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Contents

Volume 6, No. 38, June 13, 2007

On the cover: Violinist Bobby Yang.

Paper or Plastic 17

Community 13 Theatre 24

Culture

8-9 Lead

22 Art Patrol

News & Opinion

26 Theatre

An interview with Bobby Yang

Exhibitions and openings Beauty & the Beast

10 Free Speech

29 Pop

Tom Parrish on job and character

Scott Howard’s take on pop culture

11 Hear and now 12 14 15 16 21

Robin’s world Community A second chance for life 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

Movies 35 Screenshots

All the flicks that fit

The 411 6 37 39

Vibes

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17 Paper or Plastic

Culture reviews

41

18 Music Menu

Gigs a la Carte

20 Connect Recommends

Concerts of Note 31 Soundboard Who’s playing and where

Week at a Glance Our best bets for cool stuff to do Happenings All the stuff, all the time Sudoku Puzzle It’s all the rage Free Will Astrology Rob Breszny’s look at your stars Crossword Puzzle Mental Fun

Classifieds 44 Classifieds

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Thursday, June 14

Origami Installation by Pang-Chieh Hsu continues

What: An arrangement of three–dimensional lotus flowers reflective of Buddhist philosophy. When: June 14-17.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts in the Eckberg Atrium. Cost: Free. Info: 790-8800 or www.telfair.org.

Half-Moon Outfitters First Annual Kayak Demo

What: See boats and gear, plus demonstrations. When: June 14 from 4-8 p.m. Where: Lake Mayer. Cost: Free.

Info: 201-9393.

Magnolia Manor Renaissance Lecture Series

What: Bill Chisholm, president and CEO of Farmers’ Almanac TV, will speak. When: June 14 at 5:30 p.m.

Where: Magnolia Manor on the Coast at Richmond Hill.

Cost: Free, but reservations are required. Info: 756-4300.

Savannah Children’s Theatre’s Disney’s Beauty and the Beast begins

What: A full-scale theatrical production of the beloved musical. When: June 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24 at 8 p.m., June 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $15-$20.

Info: www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org or 238-9015.

Week at a

Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Freebie of the Week

The Rolling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

The Historic Savannah Theatre’s Return to the 50s continues

What: Relive the days when rock ‘n roll was born. When: June 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. and June 16, 17, 23, 24 and 30 at 3 p.m. Where: 222 Bull St. Cost: Adults $33 and 17 and under $16. Info: Call 233-7764.

Friday, June 15

Summer Concert in the Squares

What: Bring a bag lunch and enjoy a summer concert by vocalist Claire Frazier. When: June 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Wright Square. Cost: Free. Info: 6516417 or www.savannahga.gov/arts.

The Psychotronic Film Society presents The Host

What: A science-fiction monster movie described as a cross between Godzilla, Jaws and Aliens and one of best monster movies in decades. Co-sponsored by Connect Savannah. When: June 15 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $8. Info: Visit www.lucastheatre.com or scadboxoffice.com or call the SCAD Box Office at 525-5050

What: This hilarious animated film features Wallace and Gromit. When: June 16 at 3 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $8 adults, $6 seniors and military and $4 with SCAD ID. Children 12 and under are admitted free.

Info: 525-5050.

Savannah Film Society Summer Film Series presents The Day the Earth Stood Still

What: A classic 1951 science fiction film. When: June 16 at 7 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and military, and $4 with a SCAD ID. Info: 525-5050.

Free Screening of Ulysses

What: The AASU Irish Studies Club will mark Bloomsday with a screening of Ulysses. When: June 16 at 7 p.m.

Where: Gamble Hall 200 on the AASU campus. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: Call Frank Clancy at 921-5624.

What: The first film ever made in Bhutan, this comedy is the story of a group of soccer-obsessed students in a Tibetan monastery-in-exile in India. When: June 17 at 3 p.m. Where: Jepson Center for the Arts. Cost: Free.

Info: 790-8800 or visit Telfair.org.

Savannah Sand Gnats games this week

What: This play is the winner of last year’s Savannah One Act Play Festival. When: June 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $10 general admission and $5 student or seniors. Info: 232-6089 or www.savannahactorstheatre.org.

Savannah Film Society Summer Film Series presents The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Free Screening of The Cup

What: St. John Flynn will present The Living Dead: Giving Voice to the Skeletons in Your Closet. When: June 14 at 7 p.m. Where: Jewish Educational Alliance. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: 236-0363.

Savannah Actor’s Theatre’s Looking for Ethiopia continues

What: Teams will vie for the championship of a sport invented in Savannah. When: June 16 at 11 a.m. Where: 11th Street on Tybee Island.

Sunday, June 17

A Summer of Ideas Lecture Series

What: The Sand Gnats take on the Rome Braves in a four-game series. When: June 14, 15 and 16 at 7:05 p.m. and June 17 at 2:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium on East Victory Drive. Cost: Box seats $9.50, reserved $7.50 and general admission $6. Info: Call 351-9150.

Larry Crawford Memorial Half Rubber Beach Classic

Second Annual Fathers’ Day Concert What: The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 are bringing the Rolling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, etched with the names of more than 58,000 Americans who died in the war, to Savannah. Also called “The Wall That Heals,” it is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and features a traveling museum and information center. The museum chronicles the Vietnam War era and the unique healing power of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, while the information center helps people learn about friends and loved ones lost in the war. When: June 14-17. Where: Emmet Park.

Cost: Free. Info: www.thewall-savannah.com or vvasav.com, or call 927-3356.

Saturday, June 16 Annual Kids Fishing Rodeo

What: Kids of all ages will enjoy reeling in a catch. Free bait, refreshments, prizes and awards. When: June 16 at 7 a.m.

Where: Daffin Park lake. Cost: Free. Info: 351-3837.

Savannah Starland Farmers Market continues

What: Buy fresh produce and other goods. When: June 16 9 a.m. to noon. Where: 40th and Bull streets. Cost: Free. Info: 443-5355, maldorors@gmail.com or www.starlandfarmersmarket.com.

12th Annual Savannah Asian Festival

What: Live performances, ethnic cuisine, cultural demonstrations and art and handicrafts from 14 Asian countries.

When: June 16 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: www. savannahga.gov/arts or call 651-6417.

The Life of a Lock Tender

What: Lock 5 and the Lockkeeper’s House at the SavannahOgeechee Canal will be presented by Dr. Mark Newell. When: June 16 at 1 p.m. Where: Savannah-Ogeecheee Canal Museum, 681 Fort Argyle Rd. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: 920-2299.

What: Dave Solazzor on piano, Howard Paul on guitar and George Sheck on bass performing a program of classical jazz. When: June 17 at 5 p.m. Where: Cobblestone Conch House, 225 W. River St. Cost: $10.

Reel Savannah presents Red Road

What: This Scottish/British film won a BAFTA (British Oscar) Award for Best New Director and was a Jury Prize Winner at last year’s Cannes Festival. When: June 17 at 7 p.m. Where: Victory Square Theater. Cost: $7 at the door. Info: www.reelsavannah.org.

Monday, June 18

WWE SmackDown/ECW Present The Biggest Party of the Summer

What: Wrestling as big and bad as it gets. When: June 18 at 7 p.m. Where: Martin Luther King Jr. Arena. Cost: Tickets are $20 to $60. Info: Call 651-6556 .er.

The PBR Show continues

When: June 18 and every Monday at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $2.

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

Wednesday, June 20 Summer Concert in the Squares

What: Bring a bag lunch and enjoy a summer concert by Serenade Savannah. When: June 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Johnson Square. Cost: Free.

The Psychotronic Film Series presents Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man

What: This major, award-winning 2007 documentary is said to be the first-ever unvarnished look at one of the most polarizing political and civic leaders in history. Underwritten by the Chatham/Savannah Citizen Advocacy Group and co-sponsored by Connect Savannah. When: June 20 at 6 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean. Cost: Free. Advance tickets are available. w

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News & Opinion

| Lead Story by Jim Reed

‘I’m constantly on edge, which is cool with me’

Rock violinist Bobby Yang headlines the Savannah Asian Fest

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here was a time in the ‘70s when the late, great funk pioneer and master showman James Brown turned heads and earned chuckles by comparing himself to three other notable musical innovators whose surnames also began with the letter B: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

While the seismic musical, cultural and political shifts which came in the wake of JB’s prodigious output are now common knowledge, it was still a bold statement from a man who also penned the immortal tune “For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes”.

Some may be similarly taken aback to read on Bobby Yang’s website that he sees himself as being third in a direct line of fiery, stringed-instrument virtuosos that includes Paganini and Jimi Hendrix.

Who —you may be asking yourself— is Bobby Yang, and who does he think he is?

Well, Yang is a 29-year-old rising star violinist who is making substantial waves both in the rock and pop realms of the music biz, and online through YouTube. com, where homemade video clips of his solo transposed renditions of such knucklebusting guitar workouts as “Eruption”

by Eddie Van Halen (yet another highly gifted musician whom many once saw as a potential heir to Hendrix’s throne) have brought him to worldwide acclaim.

Whether serving as a guest soloist with many esteemed symphonies, or fronting his own puckishly-named instrumental hard rock band The Unrivaled Players, Yang has become a celebrated figure among violinists who’ve long dreamt being placed front and center in a pop music format.

While he’s in high demand for studio session work in a variety of genres, it’s Yang’s live performances that are earning him worldwide acclaim. With suitable flair, he digs deeply into his axe, pulling forth tones and timbres rarely heard from such a nominally staid instrument. His setlist too, is unusual. It’s not uncommon to hear his group rip through their own unique interpretations of AC/DC’s “Back In Black” or Led Zeppelin’s Magnum Opus “Kashmir.”

Despite his growing stardom, Yang is a fervent proponent of public music education, and eschews any sort of effects on his instrument and those of his bandmates.

Other than a bit of reverb to thicken up their stage sound, they play wooden drums, upright bass, violin and an electric guitar plugged directly into an amp.

“Kenny Rogers had a chain of barbecue chicken restaurants when I was a kid,” Yang says. “Their slogan was, ‘It’s the wood that makes it good,’ and that’s how I feel about these instruments.”

I caught up with the effervescent Yang as he rushed by car from an afternoon Master Class at former 38 Special guitarist Jeff

Carlisi’s Camp Jam to a guest appearance at a club show that evening.

Where were you born?

Bobby Yang: I was born in new Jersey, but my parents are from Taiwan. They came over to the states in the ‘60s. I’m 29 now.

You are based in Atlanta now, correct?

Bobby Yang: Yeah. We’ve been based here for about three-and-a-half years. What brought me was a combination of the time I’d spent working with Butch Walker, Collective Soul and a couple of recording projects. I thought it was a nice and comfortable big city — especially after Aspen, where I moved right after college.

What’s the Aspen Music Fest like?

Bobby Yang: It’s a classical training program. My college professor was also chair of the String Department of the Aspen Music Fest, so he’d hook us up with tuition and a stipend to live on over the summer. Once I got into that program, I very quickly realized that I wasn’t cut out for the life of a professional orchestra player. (Laughs) What about that career path didn’t suit you?

Bobby Yang: Well, to be honest, it’s really a burden on your creative soul — or at least it felt that way to me. In most orchestral situations you are not encouraged to create.

Well, it’s much more about recreating very specific parts to a very high standard.

Bobby Yang: Exactly! And while that’s fine and great, it was not for me. However, there’s no doubt in my mind that me living up to those sorts of standards is the only reason I can play so hard for hours on end today.

It’s solely because of the technique that I learned through classical training. It’s invaluable. Trust me — the only way to rock is to truly master your instrument!

You’re constantly sitting in and making special appearances with a wide variety of artists — from jam to pop to jazz. How many of these are planned out in advance?

Bobby Yang: Generally, I don’t know the material, and the people I’m on stage with know that I don’t really need to know it!

(Laughs) On occasion I’ll be in New York or L.A. and someone who knows that I can and will collaborate with anybody at the last second will call me up and ask me to drop by for a song or two. Usually I wind up staying for the whole set and most people in

the crowd will think that I’ve rehearsed for hours with the band.

(Laughs) That’s something that I’ve learned how to do well through 10,000 hours of practice!

Well, someone with your training should be able to almost predict what changes are coming up based on pop music probability formulas.

It’s just sonic mathematics.

Bobby Yang: (Laughs) That’s great! The probability thing is a great way to put it!

(Laughs) It keeps me on my toes. I’m constantly on edge, which is cool with me. Music these days has a lot of dead stops. Everything’s gotta be silent without a lot of warning. I need to be powerful with my bow but I also have to have a light touch and be relaxed the whole time. It’s all about being fluid and in the moment. It’s my most important responsibility as a sideman. I need to feel like the last-minute, fifth member of the band. If there were some kind of big contest for sitting in with a band at the last second and holding your own, I’d gladly enter. It’s something I love doing. I have a talent for not playing in the wrong places, and then when I do play, the audience can really hear my passion and my heart coming out through my violin.

That’s what differentiates amateurs from pros — to know when not to play!

Bobby Yang: You’re right. It’s kinda like crying wolf. By the time your solo comes around, well, they’ve already heard you playing so much, there’s no surprise. (Laughs) I learned years ago that the four key components to music are dynamics, register variety, density (whether you’re playing a lot of notes or not many) and silence. So, silence is 25% of the equation — no more and no less.

And silence is something that a lot of soloists don’t think enough about when collaborating. I have a responsibility to maintain all four of those things at all times. Those are the four things the violin as an instrument does well. And by violin, I mean the wooden, classical instrument played in a rock fashion — not the electric violin, which as we know is a horrible, monotone instrument. I’ll never condone the use of such a thing. I am the champion of wooden violins.

There are hundreds of thousands of them in

existence, and instead of paying thousands of dollars for these pieces of junk, most kids can rent them for $10 a month from their school and they can learn to rock and play circles around the kids with those electric instruments. Meanwhile, these companies are out there hawking these things that you don’t even have to hold properly in order to play them! They strap onto your chest with a patented device and you stand there and bend your knees and make faces. It’s crazy!

It’s kinda like in that movie The Jerk.

You mean The Opti-Grab?

Bobby Yang: (Laughs) Yes! The Opti-Grab!

It’s that ridiculous! (Laughs) What is your current fanbase like?

Bobby Yang: In general, it’s people who really appreciate classic rock virtuosity. Those who like Jeff Beck or Joe Satriani...

What will this show in Savannah be like?

Bobby Yang: Well-balanced. It’ll have some classic rock, some original jams, and we’ve been asked by the promoters if we can pay tribute to some kind of Asian style something or other. (Laughs) So we’re working on that! (Laughs) Bobby Yang and His Unrivaled Players headline the 12th Annual Savannah Asian Festival with performances at 12:40 pm and 3:30 pm, Saturday at the Civic Center’s MLK, Jr. Arena. The full event takes place from 11 am to 5 pm, and admission is free to ALL-AGES. For a complete schedule of events, see sidebar.

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t’s like taking a voyage to several exotic lothe Telfair. “He will create 108 origami lotus cales. flowers arranged in lantern-shaped cubes to The 12th Annual Savannah Asian catch the light.”

Festival will have something for everyHsu is a professor of art in painting one. Sample Chinese, Filipino, Polynesian, and drawing at Armstrong Atlantic State Korean, Japanese, Indian and Thai food.

University. He is a native of Taiwan and Visit the Cultural Marketplace for items known for his stunning realistic paintings from China, Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, and drawings.

Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri The piece he will create at the Jepson Lanka.

Center will be titled Lotus Flowers, and it Watch Filipino dancing, Taekwondo and will be reflective of Buddhist philosophy.

Tai Chi demonstrations, amazing acrobatics, According to legend, the Buddha took drumming, music and much, much more. several steps toward heaven immediately The festival is held at the Savannah Civic after he was born. At each step, a lotus Center, and admission is free. flower sprang up.

“We have three new countries this year,” In addition to creating the installation, says Kathleen Sizemore, marketing coordiHsu will teach children how to do origami. nator for the City of Savannah Department “His goal is to send everyone home with a of Cultural Affairs. “We’re up to 14 counlotus origami blossom,” Woolley says. tries.”

The origami workMalaysia, Indonesia shops are designed for and Singapore have been ages 6 and up and will be Stage Schedule added to the lineup. The held June 14 and 15 from Cultural Marketplace is al- 11:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony with 2-5 p.m. To reserve a the Mighty Matsurizas ways popular. spot, call 790-8823.

“You’ll see calligraphy, 11:30 a.m. Lee’s Taekwondo “The workshop won’t henna painting, Pakistani last three hours,” Woolley 11:55 a.m. Sampaguita Dance body painting,” Sizemore says. “Several groups of Group (Philippines) says. “The Malaysian people will be going in group will be doing a batik 12:15 p.m. Tai Chi Demonstrations and out. You can just by the Chinese Benevolent Group resist dyeing technique, a drop in, although we are hands-on activity.” taking reservations.”

12:40 p.m. Bobby Yang & His The Chinese The installation will Unrivaled Players Benevolent Association be up at least through 1:05 p.m. Korean Cultural Dance will demonstrate Tai Chi. June 17. “We’re hoping Group “There are 45 different to extend that,” Woolley 1:25 p.m. Liang’s Amazing movements to the techsays.

Acrobatic Show nique,” Sizemore says.

Because the installa“We’ll have a lot going 1:50 p.m. Children of Polynesia tion is in the museum’s on -- arts and crafts, potatrium, admission is free.

2:15 p.m. Savannah Kendo Club tery, beautiful clothing,” A free film, The Cup, will Demonstrations she says. “There will be be presented June 17 at 3 2:40 p.m. Matsuriza Taiko lucky bamboo, calligrap.m. Rated G for all auphy sets, spices and much Drummers diences, the comedy is more.” the first film ever made 3:05 p.m. Indonesian Performing Perhaps the most pop- Group in Bhutan. ular draw for many people It has been critically is the food. “It is all volun- 3:30 p.m. Bobby Yang & His acclaimed, and is being teer,” Sizemore says. “They Unrivaled Players presented in association 3:55 p.m. Malaysian Association all start cooking weeks in with Reel Savannah. The Dance Troupe advance.” film tells the story of a The festival is already group of soccer-obsessed 4:15 p.m. Liang’s Amazing one of the largest celebra- Acrobatic Show students in a Tibetan tions of Asian culture in monastery-in-exile in the South, and this year, it 4:40 p.m. Thailand Dance Group India. By day, they go reaches beyond the civic about their monastic center. The Telfair is sponstudies. soring a series of events that will be held in “At night, they sneak out to watch soccer on conjunction with the Asian Festival.

TV,” Woolley says. “But there are difficulties “We’re going to have an installation by they’ll have to surmount if they’re going to Pang-Chieh Hsu,” says Laura Quail Woolley, see the World Cup.” w marking and public relations manager for

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ulled in the bus a little early the other night.

Sat in the dark and reflected on my job. I’ve been at Chatham Area Transit 21 years now, have made the trek from bus to office many times at midnight. Felt pretty good actually as I washed up, turned in my paperwork and headed for home.

Geez I’ve had a lot of jobs in my lifetime.

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. (Sorry Francis Albert, I just had to steal that one). Been a lot of things in my life, but never anything for this length of time. Guess that makes me a Bus Operator too!

This job has had so many ups and downs for me that I can’t possibly chronicle them all. But hasn’t that also been the story of my life? It’s not like I’m this everyday milquetoast sort of guy or anything. Seems so funny that at this point in my life I’ve found some sort of stability. Credit goes not only to my long term personal relationship, but my job must also be given it’s just due.

It’s where I come everyday. It’s where I’m expected. It’s where I’m respected. It has become as much a part of my identity as

my facial and body features. It has become who I am. Never thought this would be the case, it certainly wasn’t why I took the job.

Yet oddly it’s come to represent a part of me that I like.

Whether intentionally beneficial or sheerly by chance, this job has molded the man, not vice versa. It has given me a forum whereby I can display the talents and things that I most respect in myself.

Consistency. Safety. Reliability.

Confidence. Compassion. Caring.

Honesty. Honor. Duty. Respect. Humor.

Camaraderie. Ability. Granted I had some of these traits prior to driving a bus, but the others I’ve learned in the process.

I like my job, I’m happy to be here. There are so many less productive things that I could be doing with my life. This job has provided me with not only the financial stability to live in the modest lifestyle I enjoy, but it’s forced me to become the modest man that I’ve strived to be.

People complain about their job, they constantly carp about management. Some of this is not only warranted, but it is also healthy. A balance must be established that values trust and mutual respect if labor and management are ever going to coexist. We

are each other’s watchdog.

An old axiom says that “you can be part of the problem, or part of the solution”. The choice is ours everyday when we put on that uniform and come to work. Is it worth it you might ask yourself? I think it is.

I’ve fought more battles than most around this place, due not only to my longevity but also to the fact that I care. I’ve won my share, and lost more than a few.

Hopefully my “W’s” have made CAT a better place to work. My losses deserved or not were lessons that I’ve learned from. I’ve always picked myself up, dusted off and was back in the lineup the next day.

Everyday I go through a little ritual of getting myself ready to come to work. A clean body, a clean uniform, a clean slate, a new day. Badge goes on; nametag goes on, license and I.D in one pocket, pen, notepad and toothpick in the other.

My ducks are in a row, I’m ready for work, and proud to be there. The attention I pay to detail is the direct result of respect, not only for me but also for my position.

This final result after 21 years has become not only what I bring to the job; it is also, what the job has brought to me. w

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“These people are crazy! They’re wonderfully over the top about their MINIs,” said Cam Mathis of Savannah, no doubt including her husband, MINI owner John Brannen, in her assessment.

Savannah’s stop at Leopold’s was organized A MINI parking lot

by Murray “MINI” Wilson, who is making the rest of the trip to Maine in his very own MINI. Lapping up a cone of British racing green mint chip, Wilson was confident that the rally team’s plan to hold “a rigorous exercise routine every morning will combat the immense calories” of ice cream consumed during the week.

Savannah MINI owners and a daytripping ream from Charleston joined the rally at the Ga. 204 and I-95 interchange for the trip downtown, pushing the vehicle total to well over 30—all angle parked along a single block of Broughton Street. As part of their mini-MINI rally to Savannah, the Charleston group sponsored a gas mileage contest, with the winning car averaging 44.9 miles per gallon.

Chilling over a dish of raspberry sorbet, Dodie Gay offered up the rally’s angle parking as a solution to downtown’s legendary parking shortage. Combine the parking scheme, the MINIs’ compact size and great mileage, and The Great Ice Cream Run’s party-time atmosphere, and it was a new day in transportation planning. Civic involvement has never been this much fun.

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Five Saturdays into the Starland Farmers Market, it looks like Savannah’s newest effort at a weekend produce and artists market has legs.

One of the biggest challenges for previous tries at a local market has been finding nearby farmer vendors to sell their goods alongside the talented potters and jewelry makers from here in town.

This year’s timing and Whitaker Street location seem right, and the number of vendors seems to Kay Denham buys produce from be…well…growing.

Al Clark Every week a steady stream of shoppers are snapping up onions, blueberries, collards, watermelon, potatoes, and yellow squash, all for sale by the same folks that grew them. Of the 15 to 20 vendors setting up each Saturday morning, six or seven sell produce.

Al Clark from Portal offers strawberries, boiled peanuts, and made-on-the-farm strawberry salsa. Al’s so pleased with Starland that he recommended it to Bobby Colson, a first time vendor this week selling honey, honey stix candy, and beeswax from his B&G Honey Farms in Register.

“Farmer D” and Ben Walter of Hampton Island Farm are professional organics gurus, spreading the good news of organic farming and growing veggies, herbs and teas at the sustainable development resort near Riceboro.

Robin Graham, with tomatoes and all kinds of peppers last Saturday, came home to south Georgia a few years ago after a career in New Jersey in aerospace electronics. She got hooked on organics while visiting Amish farms up north and is converting her husband’s family farmstead in Telfair County to organic status.

Mary Connor and her sisters have grown daffodils for twelve years at Pinckney Colony Flowers in Bluffton, the plantation that’s been in their family since before the Civil War. They are expanding into produce and, like Graham, are in the organic certification process.

Despite a heavy dose of summer humidity radiating from the Whitaker Street parking lot blacktop, Starland loft resident and volunteer market organizer Frida Railey is cool, perky, and enthusiastic.

For foodies craving instant gratification, Olivier Jouffrault “The French Crepe Guy” offers the ultimate continental snack—a Nutella-filled delicacy whipped up to order on his one-of-akind crepes cart.

For a more Americanized choice, there’s Allison Muller’s Griddle Spud sweet potato waffles, which caught the eye of Danyse and Julius Edel during Memorial Day weekend. The favorite on-site snack is a handful of blueberries right out of the basket. They’re selling out every week, so get there early.

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hen the five shots rang out and everybody scattered for cover on that Brunswick street, the shooter found his target with deadly accuracy. Then, according to witnesses, he just strolled away as the victim dropped to the ground.

Wounded by the bullets, the dreadlocked man looked at his body helplessly, as five portals created by burning hot lead spewed blood.

Five flashes of bright explosive light from less than 15 yards away were the only things Aubrey Hagin could remember to tell the paramedics before he lost consciousness in March 2005.

Five bullets from a .45 caliber pistol entered his burly body around 11:30 p.m. that night. Hagin was shot once in the arm, twice in the stomach and leg in the point-blank shooting.

Ironically, Hagin had moved to Brunswick to get away from the street life of crime and drugs in Savannah. He was known as a high roller on the corners of 31st and Jefferson.

But old habits die hard, and Hagin again fell back into those same old ways of hanging out in the streets almost imme-

diately after moving to the port city about an hour’s drive from Savannah — and this time he paid for it.

The shooter had warned Aubrey Hagin that he didn’t like anyone from Savannah on his turf.

Hagin didn’t heed the warning.

Hagin’s mother got the call that no mother wants in the early morning hours.

“Mrs. Shirley Hazzard,” the caller said.

“Could you please to hurry down to the hospital in Brunswick, your son has been shot.”

Hazzard, along with other family members, headed down the road to see about Aubrey. On the front of her car, written words on a customized plate are emblazoned with the moniker, “Alpha and Omega”, the beginning and the end.

As she drove down the road, she said her mind was going a million miles an hour wondering if time was on her side and if this was the beginning of the end of his life here on earth.

“I was just hoping that we would make it in enough time to see him alive,” said Hazzard.

Hagin’s family arrived about three hours after the shooting, and when Hazzard saw the condition of her son, she says she knew only the grace of God would be able to pull him through. She started intercessory prayer.

Shooting victim defies the odds

The paramedics did everything in their power to keep him alive. Three times he lost consciousness before arriving at the hospital.

Each time they brought him back.

He was asked to wiggle his toes if he could hear what they were saying. He wiggled.

Medical examiners typically use powder burns to help determine the proximity of shots fired. If the shooting victim dies from their wounds, during the autopsy the body is examined and X-rayed for evidence.

Some bullets enter and exit a body perfectly, while others, according to forensic experts, shatter into a “lead snowstorm.”

A typical abdominal wound, like Hagin’s, looks like rings on a target. The entry point looks like a center of a bulls-eye, while the skin erupts into concentric rings from the center.

Dr. Jamie Downs is the medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He says one of his main jobs is to give closure to a family on what actually happened to a loved one.

Downs knows that each gunshot wound has its own uniqueness. Often he is the last set of eyes to see a body.

“I hold the deceased individual in high regard,” said Downs. “I don’t care who they are, because they have inherent value to someone.

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If they were loved as a baby, then we must have compassion and empathy for individuals.”

Downs got his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina. Before coming to Savannah, he worked in Dade County, Fla., home to another violent crime capital, Miami.

Downs wants the public to know that his office doesn’t joke around about the deceased. “We have a sacred trust and because of that we try to make things a little bit better for the family,” said Downs.

Accompanying me to the GBI crime lab was Karla Sue Marriott, assistant professor of Forensic Sciences at Savannah State University. The Jamaican-born Marriott obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies and then went on to do post-doctoral research at Clemson University.

Marriott was literally born into a career she sees as fascinating. “To be good at it (forensic science) you would have to have a fascination with death,” she said. “When I was young, my mother read a lot of detective novels to me. I loved those ‘True Detective’ novels. I was just fascinated with the detectives and how they went about solving the crime. I have a very healthy appreciation for the value of life, now that I know so much about death.”

Marriott teaches her students to be very meticulous at their craft. The type of handgun used in the Hagin shooting propelled the bullet at about 1400-1500 feet per second. The damage done to his body depended on the velocity and mass of the bullet. If it was a hollow point, it would expand and peel back to do more damage to tissue.

“Bullets create temporary cavities (depressions upon entry) and permanent cavities (holes left behind),” said Marriott.

“When someone is shot in the abdomen or head, damage to the brain or liver — which are both not elastic — will bring about excessive damage, resulting in extreme blood loss and will quickly incapacitate an individual.”

Before arriving to the hospital, Hagin began to see flashes of light once again. He claimed that he also once saw himself out of his body.

Call it a miracle — or call it a mother’s prayer closet being filled up — but Hagin made it, and got a second chance to do something with his life.

“It was scary,” said Hagin. “I was trying to pull through because I have kids.”

Hagin spent two months in the hospital in Brunswick, but beside the physical problems he’s having, psychological problems continue to haunt him.

“I still have one bullet in me on my right side,” said Hagin. “I also have some nerve damage, which causes numbness to my left leg. I still have dreams about those white lights when I was unconscious in that ambulance.”

He says he still has trouble breathing and cannot be on his feet for long stretches of time.

When asked how things have changed in his life, Aubrey is quick to tell anyone who wants to hear about his past life and where he is today.

“I tell kids not to be out here selling drugs, because you could be dead at anytime,” said Hagin. “I want them to stay in school and don’t be out there trying to do what someone else is doing to make it.”

Hagin’s point of entry today is to the head of anyone who wants to pay attention to what he has to say.

“I work in a barbershop and I get people’s attention whether they want it or not,” said Hagin. “I hope they listen to me, because I almost wasn’t here to tell them about my life.” w To comment e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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A woman was attacked while visiting an East 35th Street address.

Police were called to a local hospital, where the woman was being treated. She said she had visited a house at the location that is currently under construction to see how it was coming along.

The woman said she was walking up the steps to the house when someone came up behind her and grabbed her by the heck. She said the suspect told her in a deep voice, “Crackers don’t belong in this neighborhood” and then she felt something sharp prick her in the neck.

The woman said she fell down while grabbing her neck, which had a trickle of blood and what appeared to be fluid. She said she never turned around to look at the suspect, but remembered that he had very long arms, dark in color, and that his chest was above her backbone.

There were no witnesses outside at the time. The woman went directly to the hospital instead of calling the police.

The hospital staff advised her to undergo several tests, including HIV, hepatitis and others. The results are pending. The woman was given a case report number.

A Millikin Street resident told police she was asleep in her bedroom when she was awakened by someone choking her.

The woman said the assailant was her exhusband.

The officer asked how the man got into the house, as there didn’t seem to be any forced entry. The woman said the man must still have a key, as he’d been living in her house until two to three weeks ago.

The woman refused medical treatment and the officer could see no sign of marks or bruising around her neck. The officer tried to ask the woman what could have prompted her ex-husband to walk into her house and begin choking her, but the woman refused to answer questions. She was given a case report number.

An officer was flagged down by a building on Waters Avenue and told a man with a plastic bag of copper piping was out behind the building.

The officer found the man and asked him how he had gotten the copper. The man replied that he had found it behind a gas station at East 65th and Paulsen streets.

The man claimed the copper was coiled and that he bent it up to make it fit into the plastic bag. He also made comments to officers about a building in the area that is under renovation.

He said there were heating units and other items in the building and that if someone had the tools they could get copper from them. The man said he knew what was in the building because he had

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opened one of the doors that were unsecured and checked inside.

Then the man changed his statement about how he found the copper, saying he found it in a dumpster. The officer checked the building and found one door at the back and several at the front that weren’t secured.

The officer checked inside the building and didn’t find any items that appeared damaged, or items that appeared to have copper removed from them. The building was clearly under renovation, and other businesses in the area were closed.

The suspect was charged with loitering and prowling and taken to the Chatham County Detention Center. The copper piping was logged into the property room as evidence.

A fight was reported at the corner of Carolan and Bay streets.

When police arrived, a man told them that he got into a fight with some other men after one of them grabbed his wife. He refused to file a police report and also declined medical treatment.

Later that same evening, a woman in the area reported that the man told her to keep her children in the house because he was going to “shoot up the neighborhood.”

He could not be found for questioning.

Officers were dispatched to a West Bay Street convenience store on the report of a man sitting in the parking lot panhandling and drinking beer.

The man was described as a white male who was wearing a blue T-shirt with “Run Fast” printed on the front of it. When the officer arrived, the man was seen leaning against the east wall of the business and drinking a 24-ounce beer.

The man was highly intoxicated and became verbally abusive with the officers.

He was arrested and charged with public drunkenness, having an open container and disorderly conduct and taken to the Chatham County Detention Center. w

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A woman in Columbia University’s hospital had her gallbladder removed in March not by traditional abdominal surgery but by running instruments through her vagina, according to an April New York Times report. Doctors said that abdominal-muscle cuts are painful and slow to heal, and that surgeons are considering using the body’s other natural openings, also, for some procedures. (In a landmark 2004 operation, doctors in India removed a patient’s appendix through the mouth.) Still, a female New York University surgeon said the idea of gallbladder surgery through the vagina is “repulsive.”

In May, doctors at Schneider Children’s Hospital in New York, operating on a 3-year-old girl, removed a brain tumor that had made her one of only a tiny number of people in the world to suffer from a syndrome that caused her to laugh uncontrollably when experiencing a seizure. Her mother described the girl’s facial expression before the corrective surgery as similar to that of the Batman character the Joker.

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Spectacular: (1) Last year (according to a March 2007 Associated Press report), a computer technician for the Alaska Department of Revenue accidentally erased a disk containing all the data for paying the

A team of biologists from Yale University and the University of Sheffield in England reported in April that some species of ducks have genitalia so complex that they provide the female with unusually effective mating control. Both the male and female sex organs are sort of corkscrew-shaped, but the female’s spirals in the opposite direction, allowing her (in the event of rape or opportunistic, nonmating sex) to “lock down” her procreative organs. Only when the female relaxes, the researchers point out, can sperm approach her eggs.

Recurring Themes

Just Shoot Me: Men continue to consider that having themselves shot (nonfatally, of course) might provide them sympathy and a valid excuse to avoid some unpleasant task. In February, John Amos wanted pal Emanuel Houston to shoot him, to get his upcoming rape trial in Martins Ferry, W.Va., postponed, but Houston refused, and the two then struggled over the gun until Amos forced Houston’s hand (and the gun) against Amos’ stomach and pressed on Houston’s finger. And in May, in Baltimore, police said two college students had a third shoot them so they could avoid an onerous fraternity hazing ritual, but then later confessed that they are National Guardsmen and had themselves shot to avoid deployment to Iraq.

(A National Guard spokesman said there is actually no deployment scheduled for their unit.)

The Weirdo American Community

New York public-access TV personality “Glendora” has filed a lawsuit against a Cablevision employee who allegedly badmouthed her to sponsors, and her latest filing, detailed in May by New York Law Journal, consists of (according to Yonkers Civil Court Judge Charles Wood) 360 handwritten pages, “completely irrelevant,” with “multiple copies of a 60-year-old photo of the plaintiff with Bob Hope,” “sheet music,” “commentary about the impressive geographic expanse of the City of Yonkers,” “details of how she ‘writhed’ while her chauffeur shot insulin into his abdomen,” “an account of a near-miss with a deer on the Taconic State Parkway,” “jokes” and “threats or exhortations to ‘sue judges.’” Wood barred her from further filings without his approval.

Least Competent Jailers

Timothy Rouse, 19 (and who had been charged with assaulting an elderly person), was matter-of-factly released from the Kentucky Correctional and Psychiatric Center in LaGrange in April after jailers accepted as official a crudely written, ungrammatical fax ordering him freed, supposedly from the state supreme court but whose originating line clearly showed a local grocery store. Furthermore, it took the jailers two weeks to realize they had been scammed. (Fortunately, Rouse was easily rearrested at his mother’s house.)

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“Zoo,” a movie about men in quasi-romantic relationships with animals (based on the notorious farm near Enumclaw, Wash., that was the site of the 2005 death (from receptive sex) of a horse-lover, was released in April, and is generally not judgmental toward the human characters, according to a May review in Slate.com. “(Zoophilia)’s just like if you love your wife,” said one of the men, and, “You’re connecting with another intelligent being,” said another. The characters throw parties that resemble mundane, all-male, suburban nights out. “These were people I could trust,” said one. “I’d invite them to my home. (I) did ... Thanksgiving, I did Christmas dinners.” However, noted the reviewer, the bonhomie was interrupted when one suggested, “Hey, let’s go out to the barn and pester the animals.”

News That Sounds Like a Joke

(1) In April, a woman in Braintree, England, took her 2-1/2-year-old son to local firefighters (according to a Reuters dispatch) to ask if they would remove the toilet seat that had become tightly stuck to his head. (No explanation was reported.) (2) In February, Norwegian artist Jan Christensen placed his latest work, “Relative Value,” at a gallery in Oslo, but it was quickly stolen (and hardly surprisingly, in that the piece contained about $16,300 worth of Norwegian money stuck to it). w

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(1) Among the latest of Taipei’s quirkily styled restaurants (according to an April Reuters dispatch) is the D.S. Music hospital-themed eatery, where diners sit around beds, are served by “nurses,” and drink from IV lines hooked up to “medicine” in containers hung from the ceiling. (2) Earlier this year, Britain’s Ann Summers sex-product company announced it would stop selling its remote-controlled Love Bug 2 personal vibrator in Cyprus after Cypriot military officials complained that the device’s signals were interfering with army radio transmissions.

Leading Economic Indicator: The Japanese company Kongo Gumi closed its doors at the end of 2006, the victim of having borrowed too much money in the 1990s for the country’s real estate boom. Kongo Gumi had been under continuous ownership of the same family since the year 578, according to Business Week, which noted that for over 1,400 of those years, Kongo Gumi had stuck to its signature business of building Buddhist temples, and failed only when it branched out into the unfamiliar field of real estate.

state’s 600,000 residents their annual oil-revenue dividends, and a duplicate disk was also erased, and the fail-safe backup tape was discovered to be unreadable. It took two months of around-the-clock work for state employees to re-computerize all paper records. (2) London’s Daily Mail reported in April that it was probably a 17-year-old apprentice plumber, on his first day of work, who mishandled a blow torch and started the fire that quickly burned to the ground a waterside mansion in Devon, England, worth the equivalent of about $9.8 million.

John Brandrick told London’s Daily Telegraph in May that he will seek compensation from Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske, England, because he’s still alive. He was diagnosed in 2006 with pancreatic cancer, with about a year to live, and he quit his job, stopped paying his bills, and used his life’s savings to enjoy his last days. However, he was recently told he merely had (nonfatal) pancreatitis, and now he’s broke.

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Authorities in Zimbabwe announced a plan to dehorn the country’s rhinoceros population in a desperate attempt to prevent further poaching of the critically endangered animals. “We want poachers to know that if they kill any rhino in Zimbabwe, they will not find any horns,” Henry Madzikanda, the chief ecologist in the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management told the government-controlled Herald newspaper. A team from the World Wildlife Fund and Zimbabwe’s Parks Department will carry out the procedure on more than 780 rhinos, starting in the southeast of the country, according to Madzikanda. Rhino horns are shipped to illegal markets, mainly in Asia and the Middle East, where they are used to make dagger handles and are ground to be sold as traditional medicines.

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A massive landslide engulfed a spectacular geyser valley on Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, possibly causing all but the most powerful of the valley’s 90 geysers to disappear forever. A torrent of mud, trees, snow and stones covered two-thirds of the unique nature park, damming the valley’s Geysernaya River and creating a large lake over the geyser field. Experts believe the river will not be powerful enough to dislodge the blockage. Some of the valley’s more powerful geysers appeared again four days after the mudslide covered them. NTV and Vesti-24 broadcast footage of white steam rising from the ground. The valley is one of only five such geyser valleys in the world. It has attracted about 3,000 tourists annually to the remote region since it was opened for public view in 1991.

Antarctic Flow Increases

New satellite data show that hundreds of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula are flowing at a faster rate, contributing to the rise in sea level. Using radar images from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites, scientists from British Antarctic Survey tracked the flow rate of over 300 previously unstudied glaciers. They found a 12 percent increase in glacier speed from 1993 to 2003.

The observations show a melting process similar to that found among glaciers in Greenland that flow directly into the sea. As the glaciers thin through melting, the buoyancy of the ice can lift them off their rock beds, allowing them to slide faster.

Killing Cold

A bitter Antarctic cold wave is blamed for more than 80 deaths in southern Peru and Argentina, where temperatures have plunged to well below freezing. Many of the deaths in Argentina were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning that occurred when people turned on defective heaters. In Peru, 52 children perished due to pneumonia and other respiratory ailments brought on by the freak chill.

The cold wave has also caused widespread fuel shortages.

Earthquakes

At least three people were killed and around 300 others were injured when a 6.4 magnitude quake wrecked nearly 100,000 homes in a tea-growing region of southwest China’s Yunnan province.

• A series of 50 earthquakes in far eastern Nepal, which started on May 16, have damaged or destroyed many homes in the Taplejung region. Residents have been liv-

ing outside or have taken refuge in livestock sheds.

• Earth movements were also felt in northeastern Japan, western Greece and Southern California.

Tropical Cyclones

Tens of thousands of people were evacuated along the coast of Oman just before Cyclone Gonu, the strongest to threaten the Arabian Peninsula for 60 years, skirted the country. High winds and heavy seas disrupted operations at several Persian Gulf oil facilities. At least 23 deaths are blamed on the storm in Oman and Iran. Gonu later dissipated over southern Iran.

• High winds associated with the development of Tropical Storm Barry knocked down palm huts along the MexicoGuatemala border. The storm later brought drought-breaking rainfall to Florida and other parts of the southeastern United States.

‘Vampire’ Moths

A steadily warming climate has allowed a species of moth that feeds on human blood to migrate into Finland, according to a report in the nature magazine Suomen Luonto. There have been nearly 200 sightings of the skin-piercing calyptra thalictri since it was first sighted in Finland in 2000. Professor Kauri Mikkola wrote in the journal that he doesn’t believe the moth has the ability to carry disease. Only male moths of this genus suck blood, and the species is also noted for its ability to pierce fruit and suck tears from the eyelids of large animals such as elk and cows, notes Mikkola.

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Bob Dylan: Intimate Insights from Friends and Fellow Musicians (Omnibus Press)

There have been so many books written about both Bob Dylan and his artistic output that one could conceivably stock a small library branch with nothing but tomes related to pop music’s most revered (and some would say reviled) poet.

Kathleen Mackay’s brand-new anthology of interview-based essays is a worthy addition to that canon, just not quite as worthy as it’s jacket might have you believe.

Truth be told, there’s little “intimate insight” into this famously private superstar that Dylan fans wouldn’t have already learned elsewhere — especially since despite a handful of never-before-published interviews conducted specifically for this book (i.e., personal chats with roadhouse rocker Ronnie Hawkins, folkie chanteuse Maria Muldaur and protest-song icon Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary), the overwhelming majority of direct quotes from such Dylan collaborators and confidants as Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Roseanne Cash and others are obviously cobbled together from magazine articles and previously released books. In fact, Mackay quotes so liberally from both Dylan’s own Chronicles Volume One and Tom Petty’s recently-published memoirs that it feels a bit unseemly.

Add that to the fact that huge chunks of this book have nothing to do with Dylan —mainly serving as miniature biographies of these “friends and fellow musicians”— and you wind up with a pleasant enough book that serves as either a lackluster and slightly disappointing cache of Dylan info, or a strange collection of (lightweight) profiles of (legitimately) interesting artists who have little in common, save Bob. In the end, this will probably make for a decent gift which hardcore Dylanophiles can give to friends who remain curiously confused about the strange hold this short, nasally-voiced songwriter has on them. w

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Over the course of 542 pages, author Darwin Porter (who’s made a career out of penning salacious, proudly unauthorized tell-alls of Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Howard Hughes and Marlon Brando) flatout insists this beleaguered and freakish celebrity is both A) quite gay and B) an unrepentant pedophile.

While these accusations may not come as a shock to anyone who’s watched TV, listened to the radio or picked up a newspaper over the past two decades, considering that Jackson to this day denies any sort of sexual contact with anyone under the age of 18 —and maintains that he’s straight— the matter-of-fact and cavalier manner in which Porter repeats these claims (seemingly at least once a page) left even me (a Jackson detractor from way back) feeling more than a bit queasy.

Porter’s book is brimming with so-called “direct quotations” from everyone from Liberace, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Prince, to Andy Warhol, Diana Ross and Cary Grant. Unfortunately, not only do actual people not speak like this, nearly all the celebrities talk (and curse) in the same “voice,” a dead giveaway if there ever was one. Jacko often seems like a horribly amateurish stage play, but that’s part of what makes it such a great read.

Despite the flagrantly biased journalism, this book is a treasure trove of easily verifiable tidbits from Jackson’s life — most of which I’d long ago forgotten, and almost all of which are patently, ridiculously hilarious. Here’s just a few of the ones fit for print in a paper such as ours: the time he planted a story in the tabloids that he was offering $500,000 for The Elephant Man’s skeleton; the time he held a press conference to announce that the head of his record label was “very, very devilish,” and showed reporters a handmade poster featuring the exec’s photo with crudely drawn horns added to his head; and my favorite, the time he commissioned an oil portrait to hang over his bed which depicted himself surrounded by five figures he viewed as his “equals” — Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, George Washington, the Mona Lisa and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (each wearing Napoleonic military regalia, plus a white sequined glove and aviator sunglasses).

If you’re looking for quality, respectable journalism, avoid this book. If you’re capable of relishing the moment without dwelling on the veracity of the facts, pick it up and laugh your ass off.

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Bottles & Cans

Genuine houserockin’ music from a Delta blooze-rawk quartet with a baddass rhythm section. They’re known for inventive arrangements, rotgut vocals and plenty of energy. Wed., 9 pm, Bay Street Blues + Thurs., 10 pm, Savannah Blues + Fri. Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Mon., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

Eric Britt

This locally-based singer/songwriter fronts the on-again/off-again indie-rock band Hazel Virtue. His solo shows are based around his vocals and acoustic guitar.

Fri. - Sat., 3 pm, Ocean Plaza (Tybee).

Chief

A fixture on the local music scene for decades, this singer/guitarist is known for maintaining a working knowledge of over 5,000 popular songs. Wed. - Thurs. & Sun. Tues., Bayou Café + Fri., 8 pm, Hercules (Pt. Wentworth).

Joseph Christ

Self-consciously “evil,” cornpone and foul-mouthed hillbilly-rock quintet. Fri., 11 pm, The Jinx.

Chuck Courtenay

Local guitarist and singer who got his start on the local bar and party circuit as one half of a sibling duo specializing in faithful renditions of popular rock, country and pop hits. While he still offers up plenty of those old faves, he (and his brother Jason, for that matter) have been leaning hard into a honky-tonk bag lately, and have effectively remade themselves as budding country crooners, playing covers and a growing number of original tunes both with backing bands and without. Wed., 7 pm (w/ Bucky Bryant), Driftaway Café + Thurs., 6 pm, Stingrays (Tybee).

Eric Culberson Blues Band

An internationally-known blues guitarist and singer based here in Savannah, who has released 3 well-received albums of fiery,

Albert King and Albert Collins-influenced material. His trio boasts a sympathetic and seasoned bassist and drummer. Fri., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) + Mon., 6 pm, The Boathouse (Hilton Head) + Tues. (hosts Open Jam) - Wed., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Danger Muffin

Tight, well-oiled and extremely versatile Charleston trio that has a great sense of dynamics and a rootsy, funky setlist that incorporates obscure covers by such artists as Dylan, Prine, Ben Harper and Paul Simon, as well as original, acoustic-based material that draws on roots-rock, reggae and even ska. Fri., 8 pm, The Warehouse.

Jeremy Davis & Equinox Jazz Hard-bop combo led by a talented saxman from Louisiana who quickly earned a solid local rep as a musician of note after relocating here a few years back. Sat., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Mary Davis & Co.

Acoustic covers of well-known rock, pop, country and soul tunes, fronted by the titular Ms. Davis, and featuring members of the local group Band In The Park.

Thurs., 7 pm, Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House (Wilmington Isl.).

Element Unseen

Budding local atmospheric rock/metal trio (influenced by Foo Fighters, The Used, Smashing Pumpkins and Sevendust, among others) that has recently undergone a lineup change and is in the process of rebuilding their fanbase. Sat., 8 pm, Sweet Melissa’s (35 Whitaker St.) - ALL-AGES.

Frank Emerson

Locally well-known and much-loved acoustic troubadour who’s been a fixture at this famed Celtic watering hole and restaurant for many, many years. Mon. - Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

Joshua Fletcher & Six Shot

Romance

One of the more interesting indie-rock bands out of Atlanta these days. A bit left of center from the standard-issue, weepy soundalikes. They boast a slight Western twang that seems somehow at odds with the rest of their image, but hey, that’s for a label to beat out of them. Also on this bill, Winter Park, Fl.’s Mike Dunn & The Kings of New England, who sound like they’ve been soaking in Paul Westerberg’s backwash for years — and they’re all the better for it. Their rootsy, no-bullshit rawk comes off as refreshingly free of tired postures and paint-by-numbers songwriting hackery. The Connells would be proud. Wed., 10 pm, Guitar Bar.

Free Jazz in The Squares

It’s that time of the year again, when the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs puts on a series of free, laid-back music events at lunchtime in some of the historic downtown squares. This week, office workers, students, wandering tourists and the homeless alike can groove to the sounds of Savannah Serenade and vocalist Claire Frazier (who recently moved here from L.A.). Free to all, but I’m sure the musicians would appreciate a tip or two... Wed., 11:30 am (Savannah Serenade) & Fri., 11:30 am (Claire Frazier), Wright Square (the one on Bull St. by the CVS).

Listen 2 Three

Hard-working local contemporary electric pop-rock trio of bass, drums and guitar, playing originals and covers that boast plenty of sweet vocal harmonies. Opening act In The Picture is the latest band project from young area singer/songwriter Erich DeFeo. Sat., 7:30 pm, Metro Coffee House ALL-AGES.

G.E. Perry & Strange Brew

This local guitarist and singer seems equally comfortable playing blues, rock, country or jazz. In this band format, he emphasizes the rock and blues genres. Fri., 10:30 pm, The Bayou Café.

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Phantom Wingo

Excellent, guitar-based Southern boogie and jam that’s often compared to The Allmans or Widespread Panic. Fri., 8 pm, Augie’s (Richmond Hill) + Sun., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

The Denny Phillips Band Unplugged

One of the most popular wedding and private party bands goes acoustic for this rare public show. Expect plenty of danceoriented favorites from the past several decades, and a healthy does of Diamond (Neil, that is). Fri., 9 pm, Dolphin Reef Lounge (Ocean Plaza, Tybee).

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Sat., 11 pm, The Jinx.

Gail Thurmond

Singing jazz pianist best known for a legendary 14-year stint in the basement bar of The Olde Pink House. She’s a beloved figure on the downtown nightlife scene. Thurs. & Sat., 7 pm, Isaac’s on Drayton (formerly the original Churchill’s Pub location).

Prolific and accomplished singer/songwriter whose work is often likened to John Hiatt and Tom Petty. Sat., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub.

Robert Willis

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Fast, loud, downstroke-heavy, emodrenched “happy hardcore” from St. Louis that plays ironic Alan Jackson and Poison covers along with their tight, yet insanely derivative originals. Tues., Guitar Bar.

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Crushing, macho modern metal/hardrock act from S.C. that’s supposedly making waves in the biz, as they say, after many years in the trenches. With kindred spirits Near Fatal Fall and March Minus Nine.

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High-energy cover band that’s recently re-tooled their setlist to include plenty of kitschy, ‘80s pop and crossover hip-hop along with the more standard classic rock fare — which means you’ll hear LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” alongside “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd. Thurs., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Fri., 9 pm, Iguanas (St. Simons Isl.).

Noted jazz vocalist who’s performed in such major rooms as Tavern On The Green, The Apollo Theater and at several Atlanta Jazz Fests. Fri. - Sat., 8 pm, 9:15 pm, 10:30 pm, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

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Well-liked cover act featuring guitarist and singer Roy Swindelle playing rock, pop and beach hits to sequenced backing.

Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Doc’s Bar (Tybee) + Sun., 5 pm, Dewey’s Dockside (Tybee) + Mon., 6 pm, Stingrays (Tybee).

The Brooks Wood Band

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Opening Ceremony with the Matsurizas Lee’s TaeKwando Demonstrations Sampaguita Dance Group (Phillippines) Tai Chi by the Chinese Benevolent Group Bobby Yang & His Unrivaled Players Korean Cultural Dance Group Liang’s Amazing Acrobatic Show Children of Polynesia Dance Troupe Savannah Kendo Club Demonstrations Matsuriza Taiko Drummers Indonesian Performing Group Bobby Yang & His Unrivaled Players Malaysian Association Dance Troupe Liang’s Amazing Acrobatic Show Thailand Dance Group

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What a band name! Led by songwriter/ frontman Mark Mathis, this Charlotte act gets understandable comparisons to Wilco, Pavement and Springsteen, but I’ll just cut to the chase and say that while I have no idea what they sound like live, in the studio they know how to strike a pose and ride it till the wheels fall off and burn.

Imagine Leonard Cohen if he’d traded that monastery for Walter Salas-Humara’s couch and his typewriter for an electric guitar and a stompbox. This would have been a Recommended gig, but I ran out of room on that page, so hopefully you all dug deep to find this listing. Tues., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL-AGES.

try, pop and rock artists’ repertoires. Fri. Sat., 6 pm, Dewey’s Dockside (Tybee).

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2nd Annual CJA Father’s Day Show w/ Howard Paul

Sponsored by the Coastal Jazz Association, this show finds Art Tatum-style pianist “Professor Dave” Solazzo and “monster” bassist George Sheck joining noted 7-string guitarist Paul for an evening of classical, American jazz at a noted downtown seafood restaurant. The show is free for CJA members and $10 for the general public. However, anyone joining the CJA at this show will have their cover charge refunded. How can you go wrong? Sun., 5 pm, Cobblestone Conch House.

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The DaliDrama

Although they’ve only been around under this name for about a year, this hardhitting, S.C.-based modern rock band’s members have served stints in such nationally and regionally-known acts as Green Jello and Wormbelly. Frontman Chris Patterson is a past recipient of the Charleston City Paper’s Best Male Vocalist award, and those who appreciate the soaring, melodramatic, Robert Plant-esque approach of Audioslave’s Chris Cornell or the late Layne Staley will likely dig Patterson and his new group’s swirling, psychedelic grunge. They’re touring in support of a brand-new debut CD. Opening act The Dope Sandwich is a progressive hip-hop collective recently named Best Local HipHop Artists in our own Readers’ Poll. Sat., 10 pm, Loco’s (downtown).

Kokopelli’s Jazz Jam Session

Last Thursday marked the 1st-ever open jam night at this Broughton St. listening room, and by all accounts the evening (hosted by young local trumpet phenom Alex Nguyen) was a smashing success.

While no one knows for sure which and how many regional players and vocalists will show up for this week’s impromptu concert, I’m told the inaugural night was graced by the likes of bassist/vocalist Maggie Evans (of Silver Lining), singer David Buskirk (of The Permanent Tourists), Eat Mo’ Music trumpeter John Tisbert, veteran trombonist Teddy Adams, guitarist Andres Garcia and singing pianist Gail Thurmond, among many others. With a little luck, this will catch on and provide adventurous listeners with a great, regular opportunity to see some of the area’s most established jazz cats providing support and encouragement to those with less stage experience. Thurs., 7 pm, Kokopelli’s.

Vocalist Tish Oney w/The Dave Solazzo Trio

In 1993, the famed bandleader Les Brown called this singer “the best voice I’ve

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heard since Doris Day sang with my band.”

She has toured to great acclaim both here and abroad, and worked with a who’s who of jazz masters. When not headlining club dates or appearing as a featured soloist in symphonic settings, she teaches jazz at the university level, and moonlights as an actress on TV and in film. Fri. - Sat., 8 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

Bobby Lee Rodgers & The Codetalkers

Known best for his association with avant-garde vocalist and jam-band elder statesman Col. Bruce Hampton, this former Berklee College of Music professor is both an amazing guitarist and a prolific singer/ songwriter whose work gleefully blurs the lines between folk, funk, rock, pop and — increasingly of late— jazz. While most of his fans are used to seeing his band play at massive outdoor festivals and smoky rock clubs, this acoustic show finds him playing a small, 100-seat listening room that’s both smoke and alcohol free. That may harsh the mellows of some of his die-hard fans, but they should rethink that bummer and consider what an unusual and cool opportunity it will be to see him (and his formidable bandmates) in such a personal and intense setting. For those who are players themselves, he’s also teaching a guitar Master Class earlier that afternoon. For tickets to either or both, call 748-1930. Sun., 7 pm, Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (1304 E. Hwy 80, Bloomingdale)- ALL-AGES.

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Maybe it’s Jupiter Coyote’s Matt Mayes taking these boys under his managerial wing, or the addition of highly skilled lead guitarist Steve Gerard, or the experience they’ve gained after bumping up their live schedule and spending more time in a real recording studio, but this up-and-coming local “Y’allternative” band is making great strides in both their songwriting and their presentation. Their newest demos spotlight a group slowly stepping out of the long shadow of their obvious influences. They’re now crafting a polished pop sound that’s more reminiscent of Train or Matchbox 20 than Skynyrd or the DBTs. Wed., 7:30 pm, Dawg House Grill + Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House. w

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The Union Mission hosted an open house and public viewing of two murals at Magdalene Project, their emergency family shelter. Above, Girl Scouts paint sideboards used to decorate a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playhouse.

Upper right, one of the murals, Second row, l-r; Girl Scout Troop 216 stand in their finished sideboard, a Mission volunteer paints childrens faces, bottom right; a volunteer doing a pottery demoostration

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;David Harmon@JEA -- Landscapes in pastel, gouche, watercolor by David Harmon will hang at the Jewish Educational Alliance during June. The JEA is at 5111 Abercorn St. Isabella Davis & Peggy Cone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The

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Gallery 440. Gallery 440 and fellow artists extend our heartfelt sympathy to the friends, students and family of Jorge Mario Alvarez, who passed away May 15. Mr. Alvarez will be deeply missed by Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art community.

Origami Installation -- a site-specific installation by Pang-Chieh Hsu, a professor of art at AASU, features 108 lotus flowers arranged nine-inrow on 12 vertically ascending levels to sympbolize 12 different karmas of Buddhism. It is being shown in conjunction with the 12th Annual Asian Festival and can be seen at the Jepson Center for the Arts June 13-17. Call 7908800.

Origami Activity -- Young people 6 and older can make a large orgami lotus flower under the guidance of artist Pang-Chieh Hsu June 14 and 15 from 25 p.m. at the Jepson Center for the Arts.

Free by advance registration. Call 7908823 to register.

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Add to the story line elaborate costumes, richly detailed sets and a talented cast, and you’ve got Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

The beloved musical will be presented at the Savannah Children’s Theatre beginning June 14.

Savannah Children’s Theatre founder and director Kelie Miley is directing the show.

“It’s going to be wonderful,” she says. “The cast is so good and all the elements are coming together.”

It’s important to get this one right, Miley says. “Belle is the favorite princess for so many little girls,” she says.

Bonnie Hallman and Brian Sarr play Belle and her Beast. Everyone at the theater is pitching in to make the musical a huge success.

New, comfortable seating -- in royal purple, no less -- is being installed. Carpeting is being installed. Work goes on into the wee hours to complete the sets.

This production truly is high-end. “It’s costing us $30,000 to do this show -- if we stay in budget,” Miley says.

Add to that the amount of work that is being put into the production, and it’s one expensive show. “It’s really worth it,” Miley says. “The voices in this show are amazing-- everyone can sing.”

There’s dazzling choreography, too. The biggest challenge so far has been staging such a big show at the theater, Miley says.

“Everyone asks, ‘Where are you going to do it?’

I say, ‘We’re doing it here.’

Children will feel engaged with the characters because they can see them.”

In all, Bonnie Hallman portrays Belle and Brian Sarr is her Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Savannah Children’s Theatre

the production has a cast of 90 children and adults. Because the children are divided up into groups that rotate on different nights, about 50 people will be seen onstage during each performance.

In many productions at the Savannah Children’s Theatre, children play all the roles. But in the two mainstage productions presented during the year, Miley casts ageappropriate actors.

Miley is one of the busiest people in Savannah -- at least, that’s the theory of everyone who knows her. She got her own start in theater at the Savannah Young People’s Theatre, which led her to earn a theater degree in college.

After college, Miley attended a conservatory.

“I always knew what I wanted to do,” she says.

What Miley wanted to do was children’s the-

ater. “It’s my passion,” she says. “It opens up a whole new realm for a child.”

Today’s children sometimes don’t understand what live theater is. “They come in and ask when the movie’s going to start,” Miley says with a smile. “They’re disappointed at first when they find out it’s not a movie, but then the show starts and they’re overjoyed.”

Miley loves children’s literature. “I read all my children’s books,” she says. “I’m a huge fan of the Little Prince and Harry Potter.”

The students who work with Miley are dedicated. “I have nothing negative at all to say,” she says. “Some practically live here, others come in and out because they have other activities, such as sports.”

Recently, Miley and her cast and crew have been working until 2:30 a.m. “I have a lot of help,” she says. “If I need something, someone will say, ‘Okay Kelie, I’ll get right on that.’ Nobody ever goes, ‘You’re nuts, we can’t do that.’ Many of us like to do this 24/7.”

Kristi Wilson is the set designer. She first imagines the scenes and characters, then thinks about the settings that should surround them.

At times, she paints as much as 8 hours a day. It can be exhausting work.

A native of St. Louis, Wilson learned painting and drawing from her mother, a professional artist. “She does murals in homes,” Wilson says. “I’ve never taken an art class.”

Rather, her education has come through hours of hard work. “Kristi is the very best,” Miley says. “She’s even better than professional drop companies. The work she’s done here is amazing.”

“My whole life has always been about drawing,” Wilson says.

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Theatre production) came up, they asked me if I could the big drops. I’d never done anything that big, but I was ready for the challenge.”

The best part of set designing is seeing the final result. “It is so gratifying when I see it under the stage lights,” Wilson says. I always hold my breath until I see it in lights.”

Josh Holley is helping paint the sets. “I’m very excited about the way it’s going to look,” Wilson says. “I think it’s going to be the biggest and best production we’ve ever done.”

In addition to regular performances, a special event, Tea with Belle, will be held Wednesday, June 20 for children and their parents. “They can come dressed as their favorite prince or princess,” Miley says. “There will be tea, punch and cookies, and they can meet all the characters.”

The tea will be held at 6 p.m. and

The costumes and sets are lavish in the Savannah Children’s Theatre’s production of Disney’s Beuaty and the Beast.

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Bonnie Hallman is thrilled to play Belle.

“I found out they were doing this last year,” she says.

“It was one of my favorite movies growing up. It has wonderful music and it provides a role model for children.”

One year for Christmas, Hallman was given tickets to see Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on opening night in New York City.

To prepare for the role of Belle, Hallman revisited the film version. “I went back home and looked over the music,” she says. “I tried to get an idea about who the character is and what she’s about.”

Hall is from Richmond Hill and attended Shorter College in Rome. After performing on tour, she came home to Savannah for the summer and got involved in Savannah Children’s Theatre.

“Kelie called and offered me a position

at the theater,” Hallman says. “I don’t see any time that I’ll ever be leaving Savannah, now.”

Theater for young children is extremely important, Hallman says. “They won’t appreciate Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams unless they learn to appreciate fairy tales,” she says. “It’s hard to get 25-year-olds to the theater if they’ve never been.”

Van Doubleday plays Gaston.

“Normally, I’m a technical director in shows,” he says. “When I found out they were doing Beauty and the Beast, I wanted to be in it.

I really love this show.”

Doubleday is a Savannah native who moved to Charleston when he was younger. “I’ve done acting and singing before, but I’m much more involved in the technical side of things,” he says. “It’s been a while since I’ve been on stage in this kind of capacity.”

While Disney’s The Beauty and the Beast undoubtedly will appeal to youngsters, adults will enjoy it, too. “There’s plenty of humor,” Doubleday says.

Doubleday also enjoys working with young audiences. “It’s important for children to experience live theater,” he says. “It’s much more magical to see it live than to watch a DVD. It’s not the movie, it’s even better.”

Which is why Miley is so enthusiastic about her latest production. “People should come and see it because it’s fun and magical,” she says. “Even people with no children will like this show.” w Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will be presented June 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24 at 8 p.m. and June 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 3 p.m. at the Savannah Children’s Theatre.

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you by the fine people at Viacom? I used to pride myself as an egalitarian that put no importance on celebrities over ordinary joes until this started happening. I think my breaking point was on the (otherwise highly enjoyable) MTV Movie Awards a week ago when some teenager on a webcam in her dorm room was blown up on a massive screen in the middle of the Gibson Amphitheatre to present an award. Again, the pixelated video and out-of-sync audio make it an uncomfortable, mind-numbingly stupid experience for all. “This is something a celebrity should be doing!” I shouted.

Spin recently ran a cover story about the death of the rock star, asking why Keith Richards and Tommy Lee have been replaced with Chris Daughtry and the loser from Nickelback who tries to look like Jesus.

The gist of it was that the walls between fan and icon are being torn down and, because of this, people want their icons to be more like them. At first this seems like a fairly inoffensive proposition. But think about it, shouldn’t rock stars be more like Iggy Pop than your dad? And I certainly don’t want to go to the trouble of getting addicted to heroin or surviving on a diet of milk and cocaine or getting stabbed with a broken bottle in a dingy cabaret in Berlin just so I can be like him.

In the end, YouTube will probably go down as a fad. The memory of Time naming “You” as Person Of The Year because you filmed your cat fighting a turtle in your backyard will fade away and the entertainment business will continue as usual.

But last week showed us one aspect of its current popularity that may last considerably longer. CBS cancelled the serialized drama Jericho last month, thinking it hadn’t accumulated enough viewers to justify a second season. They were quickly proven wrong, as fans sent in 20 tons of peanuts to tell the execs that they were “nuts” (har har). As I’m writing this, fans of The CW’s Veronica Mars are mailing in thousands of Mars bars in a last ditch effort to save their show. Perhaps it’s unrelated, but maybe the establishment’s adoption of user-generated content has inspired them to listen to regular people more, and regular people feel that they’re not wasting their time with stunts like this because of it. Regular people controlling professional entertainers: the way of the future! w

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he YouTube-ization of America is underway. I’m so tired of all the annoying commercials from transnational conglomerates asking you to make your own commercial, like it’s a privilege or something. Gone are the days when visionaries like David Lynch or Spike Lee would use sizeable paychecks earned from helming ads for Wal-Mart or Tampax to finance weird, expressionistic art films.

Now any moron with a camcorder and a dial-up connection can make commercials.

Now don’t go thinking that I’m waxing nostalgic about the good ol’ days of gorgeous advertisements with high production values crafted by A-listers. I hate commercials. I recently got a DVR and feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven, breezing through hour-long shows in twenty minutes because I no longer have to be deluged by that stupid Heineken ad that blares “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls. But what I hate even more is when greedy executives hop on the bandwagon, asking us to do their dirty work for them.

There hasn’t been a corporatization of such a thoroughly un-corporate movement since the record labels descended upon Seattle in the early 90’s to make grunge safe for your grandma.

User-generated media and online communities are now being incorporated into everything. MTV is the worst offender.

Their late night programming is shown with a series of CNN Headline News-esque split screens that run constant streams of information sent in by people on the internet with nothing better to do. For example, an episode of the sketch comedy show Human Giant will have scrolling messages on the bottom of the screen with insightful comments like, “Wow, this is hilarious,” or “This sucks.” The action will periodically be interrupted by a full screen, pixelated, poorly positioned shot from a webcam of some stoner exclaiming, “This is my favorite part!” with the audio completely out of sync with his lips. Only, the cut to the webcam and the delay in cueing up the audio caused us to miss his favorite part, making everything that just transpired completely and utterly pointless. In short, the revolution is being televised, and it sucks.

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ean Stone begins his artist’s statement with a quotation from a conversation he overheard in the aquarium, someone saying how nice it would be to be a jellyfish, floating carefree from place to place. Often our attitudes to creatures other than ourselves reflect either simple sentimentality which comes with an idealization of their existence, or indifference based on ignorance of their complex world and their place in it. Both of these attitudes probably stem from the burden of our human consciousness, ever greater in the modern world of increasing stimuli and demands on our attention. We long for the placid (we suppose) life of the jellyfish, unhampered by the need to accumulate, having no desire for a career path, and not bombarded by a visual and auditory world newly made for its consumption. But we cannot really cross the barrier of species in order to truly understand their lives. If we could, would we escape the traps of sentimentality and prejudices that humanity invariably falls into when confronted with the natural world? These appear to be the concerns of this philosophical, carefully thought-out artwork.

Stone uses two different technical approaches in creating the photographs: photograms and Polaroid film. The largest work is a photogram. I always think of the photogram as a Ray-o-gram, because it is mostly associated with the Surrealist Man Ray. It is the simplest photographic technique, actually a recorded shadow, because it requires no lens, no camera, simply light on photographic paper. An object is placed on the paper and the paper exposed to light, thus creating a negative shape where the light was blocked by the object. Stone also uses positive photograms, which are created from the negative and are actually the mirror image.

This large photogram, Cat Tails, is made up of nine hinged vertical panels. In this case,

as also in Cyclamen I and II, Stone creates a symmetrical rhythm repeating the positive and negative images in a pattern which he is careful to subvert by an additional panel, as if it were a poem with rhyming couplets where an extra line was thrown in to refresh the form. This is more satisfying to the modern eye.

While the effect of these photograms {as well as the Cat Tails. there is Squid, Cyclamen I and II, Gerber Daisy I and II} is to rob the image of almost all detail, as if it were a silhouette, in the remaining four works, Octopus, Raccoon, Squirrel and Hawk, Stone employs a technique at the other end of the scale. Using Polaroid Type 55 film, Stone allows us to see the sharpest possible detail of his subject.

To reinforce Stone’s interest in duality, (positive/negative; life/death; black/white there are only a couple of pigment prints in the show) the Polaroid photographs are constructed as diptychs, with the images joined from two sheets of photo paper (or at least this is how Stone makes it look). Along one edge is a line of perforations, just as if they had been torn from a notebook. In the diptych Squirrel, one side of the photographic paper is horizontal with the perforations on the left; and the right side is vertical, with the perforations at the top. The image of the dead squirrel, however, is perfectly aligned.

And even in death, Stone’s clinical distance restores to the organism its dignity and beauty apart from Man. We are in Nature, and yet outside of it.

Our higher consciousness has doomed us to a spiritual loneliness that is only one of the irresolvable contradictions which Art is steadily more concerned with in our contemporary world. Art works like these photographs can help us to focus on the world without sentimentality. And shed its dark cousin, Indifference. w

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JEN’S & FRIENDS

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Karaoke

THE JINX

Phantom Wingo (8 pm)

JOHNSON SQUARE

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)

B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA

B & D BURGERS (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

BAJA CANTINA (The Landings) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

BAY STREET BLUES Karaoke (9 pm)

BAYOU CAFÉ

Chief (9 pm), G.E. Perry & Strange Brew (10:30 pm)

BENNIE’S (Tybee)

Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm)

BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET Karaoke (9 pm)

BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) Nancy Witt

BOGEY’S

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE

Joseph Christ (11 pm)

The Roger Moss Quintet (11:30 am)

JUKEBOX BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

KATHLEEN’S (Beaufort) Ghost Crab (10 pm)

KEVIN BARRY’S Gabriel Donahue

KING’S INN

Karaoke (9 pm)

KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.) Audrey Shakir (8 pm, 9:15 pm, 10:30 pm)

LOCO’S (downtown)

Cosmic Charlie - Grateful Dead Tribute (10 pm)

LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS Psychotronic Film: THE HOST (8 pm)

LUNA LOUNGE @ IL PASTICCIO Live Music TBA (9 pm)

LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

#@*! Karaoke

Pianist Peter Tavalin (5 pm), “Nickel Bag” Vocalist Leslie Adele (9 pm)

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

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

Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

CLUB ICE

CLUB ONE

COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (225 W. River St.) Annie Allman & Friends (5 pm)

CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR

The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm)

DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn) Karaoke

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) Robert Willis (6 pm)

DINGUS MAGEE’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

DOC’S BAR (Tybee)

Roy & The Circuit Breakers

DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE (Tybee)

Eric Britt (3 pm), Denny Phillips Band - Unplugged (8 pm)

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

MARDIS GRAS ON BAY

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS MCDONOUGH’S Karaoke

MERCURY LOUNGE Phantom Wingo (10 pm)

MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB Jude Michaels (10 pm)

MULBERRY INN

The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm)

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB Live Music TBA (10 pm)

NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Live Music TBA

PLUM’S (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (10 pm) POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (8 pm)

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

33 BAJA CANTINA (The Landings) Mary Davis & Co. (7 pm) BAY STREET BLUES

THE HYATT

THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

BAYOU CAFÉ Live Music TBA (9 pm), BC & The Rock Mob (10:30 pm) BENNY’S (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

RETRIEVER’S (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

ROBIN’S NEST (Pooler) SAVANNAH BLUES SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

ISAAC’S ON DRAYTON

Karaoke (9 pm)

Karaoke w/DJ Levis

Gail Thurmond (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (5 pm)

THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

Karaoke (9 pm)

BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)

Tish Oney w/The Dave Solazzo Trio (8 pm)

JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

THE RAIL PUB Live Music TBA RED LEG SALOON Live Music TBA (9 pm) RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

SAVANNAH BLUES Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3 Old School Dance Party w/DJ Analog Kid (10 pm)

JEN’S & FRIENDS

SAVANNAH JAZZ & BLUES BISTRO (Bluffton)

THE JINX

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

DJ Analog Kid (10 pm)

The Joseph Michael Duo (6 pm)

Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

#@*! Karaoke

JUAREZ MEXICAN RESTAURANT (Waters Ave.)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

#@*! Karaoke

KEVIN BARRY’S

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (2 pm)

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

Kiterunner (8 pm)

David Flannery (9 pm)

DJ Jason Hancock spins Progressive House (10 pm)

LOCO’S DELI & GRILL (downtown)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

Bluesonics

Andres Garcia (9:30 pm)

SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)

SCANDALS (Tybee)

SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)

Closed for Vacation

BOGEY’S

THE BRITANNIA (Wilmington Isl.) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Souls Harbor, Near Fatal Fall, March Minus Nine (11 pm)

Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm)

SCANDALS (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)

THE SEA GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)

Gabriel Donahue

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Audrey Shakir (8 pm, 9:15 pm, 10:30 pm)

SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)

The DaliDrama, The Dope Sandwich (10 pm)

SORRY CHARLIE’S SPANKY’S (River St.)

Karaoke

Pianist Eric Jones (5 pm), Jeremy Davis & The Equinox Jazz Ensemble (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

DJ Kiah (10 pm)

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

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

The Courtenay Brothers (6 pm)

#@*! Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Roberrt Willis (6 pm)

Karaoke

1st Anniversary Party w/5 rock bands TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Roy & The Circuit Breakers

SPANKY’S (River St.) STEAMERS (Georgetown) STINGRAY’S (Tybee) TANTRA LOUNGE

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

TUBBY’S (River St.)

TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) TURTLE’S (Statesboro)

UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

VENUS DI MILO Live DJ

VFW CLUB (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

VIC’S ON THE RIVER Live Music TBA (7 pm)

THE WAREHOUSE Danger Muffin (8 pm)

WAYS STATION TAVERN (Richmond Hill) Karaoke (9 pm) WET WILLIE’S Live DJ (8 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ

Stone Cold Foxx (10 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

WISEGUYS (Statesboro)

CHUCK’S BAR CITY MARKET COURTYARD CLUB ONE

THE CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn) DC2 DESIGN (104 W. Broughton St.)

MARDIS GRAS ON BAY

DEB’S PUB & GRUB

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee)

MCDONOUGH’S

DOC’S BAR (Tybee)

Eric Britt (3 pm)

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) The Christy Alan Band (9 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) WormsLoew (9 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) The Hitmen (9 pm)

GILLEY’S (Hinesville) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

GUITAR BAR

The Carry-Ons, Guff (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SATURDAY JUNE 16TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Joey Manning (7 pm)

THE ALE HOUSE (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) Live Music TBA (8 pm)

B & B ALE HOUSE Live Music TBA

STUDIO B (Glennville)

Listen 2 Three, In The Picture (7:30 pm)

Eat Mo’ Music (9:30 pm)

Greg Williams (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

METRO COFFEE HOUSE

TANTRA LOUNGE

MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

MOON RIVER BREWING CO.

TUBBY’S (River St.)

MULBERRY INN

TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB

TURTLE’S (Statesboro)

NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)

UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

PANINI’S (Beaufort)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA

VENUS DI MILO DJ Maytag (10 pm) VFW CLUB (Hinesville)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

VIC’S ON THE RIVER

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)

Live Music TBA (9 pm) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

THE WAREHOUSE

HANG FIRE

The Train Wrecks (8 pm)

Heart + Soul (10 pm)

WET WILLIE’S Live DJ (8 pm)

WRIGHT SQUARE

YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)

STINGRAY’S (Tybee)

SWEET MELISSA’S (35 Whitaker St.) Element Unseen (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Claire Frazier (11:30 am)

STEAMERS (Georgetown)

The Eric Cuberson Blues Band (10 pm)

MERCURY LOUNGE

DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee)

Live Music TBA (9 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ

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The Courtenay Brothers (1 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head) Live Music TBA (10 pm)

YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box) Live Music TBA (9 pm)

SUNDAY JUNE 17TH

AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee) Joey Manning (7 pm)

AQUA STAR RESTAURANT (THE WESTIN) Ben Tucker & Bob Alberti (11:30 am)

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Karaoke

SORRY CHARLIE’S

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AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)

MCDONOUGH’S

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)

BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)

B & B ALE HOUSE

MERCURY LOUNGE

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR

Live Music TBA (9 pm) Live Music TBA

BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler) Karaoke

BAYOU CAFÉ

Karaoke

Live Music TBA (10 pm)

MOON RIVER BREWING CO. Live Music TBA (7 pm)

MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB

Chief (8 pm)

Irish Pub Acoustic Session (7 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)

COBBLESTONE CONCH HOUSE (River St.) Coastal Jazz Assn.’s Father’s Day Concert w/The Howard Paul Trio (5 pm)

DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)

NORTH BEACH GRILL Eat Mo’ Music (7 pm)

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Live Music TBA

RANDY WOOD’S CONCERT HALL (Bloomingdale)

Bobby Lee Rodgers & The Codetalkers (7 pm)

RED LEG SALOON Karaoke w/Frank Nelson (9 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.) “Piano-Palooza” Karaoke (9 pm)

SEA DAWGS (Tybee) Live Music TBA (1 pm)

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

Karaoke

A.W.O.L. (8 pm)

Randy “Hatman” Smith (6 pm)

5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm)

Live Music TBA

Live Music TBA (3 pm)

“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

Karaoke w/Michael (9 pm)

Live Music TBA

Randy “Hatman” Smith (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Phantom Wingo (9 pm)

Thomas Claxton (5 pm)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

The Courtenay Brothers (1 pm)

Buddy Corns (5 pm)

MONDAY

DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island) DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) EL POTRO (13051 Abercorn St.) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)

The Dixieland Society of The Low Country Deas’ Guys (2 pm), The Lavon Stevens Project w/Louise Spencer (8 pm)

JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR Closed for Vacation

KEVIN BARRY’S Gabriel Donahue

MALONE’S (309 W. River St.) Live Music TBA

MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK

Guitarist Jackson Evans (11 am)

SLUGGER’S

SORRY CHARLIE’S SPANKY’S (Pooler) TUBBY’S (River St.)

TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE THE WAREHOUSE WILD WING CAFÉ

Live Music TBA (7 pm) Voodoo Soup (9 pm)

FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside) Live Music TBA (8 pm)

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) Live Music TBA (7 pm)

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BUFFALO’S CAFÉ (Hinesville) Karaoke (7 pm)

DAIQUIRI BEACH

BN Trivia w/Artie & Brad (10 pm) DEB’S PUB & GRUB

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

#@*! Karaoke (10:30 pm)

The Howard Paul Quartet w/Dave Solazzo (8 pm)

Live Music TBA (6 pm)

DJ KZL’s Kaleidoscope (10 pm)

“Georgia Kyle” Shiver & The Marshgrass Boys (9 pm)

Frank Emerson

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm)

Live Music TBA (8 pm)

Karaoke (9 pm), A Drop Dead Star (10 pm), Another Option (11 pm), Runnerup (midnight), Toward The Son (1 am)

Open Mic Night (7:30 pm)

DJ Sterling Hustle

Live Piano Music TBA

Bob Masteller & Friends (8 pm)

Jon Doe (11 pm)

Diana Rogers (7 pm)

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) THE JINX

KEVIN BARRY’S KING’S INN

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head) SAVANNAH ACTORS THEATRE (703-D Louisvile Rd.) The PBR Show (8 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH NIGHTS

DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)

FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) GUITAR BAR

HANG FIRE

THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR JEN’S & FRIENDS

Live Music TBA (7 pm)

THE JINX

Hip-Hop Night w/DJ D-Frost, Late Night Breakdancing & Freestyling (11 pm)

KEVIN BARRY’S

Karaoke

Frank Emerson

DJ Marty Corley (9:30 pm)

Nancy Witt

SCANDALS (Tybee)

THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE Indie Film: PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA (7:30 pm) STINGRAYS (Tybee)

MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE MERCURY LOUNGE

Open Mic Jam w/The Eric Culberson Blues Band

PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE) Live Music TBA

Live DJ (10:30 pm)

SAVANNAH BLUES Open Mic Jam w/The Hitmen (10 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE

BAYOU CAFÉ

Karaoke (9 pm)

TOMMY’S (Pooler)

THE BOATHOUSE (Hilton Head)

WET WILLIE’S

The Eric Culberson Blues Band (6 pm)

TUESDAY

Karaoke

BAY STREET BLUES

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BLUEBERRY HILL

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Roy & the Circuit Breakers (6 pm)

TANTRA LOUNGE WET WILLIE’S

Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca Karaoke (9 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ

Live Trivia (10 pm)

WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) w

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Unless I miss my call, Nancy Drew is the sort of kids’ movie that will be treated with kid gloves by most critics, who will at worst dismiss it as a mere mediocrity. Don’t you believe it. Nancy Drew is a glorious achievement of the so-bad-it’s-brilliantly-bad variety -- I won’t go so far as to state it’s Battlefield: Earth for the Clearasil crowd, but it’s clearly a turkey no matter how it’s sliced up. Author Carolyn Keene’s teen heroine has endured in print as an old-school sleuth, but the makers of this featherbrained film, assuming (perhaps correctly) that setting this any earlier than, oh, 2004 would spell disaster at the box office, have updated it to function as a here-and-now preppy piece, as clueless about its deficiencies as Clueless (its obvious role model) was savvy about its milieu. Emma Roberts, portraying Nancy as something of a pill, quickly grates as her precocious character moves (along with dad Tate Donovan) from her comfy little hometown of River Heights to a spooky Los Angeles mansion, whereupon she immediately begins investigating the death of a famous actress who passed away decades earlier. Between its portrayal of a faded Hollywood as awash in corruption and decay and its casting of Laura Harring as the murdered starlet, this often feels like a demented attempt to make a kidfriendly version of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive -- if only this one had also included a freaky whitehaired cowboy to bump off the multitude of insufferable characters. And speaking of insufferable, the top honor in that category goes to Spencer Breslin wannabe Josh Flitter, a mini-Lou Costello who contributes more ham than the deli section in any supermarket.

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The world needs another penguin movie about as much as it needs another Rambo flick. Turns out we’re getting both, but while it’s too early to comment on the upcoming Stallone sequel (though be sure to check out that incredibly violent trailer on YouTube), the animated film about the flightless fowl isn’t bad, with a narrative slant that overcomes its typically blasé story about an underdog who triumphs against the odds while learning important life lessons regarding friendship, sacrifice and self-awareness. Employing a mock-documentary format rarely seen in animated films -only Aardman’s Oscar-winning Creature Comforts comes to mind -- this pleasant timefiller plays like Dogtown and Z-Boys or The Endless Summer for the small fry, with its tale of a slacker penguin named Cody (Shia LaBeouf) who’s only happy when he’s surfing. He enters into a major international competition, where his rivals include new pal Chicken Joe (Jon Heder) and the bullying (and nine-time defending champion) Tank Evans (Diedrich Bader). An underachiever from the start, Cody eventually finds romance with a cute lifeguard named Lani (Zooey Deschanel, sexy even when voicing a penguin) and a mentor in The Geek (Jeff Bridges, slyly channeling The Dude from The Big Lebowski), a beach bum harboring a big secret. The abundance of schmaltz that plagued Happy Feet is thankfully missing here, though the movie does make sure to shoehorn in the obligatory flatulence gags.

Bug

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Nothing less than depression set in when Ashley Judd went from being an extraordinary indie actress to a dull studio-hack heroine, so it’s gratifying to once again see her tackling offbeat roles. And in Bug, she has

one of her most memorable parts yet; she plays Agnes, a lonely waitress who’s introduced to Peter Evans (Michael Shannon), a quiet man who right off the bat assures Agnes that he’s not an axe murderer. Clearly, though, there’s something off about this brooding guy, but Agnes enjoys his company so much (or at least having company, period) that she invites him to stay with her.

This irks her thuggish ex-con ex-husband (Harry Connick Jr., about as menacing as a French poodle), yet even his threats seem irrelevant once Peter begins to complain about the insect infestation in her apartment. Yet do the bugs really exist, or are they only in Peter’s (and maybe Agnes’) imagination? Working from Tracy Letts’ screenplay (itself based on the latter’s Off-Broadway play), director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) maximizes the claustrophobic feel of the intimate surroundings while drawing suitably anguished performances from Judd and Shannon. Lett’s story is rather limited in its examination of how a lonely person’s neediness will often overcome all other emotions, and its employment of government paranoia feels decidedly old-hat. Indeed, it might have taken David Cronenberg, that insect fetishist (Naked Lunch, The Fly), to truly turn this into a freak-out session. As it stands, Bug deserves some measure of buzz, even if it never truly gets under the skin.

and over-the-top. It’s also entertaining and sometimes even exciting, which right there marks it as an improvement over last summer’s Dead Man’s Chest. In most respects, it’s the sort of summer movie which forces critics to denounce summer movies, relying too heavily on bombast and bullying tactics (both copyrighted trademarks of producer Jerry Bruckheimer).

And yet there’s no denying that the picture contains a good measure of whimsy (usually MIA in pre-sold blockbusters) and a great deal of plot (ditto). In fact, there are enough plotlines in this one movie to fill an entire season of Lost or 24, evidence that director Gore Verbinski and scripters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are at least making an effort to earn their paychecks. Opening with a sequence that feels like an homage (rip-off?) to the start of Return of the Jedi (with Chow Yun-Fat instead of Jabba the Hutt), the film establishes that it’s a dark period for the Rebel Alliance -- excuse me, for the pirates who roam the seas, as the indestructible Flying Dutchman is now under the command of the East India Company and is being ordered to wipe out any pirate ship it encounters. (Don’t look to me to explain any of the backstory; go rent the first two films.) Teaming up with their former enemy Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) head off to find Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), the only man who’s able to help them put an end to this new age of eradication. The only problem is that Sparrow’s apparently dead, trapped for eternity in Davy Jones’ Locker. To attempt to relay more plot details would probably only lead to reader confusion, so suffice it to say that Sparrow still fears the tentacled Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), Will still hopes to free his tortured father (Stellan Skarsgard) from Davy Jones’ grip, and Elizabeth turns into a kick-ass riot grrrl in much the same

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End  Thirty-three minutes. Yes, it takes 33 minutes into the 168-minute Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End before Johnny Depp even makes an appearance.

Considering he’s this franchise’s MVP, that’s a dicey move on the part of the filmmakers; then again, everything about this second sequel operates with a go-for-broke mentality. Pirates 3 is overblown, overstuffed

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by Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller -- his affection for her was palpable -- Virgin crafted a disarming love story between Steve Carell’s title character and Catherine Keener’s single mom. Interestingly, this relationship was only amplified by the raucous goings-on surrounding it, as the hijinks of Carell’s buddies brought the romance into sharper relief.

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Forget A Tale of Two Cities. What we have here is a tale of two halves, one superior, the other execrable. Assembling three actors whose careers have seen better decades -- Kevin Costner, William Hurt and Demi Moore -- director Bruce A. Evans has crafted an initially intriguing thriller about a beloved philanthropist (Costner) who occasionally moonlights as a serial killer whenever the voice inside his head (personified in the flesh by Hurt) urges him to go hack somebody up. The detective (Moore) who’s been on his trail for years feels that she’s getting close to breaking the case, thanks to the presence of an eyewitness (Dane Cook) who might turn out to be as certifiable as Mr. Brooks himself. The film’s first half is powerful stuff, thanks to the unique setup (presenting Mr. Brooks’ alter ego as a physical manifestation shouldn’t work, but it does), Evans’ moody direction and exquisitely matched performances by Costner and Hurt. It’s a shame, then, to see the second part go to hell, as the screenplay by Evans and Raynold Gideon gets out of too many narrative jams by relying on whopping coincidences. .

Shrek the Third

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 Georgia Rule 1/2 Eric Idle’s Merlin certainly don’t cut it). The The legendary Katharine Hepburn was result is a step down from the first two flicks occasionally too brittle for my taste, but in the series, though the drop isn’t nearly watching Georgia Rule, it’s hard to picture as precipitous as its detractors will insist. anyone else in the role of Georgia, a family Shrek (which somehow beat Monsters, Inc. matriarch who runs her household the way for the first Best Animated Feature Oscar a drill instructor lords over greenhorn reever handed out) and Shrek 2 (which stands cruits. It would have been a tailor-made role as the third all-time top moneymaker) were for Hepburn 30 years amusing enough, alago, since she would though the impersonal have brought to the part style of animation, the necessary balance of rapid succession of inoutward rigidity and instantly dated pop culCARMIKE 10 ward serenity. Instead, ture references and 511 Stephenson Ave. • 353-8683 it’s Jane Fonda who fondness for scatologiSurf ’s Up, Ocean’s Thirteen, Mr. awkwardly fills the role, cal humor always left and, on the heels of her Brooks, Gracie, Shrek 3, Meet the me a little cold. Shrek disastrous return to Robinsons 3D the Third brings the the screen in Monsterexact same ingredients In-Law, it’s clear that to the table, only what’s REGAL EISENHOWER the career resuscitaoffered feels more like 1100 Eisenhower Dr. • 352-3533 tion isn’t going exactly leftovers.

Hostel 2, Knocked Up, Pirates 3, as planned. Fonda’s Spider-Man 3 Georgia is a one-note 28 Weeks shrew, and one of this REGAL SAVANNAH 10 Later schizophrenic movie’s 1132 Shawnee St. • 927-7700 What is it about greatest failings is that the zombie flick that Ocean’s Thirteen, Surf ’s Up, Bug, it never acknowledges brings out the social Gracie, Mr. Brooks, Shrek 3, The that it’s this woman’s critic in filmmakers?

Invisible puritanical behavGeorge Romero’s Night ior which started the of the Living Dead subchain reaction partly tly touched upon racVICTORY SQUARE 9 leading to the miserism, while his Dawn 1901 E. Victory • 355-5000 able circumstances that of the Dead was a gloHostel 2, Ocean’s Thirteen, Surf ’s plague her daughter rious exploration of Up, Knocked Up, Mr. Brooks, Lilly (Felicity Huffman) mindless consumerPirates 3, Shrek 3, Spider-Man 3 and her granddaughism. Decades later, ter Rachel (Lindsey Danny Boyle used 28 Lohan).

Days Later to examine WYNNSONG 11 the unchecked spread 1150 Shawnee St. • 920-1227 of SARS, Anthrax and, Spider-Man Knocked Up, Pirates 3, 28 Weeks given the time and the Later, Delta Farce, Spider-Man 3, 3 film’s English setting, The appeal of Waitress Disturbia even mad cow disease.

Spider-Man has alNow, here’s Spanish ways reached far bedirector Juan Carlos yond the comic book Fresnadillo (Intacto) tackling the sequel crowd: He’s become an icon of enormous (Boyle remains as an executive producer). proportions, a larger-than-life figure who, He’s made a zombie yarn that also serves as in the superhero genre, is matched perhaps a condemnation of American military might only by Superman and Batman. With this in in Iraq. Yet let’s put aside the sociopolitical mind, director Sam Raimi and his scripters context for a minute: Taken strictly as a fullhave fashioned three Spider-Man flicks throttle horror film, 28 Weeks Later delivers that have all managed to remain true to the goods. Set (as the title implies) months the spirit -- if not always the letter -- of the after the original film, this finds the virus comic series. None have reached the giddy still affecting folks throughout the British heights of, say, 1978’s Superman or 2005’s Isles. But efforts at containment eventually Batman Begins, but they have all achieved succeed (i.e. “Mission accomplished”), and what they set out to do: provide solid enslowly the survivors start over in a self-contertainment for the summer movie crowd. tained city, all under the eye of the U.S. miliOn the domestic front, Peter Parker (Tobey tary. Naturally, a security breach occurs, the Maguire) and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten zombies start overrunning the city, and the Dunst) find themselves struggling with reAmerican troops begin indiscriminately lationship woes, while on the battlefields of killing everyone in sight, whether they’re NYC, Spider-Man must face off against the zombies (read: insurgents) or humans (read: Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom innocent Iraqi civilians). Moviegoers can (Topher Grace), a resurgent Green Goblin take or leave the message beneath the may(James Franco), and his own dark impulses. hem, but what’s on the surface for everyWith so many spandex hijinks going on, one to enjoy is an expertly crafted terror tale it’s a wonder that the movie isn’t wall to wall that’s heavy on the jolts and morally comwith pounding action. But with a generplicated when it comes to several of its charous running time of 140 minutes, Raimi is acters.

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

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One of the weakest adaptations yet of a Philip K. Dick story (“The Golden Man”), Next is most notable for how it shunts the vibrant, 46-year-old Julianne Moore off to the sides while it gives 43-year-old Nicolas Cage a noticeably younger love interest in 25-year-old Jessica Biel, 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 he-done-it. The “he” in question is wealthy engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), who has just exacted his revenge on his cheating wife (Embeth Davidtz) by firing a bullet into her brain. With the identity of the villain in place, Fracture can then borrow a page from the Columbo playbook, by following the protagonist as he tries to piece together the details of the crime. w

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attaining the same success as its predecessor. There’s a sweet love story on view here as well, only because it’s more rushed and not allowed to unfold at a natural clip, it ultimately plays second string to the picture’s comedy quota. Fortunately, on that front, the movie’s an unqualified hit: It’s doubtful another film will be released this summer -- maybe even this year -- that offers as many theater-rumbling belly laughs as this one. Rogen plays Ben Stone, who, true to his last name, is a slacker who enjoys smoking reefer and hanging out with his equally unambitious roommates. One night at a trendy nightclub, he meets Alison (Katherine Heigl), who’s out celebrating the fact that she has just been promoted to an on-air position at E! Entertainment Television. One drink leads to another, and before morning arrives, the pair will have engaged in a onenight stand. At least that was the game plan; instead, Alison learns a few weeks later that she’s pregnant, and she decides that she and Ben (with whom she has nothing in common) should attempt to make their relationship work for the sake of the baby.

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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 109 W. Victory Dr. Call Karen Arms at 897-1300 or David Bonorato at 9217039 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.

Chatham Urban Transportation Study Copies of the draft documents for revisions to the long-range transportation plan and Tranportation Imrpovement Program are available for review at all branches of the Live Oak Public Libraries. Send written comments no later than the close of business on June 26 to Wykoda Wang, Metropolitan Planning Commission, 110 E. State St., Savannah, 31401. Public hears will be held Thursday, June 21 at 5 p.m. and Wednesday, June 27 at 10 a.m. at the MPC hearing room, 112 E. State St. Call 651=1452.

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.

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

Private business or individual: We will charge $5 per week per entry, payable up front by check or credit card. This goes for art classes, yoga classes, workshops, seminars, etc. that do not meet the above criteria. We retain the right to option to place your happening in the appropriate category.

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.

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.

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

Savannah Branch NAACP For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah for Obama meets the second Thursday of every month.

The monthly meeting of supporters of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s run for the White House will be held Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at 109 W. Victory Dr. (corner of Victory and Barnard). Everyone is welcome.

Contact b_frigo@hotmial.com.

Savannah Republican Club Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

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

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

Auditions

Savannah Actor’s Theatre will hold auditions for the world premiere of Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan on Wednesday, June 20 from 6-9 p.m. at 703D Louisville Rd. There are roles for three men and two women of varying ages. Be prepared to read excerpts from the script. Familiarity with the novel is a plus.

Performances will be June 19-28. Call 232-

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6080 or auditions@savannahactorstheatre. org.

Savannah Community Theatre will hold auditions for Showtime: Celebrating the Words & Music of Jerry Herman on Monday and Tuesday, June 18 and 19 by appointment only. Three men and three women, ages 18 and up with wide emotional range are needed. Must have a 90-second song fully prepared. Call Tom Coleman III at 898-9021 to schedule an audition time.

Auditions will be held at the Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Savannah Shakespeare Festival Auditions for the fall production of Henry V will be held Saturday, Jun 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cultural Affairs building, 9 W. Henry St. (parking lot entrance). Actors should prepare a 15-30 line Shakespeare monolgoue. Sides from the show will be provided. Call 695-9146.

Benefits & Fund Raisers

Dog Wash to benefit Voice for Pets will be held June 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 618 Abercorn St. $10 donation requested. Shampoo provided.

All dogs must be well-behaved.

I Sold It on eBay for Coastal Pet Rescue I Sold It on eBay is accepting items on behalf of Coastal Pet Rescue. Donors may bring any item valued at more than $40 to the I Sold It On eBay store located next to TJ Maxx in Savannah Centre. The item will be listed and proceeds will go directly to Coastal Pet Rescue. Call 351-4151 or 3537633 or visit www.coastalpetrescue.org or www.isolditsavannah.com.

Project Linus Volunteer “blanketeers” are asked to participate by donating new, handmade, washable blankets that have been knitted, crocheted or quilted. The mission of Project Linus is to provide a sense of warmth and comfort to children who are in need by providing them with blankets that have been lovingly handmade. Yarn, fabric and monetary donations also are accepted. Call Amanda Welch at 856-8041 or akwdoc@yahoo.com.

Recycle, Reduce and Reuse for Coastal Pet Rescue Coastal Pet Rescue is asking area businesses to collect ink and toner cartridges at their offices. This fund-raiser will help with regular vet care for rescued pets. Contact Becky Soprych at 351-4151 or becky@ coastalpetrescue.org to arrange for cartridge pickup.

Savannah Friends of Music will host an array of Parties a la Carte, ranging from a Mexican Fiesta to a Scavenger Hunt, to raise money to bring

Current Connect Savannah clients: We will list your Happening at no charge in gratitude for your continued support of our newspaper.

music to Savannah. Call Melissa Emery at 598-1883 for information or reservations.

White Bluff UMC Cookbook The Eve Circle at White Bluff United Methodist Church has compiled Eve’s Tasty Temptations, with 497 recipes from the congregation, family and friends. It sells for $15 with profits benefitting the Wesley Community Center. Call 925-5924 or send $17 to Eve Circle c/o White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd., Savannah, 31419.

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

Call for Entries

Coastal Pet Rescue will release its first fundraising cookbook, Kibbles N Bites, this summer. Recipe submissions are being accepted online at www. coastalpetrescue.org. Also, cover art submissions are being accepted. For information, call 351-4151 or visit www.coastalpetrescue. org.

Class Reunions

BC/SVA Class of ‘77 All graduates of Benedictine and St. Vincent’s Academy Class of 1977 are invited to the 30th class reunion July 6 and 7. A committee is needed to compile addresses and phone numbers of classmates.

Benedictine graduates should call 355-2626 or email mark@bouybrothersbuilders.com.

St. Vincent’s graduates should call Maureen O’Connor Simmons at 272-6808 or email msimmons77@comcast.net.

Classes, Camps & Workshops

AARP Senior Drivers Safety Program Classes will be held June 19 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smart Senior at Candler Hospital. Call 352-4405. 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

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| Happenings 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.

Finding Water A 12-week workplace creativity workshop will be facilitated by Dana A. Boyd, PhD. at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching beginning June 19 from 5:307 p.m. The fee is $250. Open for business executives, entrepreneurs, artists, people in any kind of transition or who wish to tap into their creative energy. Call 236-3660.

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.

Flexible schedules, convenient location.

The class is free, but there is a small fee for books. Call 352-3862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

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

Got Students?

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

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

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. Recognizing Boundaries will be presented June 14 from 2-3 p.m. and Communication Barriers will be presented June 28 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 continued on page 40

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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 Summer classes run for a week at a time.

Students attend Monday through Friday.

Morning sessions are 9 a.m. to noon and afternoon sessions are 1-4 p.m. The cost is $160 per week, including supplies. Classes are for ages 6-9 and 10-14. Themes are Creatures of the Carribbean June 18-22 and July 16-20, Mythical Beasts & Beauties June 25-29 and July 23-27 and Mad for Mod! July 9-13 and July 30 through Aug. 3. Life Drawing for Teens ages 15 and older will be held Aug. 20-24 from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $225, including supplies. That class will be taught by SCAD professor Jeff Markowsky.

Visit www.TheArtSchool-Sav.com or call 921-1151.

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.

Beading Classes Learn jewelry-making techniques during the month of June at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Upcoming classes include: pearl knotting Wednesday, June 13 from 6-8 p.m. for $15; netted bugle bead necklace Saturday, June 15 from 10-1 for $30; basic bead stringing June 20 from 6-8 p.m. for $15; and polymer clay Asian wearable vessel Saturday, June 30, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for $30. Call 920-6659.

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.

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.

Epworth Children’s Orchestra A children’s strings orchestra for elementary age-string players directed by Ellen Hooper on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. There is a $20 registration fee, which covers the cost of the music and a T-shirt. Call 2333242.

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peaceful, joyous, passionate and loving relationships. Register at www.I-to-we-relationship-coaching.com.

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

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

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

Kitchens on the Square is 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 bev-

| Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re almost

halfway through 2007. It’s time to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Aries: Have you been making reconnaissance missions into previously forbidden territory? Are you seeking adventures beyond the borders of your known world? I hope so.

I hope you’re blowing your own mind on a regular basis, both by exposing it to ideas it has never dared to entertain and by seeking out exotic experiences it has no precedents for.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We’re almost

halfway through 2007. Let’s take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. Are you becoming a better judge of character? Have you cultivated your skill at reading people’s energy and understanding what motivates them? I hope so, because 2007 should be the year you generate big benefits for yourself by bringing out the best in your allies and cohorts.

Whenever you catalyze their potentials, the universe will in turn conspire to catalyze your potentials.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): We’re almost half-

way through 2007. It’s time to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Gemini: Are you working hard to heal the indecisiveness that has dissipated your energy in the past? I hope so. You’ve never had a better chance to unify your divided mind than you have now; you will continue to be the beneficiary of unprecedented help from cosmic forces whenever you make concentrated efforts to coordinate your diverse desires. I urge you to invoke all your ingenuity as you seek out the magic that will make you a virtuoso of variety.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How well are you

capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Cancerian? Now that we’re almost halfway through 2007, let’s take an inventory.

erage, and a 10 percent discount on items bought in the store, including the next cooking class. 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.

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.

Native American Crafts Shari Ulman will conduct a hands-on oneday session on June 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Clara Barton Library, Unitarian Universalist church, in the Harris Street side of the Fellowship Hall. The class is limited to 20 participants and the age limit is 12 years.

Call 234-0980 to register. All supplies will be available at no cost.

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

Call 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

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I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and make the following declaration: “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but this year I realized in many colorful ways that limitations are my friends. The obstructions I faced eventually forced me to become far more resourceful than I’d ever been before.

The wastefulness I uncovered showed me how important it is to shed my trivial wishes and focus intensely on my top priority desires. The confusions I encountered taught me valuable secrets about how to master my emotions and dissolve my superstitious fears.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well are you

capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Leo? Now that we’re almost halfway through 2007, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and say the following: “This was the year I learned how to play and have fun on a higher level. I resurrected everything I knew about playing and having fun as a child, and applied it to my life as an adult. I liberated my imagination in the bedroom and in the workplace; I gave myself permission to seek out amusement and delight as if they were the holiest motivations of all. I cavorted and joked and fooled around as if my dreams depended on it.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How well are you

capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Virgo? Now that we’re almost halfway through 2007, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and say the following: “This was the year I came all the way home. It was a turning point when I learned to speak with my own voice instead of trying to speak with the voices of everyone who’s ever been important to me. In 2007 I found my power spot, my mother lode, my sacred ground. For the first time, I have a deeply felt certainty that I belong here on this planet; I belong here in my life; I belong here in this community and this mission and this body.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We’re almost half-

way through 2007. Let’s take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. I hope you’ve realized by now that although you’ve always been a pretty good communicator, there’s room for you to become even better. For instance, you can learn to be much better at saying what you really mean instead of what you think people want to hear, yet without sacrificing your natural tact. You can also become more adept at staying true to yourself while still being sensitive to other people; you can increasingly find that you don’t have to lose touch with what you really feel as you empathetically tune in to what everyone else feels.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now that we’re

almost halfway through 2007, it’s time to assess how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you a few questions. Have you been working hard to increase your value? I don’t just mean economically, although it’s true that this is the best time in over a decade for you to make more money and launch long-term plans for financial growth. But I hope that you’re also adding to your worth in every way you can imagine, like by getting the training and new skills that will make you irresistible to future employers, lovers, and collaborators; and by purifying your motivations and clarifying your ethics and bolstering your integrity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now that

we’re almost halfway through 2007, it’s time to assess how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you a few pointed questions. Have you been reinventing yourself from the ground up at least once a week? Have you been shedding old shticks and learning new tricks? How relentlessly have you committed yourself to the arts of liberation? There’s still a lot of time to become even more receptive and responsive to the steady stream of wake-up calls that life is sending your way. For the next six months,

you’ll have cosmic luck on your side whenever you actively court the fertile blessings of future shock.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): We’re almost

halfway through 2007. Let’s take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. Are you exorcising the ghosts that have messed with you for so long?

Have you been wrapping up all unfinished business and resolving every ambiguous pain-in-the-ass that has sapped your energy?

I hope so. By your next birthday, I’m rooting for you to finally graduate from the lessons you’ve been studying for years. Then you’ll be primed and receptive for the fresh teachings that will begin flowing your way in 2008.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How well are

you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Aquarius? Now that we’re almost halfway through 2007, let’s take an inventory.

I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and say something like the following: “I’m pleased that this year I’ve met many new people and expanded my network and reached a bigger audience. I’m ecstatic that I have deepened my connections with pragmatic idealists who share my core values.

And I’m proud that I have honed my message and product so well that I’m having a more profound influence than ever before.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How well are

you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Pisces? Now that we’re almost halfway through 2007, let’s take an inventory.

I’m hoping that six months from now, you’ll look back and say something like the following: “To my astonishment, this was the year I beat 70 percent of my fear of success and dissolved 80 percent of my tendency to sabotage my ambitions. Not only that. To my great satisfaction, I shed 70 percent of my martyr complex, lost 75 percent of my fascination for glamorous suffering, and smashed 85 percent of my perverse attraction to the victim archetype. This was one of the Best. Years. Ever.”

| Happenings Workshop for Aspiring Thespians will be held June 24 at 2 p.m. Nika Hinton will lead a scene workshop for four free monthly sesions. Partiicpants can work on scenes from great and near-great plays, musicals, film and improvisational sketches.

Works will be recorded on video tape.

Childcare will be provided upon request.

Unitarian Universalist Church, Phillippa’s Place. Enter on Macon Street off Troup Square. To register, call 234-0980.

Workshop: Mouth Off will presented by All Walks of Life Thursdays through Aug. 12 from 6-8 p.m. at the West Broad Street YMCA, 1110 May St. This workshop is for youth ages 12-19 designed to build vocabulary, literacy and understanding of poetry, rap, hip-hop and spoken word. The workshop will culminate with a live performance written, planned, rehearsed and performed by workshop participants. Call 341-8306 or visit www. awolinc.org.

Clubs & Organizations

AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club This is an official student club of Armstrong Atlantic State University that accepts non-students as associate members. It is devoted to the exploration and enjoyment of the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

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

Bike Night with Mikie is held every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at The Red Zone Bar and Grill in Richmond Hill.

Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items.

Blackbeard’s Scuba Club Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

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

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

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

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

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44 Pop band that did a 1992 EP of ABBA covers 46 It gets pumped on the rails 48 Not so bright 49 Makes into law 51 Singer Mitchell 52 Rorschach selections 53 Pepe with a signature scent 54 Walt Disney Concert Hall architect 59 “Must’ve been something ___” 60 “Impaler” who inspired Dracula 61 Convention center event, maybe 63 Feet-wiping spot 65 Long predator

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Psych-K Workshop Apply “The Secret” to your life. Learn a technique through hands-on practice that you can apply to many areas of your life, for the rest of yoru life, such as relationships, productivity, prosperity, health, grief and more. Saturday, July 21 and Sunday, July 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Turtle Dragon Tranquility Tea House, 1202 Highway 80, Tybee Island. The cost is $300 or $250 if paid by July 10. Online registration at http:// home.hiwaay.net/~north/ or more info at www.psych-k.com or by calling Marguerite Berrigan, 247-6484.

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

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

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

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

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

The class is free and open to all local talent.

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

Ultimate Self-Care Retreat The International Center for Leadership and Coaching will hold this retreat June 15-16 on St. Simon’s Island. A weekend of reflection and relaxation for women will be led by Dr. Dana Boyd. The fee is $400, which includes lodging, measls and tuition.

Contact Aimee at 236-3660 or centercoordinator@internationalcoach.org.

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

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

Call 819-8800.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

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

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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.

Geechee Sailing Club meets the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tank House, 2909 River Dr. in Thunderbolt. Open to all interested in boating and related activities. Call 234-1903.

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA will meet Thursday, June 14 from 6-7:30 p.m. at The Exchange on Waters. Sarahlyn Argrow, founder and executive director of AWWIN, Inc., will discuss A Working Woman In Need. The meeting is open to the public and the cost is the price of the meal.

RSVP at 660-8257.

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

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

Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

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

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

No Kidding! is the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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

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

Savannah Brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; League 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 McDonoughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the corner of Drayton and McDonough streets. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send

e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at 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 June at Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. The club will meet Monday, June 25, the last meeting before summer break Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier.

Call 656-2410 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org.

Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Pug Playday This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Savannah 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 Parrot Head Club A social club whose purpose is to make a difference in the community and the coastal environment will meet the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The loca-

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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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;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 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not having fun, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

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

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

Dance

Adult Ballet Classes at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Adult ballet, modern and hip-hop dance classes. All levels and body types welcome. The cost is $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. A variety of youth classes also are available. Intermediate Adult Ballet with Kathleen Collins meets Mondays & Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Adult Ballet with Karen Burns meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Modern Dance with Kathleen Collins meets Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Hip-Hop with Bonnie Kaar meets Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Contact Sue Braddy at 8972100.

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Savannah Shag Club Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original shag club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Doubles Lounge in the Holiday Inn Midtown and Fridays at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ouerves. There is no cover charge.

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

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

Wheelchair and Disabled Ballroom Dance The Moon River Dancers now offer ballroom dance classes for people who are disabled. Classes are held the fourth Saturday of the month from 2-4:30 p.m. at Memorial Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Instructionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Gentle Yoga Evening classes offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:45 p.m. and lunch classes Monday from noon to 1 p.m. $12 per evening class, $10 per lunchtime class. $75 for an eight-week session. Classes at The

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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.

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 Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

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

Muscle Up! for Seniors A free senior strength training demo will be held June 21 at 10 a.m. at Senior Citizens, 3025 Bull St. Bob Skiljan will give a talk about increasizng strength, building muscle and improving flexibility. A demonstration utiolizing hand-held weights and other strength-building equipment will be presented. There also will be a question and answer session. It is free and open to people 55 and over, but registration is required. Call 236-0363.

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Adult Tap Classes The Gretchen Greene School of Dance is offering adult tap classes through 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.

Ballroom Dance Party with the Moon River Dancers will be held Saturday, June 16. A Waltz lesson will be held at 7 p.m. and the social dance will be from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $10. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960 or 655-4985.

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 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 through 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 10:30-

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423 E. 36th St.

654-656 East Henry St-A new condo conversion. Four 2 bed / 1 bath condos on beautiful East Henry Street. Video surveillance and home security, Large front porches, off-street parking, updated kitchens and baths, hardwood/ tile/carpet floors, laundry rooms, and over 1200 square feet each. Pricing starting at $235,000. 2% closing costs and $1000 decorating allowance paid by seller. Contact Alex Grikitis, 912-220-1700 or Chris Smyth, 912-704-3800, and please visit henryplace.com for more information.

A gorgeously renovated historic building at 216 West Park Avenue.

Completely updated kitchens with stainless fixtures and appliances, shaker-style cabinets, baths with marble granite countertops & marble floors. Original hardwood floors throughout. Gas fireplaces, video surveillance & security, built-in surround sound & flat panel TV. All the bells and whistles!! 1750 to 3300 square foot units. Prices starting at $325,000. Great buyer incentive packages available along with preferred lenders. Please contact Alex Grikitis, 912-220-1700 or alex@ grikitisgroup.com, and be sure to visit 216west.com for further information.

2 story 1600 sq ft 2 bdroom, 2.5 bth.- $329,500. All new contemporary designed loft style condo- Imported Eucalyptus HW floors, skylights in master bath, dual flush toilets, European dual vanities, custom kitchen w/ top chef features and granite countertops, large bedrooms, walkin closets, laundry room, security system, private back deck, private parking, high-end amenities, designer fixtures & lighting and more!!

See it and fall in LOVE!! Two more outstanding condos for sale priced at $299,500 call for details. Listing Agent: Claudine Graves 912-234-2688.

Victory Drive

410 E. 35th St.

226 E. Park

4 Beautiful Condos on the water! 2Bed 2.5 Bath, 2 balconies per unit. Scenic view and landscape, security gated entrance, Plenty of parking. For more info check out www.CoastalRiverview.com.

Charming and contemporary 2 bdrm, 1 bth condo in the historic district that is priced to SELL!! One block from SCAD’s Wallin Hall in an area of active restoration & close to everything! All new everything with great amenities! Off street parking, private back yard patio, security system, cable ready & MORE! Priced to Sell at $165,500. Listing Agent: Claudine Graves 912-234-2688.

Beautifully restored condo conversion on the corner of Lincoln & Park.

Stainless steel appliances, marble, hardwood floors, security surveillance and many more fabulous features. Listing Agent: Ben Bowne 912-659-1366.

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1711 Price St.

Beautifully restored 5000 sqft post civil war plantation home on 3.98 acres in downtown Ridgeland. Starting at 675,000. 6 bdrms, 3 full baths, 1.5 bath, wrap around porches, custom tile pool, carport, garage, boat storage, lrg oak trees, Four boat landings within 15 min drive. 35 min to Savannah, Beaufort, Hilton Head. Minutes to I - 95 much more!

Location. Location. Location. 104 Tybrisa St. In the heart of Tybee’s commercial district minutes from the pier. Zoned C-1. Currently 6-room inn. A number of possibilities including mixed-used commercial on bottom, residential on top. Owner/ agent. $720,000. Please contact Alex Grikitis, 912-220-1700.

Great commercial property right in the Thomas Square Historic Neighborhood. Entire tract includes 1711 Price, 1716 Habersham, & 410 34th St. 4,200sq.ft. comm. space & 2,200sq.ft. of warehouse space.

The remainder is vacant. For more info check out www.1711price.com.

743 E. Henry

1404 E. 48th - $240,000. 2/2 with modern interior and 2 story garage easily converted for rental income. OPEN SUN 2-4.

Christi Oates, 695-5945. Listing Agent: Nick Bentz 843-368-0265.

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