elite division. Awards will be given in every category.

Proceeds of the race will go to the Two Hundred Club of the Coastal Empire, which provides immediate financial assistance to the surviving spouse and children of law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics who die in the line of duty.

The race is being hopefully called “the first annual.”

“It’s hoped this is something we can build on and do every year,” says Two Hundred Club Chairman Charles H. Morris (who also owns Connect Savannah). “It ought to be a fun outing. There will probably be eight to 10 heats for children and families, and a serious one-mile run.”

The race takes place during Memorial Day weekend, Morris says. “We hope it will be a really fun, family-friendly outing,” he says.

The Two Hundred Club is the only beneficiary of the run.

Sadly, the deaths of several officers in the line of duty have occurred in the Coastal Empire over the past six months. “We have depleted our funds by about $100,000,” Morris says. “We hope to replenish them.”

The concept behind the “hundred clubs” began in 1952 in Detroit when a young police officer was fatally shot. William M. Packer, at the time the largest Pontiac dealer in the U.S, was a friend of the police commissioner. Packer wrote to 100 of his friends, encouraging them to donate to a fund for the fallen officer.

He and the commissioner met with the slain officer’s pregnant wife, and used the money raised to pay off the mortgage and all the bills and set up an education account for the baby. They even deposited $7,000 in the widow’s checking account. The One Hundred Club of Detroit was incorporated shortly after, and other cities and counties began to form clubs of their own.

The idea came to the Coastal Empire in 2000 when Brooks Stillwell, Harry Haslam and Tak Argentinis met to discuss the possibility of forming a similar organization. The Two Hundred Club board has members in business, law enforcement, judicial, professional, religious and academic communities.

“All of us are volunteers,” Morris says.“We have 300 members now in 18 counties from the Florida line to Jasper County in South Carolina. We’ve taken care

of survivors in just about all of those counties.”

The average age of officers who are killed in the line of duty is 35, Morris says. “They have a mortgage, bills and kids,” he says.

“We go in and negotiate and help them pay their bills,” Morris says. “We help get their kids an education.”

What is perhaps most unique about the Two Hundred Club’s mission is that the financial help is immediate. “A lot of municipalities and counties in the area don’t have immediate funds they can make available to the surviving family,” Morris says.

“A lot of the survivors can’t afford to bury their loved one,” he says. “It’s tough.”

Most of the club’s money comes from its members, who pay a $250 per year membership fee.

“Some want to pay more,” Morris says.

“I’m really proud of this organization and proud to be a part of it.” w The Savannah Mile will be Saturday, May 26.

Heats will begin at 8 a.m. Cost to participate is $12 in advance or $18 the day of the race.

Race badges available at all Enmark service stations. For information, call 507-2320.

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scend on Savannah. “Priority will go to the local media,” Webber says.

“They are the market for local people, and we want to get the message out to them.”

The last time a fullfledged evacuation occurred in Savannah was in 1999 during Hurricane Floyd.

Webber said the decision to call an evacuation notice is made locally, and the decision to return is made locally, as well.

Who is allowed to re-enter early after the hurricane will be determined locally, too. Emergency personnel, including police, firefighters, paramedics, CEMA and so on, will stay in the county’s emergency shelter on Chatham Parkway, so they’ll be ready to go to work as soon as possible. Others may be given passes to return, including persons bringing in needed supplies.

“Even first responders can’t act in a vac-

uum very long,” Webber says.

“Our entire workforce has already been identified,” he

says.

“They’ll shelter together and be ready to come back in and clean the roads and do search and rescue. They don’t require passes.”

The immediate days after a disaster are the most critical. Ben Smith, head meteorologist for WSAV, was in North Carolina in 1999.

“We took a direct hit,” he says. “In our situation, it looked like a third world country. We had to go 24 hours without water.”

Webber says points of distribution would be set up in Chatham County after a hurricane. “If a citizen walks up and asks for help,

we won’t turn anyone away,” he says. “In a Category 4 storm, there would be 43 points of distribution with water, ice and basic necessities.”

Every effort will be made to get residents back to the county as soon as possible, Webber says. In 2002, it was estimated that the county would lose $12 million every day residents were kept out.

Lessons can be learned from the recent wildfires. Capt. Matt Stanley, public information officer for Savannah Fire and Emergency Services, says communication during an emergency is of utmost importance. “We’re learning a lot about keeping the lines of communication open,” he says.

Residents also should learn from the wildfires, Stanley says. “Chatham County is not in any way escaping the possibility of something happening here,” he says.

“We are in a severe drought situation. Burning outside right now is not even an option. People are still doing it, but it’s not safe. Even though the vegetation is green, it’s extremely dry. It could happen here at any time.” w

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ecent wildfires in Georgia have provided a sobering reminder that Chatham County isn’t immune from disaster.

On May 15 and 16, the Chatham Emergency Management Agency hosted its annual Hurricane Conference for federal, state and local officials. CEMA Director Phillip Webber says the conference is held to improve preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation to save lives and property.

Hurricane season opens June 1, and a very active season is again predicted. The pre-season development of Subtropical Storm Andrea seems to indicate that this time, unlike last year, the prediction could very well be accurate.

As part of the annual conference, Webber hosts a pre-season media briefing for local newspaper, television and radio reporters. He says he fully supports the media because if a major hurricane makes landfall at Savannah, the media will have helped prepare the public for what to do next.

“We can’t hand out enough fliers ever to get the message out,” Webber says. “The little old lady on 52nd Street will say, ‘(Webber) said to do this, so I’m going to do it.’”

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Family Ties

A woman was dropping her children off at their grandparents’ East 41st Street house when she was attacked by her estranged husband. She told police they are separated and he lives at his mother’s house. However, they had arranged for him to take the children to school because she has to be at work early.

She said as she walked her children to the door, the suspect approached her and started to argue with her. He grabbed her and pulled her to the back of the house and struck her in the back of the head, causing her to fall to the ground. The suspect then grabbed her around the neck and attempted to choke her, but she managed to free herself and gathered the children back in the car.

She said the suspect followed her to the car and entered through the back driverside door where their son was sitting in his car seat. She said the suspect attempted to grab the keys out of the ignition. He also grabbed her cell phone and broke it when she tried to call police. As she drove off, she saw the suspect driving off in his car. The woman said she drove until she saw a sheriff ’s deputy and told him what was going on. The deputy called police. An officer offered to take the victim to a safe shelter, but she refused.

• An officer was dispatched to East Henry Street in reference to shots being fired. On arrival, the officer spoke with a man who told him the suspect had been shooting at him. He said the suspect became angry because he wouldn’t change the spark plugs on his car, and told the victim he was going to get his gun. The victim said he was outside when the suspect came to a lot adjacent to the victim’s house and fired two shots in his direction. A witness told police the shots seemed to be fired from a .22 caliber pistol. Both the victim and the witness said the shots were fired from the rear of the house, on Park Lane.

The officer checked the area for shell casings, but didn’t find any.

• Police were called to an apartment building on Largo Drive in reference to a domestic disturbance. The investigation revealed that the resident of the apartment left his residence after having an argument with his wife. The argument occurred because the victim found out that his wife had invited a friend and his girlfriend to stay with them for two weeks.

The victim and his wife met the man when all three were patients at Georgia Regional Hospital. When the victim arrived home after the argument, he was in-

toxicated. The suspect threw the victim to the ground in front of his residence, but police noticed no injuries. The suspect left the scene and told police he would go back later in the day to pick up his belongings.

• A Dieter Street resident told police that shortly after midnight, a woman had come to her residence. The woman began pounding on her door and demanded to speak to her ex-boyfriend, who was in the house at the time. There were visible scratch marks on the front door where the suspect struck it with a knife she was holding. When the man refused to go outside, the suspect went to his car and began tapping the knife blade against it. Both the man and woman told an officer that they watched as the suspect walked to the driver side front wheel, where she then stabbed and flattened the tire.

• A woman told police that an ex-boyfriend was threatening and harassing her.

She said she and the man had dated about seven years ago and that he had since married. The victim said while they were dating, he also dated his present wife, and when the victim found out, she left him, which was when he began harassing her.

When the suspect got married, the victim said she changed her telephone number because his calls wouldn’t stop. He has now found her new number and has started calling her again, without her permission. She said the suspect had come by her house and was pounding on her windows and doors. He also has called her several times at night. Although the suspect wasn’t at the woman’s home while officers were present, he did call numerous times while they were there. The officers advised the woman on warrant procedures. w

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

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Religiously strict Saudi Arabia canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have traditional Western-style beauty contests, but there was a pageant in April in remote Guweiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;iya, about 75 miles from Riyadh: a beauty contest for camels. More than 250 owners brought more than 1,500 camels to be judged by such standards, said one organizer (according to a Reuters dispatch), as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the nose should be long and droop downâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ears should stand back, and the neck should be longâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the hump should be high, but slightly to the back.â&#x20AC;? Prizes included more than 70 SUVs.

Your Government in Action

Among the long-term disabilities that have been drawing compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (at a time when the returning wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan are meeting bureauBottom Eaters Signs of the Times cratic delays in getting their own Sacrifice The University of Minnesota disabilities properly compencampus newspaper reported in truth sated): 124,000 veterans receivFebruary that some students ing monthly checks because of are combining trips to the hemorrhoids (according to a blood bank to make donations March Scripps Howard News with quick trips to local bars for Service report) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;thoua drink or two, because they resandsâ&#x20AC;? of veterans since 1972 port a quicker and more powerful having received regular monthly â&#x20AC;&#x153;highâ&#x20AC;? immediately after blood loss. checks to cover venereal diseases Said one, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon as the needleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out that they contracted on their own of my arm, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m out the door (headed time while on active duty, includfor a bar). The rest of the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ing those treated for depression at good one.â&#x20AC;? having caught the disease (accordReuters reported in January ing to an investigation by the same that an increasingly popular beauty treatreporter, published in May). ment of women in Singapore is having their Fifty-six New York City principals eyebrows plucked and hair drawn back arand assistant principals and more than 500 tistically by injected ink (similar to tattoos) schoolteachers have records so dismal that in a process known as eyebrow embroidery, no school will take them on its rolls, leaving which the Straits Times newspaper estithe school system the choice of either commated was an industry worth the equivalent mencing long, expensive termination proceof over $3 million. dures for each or (as the schools chancellor has chosen to do) placing them into lowerPolice Blotter status and make-work jobs (at their previCops Getting No Respect: (1) Taryn ously high rate of pay), according to a March

McCarthy, 21, in the course of a contentious January arrest for DUI in Portsmouth, N.H., was further charged with five counts of simple assault, including four separate incidents of grabbing a state trooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genitals. (2) Felicha Marin, 18, was charged with shoplifting shoes from a store in Richmond, England, in March, and (according to a report in the Edgware & Mill Hill Times) in the skirmish surrounding her arrest, she was charged with assault for â&#x20AC;&#x153;spray(ing) an officer with milk from her right breast.â&#x20AC;?

Honesty Is (Sometimes) the Best Policy: Connecticut state trooper candidate Jon Van Allen decided that he would have a better chance to be hired if he were totally truthful on his application and in person and decided to tell his interviewer something no one else knew: that he had on two occasions fondled an adolescent girl as she slept and that he had been duly ashamed. Van Allen was immediately rejected for the job and arrested in April based on the admission, even though the girl said when questioned that she had no recollection of any of it.

Creme de la Weird

New York Mets baseball fan Frank Martinez, 40, was ejected and then arrested at Shea Stadium in April after he allegedly shone a high-beam flashlight into the eyes of Atlanta Braves player Edgar Renteria during a game. A former neighbor, interviewed by the New York Post, said Martinez was once evicted from his apartment because he would commandeer the hallway after a Mets victory, and into the middle of the night, screaming â&#x20AC;&#x153;M! E! T! S!â&#x20AC;? as he paraded from one end to the other.

Least Competent Criminals

Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Eric Cunningham, 18, was arrested and charged with robbing a Hess gas station at gunpoint in Orlando in April, done in by his forgetting to take his gun case with him as he fled; inside was the receipt for his gun, made out

to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eric Cunningham.â&#x20AC;? (2) Jazrahel King, 29, was arrested in Norwalk, Conn., in April when he tried to use, as a trade-in for a larger vehicle, the very Jeep that he had allegedly stolen from that very Wholesalers of America dealership several weeks earlier (and which still showed the temporary plate Wholesalers had put on it).

Names in the News

(1) The Des Moines, Iowa, woman who was the victim in December of an Iowa Methodist Medical Center policy on disposal of amputated body parts (the woman wanted to take her toe with her): Gladys Goose. (2) The 41-year-old woman charged with assault in February, in a suburb of Tampa, Fla., after she allegedly grabbed a high-heeled shoe and smacked her boyfriend in the head several times: Kari Barefoot. (3) The name dog breeders apparently give to the increasingly common crossbreed of a shih tzu with a bulldog (according to a March story in Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guardian): bullshih.

Fine Points of the Law

At a special session of Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Court of Appeals in April, judges heard arguments on whether a bag of methamphetamine had been legally seized by police, who had a search warrant but not the authority to inspect body â&#x20AC;&#x153;cavities.â&#x20AC;? The bag had been partially protruding from a certain cavity, and an officer pulled it out. The defense lawyer argued that the only legal precedent involved items hidden between posterior â&#x20AC;&#x153;cheeksâ&#x20AC;? (i.e., where contraband would not be so secured), and thus that pulling it out was an invasion of privacy. However, the prosecutor, claiming that the bag was in plain sight and would have fallen out eventually, asked rhetorically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where does the butt end and the anus begin? ... The buttocks is just the bell end of the trumpet, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you (judges), for constitutional reasons, want to go there.â&#x20AC;? w

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Close Enough for Government Work: (1) U.S. Department of Agriculture officials admitted in March that since the early 1970s, 250 of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6,000 meat-processing plants, which are all required by law to be inspected daily, have been inspected as rarely as biweekly (probably because they were too far away for an inspector to get to), according to a March Reuters report. (2) KUSA-TV reported in March that a Transportation Security Administration undercover team was able to sneak simulated liquid explosives past screeners at Denver International Airport about 90 percent of the time during a three-day test in February, in nearly every case because, though machines detected the explosives, the undercover agents talked the screeners out of personally searching them.

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Bulusan volcano spewed ash high over the eastern Philippines, forcing nearby residents to use face masks and wet handkerchiefs to avoid breathing the volcanic debris. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said 11 villages were blanketed by falling ash, but the activity did not prompt any evacuations. Periodic ash emissions have occurred at Bulusan since last October. The mountain has erupted at least 15 times since 1886, with the most recent occurring in 1995.

Cyclone Akash

A long stretch of the Bay of Bengal coast was raked by high winds and storm-surge tides as Cyclone Akash moved ashore.

The storm initially struck western Myanmar, where several buildings were either damaged or destroyed by hurricaneforce winds. Akash later left three fishermen dead and 50 other people missing along the Bangladesh coast.

Rogue Waves

A string of large waves that lashed the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues left at least four people drowned, destroyed several piers and swamped many homes and other buildings along south-facing shores of Mauritius. The 10-foot waves originated south of Cape Town, South Africa, and traveled for nearly 2,500 miles over a period of three days before slamming into the two islands.

Scientists who detected the waves on satellite-based radar sensors say their observations will help to provide warning of similar waves in the future.

Uruguay Flood Disaster

Ongoing heavy rains have produced the highest river levels since 1959 across parts of Uruguay, contaminating public water supplies and threatening a public health crisis. Authorities say that 5,300 people have been evacuated across the central province of Durazno, where the Yi River surged nearly 10 feet above its normal level. Health Minister Jorge Basso warned against outbreaks of diarrhea while ordering that children between the ages of 2 and 5 be vaccinated for hepatitis. He advised everyone to get a flu shot.

Earthquakes

A powerful 6.3 magnitude quake centered in western Laos rocked a wide area of Southeast Asia from Bangkok to Hanoi.

Residents in the Thai and Vietnamese capitals, as well as in other cities across the region, rushed out of buildings during the one-minute shaking.

• Earth movements were also felt in western Japan, the Indonesian island of Sumatra, southern Arkansas and eastern Pennsylvania.

Antarctic Melt

A team of NASA and university scientists announced that a sudden rise in temperature during 2005 caused a California-sized area of snow in Antarctica to suddenly melt. NASA described the findings as the most significant melting ever observed by satellites. “Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past with the exception of the Antarctic Peninsula,” said Konrad Steffen, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. “But now, large regions are showing the first signs of the impacts of warming.”

Urban Relocation

The last members of several monkey troops that had roamed for centuries the area that became South Africa’s capital were relocated outside the city after development encroached on their only remaining habitat. Pretoria’s famed vervet monkeys were well known for communications skills similar to humans, and for their unique facial expressions. The relocation came after recent construction of a shopping center cut the monkeys’ last surviving habitat to just 3,000 square yards. Most of the last of two troops, totaling nearly 70 monkeys, were captured and released on private land about 25 miles northeast of Pretoria. The vervet was classified as vermin in South Africa after one bit the daughter of the country’s finance minister in 1937. But the species was listed as threatened in 1976 by the Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species. w

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Skidaway Institute of Oceanography hosted students from Kennesaw State University in a special biology “Maymester” course including a trip on the research vessel Savannah. At right, Ashley Smith holds a blowfish while fellow students Beth Hathaway, Rula Osta and Karen Kang look on.

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Participants Saturday night at Tybee’s north end took the concept of the American Diabetes Association’s ‘Kiss A Pig’ benefit to the next level in the famous porcine-themed campaign.

Art makes people smile

Openings around town Friday night included Kyle Fisher’s reception at Desot O Row Gallery (that’s Kyle at right) and a thesis show reception at Red Kite Gallery (below, left to right: Amanda Frayer, Vincent Zawada, Clifton Whitehead, and Nick Bensch).

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room” and my personal favorite, “outside McDonough’s.” Considering that Blaine’s Back Door Bar is around the corner, you wonder if there was star-crossed romance.

There was one entry for “Married 50 Years.” No clue on whether that was pride or despair.

There was also a some distance hating.

Any category which involved the Islands or the Southside produced at least one “too far to drive” comment.

Someone thought the Best Bartender should be “The little white girl at Bay St. Blues.” Oh, that one.

Wasabi’s, a sushi restaurant, was voted for Best Mexican, which left me scratching my head for sometime.

For Best Buffet, someone voted for Lady & Sons, because “Wife works there, only one I eat.” Love permeates everything, I guess For Live Music Venues and Indie Film Venues, several people snarked, “We have those?”

Yellow Cab, besides being a taxi, is also one of the best places to give birth in Savannah. Go figure.

Another oddity was that people, almost to a rule, voted for Best Vet by the name of the center, while any other doctor was referrred to by name. Maybe we all need to get closer to our vet, at least so we will know their name.

Some of the categories probably just caught people off-guard. For instance, for Best Hair Stylist there was a lot of “Amanda at so and so,” which sounds reasonable, until you found out the salon in question has two Amandas. Lucky the winner this year was clear, in both name and number of votes.

For best church, several people commented that “Jesus said not to pick favorites.” Good point and hopefully the big guy will forgive us.

Naturally for Best Conservative and Best Liberal, there were comments of “None” or “They’re evil” or “Wrong.” Nice to see we can all get along Though we’d all like to see this entry for Best Cop: “The one who gives warnings instead of tickets”.

As for Best Blogger, someone thinks it’s the “the 69 year old man stabbing his 72 year old roommate over a bottle of gin,” which was actually a Blotter item from a few weeks back. Meanwhile another opines that “blogging is bullshit” -- which, if you read blogs, sounds exactly like someone commenting on a blog.

All in all, interesting answers and a few surprises for the winners. Next year though, can someone else count the votes? w Brandon Blatcher is Art Director/Production Manager and occasional ballot counter of Connect Savannah. He can be reached at artdirector@connectsavannah.com

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n previous “Best of Savannah” polls we divided up the counting -- so-and-so does this category, while someone else does this one, etc., and then we’d count the votes by hand. This year we figured most of the entries would be online, so I volunteered to tabulate them all and oversee the process.

What we didn’t figure on was the massive amount of people who waited until the very end to vote. Most of those people mailed in their ballots by the April 30 deadline, which means they got into the office after we thought we were finished. There was much high-fiving and “cool!” until we realized someone would have enter that data into the system in order to count it all.

And then there’s the matter of spelling.

More on that in a minute.

The online ballots are easy to count -just leave it to the computer, let it do what it does best. But we still had to enter the handwritten votes. Luckily, News Editor Linda Sickler and our classifieds department (David Dukes, Kelly Stahl, Kim Hudson and Lisa Hill) rolled up their sleeves and started typing like crazy to get all the data entered.

So, having (foolishly?) volunteered to tally up the votes once they were in the system, I started going through the entries and that’s where things got really interesting.

I work with computers every day. Yes, they’re very powerful and useful, but they’re also dumb. Rock dumb.

You see, while a computer can crunch numbers like nobody’s business, it can’t understand that different names can be the same thing. Thus “St. Joseph/Candler” and “St. JosephS/Candler” are different, and counted as different votes. Throw in all the possible ways that a person MIGHT spell Saint, Joseph or Candler and the various combinations of those different spellings, and you see where this went.

This also explains my newfound love for Ben Tucker. Not only is he a great musician, but his name is so easy to spell.

While a bit tedious and taking way longer than I expected, it was fascinating to see all the different possible ways to spell something and the off-beat or jokey answers.

Some of you were having way too much fun with this.

First off, Savannahians love to eat, the food categories being consistently top votegetters. Y’all are also into festivals, care deeply about neighborhoods and churches, where you bank and what you want to listen to on the radio.

The most amusing answers came for “Best Hookup Spot,” which included “Starland Dog park,” “Yahoo Personals,” “My bedroom,” “under the Tybee bridge,” “Stogies bathroom,” “Wild Wing’s bath-

Thank You Savannah for voting us #1 for the 4th year.

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Best Local Cultural Event Best Festival That’s Not St. Patrick’s Day

Savannah Music Festival Rob Gibson & Co. pulled it into the black this year.

Editors’ Pick: Savannah Music Festival

Best Theatre Director

DJ Queenan

Best Play of 2006

Baby, Cultural Arts Theatre D.J., how is working for the city different from other theatre companies here?

We’re specifically geared toward serving the city and its citizens, and exposing the people of Savannah to the art and culture of the theatre. Our program is also supposed to represent the diversity of Savannah, and that’s certainly one of my goals.

Your play Baby was also voted as Best Play of 2006. Why do you think Baby was so successful?

I think the play is attractive to everyone who’s either been a baby or had a baby (laughs). It was also a meeting of great talent, meaning composers Maltby and Shire, our musical direc-

Left, Savannah Music Festival; right, DJ Queenan tor Warren Heilman and of course the incredible cast (April Aguilera, Box. It’s a dark Ray Ellis, Cheri Hester, Danny Beam, Sasha Travis, Ryan musical comMcCurdy, Carol Melton, Rachael Westmoreland, Hai Dang, edy based on Pepi Streiff, Josie Streiff, Jen Whiteman, Clare Frank, Meghan the character from the Weekly Meier, Lariene Brown, and Sheila Tyson).

World News. It’s funny and touching and filled with social commentary. We’re also doing The Laramie Project, an interYou’re a SCAD grad. That’s kinda cool. view-style play written about the slaying of Matthew Shepherd in Laramie, Wyoming.

Yes, from the Media and Performing Arts Department.

You know, I’m not old-school Savannah! That’s one reason Pretty daring stuff for Savannah. why winning this is so amazing and so appreciated.

Well, if I’m supposed to be exposing people to culture and What’s next for Cultural Arts Theatre? cultural expressions as part of our mission statement, it can’t all be Hello Dolly. -- (JM) We just had auditions for Footloose, which is going to be huge and have a big cast. That’s at the Lucas Theatre in July.

I’ve got two SCAD students as leads, Ryan Brown and Jen Editors’ Pick, Best Director: D.J. Queenan Whiteman, with Jamie Keena and Carol Melton as sort of the Editors’ Pick, Best Play: Six Degrees of Separation adult presence. Lots of dancers as well -- Travis Dodd is our choreographer, and of course Warren is our musical director. We’ll be doing Batboy The Musical in the fall in the Black

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Best Local Author

Paula Deen

Ah, the burning question: For the cookbooks or the magazine?

Editors’ Pick: Rigel Crockett, author of Fair Wind and Plenty of It

Best Local Actor

Sheldon Pinckney One of Savannah Theatre’s talented musical performers.

Editors’ Pick: Grace Diaz Tootle

Best Indie Film Venue

Sentient Bean

Best Movie Theatre

Carmike Cinemas

Although we still don’t have a dedicated, freestanding art-house theatre, it’s increasingly obvious that as long as Savannahians can wrap their collective head around the notion of making appointments to see cool movies just as they would for a play, concert or other cultural event, then there’s more than enough flickering fun to go around.

It’s heartening to see a small venue like The Bean named Best Indie Film Venue if only because it’s such a homegrown space (seats about 50, plain wooden chairs, video projection, occasional espresso machine noise or telephone ringing in the background), but it’s not that surprising, given the fact that the vegetarian restaurant and Free Trade java hang has welcomed a handful of local grassroots organizations to present their wares for almost 5 years running. Whether it’s the documentaries of IndyMedia Film Night, the critically acclaimed imports of the monthly Third Friday Foreign Film series, or the oddball mix of cult classics, festival circuit picks and sleepers of The Psychotronic Film Society (an organization I’m involved with), this funky gathering place on the south end of Forsyth Park is the bee’s knees.

While downtown’s beautiful Lucas Theatre is also known as the coolest place to reliably catch offbeat movies on 35mm, when it comes to straight-up mainstream fare, our readers prefer Carmike Cinemas on Stephenson Ave., and it’s no wonder why. This 10-auditorium outlet was one of the first in the area to upgrade to DLP digital projection technology, and given the fact that most cinemas in this town seem to have a serious, ongoing problem with a little thing called a “focus knob,” anyplace where the picture is automatically razor sharp and crystal clear would get my vote too, every time. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick, indie venue: Lucas Theatre Editors’ Pick, theatre: Carmike

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Best Local Orchestra

Savannah Sinfonietta

There’s no point in arguing the relative merits of the handful of groups on the scene or which one of them —if any— is truly poised to most effectively “fill the void left by the dissolution of the Savannah Symphony.” However, there’s no getting around the fact that under the leadership of Bill Keith, The Savannah Sinfonietta has made tremendous strides in that direction. Their aggressive courtship of local underwriters and venues, flexible lineup of professional players and guest soloists, and creative approach to programming selections which appeal to both art-music aficionados and average joes has proven a winning combination to date. Regardless of whether or not any one group ever emerges a clear “winner” in something that most would rather not view as a competition, it’s already a forgone conclusion that the future of classical music in Savannah will have to operate an awful lot like the Sinfonietta already does. -- (JR)

Best Museum Best Museum Gift Shop Best Visual Arts Gallery

Jepson Center for the Arts

Moshe Safdie’s architectural genius, in service of some of the best art in the Southeast, an increasingly (and refreshingly) diverse attitude toward rotating exhibits and a growing outreach program.

Editors’ Pick, museum: UGA Marine Education Center & Aquarium at Skidaway Editors’ Pick, visual arts: Pinnacle Gallery

Best Live Concert of 2006

Blues Traveler

Editors’ Pick: Savannah Sinfonietta

Editors’ Pick: Tie: John Jorgenson Quintet at Randy Wood’s Concert Hall / Del McCoury Band at Trustees Theater

Best Local Classical Musician

Ricardo Ochoa

They say Savannah picks up on everything 3 years too late, and funnily enough, that saying might apply to this win for multi-instrumentalist Ochoa, who, when informed of his award laughed heartily and replied, “But I don’t even play classical music anymore!” Technically that’s true in that Ricardo is not a member of any local symphonic group. But this former member of the Savannah Symphony, ARTillery Punch and The Richard Leo Johnson Trio stays busier than ever. Between playing classical violin and viola, flexing his jazz muscles with The Roger Moss Quintet, or donning garish outfits to play eerie synthesizer and theremin music in the instrumental prog-rock band Blackwürm, he’s seemingly omnipresent. In addition to overseeing production of the 2007 Savannah Music Festival, he’s also the founder and owner of New Arts Ensembles, which books some of the area’s finest live musicians for private engagements. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Ann Cafferty

Best Local Vocalist

Kim Polote

Past winner of the American Traditions vocal competition.

Editors’ Pick: Kristina Beaty

Best Local Cover Band

Liquid Ginger

Despite the fact that this popular local band has released 2 impressive indie albums of original pop-rock, it seems their loyal fans also appreciate them at least as much for the large number of hit songs by other groups that fill LG’s setlists at club shows and private engagements.

One of the only acts in this area (besides theatrical rockers like GAM and Dan Deacon) to put as least as much emphasis on their stage presence as their songs, Liquid Ginger has been waiting for their close-up ever since the start of their career. Through their use of wireless microphones or ultra-modern in-ear monitors, they bear the trappings of the big-name acts that strut the stage at MTV’s Spring Break tapings, and that attitude has helped win over a crowd of locals who appreciate a slick stage show and a well-played rendition of a familiar radio hit at least as much as a catchy song written from scratch by the musicians right in front of them. -(JR) Editors’ Pick: Voodoo Soup

Left, Kim Polote; center, Liquid Ginger; right, Sentient Bean

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Best Punk/Hardcore/Metal Band

Baroness

Those who’ve seen this powerhouse 4-piece can surely attest that they’re arguably the finest and most intriguing metalcore band to ever call Savannah home. True, they carry their fair share of the brutal metal genre’s more entrenched mannerisms —such as hellish, garbled/gargled scream-singing— but these more pedestrian affectations are tempered by well-developed and nuanced senses of pacing, atmospherics and song structure. Guitarist/lead vocalist John Baizley (who also does the majority of the group’s dazzlingly intricate if morbidly psychedelic album and merch art), bassist Summer Welch and brothers Allen (drums) and Brian (guitar, vocals) Blickle —as well as former guitarist Tim Loose— have carved their own phantasmagoric brand of over-the-top stoner rock that’s more Hawaiian Baby Rosewood Seeds than creeper weed. It’s a dark, tense, haunting approach to technical riff-metal with brief flashes of calm and mercy amidst the grinding chaos.

With their 3rd LP out soon on the esteemed genre label Relapse, and several North American tours as well as a 6-week run through Europe under their belts, Baroness seems poised to join Damad and Kylesa in continuing to spread the name of our fair city far and wide. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Baroness

Left, John with Baroness; right, Turtle Folk

Best Local Country Band

Hazzard County

Lead singer Jason Courtenay fronts this honky-tonk, country and Southern rock outfit.

Editors’ Pick: Paul Parr Band

Best Local Rock Band

Turtle Folk

Local jam artists unite!

Best Overall Local Musician Best Local Jazz Artist

Editors’ Pick: Argyle

Ben Tucker

Best Local Funk, R&B Artist

This jazz legend sat in with Wynton Marsalis at this year’s Music Festival.

Stephanie Edwards

American Idol becomes Savannah’s idol. It’s true; things seem to go better if you don’t actually win the whole thing.

Editors’ Pick, overall: Annie Allman Editors’ Pick, jazz: Howard Paul Group

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Best Local Spoken Word Artist or Group

A.W.O.L.

Refreshingly, such moves helped to forge an ever-growing bond between the black and white musical communities, and has resulted in large, peaceful, racially-mixed crowds of both young people and old-schoolers turning up regularly for freestyle rhyming contests, breakdancing throwdowns and showcase sets from touring underground hip-hop artists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something of an anomaly in Savannah, where â&#x20AC;&#x201D;sadlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the spectre of aggression and gang activity has historically hung over most such events.

DOPE Sandwich (a slang term for something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way good) is a collective of talented MCs, DJs, graffiti artists and breakdancers with a local connection whose membership fluctuates between a handful of members and more than two dozen. The group emerged out of The Jinxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly Alternative Hip-Hop Night, and together and separately, its members have released mix-tapes, compilation CDs and their own indie record.

A.W.O.L. (or All Walks Of Life) on the other hand, was the first recognized rap-based student organization on the campus of Savannah State University, but has since gone on to become one of the leading local exponents and organizers of spoken word events of all types. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nonprofit geared toward promoting self-awareness through performed poetry and hip-hop, and though its origins are Afro-centric, the group is proudly geared toward people from any number of backgrounds. Most folks are hip to A.W.O.L. through the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular free meetings/shows at The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse. -- (JR) Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Dope Sandwich

Best Local Blues Artist

Eric Culberson

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, he just keeps getting better and better and now can legitimately be called one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best interpreters of electric blues.

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Bottles & Cans / Eric Culberson Blues Band

Best Local Club DJ

DJ Analog Kid Holdinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; it down at Savannah Down Under on Congress Street.

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: DJ KZL

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So, it only stands to reason that the profiles of Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hip-hop culture should be increasing at a rate commensurate with that of its spoken word and performed poetry community. As far as most people outside the extremely insular local hip-hop community know, slain budding rap star Camoflauge epitomized Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hip-hop community with his thuggish tales of street violence and retribution. However, there has always existed a more positive, â&#x20AC;&#x153;consciousâ&#x20AC;? rap scene in town, and of late, that scene has flourished. This is due in no small part to venues such as The Jinx and Locoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Broughton St., which opened their doors to underground hip-hop centered around students at SCAD.

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The Owens-Thomas House, completed in 1819, is recognized nationally as an architectural treasure, perhaps the finest example of Regency architecture in America.

“In the early 19th century this was avant garde,” says Tania Sammons, curator of the OT House. “It was the first house in Savannah to have plumbing, and one of the first in the United States.” Cutting edge fixtures included “two water closets, a number of sinks, and a shower.

This was really advanced technology.”

Sammons noted that in the early 1800’s, cast iron was not being manufactured in the United States -- “if you had it, it was shipped over from England” -- yet the OT House is liberally decorated with cast balconies, railings, fences and gutter downspouts.

The house was designed for the Richardson family by William Jay while he still lived in England. Construction was well under way before Jay ever arrived in Savannah. No architectural drawings, notes, or journals have been found that discuss Jay’s ideas or how his client influenced decisions in his design.

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Although less ornate than the main house, the carriage house/slave quarters building at the east end of the property is equally important to architectural and cultural history.

Last year the Telfair Museum of Art, which owns the house, received a $40,000 planning grant for “reinterpretation” from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Sammons says there were from nine to thirteen slaves who lived on the property, either in the slave quarters or in the main house.

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Best Restoration

Mansion on Forsyth Park

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Editors’ Pick: Roundhouse

Building Most in Need of Demoliion

Drayton Tower

Ironic choice considering the old Tower -- actually a fine example of International-style architecture, if you want to know the truth -- has just been renovated into upscale condos.

Editors’ Pick: Tie: Savannah Civic Center/ The building they’re trying to build on the Southwest corner of Bull Street and Park Avenue

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Best Neighborhood to Live in

Ardsley Park

Perennial favorite that’s (finally) becoming more diverse by the year.

Editors’ Pick: Isle of Hope

Most Overrated Neighborhood

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Most Underrated Neighborhood

Starland Design District

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Editors’ Pick: Thomas Square

‘Some kind of Art/Cinema/Theater/Music Center’

My choice for the best possible use for this behemoth of a yellow brick building on Henry St. between Bull and Drayton was something along the lines of “Some kind of Art/Cinema/ Theater/Music Center.” Imagine my surprise to find that the majority of folks who dig Connect agree wholeheartedly with me!

While an ongoing series of investors/developers seem incapable of getting anyone to pony up the dough to chop up such an imposing piece of architecture into the all-too-predictable “urban condo lofts with retail underneath,” the massive floor plan, relatively soundproof construction, lack of residential neighbors, enviable location just one block from Forsyth park and large, attached parking lot would seem to make opening a multi-purpose performance venue a no-brainer.

It would take truckfuls of cash to do that up right, but if anyone with that kind of money was looking for a mandate from the local populace, methinks they just got one. -- (JR)

Best Potential Use for I-16/I-95 ‘Megasite’

A Water Park

Perhaps using Jekyll Island’s not-half-bad Summer Waves as a model?

Editors’ Pick: Burial ground for all of Sonny Perdue’s dumb ideas

Best Square

Johnson Square

Oglethorpe’s first square and still number one in your hearts.

Editors’ Pick: Washington Square

Best Church

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

This church on Lafayette Square is spiritual home of Savannah’s Irish Catholic community.

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Editors’ Pick: Fr. William Willoughby, St. Paul the Apostle Episcopal

Best Rabbi

Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer

One of Savannah’s favorite citizens and spiritual head of Temple Mickve Israel, North America’s oldest continuous Jewish congregation.

Editors’ Pick: Rabbi Belzer

Best Private School

St. Vincent’s Academy

Best Principal/Headmaster

Sister Helen Marie Buttimer, SVA

Best Liberal

Donna Antonucci

What makes St. Vincent’s Academy the Best Private School in Savannah, when other schools have more students, larger campuses, newer facilities and pricier tuition?

For starters, there’s the demanding college prep curriculum, competitive varsity sports program, and the historic downtown campus--the same spot the school’s occupied since its founding in 1845, serving as an ideal backdrop for mandatory freshman fine arts courses. The 350-student high school is girls-only, owned by the Sisters of Mercy, an order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church.

According to our readers, St. Vincent’s also has the best principal and at least one teacher with star quality in the political arena.

Sister Helen Marie Buttimer is a St. Vincent’s alumnus who’s served as principal since 1994. Biology teacher Donna Antonucci is Savannah’s Best Liberal—an unusual award for a science teacher at a school with a strong religious foundation.

Antonucci is vice-chair of the 25-member Savannah River Site Citizen’s Donna Antonucci and Sister Helen Marie Buttimer, both of St. Vincent’s Academy Advisory Board, a federal appointment. She’s vocal in her concern about the impacts of nuclear waste on the Savannah River Valley, although unlike many environmentalists she believes in the positive potential of nuclear energy. “We just need to figure out how to deal with nuclear waste,” she says.

In a warm, quiet voice, Principal Helen Marie Buttimer describes “a number of lessons” St. Vincent’s reinforces to the students as part of all school activities. “To be who they are, to become their best selves, to develop their God-given gifts, to be independent. As a woman to know what are your gifts and talents and to rely on those. We hope that service to those in need will always be part of their life’s focus.”

Antonucci describes her take on politics as part Libertarian and part Democratic “along the lines of Eleanor Roosevelt.” She favors social programs to help the disadvantaged, the elderly and children, and “even though I teach in private school” she supports strong public education as the foundation of a strong middle class. She advocates “preserving the environment robin gunn

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for our children, as stewards.”

Antonucci sees no conflict between her political ideals and her Catholic faith.

“I utilize the Jesuit philosophy of questioning,” she says. “That’s an appropriate response with living your values. I always come from a place of love.”

When classroom science topics venture into the political arena, “I’ve been supported by Sister Helen and the Sisters of Mercy,” says Antonucci. “I understand the age of my audience. They’re 15 years old.

Some topics there’s only so far you can go.”

“We don’t always absolutely agree on every issue,” says Sister Helen. “At times we have to go back and have her re-explain something” as her opinion.

“There’s a willingness to work harder for Sister Forrest Estes Helen,” says Antonucci. “She lets us know when we go over the line. I respect my students’ upbringing, Best Public School and their parents’ views. I want them to speak convincingly, even if they are on the other side. I always love them, no matter how far apart our opinions are.

Charter school and performing arts magnet on Washington Jason Zaloudik’s portrait of Charles Moody It’s safe right here in tenth grade.”

Avenue manages an equal focus on the arts and on academics.

Marie Singleton and Sarah Reynolds, 10th gradEditors’ Pick: Savannah Arts Academy ers, are both in Antonucci’s Environmental Club.

“I definitely love ‘Nooch.’” says Reynolds.

Best WiFi spot “I actually like not having guys here. It’s more relaxed,” says Singleton, describing St. Vincent’s academics as “challenging but not overwhelming.”

“The students are intensely loyal to one another,” says Antonucci. “They think their experiThere is more caffeine in their coffee. We read it on the internet so it must be true. ences are unique. Helen has helped us all become stronger and better people.” -- (RG) Editors’ Pick: One word: Krystal!

Editors’ Pick, private school: Savannah Country Day Editors’ Pick, headmaster: Sister Helen Marie Buttimer Best Tour Company Editors’ Pick, liberal: The Drinking Liberally Savannah crew (drinkingliberally.org), “promoting democracy one pint at a time.”

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32 The Best of Savannah

Most Eligible Local Bachelor

Forrest Estes

Most Eligible Local Bachelorette

Karen Guinn

Forrest Estes, 29, was anything but thrilled when told he was voted Most Eligible Bachelor

by Connectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s readers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first I thought I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do this but then I thought it could be pretty funny, so I just decided to let it go,â&#x20AC;? he says. The low-key Savannah native is a UGA biology graduate working as environmental project manager with WPC Engineering, Inc. Estes is a member of Leadership Savannah and recently began volunteering as a patient advocate at Candlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emergency Room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to make people feel emotionally and physically more comfortableâ&#x20AC;? while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the ER waiting room.

Is he looking to date someone? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess so. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always on the lookout.â&#x20AC;?

Estes is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a huge outdoor person, especially if it involves the water. My absolute favorite thing to do is ski. I am no angler or anything, but I do fish. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no fish bumper sticker on my car.â&#x20AC;?

Besides the outdoors, Estes favors spending time with his friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love downtown Savannah. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going out I usually meet up with people at Locos.â&#x20AC;? He might also be found at Mercury Lounge, Sorry Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Pinkieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And of course thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Sunday Stewâ&#x20AC;?--a weekly friends-only gathering.

Estesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; friend Amanda Cohen voted for him as Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most eligible guy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good looking and he has all his stuff together,â&#x20AC;? says Cohen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a really good catch. He hates awkward situationsâ&#x20AC;? -- like being voted most eligible bachelor, no doubt.

Cohen thinks the best match for Estes would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;someone who is really laid back and cool that you could talk with, and not too high maintenance. But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to be pretty attractive. I guess he has high standards.â&#x20AC;?

Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Eligible Bachelorette is a woman on the go. Karen Guinn, 26, Communications Manager for JCB, stays busy traveling with her job and for fun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Routine makes me antsy. The secret is to travel and try new things,â&#x20AC;? said Guinn via email en route from a conference in Nevada.

A chance trip four years ago sold the New York native on living in Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she moved

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here one week later. The Niagara University graduate majored in political science and double minored in English and Psychology. Guinn is active in the William Jay Society and CBETA, and serves on the board for the local USO chapter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I play soccer, ski, run. I love to readâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;do a little writing. Always up for a concert.

Anything outsideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;boating, beachâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? Favorite night spots and restaurants are Il Pasticcio, WGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and Mercury Lounge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Local 1011 is becoming a favorite spot as well.â&#x20AC;?

Pet peeves? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look me in the eye when they talk to me, people who drive slow in the passing lane, and man sandals. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m okay with flip flops but the man sandals need to go.â&#x20AC;?

For Guinn the best thing about being single in Savannah is â&#x20AC;&#x153;being able to be spontaneous.â&#x20AC;?

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;not really looking,â&#x20AC;? to date anyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a firm believer that love happens to you, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t search it out, change it or tame it,â&#x20AC;? writes Guinn. -- (RG) Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick, bachelor: Jim Reed Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick, bachelorette: Robin Gunn

Best Place to Propose Marriage

Tybee Island

Must. Resist. Urge. To make really lame â&#x20AC;&#x153;sex on the beachâ&#x20AC;? joke....

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Wherever sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most likely to say yes

Best Place to Watch Fireworks

River Street

And the best part is, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a bar nearby when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over!

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Bridge to Ft. Pulaski

Best Eccentric Street Character

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Stop the Lieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guy

His name is Charles Moody, and he says â&#x20AC;&#x153;the lieâ&#x20AC;? is Marxism. No, really. Ask him.

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: The dude who constantly counts molecules with one hand

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The Best of Savannah

Best Local Scandal

Ross Trial

The guilty verdict for the killers was as it should have been, but Court TV’s sensationalized coverage went out of its way to portray Savannah in the worst possible light.

Editors’ Pick: Chief Berkow and allegations of harrassment in LA

Best Philanthropist

Helen Downing

She’s has been or is currently active with the Ronald McDonald House, MedBank, Hospice Savannah, Parent and Child Development Services, and Historic Savannah Foundation.

Editors’ Pick: Charles H. and Rosalie Morris

Best Local Activist

Joe Driggers

I’m an advocate for Savannah. I love Savannah and I love building relationships to make it a better place. I am fortunate that I have an interest and passion for basically everything from child abuse prevention to arts and culture to business development & growth to poverty to crime reduction to building on my own personal development skills.

How do you find time to be involved in so many things? Your time management skills must be amazing.

E-mail reminders are a plus! When you have the passion to build relationships & help others, it comes natural. It’s also a big plus when you work for a company that appreciates the importance of our community and being involved in it.

Is there a downside to being so involved in so many things?

My problem is I can’t say no. I look at my committee calendar and my plate runneth over.

It usually happens because something about an organization has attracted them to me, and something about me has attracted me to them. -- (JM) Editors’ Pick: Patty McIntosh, Georgia Conservancy

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Partial resume: Chair of the City of Savannah Cultural Affairs Commission...Board of Directors of The First City Club, The R.O.C.K (Raising Our Children Kindly) Group, Crime Stoppers, Greenbriar Children’s Center and Wesley Community Center...

Community Advisory Council for the Junior League of Savannah. Recently named to the United Way of Savannah Campaign Cabinet... Member of the Leadership Savannah 2006-2008 class, The First City Club, The Savannah Advertising Federation, LifeLine for Children, Community Cardiovascular Council, Postal Customer Council and The William Jay Society... Joe served a two-year term as Council Chair of the Chamber Ambassador Program for the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce and has served for a number of years as a Vice Chair of the Total Resource Campaign for The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce... Named in 2001 as one of the “40 Business Leaders Under 40”

by The Savannah Business Report and Journal. Named a Southern Hero by Southern Linc for his involvement in the community.

Joe Driggers Joe, besides your day gig as marketing manager with Savannah Mall, you have a wide range of activist interests. What ties them all together?

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Best Local Charitable Organization

LibLines

Sarah Copeland set out on a mission when she established LibLines, a not-for-profit organization that develops and sells greeting cards designed for breast cancer patients.

Just a few years later, LibLines has resulted in thousands of dollars in donations for the fight against breast cancer, monthly support groups for breast cancer patients and survivors, and some annual fundraisers -- the Chocaholic Frolic, Bowling for Boobs and the lastest, Walking in My Shoes.

Copeland started LibLines in memory of her aunt, Libby Burns, who died of breast cancer in June 2001. During her aunt’s illness, Copeland realized how hard it was to find the right words to say. “Often when someone goes through an illness, people don’t know how to react, so they don’t say anything at all,” she says.

For her efforts, Copeland was given a national honor in 2006. She was chosen one of 25 Yoplait champions, honored for their commitment to the breast cancer cause.

Copeland appeared in a full-page ad that appeared in the Condé Nast publications Allure, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Self and Vogue. Although the other 24 winners had only their head shots published, Copeland -- who dyes her hair pink to promote awareness of breast cancer -- was chosen to be featured in a full-page ad.

When LibLines teamed with Habitat for Humanity to provide an all-women crew to build a house, cancer survivors and caretakers stepped forward to answer the call. A crew of 20 was needed to build the house, which will be dedicated June 2.

“We had over 120 apply to help,” Copeland says. “We had so many people who wanted to help, it was exciting.” -- (LS) Editors’ Pick: Savannah/Chatham County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate)

Best City Council Member

Van Johnson

The First District alderman, repeat winner in this category, is up for re-election this year.

Editors’ Pick: Mayor Otis Johnson

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Best County Commission Member

Pete Liakakis

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Any politician who can dance like this deserves your support: check out the video of Pete busting a move at www.excruciatinglynormal.com/node/263 Editors’ Pick: Pete Liakakis

Best Local Conservative Best Local Legislator

Jack Kingston

1st District Republican congressman re-elected last year with almost 70 percent of the vote.

Editors’ Pick, conservative: Charles Ellis Montessori Academy principal Charles R. Wooten (aka “crwoo10” at savannahnow.com, “Savannah Red” at savannahred.blogspot.com, and also with a blog at reviewingtheweek.blogspot.com) Editors’ Pick, legislator: Sen. Regina Thomas

Best Local Liberal

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Best School Board Member

Joe Buck

The board president’s been in office less than six months, but has broad support.

Editors’ Pick: Tie: Tom Parrish/ “Cornbread”

Best CAT Driver

Greg Delaney

They say he’s quiet and reserved, but those are desirable qualities in any kind of driver!

Editors’ Pick: Tie: Tom Parrish/ “Cornbread”

Best Lawyer

Mike Hostilo

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Area attorney perhaps best known for being held hostage in Statesboro by a former client for whom he’d served as public defender. (The convicted client told the court he was innocent of beating a man to death with a hammer, but asked for his hammer back.)

Editors’ Pick: Assistant D.A. Christy Barker, lead prosecutor in Jennifer Ross trial

Best Judge

Penny Haas Freesemann

This judge presided over the trial of Jennifer Ross’s killers.

Editors’ Pick: Penny Haas Freesemann

Best Cop

Star Cpl. Tracy Walden

Bio: Nearly 14 years of service with the Savannah/Chatham Metro Police. Official liaison to the gay/lesbian community. Eight-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

Cpl. Walden, did the idea of a gay/lesbian police liaison originate with Chief Berkow?

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Well, it was something unofficial that Chief Berkow decided to make official. Anytime an officer wanted to know something about the local gay and lesbian community, they would ask me. I know so many people in that community because I’m part of it. Former chiefs would come and ask me questions if something came up. So it sort of evolved from that.

The gay/lesbian liaison is actually a collateral duty. My main job is director of the Crime-free Housing program. We work with rental comStar Cpl. Tracy Walden munities to reduce instances of crime in those communities.

I also am involved in crime prevention through environmental design. I sit in with design specialists and look at threat assessments for new buildings and changes to old buildings. I look at the orientation of the building to the parking lot, where lights are, what the landscaping is, what kind of business it is, things like that.

I’m also one of the department’s hostage negotiators. There’s probably about 15 of us on three separate teams. My team is coming on in June. We rotate every three months.

What skills are most important in hostage negotiation?

Keeping your mouth shut. Humans are prone to wanting to tell their story. A negotiatior has to be able to shut up and listen to what the other person is saying. It’s interesting -- one of the things we learn in training is that most people don’t really listen, they just wait to speak.

What the heck is a “Star Corporal” anyway? It sounds vaguely sci-fi.

That came about when the city and county departments were merged. In the county a corporal was a supervisory position, while in the city corporals were just a pay grade. So when the departments merged, well, they couldn’t demote anybody, so they made all corporals on the county side Star Corporals and some city corporals were promoted to Star Corporals. We’re sort of baby supervisors (laughs). -- (JM) Editors’ Pick: The one who gave me a warning for not coming to a complete stop

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Best Local TV News Anchor

Sonny Dixon, WTOC

This former politician is never far away from his folksy roots.

Editors’ Pick: Paul Rea, WSAV

Best Local TV Sports Anchor

Rick Snow, WTOC

His sunny personality and credible demeanor makes you want to stay up late to watch private school hoops highlights. Quite a feat.

Editors’ Pick: Rick Snow

Best Local TV Meteorologist

Pat Prokop, WTOC

Insouciantly stares down approaching high-pressure fronts just like Val Kilmer stared down that dude he shot in that awesome scene at the end of Tombstone.

Editors’ Pick: Pat Prokop

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Hottest Local TV Personality

Paula Deen

We were kinda pushing the babe-a-licious thing with this category, as opposed to sheer popularity. But hey, Paula’s a babe too, so it’s all good.

Editors’ Pick: WJCL’s Jennifer Beale

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Best Local Columnist

Jane Fishman

Formerly with the Morning News, Fishman has graced the pages of Connect Savannah for several years now.

Editors’ Pick: The one that works for the least money

Best Local Blogger

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Savannah “Blogfather” and Connect Savannah editor blogs at connectsavannah.com/ index.php/blogs/jimmorekis/ with a focus on politics and local weirdness.

Editors’ Pick: Betsy Yates at www.excruciatinglynormal.com cont’d on page 38

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Best Local Website

www.savannahnow.com

Savannah Morning News website is overhauled and now out of beta.

Editors’ Pick: www.savannahunderground.com

Best Local Radio Station

97.3 KISS FM

A Historical Family Restaurant Since 1933 Monday - Thursday 11am-10pm Friday and Saturday 11am - Midnight 301 West Jones Street Corner of Jones and Jefferson Streets

This Top 40 station, a Clear Channel property, wrests a close win from perennial winner Q105.3 FM. Editors’ Pick: FM 91.1 Public Radio, except when the fund drives are on

Best Local Radio Personalities

Dixon & Dooley, Kix 96

Jim & Dutch bring the continuous country favorites at this Cumulus station.

Editors’ Pick: Orlando Montoya, FM 91

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Best Talk Radio Station

WTKS 1290 AM

Home of Bill Edwards, Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz. Tune to the right of your AM dial -- get it?

Editors’ Pick: ESPN Sports Talk 1130 AM

Best Local TV Commercial

O.C. Welch

As detailed in the latest True Hollywood Stories on E!, young Chip Welch has matured from the spritely child-star of those classic spots from the acknowledged Golden Era of O.C. Welch Commercials, that magical time in broadcasting still mentioned in hushed tones alongside the accomplishments of Lucille Ball and Johnny Carson. But through the trials and tribulations of stardom, Chip still retains the poignant yet hopeful, almost Shakespearean gravitas as he delivers that immortal final line echoing through the ages - a simple three-word mantra striding Western civilization’s cultural and political zeitgeist like a veritable colossus: “God Bless America.”

Editors’ Pick: “Crossing Over,” by SCAD students Laura Kessler and Irene Jeanotte for the Chevy Super Bowl ad challenge

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The Best of Savannah

Best Overall Restaurant Most Romantic Restaurant Best Restaurant When Someone Else is Paying

Best Chef

Robbie Lemmons

Asbury Memorial UMC, Festive Occasions

Best New Restaurant

Barbara Jean’s

138 Johnny Mercer Blvd./ 898-44424 Editors’ Pick: Chiriya’s

Elizabeth on 37th

105 E. 37th St./ 236-5547 Editors’ Pick, when someone else is paying: Sapphire Grill Editors’ Pick, most romantic: Hunter House, Tybee

Best Downtown Restaurant Best Wait Staff Best Pub Food Best Late Night Hangout

Loco’s Grill & Pub

301 W. Broughton St./ 236-8711 8108 Abercorn St./ 921-2199 This sweep of several awards categories would seem Robbie Lemmons to indicate that locals have embraced this Broughton St. bar and restaurant like no other — save perhaps the small Athens-based chain’s recently opened Southside location near the Oglethorpe Mall.

The first and most successful pub and eatery of its kind in the downtown area (in that it combines a wide selection of traditional American fare —such as burgers, sandwiches, salads and finger food— a large selection of both liquor and beer, plus design and decor that straddles the line between “sports bar” and “rock club”), it’s usually filled with a varied clientele that seems to be made up of equal parts frat boys, SCAD students and grown folks with small kids.

Recently, the downtown location has invested money in upgrading their in-house PA system, and although the odd layout of the room itself means that many in the crowd won’t have a direct view of the stage, management is pushing to re-brand this popular late-night hangout as more of a serious live music venue. That’s resulted in a series of shows by touring jam and organic rock bands of a higher caliber than this branch previously attracted. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick, best downtown: Bistro Savannah Editors’ Pick, best waitstaff: Elizabeth on 37th Editors’ Pick, best pub food: Murphy’s Law Editors’ Pick, best late night: Pankake Palace cont’d on page 40

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Five bucks and an “Amen.” Most Wednesday nights, that’s all you need to enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by Robbie Lemmons, the winner of Best Chef and owner of Festive Occasions Catering.

In addition to preparing lunches for Armstrong’s Elderhostel program and hors d’oeuvres for private cocktail parties, Lemmons holds the top kitchen spot at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church on Waters and Henry.

“I do Wednesday night suppers,” says Lemmons. “I cook for the week of Bible School.

I’m sort of like a personal church chef. Some of it is volunteer—it’s my way of giving back to the church.”

Lemmons is a catering chef with 25 years of culinary experience at clubs and hotels across Savannah. His parties are legendary, with his pork tenderloin, carmelized onion tart, and desserts in constant demand.

“My specialty is small cocktail parties in the home. I don’t cook for me; I cook for the people.

“Usually there’s two or three items at every party that I’ve never done before” like the graduation party this week that will offer the graduate’s favorites--tandoori chicken, samosas and other Indian cuisine--along with more traditional Savannah fare.

Tonya Hillis, secretary at Asbury, was introduced to Lemmons’ cooking at work. “Whenever he cooked Wednesday night suppers I’d order a meal to be set aside for my lunch the next day.”

Lemmons has catered several parties for Hillis and her friends. “His crab dip is famous, so creamy and hot. He’s done lamb chops for us. And his brownies, I’m sure, are going to be world famous. Just talking about it makes my mouth water.” -- (RG) Editors’ Pick: Espy Geissler, Hunter House on Tybee

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Best Southside Restaurant

Tangerine Fusion and Sushi Bar

11215 Abercorn St./ 920-5504 While it’s not uncommon in other cities, it’s only of late that Savannah has started to see a marked increase in the number of upscale to downright fancy restaurants located in strip shopping centers.

Tucked away behind an unpretentious door in a relatively nondescript row of Southside businesses across from the Home Depot on Abercorn St., this romantic and subdued eatery specializes in the type of Asian-inspired fusion cuisine that is rapidly becoming a favorite of U.S. diners bored by the traditional flavor combinations and entree choices of most stereotypical Americanized Chinese, Japanese and Thai restaurants.

Muted, vaguely exotic decor, laid-back ultra-mod Euro-Asian chillout music and attention to presentation detail are the hallmarks of this relatively pricey, yet hip and surprising destination. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Rancho Allegre

Oyster Bar

444 Johnny Mercer Blvd./ 898-8622 Editors’ Pick: Basil’s

Homespun Desserts Cupcake Heaven Artisan Breads Espresso Coffee & Tea Lunch Happiness

Best Tybee Restaurant Best Seafood Restaurant

Crab Shack

40 Estill Hammock Rd./ 786-9857 Editors’ Pick: North Beach Grill

2403 BULL STREET SAVANNAH GA 31401 912.495.9292

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Best Weststide Restaurant

Spanky’s

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200 Governor Treutlen Rd, Pooler/ 748-8188 308 E Mell St., Pooler/ 355-0285 Editors’ Pick: Spanky’s

Best Brunch

J. Christopher’s

122 E. Liberty St./ 236-7494 Ever since this local branch of a growing Atlanta-based chain of breakfast and lunch joints renovated the decidedly industrial environs of a former garage adjacent to Drayton Tower, it’s done brisk business. Their menu is a wee bit pricier than some folks may be used to ($6 pancakes, anyone?), but the food —based around standard fare such as egg dishes, breakfast meats, fruits, salads and sandwiches— is tasty and their seasonal culinary creations are often inventive (i.e., Fried Green Tomatoes Benedict and waffles made with pralines or Kahlua).

While the presentation could be more consistent, their portions are generously to outrageously sized (I recommend sharing an order of any of their signature pancake variations, for example), and little things such as fresh-squeezed Florida O.J., thick-sliced bacon and Portabella mushrooms are a nice touch. Unless you get up early on Sundays, prepare to wait a long while for a table, as church folk (and the obviously hungover) pack the place. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: J. Christopher’s

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Best Caterer

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Susan Mason

3109 Habersham St./ 233-2560 Editors’ Pick: Trish McLeod

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Best Cheap Meal

Best Place for Diehard Meat-Eaters Best Steak

McDonald’s

Outback Steakhouse

Multiple locations Editors’ Pick: Sakura

7 Drayton St./ 232-1611 11196 Abercorn St./ 920-0555 Editors’ Pick, meat-eaters: Sweet Leaf Smokery Editors’ Pick, steak: Outback

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Madras Saravana Bhavan

110 Eisenhower Dr./ 356-0344 The restaurant does serve some meats. however, its vegetarian cuisine is a favorite with diners, and is plentiful and inexpensive.

There are two other Madras Saravana Bhavan restaurants, both in Atlanta. “We opened here last year,” says Manager/Chef Saravanan. “We serve Southern Indian food.”

Saravanan trained as a chef in his native India, and has done cooking and catering for a dozen years. He opened a restaurant in Los Angeles before heading east to Georgia. “My specialty is starting restaurants,” he says.

In Savannah, Madras Saravana Bhavan is located at the intersection of Eisenhower and Abercorn, at 110 Eisenhower. The restaurant is open Wednesday through Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and is closed Tuesday.

The restaurants offers a lunch buffet and lunch specials. It also serves a selection of Indian wine and beer.

The restaurant has a large and varied menu, and appetizers include Vegetable Samosa, deepfried triangular puff pastry stuffed with seasoned potatoes and peas; steamed rice and lentil cakes called Idly; Vadai patties; and Bhajia.

In addition to Rasam, a traditional South Indian lentil soup, there is Mulligawtawny soup.

The lunch specials include Mini Lunch Thali, which features a sampling of nine South Indian dishes.

Other specialties include several varieties of Dosa, a savory South Indian crêpe that is stuffed with goodies. There also are several types of Uthappan, a folded crispy concoction, and, of course, vegetable curries. There is a menu for children, and to finish the meal in style, desserts. -- (LS) Editors’ Pick: Brighter Day Natural Foods

Best Breakfast

Breakfast Club

1500 Butler Ave., Tybee/ 786-5984 Editors’ Pick: The Breakfast Place

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13 E. Broughton St./ 231-0986 11108 Abercorn St./ 927-8700 Editors’ Pick: Sweet Melissa’s

Best Pancakes

International House of Pancakes

110 Mall Blvd./ 355-2749 I don’t care if you call ‘em flapjacks, griddle cakes or latkes. I love pancakes. Over the years, I’ve made it a point to try just about as many local examples of this most simple form of breakfast food as I stumble upon, and while my own personal vote for Best Pancakes would have to be a deadheat tie between Larry’s Restaurant on Skidaway Rd. and The State Street Café downtown on —where else?— State Street, our readers have spoken, and they have opted to go with the tried and true chain that includes over 1,300 outlets nationwide.

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one on Mall Blvd. only serves food round-the-clock on Wednesdays through Saturdays, closing at 11 pm the rest of the week. That’s still plenty of time to enjoy blintzes, crepes, waffles, french toast, and —of course— pancakes covered with a variety of syrups (including Swedish lingonberry, butter pecan and strawberry).

The iconic blue roof of these establishments is almost as recognizable to baby boomers as the orange roof of Howard Johnson’s restaurants, as are the names of their longstanding signature dishes, such as the banana/blueberry/strawberry/apple and pancake concoction the “Rooty Tooty Fresh & Fruity.” Many Savannahians were bummed a few years back when this IHOP closed for an extended period after a fire, but it’s bounced back in a big way, as this win confirms. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick Tie: Larry’s Restaurant & State Street Cafe

Best Fried Chicken

KFC

Sat . Ma y 2 6 9p m

Multiple locations Editors’ Pick: Sweet Potato’s

Best Sub Sandwich Multiple locations Editors’ Pick: Baldino’s

Best Wings

Wild Wing Cafe City Market Editors’ Pick: Wild Wing

UFC Live PPV

Best BBQ Best Ribs

Liddel v s . J a c k s o n

Sticky Fingers

7921 Abercorn St./ 925-7427 Editors’ Pick, BBQ: Angel’s BBQ Editors’ Pick, ribs: Sticky Fingers

Texas Hold’em Tournament

Best Salad

Jen’s & Friends

32 Bull St./ 238-5367 Myself and a few friends have maintained for years that if there was a decent salad bar downtown, the restaurant savvy enough to take that plunge would have people lined up around the block waiting to get in. Informal research suggests one of my more loquacious acquaintances passed that suggestion along to several local establishments North of Gaston, and lo and behold, one of them finally ran with it.

When I first heard this smaller-than-small alcove of a neighborhood watering hole on the corner of Bull and Congress Sts. was boasting a full-on salad bar in addition to their limitedbut-tasty selection of sandwiches, I could not fathom how such a thing would fit inside their narrow, rectangular space. Seems that with a little cagey finagling, they’re able to shoehorn a 20+ item buffet along their back wall, and —as expected— they’re doing gangbuster lunchtime business.

With parking spaces at a premium, it often can take as long to find a spot to stash your vehicle near this part of town as it does to actually order and eat lunch, so the fact that businesspeople working —or students studying— near Johnson Square (not to mention strolling tourists) can grab a healthy meal in a flash within easy walking distance of their jobs or classes makes this one of the most buzzworthy lunch spots in the historic district of late. And, they can wash it down with a cold beer or cocktail! -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Ruby Tuesday’s

Best Deli

Best Bagels

Midtown Deli 7805 Abercorn St./ 355-8717 Editors’ Pick: Midtown Deli cont’d on page 44

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Best Japanese

Masato of Japan

Best Place to Buy Local Seafood

Russo’s Seafood

7805 Abercorn St./ 355-9800 Editors’ Pick: Sakura

Best Sushi

201 E. 40th St./ 234-5196 Editors’ Pick: Russo’s

Best Buffet

Sushi Zen

41 Whitaker St./ 233-1188 1100 Eisenhower Dr./ 303-0141 Editors’ Pick: Hirano’s

Lady & Sons

102 W. Congress St./ 233-2600 Editors’ Pick: Chen’s Chinese Restaurant

Best Gourmet Pizza

Vinnie Van Go-Gos

Best Indian

Taste of India

401 Mall Blvd./ 356-1020 Much like IHOP, this popular local restaurant closed for many months after a debilitating fire, but has recently reopened. Located in a shopping center on the corner of Mall Blvd. and Hodgson Memorial Dr., Taste of India specializes in North Indian cuisine, plus a few items from Bombay. They do a brisk business at lunchtime when they offer a rather extensive buffet — including both vegetarian dishes of cauliflower, chick peas, lentils and potatoes, and those based around curried lamb and chicken, plus soups, flatbreads and salad. If you’re unfamiliar with Indian food, this buffet makes for a great introduction to the various ethnic spices and flavors, as the selections change daily, and it’s easy to try a vast array of delicacies without “ordering blind.”

It’s worth noting that there are at least two other Indian restaurants in town within a short drive of Taste of India, including Curry Corner and Madras Saravana Bhavan. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Taste of India

Best Chinese

City Market Editors’ Pick: Basil’s

Best Bakery

Back in the Day Bakery 2403 Bull St./ 495-9292 Editors’ Pick: Back in the Day

Best Ice Cream

Leopold’s Ice Cream 212 E. Broughton St./ 234-4442 Editors’ Pick: Leopold’s

Best Desserts

Cafe Gelatohh!

City Market Editors’ Pick: Leopold’s

Best Greek

Wang’s II

Olympia Cafe

7601 Waters Ave./ 355-0321 Editors’ Pick: Wang’s II

Best Italian

Bella’s Italian Cafe

5 E. River St./ 233-3131 Editors’ Pick: Grapevine

Best Thai

King & I

4420 Habersham St./ 354-4005 Editors’ Pick: DaVinci’s

Best Mexican

7098 Hodgson Memorial Dr./ 355-2100 Editors’ Pick: Kao

Best Vietnamese

Jalapeno’s

107 Charlotte Dr./ 897-8245 7405 Skidaway Rd./ 356-1800 8840 Abercorn St./ 920-00704 Editors’ Pick: Mi Tierrita (Hardeeville)

Saigon Restaurant 4 W. Broughton St./ 232-5288 Editors’ Pick: Little Saigon

Thank you Savannah for voting me “Best Hair Stylist” and “Best Colorist”

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Best New Bar

Hang Fire

Superhorse performs at Hang Fire’s grand opening

but at the end of the day, this place is still just a loud, bawdy, blank slate of a saloon in which to grab a Stella or Caucasian, talk yourself hoarse over loud, good music, and get a bird’s-eye view of Savannah scenesters that you won’t find anywhere else. -- (JR) Editors’ Pick: Hang Fire

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BEST LATE NIGHT HANGOUT

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BEST PUB FOOD

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37 Whitaker St./ 443-9956 As a regular patron of this spartan, hardwood “rock and roll” bar on Whitaker St. around the corner from the world-famous Lady & Sons Restaurant, I’ve wondered often just what exactly it is about the place which so instantly appealed to such a diverse crowd of people.

Drawing one of the strangest mixes of imbibers in a town known for quirky watering holes is no small feat — and it’s not uncommon to encounter drastically different vibes and customers in there from night to night (and sometimes from hour to hour).

College kids, professionals, blue-collar workers, local musicians, professors, artists, even bikers all seem to find common ground at Hang Fire.

Maybe it’s the name, which references an age-old British euphemism for dicking around, or maybe it’s the way-cool jukebox stocked with 300 albums’ worth of rock, punk, jazz, blues and exotica that reflects proprietor and Savannah native Wes Daniels’ own eclectic taste in music. Or maybe it’s the fact that in his own words, he set out to “open a place that just felt like a music club, but without live music.”

Well, they have been known to feature live bands on special occasions, as well as live pop culture trivia, art openings and high-concept, music-based wine tastings —

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Best Overall Bar Best Southside Bar Best Live Music Venue

Best Happy Hour

Chili’s Grill & Bar

Loco’s Pub & Grill

7805 Abercorn St./ 352-3636 Editors’ Pick: 1790

301 W. Broughton St./ 236-8711 8108 Abercorn St./ 921-2199 Editors’ Pick, overall: Friendly’s Tavern II Editors’ Pick, southside: Loco’s Editors’ Pick, live music: American Legion Hall

Best Wine Selection, Retail Best Beer Selection, Retail

Best Martini Best Bar Staff Best Bartender (Traci)

Habersham Beverage

Jazz’d Tapas Bar

52 Barnard St./ 236-7777 Editors’ Pick, martini: Jazz’d Editors’ Pick, staff: Pinkie Masters Editors’ Pick, bartender: Miss Carol

Best River Street Bar

Wet Willie’s

Jazz’d Tapas Bar

Best Tybee Bar

Doc’s Bar

101 E. River St./ 233-5650 Editors’ Pick: Chuck’s

Best Islands Bar

Britannia Pub

4618 Habersham St./ 354-6477 7927 Abercorn St./ 961-6744 Editors’ Pick, wine: Le Chai galerie du vin Editors’ Pick, beer: Habersham Beverage

10 Tybrisa St./ 786-5506 Editors’ Pick: Scandals

Best Westside Bar

140 Johnny Mercer Blvd./ 898-4257 Editors’ Pick: Britannia Pub

Island Grill

Pt. Wentworth Editors’ Pick: Red Baron’s

Best Wine Selection, Bar or Restaurant

A Vida Restaurant & Wine Bar 113 W. Broughton St./ 232-8432 Editors’ Pick: Venus de Milo

It’s because of you!

The Savannah Music Festival would like to thank Connect Savannah’s readers for voting us “Best Cultural Event” and “Best Festival (that’s not Saint Patrick’s Day).”

This year was great. Next year will be even better….

Mark your calendars for the 19th annual Savannah Music Festival March 20-April 5, 2008!

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Best British Pub Best Bottled Beer Selection, Bar or Restaurant

Churchill’s Pub

13 W. Bay St./ 232-8501 Editors’ Pick, Brit pub: Churchill’s Editors’ Pick, bottled beer: Mercury Lounge

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Best Beer on Tap

Moon River Brewery

21 W. Bay St./ 447-0943 Editors’ Pick: Murphy’s Law

Featuring 10 different drafts including 7 imports plus full bar • Pool Table Dart Boards • All Your New Music

Best Irish Pub

Happy Hour Mon.-Fri. 2pm-7pm

Kevin Barry’s

117 W. River St./ 233-9626 Editors’ Pick: Murphy’s Law

/ Mon. Night- $2 Jagers & Margaritas / Tues. Night- Restaurant Industry Night / Wed. Night- Ladies Night All Night / Thurs. Night- Guys Night Shot & Beer

Best Pool Hall

B&B Billiards

411 W. Congress St./ 2337116 Editors’ Pick: Capone’s

Best Dance Club

Specials

Best Gay/ Lesbian Club 1

The Britannia

/ Sat. Night- Happy Hour 4PM-7PM

Club 1 Jefferson 1 Jefferson St./ 232-0200 Editors’ Pick, dance: Club

Editors’ Pick, gay/lesbian: Chuck’s

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140 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Wilmington Island

912-898-4257

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Best Marina

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Best Latin Dancing

Tropicana

220 W. Broughton St./ 232-6002 Editors’ Pick: Tropicana

Best Hookup Spot

The Bar-Bar

219 W. St. Julian St./ 231-1910 Editors’ Pick: Bar-Bar

Best Sports Bar

Coach’s Corner

3016 E. Victory Dr./ 352-2933 It started as the dream of two native sons, Al and John Henderson, both athletes of some renown at their high school alma mater (and mine), Savannah Christian Preparatory School.

Area football experts remember Al, my fellow Class of ‘82 graduate, as being an excellent blocking back in that old wishbone formation everybody ran back in those days. Al didn’t rack up the yards like the golden boys in the backfield, because he was too busy knocking defenders on their butts. John, Class of ‘87, followed in his brother’s diligent, disciplined footsteps on the gridiron, and after graduation both these young men went into the bar business together in a then-out of the way location in Thunderbolt. Their timing was as good as their business sense; the Braves were huge at the time, and every playoff run was the signal for more and more heated and inventive promotions, all of which attracted a lot of media attention and a lot of devoted patrons.

None of us are quite so young anymore, but Coach’s Corner has blossomed into one of Savannah’s business success stories, following a year-round sports schedule on dozens of widescreens, with the biggest Super Bowl party in the area. -- (JM) Editors’ Pick: Coach’s

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Al Henderson & friends at Coach’s Corner

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Best Adult Entertainment

Gold Club

2641 Speedway Blvd., Hardeeville, S.C./ (843) 784-6309 Editors’ Pick: Gold Club

Best Margarita

Jalapeno’s

107 Charlotte Dr./ 897-8245 7405 Skidaway Rd./ 356-1800 8840 Abercorn St./ 920-00704 Editors’ Pick: Jalapeno’s

Best Karaoke

McDonough’s

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21 E. McDonough St./ 233-6136 Editors’ Pick: McDonough’s

Best Karaoke Performer

Michael Conner

The man, the myth -- the legend.

Editors’ Pick: Robert, the guy who wails on some Talk-Talk at Chuck’s

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Best Yoga Studio

The Yoga Room

115 Charlotte Dr./ 898-0361 Editors’ Pick: Savannah Yoga Center

Best Massage Therapist

Aaron Holland Editors’ Pick: Kara Riemer

Best Pilates Studio

Momentum Pilates 539 E. Liberty St./ 238-0018 Editors’ Pick: Momentum Pilates

Best Fitness Club

YMCA

Multiple locations Editors’ Pick: DAC

Best Personal Trainer

Cindy Beauchamp, Islands Spine and Spa 463 Johnny Mercer Blvd./ 898-7714 Editors’ Pick: We’re too buff already

Best Doctor

Dr. Mary Sparkes

For Savannah’s Best Doctor, a routine day at the office isn’t in the office at all, and her day is anything but routine. Dr. Mary Sparkes is an Emergency Room physician who can usually be found in the Candler Hospital ER. A typical 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift for this highenergy MD might include “heart attacks, strokes, a lot of coughing and congestion. A lot of times we won’t see anyone under age 80, with about 20 meds and a lot of complications. Probably we’ll have a resuscitation. Maybe we’ll have to intubate somebody.”

Sparkes has regular patients, often people who are low income or homeless, with few options for medical care—or care of any sort.

“We know many patients by name,” says Sparkes.

“To the poor we are their primary medical care.

“We see a lot of homeless people who will make up reasons to be here to get some food and a roof. So I’ll see to it they get a meal and a roof.”

Sparkes is a principal in Georgia Emergency Associates, a physicians group she helped launch in the mid-1990’s that provides emergency care doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to hospitals across southeast Georgia. In her off time she paints, scuba dives, and has a weakness for murder mysteries and sudoku puzzles.

Her patients’ medical and emotional well-being are Sparkes’ top concerns. “You have a make or break chance in the first five minutes if you’re going to make a connection. I won’t say I don’t have a temper, but I don’t with the patients,”

Dr. Mary Sparkes

she says.

Candler paramedic Andy Lee isn’t surprised that Sparkes is the top vote-getter.

“It’s her education, her way of working, her way of treating people,” he says. “Very professional and caring. Mary is consistent. Everything she is doing is about her patient’s care.”

-- (RG) Editors’ Pick: Dr. Karen Turner

Antique Auction May 28, 2007 @ 1:00 p.m.

Bull Street Auctions will auction the contents of several great estates consisting of antique and decorator furniture as well as other home décor items. Over 300 pieces of furniture, collectibles, rugs, paintings, crystal, chandeliers, antique architectural and garden items will be auctioned.

Don’t miss it!

PREVIEW TIMES: SUN 1 pm – 5 pm Future Auction Dates: June 10, 2007 VIEW PHOTOS WWW.BULLSTREETAUCTIONS.COM

Bull Street Auctions

2819 Bull Street (behind Maggie’s Antiques) Always accepting quality consignments

443-9353

Jason Thomas, Auctioneer GAL #3148

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Best Chiropractor

Dr. Gregory Bart Wetherington 5602 Waters Ave./ 351-0005 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Dr. Kevin Brown

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Best Dentist

Ronald Smiley, DDS 920 E. 71st St./ 355-5191 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Larry Schmitz, DDS

Best Optometrist

Dr. Judith Piros 2 E. Jackson Blvd./ 352-7941 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Dr. James Beisel

Best Veterinarian

111 Eisenhower Dr./ 352-3081 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Central Animal Hospital

Best Hospital

Memorial Health University Medical Center Waters Ave. Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Memorial

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Best Place to Give Birth

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital

Mercy Blvd.

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Family Health and Birth Center, Rincon

Best Tanning Salon

Tan-Tastic

806 E. DeRenne Ave./ 352-3111 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: The sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do fine, thanks

Dining Hours_:

Monday - Thursday 5:00 - 10:00.

Friday - Saturday 5:00 - midnite.

Best Golf Course

Westin Savannah Harbour

Happy hours_: Monday - Friday 5:00 - 8:00.

Hutchinson Island/ 201-2000 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Charlie donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t golf

Lounge hours_: Monday - Thursday 5:00 - Until Friday - Saturday 5:00 - 3:00

Best Tennis Courts

Bacon Park

Live Dj/In_Coma_:

Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Bacon Park

Sunday - closed Live Music:

Best Bowling Alley

Victory Lane

Fri. May 25 -Pocket Change (9:30 pm - 1:30 am) Sat. May 26 - Savannah Soul Project (Featuring Brittany Bosco) (9:30 pm - 1:30 am)

2055 E. Victory Dr./ 354-5710 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Victory Lane

Best Marina

Hoganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marina

36 Wilmington Island Rd./ 897-3474 Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Hoganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Best Boating Destination

Wilmington Island Editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pick: Little Tybee

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Best Place to Kayak

Little Tybee

Editors’ Pick: Little Tybee

Best Local Coach

Keith Gunn, Savannah Celtic F.C. Keith, where are you from and how did you end up in Savannah coaching soccer?

Voted Best

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Savannah

I’m from Scotland, but I was actually born in the U.S. My studies in Scotland were primarily in the field of sports coaching. A lot of my professors told me there were more opportunities over here. I started out in New York, but couldn’t get much going up there. My sister went to SCAD and told me about Savannah. She said, “Come down here and see what you think.”

I’ve been here for two years now and I’m really enjoying it.

How did Savannah Celtic F.C. come about?

I coached a couple of years at Coastal Georgia, then met David Laing. We both felt there was room for another club here, so we decided to start our own. We were really surprised at how many children we had come out for the teams.

What programs does the club offer?

Thank You Savannah!

Thanks for noticing!

Portman’s music and our great staff have been working hard to earn the support of Savannah’s Music community.

Nationally competitive pricing Gear Rental Department Musician’s Financing Incredible clinics

Keith Gunn in action

How have Southerners accepted soccer in their midst?

Happy to feature: Great service

We offer a school program called Celtic in the Community.

We don’t charge the schools but we do go in there, because soccer’s not really offered in elementary schools here. This season I’m working with Pre-K through fifth grade, bringing in equipment and teaching the basics of soccer. I’ve also been in charge of 6 and 8 year old soccer program this season.

The club soccer is obviously more geared toward development of players, with more focus on practice and games.

You helped raise over $1300 for Ronald McDonald House at our Super Weekend!

I found it surprising that a lot of parents have actually moved their kids into soccer because they feel American football is just too rough for them. But I do try and promote the fact that soccer is definitely not a game for sissies. It can be quite physical and competitive. We’ve really surprised a lot of people with that. Most of all we want to show people it’s a cool sport, one that’s played the world over.

How long will you stay in Savannah?

....and of course more guitars, drums, horns, recording gear PA, DJ gear, pianos and keyboards than anyone east of Atlanta.

Well, I just got married so I guess you could say I’m bound to U.S. soil (laughs). Savannah’s really grown on me -- that’s something I’ve heard happens a lot to people who come here.

And the club’s just starting to set off, so that’s something I’ll definitely stick around for. -- (JM)

We are here for you and we’re here to stay!

Best Local Sports Team

912-354-1500 7650 Abercorn Street

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Savannah Sand Gnats Grayson Stadium, Daffin Park/ 351-9150 Editors’ Pick: Savannah Ultimate Disc Society

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Best Bike Shop

Bicycle Link

22 W. Broughton St./ 233-9401 211 Eisenhower Dr./ 355-4771 Editors’ Pick: Bicycle Link

Best Sporting Goods Store Best Outdoor Outfitters

Bass Pro

Savannah Mall/ 961-4200 Editors’ Pick, sporting: Bass Pro Editors’ Pick, outdoor: Half Moon Outfitters

Best Park

Forsyth Park

Downtown Editors’ Pick: We don’t care as long as you remember there’s a leash law in this city

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604 E. 67th St./ 352-1967 In Wade Calhoun’s ten-plus years as a hair stylist/colorist, he’s shied away from developing a signature “Wade” look.

“I don’t believe there’s anything that is ‘in’ or ‘out,’” says Wade. “Each person is an individual canvas.”

The former owner of Spike and Pixie’s Salon has been part of the Salon 67 team for a year.

His background includes traveling up and down the east coast as a “performing artist” for Redken in hair and cosmetic shows, demonstrating color and styling techniques to other hair professionals.

Wade is the top vote getter in two related categories—best stylist and best colorist. It’s difficult for him to separate the two functions. “What I cut goes with how I color, and how I color goes with what I cut.”

Wade has cut Wynn Martin’s hair for the past three years. “When I left the military I needed a new way to do my hair,” says the pharmaceutical sales rep.

Wynn’s wife Allison has been Wade’s client for about six years.

“We consider him a friend,” say Wynn.

“We’d do anything for him and he’d do anything for us. We trust him.” -- (RG) Editors’ Pick: Wade Calhoun cuttin’ up Nancy Luckey

Best Hair Salon

B Street Salon

Live Music

418 E. Broughton St./ 443-0043 Editors’ Pick: B Street

Best Barber Shop

9 Drayton St.

The Barber Pole 110 Bull St./ 234-3831 Editors’ Pick: Barber Pole

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(between Bryan & Bay)

912.231.0100

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Best Day Spa

keeps ‘em oh so shiny

Vanilla Day Spa 1 E. Broughton St./ 232-0040 Editors’ Pick: Vanilla

Best Tattoo Shop

California Tattoo 23 E. DeRenne Ave./ 352-8288 Editors’ Pick: Black Orchid

Best Piercing Parlor

Planet 3

1702 Abercorn St./ 236-7772 Editors’ Pick: Planet 3

Best Pet Grooming

PetSmart

11132 Abercorn St./ 925-1116 Editors’ Pick: Cats groom themselves, actually

Best Novelty Store

Sunset Novelties 10419 Abercorn St./ 961-5455 Editors’ Pick: Sunset

Best Nail Salon

Golden Nails

4741 Waters Ave./ 353-7040 Editors’ Pick: Pecking at a computer keyboard all day

Best Wedding Planner

Tricia Windom

A lot has changed in the world of weddings since Tricia Windom became a wedding planner 19 years ago.

“Girls are marrying later now. They don’t want to go back home to get married where mom and dad’s friends are,” says Windom, who has coordinated every detail of over a thousand weddings. “Because they are older they are helping to pay for it so that gives them a little more say so.”

Being the bride’s confidant and negotiating between divorced parents, helping select invitations and ordering the cake—all this is part of Windom’s job description.

“A lot of times I need a degree in psychology,” says Windom. “I end up being the one the bride can confide in when the parents are bickering, or when the dad’s new wife is trying to plan things because the dad is paying for it.”

In 1993 Windom co-authored the book “Planning a Wedding When Your Parents Are Divorced.” “Seventy percent of weddings need that book—it’s either the bride’s parents or the groom’s parents.”

Paula Deen and her son Jamie Deen are Windom’s most famous clients. “I’ve known Paula for years, from when she was The Bag Lady,” says Windom, who always knows when the Food Network airs the

Paula Deen wedding TV special.

“My phone starts ringing and they want to know where Paula got her dress and what was the song at the wedding.

Well, the dress was made for her and the song was written for her.”

Windom has organized weddings “in almost every church in town, in every synagogue in town, and lots of squares!” For outdoor weddings, the biggest concerns are the weather and the gnats.

“Last week I walked around with a can of bug spray. The ladies would raise their dresses and I would spray their legs.

You just do whatever needs to be done.” -- (RG) robin gunn

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Introduced new majors.

Added new classrooms.

Enroll now for fall.

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Best Video Rental Store

Blockbuster multiple locations

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Best Thrift/Vintage Clothing Store

244 Bull St./232-2650

Best Shoe Store

The Globe Shoe Co. 17 E. Broughton/232-8161 5500 Abercorn St./352-1158

Best of Sale

Best Lawn and Garden Store

The Home Depot multiple locations

going on now Best Auto Dealer

Grainger Honda 1596 Chatham Parkway/790-5444

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Barnes & Noble

7804 Abercorn St.Ext. 72/353-7757

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Mansion on Forsyth Park

Best Automotive Repair

Mall Auto

76 W. Montgonery Cross Rd./925-2233

Best Toy Store

Toys R Us

7400 Abercorn/354-5222

Best Daycare

Calvary Baptist Day School 4625 Waters Ave./351-2299

Best Arts/Crafts Store

Michael’s

401 Mall Blvd. No. 103 F/354-4119

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205 W. Broughton St./443-0011

Best Men’s Clothing Store

J. Parker Ltd.

19 W. Broughton St./234-0004 4813 Waters Ave./352-9995

Best Jeweler

Levy Jewelers

101 E. Broughton St./233-1163 7804 Abercorn St./238-2120

Best Antiques Shop 9 W. Jefferson St./236-2815

TWO BIG LOCATIONS:

(Magnolia Plaza-Next to Sluggers)

Bleu Belle

Jere’s Antiques

*see store for details

10419 Abercorn Ext. 961-5455

Best Woman’s Clothing Store

6614 Waters Ave 355-9610 (Waters at Stephenson)

Best Grocery Store

Publix

multiple locations

Best Health Food Store

Brighter Day Natural Foods 1102 Bull St./236-4703

Best Maid Service

Merry Maids

1200 Shannon Ave./356-3366

Best Shopping Center/Mall

Oglethorpe Mall 7804 Abercorn St./354-7038

Best Florist

John Davis Floral & Balloon Fare, Inc. 2430 Abercorn St./223-6077

Best Photography Service

Christine Hall Photography

315 Johnny Mercer Blvd. No. C/897-9155

Best Pawn Shop

Welsh Pawn Shop multiple locations

Best Motorcycle/Scooter Store

Savannah HarleyDavidson 6 Gateway Blvd. W/925-0005

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PetSmart

11132 Abercorn St./925-1116

Best Bed and Breakfast

The Gastonian 222 E. Gaston St./644-7896

Best Hotel

Mansion on Forsyth Park 700 Drayon St./238-5158

Cora Bett Thomas Realty muoltiple locations

Best Real Estate Agent

Andrea Re, Mopper-Stapen Realty 31 W. Congress St./238-0874

Best Local Homebuilder

Lopez Construction, Inc.

2305 Rowland Ave., Thunderbolt/3557890

Best Cellular Service/ Company

Verizon

multiple locations

Best Bank

Wachovia

349 Mall Blvd. No. 217/351-2210

Best Rental Car Company

Enterprise multiple locations

Best Taxi Service

Yellow Cab

1501 Staley Ave./236-1133

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Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

500 Gulfstream Rd./965-3000

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Absylom Rising

Touring organic jam band incorporating bluegrass, funk and jazz. Fri. - Sun., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

Argyle

Hard-hitting local indie-rockers supporting a new CD of ska, reggae and punk. Tues., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Bob Dylan Birthday Party

In honor of The Bard’s 66th time around the sun, this downtown tavern hosts an entire evening of both well-known and ultrarare Dylan tracks, spun in tag-team fashion by their resident avant-garde DJ KZL and his guest DJ Procrastinator (that’s me).

Thurs., 9 pm, Hang Fire.

Bottles & Cans

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Fat Possum-esque Delta garage bluesrock with lots of mouth harp and attitude.

Wed., 9 pm, Bay Street Blues + Thurs., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Sat., Gravy (formerly Sawyer’s).

Clean Record

Power trio from Statesboro playing popular rock covers from the past 3 decades.

Sat., 8 pm, The Warehouse.

Crabs Are Scavengers

High Velocity

Kick-ass Southern and classic rock covers, plus some modern C & W hits. Wed., Fri. -Sat., 9 pm, Gilly’s (Hinesville).

Liquid Ginger Unplugged

Acoustic, cover-o-centric version of this well-liked local modern rock band. Fri., 10 pm, Jen’s & Friends.

Sarah Peacock

Hard-touring, faith-based singer/songwriter from Atlanta with a slick, modern sound. Sat., 8 pm, Guitar Bar.

Rising Appalachia

Two sisters weaned on Old-Time fiddle and banjo tunes, backed by a hand-drummer on a wild variety of backwoods percussion. They tour internationally and are very adept at their craft. Local nouveau-retro antifolkers Lion Versus open. Tues., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean ALL-AGES.

Savannah Soul Project

Funky, grooveoriented local collective of studio musicians, featuring Brittany Bosco. Sat., 9:30 pm, Tantra Lounge.

Shiloh

“Shock your soul rock & roll” from a longstanding N.C. punk/metal band that’s been likened to Atreyu and 18 Visions.

Local newbies Inner Sinn open. Wed., 10 pm, Guitar Bar.

“Georgia Kyle” Shiver

Excellent local electric blues combo with a diverse setlist of well-known standards and rarely-heard gems. Fri., 7 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee) - ALL-AGES.

Accomplished singer/songwriter playing folk, blues and classic country covers and originals. Thurs., 7 pm, The Quarter + Fri., 7 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (w/Fiddlin’ Scott Holton) + Sat., 7 pm, A.J.’s Dockside (all on Tybee).

Eat Mo’ Music

The Subliminator

Deep Blue 3

Instrumental, dance-oriented soul-jazz.

Fri., 8:30 pm, Isaac’s on Drayton + Sat., 7 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee) - ALL-AGES.

Eymarel

Lucas TheaTre

Jazzier offshoot of popular local soul and R & B cover band A Nickel Bag of Funk, featuring vocalist Leslie Adele. Fri., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Dylan Love and Theft Peer

Disjointed and angular ultra-indie pop quartet from Knoxville that’s either an overly ambitious act with great potential (and a disinterest in commercial appeal), or a hopelessly mediocre stunt band that’s already reached the apex of their career. Interesting in an awkward way, but it can get old fast.

Charming local electro-pop outfit Pink Kodiak opens. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse - ALL-AGES.

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The Groove Eclectic

Funky contemporary jazz duo (drums and keys). Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Keith Foskey

Solo acoustic guitar covers and originals.

Sat., 8 pm, Augie’s (Richmond Hill).

A way-weird one-man act that sounds like Ken Nordine of Word Jazz fame engaged in long-distance, Was Not Wasstyle recording sessions with Nik Turner of Hawkwind fame (with whom he’s toured).

His work melds impassioned, phantasmagorical spoken poetry with spacey, loop and delay-based sci-fi-leaning sonic soundscapes. If it sounds like your bag, it will be.

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‘It only seems we’ve touched the tip of the iceberg’

Local trumpeter Alex Nguyen debuts his new nine-piece jazz orchestra

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Alex Nguyen and the Jazz Conceptions Orchestra

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sk Alex Nguyen to ponder why so many impressive young jazz musicians seem to come from the state of Florida, and before he answers, he’ll tell you it’s something he’s wondered about himself.

That’s understandable, as Nguyen (a celebrated young jazzman himself who earned international acclaim for his trumpet work while still in his teens) certainly weighed that information heavily when deciding where to attend college — eventually settling on the university of North Florida Jazz Studies Program under the direction of legendary artist Bunky Green.

“I think the schools do play a huge role,” Nguyen admits.

“UNF, where I just graduated from, has been one of the top jazz schools in the country for a while. Also, Florida State is developing a great program. It isn’t just the colleges, though. I’ve heard some amazing kids in Florida high schools! It seems like jazz education is much bigger there. They even have jazz bands in some middle schools. I knew of only two high school jazz

bands in Savannah when I was there.”

That relative lack of a major emphasis on jazz education proved to be of little hindrance for Nguyen, however. The Savannah native says he discovered the all-consuming world of jazz while in high school, and dove into it with a passion. Now, at the tender age of only 21, he’s already participated in residencies for promising young players in both Washington, D.C. and Chicago, and won the 2005 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition.

He’s performed at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Savannah Jazz Festival, Savannah Onstage International Arts Festival, and various venues in Asia.

And though since 2005 he’s made a number of headlining club appearances here locally with his own small jazz combo, he’s now taking a sizable leap forward by cofounding and leading the nine-piece Jazz Conceptions Orchestra — a brand-new group made up of a handpicked selection of

some of the finer young musicians whose paths have crossed with his over the past few years.

It’s a rather bold maneuver both artistically and logistically that posits Nguyen and band as risk-takers dedicated more to their craft than to the almighty dollar. The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra will make their official Savannah debut this weekend at Kokopelli’s on Broughton Street, a listening room and dessert bar Nguyen’s been affiliated with since it opened.

The horn player says the idea for the nine-piece group came out of a conversation between he and three fellow players.

“We were up late listening to music and I think I mentioned it very casually and my friend Matt jumped at it. Then, it was a like floodgate opening. The four of us shared a constant stream of ideas for the band. We’ve all been in groups together, but we really wanted something that was different, yet still our own. Being best friends only fueled our continued on page 60

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excitement and after that night, something I said on a lark had become a reality in all of our minds. We started writing charts that week and began thinking of an ideal lineup.”

Before long, Nguyen and company knew what they wanted to accomplish with such an “orchestra.” Given the type of musical opportunities provided by having so many instruments to work with —and the idealism and seemingly boundless energy that can only come from youthful exuberance— it’s not surprising their stated goals were more ambitious than pragmatic.

But then again, the best jazz is always more closely akin to walking a tightrope than taking the easy road.

Nguyen explains that this group has very clear goals in mind — not the least of which is to try and turn on young listeners who may be unfamiliar with the spirit and intensity behind much in the jazz idiom.

“When jazz was in the mainstream, there were big bands everywhere. You could go hear a band in a club or dance to their music in a ballroom. It’s a rarity today because times have changed.

People love the sound of a swingin’ big band, but it seems like the whole idea of them is lost. When I think of big bands of the past, I think of places like Kansas City — where musicians would come up with arrangements on the spot. They were great players with a lot of soul and passion — just like today when you go hear an emo rock or an R & B group that’s really into it and laying down their own thoughts and emotions.”

Nguyen laments the rarefied air that alltoo-often permeates today’s jazz scene.

“Many guys are either doing more of a recital or are just fronting without having true ties to the music. Today, a lot of big bands play other people’s arrangements, read the parts accurately and take a few solos. We want to recreate the vibe of the bands where

all the players are great and they have the intuition to make some real music and go wherever it takes them.”

“On top of being great players, everyone in this group can write, compose and arrange,” he explains, adding that the Jazz Conceptions Orchestra features arrangements by almost every member in their live shows — whether those be of songs of their own creation, or merely their own unique renditions of melodies which audiences familiar with classic jazz may recognize.

“We do tunes that are considered more standard big band repertoire, plus small group tunes we’ve adapted to our lineup, and even stuff outside the jazz idiom.”

The bandleader says everyone in the group enjoys the challenge of putting their own spin on acknowledged classics (“It’s such a rewarding feeling to write something you hear in your head and to have it brought to life by great musicians.”).

That’s a timehonored tradition of musical evolution that is a key part of the jazz world.

Yet he becomes most animated when imagining what will likely come next for this forward-thinking group.

“It only seems like we have touched the tip of the iceberg.

There are so many charts we want to write, and we haven’t even gotten to our original compositions yet!

“The group size is unique. The nine pieces include two trumpets, trombone, three saxes (alto, tenor and baritone, but they double on other instruments like flute, clarinet and bass clarinet), piano, bass and drums. With that lineup, we can really explore different timbres in sound. We can have a large, traditional big band sound, or a mellow vibe like Miles Davis got with Gil Evans, or the sound of a small jazz combo.

“The audience can expect to hear a lot of blues with impromptu arrangements.

Hopefully it’ll convey the vibe I was talking about earlier. We’re playing cool tunes like Miles Davis’ ‘Flamenco Sketches’ or hard bop tunes like Clifford Brown’s ‘Parisian Thoroughfare’ and several tunes from Cannonball Adderley and his group. It’s a

When I talk about ‘dynamic interaction’ and ‘risk-taking,’ I think about Miles Davis’ group in the ‘60s, they were really stretching the boundaries of jazz music and laid the groundwork for how we communicate in a modern small group. There are so many possibilities if you’re in with great musicians that are sensitive and let the music— not their e g o s — t a k e o v e r.

That is when a craft can become art. It is communication and creation on the bandstand.

very diverse collection of music.”

Although Nguyen proudly describes the orchestra as a collective “in the truest sense of the word,” he says he wound up assuming the role of bandleader almost by default — but he’s up for the challenge.

“I already have somewhat of a solo career, so it was decided my experience could help propel us forward. I get the gigs, run rehearsals, and have a final say about the direction of the group. But that should not minimize the role of all of these guys!

They’ve been great about all the details required in an organization like this. It definitely requires a strong commitment, and that’s something we deeply considered.

They’re all great players, and I think they’re excited and devoted to this group.”

Perhaps the best advantage in a “big band” of this unusual size and format is that its members can often react as they would in a smaller jazz group, affording them more musical options and opportunity for that allimportant spontaneity.

“When I talk about ‘dynamic interaction’ and ‘risk-taking,’ I think about Miles Davis’ group in the ‘60s,” Nguyen continues. “They were really stretching the boundaries of jazz music and laid the groundwork for how we communicate in a modern small group.

There are so many possibilities if you’re in with great musicians that are sensitive and let the music— not their egos— take over.

That is when a craft can become art. It is communication and creation on the bandstand. “ “I think we’ve come up with some cool things within this formula. Playing is always a puzzle to me, but related to what I said before: you can shoot yourself in the foot by thinking too much about it.”

Nguyen says he’s excited to return to Kokopelli’s, which he describes as a fantastic place to see live music.

“There are less and less venues like this one, which focus on the music,” he offers.

“They have a nice grand piano, sound system, lights and stage that really showcase the bands. When the crowd is good and the band is swingin’, it feels awesome. One of the reasons we made our group this size is because we wanted to be able to play in clubs. The exchange between the audience and the band in an intimate venue like this can be amazing.”

He says that around here, when it comes to creating a bond between jazz musicians and their audience, there’s no place better.

“You’re getting a concert, but it seems like the artists are there just for you. I think the place is a great asset to the city and wish that more people were exposed to it, because I would love to see jazz music thrive in Savannah.” w Alex Nguyen & the Jazz Conceptions Orchestra plays a 21+ gig at Kokopelli’s Jazz Club Friday and Saturday, starting at 8 pm. $15 at the door covers all three sets.

Zach Deputy

Relentlessly funky guitarist/percussionist/synth player from Bluffton whose soulful and highly controlled vocals and jam aesthetic incorporates reggae and dub rhythms, call and response singing (and patois), human beatbox riffs, and even a hint of Balkan folk or gypsy jazz. Recommended for fans of G. Love, P-Groove, Dave Matthews and even Matisyahu. Sat., 10 pm, Loco’s (downtown).

Cliff Eberhardt

seat at this ALL-AGES show. Sat., 8 pm, Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (1304 E. Hwy 80, Bloomingdale).

The Fundamentals

Essentially a stripped-down version of popular 13-piece R & B party band The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love, this quintet may lack the full horn section of that in-demand soul revue, but they more than get the job done with a core group of some of the better and most experienced ringers in the area, including guitarist John Banks, bassist Phil MacDonald and vocalist Tim Love. Expect plenty of good-time danceable groove music, heavy on the backbeat.

Fri., 8 pm & Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (Southside).

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Despite having his songs covered by the likes of such esteemed folk and contemporary acoustic pop greats as Richie Havens, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Dar Williams, the average listener likely The Hellblinki knows nothing of Sextet, Creech this Greenwich Village stalwart.

Holler Yet, says The Hellblinki wears Washington Times, its Swordfishtrombones “If life was fair and jones proudly on its stardom based on sleeve, and while they raw talent, Cliff probably tire of hearing Eberhardt would that from writers such be a household as myself, it’s a much name.” more interesting shirt The latest in a than most Southeastern long and ongoing bar bands even have line of critically in their closet. Anyone heralded artists who appreciates the brought to town creepy, Shanghai surby the good folks prise of Tom Waits’ at the Savannah unhinged sailor bit will Folk Music dig this freaky, rattleSociety, Eberhardt trap pirate cabaret.

Cliff Eberhardt will no doubt Creech Holler mines showcase matethe same territory, but rial from his lattheir nightmare visions est CD on the respected Red House label, as are straight out of a dank W. Va. lake, rather well as gems from his back catalog — delivthan an old steam-driven sailing vessel. This ered with the emotional vocals and finessed Tn.-based trio soaks old Harry Smith-califretwork that are his calling cards. As with ber mountain ballads in a rotgut whiskey virtually all the SFMS shows, this one’s open barrel before straining them out through to ALL-AGES and would probably make a electrified, house-rockin’ garage blues. This great outing for any young, budding songis one unsettling and occasionally terrifying writer. Tickets available at the door ($10 bad trip you’ll actually hope goes on for a for the general public/$8 for SFMS memwhile Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx. bers). For more info, call 786-6953 or go The Judge & The Jury to www.savannahfolk.org. Thurs., 7:30 pm, A very welcome one-off reunion First Presbyterian Church (520 Washington gig from this great old-time/bluegrass/ Ave.) - ALL-AGES. Southern gospel/alt.country act that drew Ernie Evans & Southern Lite large crowds years ago at the now-defunct Here’s a great double-bill of heavy-duty Jim Collins Bar and Velvet Elvis Lounge. bluegrass. Evans and co. hail from the fertile Frontman and guitarist Aaron Parrett is musical greenhouse of Fla., and each of the now an English “perfesser” up in Montana, members have been staples on the bluegrass while sideman Jason Anderson divides circuit for the past 2 decades. This group, his time between Superhorse and The 8which formed in 2001 specifically to back Tracks. This surprise show coincides with up the late, great hillbilly jazz fiddler Vassar local recording sessions for Aaron’s next Clements, quickly ascended the ranks to besolo CD, but their set will include plenty came a top draw at clubs and festivals alike of fondly-remembered fan faves as well as on their own. As if their fresh and contemsome brand-new material. Guitarist and porary sound (with respectful nods to tradisinger Tony Beasley opens under his own tion, of course) wasn’t enough, newcomers name with a set of rarely-heard original folk The Wilson Family open the show, and and country tunes not geared to his betterthe members of that group are said to be known (and fouler-mouthed) stage persona no slouches either when it comes to chops Whiskey Dick. Note the early start time!

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WEDNESDAY

BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

#@*! Karaoke

MAY 23RD

THE BREW PUB (Hilton Head)

Joey Manning (7 pm)

BUFFALO’S CAFÉ (Hinesville)

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

Karaoke (7 pm)

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CHUCK’S BAR

NOTE: Clubs, if you have live music and want to be listed for free in Soundboard or Music Menu, just mail, fax, or email your lineup to us BY NOON ON WEDNESDAY for inclusion in our next issue.

Please enclose publicity photos and band bios as well.

Address: Connect Savannah, Inc., 1800 E. Victory Drive, Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 Fax: (912)231-9932 Email: jim.r@connectsavannah.com All Bands Scheduled Are Subject To Change

Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm)

COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.)

KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm)

THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)

CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)

Open Mic Night (9:30 pm)

TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown)

DAWG HOUSE GRILL

Team Trivia w/Ben & Senae

WormsLoew (7 pm)

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE (Tybee)

Pianist David Duckworth (7 pm)

Live Music TBA

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)

Barry Johnson

DJ Sam Diamond (Savannah Shag Club)

MCDONOUGH’S

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)

Karaoke

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

MERCURY LOUNGE

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm)

Voodoo Soup (9 pm)

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside)

Celtic Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

ONE HOT MAMA’S BBQ (Bluffton)

GILLEY’S (Hinesville)

Live Music TBA (8:30 pm)

THURSDAY

High Velocity (9 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)

GUITAR BAR

Live Music TBA

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)

Damon Matland (7:30 pm), Open Mic (9 pm), Shiloh, Inner Sinn (10 pm)

THE QUARTER SPORTS BAR (Tybee)

Karaoke (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

The Bobby Ryder Quartet (8 pm)

DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B)

Jeff Beasley (7 pm)

Dueling Pianos (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Jukebox Journey (8 pm)

Rock & Roll Bingo w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (11 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S

Psychotronic Film: YOU ARE A WIDOW, SIR! (8 pm)

KING’S INN

5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm)

Abebi Stafford (6 pm)

“Georgia Kyle” Shiver (10 pm)

HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.)

SAVANNAH BLUES

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER

JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

JEN’S & FRIENDS

SAVANNAH THEATRE

THE JINX

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Frank Emerson

SLUGGERS

Karaoke w/Michael (10 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)

Paul Reeves (6 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)

MAY 24TH

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)

Mary Davis & Co. (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)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Teen Classes: Mad for Mod! Figure Drawing

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#@*! Karaoke (10 pm) CLUB ONE

Insutrial Resurrection w/DJ Shrapnel (10 pm) COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.) 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)

“Georgia Kyle” Shiver & Fiddlin’ Scott Holton (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

Listen 2 Three (9 pm)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (520 Washington Ave.)

Cliff Eberhatrdt (7:30 pm)

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)

Jeff Beasley (9 pm)

THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.)

BOB DYLAN 66th Birthday Party w/DJ KZL & DJ Procrastinator (9 pm) HERCULES (Pt. Wentworth)

Live Music TBA (7:30 pm) ISAAC’S ON DRAYTON

Gail Thurmond (7 pm)

THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

The Lavon Stevens Project w/Brad Henty (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

Trae Gurley (7 pm) THE JINX

Dance Party w/DJ D-Frost & Friends (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S

Frank Emerson

KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

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Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca

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Open Mic Night w/Ben Bowne (9 pm)

FRIDAY

EL PICASSO (319 Main St., Garden City)

LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort)

Team Trivia w/Ben Bennett & Senae (7 pm)

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)

FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)

The Christy Alan Band (9 pm)

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

LOCOS DELI & GRILL (downtown) LOCOS DELI & GRILL (Southside) MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

Pianist David Duckworth (5 pm), Vocalist Roger Moss (8 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE

MAY 25TH

“Georgia Kyle” Shiver (7 pm)

AMERICAN LEGION POST #36 (Thunderbolt)

Karaoke

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)

Karaoke (8 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

Absylom Rising (9 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) The Fundamentals (8 pm)

Nancy Witt

John Ignac (8 pm)

Karaoke

Live Music TBA

Bottles & Cans (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Rockslide & The Star Spangled Banners (9 pm)

Perception (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (8:30 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Profiles In Courage, Inner Sinn, So Save Me (10 pm)

The Train Wrecks (10 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Chief (8 pm)

J. Howard Duff (7:30 pm)

David Harbuck (9 pm), Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)

Live Music TBA (5 pm)

Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm)

Live Music TBA

Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA

Nancy Witt

“Helium Karaoke” w/Wrath Nasty

#@*! Karaoke

The Hitmen (10 pm)

DJ Southstar: Hip-hop (10 pm - 6 am)

DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B)

Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor)

MCDONOUGH’S

B & B ALE HOUSE

MERCURY LOUNGE

B & D BURGERS (Southside)

MERTRO COFFEE HOUSE

BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler)

MOON RIVER BREWING CO.

BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB MYRTLE’S BAR & GRILL (Bluffton) ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)

POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) THE RAIL PUB

SAVANNAH BLUES

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3

BAYOU CAFÉ

BENNIE’S (Tybee)

BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE CLUB ICE

CLUB ONE

COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.)

The Chris Mitchell Band (9 pm) FRIENDLY’S TAVERN 2

#@*! Karaoke

GILLEY’S (Hinesville)

High Velocity (9 pm)

HERCULES (Pt. Wentworth) HUC-A-POOS (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE HYATT

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

ISAAC’S ON DRAYTON

Eat Mo’ Music (8:30 pm)

THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

The Scott Giddens Quartet (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

The Subliminator (8 pm)

Karaoke

Trivia w/Charles & Mikey (10 pm)

Chief (6 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Roy & The Circuit Breakers

DJ In A Coma (11 pm)

“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

SPANKY’S (River St.)

STEAMER’S (Georgetown) TANTRA LOUNGE

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca

TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB DJ Southstar spins Top 40 (10 pm)

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) DINGUS MAGEE’S (Statesboro) DOC’S BAR (Tybee)

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

MCDONOUGH’S

Karaoke

MERCURY LOUNGE

Live Music TBA (10 pm) Live Music TBA (10 pm) MULBERRY INN

The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)

Deep Blue 3 (7 pm)

ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)

Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)

Live Music TBA

PLUM’S (Beaufort) Jeff Norwood (10 pm) POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

RETRIEVER’S (Statesboro)

THE JINX

The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm)

SLUGGER’S

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Liquid Ginger Unplugged (10 pm)

JEN’S & FRIENDS

Dueling Pianos (9 pm)

DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS

RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204)

Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm)

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Michael “B-Flat” Sears & Tony Royster, Sr. (7 pm)

Eymarel (9 pm)

DJ Nick J - ‘80s, house, breaks, D & B (10 pm)

CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR

MARDIS GRAS ON BAY

MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB

GUITAR BAR

The Judge & The Jury (Reunion Show), Tony Beasley (9 pm)

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

Pianist Eric Jones (5 pm), The Jeff Beasley Band (9 pm)

JUKEBOX BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) KATHLEEN’S (Beaufort)

Live Music TBA (9 pm) Live Music TBA (8 pm)

ROBIN’S NEST (Pooler)

Live Music TBA (8 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3

Frank Emerson

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

KEVIN BARRY’S KING’S INN

DJ Analog Kid (10 pm)

Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)

Alex Nguyen & The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (8 pm) LOCO’S (downtown)

Mr. Wiley (10 pm)

LUNA LOUNGE @ IL PASTICCIO

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SCANDALS (Tybee)

Big Engine (9:30 pm)

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Pixel Panda, City/State (8 pm)

SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

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TUBBY’S (River St.)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

Downtown’s Only Salad Bar!

TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Mon-Fri 11:30-3:00pm

VENUS DE MILO

Hip-Hop Night w/DJ Life & DJ Valis (10 pm)

Awesome toasted ciabatta sandwiches!

THE WAREHOUSE

G.E. Perry (8 pm) WASABI’S

Thomas Claxton (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ

The Courtenay Brothers Band (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)

Coonor Christian & The Morningstar Revival (10:30 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)

Live Music TBA (11 pm)

WIND ROSE CAFÉ (Tybee)

Lurid Miscreants (10 pm)

BAr & GriLL

Bull St. between Congress and Broughton 912-238-JENS Locally Owned & Operated by Jen & John Bressler

“Savannah’s Best Happy Hour” Mon-Fri 3:00pm-7:00pm

Liquid Ginger Friday, May 25th 10:00pm-1:00am

HOME OF tHE 100 MArtiNiS

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BAY STREET BLUES

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

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SORRY CHARLIE’S

THE ALE HOUSE (Bluffton)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

MOON RIVER BREWING CO.

SPANKY’S (River St.)

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside)

MULBERRY INN

The Bluesonics (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Absylom Rising (9 pm)

Keith Foskey (8 pm)

STEAMERS (Georgetown)

B & B ALE HOUSE

David Flannery (9 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

BC & The Rock Mob (9 pm)

Thomas Claxton (9 pm), Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)

Keith & Ross (6 pm)

Karaoke w/DJ Levis

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

The Joseph Michael Duo (6 pm)

TUBBY’S (River St.)

BENNY’S (Tybee)

TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)

BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET

TURTLE’S (Statesboro)

BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Blankety Blank (10 pm)

Roy & The Circuit Breakers

DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

A Nickel Bag of Funk

SATURDAY

6604 Waters Avenue (On Waters Near Stephenson)

Pianist Eic Jones (5 pm), The Groove Eclectic feat.

Leslie Adele (9 pm) MARDIS GRAS ON BAY

SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)

Live Music TBA (8 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S

Live Music TBA

SPANKY’S (River St.)

Keith & Ross (9 pm)

STEAMERS (Georgetown)

Live Music TBA (9 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

The Eric Cuberson Blues Band (10 pm)

...to eat PHO? IRON SUSH

352-4182/4183 Dine In or Take Out

Crabs Are Scavengers, Pink Kodiak (8 pm)

MERCURY LOUNGE

The Christy Alan Band (9 pm)

Where do you go....

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Zach Deputy (10 pm)

Karaoke

FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)

THE SEA GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

MCDONOUGH’S

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)

LOCO’S DELI & GRILL (downtown)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)

Joey Manning (7 pm)

SCANDALS (Tybee)

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS

“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)

Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm)

Michael “B-Flat” Sears & Tony Royster, Sr. (7 pm)

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)

MAY 26TH

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

Alex Nguyen & The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (8 pm)

DOC’S BAR (Tybee)

YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)

Soul Kitchen (1 pm), The Train Wrecks (6 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

SAVANNAH JAZZ & BLUES BISTRO (Bluffton)

Frank Emerson

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee)

WISEGUYS (Statesboro)

We N ow S e r ve , A s ia n B e e rs Sake & P lu m W in e

KEVIN BARRY’S

Old School Dance Party w/DJ Analog Kid (10 pm)

Karaoke

#@*! Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

The Hellblinki Sextet, Creech Holler (10 pm)

Karaoke

DEB’S PUB & GRUB

WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)

SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3

THE JINX

JUAREZ MEXICAN RESTAURANT (Waters Ave.)

DJ Kiah (10 pm)

The Horny Frogs (10:30 pm)

The Kendal Williams Band (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

DC2 DESIGN (104 W. Broughton St.)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)

SAVANNAH BLUES

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)

WILD WING CAFÉ

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

JEN’S & FRIENDS

THE CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)

Live DJ (8 pm)

RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head)

David Keller & Brendan Polk (9 pm)

DJ Jason Hancock spins Progressive House (10 pm)

WET WILLIE’S

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

CLUB ONE

WAYS STATION TAVERN (Richmond Hill)

RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204)

The Scott Giddens Quartet (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (2 pm)

The Train Wrecks (8 pm)

Ernie Evans & Southern Lite, The Wilson Family (8 pm)

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

CITY MARKET COURTYARD

THE WAREHOUSE

RANDY WOOD’S CONCERT HALL (Bloomingdale)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

#@*! Karaoke

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA

THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)

CHUCK’S BAR

VIC’S ON THE RIVER

THE RAIL PUB

Live Music TBA (5 pm)

#@*! Karaoke

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

ISAAC’S ON DRAYTON THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE

The Courtenay Brothers (6 pm)

POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)

Live Music TBA (8 pm) Gail Thurmond (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

THE PLANTATION CLUB

Live Music TBA

THE HYATT

THE BRITANNIA (Wilmington Isl.)

VFW CLUB (Hinesville)

Sarah Peacock (8 pm), Element Unseen (11 pm) Heart & Soul (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Live DJ

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

GUITAR BAR HANG FIRE

BOGEY’S

VENUS DI MILO

PANINI’S (Beaufort)

Bottles & Cans

BAYOU CAFÉ

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Eat Mo’ Music (7 pm)

GRAVY (formerly Sawyer’s)

Pocket Change (9:30 pm)

UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)

NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)

High Velocity (9 pm)

BAY STREET BLUES

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

GILLEY’S (Hinesville)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

TANTRA LOUNGE

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm)

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)

Live Music TBA

STINGRAY’S (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

The Fundamentals (9 pm)

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TANTRA LOUNGE

METRO COFFEE HOUSE

Savannah Soul Project feat. Brittany Bosco (9:30 pm)

The Brock Scott Quartet (CD Release), In The Picture (8 pm)

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Jude Michaels (10 pm) *

TUBBY’S (River St.)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

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TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

TURTLE’S (Statesboro)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)

Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO

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DJ Maytag (10 pm)

VFW CLUB (Hinesville)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

VIC’S ON THE RIVER

Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE

Never A Cover

Clean Record (8 pm) Live DJ (8 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ

The

Chuck Courtenay (1 pm) U-Phonik (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)

A

Casimir’s Lounge

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

David Duckworth, Pianist

WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)

Wed., May 23

YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)

Thurs., May 24

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Thurs., May 24

David Duckworth, Pianist Fri., May 25

Roger Moss

MAY 27TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)

Jeff Beasley Band

MANSION

Sat., May 26

$1 PBR

Eric Jones, Pianist

Thurs. May 24

O N F O R S Y T H PA R K

Leslie Adele, Jazz Vocalist

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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)

KesslerHotels.com

Live Music TBA

Fri. May 25th

BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler)

Karaoke

McDonough’s Savannah’s Favorite Restaurant

Chief (8 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)

The Hitmen $2 Miller Lite Drafts All night $2 Captain Morgan's Tattoo Shots

B & B ALE HOUSE

BAYOU CAFÉ

Live Music

Eric Jones, Pianist Sat., May 26

Fri., May 25

SUNDAY

Wed. May 23rd

Bösendorfer Lounge

in the Historic Downtown Savannah St. Patrick’s Day headquarters

Best Food, Drinks & Prices in Town!

Live Music $5 Jager Bombs $2 Cuervos Sat. May 26th

Kendal WIlliams Band

Where all the locals go for food, fun & spirits

$2 Dom. Draft 'til 10

DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)

FEATURING

Live Music

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee)

12 OZ. NY STRIP 12 Oz. CHOICE RIBEYE

COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE

Coastal Jazz Association Presents: Brenda Morie (5 pm) Karaoke

The Train Wrecks (6 pm)

DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island)

Live Music TBA

Mon. May 28th

Tues. May 29tht

Open Mic w/ The Hitmen

$15.95

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)

“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

• Live entertainment, dance floor

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

• Award Winning Karaoke

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) EL POTRO (13051 Abercorn St.)

Karaoke w/Michael (9 pm)

for the last seven years, 7 days a week, 9 - until

FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)

• Video Games, 26 TV Sets

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

• Ladies Night Tuesday 9 ‘til 12

Randy “Hatman” Smith (8 pm) Absylom Rising (9 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Buddy Corns (5 pm)

• Best Lunch Special in Savannah • 2 for 1 Happy Hour Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Complimentary Hors D’Oeuvres

21 E. McDonough Street (corner Drayton & McDonough)

Come & Jam!

Happy Hour Daily 5PM–9PM

2 Blocks North of Desoto Hilton across from Savannah Theatre

233-6136 Opening 8 . .- Closing 3 . ., 6 Days a week. am

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• Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

am

KITCHEN OPEN TIL CLOSING Sunday 8 a.m. - Closing 2 a.m.

Mon-Fri 5pm-3am Sat 3pm-3am 206 W St. Julian St.

232-7002

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Live Music TBA (10 pm)

rt of Entertaining well.

www.savannahblues.net

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THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

FRI & SAT

The Hottest Dance Party On the Southside!!

DJ SAM DIAMOND mou with the “World Fa

s”

$5 Cover after 10pm

WWW.DOUBLES

NIGHTCLUB.COM 7100 Abercorn • 912 352-7100 Inside the Holiday Inn Midtown

Dixieland Jazz Jam (3 pm), The Scott Giddens Quartet (8 pm)

Coming Soon: TONE LOC May 18th 313-317 W. River St. • 238-8813

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

KEVIN BARRY’S

Open Mic Night (7:30 pm)

MALONE’S (309 W. River St.)

A Nickel Bag of Funk (7 pm)

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

Live Piano Music TBA

Brendan Polk & David Keller (7 pm) Frank Emerson

Live Music TBA

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-- Oil paintings by this SCAD MFA candidate May 17-June 7 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception Thursday May 24, 6-9 p.m.

‘Vehicle Season’ --

‘Spatial Ontology’ --

Above and top right, paintings by Michelle Berg Radford are at Gallery Espresso; reception is Thursday

Perspectival, actual, flat and optical space are explored by artist J. Kip Bradley in his upcoming exhibition at the City of Savannah’s Gallery S.P.A.C.E. through May 28.

S. P. A. C. E. is at 9 West Henry St. (between Bull and Whitaker Streets).

A thesis exhibition by M.F.A. painting candidate Tim Wirth, through June 4, with a reception May 25, 5-7 p.m., at Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St. Free and open to the public. ‘Vehicle Season’ features Wirth’s recent paintings plus several drawings and wood constructions.

SCD Alumni Art -- Featuring work from

such distinguished Savannah Country Day alumni as Jack Leigh (’64) and Lisa Robinson (’86), the exhibition runs through June 1. Hours are 8 a.m.-4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday. On display in the atrium of the new Nina Anderson Pape Middle School Building.

‘The Way I See It’ -- Daniel E. Smith’s

first solo show with the Whitney Gallery is inspired by his childhood memories from Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Lowountry Reception is Saturday May 26, 5:30–8:30 p.m. Show runs through June 23. Whitney gallery is at 415 Whitaker St.

Local artists featured on GPB -- Artists Lori Keith Robinson and Jan Clayton Pagratis, who paint together as LOJA, are the subject of an upcoming segment on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “State of the Arts” program airing May 24, 25, and 27.

Pagratis and Robinson are co-owners of Chroma Gallery in City Market. The segment will run on PBS on Thursday, May 24 at 9 p.m., and repeat Friday, May 25 at 7 p.m. as well as Sunday, May 27 at 4 p.m. and 1 a.m. After the program airs, it will be streaming on the GPB website at www.gpb. org/sota/.

‘Sensual Pleasures’ -- Alvida Art Gallery on the southside hosts this eclectic visual art and musical event Saturday, June 2 at 7 p.m. “Everything will be a sensual delight from the art to the music,” says a gallery spokesperson. “Children are welcome but keep in mind that, although nothing will be x-rated, there may be nudity. In the art.”

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MFA thesis exhibition by Jeff Tackett, featuring a binary mixed media installation that explores themes of loss, dormancy, and conscious reconciliation. 325 East Bay Street, Third Floor above B. Matthews Eatery.

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dia by SCAD senior Dru Blumensheild, inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Desot O row Gallery through April 16. Hrs. Tues-Sun 12-4 p.m., 2427 DeSoto Ave, between Bull and Whitaker off 41st.

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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.

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by Aliza Lelah, May 4-26 at Rosewood Contemporary Art, 113 E Oglethorpe Ave. Gallery hours Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

p.m. most nights.

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Monterey Square and Forsyth Park adds works by Fran Schroeder. Fran Thomas, internationally recognized artist and owner of the gallery is currently showing her latest contemporary work in mixed media. Others include Olivia McKinley, Charlotte Dunlap, Frances Walter, Morgan Kuhn, Tim Coy and Dicky Stone. Gallery 440 is open from 11-5, Wed-Sat. Call 7901144 or after hours at 507-8440.

‘Architectural Gestures’ -- by Siddharth Parasnis, through June 3 at Chroma Gallery, 31 Barnard St. Jay Kuhr@JEA -Photography by UGA graduate Jay Kuhr will hang at the Jewish Educational Alliance during May. The JEA is at 5111 Abercorn St. Ivan Hinds -- The work

of this Guyana-born artist will be on display thru May 31 at Alvida Art Gallery, 7303-D Abercorn St.

Jepson Center for the Arts – “A Consuming Vision: Selections from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art” through June 10; “Telling Tales,” works by Nancy Hooten, through July 8. 207 W. York St. Call 790-8800.

Work by LOJA is featured on GPB’s ‘State of the Arts’ airing May 24, 25 and 27

‘Celebrating Musicians’ -- Sketches and Paintings by Sandy Branam at Off the Wall Gallery in 45 Bistro of The Marshall House, 123 E. Broughton St., thru May 31.

Christina Bates & Bryan Attaway —

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Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences — “Beyond Whistler: Modern and Contemporary Prints from the Telfair’s Collection,” through Aug. 5; 121 Barnard St. Call 790-8800. w

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Perspective. In this exhibition, “Spatial Ontology”, Kip Bradley is playing with these concepts using the simple opposition between two dimensions and three dimensions in color and perspective.

Eighteen works are here on display. They are all created on 24” wide vertical strips of aluminum, ranging in height from 60” to 120”. These serve as the support for floating geometric shapes painted in oils.

These shapes resemble individual stair steps that have come away from the staircase.

The reason they appear to be like steps (rather than, say, boxes) is that they consist of only two planes – the upright and the flat top that one might step on.

They are viewed in one-point perspective, and on them are

painted stripes.

On the upright plane the stripes are parallel to the sides; on the top plane, however, the stripes are parallel to each other, in conflict with the perspective of the sides, creating a tension.

To add another contradictory element, the value of the colors used is often the reverse of what you might expect, destroying the perspective by ignoring the logic of the light falling on the “step”. To this mix, Bradley adds small two-dimensional rectangles of color along the edges.

What further distorts this perspective is the fact of the aluminum strips having been bent, making the structure a 3-dimensional relief. My question immediately becomes: Did Bradley bend the aluminum before or after painting on it? In many of the works, it would seem that it was bent first, and the step structures were then placed between the bends.

But the most successful, for me, are the ones that look like they were bent after painting – in other words, the bends interrupt the shapes in an interesting visual way.

Also, other kinetic distortions occur as a result of the reflective nature of the aluminum which presents curved versions of the objects.

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World on Fire When I first saw the exhibition of works by Gray Scott, I just assumed they were hyper-realist paintings, not photographs. Which is interesting as hyper-realist painting imitates the surface of a photograph. In this case, photographs are imitating hyper-realist paintings which are imitating photographs, a nice back and forth simulation These are seven large works that form a fragmented narrative (#4 is an exception, being a close-up of a woman’s face) that takes place in a space that reads as a nuclear fall-out shelter, since on the walls there is the familiar sign with its 3 inverted pyramids in a circle that was used in the 1950s shelters.

The furniture in the room of this narrative space are simple and consistent with the fallout shelter idea – table, chair, and cot.

And although there are items of communication: rotary telephone, television set with its geometric pattern of static, and a switchboard box on a table, one has the sense that no one can be in contact, no one summoned, no one notified in this narrative of future (which was past) panic.

Scott’s world is a mix of nostalgia and high-technology, past and future, showing change along with unnerving similarity.

This is reminiscent of Terry Gilliam’s film, “Brazil”. Scott has used his background in fashion photography to good effect.

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I was immediately reminded of the abstract Opart movement of the 1960s, and its most well-known proponent, Bridget Riley.

Her works were two-dimensional, being composed of stripes of different widths, and in differing perspectives they gave the impression of movement.

Looking into my many art research volumes, I thought it interesting that there was no mention of either Riley or indeed, the entire movement, a popular one of its period. Since we are in the middle of a return to the concerns of the 1960s in fashion, psychedelic color, the perceived need for viewer participation and the issues of nuclear power and war, Kip Bradley’s work can be seen as part of that return.

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ures, a man and a woman, acting out a drama with all the intensity of the latest Vogue magazine shoot – the vacant stare, the perfect features, the woman flaunting her ultra-white, plastic-like skin, except for the blackened hands up to the wrists - the sign of the toxins within that perfect body –- and posed in stilted, auto-erotic poses. Mimicking a manikin mimicking a real woman.

So here too, we can watch fashion collapse in its final death throes through the narrative – the woman first wearing a flimsy dress, then discarding it for the thin underslip and finally appearing vulnerable and completely naked at the moment her “partner” has picked up a gun to point at her.

One photo is a close-up of this man, alone. He is wearing a kind of white protective suit with a hood, but it looks as though it has been updated to wear as casual gear.

And Scott may be drawing for inspiration on the new “respectability” of our old foe, the nuclear industry, as it is now being resurrected to huge acclaim (and huger profits) in the wake of the media paranoia concerning global warming.

Nuclear energy is cleaner, they say. Though once made, it can never be “unmade”, so must be stored, buried in a kind of fall-out shelter for energy, I guess.

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Left to right: Rev. Garrison Frazier (Barry Kennedy), Gen. William T. Sherman (Skye Whitcomb) and Secretary of State Edwin Stanton (Tom Kurtz); this scene takes place in Sherman’s headquarters in the Green-Meldrim Mansion

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istory Theatre is a theatre company with a mission.

Fritz and Lorrie Rumpel are the former owners of the Tybee Theater Cafe.

Their latest venture will take a look at one of Savannah’s most intriguing aspects -- its history.

“It’s a theater where ‘old times here are not forgotten,’” says Lorrie. “We think there is a large market for historical theater, and that market wants to know about Savannah’s history.”

Their first production is Let My People Go, a play about slavery in Savannah.

“We found that a lot of the history here in Savannah wasn’t just local history, it reverberates throughout the country,” Fritz says.

The play was written by Fritz and is being directed by Lorrie. “It’s a story that most people haven’t gotten to hear and want to hear,” she says.

Slavery in Savannah remains a touchy subject even 142 years after the end of the Civil War. “There needs to be a healing in Savannah,” Lorrie says. “Forgiveness begins with the truth.”

Lorrie is a licensed professional counselor whose background is working with abuse victims. “You can’t let go (of pain and anger) until you acknowledge what happened,” she says.

“People ask us, ‘Why do you want to bring this up again?’” Lorrie says. “We’re not trying to dwell on the negative. This is what happened and we must recognize it so we can move forward and build trust again.”

Technically, the play is not a musical, but music in the form of spirituals and period music and dance are used to bridge the scenes of the play. The theme of the play is “Freedom through faith.”

The title of the play is taken from the Biblical book of Exodus, when God instructed Moses to lead his people out of Egypt, where they were enslaved.

Considerable research was done during the writing of the play, and the Rumpels uncovered many stories, including the story of “The Weeping Time.”

“The Weeping Time” was the largest sale of slaves ever recorded in North America, and it took place in Savannah. A reporter for the New York Tribune wrote an article about the sale, which took place March 3 and 4, 1859.

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Families who had lived and worked all stories and events we discovered.” their lives on the Butler plantation were sep“At first, the idea was to follow a fictional arated on that day. A steady rain fell during family, kind of like Roots,” Fritz says. “But the entire auction, ending only after the last we realized there was more here. The facts slave walked off the auction block. were better than fiction.”

“The Weeping Time scene is taken verThe Rumpels plan to develop plays about batim from words of the Northern jourother ethnic groups in Savannah, includnalist,” Fritz says. “Getting the story was ing the Irish, Jewish and Native Americans. difficult, but we really After its initial theatrifell into it.” cal run, Lorrie hopes Not many people that Let My People Go outside the black comwill be presented in area munity know the story, schools.

Lorrie says. “It was a “We’d really like to revelation to me,” she find a permanent venue,” says. “Nobody knew she says. “We had talked where the auction was to the Coastal Heritage held.”

Society about using the After more retheater at the Savannah search, the Rumpels Visitors Center, but they learned it was held at said they have plans to a place called the Ten demolish it.”

Broeck Race Course, The play will be marwhich was located keted for tourists, as along Louisville Road. well as locals. “A lot of It is now covered by tourists come through Interstate 516.

Savannah,” Fritz says.

“That is very near Rev. James Lynch (J. Robert Mayes III) “They ask about what’s the place we are doing going on at night. Some the production, just a would like to see the acmile away,” Lorrie says. “It was hard for us to tual history of Savannah.” know that it happened here.”

Both Rumpels have extensive backThe play opens with a scene in Senegal to grounds in theater. Lorrie got her start in show how Africans became slaves through the Savannah Little Theatre, playing Liesl in capture and indoctrination into the slave The Sound of Music. labor systems. The second and third scenes “In junior high, I directed two operetfocus on the Rev. Andrew Bryan, pastor of tas, The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance,” the First Bryan Baptist Church and one of she says. “Fritz comes from an artistic famSavannah’s earliest black ministers. ily. His father was the principal cellist for the Another scene takes place on March 21, Savannah Symphony and taught music.”

1861 at what is now the Savannah Theatre.

Fritz has written several plays and a Then it was called The Atheneum, and that book, The Showdown in St. Augustine, about night it featured a speech by Alexander Martin Luther King Jr. A former tour guide, H. Stephens, the vice president of the he also has written a play set aboard a trolConfederacy. ley.

Stephens’ topic was “The Cornerstone of Let My People Go wasn’t difficult to write, the Confederacy.” In it, he said slavery was except for choosing the scenes, Fritz says. the cornerstone of the Confederacy, and he “We had to decide, ‘Exactly what do we tried to rationalize it by saying slavery was want to cover?’” he says. ordained by God. There have been many challenges in The play also has scenes that are fictionstaging Let My People Go, Lorrie says. The alized, but based on the memoirs of a real play has 10 roles, and each role has been person, Susie King Taylor. Taylor was a slave double-cast. “We have ongoing auditions,” who was illegally taught to read and write, Lorrie says. “We’re hoping the show will run and she escaped just after the capture of Fort indefinitely.”

Pulaski in 1862.

The process has been challenging for the Another historical event that is reactors, too. “The whole process of working counted in the play is the meeting of with a biracial cast has been a group proSecretary of War Edwin Stanton and Gen. cess,” Lorrie says. “There’s been some pain.

William T. Sherman with 20 black Savannah People are speaking words from history. It’s ministers on Jan. 12, 1865. Known as the painful, but it’s positive. It’s like giving birth.

Savannah Colloquy, the meeting took place You’d rather not do it, but there is a good in Sherman’s headquarters at the home of outcome in the end.” w Charles Green on Madison Square.

History Theatre will present Let My People As a result of the meeting, Sherman later Go May 24, 25, 26, 27, May 31 and June 1, issued Special Field Order 15 to redistribute 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. at The Ark Theatre, 703D about 400,000 acres of land along the southLousisville Rd. A special Memorial Day pereastern coast to freed black families. This formance will be given May 28 at 3 p.m. became known as the “Forty Acres and a Tickets are $20 and group rates are available.

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Shrek the Third

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Mike Myers may well be the star of the Shrek franchise, but he’s hardly the one whose character most vividly remains in the minds of moviegoers. For the 2001 original, Eddie Murphy earned the lion’s share of the positive notices for his vigorous vocal work as the obnoxious donkey sidekick (even if it was just a reworking of his vigorous vocal work as the obnoxious dragon sidekick in Mulan). And for the 2004 sequel, it was clearly Antonio Banderas as the debonair Puss In Boots who emerged as the cat’s meow. In Shrek the Third, both the donkey and the kitty have largely been neutered, and the film’s makers didn’t bother to introduce any compelling new characters to pick up the slack (Justin Timberlake’s Arthur and Eric Idle’s Merlin certainly don’t cut it). The result is a step down from the first two flicks in the series, though the drop isn’t nearly as precipitous as its detractors will insist. Shrek (which somehow beat Monsters, Inc. for the first Best Animated Feature Oscar ever handed out) and Shrek 2 (which stands as the third all-time top moneymaker) were amusing enough, although the impersonal style of animation, rapid succession of instantly dated pop culture references and fondness for scatological humor always left me a little cold. Shrek the Third brings the exact same ingredients to the table, only what’s offered feels more like leftovers. The film’s most original conceit is turning Disney’s damsels in distress (Snow White, Cinderella, etc.) into feminist warriors; the rest is mildly amusing but mindless, the work of businessmen who will measure the film’s success by Happy Meal sales and other commercial tie-ins.

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This sweet saga’s protagonist is played

by Keri Russell, the former Mouseketeer and Felicity star whose brief spots in movies (Mission: Impossible III, The Upside of Anger) only hinted that she might be worthy of larger film roles. In that respect, Waitress is to Russell what The Good Girl was to Jennifer Aniston: a choice opportunity for a television beauty to flex her thespian muscles. And like Aniston, Russell doesn’t disappoint, delivering a nicely modulated performance that keeps viewers in her character’s corner every step of the way.

Russell stars as Jenna, one of the three waitresses employed at Joe’s Diner. For friendship, she turns to her fellow staffers, the chatty Becky (Cheryl Hines, partially channeling Flo from the old Alice TV series) and the mousy Dawn (Adrienne Shelly). But for love and affection, she’s out of luck, since she’s married to a domineering redneck named Earl (Jeremy Sisto). Matters become

even more complicated once she discovers she’s pregnant (as she bitterly recalls, it happened on that one night when Earl got her drunk). She visits her regular doctor, only to discover that she’s been replaced by Dr. Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), who just moved to the area with his wife. Medical ethics and marital vows be damned, the pair quickly fall into a tentative affair, one that’s marked with as many moments of hesitancy and doubt as it is with steamy trysts. Let’s also be sure to heap copious praise on wily vet Andy Griffith. He appears in a few scenes (not enough, by my count) as Old Joe, the diner’s cantankerous owner. Naturally, he’s disliked by everyone except Jenna, who recognizes the heart of gold beating beneath that cranky exterior. It’s a stock role, of course, but the beloved actor handles the part beautifully, and we’re lucky that he’s still with us at the age of 80.

28 Weeks Later

What is it about the zombie flick that brings out the social critic in filmmakers?

George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead subtly touched upon racism, while his Dawn of the Dead was a glorious exploration of mindless consumerism. Decades later, Danny Boyle used 28 Days Later to examine the unchecked spread of SARS, Anthrax and, given the time and the film’s English setting, even mad cow disease. Now, here’s Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto) tackling the sequel (Boyle remains as an executive producer). Working from Rowan Joffe’s script, he’s made a zombie yarn that also serves as a condemnation of American military might in Iraq.

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the original film, this finds the virus still affecting folks throughout the British Isles.

But efforts at containment eventually succeed (i.e. “Mission accomplished”), and slowly the survivors start over in a self-contained city, all under the eye of the U.S. military. Naturally, a security breach occurs, the zombies start overrunning the city, and the American troops begin indiscriminately killing everyone in sight, whether they’re zombies (read: insurgents) or humans (read: innocent Iraqi civilians). Moviegoers can take or leave the message beneath the mayhem, but what’s on the surface for everyone to enjoy is an expertly crafted terror tale that’s heavy on the jolts and morally complicated when it comes to several of its characters - for instance, a family man portrayed by Robert Carlyle is quickly revealed to be a less-than-exemplary role model for his kids (promising performers burdened with the unfortunate names Imogen Poots and Mackintosh Muggleton). And given the film’s final shot, 28 Months Later isn’t out of the question - let’s just hope it doesn’t bring down what’s been a bloody good show so far.

Georgia Rule1/2

The legendary Katharine Hepburn was occasionally too brittle for my taste, but watching Georgia Rule, it’s hard to picture anyone else in the role of Georgia, a family matriarch who runs her household the way a drill instructor lords over greenhorn recruits. It would have been a tailor-made role for Hepburn 30 years ago, since she would have brought to the part the necessary balance of outward rigidity and inward serenity. Instead, it’s Jane Fonda who awkwardly fills the role, and, on the heels of her disastrous return to the screen in MonsterIn-Law, it’s clear that the career resuscitation isn’t going exactly as planned. Fonda’s Georgia is a one-note shrew, and one of this schizophrenic movie’s greatest failings is that it never acknowledges that it’s this woman’s puritanical behavior which started the chain

reaction partly leading to the miserable circumstances that plague her daughter Lilly (Felicity Huffman) and her granddaughter Rachel (Lindsey Lohan). Then again, it’s not just Fonda’s fault that Georgia is a poorly realized character; some of the blame has to be directed at scripter Mark Andrus and director Garry Marshall. Marshall in particular has no clue how to orchestrate the movie’s heavy themes involving alcoholism (Lilly), nymphomania (Rachel) and possible child abuse (Rachel claims she was repeatedly screwed by her stepdad when she was 12); after all, he’s the director who viewed mental retardation as little more than an amusing character quirk in The Other Sister. Here, he tries to lighten the movie’s mood by having Rachel give a blowjob to a nice Mormon boy who’s seriously trying to serve God (har har) and then painting the lad’s girlfriend and her pals as the story’s heavies. Worthy motherdaughter sagas stretch all the way back to Stella Dallas in the 1930s and reached their zenith with 1983’s magnificent Terms of Endearment. Georgia Rule harbored the seeds of a comparable tearjerker, but because it’s been placed in the wrong hands, it fails to elicit much in the way of genuine emotion. If there’s not a dry eye in the house when Lilly and Rachel finally hug, it’s only because audiences will have cleared out by that point.

The Ex1/2

I have no idea how he takes his coffee, but when it comes to comedy, Danny DeVito takes it black - as evidenced by the string of dark satires he’s helmed over the course of two decades. In his hands, one can only speculate how far The Ex would have taken its dark comic undercurrents, but in the mitts of director Jesse Peretz and novice screenwriters David Guion and Michael Handelman, it doesn’t take them quite far enough. Still, The Ex offers enough in the way of laughs to earn it some measure of approval. Zach Braff plays Tom Reilly, who, along with his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet)

and their newborn son, leaves NYC for Smalltown, Ohio, to work for his father-inlaw (welcome back, Charles Grodin, after a 13-year retirement). The trouble starts immediately when Tom is paired at the office with Chip Sanders (Jason Bateman), a paraplegic who once had sex with Sofia during their school days and still carries the torch for her. Hoping to win her back - and taking an instant dislike to her husband - Chip sabotages Tom at every turn, embarrassing him in front of coworkers and alienating him from his family. It’s a losing battle for Tom, not only given Chip’s friendliness to everyone else but also because his wheelchair confinement only serves to make Tom’s open hostility seem even more boorish. The material is too often played for broad laughs that fail to achieve their purpose, but there’s some nasty pleasure to be had in watching the escalating feud between Tom and Chip.

It’s just a shame the movie cops out by pulling its punch toward the end. By displaying a little more nerve, the filmmakers could have had a vicious pitbull of a comedy, on the order of Kingpin or DeVito’s The War of the Roses. But by neutering themselves, they’ve delivered a comedy whose bark is ultimately worse than its bite.

What’s Playing Where

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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-than-life 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 enter-

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tainment 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.

The team that brought us Shaun of the Dead -- writer-director Edgar Wright, writerstar 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 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 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.

B E A D S

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, basically filling the same function as she did in last year’s The Illusionist, which is serving as girlfriendpawn 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.

Fracture

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 hedone-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.

Meet The Robinsons 1/2

Imagine The Incredibles made by profiteers and that’s pretty much Meet the Robinsons in a nutshell -- it’s not surprising that, like Chicken Little (to name but one dud), this is Disney operating without the safety net of John Lasseter and his Pixar team. This obnoxious film focuses on obnoxious Lewis, an orphan whose contraptions are coveted by an obnoxious villain.

Blades of Glory 

Will Ferrell’s Chazz Michael Michaels, a coarse sex addict who’s also an unlikely skating champion, mines the same comic territory as most Ferrell performances ranging from Talladega Nights to Anchorman and beyond. Since Ferrell is only playing variations on a theme, it’s costar Jon Heder (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) who provides most of the modest chuckles.

300 1/2

Positioned as the Ultimate Fanboy Movie, this adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel is indeed ferocious enough to satisfy basement-dwellers with its gore, violence and chest-pounding machismo while savvy enough to downplay the homoeroticism that will ever-so-subtly cause heretofore unexplained stirrings in the loins of these same armchair warriors. w

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AMBUCS is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of people with disabilities Volunteers meet every first and third Monday at 7 p.m. at Fire Mountain Restaurant on Stephenson Ave. Call Ann Johnson at 897-4818.

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.

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

Coastal Democrats Contact Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or R1999MHAR@aol.com..

Drinking Liberally Promoting democracy one pint at a time - share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, left-leaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at WG’s Tavern, 17 Lincoln St. For information, visit www.DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com for location of the meeting.

Indy Media Film Night View films produced by independent journalists, media activists and organizations the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Presented free of charge by Fear No Arts Media. Visit www.fearnoarts.com for film listings and dates or e-mail fearnoarts@ gmail.com.

League of Women Voters meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. Membership is open to anyone 18 and older.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets the first and third Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Chinatown Buffett, 307 Highway 80 in Garden City. Purchase of a meal gets you in. Call 308-3934 or visit http://www.nodebts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

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

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Planned Parenthood meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Heather Holloway at 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Volunteers are needed for Planned Parenthood, and will meet the second Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean. For information about volunteering, call Heather Holloway 3524032 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org.

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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

AASU Summer Theatre The Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre will hold auditions for three summer theater productions on June 4 and 5 in Jenkins Theater. The productions are Maxwell Anderson’s The Bad Seed, Noel Coward’s Private Lives, and Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace. Auditions are open to the public, as well as AASU students, faculty and staff. Call 927-5325 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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

Local Gigs Looking for a drummer, lead singer, bassist and guitarist to play locals shows. Cover songs, maybe some originals. Inspirations include Rage Against the Machine, 311, Rancid, Clash, Misfits, etc. Open to suggestions. Must not be overly weird. Contact dskalak03@hotmail.com or 219-4498.

Savannah Shakespeare Festival will hold auditions for this year’s production of Henry V on Saturday, May 19 from 3-6 p.m. at The Studio, 2805-B Roger Lacey Ave. Prepare any piece from Henry V up to one minute in length. Sides from the show will

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10 Scams to Avoid is a free seminar that will be presented Thursday, May 24 at 10 a.m. at Senior Citizens, Inc. by Don Gellins of the Better Business Bureau. The lecture is free and open to persons 55 and older, but registration is required. Call 236-0363.

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 after school 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 materials. 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.

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Art Studio Sessions Six-week sessions on Tuesday evenings 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.

Brush with Clay Classes in Raku, brush work, relief work, surface decoration, figurative and more in clay with individual attention 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.

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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.

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

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 accepted. Call 819-6910.

Free Tax School Earn extra income after taking this course.

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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.

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Intro to Sea Kayaking Savannah Canoe and Kayak offers an introductory class on sea kayaking every 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 video 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.

Introduction to Soul Coaching is an introduction to a remarkable book by Denise Linn that will be presented Thursday, May 31 from 5:30-7 p.m. at ICLC/Wisdom Center, corner of Drayton and 40th streets.

Self-examination questions, journaling and special activities will be presented. The lecture is free, but registration is required.

Call Barbara Harrison, Coastal Chi, 9610104 or coastalchi@comccast.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

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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 a kitchenware store at 38 Barnard St. that offers two-hour cooking classes, 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 cooking class. Summer’s Bounty will be presented May 30, and Healthy Italian Favorites will be presented June 13. .All classes begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be taught by Linda Anderson. The cost is $40 per class. Call 236-0100 or visit www.kitchensonthesquare. com.

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

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Chameleons use their stupendously strong tongues to reach out and capture their prey, which can be up to one- sixth their size. The equivalent for you would be if you could snag a big chicken with the muscular organ in your mouth. I’m not predicting you’ll develop that skill in the coming days. But I do believe you’ll have a powerful tongue in the sense that the words you shape with it will have a prodigious capacity to change your surroundings and influence everyone around you.

an underground cave. There he stayed for the next 28 years. When he finally returned to civilization, his first words were, “It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive.” In comparing you to Yokoi, Cancerian, I am of course exaggerating. You have not been concealing yourself so literally or so thoroughly. And yet I feel a similar poignancy about the way you have kept yourself from revealing your full beauty. Please come in from out of the dark and shine the full blast of your iridescent light.

weeks. As you express your generous urges, don’t so much model yourself after Mother Teresa, who felt pious feelings and gave mostly symbolic assistance to a few thousand poor, sick people. Model yourself more after Gates, who spends billions of dollars to provide technological resources to schools in the U.S., and to bolster health care and reduce poverty in the Third World. In other words, don’t just be emotionally and spiritually supportive. Be aggressively helpful in the most practical ways.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Inspiration is highly overrated,” says photo realist artist Chuck Close. “If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it’s not liable to ever happen.” I share his assessment of the creative process. The books and music and columns I’ve produced owe their existence largely to my hard work, which generates a burst of inspiration every now and then but mostly gets things done without much flash. Keep that in mind, Taurus. Though you may not be inundated with a series of epiphanies in the coming days, you have the potential to spawn a lot of useful and original stuff. Your fertility quotient is high.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I will tell you a great secret,” wrote French philosopher Albert Camus. “Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”

Author and activist John W. Gardner spoke of the same issue from a different angle. “To sensible people,” he said, “every day is a day of reckoning.” I offer up those words for your guidance in the coming days, Leo. May they inspire you to be fierce and willful, exuberantly unstoppable and wildly resourceful. May they remind you that even though there might be a world of pressure on you, that pressure is natural, merciful, and exactly what you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To best take advantage of the fresh and innocent cosmic forces that are offering themselves up to you, try experiments like the following: eat food you’ve never tried; listen to new music; climb a hill that has always been in the distance; have a down-to-earth conversation with a person who up till now hasn’t been quite real to you; try erotic experiences you’ve wondered about; scrawl graffiti on a wall that has never been written upon; and push yourself to feel positive emotions that you may sometimes be too lazy or cynical to seek out, like playful reverence, intense curiosity, voracious gratitude, and surprised delight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to become dramatically clearer about the nature of your ambitions. To jumpstart the process, read this insight from career counselor Robin Hirschberg: “People tend to confuse their purpose (‘What do I love to do?’), with their ideals (‘How am I comfortable behaving?’), and their desired results (‘What can I achieve?’).” Now get to work figuring out the truth about those three foundation stones, Virgo.

Once you do that, develop a plan for getting them to work together synergistically.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Militant atheists make the claim that religion has always been a primary cause of war. If humans weren’t under the sway of “the God delusion,” they fume, armed conflicts would be infrequent. But military historian Eric Bergerud says that’s absurd. He notes that while there have been a few religious wars, “most wars in history have been driven by the lust for power and loot.” In other words, the materialist delusion is far more lethal than the God delusion. People who believe there’s nothing of value beyond what the five senses can perceive are often the most dangerous of all. Make this the seed for your meditations, Scorpio. Think about how much less fear and loathing you’d suffer if you knew for a fact that your soul lives forever. Imagine the peace and wonder you’d feel if you knew there are realities and spiritual beings that aren’t visible to the naked eye or to the technology that science has thus far dreamed up.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Near the end of World War II, a soldier named Shoichi Yokoi was serving in the Japanese army on the island of Guam. As American troops invaded, he fled into the dense jungle and hid in

five or more with an organized team. Call 819-8800.

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. 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 In depth 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

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Who has done more good for the planet, Mother Teresa or Bill Gates?” asked businessman John Mackey. “No contest: Gates has helped far more people.” Whether you agree with that assessment or not, Libra, act as if it’s true in the coming

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Read this passage from the Talmud: “When the fetus comes forth into the air of the world, what is closed opens and what is open closes.” I believe that’s an apt metaphor for what’s going on in your life, Sagittarius. You’re leaving behind a situation that has nurtured you even as it has bound you. Ahead of you lies a scary freedom that will flood into you with a pleasurable shock. Welcome to the brilliant shouting mystery of it all!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To have more,

desire less.” I urge you to make that your motto in the coming days, Capricorn. You’re in a phase that’s ideal for expanding your horizons by cutting back on your attachments. Your wealth will grow if you renounce any greed you may be harboring. Your power will intensify if you give up your longing for control over things you can’t control. So be brave. Be nervy. Have fun. As you shed insubstantial wishes and barely-relevant obsessions, you may come to resemble a monarch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A flower is in one sense a brilliant advertisement. With its alluring aroma, appealing color, and voluptuous shape, it captures the attention of insects and birds, inviting them in for a visit. It’s not false advertising: The pollinators get to imbibe sweet food at the heart of the flower. But the flower also has a hidden agenda. Its male reproductive material, the pollen, gets stuck to the pollinators’ bodies, and they carry it away to the female organs of new flowers, thereby facilitating the plant version of impregnation. Now imagine that you are a flower, and re-read everything I just said, interpreting it as a metaphor for the approach you might want to pursue in the coming days.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Rob: I would love to live on the ocean, I mean literally in a floating village, so that I could always sense the pulse of the Mother of Us All. I want the wild revelation of the horizon to be uncluttered before me. I want to smell the tang of salt in the air, to hear the cries of seagulls.

No more towers, no more labyrinths of concrete--just breathtaking, incomprehensible expanses of waves.

- Piscean Immersion-Junkie.” Dear ImmersionJunkie: Good news! You Pisceans will soon be invited to get tastes of this restless primordial spectacle. It’ll come to you in many ways, including (but not limited to) your dreams, meditations, hot baths, saunas, massages, lovemaking, music-playing, journal-writing, and sailing. w

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

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

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

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. Choosing New Behaviors: Self Management of Anger will be held Thursday, May 24 from 2-3 p.m.

I-To-We Free Tele-Class Series for Couples Relationship coach Glenn Cohen will present a free one-hour tele-class every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Learn how to create a peaceful, joyous, passionate and loving relationships. Register at www.I-to-we-relationship-coaching.com.

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photograph and shoot for the best effect.

Call 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

Puppet Shows are offered by St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler AfricanAmerican Health Information &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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.

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 yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Applications are available at the AASU Fine Arts building. For info, call 927-5325.

ShapeDown Summer Camp 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 Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 materials and tools required. Visit www.savannahga.gov/arts or call 651-4248.

Thinking of Starting a Business is a workshop that will be held May 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. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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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.

What Element are You? Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal is a class that will be held Thursday, May 24 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the ICLC/Wisdom Center, corner of Drayton and 40th streets.

It is a lighthearted look at the personalities of the five elements and how they play out in human life and the environment and is a basic clams on the use of the five elements in feng shui. Call Barbara Harrison, Coastal Chi, at 961-0104 or coastalchi@comcast.net.

The Wisdom Center A series of free workshops for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;evolvedâ&#x20AC;? 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.

Clubs

AASUâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Sci-Fi Fantasy Club This is an official student club of Armstrong Atlantic State University that accepts non-students as associate members. It is devoted to the exploration and enjoyment of the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

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

Bike Night with Mikie is held every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at The Red Zone Bar and Grill in Richmond Hill.

Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items.

Blackbeardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scuba Club Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

Buy Local Savannah will meet May 31 at 11:30 a.m. at The Pirates House. Joe Ippolito, owner of River Horse Internet Marketing, will speak. The cost is $20 for members and $30 for non-members and includes lunch, drink and gratuity.

RSVP at www.buylocalsavannah.com.

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

Civil Air Patrol 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)â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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 Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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.

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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.

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.

Savannah Kennel Club The club meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier. Call 656-2410 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org.

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 927-7272.

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..

Concerts

Violin Recital Ann Cafferty will give a violin recital June 1 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 307 E. Harris St. She will be accompanied by Barbara Roth on piano, Pete Berquist on bass and Julian Mullin on violin. Music for this program will include a suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock and the Bach Partita No. 3. Admission is free, and a reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall.

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 6:307:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays

and 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 Tap Classes The Gretchen Greene School of Dance is offering adult tap classes from June 5 to July 17. Beginner Level is Tuesdasy from 6-6:45 p.m. and Intermediate Level is Tuesdasy from 6:45-7:30 p.m. Pay by class or purchase a multi-class card at a discount. 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.

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.

Gretchen Greene School of Dance Summer Classes will offer ongoing classes during the summer for children ages 8 and up that will run June 5 - July 19. Classes for ages 12 and up are Advanced Ballet on Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m. and Advanced Jazz on Thursdays from 4-5 p.m.. Intermediate Jazz/Tap for ages 8 and up will be held Tuesdays from 5-6 p.m. All are open classes with no need to register, just show up and dance. For information, call 897-4235 or visit ggsod.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.

Mommy and Me Dance Class Little dancers ages 18 months to 3 years get an introduction to dance and creative movement. Classes are Tuesdays from 10:3011:15 a.m. at the Gretchen Greene School of Dance, located on Wilmington Island. Call 897-4235 or visit www.ggsod.com.

Savannah Argentine Tango A beginner and intermediate Tango class will begin Thursday, May 24 from 7:30-10 p.m. at Unity Church of Savannah, 2310 Sunset Blvd. The class will meet weekly for six weeks. The cost is $45 for the 6-week session and $6 per week after the initial class, and for intermediate, $6 per week. To register, call 401-2280 or email savh_tango@ yahoo.com.

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.

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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 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. Contact for next meeting time. Contact 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 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.

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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.

Events

7th Annual Southern Isles Bodybuilding and Figure Championships will be held Saturday, June 9 at Armstrong Atlantic State University Fine Arts Auditorium. Pre-Judging is at 10 a.m. and the Finals/Show is at 7 p.m. Special door prizes, including a 1- night stay at the Forsyth Park Inn in Historic Savannah, will be given away at the finals. For tickets, entries, or information, contact Tony or Mary Ann at 897-1263.

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 Endurance training will be offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 8-9 a.m. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and will be required to sign a waiver. 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.

Dog Yoga The Yoga Room will hold a dog yoga class every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-A-Life.

Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www. thesavannahyogaroom.com.

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.

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 224-0406 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.

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Pregnancy Yoga An eight-week session will be held starting May 29th on Tuesdays and Thurdsays from 6-7:15 p.m. in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann

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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.

Yoga On the Beach at Tybee will be offered Wednesdays from 7-8 a.m. on an on-going basis through the summer.

Come ot the North Beach parking lott, first beach walkover. Drop-ins welcome and encouraged. Cost is $10 per class. Class cards are available. Multi-Level Hatha I & II in the Integra Yoga style. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Call 704-7650 or e-mail ann@ aikyayoga.com.

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Single class $12, 8-class package for $75 and 15-class package for $120. For location and class schedule, visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361.

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.

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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. 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 refreshments will be provided. Call 3554601.

Brown Chiropractic Open House will be held May 21-24. Food, prize drawings and more. Free posture and spinal screenings will be offered. Located at 513 E. Oglethorpe Ave. Call 447-1885 or visit www. savannahchiropractic.com.

Can’t Sleep?

Can’t sleep or stay asleep? Hypnosis and guided imagery works. Call 927-3432 for more information.

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.

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Carroll. Cost is $100 for once per week or $175 for twice per week for the 8-week session. Call 704-7650 or e-mail ann@aikyayoga.com.

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 Levels 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.

100% of proceeds go to local charity), 9:30-10:45 a.m. All Levels Flow Yoga with Amanda and 11a.m. to 12:15 p.m. All Levels Flow Yoga with Kelley. On Sunday, 5-6 pm 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.

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

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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.

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes are being offiered at the Family Health and Birth Center in Rincon. The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together.

Classes provide specialized breathing and All types of births are welcome. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call The Birth Connection at 843-683-8750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo.com.

Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic 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.

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.

Nature

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

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Explore the Salt Marsh Walk and paddle with a naturalist guide Sunday, June 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to learn about the salt marsh ecosystem. $30 per person fee includes canoe rental and basic canoeing instruction. Meet in the parking lot at Fort McAlister. There is a $3 parking fee. Reservations are required.

897-5108.

Take a walk on the wild side at the Oatland Island Education Center.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Native Animal Nature Trailâ&#x20AC;? features a variety of live animals and landscapes and winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats. Located 5 miles east of downtown off the Islands Expressway. M-F:9 a.m.-4 p.m. and most Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person for everyone over 4. 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

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

Wild Islands and Estuaries Travel through the tidal marshes of the Bull River and other creeks May 27 from 9 a.m. to noon to observe birds, dolphins and other marsh creatures. Venture ashore on Williamsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island, Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youngest barrier island, to discover the wonders of this estuarine habitiat. Meet at the Bull River Marina. The cost is $40 per person. Advance registration is required. Call 897-5108.

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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.

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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 held every Wednesday 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.

Nicodemus by Night An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Overcoming by Faith Services with the Rev. Ricky Temple are held Saturday from 6-7:30 p.m. at 9700 Middleground Rd. Sunday worship services are 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Services are now held Sundays in Rincon. Call 927-8601.

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.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) 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.

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Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA) SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;MYOHOâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;RENGEâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;KYO. For information, call SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Thank You God, for Onions is a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book written by Savannah Christian Church NextGEN Spiritual Growth Pastor Mark Tenniswood. It is for children ages 4-8 and costs $15. The books are available at The Source bookstore at the church.

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. On May 27, David J. Messier will speak from the topic, The Flowers in Flanders Field, for the annual Memorial Day worship service. 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 â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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 UMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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.

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MACELWEE’S RESTAURANT On Tybee Island now hiring Experienced Saute/Fry Cooks, Servers, Dishwashers & PT Bartenders. Excellent pay! Call 912-786-8888 for an appointment or apply in person between 3pm-6pm.

Regional Home weekends! .42 cpm + stop pay. Great benefits, CDL-A, 1 year verifiable with 150 k miles. 800-387-0088.

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Are you a parts person that is tired of working on Saturday and until 9:00 at night?

Then we have the opportunity for you. Powertrain, Inc. is looking for someone to fill and inside counter sales position.

Your work hours will be 8:00am until 5:30pm Monday-Friday.

You will have paid holidays, paid vacation, insurance and retirement plan. Powertrain, Inc. is a growing business located at 421 Telfair Road. If this sounds like you call or email: Angela at 912-234-6641 adurrence EARN $10-$14 per hour delivering local telephone directories in Savannah & surrounding areas.

Must have reliable transportation and be able to read a map.

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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: Grounds Keeper I (Req. #1570) - SEARCH EXTENDED. For more information, call the 24-hour Job-Line at (912) 681-0629. Georgia is an open records state. Individuals

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Stunning bedroom suite. New in factory boxes. Mahogany headboard, footboard, wooden side rails, dresser, mirror,TWO nightstands. Drawers are dove tailed and felt-lined. Sugg list $6200, Sacrifice $1000.

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able! 5% down, 20yrs @ 8% APR. Listings: 800-720-7042 xT324.

3BD, 2 1/2 BA, eat-in kitchens w/granite c-tops, new appliances & laundry areas. New baths & lighting fixtures, gas fireplaces, hardwood floors through out.

Spacious layouts! $325,000 each.

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4bd/2ba $258/mo! More from $199/mo! Listings: 800-536-8517 xT275 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double garage, Buckhead Plantation. Build mid 2006. 1/2 acre with 6 ft privacy fence, sprinkler system, 2300 sq ft. Brick, security system, upgraded lighting, 5 fans, jacuzzi, fireplace, ceramic tile, white plantation blinds. Call to see 912-587-9465 $245,900.

$199/mo! Foreclosures! 3BR/2BA $199/mo! 2BR/1.5BA Condo 4BR/2BA HOME $29K! Payments $200/mo! Financing Ref. Avail- $ 2 2 5 / m o ! M o re 1 - 4 B R f ro m $199/mo! 5% down, 20yrs @ 8% APR! Listings: 800-720-7042 xT323.

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HISTORIC DISTRICT

4601 Battey Street Large 2 BR, 1 Bath apartment with a separate dining room, wall-to-wall carpet, kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher, W/D connections, and offstreet parking. Across from Jacob G. Smith Elementary and walking distance to Habersham Village. Cats OK. AVAILABLE JUNE 2007. $675/mo.

44 Thackery Place Thackery Place is between Bull and Montgomery off of 61st Street. Close to Montgomery Hall and Habersham Village.Spacious 3 BR, 2 BA apartment (over 1,400 sq ft) with a formal dining room, new wall-to-wall carpet, central H/A, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, W/ D connections, off street parking. No Pets. $750/mo.

48 Thackery Place S p a c i o u s 3 B R , 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.

12 West 40th Street Beautifully renovated 2 BR, 1BA upper half of duplex in the Starland District.

Features include formal LR, with a front balcony, formal DR, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, bathroom and kitchen with ceramic tile floors, separate laundry room and private courtyard.

C H/A, total electric and paid security system. Petfriendly. AVAILABLE MIDJUNE 2007. $1,000/mo.

17 East 33rd St. www.sicaymanagement.com

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

3 bedroom, 2.5 bath. Corner lot.

Garden level apartment. Original hardwood floors, 6 FP, modern kitchen/baths, deck w/hot tub.

Private courtyard. $635,000.

912-604-2485

Beautiful 4BR, 2BA Home. 2-car garage, privacy fence, hardwood and tiled w/custom inserts flooring. Formal living and dining room. Kitchen has new appliances and eat-in kitchen. Located on a quiet culde-sac. Community olympic size pool, skatepark and playground. Offered at $214,900.

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Homes for Rent 11 BLUE GILL at Berwick Lakes: 3BR/2BA, 1-car garage, LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, fireplace, washer/dryer connections, fenced backyard. $955/month plus deposit. No pets. Call 912-604-3285.

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4BR/2BA HOME $29K! Payments $ 2 2 5 / m o ! M o re 1 - 4 B R f ro m 2 BEDROOM CONDO $199/mo! 5% down, 20yrs @ 8% $900. Hardwood floors, 2 bath, APR! Listings: 800-720-7042 screened porch, tennis courts, xT323. playground, pool. 1000sf. Commons @ Wilmington Island. Very Buy a 4bd/2ba $228/mo! clean! 912-484-5881 4bd/2ba home $258/mo! Bank Repos/Foreclosures! Listings: 800-720-7042 xT316 aCt by may 31s t tO r eCe ive 8% iNCe Ntive s plus ONe year Of HOa fe e s paid.

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HOUSE AVAILABLE: 1507 East Ott Street: 3BR/2BA, living room, dining room, breakfast room, kitchen w/appliances, separate utility room, fenced yard, screened porch. No pets. 1 Year lease-$985/month, $985/deposit. $35 credit application fee. 45 Travis St., Available Soon. Call 912-596-4954, leave message.

116 E. Bolton St. Great location on Forsyth Park, near SCAD & Kroger. Newly renovated duplex.

2 bedroom, 2 bath, bonus room, LR, kitchen, W/D, H/W floors, Central H/A, 2 F/P, large back porch, courtyard. Wireless internet, digital cable & water included. $1350. Contact 912-220-1020 or email fvenetico@hotmail.com

Hud Homes1 3bd/1ba $207/mo!

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319 EAST WALDBURG ST. Great location near Forsyth Park, SCAD & Kroger. Newly renovated duplex. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, LR,

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Apartments for Rent large kitchen, W/D, H/W floors, CHA, 2 F/P, large back porch, courtyard and offstreet parking. $1350. Contact 912-220-1020. fvenetico@hotmail.com 3bd/2ba Home $238/mo!

4bd/2ba $258/mo! More From $199/mo! Listings: 800-536-8517 xT275 4BR/2BA HOME $29K! Payments $ 2 2 5 / m o ! M o re 1 - 4 B R f ro m $199/mo! 5% down, 20yrs @ 8% APR! Listings: 800-720-7042 xT323.

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY at 37th and Drayton. All utilities included. $185/week, $668/month. Call seven days a week 912-231-9464.

Hud Homes! 3bd/1ba $207/mo!

4bd/2ba $228/mo! 5% down, 20yrs @ 8% APR! Listings: 800-536-8517 xT310

Buy. Sell. Find. Free! www.connectsavannah.com MIDTOWN 2 bedrooms, 1 Bath plus Sunroom. Renovated, central heat/air. $650 monthly.

Call 912-429-9600.

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LARGE VICTORIAN near library.

Fireplace, refrigerator/microwave, phone, cable, internet, w/d utilities, nicely furnished. $145/wk, $522/mo. Seven days.

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FOR ALL YOUR ROOFING NEEDS Call Slotin Construction. Replacements or repairs. 25 years experience.

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least 4 days each week. Applicants need to be energetic, reliable & work well with others. Applicants must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, and we aren’t kidding when we say fast paced! Starting pay for this position is $6.25/hr. plus tips. All applicants must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check. To inquire about this position come by 39 Barnard St. ONLY between 8-10:30am Monday-Friday or e-mail your resume to expresscafe@comcast.net EOE

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Hondas, Chevys and more ListHours are 9am-3:30pm, 3 days 599 ings: 800-536-8309 x6986 per week. Must be dependable, articulate, well-groomed and physically fit. All applicants must pass drug screen & background Paint & Body Work check. Apply in person MondayDO YOU WANT Thursday, 11-11:30am at 39 BarReasonably Priced TO PARTY? nard Street between Broughton Host a Insurance Claims & Congress. EOE. SURPRISE PARTY

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$11,000. Excellent condition.

STARLAND DISTRICT 3 bedroom, 2 bath, washer/dry- Runs Great! Great Work vehier, hardwood floors, off-street cle! Has metal bins & shelves. p a r k i n g, 2 2 1 0 W h i t a k e r S t . Call 843-247-4699. $1100/month.Call 912-660-4593. $500 Police Impounds!

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VICTORIAN DISTRICT Hondas, Chevys and more List2 & 3 Bedroom ings: 800-536-8309 x6986 Apartments Off-street parking, washer/dryer, central heat/air. Short walk Buy. Sell. Find. Free! to Kroger and Forsyth Park. Call www.connectsavannah.com 912-236-7560 or 912-704-6934.

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RIVER STREET TROLLEY Retail Shop: Full & Part-time Employees needed. $7.50/hr. plus commission. Only Self-starters need apply. Apply in person: 213 River Street or fax resume to 238-5186.

Call 238-4342. EOE

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FSBO - Bloomingdale

3BR, 2BA Home on over 2 acres.

LR and large family room. Ceramic tile and new carpet throughout. Spacious and quiet.

Call 912-748-1773 or 912-988-6041.

514 McLaws Street

Just 2 miles from Memorial Medical Center! 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, hardwood floors, renovated kitchen, fenced in backyard, carpor t. No Smok ing / No Pets please. $1200/per month plus deposit. Call 912-661-2139.

WHITEMARSH ISLAND 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1st floor unfurnished condo in gated community. Pool, fitness center, laundry, game room, tennis.

Convenient to Tybee and to downtown Savannah. Available June 1st. $990/month Call 732-270-5657 leave message.

BEAUTIFUL Yamaha SX230

High Output 05. Practically new.

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$5000. Excellent condition.

Brand new Mud grip tires.

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

Part Time

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS! Experienced servers & hosts. Apply in person at 52 Barnard St. Mon-Fri, 3PM-6PM.

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Get Paid to Shop! Retail/Dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality/customer

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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

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BowRider, excellent condition.

Dry stored, low hours. $11,600.

Call 912-398-2276.

2006 HONDA RANCHER 4x4 4-Wheeler

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HARD WORKING & RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS NEEDED The Express Cafe, 39 Barnard Street Has openings for front counter servers. Applicants must have reliable transportation and be available to work 6-10am and/or 10am-4pm, weekdays and 8:30am-4pm weekends. All Applicants must be able to work at

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