Connect Savannah November 7, 2007

Volume 7 • Number 7 • Nov. 7 — Nov. 13 • Savannah’s News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly • www.connectsavannah.com

‘I’ll be a bluesman till I die’ Guitar legend Johnny Winter headlines the Blues & BBQ Festival

Lead Story: Living history at SSU pg. 6

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Contents

Volume 7, No. 7, Nov. 07, 2007 On the cover: Johnny Winter performs Saturday night at the Roundhouse.

Cover design by Brandon Blatcher

every wednesday with dj derrick!

Editor’s Note 8

Art Patrol 24

News & Opinion

Culture

Lead Story Living history at SSU 8 Editor’s Note The fat lady, she’s not singing 9 Hear & Now Robin’s take 10 Blotter From SPD reports 11 News of the Weird Chuck Shepherd’s latest 12 Earthweek The week on your planet

23 Art Feature

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Vibes

Dimensions Gallery

24 Art Patrol

Exhibits and openings 26 Art Review ‘40/40’ 32 Theatre 84 Charing Cross Road

Movies 34 Screenshots

All the flicks that fit

The 411 5

14 Interview

Johnny Winters

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16 Interview 18 19 20 29

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

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Wednesday, Nov. 7 2007 Holly Days Bazaar

What: Shop for crafts and garden specialties, tour the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church and have lunch in the historic Green-Meldrim House. On Thursday, the White Elephant Sale and Treasure Room will open. When: Nov. 7 and 8 from 10 a.m.- p.m. Where: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Madison Square. Info: Jessica Osborne at 8980202 or Caroline Warner at 354-3242.

Jepson Free Family Week continues

What: Free admission to the ArtZeum and all exhibitions at the Telfair’s Jepson Center for the Arts, including Ansel Adams and Legacy of Expression. When: Through Nov. 10. Where: Jepson Center for the Arts. Cost: Free.

Thursday, Nov. 8

Armstrong International Week continues

Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Freebie of the Week

Free Point and Shoot Family Day

What: The release of a book by Nikki Hardin, founder and publisher of Skirt! magazine. Annie Allman performs. When: Nov. 8 6-8:30 p.m. Where: 45 Bistro, Broughton St. Cost: $15 advance, $20 at door. Purchase tix in advance and receive book for free. Info: 525-0740.

Savannah Arts Academy Theatre Guild: Remembrance

What: A trilogy of one-act plays concerning the events of Sept. 11, 2001. When: Nov. 8, 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2:30 p.m. Where: Main stage at 500 Washington Ave. Cost: $5 adults and $3 for faculty, students and seniors. Info: 201-5528.

The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA

What: The Georgia Historical Society presents author and Savannah native Edward Ball, author of The Genetic Strand, who discovered a secret drawer in a secretary that had been in his family for years. Inside were nine envelopes with locks of hair from long-dead family members which were analyzed for DNA. When: Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

Where: Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon St. Cost: Free. Info: www.georgiahistory.com or 651-2125.

SCAD Theatre: Through the Lookingglass

What: This play is an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novel, Through the Lookingglass, and What Alice Found There. When: Nov. 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. Where: Afifi Amphitheater, 324 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cost: $10 general public, $5 for students and seniors and free with a SCAD ID. Info: www.scadboxoffice.com.

Savannah Actors Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show

What: A cast of more than 20 and a full band will present this hysterical musical. Come in costume and let’s do the Time Warp again! When: Nov. 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m.

Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre,. 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $15 general and $10 student/senior/military. Info: Call 232-6080.

Cane Grinding and Harvest Festival

What: Watch a hand-hewn log structure being crafted, see cane syrup made, and enjoy hearth-baked cornbread.

When: Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Oatland Island Wildlife Center. Cost: $5 for ages18 and older, $3 for military, seniors and children 4-17, and free for 3 and under. Info: 898-3980 or www.oatlandisland.org.

Mighty 8th Veterans Day Weekend

What: Activities include showings of the Jimmy Stewart movies Harvey and The Glenn Miller Story. When: Nov. 10, 11 and 12. Where: Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Pooler. Cost: $5 ages 13 and over, $3 6-12 and free for children under 6. Info: 748-8888.

Fort Pulaski celebrates Veterans Day

Savannah Heat Motorcycle Music Festival What: Performances by Argyle, Keith & Ross, the Train Wrecks, Listen 2 Three, Phantom Wingo and Street Circus Symphony, plus motorcycles, food and beer. When: Nov. 10, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Where: Cafe Loco, Tybee Island.

Cost: $5 for an all-day pass. Portion of proceeds benefit Coastal Pet Rescue. Info: www.savheat.com.

What: Speakers Robert Werling, master photographer, and Jeanne Verhulst, assistant curator of the George Eastman House, will provide personal recollections and perspectives on Ansel Adams’ work. When: Nov. 8 at 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, Neises Auditorium.

Cost: Free. Info: 790-8800 or www.telfair.org.

PMS: Problems Men Started

What: This two-day outdoor art and music festival brings together more than 40 artists and craftsmen. When: Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Memorial Park, Tybee Island. Cost: Free.

Info: www.dancingfishes.com or 655-9812.

What: A two-day Civil War living history encampment.

When: Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 11 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski, U.S. 80 15 miles east of Savannah.

Cost: $3 for ages 16 and up, 15 and under admitted free.

Evenings at the Telfair

Kilowatt Hours: A Plan to Energize America What: Demonstrations by local photographers, hands-on children’s activities, live performances and tours of the Ansel Adams exhibition.

When: Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Jepson Center for the Arts.

Cost: Free. Info: 7908800 or www.telfair.org.

What: Documentary helps consumers cut energy bills and improve the environment. When: Nov. 10 at 3 p.m.

Where: Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Cost: Free.

Planet Fugue Project: Virtual Poetry

What: Artist D. Chito Lapena’s interactive interpretation of an ancient Korean poem. When: Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.

Where: S.P.A.C.E. at 9 W. Henry St. Cost: Free. Info: www.myspace.com/planetfugueproject, www.savannahga.gov/arts or 651-6783.

Broken Window: A Dance Performance When: Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. Where: Trustees Theater. Info: 525-5050.

Autumn Delights

Friday, Nov. 9

2007 Roundhouse Blues & BBQ Festival

What: Performers include Amburgey & Hanson, Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love, Wanda Johnson and Shrimp City Slim and Johnny Winter. When: Nov. 9-10, 6-11 p.m. Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St. Cost: $12.

Info: 651-3673 or www.roundhousebluesandbbq.com

What: Adult Dance Ensemble of Islands Dance Academy presents an evening of music and dance to benefit the Savannah Danse Theatre’s Nutcracker in Savannah. A Land of the Sweets Reception is held at intermission. When: Nov. 10, 8 p.m. Where: Islands Elementary School on Whitemarsh Island Drive. Cost: $12 adults, $8 for ages 4-12 with 3 and under free. Info: 897-2100.

Jepson Live

Sunday, Nov. 11

Savannah Community Theatre: 84 Charing Cross Road

What: Love songs and lullabies sung in Castilian from the Iberian Jewish. When: Nov. 11 at 4:30 p.m. Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn. Cost: Adults, $10; seniors and children $5. Info: 495-9081

What: The Atlanta-based Darryl Reeves Quartet will perform.

When: Nov. 9 from 6-9 p.m. Where: Jepson Center for the Arts. Cost: $10. Info: 790-8800.

What: The true story of a 20-year love affair between a feisty, passionate book lover in New York and a reserved antiquarian book dealer in London is shared through their overseas letters. When: Nov. 9, 10, 16, 17, 20 and 30 and Dec. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 18 and 25 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Tickets for all Thursday performances are $10, tickets for Friday and Saturday are $15 adults, $20 seniors 55 and up, $15 for students and children, and $15 for all Sunday performances. Info: www. savannahcommunitytheatre.com and 898-0638.

Tybee in the Fall Art Show & Novemberfest

The Goliard Ensemble presents La Sirena de la Mar -- Romances of the Iberian Jews

The J. Harry Persse Memorial Concert

When: Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Free, although donations to the Persse Music Scholarship Fund will be accepted. Info: Call 9275381 weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Reel Savannah presents Lady Chatterly

What: This 2006 French film received five Cesar Awards.

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What: Dr. Olayidwola Olurode will present Issues pertaining to the Crisis of Political Succession in Africa at 10 a.m. in the Armstrong Center Auditorium. Dr. Olurode also will present The Role in Islamic Societies at 1 p.m. in Solms Hall 108. An international movie, La Grande Vadrouille (The Great Walk) will be presented at 7 p.m. in University Hall 157. A potluck dinner will precede the movie at 6:30 p.m. When: Nov. 8. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University. Cost: Free. Info: 921-5671.

Week at a

Saturday, Nov. 10

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I

t was an entirely different world in 1932.

Jim Crow was the law in the South, and the Great Depression had brought the world to its knees. Opportunities were few, especially for African-Americans.

But in that year two 15-year-olds, Charles L. Bailey and Mallory E. Baker, left their hometown of Claxton, Ga., to attend high school in Savannah. They were lifelong friends, and planned to room together.

The school they attended was called Georgia State Industrial College -- known today as Savannah State University. At the age of 90, Bailey and Baker still are best friends, who share a deep love of their alma mater.

Age has slowed them somewhat. Both walk with canes, but still manage to return to SSU every year to help celebrate its annual homecoming. Their minds are clear and sharp, and they can reel off names and events from 75 years ago as if they happened yesterday.

For this year’s homecoming, Bailey and Baker returned to SSU to share their memories of those times. The program was videotaped and archived, and it will be included in a documentary on Hill Hall that is being produced by the SSU Department of Mass Communications.

It’s all part of an ongoing mission to capture Savannah’s African-American history.

A documentary about Martin Luther King Boulevard’s history and heritage recently was produced by SSU faculty as a part of this program.

One faculty member, Dr. Ronald W. Bailey, a visiting professor in AfricanAmerican Studies and History, is Bailey’s son. “This all started a couple of years ago at homecoming,” Dr. Bailey says.

Bailey and Baker had returned to SSU, and a drive around campus prompted memories of their days there. “They started talking about Hill Hall, where they stayed,” Dr. Bailey says. “I realized we should preserve these stories.”

Modern technology makes the preservation of memories and traditions easier and more permanent than it used to be, Dr. Bailey says. He hopes that others who know people whose stories should be recorded will contact him.

“History provides us with valuable insights and lessons on how we should deal with the present and future,” Dr. Bailey says.

“We are letting young people hear two 90year-olds talk about the conditions they faced, what SSU taught them that prepared them for the rest of their lives.”

Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than buildings in New Orleans, Dr. Bailey says. “If you don’t record history properly and put it someplace safe, it can be lost,” he says. “Every day, we’re losing what is called the Greatest Generation.”

In some of his classes, Dr. Bailey is encouraging students to seek people out and ask for their stories. “Interview senior citizens in nursing homes,” he tells them.

“When you go home for Thanksgiving, sit down with your grandparents.”

Living history Former roommates share their memories of Savannah State

Mallory E. Baker and Charles L. Bailey speak in a program which will be archived as part of Savannah State history

Students are being trained to do such interviews by learning about technology, listening skills and having a sense of the historical period so they know what questions to ask. “Students are coming back and telling me all kinds of fascinating things people have shared with them,” Dr. Bailey says.

Lenny Bailey, another of Bailey’s sons, says he never tires of hearing his father’s stories. “I feel Savannah State has been an integral part of my life,” he says. “Talk about being a living example. You can learn from him how to teach your own children.”

Natalie Johnson is a junior majoring in history at SSU. “It’s wonderful to meet roommates who were here at SSU in 1932.

What events went on in Savannah in 1932?

What buildings were present? What was student life like back then? How did SSU prepare them for careers?” she asks.

“History says there is nothing new under

the sun and that events repeat themselves,” Johnson says. “It’s great to have these firsthand experiences and I’m thankful I have the opportunity to hear them.”

Theron “Ike” Carter is the manager of the SSU radio station, WHCJ. With Shenetha Wilburn-Solomon, he moderated the discussion with Bailey and Baker.

“I’m excited about this because there’s a lot of history here,” Carter says. “People have a lot of information and history, but if we don’t write it down, it will be lost.”

At some point, Carter plans to broadcast the interview with Bailey and Baker. “The station was devastated by a lightning strike on July 31, but the new equipment is on order,” he says.

“To lose such a valuable part of history would be a crime,” Carter says. “I’m so happy someone decided to do this.”

Baker and Bailey have known each other their entire lives. “I was born in 1917 and grew up with my mother and father,” Baker says.

“My father was in the service. Later on he passed. My mother was a widow when I was a teen. She was interested in my getting an education,” Baker says. “My mother passed very early. At 18, I was on my own because I had no family. My grandmother and grandfather had passed already.”

But his parents had instilled values in Baker that helped throughout his life. “I had good home training,” he says. “That’s where it starts.”

At that time, schools were segregated and Claxton had no black high school.

That’s why Baker chose the Georgia State Industrial College, which had a high school program.

He finished high school and in 1937 was enrolled in the school’s junior college program. But Baker never finished.

“We had a scratch over the food that was given to us at the time,” he says. “We were young and thought the stuff they put in the food was bad for our health.”

Baker led other students in a demonstration to protest the situation, and at the end of the year, he was expelled. “I received a letter that told me not to report back to school,” he says. “I never did get back here.”

But Baker’s life turned out just fine. “I married and started a family and moved to Washington, D.C.,” he says. “I’ve been there ever since and I’ve been doing pretty good.”

Bailey went on to earn a degree and remained in Claxton, but the two have remained best friends over the years. “We grew up as friends,” Bailey says. “I can’t remember a time when we weren’t friends.

After he left Claxton and went into the service, I don’t think we’ve missed a year without seeing each other.”

The friends packed up their entire families for visits between Claxton and Washington, D.C. Sometimes they got together twice a year.

When he was young, life was hard, but Bailey says his family had it better than most. “My mother taught school for $25 a month,” he says. “My father was a carpenter and earned one dollar a day.”

The black community in Claxton was close-knit. “I remember if someone visited Savannah, everyone would gather around,” Bailey says. “People wanted to branch out and learn more about what was in the world.

Growing up was a fascinating thing for us.”

Baker met his wife at her birthday party when she turned six. “My friend was there.

His mother was a teacher, and my wife’s mother wanted her to stand with the teacher’s son. After the birthday party was over, I let him know she was my girl,” Baker says, tearing up.

“We didn’t get married until several years had passed, but she was my girl from then on.”

Going to the industrial college was a huge adventure, and Bailey says they called it the College by the Sea. One of his treasured memories is of a football game with

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Even in their protected world, Jim Crow sometimes showed its ugly face. Bailey remembers when in 1933, the Georgia Board of Regents brought Dr. George Washington Carver to speak to the students.

One of the board members stood up to introduce Carver. “He introduced him with the ‘N’ word,” Bailey says. “He did not hesitate.”

Students gathered afterward to express their anger and concern over Carver’s treatment. But there were opportunities that wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the college.

“When President Roosevelt came, we all got to watch the parade,” Bailey says. “A lot of things were done to improve our pride and show us there is another way of life.”

At the college, the students were accepted and fiercely protected from the rest of the world. There were curfews, strict rules and standards, and even bed checks.

“I didn’t have too much contact with Jim Crow,” Baker says.

The students made up the largest part of the community, Bailey says. “Education was not a plaything here,” he says. “It was a way of life.”

Each day was structured and students were expected to stick to the schedule. “The chapel seats were marked,” Bailey says. “We had chapel every day, and sometimes we had noon-time assemblies. Every Sunday, you’d go to church. We did everything we could to get noticed, even sing in the chorus.

Religious life was stressed.”

An empty seat was noted, and instructors were deeply invested in their students, Bailey says. “The interest the instructor took -- they invited us to their homes,” he says.

“They really tried to instill skills into you.”

Students respected instructors, and instructors respected students, Bailey says.

Times were hard then, yet students didn’t drop out or turn to crime.

“I wonder what’s wrong with our young men, particularly our young black men, today,” Bailey says says. “I can tell you where I come from and where I’ve gotten to. Here it was impressed on us to see the world in a different light.”

Looking around Adams Hall, Bailey explains that it was the dining room when he and Baker were there. “It’s where they had the social dances,” Bailey says.

“The teachers stood up above and looked down and told us who was dancing too close,” he says. “They’d call your name, too.”

That kind of guidance is needed today, Bailey says. “Parents in today’s society don’t take the time to rear their children and provide the nurturing that is needed,” he says.

Four generations of Bailey’s family have been at SSU in one capacity or another.

Baker and Bailey always return to for homecoming. “We come year after year to support our alma mater, and we do it with great pride,” Bailey says.

Homecoming was held in the 1930s, too. “We didn’t have an all-out do like they have now, but what they had was enjoyable,” Bailey says.

“Former students would come back and tell you their successes and what they were doing,” he says. “It gave you inspiration.” w Do you know someone whose story should be recorded for future generations? Dr. Ronald Bailey wants to hear from you. Call 303-4357 or 356-2151.

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South Carolina State.

“They were so cocky,” Bailey says. “They didn’t even stay overnight. They were so sure they were going to win, they just came here that morning.”

The game was played on a Saturday afternoon in an area of campus the students called the Dust Bowl. “We beat South Carolina State,” Bailey says proudly. “The news went everywhere. Schools wanted to play us.”

The next year, the Tuskegee Institute football team was on the schedule. “The year was 1935 and they swamped us,” Bailey says.

The industrial college had two “fraternities” -- of a sort. “There were the agriculture boys and the trade boys,” Bailey says. “There was a great rivalry.”

The two groups never mixed. “The agriculture students lived up on the hill and the trade students lived in the dormitories,” Bailey says. “You didn’t get onto campus without getting involved with one or the other.”

Bailey and Baker were trade students.

“In the trade department, we’d go to school in the morning and do a trade in the afternoon,” Bailey says.

Classes included carpentry, auto repair, painting and shoe repair. “With shoe repair, you didn’t have to change clothes,” Bailey says.

Students from all walks of life attended the college, from the children of the very wealthy to those whose parents were servants. “Living in Hill Hall was nice at that particular time,” Baker says. “Having come from a little school, it was very good to be able to associate with other fellow students.”

Social life at the college was quite active for both groups, even if there was just one telephone in the entire building. “The only calls you could get were calls coming in,” Bailey says. “There was an annual trade dance and an annual agriculture dance. The social life meant more to the agriculture boys.”

Women attended the college, too.

Students were given two hours each day to sit on benches and talk.

“The women lived in the dormitories, and some lived with teachers just off-campus,” Bailey says. “It was a very close-knit community.”

Baker was studying economics when he was kicked out of school. “I wasn’t concerned about being expelled,” he says. “I just wanted conditions for students to improve.”

| Editor’s Note by Jim Morekis

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But if you’re still suffering from an October entertainment hangover, as I am, a little hair of the dog that bit you is coming up this weekend.

The resurgent Blues and BBQ Festival at the Roundhouse is back and better than ever this weekend, with a headline performance Saturday by the legendary -- and this is one of the few times the word “legendary� is actually appropriate -- Johnny Winter.

The Telfair Museum of Art is holding a unique family event this Saturday to coincide with their awesome Ansel Adams exhibit, a rare treat indeed. The “Point and Shoot Family Day� Saturday offers several hours of live music and hands-on photographic activities to highlight the work of that great American photographer. The event is our “Freebie of the Week�; for details look at our Week at a Glance page.

Another important (and free) arts event, this one sponsored by the City of Savannah,

is by Chito Lapena’s Planet Fugue Project.

The “virtual poetry� performance “Five: An Exploration of Sound and Movement,� will present an ancient Korean poem using spoken word, music with ancient instruments, dance and “tangible digital music interfacing,� which allows the dancers to literally create music through their movement. “The premise is to create music from chaos,� says Lapena. “In this performance, we will interface distinct art forms to create a piece with both rehearsed and ‘chance’ components that will provide the audience with a unique Above left, one of the sensory experience that can big winners at the never be duplicated.�

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On Sunday, for more reflective pleasure, go to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 4:30 p.m. for The Goliards’ performance of traditional Sephardic Jewish music from Spain. Tix are $10 adults, $5 seniors and kids.

The gallery scene is quite busy this weekend, with another of SCAD’s awesome gallery hops on Friday night.

Also, one of Savannah’s original true art galleries, A.T. Hun, marks its tenth anniversary Saturday, though I confess it seems like they’ve been around a lot longer than that. To read all about it, see Robin Gunn’s “Hear and Now� column this week.

The Savannah Film Festival was truly an outstanding effort this year, not only for its unprecedented quality of entries and special guests, but for the professionalism of SCAD in putting the event together. Thanks again to Sunny, Melissa, Sheila, Danny, Len and everyone else involved over there for making it possible for Connect to be so closely involved with the coverage. And of course a big thanks to Bobby Zarem for his matchless networking skills.

For those of you who didn’t get enough Film Festival coverage, go to our website at www.connectsavannah.com for my interviews with the jurors (Lois Chiles, Timothy Dalton, Amy Ephron, and Nelson George), Charlie Rose, and Kite Runner screenwriter David Benioff. w Jim Morekis is editor in chief of Connect Savannah. E-mail him at jim@connectsavannah.com

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Hey, Dude: ten years of A.T. Hun

For guests planning to attend A. T. Hun Art Gallery’s Tenth Anniversary Party this Saturday, it’s not necessary to watch The Big Lebowski, the film by the Coen brothers.

But it wouldn’t hurt.

Self-taught painter Chuck Hamilton and some partners opened A. T. Hun in 1997 after a gallery representing him at that time “kicked me out because they didn’t like my nudes,” says Hamilton.

A decade later, Hamilton is sole owner of the bustling, colorful space at St. Julian and Tattnall, anchoring the northwest block of City Market. The gallery represents about

worked out with another buyer.

For Saturday’s anniversary party, guests are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite character from the movie. Hamilton will portray The Dude himself, complete with bathrobe, sunglasses, and Hamilton’s Dude-like “be here now” approach to art and life.

Door prizes will be given, including a Hamilton-made version of “Danny’s homework” encased in a Ziplock freezer bag, a movie prop that serves as a plot element.

In the movie the homework is a report on the Louisiana Purchase. Hamilton’s version is “like a book review about The Big Lebowski. I wrote it myself. It’s a 5th grade level essay. I must say I write at a 5th grade level anyway.” A computer scanned copy of the essay is collaged onto one of the larger paintings in Hamilton’s corner of the gallery.

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25 artists “mostly from here or around here” he says.

Most of Hamilton’s nudes are long gone, replaced with more recent work. Much of the new collection reflects the artist’s abiding fixation with The Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges as The Dude, Hollywood’s first unemployed, bowling, White-Russian-drinking hero. Hamilton’s oversized, dead-on accurate portraits of The Dude and his sidekick Walter (John Goodman) capture key scenes in the movie, while sometimes including an additional background character. Hamilton has painted himself into the background of several pictures.

Hamilton has seen The Big Lebowski over a dozen times, reeling off lines of dialogue as he tours customers through the back corner of A.T. Hun, where his paintings are displayed. He likes the Coen brothers’ truthful look at how people talk and behave.

“We say dumb things, we say vain things.

Most movies’ characters say lines that are well-composed. I love Walter. He’s a good hearted person but he’s such a screw up.”

You might think that the buying market for Big Lebowski art would be slim, but in the span of an hour this past Sunday, three people walking past the gallery were lured indoors by a print of The Dude on display on the sidewalk. In less than ten minutes, a print was sold, wrapped and out the door.

Details of a Lebowski painting sale were

During the party, a print of one of Hamilton’s paintings will be raffled, with proceeds donated to Hospice Savannah.

Refreshments will feature “White Russians and bowling alley cuisine,” according to the video party invitation posted on the gallery website, which not only gives all the necessary information on the event but also serves as a bizarre and hilarious Big Lebowski primer for anyone short on moviewatching time between now and Saturday.

Gallery artists are working on Lebowskithemed pieces for Saturday’s celebration.

“I’m a bowler myself,” says painter Brian McGregor. “I’m working on two paintings for the show. One at Victory Lanes,” featuring some of his fellow bowlers at the Savannah alley. McGregor’s second piece is a dream-inspired painting linked to the movie, in keeping with the theme of his body of work, painted on collages of dream journal pages from friends and strangers.

For his contribution, pen and ink artist and painter David Gildersleeve is leaning toward a tribute to another Coen Brothers classic.

“Raising Arizona I like a little better. The scene where Nicholas Cage is running with the Huggies, with the stocking over his head.

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Happy Halloween A couple was at a Halloween party when the wife told her husband she was tired and wanted to go home.

He said he wasn’t ready to leave the party, but they left. On their way home, the man started beating his wife in the face.

The woman told police that she had to jump out of the car to get away. Another woman in the car attempted to break up the altercation, but she was struck in the head by the suspect.

The man who was with the second woman was struck in the lip as he tried to hold the suspect down.

The wife said her husband also threatened to shoot her. While on the scene, officers recovered a 9 mm handgun and a short-barreled shotgun. Both guns were loaded.

• An officer was dispatched to the area of Stiles and Coverdale avenues on the report of a vehicle fire.

The Savannah Fire Department was already on the scene, putting the fire out. The car had been parked along the wood line, doused with gasoline and set afire. The gas can was floating down a nearby canal when the officer arrived. It couldn’t be retrieved because the canal was filled with water.

The vehicle, a 2000 model Cadillac, was towed from the scene. Attempts to contact the owner proved futile.

• Police were called to Lawton Avenue and East Gwinnett Street because of a reported stabbing.

A man at the scene had a cut on his right cheek, bite marks on his right chest and left forearm and a cut on his right arm near the elbow. He said he had returned to his residence and his girlfriend confronted him and started a fight.

The man said the woman wouldn’t let him leave and stabbed him with a glass cross. He said she had also bitten him during the fight.

The man refused EMS treatment and said he was going to drive himself to the hospital because he had no one to take his vehicle. When officers found the woman, they saw her glass kitchen table had been shattered.

She said the man had started the argument. He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

• A fight between a brother and sister turned violent.

Police were called to their Delesseps Avenue home, where the sister said her brother was yelling and cursing at her while she was standing in the bathroom, so she closed the door. She said her brother opened the door forcefully and approached and used his head to strike her forehead

twice.

She said she walked away and called 911. When police arrived, the brother had already left the residence.

The woman refused treatment at the scene. The responding officer could see no bruising or swelling.

• A woman said her son’s father had removed the boy from school without her permission and had taken him downtown.

She said the boy lives full-time with her and has lived with her since he was born.

She said there are no formal visitation or custody orders through the courts, and that she is the boy’s full-time caregiver.

The woman said she didn’t know why the man removed the boy from school, or why he didn’t tell her. She told police she wanted to take the boy back to school for the day.

An officer found the man, who became disorderly about being questioned. The officer asked him why he took his son from school without telling his mother, and the man responded, “Cause he goin’ to school in a T-shirt.”

The man said he was taking his son to buy him some clothes. The officer asked him if it was wise to take the boy from school just to buy clothes, and the man refused to reply.

The boy was wearing a polo-style shortsleeved shirt and jeans which were clean and he appeared to be well looked after. He didn’t seem to be upset about the situation.

The officer asked the man where the boy lives and he reluctantly replied that the child lives with his mother. He was advised that the boy’s mother was taking him back to school and told to include her in all things concerning their son to avoid future problems.

The woman was advised to seek formal custody of the child and both were told a report would be completed regarding the situation. The man also was advised about court proceedings, but was reluctant to listen. w

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Records. He told KLTV that he has a leg hair 5.0 inches long, surpassing the incumbent record of 4.88 inches. Pemberton said that his prize hair is growing amidst other normal-length hair, and that he has been treating it with conditioner to keep it strong for the measuring.

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(1) Coast Guard officials said they rescued Louis Pasquale, 35, near Freeport, N.Y., in September as he was towing his disabled 35-foot fishing boat back to port 20 miles away by dragging it behind an inflatable boat he was paddling against the current. (He had covered about 100 yards in three hours.) (2) In August in Middlesex Township, Pa., two men from Virginia, who were on the job for a moving company, were detained by police for public intoxication in a motel parking lot, fighting over the question of whether Virginia is north or south of Pennsylvania.

Don’t Criminals Need to Keep a Low Profile? (1) Community activist Steven Myrick, 41, was convicted in October of a rape in Torrance, Calif., that had gone unsolved for seven years. Myrick had called attention to himself during a public housing demonstration in which he mooned police officers and was arrested (and a subsequent DNA test tied him to the rape). (2) Vincent Scheffner, 63, a municipal parking-meter worker in St. Paul, Minn., was under investigation at press time on suspicion of theft after a local credit union reported that he had been regularly depositing, for the last year, enormous amounts of coins into his account.

Perfect Logic

Mandy Bailey, who lives in a suburb of Phoenix, is the mother of conjoined 1-yearold girls and wanted to take them to a family reunion in Maryland. She called Delta Air Lines to make sure the girls could ride for free on her ticket. No, said Delta, because even though a child under 2 can ride for free, each infant would need an oxygen mask in case of emergency, and thus, a separate ticket was needed. Bailey kept complaining (giving the story international reach) until a Delta higher-up compromised for the flight: Bailey’s sister-in-law, who had been assigned to another row on the flight, was put next to Bailey so she could share her oxygen with the second twin. w

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A doctor told the station that Wilkinson barely made it to the hospital in time because his airway had nearly swollen shut from the venomous bites. Wilkinson said that the incident was “kind of ” his “own stupid fault.”

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As several sightings were made around Washington, D.C., of dragonfly-looking bugs hovering in the air at political events, government agencies were denying that they had released any tiny surveillance robots, according to an October Washington Post Leading Economic investigation. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What Indicators the hell is that?’” asked a college student A new condominium development in at an antiwar rally in Washington. “They New York City, near 11th Avenue and West looked kind of like dragonflies or little heli24th Street (with prices starting at $6.25 copters. But ... those are not insects.” Several million), features in-unit garages, allowing agencies and private entities admitted to the the resident to drive into the En-Suite Sky Post that they were trying to develop such Garage System at street level and be lifted to devices, but no one took credit for having his own unit. Guests and residents who don’t them in the air yet. own cars will just have to use the ordinary Air Safety: (1) Nepal Airlines, which elevators. was having technical trouble with one of its two Boeing 757s in August, announced Oops! that it had fixed the problem by sacrificSpectacular Errors: (1) The Kuala ing two goats to appease the Hindu sky Lumpur phone company Telekom god Akash Bhairab. (2) As passengers Malaysia acknowledged in April boarded a Vueling Airlines flight that it mistakenly sent a bill for from Madrid, Spain, in June, they the equivalent of $218 trillion noticed that 29 of the 32 rows of I need (that’s 218 followed by 12 zeroes) seats on one side were out of serto use the or 806.4 trillion ringgit. The acvice, but they could hardly have count was for the late father of restroom been comforted by the captain’s Yahaya Wahab, whose final bill announcement that “(W)e have should have been the equivalent a safety problem with the door of $23. (2) Jayantibhai Patel, 57, at the front. Don’t worry, it’s only was arrested in Foster City, Calif., a safety problem.” (No incidents in October after admitting that he were reported on the flight.) smacked his father in the head with a School Security: (1) MJ Safety hammer, requiring his hospitalization.

Solutions of Danvers, Mass., has Patel told police that he wanted the fadeveloped a $195 bullet-proof ther to be put in a nursing home, but backpack for students, using a lightwas under the impression that only weight, police-equipment-quality a hospital could assign him to one, and panel, and is seeking approvals from thus, he needed to get him into a hospital. school boards to promote them, according to an August Boston Herald report. (2) News That Sounds Like a Britain’s Bladerunner company has develJoke oped student jumpers and blazers lined with (1) After some mild bickering durknife-resistant Kevlar, starting at the equivaing a delivery at a Wal-Mart in October in lent of about $260, according to an August Indiana County, Pa., according to police, BBC News story. a Pepsi Cola route man allegedly repeatIn August, representatives of New East edly punched a Coca-Cola route man in the Britain province in Papua New Guinea forface. (2) Reuters reported in September that mally begged the forgiveness of the Fiji High a 50-year-old man who bought two large Commissioner for incidents in 1875 when sausages at a butcher shop in Mannheim, PNG tribes killed and ate Fijian missionarGermany, returned shortly afterward to have ies who had come to spread Christianity. (In them wrapped for a flight to Dubai. On infact, the PNG spokespersons pointed out spection, the butcher found that the man that “forgiveness” was a major tenet of the had stuffed each sausage with an anatomiChristianity that PNG came to accept from cally correct latex dildo, for smuggling into the missionaries.)

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Poaching and deforestation are bringing some of humankind’s closest relatives to the brink of extinction, according to a report on endangered primates. The U. S.-based environmental group Conservation International says that there are only a few dozen of the most threatened gibbons and langurs left, while the number of other threatened primates is also declining. “You could fit all the surviving members of these 25 species in a single football stadium — that’s how few of them remain on Earth today,” said group president Russell Mittermeier. Great apes and their smaller cousins are being slaughtered for food or traditional medicines, while others are trapped for medical research and the illegal primate pet trade, according to the report.

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Anak Krakatau, or Child of Krakatau, expelled ash over the Strait of Sunda, where an 1883 eruption of the famed parent volcano obliterated the previous volcanic island. Approximately 36,000 people died in the resulting tsunami.

• Mount Soputan on Sulawesi Island continued to expel smoke and lava after the volcano shot clouds of debris one mile into the air and spewed lava down its slopes.

• Scientists continued to warn those living around Java’s Mount Kelud that the mountain could erupt violently at any time. Many have returned to their homes after evacuating in early October.

La Niña Lingers

Climate experts at the U.N. weather agency predict that the La Niña ocean-cooling in the tropical Pacific will continue to disrupt global weather patterns into 2008.

The latest World Meteorological Organization report on the phenomenon says the current outbreak, which began earlier this year, is unique and will produce patterns not typically experienced during most La Niñas. While Australia experienced wetter-than-normal weather during the 1999-2000 La Niña, it is currently in the grip of its worst drought in 100 years. La Niñainduced heavy rainfall across a broad swath of Africa in recent months has produced some of the worst flooding in memory across several countries. The La Niña cooling occurs every three to seven years and often follows El Niño, which has its own set of weather disruptions.

Australian Twister

A rare Australian tornado struck the northern New South Wales town of Dunoon, damaging a power substation and about 20 homes. The twister was part of a series of severe storms that lashed northern parts of the state and neighboring Queensland for two consecutive days. In early October, hail the size of tennis balls lashed the nearby city of Lismore.

Tropical Cyclones

Tropical Storm Noel triggered flash flooding and mudslides that killed at least 61 people across the northern Caribbean. The storm later dissipated after moving northward over the Bahamas.

• Heavy rainfall in eastern Japan, caused by

passing Tropical Storm Faxai, killed one person near Tokyo.

• Remnants of Tropical Cyclone 05A were expected to bring locally heavy rain to the desert nations of Oman and Yemen.

Earthquakes

Several homes in southwestern Turkey sustained damage from a 5.1 magnitude quake centered near the town of Cameli, in Denizli province. There were no reports of injuries.

• The strongest quake to rock the San Francisco Bay Area since the deadly 1989 Loma Prieta temblor shattered windows and knocked items off shelves near San Jose.

• Earth movements were also felt in northern Egypt, central Nepal and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Oldest Animal

Possibly the longest-living animal ever found was dredged from Icelandic waters by a team of researchers, who determined that the clam had lived on the chilly seabed for more than 400 years. By counting the annual growth lines on the mollusk, scientists from Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences discovered that the clam was between 405 and 410 years old. When the animal was young, Shakespeare was writing his greatest plays, the English were establishing their first settlements in the Americas and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for asserting that the sun rather than the Earth was the center of the universe. The Guinness Book of Records says the previous record for the longest-lived animal belongs to a 220-year- old clam collected in 1982 off North America. w

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Slide guitar legend Johnny Winter headlines the Roundhouse Blues & BBQ Fest

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t’s been a long, strange road for Johnny Winter, but the good news is that it’s still winding.

The iconic superstar blues guitarist and singer signed with Columbia Records for a whopping $600,000 in 1969 (back when money was really worth something), played Woodstock, and subsequently became — as did his brother Edgar— one of the biggest blues-influenced rock & roll acts of the ‘70s. He’s released almost 30 albums of fiery, slashing slide guitarwork and impassioned vocals to date.

However, recurring substance abuse problems, fanned by an unhealthy relationship with a former manager found the heavily-tattooed matchstick of a frontman slipping into a rather sad state during much of the ‘90s and the beginning of this decade.

With his famous chops in decline and his mind in a haze, he unwittingly did no small amount of damage to his career. And yet, through that dark period, the majority of his diehard fanbase stuck by him, longing for the day when Winter could reclaim his status as one of the most invigorating and idiosyncratic showmen in his field.

By all accounts, that day has finally arrived.

With the help of his longtime friend (and now bandmate), celebrated guitarist Paul Nelson, Johnny Winter’s back in the game, with a vengeance. Gone are the days of phoned-in performances and shady business dealings. For the past few years, the multiple Grammy-winner has been turning in shows and recording albums that display the same exhilarating blend of high-octane blues and

guitar rock that made him a legend over three decades ago.

He’s been welcomed back into the music biz with open arms by those who root for great talents to rise again, and is riding high with an ongoing series of vintage live albums, as well as a fan push to induct him into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

I caught up with the jovial (but famously tight-lipped) Winter en route to a gig in New York state.

You’re playing well over 100 live gigs a year, which is a lot for anyone, let alone someone who’s lived the life you have.

Johnny Winter: Yes! I love playing, but I don’t like flying much. I don’t plan on slowing down any time soon.

What’s your favorite aspect of living by night in the land of opportunity?

Johnny Winter: Just that the ability to travel and play all over the world and to do it by night. It’s the best way to get from point A to point B. I rest during the day.

What’s your least favorite aspect of the rock and blues lifestyle?

Johnny Winter: Like I said, it’s the flying. I love the bus (laughs)!

If you had to look into a crystal ball and predict which current blues artists people will view as icons 30 to 40 years from now, who would you bank on having that sort of staying power and influence?

Johnny Winter: That’s too hard! I really wouldn’t want to single anyone out. Besides, I’m still pretty much into the older blues and don’t take to most of the recent stuff that’s coming out now.

Bob Dylan said in his early 20s he hoped to live long enough to carry himself like the great bluesmen he idolized: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Like you, he’s not only lived to see that day, but returned from a low period of his own. Do you feel any weight on your shoulders in terms of maintaining the tradition of American blues for a new generation?

Johnny Winter: I just play. But it’s funny — I recorded with three of the artists you just mentioned!

You went through some really bad times a while back that took a serious physical and mental toll on you. As someone who lives to play their best, how hard is it to know that you inadvertently gave some performances that did not live up to your own standards?

Johnny Winter: I’m not too happy about it, but I’ve really gotten it together nowadays — thanks especially to my second guitarist Paul Nelson. He’s helped me out a lot and is one hell of a guitarist himself.

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Roseanne Cash once said that when her dad Johnny was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, it meant more to him than any country music award, because deep down, he always considered himself at least as much of a rock and roller as a country star. You’re known as a Texas bluesman, but many see you as a kickass, old-fashioned rock & roller.

How do you view yourself?

Johnny Winter: I’m a bluesman and will be one till I die!

Fans love the ferocious improvisation you bring to your solos. Does that tightrope walking come naturally, or do you have to consciously summon it up?

Johnny Winter: It’s all natural. After doing it for so long, it just happens. I don’t have to think about it. I just play.

Johnny Winter: He is one of my favorite slide players. I just performed with him at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Fest in Chicago.

We did (Dylan’s) “Highway 61” together, and it was great.

Tell me a little bit about your new vintage live albums. Do you maintain the rights to a lot of your old archival recordings, or are there scores of legal hurdles that must be navigated in order to release those tapes?

Johnny Winter: It’s a great ongoing thing called the Live Bootleg Series released by Friday Music and distributed by RYKO. This one hit #15 on the Billboard Blues Chart just this week. There are a lot of legal issues to handle on a project like this, but it was all done correctly and came out great.

There’ll be many more of my live performances released as part of this series over the next few years. You can get more info on it by visiting fridaymusic.com or even johnnywinter.net.

How many A-list concert recordings do you estimate you are sitting on?

Johnny Winter: There are too many to count. We listen down and pick the best and then figure out which time period of shows to release next.

Some of my very favorite recordings you’ve played on were the Blue Sky label LPs made with Muddy Waters back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. They still sound more dynamic, and spontaneous than most so-called “live” blues records of today. I know Bob Margolin helped with reissuing some of that material

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Johnny Winter: Some. (Smiles) I was just proud to play on them with Muddy and get the three Grammys for producing them.

Those sessions must have been extremely fun and inspirational to take part in. Are there any memories or anecdotes you’d care to share about the making of those LPs? Johnny Winter: They were all done in one take.

Will you draw from your entire back catalog for this Savannah concert?

Johnny Winter: I mix it up a lot. Folks will hear some straight and some slide songs.

Our shows these days are a lot of fun.

Finally, are you surprised so many people around the world pay tribute to you by get-

ting tattoos inspired by your own body art?

Johnny Winter: I see a lot of that. People have my songs and sometimes even my signature tattooed on them. It’s very flattering, to say the least.

Does it ever get creepy to have people decorate themselves like you in that manner?

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ast December, when Austin’s famed counterculture band The Asylum Street Spankers played American Legion Post 135 on Forsyth Park, they were enjoying increased notoriety from a high-profile video for their satirical tune “Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV.” That tongue-in-cheek clip racked up 400,000 views on YouTube within two months, and put the Spankers in front of tons of people who’d never heard of the group before — despite the fact the band has been around since 1994, and had released close to a dozen albums.

The audience in the large, 1940s-era ballroom that night were treated to a spirited, hushed concert (the Spankers are known for playing quietly, barely amplified, and for relying on their crowd’s help in maintaining a respectful, listening-room environment) that touched on jazz, country, boogie-woogie, ribald early blues, Old-Time Americana and even rock & roll — all filtered through the group’s skewed, irreverent sense of

humor and penchant for utilizing anachronistic instruments, such as the washboard and saw.

Their return appearance this upcoming Tuesday finds them out in support of Mommy Says No!, an award-winning album that’s billed as their first “children’s” record, but which is instantly recognizable as an Asylum Street Spankers collection throughand-through (albeit with less of the off-color references which pepper their past releases).

I spoke with band co-founder and vocalist Christina Marrs from her home in Austin where she was in the process of baking both an apple tart and a sweet potato pie for a family gathering.

This band is constantly evolving. How are the Spankers different from last year?

Christina Marrs: Well, last December’s tour and that show was a bit unusual in and of itself, because our fiddle player had abruptly quit and we were toying with a short-term

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substitute guy. The band we’ve been touring with now we’ve had for nine or ten months, so it’s a little more solidified. We’re missing our fiddle player. But, we hired a dobro and mandolin player. This band is an organic process. People come and go and we adapt accordingly. I always like to say that we constantly recreate ourselves in our own image! (laughs) Why is it so hard to keep fiddle players?

You’ve gone through several lineup changes over the life of the band, with some members falling in and out of the group over time.

Austin’s filled with amazing musicians. How hard is it to find talented folks who fit in?

Christina Marrs: Well, like you said, there are a lot of amazing musicians in this town and at some point most of them have been in this band. (laughs) It’s all about finding somebody who’s weird in the way that we’re weird! Most musicians are quirky and a little strange. We’ve had some who were definitely strange, but not in the same way we’re used to! You can’t have a group of people spend hours in a van together and not have some tension. It’s more like an instinctual thing when you meet someone and find out whether you can be friends.

What do you look for in new members?

Christina Marrs: I truly think you can tell if someone can really play or has the chops for this job within a few bars. It’s pretty evident when someone has that kind of versatility. Personality-wise, it’s a gut feeling.

Things that may be a red flag might be wives and kids. Not that that’s necessarily a deterrent —Wammo and I both have a spouse and kids— but I do think the number one reason people leave a band is a girlfriend or boyfriend that doesn’t want them on the road anymore. We usually ask people we hire to give us at least a year’s commitment.

To bring in new players any more than that can be really disrupting.

What prompted you to make a kids album?

Christina Marrs: Not any one thing really. It was kind of an idea that we’d talked about half-jokingly for years, because we’re known for our blues and our bawdy side.

We’re a kind of adult-oriented band, so we though it might be funny if we did a kids’ record. For years now, we’ve been doing a Harry Nilsson song called “Think About Your Troubles” from the animated movie The Point. I’m a big Nilsson fan and that’s

Will your Savannah setlist differ much from the concert you gave hear last time?

Christina Marrs: Well, I’m sure there will be some new stuff. We do have some favorites that have been in the set for years. They remain popular and don’t seem to be going anywhere. We’ve been around for almost 14 years, so we have quite a repertoire!

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Is political satire as much of a part of your repertoire now as it has been in the past?

Christina Marrs: You know, the political stuff has never been a big part of what we do.

Truly, we only have a couple of songs that could be called political satire: I’ve always thought that with the Spankers, the only way we can deliver a political message of any kind is with humor. I mean, we’re really preaching to the choir! (laughs) How would you describe your band to folks considering attending the show who’re not familiar with the Spankers?

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Christina Marrs: Well, it’s always so hard to describe this band aptly to anyone. We don’t fit neatly into a box. I guess I’ll just say that you’ll likely come not knowing what to really expect, and you may leave not knowing how to easily describe it, but you’ll be praising it to your friends. It’s a very fun time in a lot of different ways. I’ll leave the detailed descriptions of what we do to the music writers of the world. w Tiny Team presents The Asylum Street Spankers, 8 pm, Tuesday at American Legion Post 135 (1108 Bull St.). Advance $13 tickets to this 21+ show can be charged online at www.tinyteamconcerts.org or bought with cash at Primary Art Supply, Angel’s BBQ, Annie’s Guitars & Drums (Waters Ave. location), The Sentient Bean, Marigold Beauty Concepts, Le Chai gallerie du vin (Starland) and Silly Mad CDs. Remaining tickets will be $16 cash at the door. Co-sponsored by Connect Savannah, Annie’s Guitars & Music, The Sentient Bean and Murmur Magazine.

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Christina Marrs: Fiddle players are kind of like horn players. They’re a lot less common than say, guitarists. (laughs) Like horn players, they tend to be able to play with a lot of different types of bands, so they freelance a lot. It’s hard to find the ones that will actually go out on the road and tour. Plus, many of them play strictly in the country or bluegrass genres. Versatile or jazz fiddle players are much harder to come by.

one of three songs on this album that are covers. One’s by Nirvana and the other is an old jazz standard. That song was probably the jumping off point. It’s a very clever number and not the kind that talks down to kids or insults their intelligence. I believe that thinking about one’s troubles is something kids do a lot more than a parent maybe gives them credit for. Our goal was to make a record that was ostensibly for children, but also very enjoyable for adults. Kids tend to listen to things over and over again, so we made this with our adult listeners in mind.

I think sonically, it’s one of the most gorgeous records we’ve ever made. It’s my favorite Spankers record. We wanted to have a record that was kind of like the old Looney Tunes cartoons where there was plenty the kids could laugh at, but a lot of jokes would go right over their heads for the older folks to enjoy. That’s the same thing you’ll find in the work of Shel Silverstein or Dr. Seuss.

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When I was a kid, all I knew of Synergy was the immensely creepy psychedelic 1975 LP of electronic mood music by the same name. Man, I couldn’t get enough of that record. Still can’t.

John Baer and his wife Jane Krause are interested in the concept of synergy as well, but the kind they’re dealing with is much closer to the first variant I mentioned. Their locally-based advertising and production company goes by that handle, and late-night television viewers may know the firm for its current flagship program, Savannah Heat.

That low-budget series airs immediately after Saturday Night Live on WSAV, and has led its time slot in ratings.

Savannah Heat focuses solely on interesting and unique destinations and attractions in our immediate area that can be easily reached by motorcycle, which at first seems a peculiar conceit, until one realizes the show is sponsored by the local Harley Davidson dealership (synergy indeed).

Baer, a musician and motorcyclist himself, finds both pursuits intrinsically linked.

“I have an affinity for the passion, freedom and edginess associated with them,” says Baer. “To me, there’s a kind of renegade, non-traditionalist motif they share. We try to spotlight that on our show.”

“I initially billed it as an ‘anti-mossy tree and history’ look at Savannah. There’s a lot of modern day stuff going on around here that is way more important than ‘Circa 1733,’ in my opinion.”

From the show’s inception, Baer and Krause featured segments on standout local artists interspersed with business profiles of popular eateries, attractions and the like.

That devotion to hyping local music has led them to partner with Café Loco on the firstever Savannah Heat Motorcycle and Music Fest this Saturday.

The 12-hour event features hour-plus live sets from a fairly wide range of local artists, all of whom have previously been featured on the TV show. Those acts include: songwriter Greg Williams, southern jamband Phantom Wingo, hip-hoppers The Co-Workers (from the Dope Sandwich collective), roots-rockers Keith & Ross and The Train Wrecks, commercial pop-rock trio Listen 2 Three, and the ska and punk-influenced quartet Argyle.

“We’re providing a backline of gear to help save time on the changeovers between acts,” Krause says. “The music will be outside until 11 pm, when the noise ordinance kicks in. Then we’ll move indoors.”

She stresses that in the event of inclement weather, the whole event can be held inside, but “If it’s just threatening to spit rain, we’ll stay outside. We know how Tybee is.

Things can blow right over.”

The bands themselves are playing strictly for exposure (Synergy plans to create a TV special from footage of the shows) and hospitality. “They’re being fed and taken care of,” says Krause. Coastal Pet Rescue will be on hand to fund-raise, and will share in a portion of any profits generated.

Although there is plenty of competition at this time of year from other familyoriented, music-related events (such as the Roundhouse Blues & BBQ Fest which takes place the same evening), Baer’s not too worried about drawing a crowd.

“I won’t be surprised if we have 500 people throughout the day,” he says. “The bands have their own fans, and the motorcycle community is spreading the word. The excitement level is pretty high.”

Adds Krause, “Ticket holders can come and go all day as they please.” w The Savannah Heat Motorcycle & Music Fest runs Saturday from 2 pm to 2 am at Tybee’s Café Loco. Admission is $5, which includes a raffle ticket.

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The Goliards

One of the most unusual and unique musical groups in the city, this period-instrument ensemble features really old-school axes like the harp, renaissance recorder, lute, ‘ud and the medieval violin. As much living history lesson as concert, their performance strives to approximate a recital several hundred years ago. This show, La Sirena de la Mar: Romances of the Iberian Jews, features love songs and lullabies sung in the Castillian tongue, and written prior to the 1492 expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the region we now call Spain. Dig it. Admission is $10 at the door (or $5 for those above 65 and under 12). Sun., 4:30 pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (34th & Abercorn Sts.).

The Darryl Reeves Quartet

This superstar acoustic act —that’s racked up industry and fan awards since their formation— just released Road That Never Ends, a live CD adding rock, blues and jazz elements to their bluegrass, jam-grass and gospel foundation. These guys (including new guitarist and singer Josh Shilling) play massive outdoor events like Telluride and MerleFest, but this tiny, smoke and alcohol-free listening room is one of their faves, and they always turn in a world-class display of improvisational fretwork and crazy-sweet vocal harmonies there. Advance tickets are $30, and they always sell out, so call 748-1930 ASAP to charge yours. The great BBQ joint next door will be open prior to the gig, so come early and hungry. Sat., 7:30 pm, Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (1304 E. Hwy 80, Bloomingdale) - ALL-AGES.

‘Rock In The ‘Boro’

Get your recommended weekly allowance of modern metal, punk and hardcore at this 5-band bill a short drive from Savannah.

Locally-formed headliners A Girl A Gun A Ghost just signed a European record deal to go along with their U.S. one and seem poised on the brink of some sort of major underground notoriety. Also appearing: Chevy Chase Stabbed The King, Ashes of An Empire, Ammon and Set In Stone. Fri., 7 pm, The Apex (Statesboro).

Roundhouse Blues & BBQ

One of the coolest annual events in town, this two-nighter sees some of the best local, regional and national blues, soul and gospel talent lighting up a rustic, restored train station with live music. Friday’s lineup includes local Amburgey & Hanson, 13-piece R&B revue The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love, and Magic Slim, a 70-yearold guitarist and singer whose group The Teardrops were called “the premier Chicago blues band on the road today,� by DownBeat Magazine. Saturday finds an assortment of gospel groups opening for Charleston’s Shrimp City Slim Blues Band (who’re backing Wanda Johnson — billed as “The New Voice of South Carolina Soul & Blues�).

Closing the fest is Grammy-winning slide guitarist Johnny Winter (see Interview, pg. 14). Plus, there’ll be plenty of food (like BBQ, oysters, corn, etc...) and beer for sale.

Proceeds benefit the non-profit Coastal Heritage Society. Don’t you dare miss it! $12 per night, or $20 for both. CHS Members, Military, Military Dependents, and those 6 and under admitted free (with parent). Fri. - Sat., 6 pm - 11 pm - ALL-AGES.

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The Roots’ Questlove named this Brooklyn hip-hop trio’s latest CD one of the Top 10 albums of 2006. They’ll make a special appearance at this rock club’s weekly alternative hip-hop night, along with Dope Sandwich’s Basik LEE. Tues., 10 pm, The Jinx.

The Derek Warfield Band

This historian and songwriter was a founding member of the famed Irish rebel band Wolfe Tones, with whom he recorded and toured for 37 years. In honor of this rare appearance at such a small, informal venue, management will donate 10% of the gate to The Savannah Irish Festival. For tickets, email shelley@irishpubsavannah.com or call 401-8098. Thurs., 7 pm (non-smoking, ALL-AGES, $25, incl. dinner), 10 pm (21+ $15), Murphy’s Law. w

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The latest monthly concert curated by the Savannah Music Fest’s Rob Gibson, featuring one of the country’s hottest rising jazz artists. This innovative, Atlanta-based alto saxman and composer studied with the great Terence Blanchard, and has worked with luminaries like the brothers Marsalis, Nicholas Payton and Roy Hargrove. The Jepson’s galleries will be open during the show, including their current exhibition of Ansel Adams photos. Free to museum members or $10 for the public. Food and drinks available for sale on site. Fri., 6 pm, Jepson Center for The Arts.

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AASU Choir & Chamber Singers

George Strait, Conway Twitty and David Gates. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Red Leg Saloon.

Joey Allcorn

Touring N.J. singer/songwriter influenced by Jewel and Michelle Branch. This gig is being shot for her own “rockumentary.” Wed., 8 pm, Tantra Lounge.

Showcase of Fall Semester works, including Charpentier’s “Messe de Minuit pour Noël”. Sun., 2:30 pm Sacred Heart Church (1707 Bull St.).

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Solo set by this retro honky-tonk outlaw. Fri., 11 pm, The Jinx.

The Dave Kain Group Led by a facile and inventive electric guitarist, this Pelham, N.Y. jazz combo (drums, sax, bass) knows how to keep things lighthearted.

Focusing on original compositions, their explorations are fresh and upbeat. They’ll soon release a third indie CD. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

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Morbidly themed party, feat. music from DJ Analog Kid, SinYster, Mayhem and Ludovico Technique, an Orlando industrial group inspired by Throbbing Gristle and Klinik who claim to offer “CPR for our subculture.” Fri., 9 pm, The Rocksbury (305 W. River St.).

Bluesonics

Uptempo, rock-solid jump and shuffle electric blues. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Bottles & Cans

Garage-rock-infused blues and weird Americana. Thurs., 9:30 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.), Fri., 10 pm, The Rail + Sat., 8 pm, The Warehouse + Sun., 7 pm (frontman Ray’s solo set), Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Captured By Robots!

Satirical punk and metal roadshow featuring one human and several computercontrolled pneumatic and mechanical robot “musicians” who taunt the audience whilst rocking out. Each tour has a different theme, and this time it’s “Dubya.” The ‘bots are dressed as important political figures and the crowd is encouraged to dress as Secret Service. Great, loud, bizarre fun. Sat., 11 pm, The Jinx.

Coyote Run

“A critically-acclaimed “Thinking Person’s Celtic Rock Band,” touring in support of their 6th CD. Fri., 8 pm, Molly MacPherson’s (downtown).

The Country Wild Band

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Sat., 10 pm, Wild Wing Café.

The Brenda Morie Ensemble

This ace Canadian flutist, guitarist and keyboardist toured with Nancy Sinatra, and moved to Savannah by way of WinstonSalem. She quickly established herself as a valued commodity on our scene, but mostly gigs in the Research Triangle. Sat., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

A Nickel Bag of Funk

Loose and greasy, female-fronted R & B combo (covers and originals). Fri., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law + Sat., 9 pm, Tantra Lounge.

Paul Rader

Talented Northern rock and folk singer/ guitarist back on our scene after an extended absence. Thurs., 8 pm (w/David Flannery), Augie’s (Pooler) + Sat., 9 pm (w/house band), Bayou Café.

The Train Wrecks

Local Americana and roots-a-billy quartet that just released a standout indie CD. Thurs., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law + Fri., 8 pm, The Warehouse + Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Witt Wisebram

Youthful Atlanta troubadour whose sparse, earnest acoustic guitar strumming and neck-rack harp-work imbue his strident political commentaries and understated love songs with a vibe taken straight from Dylan’s early LPs, as well as the work of Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and the late Phil Ochs. Tues., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean ALL-AGES. w

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Left, featured artist Sonny Wallace; at right, gallery owner Cryselle Stewart and manager Warren Smith

Dimensions exhibit space consists of two rooms. “The big room is all about the reception,” says Stewart. “Depending on the artist we can have a causal show or an upscale show. We can do everything.”

The airiness of the main gallery’s long narrow space belies its size—less than 1000 square feet, divided by a low central wall that doubles as a bench where guests can perch while sipping wine and sodas.

“Other spaces cram their space with stuff,” says Smith. “We like to give the art room to breathe.”

Photographer Sonny Wallace, at the opening of his one week show last Friday, was upbeat about his work and his relationship with Dimensions. They helped him with media outreach, promotion, and with “hanging, displaying the work. I asked a lot of questions.”

Consignment work is showcased in the storefront window gallery, roughly 100 square feet featuring a mixed bag of paintings, turned wood, color photography and

ceramics. The small space feels full but not cluttered.

“In the smaller room a group of artists come together to do the work,” says Stewart.

“It’s to give people a variety of art to choose from,” says Smith. “In that room the work stays up for two months.”

Stewart selects the artists who are featured at Dimensions, with input from Smith.

Stewart’s organizational bent, business sense and participatory leadership style are evident in Dimensions’ non-traditional fee structure, extensive internship program, membership plan and the menu of services-all part of her fifteen page business plan which she co-wrote with a friend. The gallery functions like a cooperative but is a private business owned by a group of investors, including Stewart.

“We have a small rental fee with a low commission,” says Stewart. This formula, along with fees for additional services, provides both the gallery and the artist with an upfront understanding of the financial im-

pact the show will have on both parties.

Stewart is the only paid staffer, juggling the tasks of gallery ownership while pursuing her BFA in Photography at SCAD. Volunteers and participants in Dimensions’ student intern program providing the remainder of the staffing.

“We have nine interns” in marketing, PR and graphic design departments, says Smith.

“PR is the biggest one. We have one of them working every day. They can get school credit if they need it. We help them with their resumes when they leave.”

Smith, a 2007 SCAD painting graduate, is a volunteer who started as an intern.

“After a couple of weeks I was promoted to marketing and then general manager.” He’s scheduled for 18 hours per week, but spends many more hours pitching in.

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leaming white walls and the faint smell of fresh paint greet visitors as they step into Dimensions Gallery, the storefront gallery on MLK Jr. Blvd. that opened in June.

“We repaint for every show, so the walls are always white,” says Warren Smith, 23, gallery art director and general manager.

With new shows opening two to four times each month, that’s a lot of touch ups. Such attention to detail is one way Dimensions’ owner and curator Cryselle Stewart, 24,is setting her gallery apart from other art spaces in Savannah.

Emerging or student artists are the raison d’etre for Dimensions Gallery, providing unknown painters, photographers, potters and the like with a sophisticated space to showcase their work and a menu of services to gain exposure and experience navigating the art world.

Pre-event flyers and postcards, press releases, catered opening night receptions with a jazz DJ or live music, and online sales via the gallery website are among Dimensions’ offerings to their artists. At other galleries these tasks are often the responsibility of the artist, especially for those whose work isn’t yet in high demand.

“For a lot of people it’s their first show,” says Smith. “They don’t know how to do it.

They kind of need their hand held.”

Stewart launches each exhibit with a “New York style” opening night reception, an idea she picked up during internships and employment at four galleries in New York.

“During the reception, we do a short Q&A with the artist and why they do their work,” says Stewart.

“A good mix of people comes to the show,” says Smith. “Once they hear the artist they get a better appreciation for the work.”

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Employee Art Exhibition -- For the first time, the City of Savannah will participate in the National Arts Program, an annual art exhibition program for City employees and families, with 113 works on display at Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St., Nov. 13-Jan. 4. Over 70 city employees and family members submitted original artwork to be displayed. Free and open to the public; hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Fri. ‘Terrasilica Digitus’ -- An exhibit by jeweler Sarah Lewis, Nov. 9-15 at TruSpace Gallery, 2423 DeSoto Ave. in the Starland Design district. The opening reception will be Sat., Nov. 10 7–10 p.m.

Brian MacGregor -- This City Market artist will have a show at A.T. Hun Gallery, 302 W. St. Julian St., Sat. Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

‘An Intimate Acquaintance’ - Oil paintings by Rose Covert, through Nov 29. Reception Nov. 8, 6-8 p.m. at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. ‘Teen Hunk Launch’ -- Featuring the tee collection of B. Thom. Stevenson, Fri., Nov. 9, 7-10 p.m. at Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. in the Starland Design District.

‘Little Gems’ -- Chroma Gallery’s Holiday Small Works show featuring over 100 works of art under $300. Reception with hot apple cider Nov. 18 1-5 p.m. Fall hours 10:30 a.m.-

5:30 p.m. 31 Barnard St. in City Market.

‘Finely Feathered, Fairly Weathered’ -An exhibition of new bird paintings and mixed media works by Juliana Peloso showing at The Black Orchid Gallery 131 Drayton St. Reception for the artist will be held Nov. 11, 7-9 p.m. ‘she may be a jedi’ -- Recent paintings by Katherine Sandoz at Rosewood Contemporary Art, 113 E. Oglethorpe Ave., through Nov. 24.

‘I’ll Remember You’ -- An exhibition

by Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung, Oct. 26-Nov. 18, at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Jung was named Artist of the Year for 2007 by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea.

‘Saints and Martyrs: An Exploration of Orthodox Iconography’ -- Art by Ricky McGee and Vesella Valtcheva Nov. 1-30 at the Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., with a reception Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.

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‘Loop, Link and Tangle’ - Mixed media show of SCAD students at Dimensions Gallery, 412 M.L. K Jr. Blvd.

‘Nowness and Permanence in Art’ -- A look at the timelessness of art, at Daedalus Gallery, 414 Whitaker St., Nov. 1-Dec. 31.

‘Ancient Skies: A Look at Our Mystical Past’ -- Oil paintings by Veronika K. Varner through November at the Starlander Cafe Gallery, 11 E. 41st St. SCAD student mixed media is at Dimensions Gallery on MLK

‘Alone Together’ -- Paintings by Jessie Boone will be featured at a solo thesis exhibition Nov. 2-16 at the Red Kite Studio on Bull Street. Open noon-3 p.m. Mon.-Sat. ‘Invisible Masterpiece’ -- SCAD presents an exhibition by Korean multimedia artist Shin-il Kim, Oct. 26-Dec. 2, at Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 MLK Jr. Blvd.

New Works -- Off The Wall Gallery in 45 Bistro at the Marshall House on Broughton Street will feature new works in November by Stefani Joseph, Laura Adams, Marilyn Foley, Katrina Schmid-Renke and Sandy Branam.

‘Mirrored Nostalgia’ -- Photos by SCAD student Sonny Wallace at Dimensions Gallery, 412 MLK Jr Blvd.

Group Show — The Grand Bohemian Gallery at the Mansion on Forsyth Park is currently featuring artists John Duckworth, Irene Mayo and Jean Claude Roy. Larry Levow and Gayle Clark — The artists of the month at Gallery 209 are painter Larry Levow and potter Gayle Clark.

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Jepson Center for the Arts – “Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius,” Oct. 17Jan. 6; “East End Artists, Past and Present,” through Jan. 13 focuses on modern and contemporary artists of the Hamptons on Long Island, N.Y., including Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner; “Philip Morsberger: The Sixties,” through Jan. 20. 207 W. York St. Call 790-8800.

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Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences — “Luminist Horizons: The Art ‘Thai Gods’ by Brian MacGregor, and Collection of part of the celebratory 10th James A. Suydam,” anniversary group show at through Jan. 20; A. T. Hun in City Market “19th Century Glass from Savannah Gallery 440’s Fifth -Collections,” through Continuing to continuDec. 2. 121 Barnard St. Call 790-8800. w ing to celebrate their fifth anniversary, with work by sculptor Barbara Duch and painter Art Patrol is for rotating exhibits and recepFran Thomas. Gallery 440, 440 Bull St. tions. E-mail info to artpatrol@connectsavannah.com ‘Metamorphosis: Painting Evolution’ -- Exhibit by Atlanta painter June Stratton through Nov. 8 at the AASU.

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‘Succulent’ -- New paintings

by Summer Wheat to benefit the Jewish Educational Alliance.

At 2CarGarage Gallery, 30 W. Broughton St. (above Paris Market) Nov. 1-26.

Inside Outside’ -- SCAD presents an exhibition showcasing work by professors Steve and Deborah Mosch, Oct. 11Nov. 20, at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. Reception Fri. Nov. 9.

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Normally, I would not review an exhibition of student work, because really it is a response to an assignment and should not be looked at in the same way as an artist’s later, personal vision should be. But this exhibition raises some interesting questions.

In these times, artists rarely make their income by selling their artwork. The majority with advanced degrees are engaged in teaching in the ever-expanding education industry. As a result, most artists now consider themselves artists/educators, since they divide their time between both activities.

The works from India showing in Savannah are wood block prints by Neblett and her students, and collography (collage that is inked and printed) by Radhakrishanan Natesapillai’s students, along with an intaglio print of his own.

There is a difference, not only in the technique but also in the subject matter. Neblett has been teaching her own woodblock technique and I noticed immediately that the majority of her students’ prints are representations of what we see as the iconography of “India”: Hindu gods and goddesses, examples of the Rajasthani culture, and Indian genre scenes.

I found out that Neblett had directed her students to use an “Indian” theme. She has chosen not to impose her own personal subject matter interests, but rather honor Indian cultural elements and expose those images in Savannah. But her students responded to the thematic request with the most likely subjects, no doubt feeling that that was what was being asked of them.

However, what is “Indian”, when we consider that India is now one of the two fastest growing economies in the world and a leader in the area of information technology? It is also a massive country, with many languages and religions, all “Indian.”

To turn it around, if I were required to do a “Scottish” artwork, I would be restricted to something showing bagpipes, Celtic knot designs, and a portrait of Robert Burns.

The other teacher, Natesapillai is himself represented by an intaglio etching, called “The Deep”, which I see as a Modernist abstraction based on nature, using fish and plant forms. For some reason, only two of his students’ works are included so far: Pradeep Kumar Mohan’s “A Leaf in the Line” and Prabu Sivalangham’s “Parrot.” Both of these are two-color collographs that have a similar abstraction from nature.

European Modernism was an exhilarating break from the Renaissance traditions of Fine Art and was vastly influenced by images from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Interestingly, now it seems that Modernism still flourishes where it began, outside Europe, while European post-Modernism often falls back on relying on pre-Modernist techniques and pastiche.

There is one work I find particularly moving in this exhibition. It is a woodcut from one of Neblett’s student’s, Indumathy Devaraj, of an Indian traditional horse dance. We see here a profile view of a life sized puppet horse, hollowed out to hold the dancer within, who we can see on tiny stilts.

This image is set against a textured background caused by the short vertical lines cut into the wood.

It almost looks as if a gentle rain were falling on him. This is a more marginal view of an Indian subject, and it is executed with the kind of tenderness I always associate with India.

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■ SUNDAY, November 11

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| Theatre by Linda Sickler

Culture

Words of

love Savannah Community Theatre presents 84 Charing Cross Road

C

an two people fall in love, even if they never meet face to face?

Author Helene Hanff suggests that they can in her book, 84 Charing Cross Road.

She should know -- the book tells the story of her 20-year correspondence with Frank Doel of Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookseller in London.

Hanff was searching for books she couldn’t find in New York City when she ran across an ad about Marks & Co. and wrote to the shop in 1949. Doel wrote back, and thus began a long-distance friendship, not just with Doel, but with other Marks & Co. staff members as well.

Over the next 20 years, Hanff exchanged Christmas packages and birthday gifts with her British friends. But it was her friendship with Doel that seemed to grow into something more.

Although Hanff always planned to visit Doel at Marks & Co., she didn’t get there until it was too late. Doel died in December 1968 and the bookstore eventually closed. In 1970, Hanff ’s book 84 Charing Cross Road was published.

In 1971, Hanff did visit 84 Charing Cross Road and the empty book shop. She described this scene in another book, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, that she wrote in 1973.

Though Hanff ’s book and the resulting film and stage play aren’t well-known, her fans are truly devoted. They still visit 84 Charing Cross Road to see the building that housed the shop, which is marked with a plaque that tells its history.

Savannah Community Theatre is presenting the stage version of 84 Charing Cross Road Nov. 9 through Dec. 2. “I pick the shows based on what I think the audience is going to be,” Director Tom Coleman says.

“There is pretty much a niche for everyone.

With this one, I’m looking at the 40 and over crowd.”

After seeing the film version, Coleman ordered the script for 84 Charing Cross

Top, Renee DeRossett; below, Jeffery Hall

Road. “I really think this is a great story, and I loved the fact that it’s true,” he says.

“Everyone who read it said, ‘This is great.”

Not that the play has been easy to produce. “The theater is a small space and there are three settings -- her apartment, the book shop and all the locations outside,” Coleman says. “I had to sit down and block it piece by piece.”

The strength of the play is that the characters are interesting, Coleman says.

“Everyone says it’s a love story,” he says.

“He’s married and they never meet, yet their relationship grows.

“I told the actors they have to show it throughout the play,” he says. “He’s very proper and she’s a crazy Brookliner. All his letters are addressed to ‘Miss Hanff ’ while she calls him ‘Frankie.’

“Eventually, he begins signing his letters as ‘Frank,’ then ‘Yours, Frank,’” Coleman says. “The very last letter he wrote before he died was signed, ‘Love, Frank.’”

Coleman is directing a cast of 16, including four children who alternate in two roles.

Renee DeRossett plays Helene Hanff, and Jeffery Hall is Frank Doel.

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“I was coming back to Savannah every weekend,” Hall says. “I started doing Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire? (a dinner theater production also put on by Savannah Community Theatre). Finally, I said, ‘I miss my friends, I miss my life’ and knew it was time to move back.”

Since he’s been back, Hall has done nothing but acting. “I’m really excited about this show,” he says. “But when Tommy asked me to do the show, I said, ‘Are you out of your mind?’

“It’s really fun working with Renee,” Hall says. “The rest of the cast is fun and supporting. I hit the ground running. I rehearse all day and night. I haven’t had time to enjoy coming home, but I’m so much happier.”

Hall believes audiences will love 84 Charing Cross Road as much as he does.

“It’s a really good solid show,” he says.

“Considering the subject matter, people might think it’s boring. It’s absolutely not boring.”

“It’s something everyone would love,” DeRossett says. “There’s something for everyone in it. A lot of people probably never heard of it, but it is quite a piece.”

“If you’re looking for something with a very nice story, this is it,” Coleman says. “It’s funny and a little poignant. It’s an uplifting way to spend two hours. It’s not noisy and loud -- it’s pretty.” w Savannah Community Theatre will present 84 Charing Cross Road on Nov. 9, 10, 16, 17, 20 and 30 and Dec. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinees will be presented Nov. 18 and 25 at 3 p.m. Tickets for all Thursday performances are $10, tickets for Friday and Saturday are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 55 and up and $15 for students and children, and $15 for all Sunday performances. Call 898-9021. The theater is located at 2160 E. Victory Dr. For information or to purchase tickets online, visit www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com.

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“It’s a beautiful story,” DeRossett says.

“It’s a little different from anything I’ve ever done.”

Although the play is a drama, Hanff ’s character brings a lot of humor. “She is so intelligent, but she has wit and a sense of humor,” DeRossett says.

The part isn’t an easy one. “I do have a million lines,” DeRossett says. “It’s so difficult to learn because it’s so moving. I’ve never experienced anything like it before.”

Over the 20 years the play covers, the characters grow. “They go through change and evolve,” DeRossett says. “The way Tom is staging it is so beautiful. He is very passionate about the piece.

“We’re going to take the audience on a journey through that 20 years,” DeRossett says. “When I first looked at the script, I could feel the personality and beauty in it.”

DeRossett has enjoyed working with Hall. “He’s extraordinary,” she says. “The women are going to love him. He’s a beautiful man.”

Hall, a director and actor who recently returned to his hometown of Savannah, has the challenge of transforming Doel. “He’s a very reserved British bookseller,” Hall says.

“His lie is such a very boring life.

“Then he receives a letter from this wacky woman in New York,” Hall says.

“They start a correspondence and you can see him start to loosen up. Eventually, they are maybe more than friends. It’s nothing sexual, just emotional.”

Playing a staid, reserved character is a change for Hall. “I’m a guy who does comedy,” he says.”Helene’s role is comedic, but Frank’s is serious.

“This is the first time I don’t have any gags or laugh lines,” Hall says. “I’ve had to really put myself into this one. I thought, ‘I’m really going to have to act.’”

Hall has been appearing in local theater productions for 15 years. He recently moved back to Savannah from Swainsboro, where he promoted Vidalia onions for National Onion Labs Inc.

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Ever since 1990’s one-two punch of GoodFellas and Miller’s Crossing, it’s been mostly downhill for the mob movie, and even acclaimed efforts like Donnie Brasco and The Godfather Part III couldn’t light my fire (and, despite the insistence of friends over the years, I have yet to be stirred enough to tackle six seasons of The Sopranos). And make no mistake: What’s offered in American Gangster isn’t particularly fresh, as it’s yet one more tale about a confident crime figure who rises to the top before taking that inevitable plunge down the elevator shaft. Yet for all its familiar trappings, director Ridley Scott and writer Steven Zaillian invest their tale with plenty of verve, even if they frequently soft-pedal the deeds of their real-life protagonist. Denzel Washington, perhaps our most charismatic actor, has been charged with bringing Frank Lucas to the screen, and, as expected, he turns the Harlem kingpin into a magnetic menace, a self-starter who, after serving as an apprentice to bigwig Bumpy Johnson (Clarence Williams III) throughout the 1960s, becomes a millionaire by eliminating the middle man in the drug trade, thereby infuriating the

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Is there anything more depressing than the senseless death of a child? In the real world, perhaps not; in Reservation Road, plenty. For starters, it’s depressing to note that director Terry George elected to follow his powerful Hotel Rwanda with this simple-minded melodrama. It’s also depressing to note that this film largely wastes the talents of not one but two Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino. And finally, it’s depressing when a strong premise is compromised by lazy plotting and cop-out resolutions.

Based on John Burnham Schwartz’s novel (with Schwartz co-writing the screenplay with George), Reservation Road starts with

Italians who are used to being at the apex of this particular food chain. American Gangster could easily have been called American Capitalist or American Dreamcatcher -- it’s a Horatio Alger tale shot up with heroin -- but perhaps sensing that Lucas’ fine qualities might likely overshadow the fact that he’s selling death to his own people (only one sequence hammers home the horrors brought about by Lucas’ exploits), Scott and Zaillian offer up a standard movie hero in Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), the honest cop tasked with busting open the New York/Jersey drug racket. Roberts could have come across as a cardboard saint, but thanks to Crowe’s deft underplaying, he’s an interesting figure and strikes a nice counterbalance to the more dynamic Frank Lucas. American Gangster is long but not overlong -- its 160 minutes are well spent -- and while it never achieves the epic grandeur of, say, The Godfather (for one thing, the real-life denouement prohibits any Scarface-style theatrics), it manages to pump a measure of respect back into a genre that thrives on it.

a young boy being struck and killed by an SUV. The driver is the distracted but decent Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo), who panics after accidentally hitting the lad and flees from the scene. The victim’s dad is Ethan Learner (Joaquin Phoenix), who witnesses the tragedy firsthand but doesn’t get a good look at the driver. Dwight struggles with his overwhelming guilt while Dwight tries to console his grieving wife (Connelly) and their other child (Elle Fanning) -- so far, so moving. But buying into the notion that every city outside of LA and NYC is the size of Mayberry, Reservation Road then takes a wrong turn by having Dwight’s ex-wife (Sorvino) coincidentally be the music instructor present at the boy’s funeral -- and then grows even more absurd when Ethan

turns to a law firm for help and gets assigned -- God help the storytellers -- Dwight as his counsel. It’s all downhill from here, as Ethan turns vigilante (when he sets off to purchase a gun, we half-expect him to bump into Jodie Foster on the way out) in order for the film to end as predictably as we feared it might.

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Hot from helming last year’s After the Wedding (an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film), Danish director Susanne Bier returns with her first film in the English language. But if there was any worry that Bier was “going Hollywood,” this

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somber and mature the thin plot, though it’s drama immediately sturdy enough to funcquells that notion. tion as a support beam Bier’s steady hand to director Julie Taymor’s behind the camera is outlandish ideas. Taking enough to overcome place in the late 1960s, CARMIKE 10 the flaws in Allan the story, credited to 511 Stephenson Ave. • 353-8683 Loeb’s script, which Taymor and the team of American Gangster, Bee Movie, relates the story of a Dick Clement and Ian La Saw 4, Martian Child, 30 Days pair of adults whose Frenais (the blokes reof Night, Gone Baby Gone, lives have been alsponsible for the smashNightmare Before Christmas, tered by a personal ing Irish R&B flick The tragedy. Audrey Commitments), finds Game Plan, Across the Universe Burke (Halle Berry) Liverpool laborer Jude has just lost her (Jim Sturgess) traveling REGAL EISENHOWER sweet-natured husto America, whereupon 1100 Eisenhower Dr. • 352-3533 band Brian (David he finds a best friend Dan in Real Life, The Comebacks, Duchovny, seen in college kid Max (Joe Elizabeth: Golden Age, Why Did in extensive flashAnderson) and a lover I Get Married, Rendition, Things backs) in a shootin Max’s kid sister Lucy We Lost in the Fire ing, while Brian’s best (Evan Rachel Wood). friend Jerry Sunborne Eventually, the three (Benicio Del Toro) end up in New York, at REGAL SAVANNAH 10 has long blown a which point Jude devel1132 Shawnee St. • 927-7700 promising career as a ops his passion for drawAmerican Gangster, Bee Movie, lawyer due to the aling, Max gets drafted Martian Child, Saw 4, 30 Days of lure of hard drugs. into the army, and Lucy Night, Game Plan, Into the Wild Audrey has always finds her political condisliked Jerry, but for sciousness awakened. various vague reasons The kids experience good VICTORY SQUARE 9 -- perhaps to cope times (a cross-country 1901 E. Victory • 355-5000 with her loneliness, bus trip, chaperoned by American Gangster, Why Did I perhaps as a gesture Bono’s Dr. Robert) and Get Married, Bee Movie, Lions toward her late husbad times (riots aplenty), for Lambs, P-2, Saw 4, Martian band -- she invites yet through it all, they Child, Fred Claus him to move into the realize that “all you need family’s garage. In his is love,” and that anynew (and nicer) surthing is possible “with WYNNSONG 11 roundings, Jerry does a little help from my 1150 Shawnee St. • 920-1227 his best to stay clean, friends.” Combining the Dan in Real Life, Nightmare filling up much of his song sampling technique Before Christmas, Elizabeth: time by bonding with of Moulin Rouge with Golden Age, Rendition, The Audrey’s two children Forrest Gump’s journey Comebacks, Things We Lost in the (Alexis Llewellyn and through the turbulent Fire, Why Did I Get Married, We Micah Berry). But his 60s (and owing reams to Own the Night, Michael Clayton, presence only seems Hair as well), Across the Sea Monsters, Resident Evil to rankle Audrey, Universe dramatizes the who remains unpast while also serving able to deal with the notice to the present (the Daily movie times death of her husband.

Vietnam War material available at Bier, one of the discican’t help but stir images connectsavannah.com ples of the Dogme 95 of Iraq). style of moviemaking Dan in Real (basically, a Danish movement that insists on no employment Life 1/2 of movie artifice like special effects and You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll sing! You’ll soundtracks and maximum use of natural reflect! The trailer doesn’t lie: Dan In Real light, hand-held cameras, etc.), has retained Life wants to offer it all -- a fine sentiment some of her European filmmaking instincts when a movie can pull it off, an example of to cut down on the melodrama inherent in trying too hard when it doesn’t. Dan In Real Loeb’s screenplay. She doesn’t always sucLife falls somewhere in the middle: There ceed but for the most part, she keeps the exare individual scenes that work nicely, even cess in check, which in turn leads to scenes if the finished product doesn’t produce the that are even more powerful thanks to their flood of emotions one might have reasonsubtlety. Berry does fine work in a rather ably expected. Writer-director Peter Hedges, difficult role, yet it’s Del Toro’s staggering whose past scripts (including About a Boy performance that will have tongues wagging and Pieces of April) were far more fine-tuned throughout award season. to the give-and-take dynamics of testy relationships between people, soft-pedals this Across the Universe material, offering a warm and fuzzy tale of 1/2 a popular newspaper writer (Steve Carell) Not simply a good movie; it’s one of the continued on page 36 best films of the year. One can nitpick about

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whose column, “Dan In Real Life,” offers practical advice that he can’t seem to apply to his own life. A widower with three daughters, Dan travels to Rhode Island for the annual family get-together with his parents (Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney), his siblings and their significant others. He falls for Marie (Juliette Binoche), a Frenchwoman he meets in a book store, only to be devastated when he learns that she’s the present girlfriend of his brother Mitch (Dane Cook). As Marie tries to sort out her feelings and Dan suffers in silence, the other family members parade through the story offering their own nuggets of advice to the downtrodden columnist. It’s nice to see this normal a family on screen, but the movie pays a price for its politeness, since there’s never any sense that feelings might be hurt or egos bruise.

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Beyond one terrific and mesmerizing action sequence, We Own the Night, set in 1988 New York City, is another example of (crime) business as usual. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is a nightclub manager at odds with his brother Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and his father Burt (Robert Duvall), both respected police officers.

Circumstances force Bobby to become even more estranged from his family, but that all changes when a powerful drug dealer (Alex

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Veadov) orders a hit on Joseph. The young cop barely survives, but this spurs Bobby to choose sides in the fight between law and disorder. He falls squarely on the side of right, risking his own life for the sake of his family. Phoenix and Wahlberg (who previously co-starred in Gray’s The Yards and serve as producers here) are solid but unremarkable, and even a great actor like Duvall can’t do much with his threadbare role.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age 

Like most sequels, Elizabeth 2 proves to be markedly inferior to its predecessor.

Here, Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) must cope with an assassination plot approved by the jailed Mary Stuart (an effective Samantha Morton) and the King of Spain (Jordi Molla, whose sneering turn would be more at home in a Monty Python spoof). At the same time, she grows fond of the rakish explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (a coasting Clive Owen), leading to a romantic subplot nearly identical to the one already presented more zestfully by Bette Davis and Errol Flynn in 1939’s The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Rush returns as Walsingham, but his role has been neutered and therefore his services are largely wasted. And while Blanchett delivers another first-rate performance, she’s ultimately defeated by a languorous script that makes court intrigue about as exciting as jury duty.

Rendition 

A perceived Oscar contender that instead should prove to be an Oscar also-ran, follows United 93, In the Valley of Elah and several other post-9/11 titles that tackle the immediacy and anguish of the troubled world in which we live; here, the topic on hand is “extraordinary rendition,” which allows the U.S. government to send suspected terrorists to other countries in order to be “interrogated.” Reese Witherspoon plays

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Isabella, a pregnant suburban mom whose Egyptian-born, U.S.-raised husband (Omar Metwally) has disappeared without a trace, snatched at the Washington, D.C. airport for his suspected part in a bombing that killed a CIA operative. The U.S. government’s evidence is feeble, but foaming-at-the-mouth Senator Whitman (Meryl Streep, not particularly effective) decides that’s all the proof she needs to ship him off to be subjected to all manner of pain. The American analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) assigned to preside over the torture finds the treatment shocking, especially since it’s clear the man’s innocent; meanwhile, Isabella seeks help from a former college fling (Peter Sarsgaard), who just happens to be the assistant to a senator (Alan Arkin) who works closely with Whitman.

Gone Baby Gone 1/2

The days of laughing at Ben Affleck appear to be over. As anyone who’s seen his accomplished work in Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting and Hollywoodland can attest, the man has talent, even if it’s of a limited nature. That talent apparently exists on the other side of the camera as well. With his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, he ably demonstrates that he can turn out a compelling drama that’s absorbing and surprising. The mystery unfolds in a working-class Boston neighborhood in which a child proves to be the victim of tragic circumstances. In this new film, a little girl is snatched from her home, and the family, not content with the investigation being conducted by the police, hires private investigators Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) to track down the missing moppet.

Into the Wild 

Despite (or, in some cases, because of) his meticulous Method madness, Sean Penn’s performances -- even the fine ones -

- can best be described as overwrought. But place the actor behind the camera, and the opposite holds true. And with each passing film (The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, The Pledge), it’s clear that his confidence and comfort level have grown at a startling rate. Given this maturation, it’s no surprise that Into the Wild finds Penn turning in his best directorial effort to date.

Adapting Jon Krakauer’s based-on-fact novel, he has fashioned a somber, reflective film about a young man whose actions are so open to interpretation that where some will see an idealistic dreamer, others will see an obnoxious brat; where some will see a martyr, others will see a moron.

Emile Hirsch delivers a strong performance as Chris McCandless, a well-to-do college graduate who, instead of following the distinguished career path laid out for him by his parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden), elects to donate all his savings to charity and head for the wilderness. Determined to leave society behind, he treks all over North America’s untamed terrain, finding himself as far south as Mexico and as far north as Alaska. But while Chris (who has since renamed himself Alexander Supertramp) may think he has little use for humankind, he finds he still can benefit from the kindness and occasional company of particular people. He meets a wide range of interesting individuals during his travels, among them an elderly man (Hal Holbrook) who engages in philosophical debates with the lad, a Midwestern farmer (Vince Vaughn) who offers him practical advice, and a hippie couple (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker, a real-life river guide making the year’s best acting debut) who view him as a surrogate son. Into the Wild is especially memorable in the manner in which it offers no absolutes. Functioning as a bookend piece to Werner Herzog’s excellent documentary Grizzly Man, it demonstrates that nature is as beastly as it is beautiful, and even noble aspirations run the risk of getting trampled under its imposing weight. w

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

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets the first and third Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Chinatown Buffet, 307 Highway 80 in Garden City. Purchase of a meal gets you

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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 continued on page 38

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

Chatham County Democratic Party meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. at 109 W. Victory Dr. Call Karen Arms at 897-1300 or David Bonorato at 9217039 or visit www.chathamdems.com.

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Children’s Museum Community Forums The Coastal Heritage Society is seeking community input on its plans for a new children’s museum for ages 2-10. A meeting will be held Nov. 17 at 10 a.m. at AASU University Hall Room 157. Contact CHS Education Specialist Beth Parr at bparr@ chsgeorgia.org or 663-7466.

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

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Project Hot Seat Stop global warming with Greenpeace. Call 704-7472 for information.

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 Area Young Republicans Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528 or visit www.savannahyr.com.

Savannah Branch NAACP For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah for Obama is a grassroots organization that is interested in raising local awareness for presidential candidate Barack Obama. The group meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 109 W. Victory Dr. at the corner of Victory and Barnard Street. For information, contact b_frigo@hotmail.com or 748-7114.

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Wipe Out Wireless Waste Keep Savannah Beautiful and the City of Savannah Community Planning and Development Department are sponsoring a wireless recycling program. Citizens are urged to drop off their used wireless phones at the Community Planning and Development office, 2203 Abercorn St. Participate or coordinate a drive in your neighborhood, church, school business and organization. For info, contact Nathaniel Glover at 651-6520.

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History Theatre will hold ongoing auditions for its production Let My People Go, a spirited musical and history of slavery in Savannah. The ensemble cast requires eight actors-singers -- two black males ages 40-60 and 20-30, two black women ages 40-60 and 14-20, two white males ages 30-40, and two boys, one white, one black, ages 7-10. Script and sheet music will be provided -- don’t prepare an audition piece. Auditions are by appointment. Call 786-6384.

Little Theatre of Savannah will hold auditions for Inspecting Carol on Monday, Nov. 26 and Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. It will run Jan. 10-27, with

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Read these lines

by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Block and Stephen Mitchell: “A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That’s why my feelings always come in twos.” Draw inspiration from this passage. Rather than experiencing the riddles and contradictions of your life merely as painful schisms, think of them also as mysterious unifications.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): During the lead up to Pennsylvania’s election of a U.S. Senator in 2006, the leftist Green Party in Pennsylvania tried hard to get its candidate on the ballot. Facing almost insurmountable odds to raise the necessary funds, it turned to an unlikely source: conservative Republicans, who gladly and fiendishly contributed money in the hope that the Green Party’s nominee would siphon votes away from their far more viable competitor, the Democratic candidate. I expect you may be able to pull off a similar coup in the coming weeks, Taurus: getting an adversary or opponent to aid and abet your cause.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you have a pet pig? If so, it’ll be a good week to imitate what Homer Simpson did in *The Simpsons Movie*: Hold your animal friend upside-down and help it simulate the act of creeping along the ceiling, all the while singing a “Spiderpig” version of the Spiderman theme song. And if none of that seems meaningful or relevant to you, please at least try to induce a lucid dream of yourself crawling along the inside of the vault in the Sistine Chapel, or hauling your luggage across the underside of a cloud, or gliding as slowly as a sloth out to the end of a big limb on an oak tree. You need action that’s simultaneously high up and reversed, Gemini. You’ve got to be grounded yet rebellious as you soar. Or you need to defy gravity as you take baby steps. Or something like that.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Though Wales is at the

rehearsals Nov. 28 through Jan. 9. There are roles for one male and female in their 60s, three males and females in their 40s, one male in his 30s, one African-American male in his 30s, one male in his teens through 20s and one boy of 11. Visit www.littletheatreofsavannah.org.

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9th Annual Fall Down Classic PuttPutt Tournament will be held Thursday, Nov. 15 at Hole-NOne Family Fun Center, 204 Mall Blvd.

Practice rounds, registration and a barbecue dinner will be held from 5:30-6:45 p.m. with a shot-gun start at 7 p.m. The cost is $75 for a two-person team. Must be 21 or older. All proceeds will benefit programs of Senior Citizens, Inc. To register, call 236-0363.

2007 Home for the Holidays Coastal Pet Rescue’s program is designed to find homes for homeless pets for the holidays. This year’s event runs through Jan. 2.

On Nov. 25, a kick-off reception will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Murphy’s Law Irish Pub. The $25 in advance or $30 at the door cost includes your choice of dinner, salad, dessert and wine.On Nov. 10 at 2 p.m., the Savannah Heat Motorcycle & Music Festival will feature live music and food and drink.

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are now available. Two versions are available, one with male models and the other with female models, all of whom work with Southside Fire/EMS. Proceeds will help victims of fires. Call 354-1011.

American Legion Turkey Shoot American Legion Post No. 184 on Rowland Avenue in Thunderbolt holds a turkey shoot every Friday and Saturday from 7-10 p.m. from October to January. For 12-gauge shotguns only. Pirzes include Boston butts, Canadian bacon and hams. All proceeds benefit the troops.

Annual Blaket Drive Kick-off will be held Nov. 9 from 7-10 a.m. at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, 2749 Skidaway Rd. Senior Citizens, Inc. is collecting new blankets and donations to help keep area seniros warm while reducing their utility bills this winter. Everyone who donates a blanket or $10 toward the purchase of a blanket will receive a coupon for a dozen doughnuts. After the kick-off, donations can be made at 3025 Bull St. Donate Old Cell Phones United Way’s Hands On Savannah is seeking used cell phones to raise funds for projects and programs. Donate at the United Way offices at 428 Bull St. or call 651-7725 for bulk pick-up.

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same latitude as Siberia, it’s free of frigid tundra. Still, its climate isn’t exactly balmy. Cool, cloudy, damp days are common. That’s why Welsh horticulturalists cheered with shocked exultation last summer, when three outdoor banana plants produced fruit at the National Botanical Garden. It was an unprecedented miracle. I predict a comparable development for you, Cancerian.

A source that has never been more than lukewarm will get downright tropical. An influence that has been inhospitable to your passion will become fertile and welcoming. As a result, you will bloom in a way you never have before.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A British study revealed that the average man spends a full six months of his life staring at women in a slack- jawed trance of frustrated desire,” reported *The Week* magazine.

That’s the bad news. The good news? The omens suggest you have an extraordinary capacity right now to break any slack-jawed trance of frustrated desire you’ve been oppressed by. That’s true whether you’re a hetero man or any other kind of Leo. So identify the sad, unrequited longing that evokes your most poignant disappointment, and rise up to overthrow it. You’ve got the power to declare your independence.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, who was the supreme commander of U.S. troops in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004, thinks his government has made tragic mistakes. Citing “a catastrophically flawed war plan,” he said, “There has been a glaring display of incompetent strategic leadership from our national leaders.” Sanchez is your role model for the coming week, Virgo. I hope he inspires you to do one of three things: (1) raise a critique of a group or institution you’ve been an instrumental part of; (2) rebel against the faulty execution of an idea you support; (3) put your service to moral truth above blind loyalty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It will be a good week to build your spiritual prowess by dancing on burning embers without getting scorched, by smashing bricks with your forehead without getting a headache, or by parachuting out of a plane without scaring yourself to death. But there are other, less physical ways to jolt yourself into a higher state of awareness; you don’t need to risk injury in order to boost your ability to see the big picture. For example, you could push through the terror you feel about asking for what you really want. You could overcome your fear of being honest with people you care about. You could stride into a place where you once experienced a defeat, and take the forceful action necessary to render that loss irrelevant.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I believe that doing the challenging assignments I’m about to describe will put you in alignment with cosmic rhythms, and make it more likely that you will attract grace and synchronicity into your life. You are, of course, under no obligation to carry them out. That’s because you have free will, and are always at liberty to choose a path that leads you away from grace and synchronicity. With that as a caveat, here are the roles I believe you should play in the coming week if you’d like to thrive: a catalytic X-factor; a tender wild card; a friendly shocker; a nonviolent bombshell; an agent provocateur who loves all you survey.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You now have a talent for seeing what has been invisible. You’re good at ferreting out secrets and uncovering hidden agendas.

In fact, you can generate good fortune for yourself by articulating the confusing truths and unconscious feelings that have been simmering in the shadows.

There’s another task for which you have an exceptional aptitude, Sagittarius: drawing long-term cycles to a graceful finish. You have the power to climax meandering dramas that have been resistant to closure; you can find resolution where everyone said there could only be messy ambiguity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An atheist won’t be elected President of the United States anytime soon.

Polls show that every other minority is viewed more favorably than the God-is-a-fraud crowd. I think that’s a shame. Even though I myself am a big fan of the Creator, I’m sure She loves cynics who don’t believe in her just as much as She loves the most pious worshipers. Furthermore, I suspect that Her good will is sorely tested by the “religious” fanatics who spread hatred in Her name. So what does this have to do with your current horoscope?

This: My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you’d be wise to do as I just did, which is to declare your support for people whose ideas you disagree with.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Last week, my STARmeter ranking on the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) shot up 56 percent. I don’t know why.

Maybe the movie I helped make in the 1990s finally got distributed in Eastern Europe or something. Even if you’ve never been involved in the motion picture industry, Aquarius, I’m betting your unofficial STARmeter will soon zoom up, too. The astrological omens suggest it may even be time for your 15 minutes of fame. At the very least, you’ll find yourself in the spotlight or rising in the popularity polls or gossiped about twice as much as usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Arctic is heating up faster than the rest of the planet. As the ice melts, the far north’s oil, natural gas, and diamonds are becoming more accessible to greedy humans. Russia has already planted its flag on the sea floor, hoping to lay claim to territory that has belonged to no one in particular up until now. Canada, America, and Denmark have also become players in this modern land grab. I predict that you will soon be dealing with a situation that has metaphorical resemblances to this development. Frozen assets will become available, and several parties will be caught up in a rush to appropriate them. If you truly believe you’d make best use of those riches, by all means formulate an aggressive action plan immediately. w

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| Happenings Xi Delta Chi Sorority’s Annual Thrift Sale will be held Saturday, Nov. 10 from 8 a.m. to noon in the YMCA cafeteria at the Old Tybee School. Donations of items are sought. For pick-up, call Nancy at 786-8205, Wanda at 898-0907 or Sandy at 897-4174.

Call for Entries

Anything Pecan Bake-Off This cooking competition will be held during the Cane Grinding and Harvest Festival Nov. 10 at Oatland Island Wildlife Center. Categories are adults over 18, teens 12-18, parent or grandparent and child teams, and a cane syrup category. Prizes will be awarded, and contestants will be admitted free. Entry forms must be submitted by Nov. 9. Call 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland. org/events.

Home and Heart Warming Program The United Way of the Coastal Empire is taking applications for this Atlanta Gas Light Co. program. United Way was given a grant to be used to help low-income homeowners with free repair or replacement of gas appliances, such as hot water heaters, furnaces, space heaters and stoves. Qualified customers also can apply for free weatherization of their homes. The program is open to residents of Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Glynn counties. Call 651-7730.

Classes

5th Annual Sycamore at the Stadium Baseball Camp will be held for boys and girls ages 7 to 18 on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 11 from 2-5 p.m. at Bethesda Boys Home. Register a camper by emailing the child’s name, age, parent’s name and phone number to freebase ballsavannah@yahoo.com.

700 Kitchen Cooking School will offer hands-on educational/entertaining cooking classes at the Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. The cost of each class is $90 per person. Call 238-5158 or visit http://www.700kitchen.com.

Adult Art Classes Adult clay, painting and drawing classes as well as youth/teen art and clay classes are being offered at Caros Art & Clay Studio

by Carolyne Graham, certified art teacher.

Classes continue through Dec. 5. Call 9257393, 925-5465 or carolynegraham@aol.com for fees and times.

The Art School Classes are offered throughout the school year for 6-8 year olds, 9-12 year olds, teens and adults. The Art of Photography for ages 9-12 is a new offering this year. Tuition includes professional art supplies. Adult art classes are held Mondays from 9:30 a.m. to noon and Thursdays from 7-9 p.m.

Beginners are welcome. The Art School is located at 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd., No. B-2. For information, call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151.

Beading Classes Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. 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 is a free 16-week training program for men and women interested in gaining construction skills for career level jobs in construction. Earn a technical certificate of credit with no cost for trainingk, books or tools. Provided t hrough a collaboration of Chatham County, the Homebuilders Association of Savannah, Savannah Technical Eollege and Step Up Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative. To apply, 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.

Create a Legacy for Future Generations is a free satellite broadcast that will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. at local Edward Jones offices. Call 826-2694, 354-1812, 925-6608, 756-5113, 898-3691 or 748-6533.

Dream Circle This formulated technique for sorting out dreams is easy, meaningful and fun and can be taught in five minutes. It will be held monthly at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St., entrance on Macon Street. To register, e-mail adultenrichment@uusavannah.org of call 234-0980.

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.

Free Tax School Earn extra income after taking this course.

Flexible schedules, convenient locations. The class is free but there is a small fee for books.

Call 352-2862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

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. GED/adult literacy education is being offered Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m.

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.

Introduction to Mindfulness

Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life.

Beginner’s and experienced practitioners welcome. Ongoing weekly sessions held Monday from 6-7:30 p.m. at 313 E. Harris St. Call Cindy Beach, Buddhist nun, at 4297265 or cindy@alwaysoptions.com.

Legal Studies/Professional Development Classes will be offered by AASU at the Liberty Center in Hinesville. Call 927-5213.

Oatland Island Wildlife Center has a new name, but still offcers environmental education programs and weekend events. It is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. www.oatlandisland.org.

Painting and Spirituality Workshop is held every Wednesday from 10-11 a.m. at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Free and open to the public. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring whatever supplies you would like to use. Call 352-4400.

Playshop: Magnifying Your Ideas is a workshop with artist Barbara Gentry that will be presented by the Savannah Art Association on Nov. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 3025 Bull St. The cost is $10 for members and $25 for non-members.

Registration is required. Call 598-8217 or visit www.savannahart.net.

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

SCAD Savannah Entrepreneurial Center offers a variety of business classes. It is located 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.

Sewing Lessons Fabrika at 140 Abercorn St. offers adult classes in: Beginner Sewing: Using a Pattern -- Skirt or Totebag; Intro to Kids’ Clothing; and Drafting Your Own Skirt or Totebag.

Group classes start in September. Private lessons are available. Visit www.fabrikasavannah.com or call 236-1122.

Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program This 12-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance. Call Mindy Saunders at 234-0525.

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only), medium-sized gloves, batteries and flashlights with hook-on belt loops, handheld can openers, puppy training pads, canned tuna and mackeral, KFC coupons specifically for chicken-only buckets, bath sheets and beach towels, blankets and buckets to hold supplies for trappers.

Contact Sherry Montgomery at 351-4151 or sherry@coastalpetrescue.org.

Habitat for Humanity Work Day will be held Nov. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wear close-toed shoes and bring your own lunch and drinks. Call Cassie at 2337787.

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.

Looking for 35mm Analog Cameras A non-profit that teaches photography to atrisk yout is seeking donations of old 35mm Analog SLR cameras, darkroom equipment, other camera equipment and black and white film. Call Anthony Faris at 224-8296.

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.

Ronald McDonald House An open house will be held at the Ronald McDonald House, the home away from home for families of hospitalized children, every second and fourth Monday from 45 p.m. through Dec. 24. Take a tour, ask questions, have a bite to eat. The house is located at 4710 Waters Ave. on the campus of Memorial Hospital.

Savannah Heat Motorcycle Music Festival will be held Saturday, Nov. 10 from 2 p.m to 2 a.m. at Cafe Loco, Lazaretto Creek on Tybee Island. Bands including Argyle, Keith & Ross, Train Wrecks, Listen 2 Three, Phamtom Wingo and Street Circus Symphony will perform. Motorcycles from Savannah Harley-Davidson and Low country Customs will be displayed.

Admission is $5, with a portion of proceeds benfitting Coastal Pet Rescue. Donations of pet supplies for the shelter will be accepted.

Visit www.savheat.com.

Tea for Tutus Savannah Danse Theatre will hold its annual fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 17 at The Tea Room, 7 E. Broughton St. Meet characters from The Nutcracker in Savannah. The first seating is at 10 a.m. and the second is at 11 a.m. The cost is $15 per person. Call 898-8130.

Wishbones for Pets will hold its annual supply drive through Nov. 30. At Home Pet Sitters in Savannah will sponsor Coastal Pet Rescue for this year’s Wishbones for Pets. Businesses interested in collecting donations can contact Cathi Denham at 713-6579 or Lisa Scarbrough at 351-4151.

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Thinking of Starting a Business is a workshop that will be offered Thursday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40 in advance or $50 at the door. Call 651-3200 or visit www.savannah.org.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers Beach Discovery and marsh walks.

Aquarium hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Monday, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children, ages 3016. Senior, military and AAA discounts are available.

Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

Volunteer 101 A 30-minute course that covers issues to help volunteers get started is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www.

HandsOnSavannah.org.

Clubs

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5 Bewildered response 6 Request in the lyrics of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 7 Org. for Andy Roddick 8 Where “I” can’t be found, it’s said 9 Scurrilous 10 Long locks 11 Prejudices 12 What this grid may bring out 13 How some get paid 14 Wedding vow sites 16 Lang. you speak 24 Pleasant feeling, in reggae songs 25 Largo or presto, e.g.

27 Ayn Rand title word 28 Sucked big time 33 Some neckwear 34 Scott Baio role 35 Drug enterprises 36 Butt 37 Search for buried treasure 38 Prez on the penny 39 Pervasive 40 Chocolate candy brand from Germany 41 “My Life” singer Iris 46 X Games skateboarder Bucky 48 Krispy ___ 50 Say it ain’t so 51 Prefix for meter 53 Bell competitor, back in the day 54 Slugger Mel 55 Half of 20-across 56 Not ‘neath 57 Place to find a stud?

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

Activities include book discussions, movie screenings, role playing game sessions, board and card games, guest speakers, episode marathons and armor demonstrations. Provides guest speakers to educators upon request.

Call Michael at 220-8129, send e-mail to lightmagus@yahoo.com or mccauln1981@ hotmail.com. or visit http://aasuscifi. proboards105.com/index.cgi.

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

Buccaneer Region SCCA is the local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America. It hosts monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. Visit http:// buccaneerregion.org/solo.html.

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

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

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

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

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of

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

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Coastal MINIs is a group of local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Starbucks in the 12 Oaks Shopping Center on Abercorn St. to meet other MINI owners and go on motoring adventures together. Visit coastalminis.com.

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.

Cuyler-Brownsville Neighborhood Association Awards Banquet The 9th annual awards banquet will be held Friday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. at the L. Scott Stell, Jr. Christian Education Fellowship Building, 1008 May St. Call Willie Mae Rodney at 3556572.

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 (except for November) at 6:30 p.m. at Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr. in Thunderbolt.

Open to all interested in boating and related activities. Call 234-1903 or visit www. geecheesailingclub.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA meets the second Thursday of every month from 5-7:30 p.m. at Tubby’s Restaurant. The cost is the price of the meal. Call 660-8257 for reservations.

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) Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting. Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:15-11:30 am at First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Call 8988316 or 898-5086 or visit www.mops.org.

No Kidding! is the area’s first social club for single and married adults who do not have children.

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

Philosophy Reading Group This group will focus on various philosophical themes and texts, culminating

The 411

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

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

Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at Tubby’s Tank House in Thunderbolt. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 3735571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail. com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@ comcast.net or 925-4709.

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 meets every fourth Monday of the month from September through May at 7:30 p.m. at Ryan’s restaurant on Stephenson Avenue.

It is an education organization dedicated to informing the public about current events in the world of dogs and those who love them.

Those wishing to eat before the meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier. For details, visit www.savannahkennelclub.org.

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

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

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

Savannah 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 locations will vary. Contact mickie_ragsdale@ comcast.net.

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

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

Savannah Ski and Adventure Club For snow-covered mountain-loving people and their friends. All are welcome. Meets for a wide variety of activities throughout the year. Meetings are held the third Tuesday of every month at rotating locations. Visit http://savannahskiclub.com.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the First City Club.

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.

Sweet Adeline Chorus rehearses weekly on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. in St. Joseph’s Hopsital’s meeting rooms. Contact vicky.mckinley1@comcast. net.

Telfair Academy Guild will meet Nov. 12 in the Jepson Center for the Arts Neises Auditorium. Jack Morris, of the Morris & Whiteside Galleries in Hilton Head, will speak on Collecting Art. New members are welcome. Call 598-4999.

Texas Hold ‘Em Tournaments Free poker tournaments are held every week in Savannah, Hinesville and

From the church that brought you the “God on Broadway” Worship Series

A s bu r y M e m o r i a l U M C Presents:

Sunday, November 11th “Green Sunday” For the Beauty of the Earth... and for survival.

(Everyone is encouraged to wear something green)

Check out our web site: www.asburymemorial.org www.asburymemorial.com • Corner of Henry St. & Waters Ave. • 233-4351, parking lot in back of building.

Statesboro. Free to play. Win prizes and gifts.

Visit www.GUTSHOTGA.com for details.

TriUnity Opportunity Meeting meets the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Best Western at I95 and 204. Learn how to start a business from home. Free. Ask for Chris and Sandy Benton.

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

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

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

The Young Professionals of Savannah An AfterHours networking social is held every third Thursday of the month. Visit www.ypsav.net, sign up for the e-newsletter and find out about other upcoming events, or call Leigh Johnson at 659-9846..

Dance

Adult Dance Classes in ballet, tap and hip-hop are offered at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. All levels and body types welcome. $12 per class or 8 classes for $90.

Beginner Adult Ballet is offered Tuesdays from 7:30-8:30 p.m., Intermediate Adult Ballet is offered Mondays from 6:45-7:45 p.m. and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m.; Intermediate/Advanced Adult Ballet is offered Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Hip-Hop is offered Tuesdays from 6:307:30 p.m. and Beginner Adult Tap is held Tuesdays from 7-8 p.m. There are a variety of youth classes for ages 3 to teen. Contact Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

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

Call 925-7416.

Auditions at the STUDIO will be conducted for male dancers age 14 to adult for the December performance of Swingin’ at Club Sweets. Dancers must be available for Saturday rehearsals. For an appointment, call 695-9149.

Ballroom Dance Party will be held Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The basic Tango lesson starts at 7 p.m. and the social dance is from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for non-members.

Beginners and singles welcome. Call 9619960 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

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in facilitated discussions with an open exchange of ideas within a community of inquiry. Meeting locations will change to reflect the current issue. Contact Kristina at 407-443-1571 or ktina697@hotmail.com.

PURE: Photographers Using Real Elements Join with other photographers and artists to celebrate the authentic photography processes of black and white film and paper development using chemicals in a darkroom. Help in the creation and promotion of Savannah’s first cooperative darkroom space to enhance the lives of working photographers and introduce the community to the magic of all classic photo chemical processes. Contact for next meeting time. Contact Kathleen Thomas at PUREdarkroom@gmail.com.

Revived Salon for Women Seeking Change In Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift of the Sea, she wrote, “How untidy my shell has become. Blurred with moss, knobby with barnacles, its shape is hardly recognizable any more. Surely it had a shape once. It has a shape still in my mind. What is the shape of my life?” If these words resonate with you and you are a woman over 50, this group offers bonding, laughter, discussion and fun.

Seating is limited. Call 236-8581 for info.

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

St. Almo The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meets at 5 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. (Time changes with the season.) Call 234-3336.

Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its 2007 Manufacturers and Distributors Appreciation Luncheon Wednesday, Nov. 14 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Armstrong Atlantic State Univresity’s Armstrong Center. The featured speaker is Graeme Macdonald, president of JCB, North America. Tickets are $30. Contact Heather Anderson at 644-6406 or handerson@savannahchamber.com.

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Spiva Law Group, 12020 Abercorn St. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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Nicola O’Hara at 305-756-8243 or send email to Dance@BreffniAcademy.com. Visit www.IrishDanceClasses.com..

C.C. Express Dance Team meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building.

Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731.

Disabled Ballroom Class are held at Memorial Health’s The Rehabilitation Institute, 4700 Waters Ave. The classes are free and open to anyone.

Contact Charleen Harden at 308-7307 or cwh0869@yahoo.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 is accepting registration for fall classes in tap, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics, jazz and hiphop for ages 3 and up. Adult tap classes are held Tuesday from 7:30-8:15 for beginners and Monday from 7:15-8 p.m. for intermediate. Call 897-4235 or email ggsod.com.

Home Cookin’ Cloggers meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning.

Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731.

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.

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

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

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

Swag-A-Polooza Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah will prsent this swing/shag dance event with a Jack and Jill Competition beginning Monday, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at The Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. It will continue each Monday in November.The entry fee is $7 per person per event. Winners will be awarded trophies. Visit www.shagbeachbop.com or call 927-4784 or 398-8784.

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The STUDIO Adult Beginner Ballet Class is being offered.

The STUDIO also is accepting new students 5 and up for the new season.

Contact Veronica at 695-9149. The STUDIO is located at 2805 Roger Lacey Ave. just off the intersection of Skidaway and Victory. Call Veronica at 695-9149 or visit ww.thestudiosav.com.

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

Fitness

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

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

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

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

Detox and De-Stress Easy and simple yoga followed by meditation, helping the body to throww off toxins and stress. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Suggested donation $5.

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.

Energy Share every first and third Friday of the month at a new integrated healing center located at 72nd and Sanders streets. Call Kylene at 713-3879.

Fountain of Youth Tibetan rites taught free every Tuesday and Friday at 7:30 a.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Ladies Livin Smart fitness club provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

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

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes are held Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Yoga Center, 25 E. 40th St. Infants must be 6 weeks to 6 months, pre-crawling. The cost is $13 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. The instructor is Betsy Boyd Strong. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 441-6653 or visit www. savannahyoga.com.

Moms in Motion A pre and post-natal exercise program is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing. The cost is $30 per month. Call 819-6463.

National Gymnastics Day Whitemarsh Island YMCA will host a free gymnastics open house on Saturday, Aug. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Appropriate for children 2 and up.

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

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

Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Savannah Yoga Center Through December, classes are: Monday, 8:15–9:15am Flow Yoga All Levels w/ Will, 9:45–11:15am HOT Yoga Level 1&2 w/ Christine, 11:45-12:45pm Community Iyengar Yoga w/ Lynne $6, 5:30-6:30pm Prenatal Yoga w/ Amanda, 7:00-8:00pm Mellow Yoga Flow w/ Christine; Tuesday, 6:45-8:15am Ashtanga Short Form w/ Lisa, 9:00-10:15am Community Flow Yoga w/ Lynne $9, 11:00-12:15pm Yoga Basics w/ Christine, 5:30-7:00pm HOT Ashtanga w/ Lisa and 7:15-8:15pm HOT Yoga Flow All levels w/ Christine; Wednesday, 8:15-9:15am Hatha Yoga Level 1 w/ Will, 10:30-11:45am Mommy and Baby Yoga w/ Betsy, 4:305:15p.m. Kids Yoga w/Amanda, 5:30-6:30 pm Yoga Basics w/ Kate and 6:45-8:00pm Flow Yoga All Levels w/ Kelley; Thursday, 8:15 –9:30am Gentle Yoga Basics w/ Betsy, 9:45-11:00am Level 1&2 Yoga w/ Will, 5:306:30pm Dynamic Flow Yoga All Levels w/ Kelley and 6:45-7:45pm Gentle Yoga Flow w/ Heather; Friday, 6:45-8:15am Ashtanga Short Form w/ Lisa, and 4:00-5:00pm HOT Flow Yoga Level 1&2 w/ Kate; Saturday, 11:00-12:30pm All Levels Yoga Flow w/ Christine; Sunday, 5:00-6:00pm Flow Yoga Level 1&2 w/ various teachers and 6:157:30pm Soul Movements Class w/ Dana D. Walk-in rate $13, Full Time Student w/ID $11, Active Military/Dependents w/ID $9, Seniors 60+ $9, Community Yoga Classes $6. 8 class card $85 (expires after 3 months), 12 class card $120 (expires after 4 months) and u nlimited monthly passes $75.

Located at 1321 Bull St., call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com Senior Power Hour is a program for people over 55. Health and wellness professionals help reach fitness goals. The program may include, but isn’t limited to, strength training, cardio for the heart, flexibility, balance, basic healthy nutrition and posture concerns. Call 8987714.

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Gay & Lesbian

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

Gay AA Meeting meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969.

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

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

Standout is First City’s gay youth support group.

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

Call 657-1966.

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

Health

Better Breathers of Savannah meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with the disease. For info, call Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@yahoo.com.

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

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

Delicious Healthy Eating for the Holidays will be presented Nov. 13 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

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

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

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

Flu shots will be offered Nov. 3 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

by St. Joseph’s/Candler. The cost is $25. Call 355-8456.

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

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

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

Free skin cancer screenings will be offered Friday, Nov. 9 at Southside YMCA. Appointments are necessary. Call 819-3368.

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes are being offered at the Family Health and Birth Center in Rincon. The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together, while providing a very integral role to the companion participating. Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. All types of births are welcome. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call The Birth Connection at 843-683-8750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

Looks and Fashions to Match Your Healthy Lifestyle will be presented Nov. 8 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Mammograms will be performed Nov. 13 at The Landings Club. For appointments, call 819-6800. SJ/C accepts most insurance plans. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

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

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

S.A.V.E. Screenings The Heart Hospital at St. Joseph’s/Candler will offer Stroke, Aneurysm and Vascular Evaluation screenings at the West Chatham YMCA in Pooler on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $119.

Appointments are required. Call 819-3360.

Pets & Animals

2007 Home for the Holidays Coastal Pet Rescue’s program is designed to find homes for homeless pets for the holidays. This year’s event runs through Jan. 2.

On Nov. 25, a kick-off reception will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Murphy’s Law Irish Pub. The $25 in advance or $30 at the door cost includes your choice of dinner, salad, dessert and wine.On Nov. 10 at 2 p.m., the Savannah Heat Motorcycle & Music Festival will feature live music and food and drink.

There is a $5 cover charge.

A Walk in the Park Pet services, including pet sitting, dog walking and housesitting, are offered.

Reasonable rates and responsible care for pets. Contact Lesley at 401-2211 or lesleycastle@gmail.com.

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.

Feral Cat Program Needs Supplies The Milton Project is seeking supplies, including small spice containers (plastic only), medium-sized gloves, batteries and flashlights with hook-on belt loops, handheld can openers, puppy training pads, canned tuna and mackeral, KFC coupons specifically for chicken-only buckets, bath sheets and beach towels, blankets and buckets to hold supplies for trappers.

Contact Sherry Montgomery at 351-4151 or sherry@coastalpetrescue.org.

Feral Cat Trap Loan Program The Milton Project is starting this program so that feral cats can be spayed or neutered. The deposit for the trap is $25 and is refunded at the time of return if the trap is cleaned and in good working condition. If the trap is damaged, replacement value is $65. The traps will be loaned out for 1 week at a time. Traps cannot be used for capturing feral cats for Animal Control or any other entity that may destroy them. Persons using the traps are responsible for the spay/neuter costs. Call 351-4151 or email traploan@ coastalpetrescue.org.

Free Dog Show Class will be offered Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in Daffin Park to help owners interested in showing their dogs. Call 238-3170.

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 continued on page 44

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Strength and Stretch This session is great for cross training in your workout routine and can be used to help athletes improve coordination and efficiency.

Call Spine & Sport at 898-7714.

Sunrise Boot Camp at Tybee Island will be held Monday through Friday from 6-7 a.m. Park in the North Beach parking lot and go over the first crossover. Bring a mat.

Conducted by Paul Butrym, certified personal trainer and ex-Marine. Three days of strength training and two days of cardio each week. The cost is $10 per class, $40 for the week or $75 for a four-week session. Call 6040611 or email pbutrym@comcast.net.

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

The Wisdom Center October 2007 Gourmet Yoga, Reiki and Movement Classes: Monday - 10:30-11:45 a.m. Never Too Old Beginner’s Yoga w/Lisa; Noon to 1 p.m.; Yoga Lunch Fix w/Lisa; 1:15-1:45pm Daily Lunch Meditation; 5:30-6: 30pm Yoga for a Healthy Back w/ Elaine. Tuesday - 9:30-10:30 am Yoga for Chocolate Lovers w/Dana; 11:30 to noon Daily Lunch Meditation; 5:30-6:30 pm Da Tonga (yoga, toning, dance) w/Elaine.

Wednesday - 11am to noon Big Girl Yoga w/ Dana; 1:15-1:45 pm Daily Lunch Meditation; 4:15-5:30 pm Gentlemen’s Karate w/Tony (12 week series). Thursday - 11:30 am to noon Daily Lunch Meditation; 2 -3 pm Life Coaching with Yoga for Couples w/Dana; 4:45-6 pm Belly Dancing w/Dawn. Friday - 11:30am to noon Daily Lunch Meditation; PM Yoga Couples Date Night (RSVP Only).

Saturday - 10-11 am Divine Yoga w/Ellen; 11:15 – 11 :45 am Meditation & Reiki w/ Ellen; 1 pm (Nov. 3 only) Flower Essences Workshop w/Ellen. Sunday - Classes coming soon. Option 1 membership $55 per month Regular. $65 Couples, $45 Students, Military, Seniors. Option 2 $105 Regular, $135 Couples, $95 Students, Military, Seniors.

Located at 40th & Drayton. Visit www.internationalcoach.org or call 236.3660.

The Yoga Room Monday: Mommy and Me from 3:30-5 p.m., Vinyasa all levels from 5-6:15 p.m., Open Flow all levels 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday: Open Flow all levels from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Yoga Flow Level I from 10-11:30 a.m., Open Floor all levels from 6:30-8 p.m., Thursday: Power Yoga from 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Friday: Yoga Flow Level I from 6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday: Yoga Flow Level I from 10-11:15 a.m., Power Yoga from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Sunday: Yoga Flow Level II from 5-6:30 p.m. Drop-ins welcome. Single class $12, class packages available. A student discount is offered. Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom. com or call 898-0361.

Yoga Teacher Training Institute A 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training program is offered at Savannah Yoga Center.

It meets Yoga Alliance standards, and graduates will receive a certificate and be eligible for certification by the alliance. The cost for the entire course is $1,500. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45

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Coastal Pet Rescue. Call 351-4151 or 3537633 or visit www.coastalpetrescue.org or www.isolditsavannah.com.

Low-cost Spay Neuter Clinic with free transport. Vaccines are available.

Service is provided 11 counties in Georgia, including Chatham and Effingham, and South Carolina. Call the Spay/Neuter Alliance and Clinic at 843-645-2500 or visit www.snac1.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.

St. Almo The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 5 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Time changes with season. Call for time change. Call 234-3336.

Savannah Kennel Club The club meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier. Call 656-2410 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org.

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

Readings & Signings

Barnes & Noble Signings, Readings include: Nov. 7 at 7 p.m., John C. Mayoue, author of Protecting Your Assets from a Georgia Divorce; Nov. 8 at 7 p.m., Savannah Russe, author of In the Blood: The Darkwing Chronicles, Book 4; Nov. 24 at 1 p.m., Susan B. Johnson, local author of Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting; and every Wednesday at 10 a.m., Preschool Storytime.

Breakfast Book Club will be held every third Wednesday of the month from 9-10:30 a.m. at The Wisdom Center at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching. The cost is $25 per month, breakfast included. Call Aimee at 236-3660.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

Georgia Author Meranda to Sign Books Meranda, the author of Iris: The Legend That Time Forgot, a fantasy/adventure novel about a young girl who avenges the deaths of her parents with the help of fairies and wizards, will sign books Dec. 1 from 3-6 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

Sensational Minds An African-American book store at 129 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. in the Oakhurst

Shopping Plaza that carries books in 22 different categories, from fiction and nonfiction to cooking, religions, education and more.

Also journals, Bible covers, stationery and gifts. On Nov. 3 from 4-6 p.m., Vanessa Miller will sign the fourth book of the Rain Series, Rain Storm. 927-8600.

Tea time at Ola’s is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660.

Religious & Spiritual

Blue Jeans for the Soul Each Saturday service will be at 5:30 p.m. and will feature just three things, music with guest musicians, a meditation and an affirmative message. Casual dress welcome.

Located at 2320 Sunset Blvd. off of Skidaway Road just south of Victory Drive. Call 3554704.

Calling All Christians Open prayer will be held the second Thursday of the month from 4-4:20 p.m. at the Forsyth Park fountain. Call Suzanne at 232-3830.

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

Christian Businessmen’s Committee meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 8983477.

Dream Circle This formulated technique for sorting out dreams is easy, meaningful and fun and can be taught in five minutes. It will be held monthly at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St., entrance on Macon Street. To register, e-mail adultenrichment@ uusavannah.org of call 234-0980.

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

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Call 596-4077.

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

Go Green!

On Nov. 9, a seminar by Georgia Interfaith Power and Light will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Wilmington Island. On Nov. 10, a cleanup will be held at Richardson Creek from 9 a.m. to noon and at 3 p.m., the Earth Care workshop and film Kilowatt Ours will be presented at Unity Church. On Nov. 11, a Green Sunday service will be held at 11:15 a.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church, followed by a presentation on Why People of Faith Care about the Creation. All events are free and open to the public. Contact Ellie at ellieluv@uga.edu or 856-1021.

Handbell Choir Anyone interested in starting/leading or joining/participating in a handbell choir can contact the Rev. Arlene Meyer at 355-4704.

Unity of Savannah at 2320 Sunset Blvd. has the bells and a few interested people without a leader. Visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life.

Beginner’s and experienced practitioners welcome. Ongoing weekly sessions are Mondays from 6-7:30 p.m. at 313 E. Harris St. Call Cindy Beach, Buddhist nun, at 4297265 or cindy@alwaysoptions.com.

Manifestation Gathering at Dovestar is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Learn ancient techniques to connect with your personal power to insure success for all your wishes for prosperity on a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level. Free. Call 9200801.

Midweek Bible Study is offered every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com.

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Nicodemus by Night An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Overcoming by Faith Services with the Rev. Ricky Temple are held Saturday from 6-7:30 p.m. at 9700 Middleground Rd. Sunday worship services are 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Services are now held Sundays in Rincon. Call 927-8601.

Painting and Spirituality Workshop is held every Wednesday from 10-11 a.m. at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Free and open to the public. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring whatever supplies you would like to use. Call 352-4400.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 247-4903.

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

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

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

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA) SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Spiritual Practice Retreat led by Teijo Munnich, founder of the Great Tree Zen Temple near Asheville, NC. Lecture on Friday, November 9, from 7 to 9 p.m., and Meditation Retreat on Saturday, November 10, from 9 p.m. to 5 p.m., both at 432 Habersham St. To reserve Saturday’s vegetarian lunch, register by November 7 by calling Susan Lamb, 232-4065, or emailing 2007@WingedWisdomWorkshops.com. An offering for Buddhist teacher Teijo will be taken on both Friday and Saturday. A $35 fee on Saturday covers lunch and snacks and other expenses.

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

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

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