Connect Savannah Oct 21, 2009

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Grave situation A new documentary by local filmmaker Michael Jordan takes you inside Savannah’s Historic Graveyards. A free screening happens Thursday.

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Bring out your dead! Lisa Williams wants to have a little chat with them | 14

Find out what happens when you answer a Dead Man’s Cell Phone at SCAD

A series of lectures honors America’s original master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe

Even Tim is getting in on the Halloween act with some demonic spirits | 26

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When: Oct. 22-24, 8 p.m.,

Oct. 25, 3 p.m.

Where: Mondanaro Theater, 32 Abercorn St. , Cost: $5-10

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Wednesday Symposium on American Life Histories What: AASU profs Michael

Friday

Price and Ella Howard examine some of the Georgia life histories that deal with the theme of work during the Great Depression.

When: Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m.

Where: Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St., Cost: Free

1st Annual Masquerade Ball Benefit What: Benefits the Union

Mission. Masks will be handed out at the door and price of admission includes hors d’ouevres, open bar.

When: Oct. 23, 7-11 p.m.

Where: 2CarGarage Contemporary Art Gallery, 10 E. Broughton St. , Cost: $60

The Market at Trustees Garden

What: Farmer’s showcase,

organic gardening presentations, films and more.

When: Oct. 21 and 28, 4 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St., Cost: Free

Film: Who Can Kill A Child? (Spain, 1976)

What: Kids on a tiny Span-

ish coastal island go insane and begin viciously attacking adults.

When: Wed. Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave, Cost: $6

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SavFADA Trolley Hop What: Tour some of the

galleries who belong to the Savannah Fine Arts Dealers Association. Pick up a crossword at the first stop and fill it out to be registered to win a $500 gift certificate. Visit SavFADA. com.

When: Oct. 22, 5-8:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

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music

for a complete listing of this week’s music go to: soundboard.

Celebration of Hope The Umdabu Zulu Dancers perform at at the Armstrong auditorium Thursday.

2nd Annual Innovation Awards

What: The Creative Coast’s

annual award program honoring the best and brightest innovators.

When: Thu. Oct. 22, 6 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater Cost: $50 Info: http://www.thecreativecoast.org/innovationawards/2009

Lecture: American Artists and Dutch Masters

What: Part of the Dutch

Utopia exhibit, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., the Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art, speaks.

When: Thu. Oct. 22, 6 p.m.Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St.

YPS 4th Anniversary Party What: The Young Profes-

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sionals of Savannah benefit the First Tee Foundation.

When: Oct. 22, 6-9 p.m.

Where: Sol, 1611 Habersham St. Cost: $20/members, $30

Film: Savannah’s Historic Graveyards What: Film documents

secrets of Savannah’s cemeteries, including a meet and greet with filmmaker.

When: Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah History Museum, 303 MLK Jr. Blvd, Cost: Free

Umdabu Zulu Dancers What: The Bir-

mingham, Ala., troupe is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of traditional and contemporary South African culture.

When: Thu. Oct. 22, 7 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn Cost: Free (donations accepted)

Theater: Dog Sees God What: AASU’s Masqu-

ers present Bert Royal’s unauthorized “Peanuts” spin-off where Charles Schulz’s characters have now reached puberty.

When: Oct. 22-25, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jenkins Hall Black Box Theater Cost: $10

Rocky Horror Show

What: Do the time warp again with this cult classic.

When: Oct. 22-25, 8 p.m., Where: Bay St. Theater/ Club One Cost: $15 Info: www.clubone-online. com/

Theater: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” What: SCAD’s School of

Performing Arts presents the story of a woman who answers the cell phone of a stranger in a restaurant.

What: Includes Silent and

Live Auctions, specialty wine and beer tasting and live music. Proceeds benefit George & Marie Backus Children’s Hospital.

When: Oct. 23, 7-10 p.m.

Where: First City Club Cost: $75 Info: www.kidshope.memorialhealth.com/

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for a list of this weeks gallery + art shows: art patrol

LGBT Film Festival Opening Night

What: Opening night film

is “Fruit Fly,” an award winning musical comedy with 19 original songs.

Also featured, a short film, “UHaul”. Reception and shows at ClubOne afterward. Presented by Savannah Gay & Lesbian Film Society under First City Network.

When: Fri. Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St. , Cost: $15 film only;$20 film + reception Info: www.firstcitynetwork. net/

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Roots, Rivers and Rhetoric

West, Director of Coastal Georgia Writing Project and Instructor of English at Savannah Technical College, will address the cultural and place imprints of Georgia upon the fiction of author – and Savannah native – James Alan Macpherson who in 1978 became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

When: Sun. Oct. 25, 3 p.m.

Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton St.

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Living History: The Yellow Fever Epidemic

Where: Tybee South Beach,

to experience life during the 1820 Yellow Fever epidemic that plagued Savannah. To make reservations: call 912236-8097 or email info@davenporthousemuseum.org When: Oct. 23-24, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9 p.m.

Where: The Davenport House Museum Cost: $10-15/adv, $15-17/door

Tybee Pier Fishing Tournament

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What: Participants will select

a ready-made bisque piece, glaze it, and watch its firing in the Raku tradition. Local ceramics artists are also invited to bring their own work to fire.

When: Oct. 23, 1-5 p.m.

Where: S.P.A.C.E. Gallery , 9 W. Henry St. Cost: $10/firing fee, free to watch Info: www.savannahga. gov/arts

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Bamboo Garden Fall Festival

What: Plant vendors, arts and

crafts vendors, pony rides, hay ride, petting zoo, face painting, a magic show, many educational booths and a Department of Natural Resources hands-on wildlife exhibit.

When: Oct. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Coastal Bamboo Gardens, US 17 South

Forsyth Farmers’ Market What: Regionally grown, fresh

Contributors Matt Brunson, Robin Wright Gunn, Geoff L. Johnson

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When: Sat. Oct. 24, 9 a.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St., Cost: Free

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What: Attic sale featuring

Tybee Paddle Surf Jam What: Savannah Canoe and

Kayak hosts an all inclusive Paddle Surf Jam. When: Sat. Oct. 24, 9 a.m.

Near 18th St.

What: Grab a rod, reel and

some bait and head out to the pier for the 1st annual pier fishing tournament. Cash prizes. Call 912-652-6782.

When: Sat. Oct. 24, 9 a.m.

Where: Tybee Pier, Cost: $10/adv, $12/day of event

Congregations in Service

event to get people involved in community service events.

Meet at First Presbyterian Church. 231-8599 or 355-2485.

When: Oct. 24, 8 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.

International Scout Expo What: Booths talking about

scouting around the world.

When: Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: National Guard Armory, 1242 Eisenhower Dr. , Cost: Free

Savannah Record Fair

What: If you collect records, comics or cultural ephemera, then be sure to check out the 3rd annual Record Fair. Collectors and dealers from all over the southeast gather to buy, sell and swap.

When: Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where: Oglethorpe House Ballroom, 201 W. Ogelthorpe Ave.

1st Annual LGBT Film Festival

What: 3 matinees featuring

award-winning films from the best independent LBGT filmmakers around the world.

Program #1, “Drool”; Program #2, “Select Shorts”; Program #3, “Watercolors”.

When: 11 a.m. 2 p.m., 5 p.m., Where: Little Theatre of Savannah, 703 Louisville Rd., Cost: $10 Info: http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

Wag-O-Ween

What: Pets can celebrate the

Halloween season at this special event where costumed pets get treats going to door to door. Proceeds benefit the Humane Society of Savannah.

When: Oct. 24, 12 p.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Cost: $5 Info: 912-234-3336.

The Met Live in HD presents Aida What: Daniele Gatti conducts

and Violeta Urmana sings the title role.

When: Sat. Oct. 24, 1 p.m.

Where: Regal 10 Cinemas, 1132 Shawnee St. Cost: $7.50

Fall-O-Ween Festival

What: Games, fun, crafts and

a pumpkin decorating contest lead into evening activities including hay rides, trick or treating and a haunted trail.

When: Oct. 24, 2 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Where: Skidaway State Park, 52 Diamond Causeway,

Fall Festival and Hog Chop BBQ Competition

What: Children’s games and

activities, live music all day, a motorcycle display, the Hog Chop BBQ cook-off, and fireworks.

When: Oct. 24, 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Garden City Town Green, 100 Central Ave. Cost: Free

Celtic Crossroads

What: Critically acclaimed

show fuses traditional Irish music, bluegrass and jazz with the rhythms of Irish dance.

When: Sat. Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre Cost: $24-37 Info: 912-525-5050.

Taylor Festival Choir

What: The acclaimed Charles-

ton-based choir will perform the Durufle Requiem.

When: Sat. Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

Where: St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 W. Macon St. , Cost: $15/general, $5/students

Storytime with Savannah Danse Theatre What: Join characters from

SDT’s upcoming performance of The Nutcracker in a special storytime. Download a bookfair voucher at savannahdance.com which gives a percentage of your purchases at Barnes & Noble to Savannah Danse Theatre.

When: Oct. 24, 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.

Where: Barnes & Noble, Oglethorpe Mall Cost: Free

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Shalom Y’all, Jewish Food Festival

What: Sample a variety of deli-

cious Jewish cuisine and enjoy a variety of entertainment including live music from the Carolina Klezmer Project.

When: Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park

St. Olaf College Orchestra

What: Savannah Concert Asso-

ciation presents the St. Olaf’s Choir performing Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”.

When: Sun. Oct. 25, 3 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Hall, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $12.50-$35

CJA presents Bill Averbach and BAM Jazz What: Averbach is a 30 year

veteran of the music scene.

When: Sun. Oct. 25, 5 p.m.

Where: Four Points Sheraton Cost: Free for members, $10

Cyber Crime Lecture by Dr. Annie Anton

What: Dr. Anton is a nationally

recognized expert.

When: Sun. Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St, Cost: $6 members, $10 nonmembers

Film: Revanche

What: Reel Savannah presents

this Oscar–nominated film from Götz Spielmann. In Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works at a brothel, where he falls for a Ukrainian hooker.

Where: Victory Square 9, Victory Dr. and Skidaway When: Oct. 25, 7 p.m.

Cost: $8 cash only

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‘Truth About the Greenest County in Georgia’

What: At the monthly US Green

Building Council meeting architect and County Commissioner Pat Shay speaks.

When: Tue. Oct. 27, 5:30-7 p.m.

Where: Wild Wing Cafe, City Market Cost: Free cs

Innovate this!

No, you didn’t spill your pumpkin frappuccino all over the paper — it’s just our special Halloween issue. We didn’t actually have a special issue planned, but when we realized how much cool spooky content we had, we couldn’t resist.

The innovative cover design is by our own Brandon Blatcher, with the main cover photo of Laurel Grove cemetery by Sonja Wallen.

You say Halloween is actually two weeks from now? True, but that’s also when we’re wall-to-wall with the Savannah Film Festival.

So for us Halloween comes early this year!

Speaking of innovation: One of the coolest things happening this week is Thursday’s Innovation Awards, the second annual edition of the event hosted by The Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa) at the Trustees Theatre downtown.

This group, whose mission is to bring knowledge-based businesses to the Savannah area, is building on the success of last year’s inaugural awards ceremony — which was also memorable for taking place during one of the most violent rainstorms in recent memory.

“It was a little traumatic, but it was a great bonding experience,” laughs Fitz Haile, marketing director for TCCa. “We were thrilled and impressed and honored at some level that so many people came out in that torrential downpour.”

This year continues with the same geeky awards show/street party vibe — except hopefully minus the heavy rain — which Haile promises will include “an eclectic and diverse group of people, from bank presidents to sustainability folks to the tech community.”

In another of the quirky, creative hallmarks of the event — made possible by Lott + Barber — the actual Innovation Awards themselves are made from automotive parts recycled by local

firm Newell Recycling and crafted by Port City Metals.

Finalists this year represent a refreshing and diverse range of local companies. Here they are, beginning with the Small Business category: • Music Intelligence Solutions for uplaya. com, a music industry-focused website.

• PureSpectrum for dimmable ballasts for compact fluorescent lights.

• Say It Right for The Entire World of R, a product which helps those with a common speech impediment.

Big business category: • Coastal Logistics for internal software development and IT strategy.

• Chatham Steel Corp. for its “Steel Fit” employee wellness program.

• DIRTT Environmental Solutions for its customizable office walls.

Community, education, and government category: • Community Health Mission for its “Nobody is Left Behind” outreach program for the underserved.

• Healthy Savannah for its Healthy Savannah Initiative to support healthier local lifestyles.

• Savannah Music Festival for its extensive, groundbreaking website upgrade.

Sustainability category: • Refuel Savannah for its locally Waste Vegetable Oil business operation.

• Structured Green for its eco-friendly product line and process.

• IKEA Savannah for its pallet-free racking.

Why is a global firm like IKEA represented in a local awards show? Haile explains: “The local office of IKEA spurred this. That was the deciding factor of their finalist status.

They happen to be a global company that had a local innovation,” he says.

Haile — who isn’t an awards judge, that’s up to an independent panel of eight — mentioned a couple of other finalists as examples of how intriguing the awards process is.

“What Music Intelligence Solutions is doing is really neat, and seems to be getting lot of national traction,” he says. “I also thought the Chatham Steel thing was really cool. That’s a kind of company-wide policy implementation that positively impacts actual employees involved — and frankly, really helps Chatham Steel’s bottom line.”

Haile says TCCa has evolved its vision of what constitutes a knowledge-based economy as the economy at large has continued to mainstream innovations in sustainability and information technology.

“We had some back-and-forth a while back about the ‘creative class’ idea. When the Richard Florida thing got in the public eye, the ‘creative class’ was the closest name people had for what we were trying to do,” Haile says.

“It was basically talking about a young professional sophisticated class, but that’s not always indicative of what’s happening locally.

Local people like AWOL (All Walks of Life) may not have gone to an Ivy League school, but they’re having a positive impact locally in terms of spurring creative thought.”

To attend this year’s TCCa Innovation Awards — the proceeds from which benefit the group and its efforts to bring creative businesses here — go to thecreativecoast.org.

The cost of admission include an open organic bar and organic eats catered by Cha Bella’s catering biz, Earth to Table.

And check connectsavannah.com later in the week to see who won! cs

city notebook:

11 How five strip-

pers in Atlanta might allow 18-20 year olds back in Savannah clubs. by patrick rodgers

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Environment: A

closer look at how Chatham County’s doing in its effort to be a truly green county. by patrick rodgers

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Gun note on target Editor, I must commend you on running the article entitled “On guns and G.O.D.” by local taxi driver Doug E. It meticulously mirrors my sentiments exactly! Only this past week, a man accidentally shot and killed his fiancee.

I cringe each time I think about how many children are accidently

killed when handling guns or rifles in their own home, or how many innocent people are killed by a stray bullet.

I found the article informative and well-written.

Steve

Update from Ruffin Editor, Your paper wrote an article about Ruffin Trading Company

years ago. We recently relocated to a nice facility at 2002 Skidaway Rd (across from McDonalds and near the Home Depot).

The reason that I am writing is to make the paper aware of the next exciting step for the company and, I hope, the community. We will begin on Saturday to issue and back a community currency.

Any adult with an ID that comes in tomorrow will be issued $50 in trade currency.

See details at www.ruffintrading.com/communitycurrency.html We intend for this beginning to grow in ways that will benefit our community in this difficult economic time.

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the featured acts in next spring’s edition of the Savannah Music Festival. by bill deyoung

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Blotter All cases from recent Savannah/Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

The alleged bucket of urine

An officer responded to a call about a domestic disturbance and arrived to find both parties saying that there had been a fight. The man walked out of the residence with his hands up saying “I know I’m going to jail.”

He and the woman were both checked for injuries, and she was found to have a swollen jaw and a bloody lip. Medical attention was refused. The woman said they had been drinking for several hours, that an argument started and then the man hit her in the face several times. He then allegedly urinated into a bucket and poured it on her. However, the officer noted that her clothes were dry and there was no detectable urine scent on her person. The man then explained that the woman had bought a 30–pack of beer earlier, and each had drank about half of it. The argument started because he had supposedly been

with another girl. He tried to go to sleep, saying that he had to get up for work in the morning. The woman asked rhetorically in rather crude terms whether the pair would not be engaging in sexual intercourse that evening and then “kicked him in the nuts.”

The man stated her kick had missed its mark because his pants were sagging below his waist. He was handcuffed, charged with battery and booked into CCDC. • Police were called in response to an armed robbery on East Bolton Street. A man walked out his front door to smoke a cigarette on the porch, and when he opened the door a black male was standing at the door with a silver handgun pointed at him. The suspect pushed the man back inside the residence and told him to get on the ground. He took his wallet and his cell phone. The suspect then hit the man in the forehead with the gun, and entered a nearby bedroom where he grabbed a laptop. Several other people in the apartment looked to see what the commotion was, saw the man pointing the gun down the hallway and ran out the backdoor. The suspect then fled and was last seen running west on Bolton. EMS was called for

the victim who had been hit in the face. He had a large swollen spot on the middle of his forehead.

Detectives and forensics were called. Two of the residents were given CRN cards.

• Police were called by a husband whose wife had attempted suicide unsuccessfully for the second time in a week. He reported that she was highly intoxicated and had consumed an unknown quantity of prescription pills. She told police that the first attempt had not worked, so she decided to try again, telling them, “I want to die. I don’t want to be here anymore.”

Her two young children were present during the incident. She stated that she had drank one bottle of wine and taken handfuls of Lexapro, Naproxen, Gabapentin and Levothyroxine. She was transported to the hospital for evaluation.

• An officer on patrol spotted a man sleeping on a bench in Wright Square. The officer had previously warned the man that

it was illegal to sleep in the square. When he approached him again, the man smelled strongly of alcohol. He then discovered the man had an outstanding warrant stemming from a probation violation. He was arrested.

• A police officer ran a tag check on a passing vehicle and it came back with no insurance and cancelled registration. The officer turned on the lights and pulled the vehicle over. The driver of the 1988 Lincoln Town Car was cited for the violations and a tow truck was called.

The driver became irate, telling the officer that he “pulled him over because he was a black male driving an old car.” The officer stated that he pulled him over because he was breaking the law. The driver became disorderly and was told to leave the scene.

The officer provided the driver with his name, ID number and precinct. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

When I buy over-the-counter pharmaceuticals from our local drug store, I always buy the house brand. The active ingredients and dosages in Tylenol (acetaminophen) are identical to that of the copy. The same is true of the Motrin alternative, the Sudafed clone, and so on—and they’re all much cheaper.

However, my wife insists on buying a brand name—she thinks I’m some kind of cheapskate. If the active ingredients in these drugs are the same, is there any difference in the quality?

—Dave C., Wisconsin The differences are small. That doesn’t mean they aren’t important. It also doesn’t mean they are.

When the patents on a name-brand drug expire and competitors flood the market with knockoffs, prices can drop to astounding depths. In a quick survey of ten common drugs, my assistant Una found generics offered savings of 15 to 94 percent off name-brand prices, with the average around 60 percent. Not surprisingly, generics are used for nearly two-thirds of all U.S. prescriptions.

The key issue in name brands versus generics is quality control. Branded drugs are tested extensively for effectiveness, side effects, and drug interactions—a slow, expensive process—and before the Waxman-Hatch Act of 1984, so were generics. The new law lowered the bar. Generic drug makers now must merely show that they use approved manufacturing processes and that the active ingredients in their products are bioequivalent to those in branded drugs—that is, that they’ll perform the same way in the human body. To consider two drugs bioequivalent, the FDA requires reasonable but not exceptional confidence that they’ll be within 20 to 25 percent of each other in terms of how much shows up in your bloodstream. So there’s room to cut corners, if you’re so inclined.

How much difference might there be, then? Una, always game for an experi-

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ment, immediately fired up the Bunsen burners, but unfortunately we’d blown the research budget on liquid analgesics. So instead we repaired to the med library and established the following: • One study found generic versions of the heart disease drug digoxin were 40 percent more likely to have “adverse events” than branded digoxin.

• Two studies of the epilepsy drug phenytoin found wide variation in the amount of medication delivered to the blood by branded versus generic versions—the drug concentration must fall within a narrow range to be effective. A survey of epileptics who switched from branded to generic drugs found that more than 10 percent experienced reoccurrence of seizures.

• Generic diazepam was found to have a significantly slower absorption rate than Valium—if you’re waiting desperately for the stuff to kick in before boarding an airplane, it’s small comfort to know you’re saving big bucks. The antipsychotic medication clozapine has shown significant differences between generic and branded versions. And research suggests generic versions of the blood thinner heparin are so different they can’t be safely substituted.

The brand-name drug maker Merck, assuredly a biased source, recommends against substitution of generics when small differences in dose cause a big difference in effect, as with blood thinners like warfarin. Merck also raises the possibility that different inactive ingredients could cause allergic reactions.

Still, let’s note the obvious: most of the drugs we’ve been talking about here are used to treat serious conditions.

They’re not really an argument for buying name-brand cough syrup. The effectiveness of any drug varies with the individual. If you’re the methodical sort and the worst that could happen with a generic is your sniffles last longer, the logical approach is to find the cheapest thing that works. Then again, judging the effectiveness of over-thecounter drugs is often subjective, and I’m guessing your wife won’t sit still for a double-blind test. If so, you might simply point out that in relatively lowstakes situations, at least, heard of it + costs more = good is an assumption that favors marketers, not the rest of us. cs

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The human brain’s 100 billion neurons may have such specific functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA researchers, studying the healthy cells of pre-op epilepsy patients, inadvertently discovered this unusual property, which apparently varies with individuals but remains internally consistent, whether the celebrity is represented by picture, name or sound. Patients were presented “hundreds of stimuli,” one researcher told The Wall Street Journal in October, but “the neuron would respond to only one or two.” For example, neurons were found that reacted only to to Jennifer Aniston, only to “The Simpsons,” only to Mother Teresa.

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long python swallowed the woylie and collar. The scientists captured the snake, intending to wait for the collar to pass through, but poachers broke into the Department of Environment and Conservation’s shelter and stole the python, surely intending to sell it. According to a June report in The West Australian, the scientists, aided by authorities, eventually picked up the radio transmissions again, arrested one poacher, and freed the snake from its impending life of captivity.

• In a delicate, two-hour procedure at a hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., in September, firefighters carefully sawed off the inch-thick metal dumbbelltightening ring into which a man had inserted his penis three days earlier. He told surgeons his plan was to lengthen the organ, to, as he put it, “make me the chief of my tribe.” By the time he got to the hospital, his member was swollen to more than twice its normal size, and sawing the ring off (without cutting the skin) was the only way to save it.

• In 2002, following an acrimonious family debate, the head of late baseball slugger Ted Williams was cryogenically frozen, in the hope that science will some day learn how to revive dead Bright Ideas people. An employee of the Arizona lab • The mayor of the Paris suburb that stores the head recently disclosed of Levallois-Perret, faced with an some inside shenanigans, according to overcrowded highway D909 through a September report in the New York town, “solved” the problem recently Daily News. According to the employee, by making the street one-way, sending to keep Williams’ head from sticking to traffic speedily into the adjacent town the inside of its storage carton, the head of Clichy-la-Garenne. That city’s mayor was placed on an empty Bumble Bee (a political rival of the Levallois-Perret tuna fish can inside the container, but mayor) reacted by making his portion the can itself then stuck to the head and of D909 one-way back toward Levalhad to be whacked off with a monkey lois-Perret, creating a dilemma at the wrench. (Since the lab’s work is secrecity limit. Other authorities are working tive, only first-person reports are likely to resolve the impasse. to emerge on this story.)

• Chutzpah! In the tiny east Texas • High-Maintenance Goddesses: town of Tenaha, police allegedly exIn Ahmedabad District, India, in torted traveling motorists by subjecting September, Ramveer Singh Baghel, 35, them to bogus traffic stops, perhaps sliced off his tongue as an offering to finding small amounts of drugs, and the goddess Amba. His sacrifice made then offering to forgo prosecution if him an instant deity in the local temple, the motorists would forfeit their cars delaying his trip to the hospital. And and other property. The forfeited items two weeks later, in a village in Barwere then sold to fund a special garh District, India, a 19-yearpolice recreation account. Last old woman cut out her tongue, year, the ACLU of Texas filed hoping, she said, that the Shiva It’s not the a federal civil rights lawsuit temple’s resident goddess would Heat OR against both the police and local halt the woman’s imminent Humidity now! prosecutor Lynda Russell, and arranged marriage and allow in September 2009, Rusher to pick someone closer to sell asked the state attorney her age. general if she could pay her • Adventure in the Bush: legal expenses from the alleged In June, after a monitored, enextorted recreation account. dangered marsupial (a “woylie”) was killed in West Australia, Hyperactive Seniors scientists set out to recover the • (1) Ella Orko, 86, was arrested expensive radio collar transmitin Chicago in August (her 61st arter it was wearing, but as they rest) and charged with shoplifting approached the signal, a 6-foot-

$252 worth of groceries and sundries (including anti-wrinkle cream). (2) Earlier this year, Richard Ramsey, 77, finally fulfilled a dream he said he’d had since age 13: He surgically became a woman. He had been living occasionally as Renee Ramsey following a 20-year military career, partly spent as a Green Beret.

Fine Points of the Law

• Judge James Morley dismissed animal cruelty charges in September against former Moorestown, N.J., police officer Robert Melia Jr., who had been caught in 2006 attempting to sexually gratify himself using calves’ mouths.

Because the state has no anti-bestiality statute, Melia was charged with animal “cruelty,” but Judge Morley said he was uncertain whether the acts were “cruel” or merely confusing. He reasoned that calves would normally recognize an appendage in their mouths as the prelude to food. If the calf could speak, said Judge Morley, it might merely say, “Where’s the milk? I’m not getting any milk.”

Fetishes on Parade

• (1) Jerry Lowery, 38, surrendered to police in Milwaukee in July in connection with three thefts of expensive eyeglasses from local retailers. He admitted that he “really (likes) to be around glasses” and has had this “problem” for about 15 years. (2) Police in Commerce, Texas, arrested a man in September and charged him with twice approaching a female clerk at Commerce Hardware, holding up a piece of paper with powder on it and blowing it into her face to provoke sneezing. Said police chief Kerry Crews: “He becomes aroused by females sneezing. ... In my entire career I’ve never heard of anything like this.”

Least Competent Criminals

• Major Denial: In September, David McKay, 28, finally pleaded guilty in Regina, Saskatchewan, to obstruction of justice after initially lying to police officers who were trying to serve a warrant on him from an earlier incident.

McKay had repeatedly claimed that he was “Matthew,” and not “David McKay,” even at the station house, when a search revealed that “David McKay” was tattooed on his shoulder. cs

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How five exotic dancers in Atlanta might get 18-20 year olds back into local bars It’s not very often that exotic dancers are part of the legislative process — unless the story involves a politician’s after–hours indiscretions — but five strippers in Atlanta may have overturned ordinances across the state prohibiting 18–20 year olds from entering bars and clubs because of their lawsuit against the City of Atlanta.

Two weeks ago the Georgia Supreme Court published opinions for the recently resolved case Willis et al vs. The City of Atlanta. It was the final chapter in a case brought against the city in 2007 after an ordinance was passed prohibiting 18–20 year olds from entering bars and clubs — nearly identical to the “minors ordinance” enacted in Savannah in spring 2006.

The dancers, who were 19 and 20 when Atlanta passed its ordinance, argued that they were being forced out of their jobs, despite the fact that state law allows 18–20 year olds to work in bars, just not drink alcohol.

The Georgia Supreme Court voted unanimously that Atlanta’s ordinance was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Carol Hunstein wrote the opinion, which, in addressing the conflict between local ordinance and state law, said, “the Legislature’s intent is to allow persons who are over the age of 18 but not yet 21 years old to dispense, serve, sell or handle alcoholic beverages as part of their employment. To do so, persons within that age group must necessarily be permitted to enter licensed establishments where such beverages are dispensed, served, sold or handled.”

Some questions remain as to how broadly the Supreme Court’s ruling should be interpreted — whether it means that 18–20 year olds should be allowed in bars, or whether the language of the ordinances simply needs to clarify the right to work. However, Atlanta–based attorney Alan Begner, who represented the exotic dancers in the Willis case, thinks the ruling applies to general admittance.

“I read this ruling to strike down the whole law,” Begner told us last week. “I believe that it applies to customers too.”

Begner argues that once a person reaches the age of 18 — also known as the age of majority — it may not be their right to drink alcohol, but it cannot be decided by the local government whether or not people may enter these establishments.

“My argument was that a city cannot arbitrarily change the age of majority,” Begner explains. “If they drink, prosecute them, but there’s no reason for them not to be allowed in there.”

It seemed possible that the court’s ruling could have broader implications for Savannah’s ordinance.

According to the City’s Public Information Director Bret Bell, the City is aware of the case, and the City Attorney, James Blackburn, has reviewed the ruling to see how it could affect the local ordinance. According to Bell, because our local ordinance makes a specific exception for employment of 18-20 year olds, the ruling will probably not affect Savannah.

Savannah’s ordinance, sec. 6–1223 (c), states: “It shall be unlawful for any person holding a license for the selling or serving of alcoholic beverages to the public for consumption on the premises...to permit any person under 21 years of age to enter said premises.” An exception is made in the local ordinance for restaurants and “hybrid” establishments.

The response from local bar and club owners about fallout from the ruling is mixed. According to

Daniel Robertson, owner of the Live Wire Music Hall on River Street, the ability to allow 18–20 year olds to see live music would be a welcome change, giving young people an opportunity to see live music, and helping bands make more money and build a larger fan base.

“Live music in this town is very engaging, and we have a great opportunity for kids 18–20 who are in college to come see live music.

But they’re very limited in where they can go see it,” Robertson says.

“We speak with a lot of parents who call about their son or daughter to find out whether

or not they can come to show,” he explains. “It’s definitely disheartening to the young musicians and young music aficionados that can’t come see a show.”

City officials have spent considerable time dealing with the issue of underage drinking, and the “bar card” ordinance, which would regulate training for bar staff across the city, will come up for a vote in the next few weeks. Robertson is confident that establishments could enact a system whereby patrons who were too young to drink could enjoy live music without gaining access to alcohol.

Not every owner feels the same way.

Suzanne Warnekros, owner of the Jinx on Congress Street, remembers the days when people under 21 were allowed into the bar for music.

“The bands were making more money when the kids could come in, but I always felt like it was so risky, and I had to watch those kids all night long like a babysitter,” she explains.

If the ordinance were to change, she is unsure whether she would change the bar’s admittance policy or not.

“I’d really have to weigh it out,” she says.

Several other owners didn’t want to comment on the record about potential changes for fear of repercussions, although many agreed that a change in admittance would put their business at increased risk for underage drinking citations.

The ordinance prohibiting 18–20 year olds from live music venues in Savannah was originally brought up during the summer of 2005 by thenPolice Chief Dan Flynn.

At the time, approximately one quarter of all alcohol related incidents downtown involved people who were under the legal drinking age. cs

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allocation for Qualified Energy It’s been two years since the Conservation Bonds. The QECBs Chatham County Commission are federal tax credits given to lodeclared its intention to becal governments that act theoreticome the “Greenest County cally as loans with zero percent in Georgia.” While the rate interest intended to help of progress has hardly develop renewable energy been staggering, work projects. is ongoing to achieve “We’re looking at the that goal. county doing some “Chatham fairly large scale solar County may photo–voltaic energy already be the installations with greenest counour larger buildty in Georgia,” ings,” says Shay. says Pat Shay, At the moment, who is a county the courthouse and commissioner and the jail are the two largest the chairman of the consumers of energy under Chatham Environthe County’s jurisdiction, mental Forum. “But Karen Grainey with a stack costing taxpayers upwards we need to be a lot of petitions of $1 million per year. The more responsible and a installation of solar panels lot more progressive if would not only help reduce we’re going to survive.” energy costs, but would also ensure Next week, Shay will address the increased energy security, providing local chapter of the US Green Building back–up power in case of severe storms Council at their monthly meeting. He’ll or other long–term grid outages. deliver a talk titled “The Truth about The national economic crisis has the Greenest County in Georgia,” which definitely inhibited further development will explain some of the county’s goals. of some of the sustainable practices the “When Gen. Oglethorpe got here, the county would like to put into action. native Americans in Chatham County “During a recession, it’s kind of were so low impact on the environment hard to do everything we want to do,” that you almost can’t find evidence of explains Shay. their existence,” Shay says. “We need One of the thorns in the side of the to think like Oglethorpe and act like County’s green reputation has been the Tomochichi.” ongoing debate over curbside recycling At the County Commission meeting in the unincorporated County. Savanlast Friday, taking steps toward sustainnah, Tybee and Garden City have all put ability was one agenda item. The board successful curbside programs in place. voted on committing to becoming a Last Wednesday, the group Citizens bronze level member in the Partnership For Curbside Recycling held a press for a Sustainable Georgia, a program conference in the Bull Street Public created by the state’s Department of Library giving an update on the progNatural Resources. The bronze level is ress of their petition and outlining the the entry point for organizations, who, proposal they sent to county commisaccording the program’s website, “are sioners, the Chatham Environmental just beginning to develop proactive Forum and some local faculty. environmental policies, procedures and The CFCR is the group responsible educational efforts.” for the petitions that have been posted Chatham would be the first county at various local businesses urging the in the state to become a member of the County to adopt a curbside program.

PSG, according to Shay.

To date, the group has collected apAlso on the agenda for last week’s proximately 12,000 signatures. Their meeting was a request for approval of a goal is 16,000, which would be sufficient “Notice of Intent” to seek the county’s

to put a referendum on the ballot during the next election.

The County does curbside pick up of yard waste in the unincorporated area, but does not pick up garbage or recycling.

“The county is already in the business of curbside pick up,” says John McMasters, a member of the CFCR, and a former county commissioner.

“They’re just not picking up everything they could be.”

Besides showing off over 700 pages of signed petitions, the CFCR discussed the elements of the plan they submitted to the county, which includes modifying the county’s existing fleet of dry waste trucks, purchasing containers for unincorporated county residents and then alternating weeks between dry waste and recycling pick up. The total cost of the plan would be about $1 million.

The group also presented the findings of a study looking at the participation rate for dry waste pick up, which averaged approximately 18 percent. Despite the relatively low participation rate, unincorporated residents pay a monthly fee for dry waste pickup — something that used to be funded by property taxes, a contentiously debated issue resolved during Commission meetings in June of this year.

Karen Grainey explains that adding recycling to the pick-up schedule would “equalize the services” for residents, and give them a better value since they are already paying for it.

“They’ve done a lot of homework and I applaud them for doing that because it’s informed me as a commissioner about some alternatives that we ought to be exploring,” says Shay.

Members of the CFCR are hoping they can motivate the County to take action without having to wait for a ballot referendum.

“Two years ago they created a resolution to be the greenest county,” says CFCR member Stacey Kronquest. “We want to help them.” cs Pat Shay speaks Tue., October 27 at 5:30 p.m. at Wild Wing Cafe. Visit www.recyclechatham.org

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by Robin Wright Gunn | rgunnsav@bellsouth.net

Two Saturdays ago, five hours after flying out of Savannah, I steered a rented Ford along Connecticut state roads in the Farmington Valley, curving past farmhouses and barns, through towns settled before Georgia founder James Oglethorpe was born.

It’s been a while since I’ve traveled outside of the South. I needed, and looked forward to, different scenery, a new experience, even if only for 72 hours, mostly filled with events surrounding a wedding.

I love to travel, but I’m a terrible “leaver.” Once I’m on the road I’m relaxed, but before I depart, I’m a mess.

The days before any trip, even a short one, are filled with too many decisions.

Which sweater to wear with which trousers? Where’s the phone charger?

Where’s my boarding pass? Should I get a rental car?

All of which may explain why, three days before my two–and–a–half–day trip, I was too busy to attend an event in Ellis Square, announcing that the American Planning Association (APA) selected Savannah’s Squares as one of the Ten Great Public Spaces in America for 2009, part of their “Great Places in America” program.

This national urban planning organization really likes our squares. In 2007, they designated Bull Street (from City Hall to Forsyth Park) as one of the Ten Great Streets in America. The reasoning? “Most distinctive are the five public squares located along the street — two of which were included in the original plan for Savannah created by General James Edward Oglethorpe,” said the APA in October 2007.

Even before 2007’s designation I thought I’d heard it all before — “Savannah’s squares are the epitome of public spaces, so accessible, blah blah blah.”

I love our squares, our downtown. No need to go to the Ellis Square event to hear it again. I had packing to do.

Once in New England, the lay of the land was a fresh experience. In the 30 minute drive from Hartford’s airport I passed through several 17th century towns, now part of Hartford’s metropolitan area.

Most noticeable was the lack of visual clutter. No billboards. No lighted “signs on sticks.” The entrance signs for large shopping malls were no higher than five

feet; brick entryways with illuminated raised lettering, even for the Walmart and the national chain clothing stores.

Driving in the afternoon sunshine, the roads bisecting busy towns soon passed through remote woods, traversing narrow stone bridges that crossed waterways referred to as “brooks” instead of rivers or creeks.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d landed in a movie set. The countryside seemed free of litter. The trees seemed like Hollywood props. Branches reached upward instead of outward like our live oaks, with red and yellow leaves in stark relief to blue skies, no draping shrouds of Spanish moss to filter the sunlight.

And, I loved it all — until supper time, when I decided to find a restaurant to enjoy a simple meal. Head over to one of these towns I’ve passed through, park the rental car, and walk along until a cafe strikes my fancy.

A great plan for Savannah, but not workable on this trip. These picturesque towns, with their clapboard churches, mansard or front–gabled roofed houses, and wooden signage, had no public spaces. No sidewalks along any thoroughfares or side streets. No main streets. No town squares.

No “Great Public Places,” nor any mediocre ones. Finding a cafe in the twilight was a driving task, slowing to fifteen miles per hour and peering at the signs, sending telepathic apologies to the cars stuck behind me.

A fine place for a long hike through the woods, but no place for a short walk in town. The expense of the rental car, one of my many angst–ridden decisions during my trip planning, no longer felt like a luxury. Without a car, my New England meals would have been limited to the hotel restaurant, with only the wedding venues to give me a glimpse of the region’s distinctive beauty.

Despite the work needing to be done in many Savannah neighborhoods to make us more pedestrian friendly, on this trip it clicked that I take our walkability and our squares for granted.

Monday morning, I scraped ice off the rental car windshield and headed for the Hartford airport. Late that afternoon, in Savannah’s 70–plus degree drizzle, I thought about my trip — glad for the experience, wishing it was longer, but with a new reminder that there’s no “Great Place” like home. cs

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When she was 7 years old, Lisa Williams began receiving messages, inside her brain, from the dead. A decade would go by before she realized that it was a special gift, hers and hers alone; as a child, she’d thought everybody could do it.

Still, there was a bit of family history: Williams’ grandmother was Frances Glazebrook, a medium well–known in their native Great Britain. Grandmum had looked into Lisa’s future and told her she’d be famous in America one day.

Now 36 and based in California, Williams is one of the world’s best–known clairvoyants, thanks to her Lifetime TV series Voices From the Other Side and Life Among the Dead.

Williams is a chirpy, articulate woman, with no stereotypical hint of the grave about her: She has a Princess Diana hairstyle, and in conversation, she could pass for a pop star, or the effervescent host of a mid–morning chat show.

See for yourself when she brings her Voices From the Other Side tour to the Johnny Mercer Theatre Friday, Oct. 23.

In this two–hour event, Williams will relay messages from the spirit world to select audience members.

She says she’ll spend the hour before showtime meditating, absorbing everything that comes to her from the other side. When she takes the stage, she’ll be ready. You don’t have to do anything.

She will find you.

necessarily have to believe. I’ve actually done many shows where I’ve read for a skeptic, and they have actually come back and said “You know, I didn’t believe.” Which is fine. I’ve read for cynics, and they very much want to find a flaw in what you say. So cynics are a totally different thing.

In most shows, I will read for a skeptic and they will openly admit there and then, in front of 2,000 people, that they are a skeptic. And that I’ve changed their mind. My father was a skeptic, and he’s just spent the last three weeks on tour with me in Australia and New Zealand. He came up to me after the Melbourne show and went “I don’t know what you did to me tonight, but I’m believin’ ya!”

Does one have to be a believer for this to work?

Are there always spirits there knocking on your door, all the time, or do you have to channel it and bring it in?

Lisa Williams: I think you have to have an open mind somewhat. You don’t

Lisa Williams: There are times when I will be walking down the street and just

think “I’m sensing something.” But a lot of the time, certainly when I’m focused on other things, I can switch it on and off like a light switch. I think that’s probably the easiest thing to explain it.

But most of the time, I do try to get into that space. Certainly before a show, I concentrate on getting into that space.

But when I’m going about in my everyday things – I’m a mum, and a wife, of course I’ve got friends, I run a business, and everything else – I don’t always have it switched on, because it can control you. It can overtake you. So I really have this philosophy: I control it, it doesn’t control me.

When you’ve got it switched off, is it like e–mails backing up, and then when you turn the switch on, there’s a hundred e–mails you have to deal with? Or is it always there hovering?

Lisa Williams: It’s always there hovering, and I do turn it on like a tap. But I try not to allow it to be a part of my

And it just happens? You get a message when, say, the waiter passes by your table?

Lisa Williams: It’s actually happened, and I’m quite embarrassed about it.

My husband will say “What was that?” and I will say “Well, his grandmother or whatever it may be has just passed away, and he’s just had a new tattoo for her ...” And then, my husband is the one that pulls them over! He’ll say “Excuse me, I need to just ask you something ...”

Because his curiosity gets the better of him. Coming out to dinner with us can be quite funny.

Are you always right? I’m sure there are moments where you either misunderstand it, or something doesn’t exactly fire on all pistons?

Lisa Williams: Sure, there are times when maybe I misinterpret a message, or misunderstand what I’m seeing. But I suppose I have to go with the feedback I get, which is 99 percent positive. I have a lot of people I read for in an audience, and they’ll e–mail me afterwards and say “You said this, and you said that, and I couldn’t relate to that but I went home and did my homework, and now it means this, and I understand what you were saying.”

Obviously it’s down to interpretations of messages, which is the key. But the majority of times people come back and say “You were spot on.”

Is it just a feeling? Do you have a physical image in your mind? What sort of form does it take?

Lisa Williams: I get it in three different ways. I get these feelings – maybe the feeling that someone’s had cancer, or that someone’s had a blood transfusion ... and then I get to see the physical side.

So I may see how they passed. I may see what’s going on in that person’s life. I may see the spirit.

But then I will also hear the information. Personally, I would rather have the hearing because I can get more detail, I can ask more questions, and they can give me answers.

Having all three is really great. Then I have the choice of how the spirit wants

to communicate with me. Because not every spirit wants to communicate verbally. Not every spirit wants to communicate through their vision. So I’m glad that I’ve got all three.

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Are they around us all the time, or do they just come through you?

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Lisa Williams: They come through me when they need to. And they’re actually with us when we need them. You know, there is a kind of unwritten rule that they don’t watch everything we do.

They’re not with us in the bathroom, or whatever.

Thanks for saying that.

Lisa Williams: Yeah, that’s OK. There are times with me in the bathroom, but not you!

In a reading, it’s quite interesting, because I’ll come out and say to somebody, “Before you came out here tonight, you got changed three times.

And you should have worn the blue top, not the red top. That’s what your father’s telling you.” And she’ll go “Oh my God – my father was watching me change?”

I’ll say “He just wanted to prove that he was there.” They’ll give me silly little snippets of your life.

We all have a spirit guide. A spirit who actually is with us all the time.

But these aren’t normally the people we know in life. You know when sometimes you have a gut reaction, or you have an instinct, or you just know something? That’s when your spirit guide as such, who is helping you through life, will just put something into you.

Lisa, do you understand it, in your heart of hearts?

Lisa Williams: I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. It’s so big. It’s such a vast thing. I understand what I can do. I understand what I know about. I understand the processes of life after death.

But you know, I’m still learning.

I think anyone in my profession – or just anyone – who says “I know it all,” they’re lying. Because it’s such a huge subject, and there’s so many different facets of it, I don’t think anyone will ever really understand the whole workings of it. cs Lisa Williams: Voices From the Other Side Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. When: At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 Tickets: $45–$65 at www.etix.com Phone: (800) 351–7469 See also: www.lisawilliams.com

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everyday life, my home life. But there are times when I’ve been at dinner with my husband and then suddenly I will have this conversation with what looks to you like thin air. And my husband will say “OK, so who’s here?” and I’ll say “Oh, I just need to pass on a message.” I always have a notebook with me, and I write these messages down.

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Ringtone from the great beyond

Dead Man’s Cell Phone director Sharon Ott on SCAD’s latest production

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Like Alice through the looking glass, Jean — a timid New Yorker — discovers a portal to another world. But Jean doesn’t find mad hatters, murderous queens and psychedelic tea parties.

In playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Jean’s wonderland is a place where regular people — well, some of them are regular — take tentative steps toward learning how to communicate with each other.

“It’s about communication and it’s about intimacy,” says Sharon Ott, who’s directing Ruhl’s comedy this week at SCAD’s Mondanaro Theatre. “How do we form connections with people? Are we living in a world where that’s more difficult for us than it has been? The connections might be boyfriend/girlfriend, mother/son, husband/wife... it’s all about how people form those connections.”

The play begins when Jean, annoyed by the constant ringing of a nearby cell phone during her lunch hour, picks it up, exasperated. Gordon, the stranger sitting mute by the phone, turns out to be dead.

Jean answers it anyway. And so begins her incredible journey.

“The framework is this cell phone, this kind of mechanized connection that epitomizes in some ways the disconnection that we all live in,” Ott explains.

“The playwright doesn’t have any moral to the story, I don’t think; it’s a poetic examination of that state. Of human beings who desire and want connection, but who find it perhaps increasingly difficult to find.”

Ott, who’s been teaching theater at SCAD since early 2007, is the recipient of an Obie Award and two Drama– Logue Awards. She came to Savannah with impeccable and impressive credentials. For 13 years, she was Artistic Director at California’s Berkeley Rep; it was her innovative programming that won the company the Regional Theatre Tony Award for Excellence.

For the nine years prior to her arrival here, Ott was artistic director at Seattle Rep. At both gigs, she developed numerous plays that achieved great

recognition nationally. She’s worked with many of the nation’s leading stage actors, and the list of lauded playwrights she has supported includes, among others, Sarah Ruhl.

“I’ve known Sarah for about eight years,” Ott says. “In fact, her play The Clean House –— which was the Pulitzer Prize–nominated one — we did a reading of at Seattle Rep. I couldn’t get the theater to take a risk on her — that was pretty much the beginning of the end for me and Seattle Rep. “I saw the premiere of Dead Man’s Cell Phone in L.A., and I really liked it. When I came here, I thought there’s something about her work that’s very right for college kids. She’s young–ish, she’s more of their generation than a lot of them... she’s associative in the way she puts together plays, so it’s clear that she’s coming from a different generation than, say, August Wilson or Tony

Top: Sharon Ott is Artistic Director of SCAD’s Department of Performing Arts. Her cast for “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (shown here during a recent rehearsal) includes Max Reinhardsen, left, Stephanie Candelaria and Ivey Lowe.

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Her official SCAD title is Artistic Director of the Department of Performing Arts. The department’s 2009–2010 season will also include A New Brain, MacBeth, Animal Farm the Musical, Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage and others.

“Quite frankly, it’s a learning experience for me, and that’s what I like most about it,” Ott explains. “I’ve done a lot of professional directing, but I’ve never taught directing. So in a way, I’ve looked at it as my own graduate education. So I get a chance to read all the books again, and decide what I like and what I don’t like. You refine what you think. And that’s great.

“Because when you’re in the corporate mode, you learn what’s successful very quickly, and you replicate that.

And there’s sometimes a feeling that you’re not learning a lot of new stuff, except for the new plays you direct. So this is different.”

Case in point: Dead Man’s Cell Phone.

“We don’t have to sell tickets,” says Ott. “I mean we do, we want to, but we’re not under the same kind of pressures that a professional theater is. So we can take chances. And we should take chances.” cs

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Kushner. The students really respond to her work. It’s the way they talk.”

Working with young thespians has become a distinct pleasure for Ott. “There’s a very specific reward when you feel you’ve helped some young person, either become a better actor or just find their place within the profession,” she says. “That’s a very different kind of reward than running a theater.”

The business of operating a professional theater was fast becoming a game of dodge ball, what with budget cuts, increasing overhead and board members nervous about taking on shows that — gasp — might not recoup their costs.

“I think I got out just in time,” Ott says, “because now it’s really tough. The last couple of years I ran the Seattle Rep was the beginning of what has remained just a wicked time for not–for–profit arts. This current economy has just been brutal.”

Savannah, she’ll admit, has been something of an adjustment. “Everything couldn’t be more different, to be honest. But it’s what my husband and I wanted. We wanted a real change.

“I’d run theaters for 21 years, which is enough time to do that. And I’m at an age where I wanted to start to pass on what I know to the next folks.

“I never got an advanced degree — I’m one of the SCAD people who comes in with a lot of professional experience, and not a lot of academic experience. I thought it was time to get to know the next generation, and share with them what I’ve learned. This was a good environment to do that.”

Dead Man’s Cell Phone Who: SCAD Dept. of Performing Arts Where: Mondanaro Theatre, 22 Abercorn St. When: At 8 p.m. Oct. 22–24; 3 p.m. Oct. 25 Tickets: $10 public, $5 valid SCAD ID, seniors, military, students

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Poe, evermore

Multiple free lectures honor America’s original master of horror

by Meaghan Walsh | meaghanwalsh81@gmail.com

I was a kid who read under the covers with a flashlight. Suffice to say, I always assumed I would be an English major.

I was also, at a young age, allowed to watch old, and sometimes frightening movies. I believe my first Hitchcock was at age 5 or 6. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that my affinity for storytelling and the macabre led to my love of Gothic literature.

Even though I was “undeclared” my first semester of college, I took the first requisite class for an English major. I was miserable. The professor was, it seemed, minimally interested and only barely qualified.

If this was anything to go by, I would have to rethink the next four years.

But when it came time to register for classes for the second semester, I saw something called “The Detective and Criminal in Literature.” I decided to give it one more try.

The class focused on the history surrounding the fascination with the annals of crime and how such a prim and proper society as the Victorians could become so obsessed with the dark and sinister.

We learned about Poe, Vidocq, Conan Doyle, in addition to Hammett and Chandler. I was hooked.

This year is the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born in 1809 in Boston to parents who were actors, but by the time he was about three, was living with a foster family in Richmond, Va. After a failed academic then military career, he settled into making writing his only source of income. He wrote poems and tales as well as edited various publications before dying at the young age of 40 in Baltimore.

But in his truncated life, he managed to change the face of American literature (in fact, in 1909 the New York Times ran a full–page piece called “What Literature Owes To Edgar Allan Poe” by Percival Pollard). In it he wrote, “The point is that Poe was entirely, without greed or selfishness, was a man of letters. We have had no other such.”

It is with great anticipation that Stephen Rachman, Ph.D. is coming to Savannah to present a series of lectures on Edgar Allan Poe — just a few days before Halloween, no less. It is all part

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Without giving too much away, tell us a little bit about the topics you will be discussing.

Stephen Rachman: The first will be on Poe and the Origins of Detective Fiction. This lecture explores how Poe, through his interests in the modern urban newspaper and cryptography, came to invent the genre and how it took off in the years following his death. In this talk I will invite our listeners to imagine a world before detective fiction and describe the process through which Poe distilled the genre from the city.

The next will focus on Poe’s Drinking, Poe’s Death. Drink, drugs and death are the three areas of Poe’s legacy that have engendered the greatest mythologization, speculation, and mystery.

This lecture explores these areas of his life and how we have thought about them in 150 years since his death.

Thirdly, I will talk about Poe’s Gothic Premises. From the gothic to the goth, this lecture explores how Poe’s gothic imagination–Roderick Usher to the The Raven––emerged in the 1830s & ‘40s and how it has been transformed in the popular culture of the 20th century.

Lastly, I will present on Poe and the Pseudo–Documentary: Many of Poe’s most fascinating works were hoaxes, attempts to present a fictional premise as fact. This lecture will discuss the ways in which Poe’s writings continually engaged with the problem of real and the unreal and explain what Poe has to teach us still in our own age of “reality”–TV. Why did you become interested in Poe? Stephen Rachman: I grew up in Concord, Mass., and have had an abiding interest in 19th c. American literature (Thoreau, especially) but in graduate school I began to take a serious interest in Poe. I was working on a paper on literary plagiarism and found Poe to have written some of the most extraordinary things on the topic (he had actually planned to write an expose called Notes on American Cribbage) and his discussions of mental states in which the creative process takes place were

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absolutely brilliant and fascinating. My professional interest grew from there.

Why do his works still hold such importance, 200 years later?

Stephen Rachman: 200 years after his birth, Poe’s writing remains as popular and shocking as ever. The genres he pioneered (detective, horror, and hoax) have become the staples and foundations of popular entertainment.

Most people find romantic notions, attitudes, and postures, to be idealist or outmoded and yet, there is Poe at the center of it.

In our lifetimes, we have witnessed the startling rise of Halloween as it has grown in popularity as a holiday and is celebrated with an alloyed glee throughout the country and in a sense the attraction of the holiday is similar to Poe’s. It is visceral and mysterious.

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of the celebration of his bicentennial — and will be free and open to the public as a part of a program put on by “Senior Citizens, Inc.” who are dedicated to lifelong learning.

I spoke to Dr. Rachman about the four lectures that he will be presenting, his own attraction to Poe and Poe’s connection to the South.

What, if any, connection does Poe have to the South or Southern literature?

Stephen Rachman: Poe has been claimed by many cities and countries even (France, England). He was born in Boston but that was a mere accident of his mother’s itinerant life as an actor.

His relations were concentrated in Baltimore and England, and his adoptive parents raised him in England and Richmond. He came to prominence as a writer and editor in Richmond and Baltimore and Philadelphia. Had his greatest fame as poet in 1845 with the Raven in New York City.

He spent time in Charleston at Ft. Moultrie in the army and set “The Gold–Bug” on Sullivan’s Island (that is the closest that I know of him getting to Savannah). So there are Southern connections in Poe, perhaps expressed most forcefully in Alan Tate’s (author of “Ode for the Confederate Dead”) “Our Cousin, Mr. Poe.” But, as I say, many have claimed kinship with Poe. cs

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It’s a big week for fans of vintage hardcore punk; and we’re not talking about Down By Law alone. Social Distortion was one of the keynote bands of the 1980s Los Angeles hardcore scene.

Singer and guitarist Mike Ness has endured, through a crippling heroin addiction, the departure of numerous band members, and the 2000 death (from a brain aneurysm) of bassist and guitarist Dennis Danell. This is a group that’s endured the ever-changing musical weather and come out slinging; with blues, rockabilly and even country thrown into the blender on albums such as Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell and Mommy’s Little Monster, Ness has made certain his mark on rock ‘n’ roll is indelible. Listen & learn: www.socialdistortion.com. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25 at Shoreline Ballroom, 40 Folly Field Road, Hilton Head, wit h the Strangers and Middle Class Rut. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show.

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Rene Arozqueta and Chad Bishop hail from that well–known capital of cosmopolitanism, Pensacola, Fla. S+O is an acoustic duo that includes acoustic guitar, accordion and other instruments – “and we try to play them all at once with our eight arms and eight tentacles,” Arozqueta explains. “It’s a spectacle of coordination if anything, but it’s also contemporary folk that can be sweet and moving at times, but slightly raucous other times.” Sure, the tunes are quirky, but they’re also insanely likeable.

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Singer/guitarist Dave Smalley, a legend in the evolution of American punk and hardcore, brings the latest incarnation of his venerable quartet to town – always a thrill.

Smalley, an educated guy who understands that fierce rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t have to be about something stupid or meaningless, has a back band catalog that includes Dag Nasty, DYS, All and the Chemical People. Guitarist Sam Williams has been at Smalley’s side since the formation of Down By Law – which is, as you’ve guessed, named after director Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 film about escaped cons in the Louisiana bayou.

“One of the things I’ve always loved about punk rock, as opposed to many other genres of music: it encourages intelligence,” Smalley told an interviewer not so long ago.

“From the cleverness of the Buzzcocks to the multisyllabic rantings of Bad Religion, from the passion of The Clash to the burning rage of the Sex Pistols to the simmering angst of Elvis Costello,

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“Of the bands I’ve been in, I think there’s socio–political reflections in Down By Law to the angst of personal inner turmoil found in Dag Nasty or All or DYS. I wouldn’t write my lyrics in any other genre – they wouldn’t fit any other music and the listeners of other forms of music probably wouldn’t relate. In punk, as in no other genre, we all understand that life demands some thought.”

Williams’ other band, the Spears, opens the Savannah show (it includes punk stalwarts Chris Barrows - from Pink Lincolns - on vocals, Gary Strickland on bass, and D.R.I. drummer Rob Rampy). Listen & learn: www.downbylaw.com, www.myspace.com/thespearsrule. At 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 at the Jinx, 127 W. Congress CS

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You’ve seen those big, flashy Irish shows that air over PBS, and occasionally blow through town: A lot of costumed step–dancing to dreamy, New Age–y music. A synthesized wash of Celtic–sounding melodies, an air choir, and a couple of live fiddles and maybe a bodhran to give it “authenticity.” A jig here, a reel there, and a lot of lonesome laments.

The Emerald Isle is big business these days; each year, the performing

Celtic Crossroads includes seven young musicians, playing numerous instruments.

arts community grows with yet another variation on the green theme, each successive show getting one step further from the music’s real roots.

If that’s your thing, great. Those productions are often quite entertaining Celtic Crossroads – appearing Saturday at the Lucas Theatre – takes a different approach to Irish music performance.

Seven musicians, each of them proficient on numerous instruments, just play and sing. Sure, they dance, and

sure, they move around a lot; it’s a high energy concert. But with Celtic Crossroads, the music is what it’s all about.

“Back in the times when Ireland was under the rule of the English monarchy, playing and practicing the traditional arts of Ireland was banned,” points out Kevin Crosby, who co–founded Celtic Crossroads in Galway City, and now directs and produces the show.

“But traditional Irish musicians are great lawbreakers, as everybody

Crosby says.

It was part of another tradition: “When people play sessions in pubs, they swap their instruments around quite a lot, and they learn different styles of music from their friends or family members.”

Crosby had spent some time in Illinois, in college, and he’d received a first–hand taste of what Americans considered Irish music to be.

“They knew only a few classical tunes,” he recalls. “They didn’t feel what the young musicians coming out of the country were actually bringing, or how alive the tradition was. Over here, people perceived Celtic music as being very acoustic and low–tempo kind of tunes.

“It’s not like we all sing ‘Danny Boy’ around the dinner table back home.

There’s such a young, fresh, unique feel to the music at the moment. We wanted to bring that together.”

Saturday’s Savannah show is the final stop on Celtic Crossroads’ 2009 tour.

After all that stomping, sawing and swaying – thirsty work, don’t you know – the musicians are liable to go looking for some stress–busting fun.

“Sometimes, after we’ve performed in a performing arts center, we’ll go across the street for a pint after the show,” says Crosby. “And we’ll give in to everybody asking us to play a tune. And then everybody will pull out their instruments, and people will come flooding in from all the rest of the bars around.

“It creates a great sense of community when music is played.” CS Celtic Crossroads Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. When: At 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 Tickets: $24–$37 Phone: (912) 525–5050 Online: www.lucastheatre.com

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knows, and they used to pull out their instruments from hiding and gather at the crossroads between towns and villages. Because all the towns would be at curfew, and everybody would have to be gone. That’s where the police were patrolling.

“The crossroads, that was where people would get together and dance, sing songs and tell stories into the late hours of the night.”

Crosby and his compatriots also like to say that the word crossroads refers to an intersection of Celtic and other forms of world music.

“For commercial reasons, we promote it as a traditional Celtic show,” Crosby says, “but once people come into the theater, and once the lights go down, the whole show kicks off and people are just transported into a wholesome world ... their perceptions of what young musicians are, and what they can do onstage, is totally different to the other shows out there.”

For example, fiddler Michael McClintock, who co–founded the group with Crosby, “is the eighth–fastest fiddle player in the world. Not to let any secrets out, but he plays some very, very well–known American bluegrass numbers. And in, I’d say nine out of every 10 shows we do, there’s a standing ovation during the show, after he plays one particular piece. Mid–show ovations are quite common for us.”

Crosby and his brother Eamon (another founder) met McClintock in Australia, and through him they discovered gypsy music, jazz, bluegrass and other styles. They invited him to spend the summer in Galway City, to soak up Irish culture.

“We came up with this idea of putting on a show on the streets in Ireland, whereby we would audition people and get the best of the best musicians,”

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Oy! to the world. The band is fun.

That’s the word going around on the Carolina Klezmer Project, which will play at Sunday’s annual Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival in Forsyth Park.

Singer, trumpeter and accordionist Bill Averbach fronts the Charlotte–based group, and he’s been playing klezmer music for the better part of three decades.

“There’s always experimentation in the music. It’s kind of like jazz — Jewish jazz! There’s experimentation, but there’s a certain amount of traditional background that’s kept in the music.

Jazz has certain roots that kind of tie it all together. There’s a very similar situation with klezmer music.”

Before relocating to North Carolina in 2005, Averbach spent 20 years play-

developed a style of playing the music that used the different instruments as characters. Much like Dixieland music.

I would conduct the group and arrange things as we were playing. It worked great.”

Averbach also runs a pickling business — check out www.pickleville.net — and plans to have his wares for sale at the Shalom Y’all festival.

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Trunpeter Bill Averbach leads the Carolina Klezmer Project, and the jazz band called BAM Jazz.

Klezmer is, to put it simply, Jewish dance music, firmly rooted in the rhythms and musical traditions of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

“Originally, it was kind of a derogatory term that referred to musicians who would play anything for money,” Averbach says. “Kind of like today!

“They were disliked by the Jewish community because they often had gypsy musicians and non–Jews playing with them. And they were disliked by the non–Jewish community because they were Jews.

“But everybody hired them, because they would play anything. The tradition is actually to incorporate other styles and cultures into the music, why it covers all the Eastern European dance styles, and Turkish music.”

These days, Averbach explains, there can be elements of rock ‘n’ roll, blues and jazz in a klezmer performance.

ing jazz in Austin, Texas.

“Somebody called me up and they said ‘Look, we’re having a bat mitzvah for 19 women. We have 600 dollars.

Can you play Jewish music?’

“And I said, 600 dollars? Sure!’ Thirty–five years ago, that wasn’t too bad.

“I called all my jazz musicians, and said we’re going to get together and play klezmer music. And they said ‘What’s that?’”

They got a crash course in the form of an album by the Klezmorim, a klezmer outfit out of San Francisco.

Averbach was turned onto the band by a saxophone–playing friend who went on to form the eclectic polka/rock quintet Brave Combo.

“What I heard was jazz musicians playing Yiddish music,” he recalls. “It was an eye–opener. So I approached it that way, as a jazz gig. We all played through the music, and eventually I

Later on Sunday, the four members of the Carolina Klezmer Project will switch uniforms and play another Savannah gig. They’re also known as BAM Jazz, and they’re scheduled for a Coastal Jazz Association performance at Four Points By Sheraton.

Ah, musicians, taking all the work they can get. Just like the old days. CS Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival Where: Forsyth Park, Bull St. at Park Ave. When: 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25 Admission: Free Carolina Klezmer Project: 12 and 2 p.m.

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Three bites

Demonic spirits In the spirit of October, this week’s offering is a grab bag of devilishly themed wines for Halloween — along with my candy pairing ideas — and a collection of Oktoberfest beers. Trick... or treat?

Evil Cabernet 2007: Carry your pocket mirror to read the inverted labels from this pair of juices from Australia.

Expect a hauntingly rich nose of jammy black currant with a smoky vanilla note. On the palate, search out black olive, smoky bacon, light pepper, red currants and hints of dark chocolate.

This is 100 percent Cabernet from wine maker Chris Ringland is aged in 30 percent new French oak. Your candy bag pairing?

Why, Tootsie Roll, of course!

Tim’s restaurant hopping turns up intriguing and satisfying meals. He picks some experiences every week to share: from the old lady down the block.

Brimstone 2007: This red counterpart to Hellfire is as tortured as a mad scientist’s unwilling subject. The blend of Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir is cold–soaked as whole, de–stemmed berries for four to seven days — and is hand punched twice daily. It’s aged in new and neutral American and French barrels.

The effort pays. This wine unfolds to expose layers of plum, berry and dark chocolate flavors completed by a long, solid finish kissed with oak. It’s a heavenly partner with food – from grilled burgers, Southern–style barbecue ribs to the Julia Child classic, boeuf bourguignonne. This would be divine with a dark chocolate Hershey’s Miniature.

Polk’s Produce

The folks you know as the friendly vendors of fresh regional produce and flowers are now the go–to downtown location for hot, scratch–made meat–n–three lunches. It’s not fancy – plastic plates and self–serve beverages make this feel like a picnic – but the wholesome food disguises any hint of casualness. I landed on a day when it was tough making a choice, but I ultimately went with a doses of comfort food: tender and nicely seasoned roast beef, smashed potatoes with chunks of earthy, tasty potato, sweetly glazed fresh carrots and a summer–fresh half tomato topped with a baked crust of savory herbs and parmigiano cheese. Fresh, hot cobbler showcasing Georgia peaches reminded me of my grandmother’s recipe.

Selections change day–to–day and sandwiches are also available. There is an eclectic array of tables and chairs for eating in, or eating in the garden – but lots of busy downtowners I saw were happily carrying away foam clam shells packed full of food. Oh, lunch, with dessert and a jumbo sweet tea: $8!

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Garibaldi’s Pure Evil 2007: This all Chardonnay grape wine is sourced from the same southeastern Aussie vineyards as it red brother, but swings to the opposite end of the flavor spectrum — in a good way.

I found Peach, melon, ripe tropical fruits and a hint of cashew. It finishes creamy, luscious and lingering. Candy pairing: Candy corn.

Hellfire White 2007: Hellfire and its red twin, Brimstone, hail from the Hood River, Oregon, Phelps Creek Vineyards. Hellfire is a blend of Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Riesling and Gewurztraminer that is handled like a tortured soul: cluster pressed, then fermented in a combination of stainless steel, neutral French oak and a dab of new French oak.

The results? Certainly no Frankenstein’s monster!

A note of honeysuckle highlights granny smith apple and mint in its complex nose.

Hellfire crisp, dry and long finishing with a bit of minerality. It is lovely as an aperitif or with pasta, quiche and summer salads. At the witching hour, enjoy it with that overly ripe apple

Oompah, oompah Beer fans hear the bass oomph of the tuba all month — it’s Oktoberfest! Dust off your stein and give these a try: Ayinger Oktober Fest–Märzen: It’s golden in the glass and slightly sweet; plenty malty.

The dryness comes from long maturation — it’s made in March to be ready for fall. The Distillery has a couple of kegs to tap.

Victory Festbier: Chef John in Statesboro told me he loves Victory Festbier, a smooth drinking, malty domestic craft beer in the European style. Two German malts, Munich and Vienna, team with whole flower German hops to flavor this marzen — which may be a good introduction to Oktoberfest newcomers.

Moon River Tater Beer: Locally made using a hearty bunch of roasted sweet potatoes, Brewer John Pinkerton gives us his take on Oktoberfest — without the spices. Smooth drinking, satisfying ale is what you’ll get. Dress up the brew with a house blend of spices and crushed pumpkin seed as a glass rimmer. cs

Frankly, it had been some time since I wrote about Garibaldi’s – and that review was not one they proudly laminated and hung in the dining room.

But this kitchen is filled with talent. Chef Gerald has been there for decades, Garibaldi corporate Chef Danny Kim, a frequent visitor, is near legendary and Chef Seth, a former sous chef at Alligator Soul, handles the classics with quiet, focused execution. I dropped in Saturday night and began with a classic Caesar salad, resplendent with salty anchovies and seasoned, crunchy house–made croutons. It was fresh, nicely portioned and a palate teaser before the main course. Red Snapper was fresh off the boat that day, I enjoyed mine pan–sauteed atop a generous serving of root vegetable risotto. The risotto was moist, slightly creamy and filled with the comforting little bites of finely diced root veggies. A third layer of baby arugula tossed lightly in vinaigrette added acidity that helped cleanse the palate between bites – I didn’t want to miss a single flavor in this beautiful dish. Service was perfectly attentive and my server was well–acquainted with the menu.

I returned for a wine dinner less than a week later and can honestly say that every course was prepared perfectly, the pairings matched beautifully and the food paid homage to the wines’ source – Tuscany. Of special note was the Steak Florentine with roasted baby veggies – and Porcini mushroom risotto drizzled with Chianti reduction. Bravo!

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Thrive, A Carryout Cafe, Whitemarsh Island, has added staff to include Carrie Climer (formerly pastry chef of Local 11 Ten), and Linda Gerbert (formerly of Brighter Day and knowledgeable in nutrition and herbs). Susan Ridley, co–owner of Hendry Wines, will be on hand Tuesday, Nov. 3, for a paired dinner at EOS. 6:30 p.m.. $65pp ++, Eos, 1801 Habersham St. Call for reservations, 238–2400.

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Caterina Lichtenberg, March 24 at the Morris Center.

The Connect Americana concert series includes shows from Cajun master David Greely (in the afternoon, March 25, Morris Center), the bluegrass family band Cherryholmes (evening of March 25, Morris Center), teenage bluegrass pickers Sierra Noble and Sarah Jarosz (March 22 and 23, Morris Center) and the great bluegrass group The Del McCoury Band (April 3, Lucas Theatre).

Other highlights of the 2010 Savannah Music Festival: • The young classical pianist Lang Lang performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra March 18 at the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

• Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys play for your dancing pleasure at the annual Zydeco Dance Party, March 19 at the Morris Center.

• Brazilian guitarists the Assad Brothers, with the gypsy jazz–playing Roby Lakatos Ensemble, March 19 at the Lucas Theatre.

• Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio, featuring one of Nashville’s most prized violinists, March 26 and 27 at the Morris Center.

• Recitals from classical pianists Yefim Bronfman, Sebastian Knauer, Jeffrey Kahane and Gabriela Montero.

• Legendary jazz pianist Dick Hyman performs the music of Fats Waller.

• Pianist Wu Han returns, with David Finckel and Philip Setzer.

• The Emerson String Quartet will play two separate and distinct programs of Dvorzak music.

• British violinist Daniel Hope has again collected a mix of exemplary classical musicians for the Sensations series, always at the Telfair Academy.

Tickets for all events are on sale now.

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The news about Wilco’s appearance at the 2010 Savannah Music Festival has spread like wildfire, but there are lots of other shows worth talking about on the just–announced schedule.

The festival runs from March 18 to April 3 in various venues around the city.

Wilco, of course, is March 25 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Patty Loveless, one of the finest roots vocalists in all of country music, shares a bill with Kathy Mattea March 20 at the Lucas Theatre. Loveless has had a slew of hits, from ballads to raucous honky tonk to traditional bluegrass: Who can forget “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am,” “Lonely Too Long,” “Here I Am” and “I Try to Think About Elvis”?

Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell makes his SMF debut with concerts at the Charles H. Morris Center April 2 and 3.

Frisell, who’s equally at home in the eclectic worlds of rock, country and blues, will perform with West African lute player Bassekou Kouyate.

Derek Trucks, the young master of the slide guitar, returns for an encore SMF appearance with his wife, the gifted singer/ guitarist Susan Tedeschi. The date and time of this concert has not been announced.

Trucks is currently a member of the Allman Brothers Band (his uncle is Butch Trucks, the ABB’s drummer), and not so long ago toured the world as a key member of Eric Clapton’s touring band. He is a mega–star among jam–band aficionados.

Then there’s Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, March 28 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre; She & Him, a rock ‘n’ roll duo with one–man band M. Ward and film actress Zooey Deschanel, March 27 at the Trustees Theater; mandolinists Mike Marshall and Chris Thile, with

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Apologue — Recent oil paintings by local artist Juliana Peloso featuring reoccurring characters from her colorful animal series. Opening reception 10/15. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. , http://www. galleryespresso.com/ Constructs and Inventions — The etchings of Erik Desmazieres. Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Square, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland 18801914 — Encompassing over seventy works drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Jepson Center for the Arts East Line West Plane — Featuring new work by Ching Levy. The new approach includes Paintings within Paintings and Painting on Painting. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery , 9 W. Henry St. Four Seasons — The reopening of the Off The Wall Gallery at 45 Bistro begins with new work from Brian Macgregor. Show runs 10/112/1. Off the Wall Gallery at 45 Bistro, 123 E. Broughton St.

Full On! — A colorful collaborative show of paintings and photography from Jose Ray and Tim Foster. Opening reception 10/2 at 7pm.

Hangfire, 37 Whitaker St. Gaia: Earth Goddess — Local, self-taught artist Phil Starks exhibits hand-carved sculptures cast in ceramic stone using the ancient “lost wax” technique. Opening reception: 10/23, 6-8pm. SSU Social Sciences Building International Aerospace Art Exhibit — Over 50 paintings by artists from around the world who specialize in aerospace subjects. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave., Pooler La Jetee — A collection of prints from SCAD students and professors inspired by the 1962 film that shares the show’s title (and which was adapted more recently as “Twelve Monkeys.”) Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, MLK Blvd.

New Work by Brenda Turner and Margaret Brennan — A shared show between two local artists: Turner, a painter, and Brennan, a photographer. Merrill Lynch Office Building, 7414 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pendant — Jewelry by Marlene Nawrocki at Gallery 209 River Street.

Raku Pizza Night — On October 28 at 5:30pm, AASU art majors present an exhibit of kiln-fired pottery and demonstrate the firing process. Fine Arts Hall, Rm 102, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Recent work from Marilyn Foley — A collection of pastoral watercolors. Iocovozzi Fine Art, 1 W. Jones St. ‘Serendipity — An exhibition of new paintings by Jeff Zeigler who explores local scenes of everyday life in a colorful, primal style. Opening reception 10/15 at 7pm, and will include music, food and door prizes. For more info, call 912-655-4204.

Decisions Business Center, 2703 Hopkins St. Show & Tell — The juried group exhibition “Show & Tell” explores and showcases the theme of narrative through a variety of media.

Opening reception: Oct. 23, 6-9 p.m. Desotorow Gallery, 2421 DeSoto Ave. Two Painters, Two Sculptors — A group show highlighting work from painters Margret Kuhni and Charlalee Sedgwick alongside sculptors Ellen O’Leary and Kathy Strong. JEA Art Gallery, 5111 Abercorn St. Words Implied, Words Denied — An exhibition featuring new works by John Waters and Bob Newman, members of the graphic design faculty at SCAD, which attempts to push the boundaries of visual communication. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Works by Robert Newman and John Waters — A shared exhibition featuring recent works by Robert Newman and John Waters.

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by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

A local production company is bringing the dead back to life with a new DVD called Savannah’s Historic Graveyards that explores the rich history of our cemeteries.

“This opens the door for Savannahians to all the magical things that are right under their noses that they don’t even know about,” says Michael Jordan, president of Cosmos Mariner Productions.

The film, which will be sold in stores throughout the historic district, will have a premiere on Thursday, October 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Savannah History Museum on MLK Jr. Boulevard.

While a stroll through Bonaventure or Colonial Park are commonplace activities for residents and visitors alike, Jordan’s film explores some of the history that might not be immediately evident during an afternoon in the cemetery.

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and you’re related to these people, then you probably know, but if you’re somebody who moved here like I did, you’re gonna be astounded at the complexity of the stories,” says Jordan. “It’s overwhelming.”

He enlisted the help of several local historians, including former School Board President Hugh Golson, to help shed light on some of the interesting stories interred in local burial grounds.

While dead men might tell no tales, the passing centuries have produced their fair share of anecdotes, including discovering that Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene, a close friend of George Washington, was sharing a grave with a British combatant from the Battle of Savannah.

“They moved Greene to the obelisk in Johnson Square in the early 20th century, and it was a major Savannah event.

People came out in their Victorian finest to watch it happen,” explains Jordan.

“But low and behold he had shared that grave for a hundred years with the British hero of the Battle of Savannah, Colonel Maitland. Nobody knew.”

Although Bonaventure and Colonial Park are two of Savannah’s most recognizable graveyards, the film also delves into the history of Laurel Grove North and South, as well as the two 18th Century Jewish cemeteries tucked away behind Savannah Station, which served as the rallying point for French troops during the Revolutionary War. Besides providing the final resting place for a veritable who’s who of Savannah’s long history, the graveyards paint an interesting portrait of life and

death through the inscriptions, many of which have faded into illegibility or, in the case of Colonial Park, were tampered with by Union soldiers.

“The inscriptions are crazy,” Jordan says. “One girl died after being struck by lightning. Another died when her Bible caught fire on her breast while she was reading it. You can barely read those things, but I interviewed the historians and found out what they say.”

The movie took about four months of research. It’s the second in a series of historical films about Savannah, following the release earlier this year of Savannah’s Historic Homes.

While it doesn’t seem like graveyards would offer too much perspective on life besides that it will end someday, how the cemeteries have changed over the years, and how hundreds or thousands of graves have been lost over the years makes Jordan wonder what the future holds for our own efforts at preservation.

“The lost graves — how does that happen?” he asks. “It shows how differently our descendents may see what’s important. A hundred years from now, our children may have a completely different idea, and they’ll say, ‘what the hell were they thinking?’ What did we throw away that people are gonna think was treasure?” cs Premier of Savannah’s Historic Graveyards When: Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6:30 p.m.

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Filmmaker H.P Mendoza is a quadruple threat: He wrote, produced, directed and composed the music (14 songs) for the independent film Fruit Fly, one of the featured movies at this weekend’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

San Francisco–based Mendoza is best known for his score for Colma: The Musical, the 2006 indie hit.

Fruit Fly is the story of a Filipina performance artist named Bethesda, who moves into an art commune to search for her long–missing biological mother. She comes to discover that she might well be turning into a “fruit fly” (also known as a “fairy princess,” or “fag hag”).

“When Colma: The Musical did the film festival circuit, we ended up going to almost all of the gay film fests and the Asian American film fests,” Mendoza, who is Asian American, told the Web site INDIEwire. “And, while I always felt empowered seeing Asian faces on the big screen, there was always that ONE film that has the ‘faggot’ that gets beat up and everyone in the audience cheers.

“So, when I go to the gay festivals, I look for similar empowerment (and often find alienation) but there’s always the ONE film that has the ‘ching chong Chinaman’ that delivers pizza and when he meets his violently funny demise, everyone in the audience cheers.

“I figured that there must be a way to reconcile both of these issues in a subtle way. That and, since Colma was really about my life, I thought it might be fun to write about L.A.’s life as a performance artist.”

The film was shot in 23 days, using what Mendoza calls “every guerilla tactic in the book” to photograph singing, dancing and acting live on the streets of San Francisco.

“I wanted, at face value, Fruit Fly to look like some Asian Tales of the City,” he said. “But I also really wanted it to feel like some of my favorite aspects of some of my favorite musicals. There are winks and nods to Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Cabaret... even an old Tommy Tune show called Busker Alley.

“But I really wanted the music to sound different from Colma. I’m actually prouder of the music in Fruit Fly because it’s all over the map. It’s very musical theater yet very modern electronic, as well.” Mendoza was named 2009 Rising Star winner at QFest, and Fruit Fly took Best Film at Fort Worth QCinema.

Fruit Fly screens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 at the Jepson Center for the Arts.

Writer and director David Oliveras, whose Watercolors (screening at 5 p.m.

Saturday at the Little Theatre of Savannah) was named Outstanding First Dramatic Feature at the Los Angeles Outfest, will be in attendance Saturday.

Watercolors, the story of an artist struggling with the painful memories of his lover’s suicide, also earned Oliveras the Best Director award at the Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

The two–day film festival, sponsored by the Savannah Gay & Lesbian Film Society, also includes a number of short films, a live performance by singer/ songwriter Joshua Klipp, and other featured events. CS Savannah Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Day One: Events begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 at the Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St. Day Two: Events begins at 11 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Little Theatre of Savannah, 703 Louisville Road (the Freight Station) Friday tickets: $15 for film only; $20 for film, reception and shows at Club One Saturday tickets: $10 per film program Online: www.savannahgaylesbianfilmsociety.com

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Where The Wild Things Are

Perhaps it’s best to think of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s live–action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book, as the PG answer to this past spring’s R–rated Watchmen.

In both cases, the filmmakers involved have captured the look and texture of the illustrated page in a manner that is simply breathtaking.

The key difference, though, is one of length. The creators of Watchmen had so much material with which to work, and they were able to excise what they chose and still retain a basically faithful adaptation.

But here, Jonze and his co–scripter Dave Eggers have the opposite –– and more difficult –– problem. Because Sendak’s original book is so slender –– certainly not enough to fill a 100–minute movie –– the pair had to build on characterizations, alter some connecting tissues, and concoct entirely new scenes. The end result isn’t a bastardization of the literary classic, but neither is it a further canonization of the acclaimed source. It’s the sort of film certain to be poked, prodded, discussed, dismissed and/or deified. But ignored? Never. Max Records plays young Max, a troubled child not very adept at dealing with

anger or frustration. After a spat with his single mom (Catherine Keener) leads to his biting her on the shoulder, Max bolts from the house, soon stumbling on a body of water where a small boat awaits him. Max sails away and eventually arrives at an island inhabited by large, furry beasts who alternate between sounding like confused children and neurotic adults.

Max avoids being eaten by these creatures by telling them that he’s a powerful king; impressed, they make him their leader. Max especially bonds with Carol (voiced

by James Gandolfini), the most temperamental of the monsters, but he enjoys spending time with all these behemoths as they play various games and generally have a good time. But petty squabbles erupt among the beasts, and they turn to Max for guidance. But what does he know? After all, he’s only a kid, and one who clearly

doesn’t always have the answers or advice that the others hope to hear.

Technically, Where the Wild Things Are is a stunning achievement, and the beasts –– a combination of costumes and CGI –– particularly look astonishing. But there’s a reason why Sendak’s book runs only a few dozen pages, and by blowing up the story, Jonze has in effect stripped it of much of its wide–eyed wonder. Both the book and the movie are children’s tales sporting a dark underbelly, but the film version, unlike its predecessor, is often too literal, resulting in a suffocating atmosphere that further undermines the simplicity of the tale. Like the wild things inhabiting Max’s world, it’s fascinating but also lumbering –– and (to paraphrase The Troggs) it’s unlikely to make everyone’s heart sing.

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Vigilante justice in real life is, to put it mildly, highly problematic, but when it comes to cinema, who doesn’t occasionally feel some measure of catharsis in watching a sympathetic protagonist skirt around a deeply flawed legal system and exact his revenge on his own terms? Take, for instance, the original Death Wish. Bad guys kill Charles Bronson’s wife, Charles Bronson kills bad guys. The end. (At least until the sorry string of sequels.) Ah, for those simpler times of Chuck–style vengeance. Law Abiding Citizen initially appears as if it will be a modern rendition of the same type of tale, as loving family man Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) must watch helplessly as his wife and little girl are murdered right in front of him.

The killer, Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte), and his unwilling accomplice, Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart), are apprehended, but while Clyde wants both of them to pay for their crime, Clyde’s lawyer Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who’s only interested in maintaining his high conviction–rate percentage, negotiates a deal with Darby that results in him serving a short jail stint while Ames goes to the electric chair. Cut to 10 years later, and Clyde sets out to get his revenge –– not only on the criminals but also on the whole judicial system that failed them. Initially, Law Abiding Citizen makes all the right moves, and it’s fun to watch Clyde punch holes in the whole manner in which this country handles its criminal cases. It soon becomes clear that the film is going past the black–and–white morality of Death Wish, which is fine had it continued to offer viewers thought–provoking scenarios. Instead, Law Abiding Citizen turns into an ugly, sordid affair, a gruesome melodrama that, too afraid to tackle the issues it brings up, instead elects to transform into a ridiculous thriller about a psychopath terrorizing a city. Foxx’s character is ostensibly supposed to be the hero –– or at least turn into one before the end –– but Nick Rice remains a shallow, unrepentant lout (despite some lip–service speeches that never sound convincing) whose final act is designed to earn audience approval but instead goes down about as easy as spoiled milk. By the end, the murdered wife and daughter are all but forgotten, and Clyde Shelton’s pain has been trivialized to an offensive degree.

Justice may be blind, but it’s got 20/20 vision when compared to this movie that stumbles around in the dark with

no hope of providing illumination.

Regardless of how her career progresses, Kristen Bell at least has had the fortune of heading off to Hawaii to film Forgetting Sarah Marshall and now Bora Bora to shoot Couples Retreat. Those are enviable assignments for any young performer, and it begs the question: Does her Hollywood agent work a second job as a travel agent? Magnificent scenery is indeed one of the pleasures of Couples Retreat, with a character even quipping that the view looks like a screen saver. Yet for all its visual splendor, to say nothing of its likable cast, the movie never feels as liberating as its locale. Working from a script by Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Dana Fox, director Peter Billingsley (A Christmas Story’s Ralphie, all grown up) oversees the project more like a foreman making sure the product gets turned out rather than a filmmaker injecting any personal style into the proceedings, leaving it to certain capable actors to provide any juice via well–timed witticisms

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and double takes. The premise finds married couple Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Bell) imploring their friends to join them on a vacation to an oceanic paradise where the purpose is to reconnect spouses experiencing turbulence in their unions. The other six –– overworked but content couple Dave (Vaughn) and Ronnie (Malin Ackerman), bickering spouses Joey (Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin Davis), and divorce’ Shane (Faizon Love) and his 20–year– old girlfriend Trudy (Kali Hawk) –– are led to believe that the workshops and counseling sessions are optional; they’re only there for the buffets and the water skiing, but they quickly learn that everyone is required to take part in the team–building activities. Before long, nerves are frayed, feelings are hurt, and all the relationships teeter on the edge of disaster. Amidst all the low–simmer shenanigans, Couples Retreat does make some salient (if obvious) points about the inherent difficulties in keeping any marriage fresh and vital. The movie would have benefitted from a more realistic ending than the feel–good slop force–fed to audiences by the heaping spoonful, but along the way, it at least feints in the direction of testiness before backing off. The characters played by Bateman and Hawk are too annoying to be funny, while Bell herself is too bland to be anything. But Ackerman and Love are pleasing to watch, while the lion’s share of the barbs are adroitly handled by Davis, Favreau and Vaughn.

Ultimately, though, Couples Retreat is too mellow for its own good. Hardly paradise, it’s more like the cinematic equivalent of a leisurely walk around the park.

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It goes without saying that Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, hardly shows the United States of America at its best. The sobering afterthought is that it hardly shows Michael Moore at his best, either. Easily the controversial filmmaker’s weakest nonfiction piece to date, Capitalism contains many powerful sequences yet ultimately is too scattershot to serve as effective agitprop. Tackling the subject of capitalism is even more daunting than tackling the subject of health care (as he did so expertly in Sicko), and Moore is unable to coalesce all the different chapters of his odyssey into a cohesive whole. Using home–movie footage from his own comfortable middle–class existence as a child, he

shows how the basic tenets of this economic system allowed everyone in the postwar decades to take part in the American Dream, with the country only truly going to hell once Ronald Reagan and his puppetmasters arrived on the scene. From here, Moore jumps all over the place: watching ordinary folks being thrown out of their lifelong homes by the evil banking industry; chatting with erudite actor–playwright Wallace Shawn about economics; detailing how various people (including a judge) were getting rich by throwing typical teens into a juvenile detention center for offenses as minor as hurling a piece of meat across the dinner table; noting how many banking–industry officials have been a key part of the past few administrations; and examining the clandestine bank bailouts. This is all well and good, but we already knew most of these stories from even just cursory glances at newspapers and news blogs, and more than ever, we get the sense that Moore is preaching to the choir with no real inclination to expand his audience.

Zombieland The blood flows freely in this gonzo horror tale, but, more importantly, so do the laughs. And while the humor may be frosty around the edges, it’s never downright mean–spirited, thanks in part to a director (Ruben Fleischer) with a light touch, two screenwriters (Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) who have obviously done their zombie–film homework and humorously place the rules for survival front and center (they include keeping fit, being weary of bathrooms, and always wearing seat belts), and four actors (five, if you include the A–lister who turns up in a crowd–pleasing cameo) who remain ingratiating throughout. Jesse Eisenberg, giving up Adventureland for Zombieland, plays the lovably geeky Columbus, while Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin are savvy survivalist sisters Wichita and Little Rock.

Yet it’s Woody Harrelson, all rolling thunder as kick–ass cowboy Tallahassee, who makes the biggest impact. In a wild and wide–eyed performance, he stops just short of completely chewing the scenery — even the zombies aren’t capable of matching his ferocious bite.

WHIP IT Despite the title, you won’t find any Devo on Whip It’s soundtrack, but the

The Informant!

Last year at this time, the Coen Brothers were treating (or mistreating, depending on your point of view) audiences with their off–kilter offering Burn After Reading, a dark comedy flexing a quirky brand of lunacy not usually seen in comparable American fare. Like the Coens, Steven Soderbergh is no stranger to coloring outside the margins, so in a similar vein, he presents The Informant!, a like–it–or–leave–it endeavor blessed with a terrific central performance from Matt Damon. Damon, who’s a better actor than he’s often given credit for being (as evidence, check out his potent one–two punch from 2006: The Departed and The Good Shepherd), leaves behind Jason Bourne’s muscularity and goes all pudgy as Mark Whitacre, a midlevel executive at the major conglomeration Archer Daniels Midland. Whitacre seems like a pleasant enough fellow, so when he approaches FBI agents Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) and Bob Herndon (Joel McHale) volunteering to uncover a price–fixing racket at the company, they believe he might be honest when he claims he’s turning whistleblower because it’s the right thing to do. Unfortunately, with Mark Whitacre, there’s far more than meets the eye. Whitacre has a way of embellishing some stories and leaving crucial facts out of other ones, which leads to no small amount of frustration for the agents trying to do their jobs.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Missing are the pushy pop culture references that continue to hopelessly date the likes of the Shrek series, the unseemly visual schemes that turn such efforts as Delgo and Battle for Terra into eyesores, and the scatological humor that runs rampant in the majority of today’s family features. By my count, there’s only one crude gag in Cloudy, a mere misdemeanor considering the imagination driving the rest of the film.

Although it’s based on a children’s book (by Judi and Ron Barrett), Cloudy is one of those equal–opportunity exercises that provides as much merriment for adults as for kids. After all, it’s the grownups who are sure to get a chuckle out of a voice cast diverse enough to include Bruce Campbell, James Caan and Mr. T, it’s the grownups who will pick up on the movie’s gentle ecological themes. The film’s central character is Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader), a gangly inventor living in a small town dependent on its sardine trade. When the rest of the world deems sardines to be yukky, the town suffers, and it’s up to Flint to save it. The young man’s past inventions (such as spray–on shoes) were all flawed and never caught on, but his latest contraption — a device that turns water into food — seems to be a winner. After its unceremonious launch into the heavens, the machine pours down all sorts of cuisine — hamburgers, pancakes, ice cream, you name it — on a regular basis. Flint becomes the town’s savior, earns the grudging respect of a tough cop (Mr. T), and even lands a romance with a brainy weathergirl (Anna Faris). But he has yet to receive the approval of his father (Caan), a meat–and–taters kind of guy, and when the unctuous Mayor Shelbourne (Campbell) talks Flint into pushing his invention to its extreme for the sake of the community, the well–meaning scientist acts in a manner that promises stormy weather. The visual design of Cloudy is wondrous: There’s something inherently amusing in seeing a castle built out of gelatin or a street lined with ice cream rather than snow, and the movie repeatedly offers up these gastronomical delights. Yet underlying the frivolity is a warning about our nation’s gluttonous and wasteful ways, a message certainly to be lost on children (who’ll wish they had their own candy–dispensing machine hovering above their homes) but relevant to environmentally aware adults. cs

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Ramones and .38 Special both make vocal appearances in this film that marks the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore. If those two songs (“Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” and “Caught Up in You,” respectively) made the journey from Drew’s iPod to the big screen, more power to them, as they’re certainly in tune with the rock & roll aesthetic on display throughout this rowdy, rebellious film. Juno’s Ellen Page once again flashes her impressive acting chops, this time playing Bliss Cavendar, a 17–year– old whose mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is hellbent on entering her in every beauty pageant that pops up anywhere near their rundown Texas town. But Bliss eventually finds her true calling when she discovers the sport of roller derby: Adopting the name Babe Ruthless, she lands a second family in the form of her sisters on skates (played by, among others, Kristen Wiig as Maggie Mayhem and Barrymore as Smashley Simpson).

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Campaign For Liberty

A group that is carrying the torch that Ron Paul lit for freedom and liberty. Mitch Anderson, 695-7746, or visit www.campaignforliberty. com/usa/GA/Chatham/ for dates, time and meeting place.

Chatham County Democratic Party

Contact Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or R1999MHAR@aol.com. Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 109 W. Victory Dr. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.com/

Coastal Empire Constitution Party

Meets every third Thursday of the month at Savannah Joe Coffee House in Pooler. 6pm for the Truth Project and 7pm for the Institute on the Constitution, plus current events and activities related to freedom. Call 484-5281 for more info or www.constitutionparty.com

Drinking Liberally

An informal gathering of left-leaners. august1494@excite.com or www.DrinkingLiberally.org.

National Council of Negro Women

meets the first Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sip.armstrong.edu/CivilRightsMuseum/Civilindex.html

Progressive Action for Savannah

Group interested in progressive politics in Savannah. If you’re interested in joining the cause, contact Claudia Collier 912-748-0731 or ccollier376@yahoo.com.

Savannah Area Republican Women

meets the first Wednesday of the month at 11:30 am at Johnny Harris Restaurant Banquet Room on Victory Drive. Cost is $13 at the door.

598-1883. Johnny Harris Restaurant, 1651 East Victory Drive , Savannah

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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Benefits

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Operation Christmas Child

The group encourages volunteers to fill simple shoe box gifts with toys, necessity items, school supplies, candy and often hand-written notes of encouragement. The gifts are then hand-delivered to children worldwide who are suffering because of natural disaster, disease, war, terrorism, famine and poverty. http://www. samaritanspurse.org/

Pumpkins for Sale

Boston Butt & Rib Sale

The Alee Temple’s Annual BBQ sale. Boston butt & ribs. $20. Pick-up at the Alee Temple from 10am-6pm. Call ahead to place orders 355-2422 or 355-2427. 10/29-10/31

CASA Dancing with the Stars Fundraiser

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Chatham County is looking for sponsors and auction items for its annual Dancing with Savannah’s Stars benefit to help abused and neglected children. For more info, call 912-4478908.

Hope House of Savannah

A nonprofit housing program for homeless women and their children. Hope House is requesting donation of new or gently used furniture for its transitional housing program, Peeler House. Pick-up can be arranged and a tax deductible letter will be provided. Call 236-5310.

Items for Silent Auction

Coastal Pet Rescue is looking for items to include in it’s Yappy Hour Blue Jeans Ball on November 14. Please contact Erika@coastalpetrescue.org if you have an item or gift certificate to donate.

Miracle on May Street

The East Broad St. YMCA is collecting toys for their annual Christmas toy drive to help local families. They are looking for donations as well

Halloween is just around the corner and the White Bluff Methodist Church’s annual pumpkin patch runs through the Oct. 31st, with pumpkins and decorative gourds of all shapes and sizes. It’s open from 10am until dark Mon.Sat. and noon until dark on Sundays. Proceeds benefit the Youth Ministry at WBUMC. White Bluff United Methodist Church,

United Way Fundraising Campaign

Donations can be made to the United Way of the Coastal Empire for their annual fundraising drive. Credit-card donations may be made calling 651-7701, and checks and money orders made payable to the United Way of the Coastal Empire, and can be mailed to: United Way of the Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St., Savannah, 31401.

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In 250 words of less, say why your nominee should be given this award. Nominations can be submitted online at www.verveffect.com/busywoman or by mail at 648 Henry St., Savannah, 31401. For info, visit Savannah.EveryBusyWoman.com.

Call for Artists

The Cultural Affairs Dept is seeking artists for solo or group shows in the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery for its 2010 season. All media will be considered.

Deadline is Oct. 30. Proposal guidelines are available online at www.savannahga.gov/arts or by calling (912) 651-6783.

Community Assistance Applications

The Junior League of Savannah is accepting applications for local non-profit organizations who advocate on behalf of women and children in the community. Applications are available at jrleaguesav.org or by calling (912) 790-1002.

Deadline Dec. 15. The Junior League offers funding and volunteers to its partner organizations.

Extras Needed

A SCAD thesis film titled “The Brotherhood of Men” is seeking extras, both male and female of all ages. The film is a comedy. Send email for details. Kyle Duris at kduris20@student. scad.edu

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.

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Junior Miss Contestants

Greater Chatham County’s Junior Miss program is looking for high school junior women in the following counties: Bryan, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty that are interested in earning money for college to participate in its 2010 program. Deadline for application is Nov. 30. contact: Sondra Barnes at 912-233-6131

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Presented by Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS), in partnership with the City of Savannah, Bank On Savannah, the FDIC, and Step Up Savannah. 10/5, 11/2, 12/7 at 2pm. or 10/19, 11/16, 12/21 at 6pm. Call to reserve space 912-691-2227. Bull Street library, board room, 2nd floor ,

Abstinence Education

Hope House and Savannah State University are providing an after-school program for youth and young adults ages 12 to 29.

Program activities last for about 2 hours every Wednesday at SSU. Transportation is provided. Snacks, field trips and supportive services are provided at no charge. 236-5310.

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Adult Painting Classes

Savannah Art and Clay Studio offers classes in painting techniques with studies in light and shadow to understanding color, and more. Carolyne Graham is the instructor.

Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm. 925-7393, carolynegraham@yahoo.com.

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

For all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory. Serious inquiries only. 961-7021 or 667-1056.

Beading Classes

Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659. Bead Dreamer Studio, Savannah http://www.beaddreamer.com/

Children’s Art Classes

for grades 1-5 offer basic art, clay and mixed media on Wednesdays from 4-5:30 p.m.

Cost is $65 per 5 weeks, basics supplied.

Teen Class meets Thursday 4-6 p.m. Cost is $75 per 5 weeks, most supplies furnished.

Savannah Art and Clay Creations, contact carolynegraham@aol.com or 925-7393.

Construction Apprentice Program

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. 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.

For information, e-mail cafecontigo@gmail. com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. , Savannah

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.

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Free swimming lessons

The Savannah Storm Swim Team is giving free swim lessons to any child between the ages 7 to 18. An adult must accompany any child or children under 10. Send e-mail with contact info to: thesavannahstorm@gmail. com.

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Earn extra income after taking this course.

Flexible schedules, convenient location.

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Works is sponsoring this show by the Puppet People, which will tour elementary schools to teach students the importance of learning to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. For bookings, call 355-3366.

Georgetown Playgroup

Meet the first and third Thursday of the month from 9:30-11am at the Northside clubhouse in Georgetown. Free.

German Language Classes

Two ongoing classes for beginners and experienced adults. We read, learn and talk.

Everybody who likes to learn German or likes to brush up German is welcome and will learn with a lot of fun. Beginners meet on Monday from 6-7pm, advanced from 7-8pm. 845-7647045. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave ,

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.

Porcelain Painting

Ongoing beginner, intermediate and advanced 4-day class. $250 includes supplies, brushes, porcelain and firing of art. 706-495-6724, www.

GaSeminarsbytheSea.com. Internationally renowned teachers. Tybee Island, Tybee Island , Tybee Island

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Offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center for schools, day cares, libraries, churches, community events and fairs. Call 447-6605. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St , Savannah http:// www.sjchs.org/1844.cfm

Savannah Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Low cost instruction in a group lesson format. Classes in drama, dance, percussion, woodwinds, brass, strings, piano, vocals, guitar, visual arts and music theory Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30, 6:30 or 7:30pm. $60 per quarter. 352-8366, tsaconservatory@bellsouth. net. Salvation Army Community Center, 3000 Bee Rd. , Savannah

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

Offering a variety of business classes. Call 6523582. Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street , Savannah

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes

Be bilingual. Call 272-4579 or 308-3561. email savannahlatina@yahoo.com or visit www. savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Savannah Learning Center, 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. , Savannah

SSU Marine Research Cruises

Open to high school students and college students. Engage in studies and sampling of marine life, water and sediment from local habitats. Cruises run in Oct and Nov. For info or two reserve space email gilliganm@savannah-

state.edu with the following subject line: “SSU EDGE Research Cruise Request.”

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. The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www. thestarfishcafe.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. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

Watercolor Painting Workshops

Learn the art of watercolor painting from award winning landscape watercolorist Dennis Roth. Classes available Sept - Dec. Call for info. Class size is small, so reserve space early.

Studio Phase 3, City Market , http://studiophase3.com/

Clubs & Organizations Bike Night with Mikie

Every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items. The Red Zone Bar and Grill, 3975 Highway 17 , Richmond Hill

Brothers Growing for Humanity

A fraternity for single men of all ages (like the “bachelors” in Midnight in the Garden) devoted to comradeship and serving (as little as one hour per week) those alone/lonely, confined to their home, a nursing or retirement home, or in hospice. Fraternity brothers embrace attitudes/attributes of compassion and love, honesty, patience, forgiveness, humility, faith, and reverence for human life. Call Brother Dennis at 786-7614.

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

Aerospace education programs and activities for adults and teens ages 12-18. Meets every Thursday from 7-9 p.m. Visit www.gawg.cap. gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410. Savannah Flying Tiger Composite Squadron, Savannah International Airport , Savannah

Clean Coast

Meets monthly on the first Monday. Visit www. cleancoast.org for event schedule. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

Coastal MINIs

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together.

Visit coastalminis.com. Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah

Coffee & Conversation

Held every Tuesday at 8am by Creative Coast as a networking event. http://links.thecreativecoast.org/conversation. Cafe Ambrosia, 202 E. Broughton St. , Savannah

Derby Devil Jeerleaders

Do you like roller derby? Want to wear fun costumes and cheer for your team? Enjoy all the punk rock roller derby attitude without the threat of injury and support our local rollergirls as part of the Jeerleader Squad. Email fromamonkey@yahoo.com for more info. http://www. savannahderby.com/

Fibers Guild

Meets on the first Saturday of the month to explore techniques and creative aspects of fiber arts, including weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet and more. Call 355-2985 or 927-8706 for info. AASU Fine Arts Building, rm 203,

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Meets on the first Saturday of the month to explore techniques and creative aspects of fiber arts, including weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet and more. Call 355-2985 or 927-8706 for info. AASU Fine Arts Building, rm 203,

Geechee Sailing Club

Meets the second Monday of the month (except for November) at 6:30pm. Open to all interested in boating and related activities. www.geecheesailingclub.org. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr ,

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal. RSVP to 660-8257. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

Meets the second Wed. of every month at 6:30 p.m. Call 236-8546. American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. , Savannah

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. Call 786-4508. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. , Savannah

Moon River Chorus

Ladies’ barbershop chorus. Rehearsals are Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. Visitors are welcome. Call Sylvia at 927-2651 or sylviapf@ aol.com. Whitefield United Methodist Church, 728 E. 55th Street , Savannah http://www. whitefieldumc.com/

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 9:1511:30 am Call 898-0869 and 897-6167 or visit www.mops.org. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http://www.fbcislands.com/

No Kidding

Join Savannah’s only social club for people without children! No membership fees, meet great new friends, enjoy a wide variety of activities and events. For more info, visit http://savannahnokidding.angelfire.com/ or e-mail: savannahnokidding@gmail.com

Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group

International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing old-time radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962. Send email to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo. com or visit www.otrr.org.

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. For a nominal annual fee, members will receive monthly training sessions and seminars and have weekly runs of various distances. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 596-5965.

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 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m.

Call 308-2094, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org. Savannah

Savannah Adventure Club

Dedicated to pursuing adventures, both indoors and outdoors, throughout the Low country and beyond. Activities include sailing, camping, skydiving, kayaking, hiking, tennis, volleyball, and skiing, in addition to regular social gatherings. Free to join. Email savannahadventureclub@gmail.com or visit www.savannahadventureclub.com

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 non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 655-0994.

Savannah Art Association

Enjoy classes, informal “playshops” and shows on River Street and area businesses.

Now accepting applications for new members. 232-7731. . Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. , Savannah

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

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 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@comcast. net or 925-4709. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

A dinner meeting held the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club. Call John Findeis at 748-7020. Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leonard Neat St , Savannah http://www.stewart.army. mil/

Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner 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.

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Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@ aol.com.

Savannah Jaycees

A Junior Chamber of Commerce for young professionals 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. Jaycee Building, 101 Atlas St. , Savannah

Savannah Newcomers Club

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

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail mickie_ragsdale@ comcast.net.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the First City Club. 32 Bull St , Savannah http:// www.firstcityclub.com/

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. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http:// www.memorialhealth.com/

Savannah Wine Lovers

A sometimes formal group that also sometimes just gets together to drink wine. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/savannahwine-lovers.

Savannah Writers Network

meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7pm at Books a Million to discuss, share and critique writing of fiction or non-fiction novels, essays or short stories. A meet-and-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm. Melissa Sanso, 4410030. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

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Local chapter of Women in Aviation International. It is open to men and women in the region who are interested in supporting women in aviation. Regular meetings are held once a month and new members are welcome. Visit http://southernwingswai.com.

Stitch-N’s

Knitting, spinning and crocheting Monday and Tuesday from 5-8pm and occasional Sunday 24pm at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty. Jennifer Harey, 238-0514. wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty , Savannah

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. Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Tarde en Espanol

Meets the last Wednesday orf every month at 6:30pm in different locations to practice spoken Spanish in a casual environment. 236-8566.

Theremin/Electronic Music Enthusiasts

A club for enthusiasts of electronic music and instruments, including the theremin, synths, Mooger Foogers, jam sessions, playing techniques, compositions, gigs, etc. Philip Neidlinger, theremin@neidlinger.us.

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. Old Tybee School, Tybee Island , Tybee Island

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. 2 W. Bay St. , Savannah

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. Savannah

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abi's WasFusion

a coffee shop Downtown Savannah, GA. For more information please call (845) 764 7045 or e-mail: ifly6000@aol.com

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Dance

Country/Western & Line Dancing

Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance. Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes are held Monday through Friday at the St. Pius X Family Resource Center. Classes start at $25.00 per month. For more information call 912-631-3452 or 912-2722797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. Email: abeniculturalarts@gmail.com

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round. (912) 921-2190 The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads ,

African Dance & Drum

Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Classes are held every Sunday - drums at 4pm, dance at 5pm Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah http:// www.ayoluwa.org/

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3:30. Open to the public.

Cost $2.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo. com. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway

Argentine Tango Classes with Dave Allen Argentine Tango continuing series Thursday’s @ 7:30PM. Call David Allen @ 912-401-2280 for information and enrollment. The STUDIO, 2805-b Roger Lacey Ave. ,

Beginner’s Belly Dance Class

Every Thursday from 7-9 p.m. Also learn new line dances. Contact Tunya Coleman at 6316700.

Every Tuesday through December at 6:30pm.

American Legion Post 36. American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. ,

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. 2212 Lincoln St , Savannah

Gretchen Greene School of Dance

Register for fall classes in tap, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics, jazz and hip-hop for ages 3 and up.

Adult tap classes are held Tuesday from 7:308:15 for beginners and Monday from 7:15-8 p.m. for intermediate. Call 897-4235.

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. Savannah

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@ gmail.com or 912-704-2052.

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

Classes teaching the basics of belly dancing.

Walk-ins welcome. Sundays 11:40am-12:40pm.

Contact Nicole Edge: 912-596-0889. kleokatt@ gmail.com Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St. ,

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.

Belly Dance Classes

Maxine Patterson School of Dance

Taught by Nocturnelle. Contact Maya,313-1619, nocturnellegbd@yahoo.com or www.nocturnelle.org.

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.

Savannah

Now accepting students age 3 and up for fall classes. Adult intermediate classes in tap on Tues from 7:30-8:30, and beginner tappers on Thurs from 7:30-8:30. Teen and adult hip-hop class on Wed from 7:30-8:30 and hip-hop for students on Saturday mornings. Call for information: 234-8745 or 352-3156.

Pole Dancing Class

For exercise...Learn dance moves and spins while working your abs, tone your legs and arms, a total body workout. Ladies Only! The only thing that comes off is your shoes. Classes

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Salsa Classes

Learn Salsa “Rueda de Casino” style every Wednesday, from 6-7pm Beginner, 7-8pm Intermediate, at the Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Grace, 234-6183 or Juan, 330-5421. Savannah

Salsa Lessons

Beginners class: Mondays, 7:30-8:45pm.

Intermediate class: Tuesdays, 7-8pm. No partner required. Contact : salsavannah@ gmail.com for more info. Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St.

Fitness Acupuncture for Health

Available Monday thru Saturday at Hidden Well Acupuncture Center downtown. Traditional Chinese medical consultations and treatments are available with Fawn Smiley and Nicole Coughlin Ware. 233-9123, www. hiddenwellacupuncturecenter.com or hiddenwellacupuncture@gmail.com. 318 East Huntingdon Street , Savannah

Belly Dancing for Fun and Fitness

Colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, jingly rattling bracelets, exotic music are provided. Held Tuesdays at 1 pm and Saturdays at 3pm, cost is $20 per class. consistantintegrity@yahoo.com.

Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training

Savannah Ceili Club

Offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 8-9 a.m. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and will be required to sign a waiver form before participating. All classes are free. Call 652-6780 or 965-9629.

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Savannah Shag Club

Crossfit Hyperformance

New monday night class, 7:30pm. Experience Irish Culture thru Irish social dancing. No partner or experience needed.

Learn the basics of Irish Ceili dancing. Studio location is 7176 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

For more info email PrideofIrelandGA@gmail. com. offers shag music every Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36.

2309 E. Victory Dr , Thunderbolt

Shag & Beach Bop

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered last two Monday’s.

The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com. Lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

Swing Dancing by Savannah Swing Catz Free swing dance lesson and dance every Monday, 7:30-8pm, dancing from 8-10pm.

Tantra Lounge 8 E. Broughton St. Free.

220-8096, info@SavannahSwingcatz.com.

Savannah

The STUDIO

Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Jazz - The most comprehensive dance training in Savannah. Auditioning for Ensemble program.

Registering and accepting new students.

912-695-9149 the STUDIO, 2805-b Roger Lacey Ave ,

Events Market at Trustees Garden

A weekly event serving up fresh, local produce, gardening showcases and much more. www.trusteesmarket.com Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St. , http://www. charleshmorriscenter.com/

Music in the Parlour

Step into the past with jazz pianist Diana Rogers for an intimate view of Victorian life in Savannah. An afternoon of music, history and refreshments. Reservations required: 912-236-2866.

Meets mormings at 6:30am at Crossfit Hyperformance. Visit www.crossfithyperformance.com. or call Jennifer at 224-0406 or Drew at 541-0530. 904 E 70th Street , Savannah

Fit Lunch

Join us for a 30-40 minute workout on your lunch hour. Classes offered Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 10:45am until 2:00pm by Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio. Classes will utilize a variety of training techniques. Advanced booking required. Call for details 912-398-4776 or 912-224-9667. www.bodybalance.com. 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2 , Savannah

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times.

355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

FitnessOne Classes in October

Memorial Health’s FitnessOne center will hold a variety of classes open to the public in October, including pilates, spinning, zumba, power sculpting, yoga stretch, and an active seniors program. Please call 350.4030 for more information and class schedules.

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Offered Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. Participants must be 18 or older. Mat and blanket are required. Limited to 12 participants.

Pre-register at adultenrichment@uusavanah. org or call 234-0980. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah upstairs in Phillippa’s Place. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Hatha Yoga classes

Every Monday and Wednesday from 5:306:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being, Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Kidz Fitness

Aerobic fitness class for children 6-13 with weight concerns. Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-5:45 p.m. at the Candler Hospital Wellness Center. Children must be members of the Candler Wellness Center. 819-8800.

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Learn Kung Fu Today

The Temple of Martial Arts is a Kung Fu school where men and women of all levels of martial arts experience come together to learn the art of Wing Chun and Tai Chi. SiFu Michael, 429-9241. 407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

Discounted class prices, open studio time and special events. Ashram Savannah, 2424 Drayton St. , Savannah http://www.yogacoopsavannah.com/

Senior Power Hour

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 898-7714.

Squats N’ Tots

This class will help you stretch and strengthen overused body parts, as well as focus on muscle endurance, low impact aerobics, and abdominal work. Your baby (age 6 weeks to one year) can get in on the fun, or simply stay close to you on your mat. Call to pre-register 912-819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

Student Massage

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Tai Chi Classes

Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Infants must be 6 weeks to 6 months, pre-crawling. The cost is $13 per class.

Multi-class discounts are available. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 441-6653 or visit www. savannahyoga.com. Savannah This exercise program strengthens and revitalizes without building bulk. Call to preregister 912-819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

Pilates Mat Classes

Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am8:30am, Mon & Thurs Noon-1pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm. Beginner-Intermediate. All levels welcome! Private and Semi-Private equipment classes are by appointment only.

Parking available. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor, Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates.com/ Ancient Chinese “energy work” that is the precursor to Tai Chi. Gentle exercises that relax and energize. Sundays. 4pm. Ashram Savannah 2424 Drayton St. http://www. ashramsavannah.com/

Reiki Treatments

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Savannah Yoga Co Op

Designed for those who want to work out in a group setting with family and friends. For pricing call 898-7714. Spine & Sport, 22 West Oglethorpe Ave , Savannah

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Located at 1321 Bull St. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com for schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah

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. Savannah

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Reiki master Dante Santiago is trained in Usui Reiki Ryoho. Fifty-minute sessions are $60 and 50-minute in-studio sessions are $45. Call 660-1863 for times and appointments.

Rolf Method Bodywork

For posture, chronic pain and alignment of body/mind/spirit. Jeannie Kelley, LMT, certified advanced Rolf practitioner. www. islandsomatherapy.com, 843-422-2900.

Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

St. Joseph’s/Candler offers Tai Chi classes in the evenings every Tuesday and Thursday. Tai Chi is an exercise derived from the ancient Chinese martial arts. Call to pre-register. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

The Yoga Room

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Tybee Island Sunrise Boot Camp

is held Monday – Friday from 6-7am. Park at North Beach parking lot and go over first crossover. Bring a mat. Three days of strength training and two days of cardio.

Vicki Lyn, 596-3009. No prices at this time, but contributions accepted. Tybee Island

Yoga and Pilates Classes

Yoga: Tues 8am & 5:45pm, Thurs at 8am & 5:30pm Pilates: Mon at 7pm, Sat at 8am.

Class sizes are small, so please RSVP: 912-341-9477 or brandon@pro-fitpersonaltraining.com Pro-Fit Personal Training, 18 E. Broughton St. 2nd Floor ,

Yoga at Lake Mayer

Wed. 6-7pm $5 cash or first class free. Call 652-6782 or drop-in. Please bring yoga mat or towel/blanket. Lake Mayer Community Center,

Yoga In the Park

Presented by the Savannah Food Coop, a pay-what-you-can yoga class in the south field of Forsyth Park. Bring a large towel or yoga mat. Wednesdays 9:30-10:45am.

Pay-what-you-can/$12 suggested, www. savannahcoop.com.

Yoga with Barbara

All levels welcome. Improve your range of motion and energy levels. Small groups and private lessons available. Historic District studio. Please call to set up your first class.

Times are flexible to suit your needs. 912232-4490 or email blh63@hotmail.com

Classes are being held every week in the Pooler and Rincon areas. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music, dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness system. No dance partner is required. Participants of all ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. The cost is $7 per class. For location and info, contact Carmen at 484-1266 or calexe@comcast.net.

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. 307 E Harris St , Savannah

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. Savannah

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

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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. Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call Christina Focht at 663-5087. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork. net/

Stand Out Youth

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

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a. m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the St. Joseph’s/ Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment.

Every Monday from 10a.m.-12p.m. at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Every Monday through Friday from 10a.m.-2p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/1844.cfm

Every Thursday morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Free Vision Screenings

Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 11a.m.5p.m. at Sam’s Club Optical-Savannah. No membership is required. Call 352-2844. 1975 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. , Savannah

Hearing Aid Funds Available for Infants and Children

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 Health

Control your high blood pressure. Free blood pressure checks and information at the Community Cardiovascular Council at 1900 Abercorn St. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 232-6624. . , Savannah

Community HealthCare Center

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. Savannah

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.

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A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@standoutyouth.org or visit www.standoutyouth.org. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/ 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.

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St. Mary’s Health Center is open for health needs of uninsured residents of Chatham County. Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. For information or to make an appointment, call 443-9409. St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. ,

The Coastal Health District’s Universal Newborn Hearing and Screening Initiative has funds available for the purchase of hearing aid devices for infants and children 3 and under who qualify and live in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long and McIntosh Counties. For info, contact Jackie King at 691-6882 or toll-free at 1-866647-0010.

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Help for Iraq War Veterans

A method used at Fort Campbell to treat lack of sleep, anger, flashbacks, nightmares and emotional numbness in veterans is available in Savannah. 927-3432.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

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

Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 231-8727. 211 Price St , Savannah http://www.mybrothazhome.org/

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together. Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call 843-683-

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At Planned Parenthood®, we’re here for you with high quality health care at an affordable cost - for annual checkups, birth control, emergency contraception, STD tests and pregnancy testing.

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HypnoBirthing Classes

The Quit Line

Learn to birth in a calm and gentle environment without fear. Uses relaxation, meditation and guided imagery to achieve the birthing experience you desire. Tiffany, tiffany@savannahdoula.com.

La Leche League of Savannah

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm. La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers. 897-9261, www.lllusa. org/web/SavannahGA.html. Family Health and Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Parkway , Savannah

Ladies Living Smart Fitness Club

Providing nutritional education and an exercise program to encourage lifestyle changes for women. Call for more info. Every Tuesday from 5:30-7pm. St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. ,

Meditation and Energy Flow Group

Meet with others who practice meditation or want to learn how, discuss techniques, & related areas of holistic health, healing, Reiki, Energy Medicine, CAM. Reduce stress, increase peace & health! www.ellenfarrell. com, http://meditation.meetup.com/490

Meditation for Relaxation and Stress Relief

Learn to relax through non-religious meditation. Instruction and practice followed by Q&A. Thursdays, 6-7pm. $5. Small World Therapeutic Massage on Whitemarsh Island (next to Jalapeno’s). 897-7979. 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Memorial Health blood pressure check Free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 350-7587.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Memorial Health CPR training

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www. memorialhealth.com. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah

Monthly Vegetarian Potluck

Bring your favorite vegetarian dish or beverage and the recipe. Open to all.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. , http:// www.savannahyoga.com/

Narcotics Anonymous

Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule.

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Group-facilitated smoking cessation program offers an intensive class in 7 sessions over 3 weeks featuring a wide range of proven-effective strategies to help smokers control their urges, manage nicotine withdrawal and stress and avoid weight gain. The cost is $100. Call 819-6718. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/

No pills, patches, gum, lasers, weight gain, withdrawal or side effects. 15 years experience. 927-3432.

A toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for all Georgia residents 18 or older and concerned parents of adolescents who are using tobacco. Call 1-877-270-STOP or visit www.unitegeorgia.com.

Weight Loss Through Hypnosis

Lose weight with Guided Imagery and Hypnosis. No pills, diets or surgery. 927-3432.

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 727-3177, visit www.TheDolphinProject.org. or e-mail gadolphin@comcast.net.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures. The 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. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org. 1510 Strand , Tybee Island

Walk on the Wild Side

The Oatland Island Wildlife Center offers a 2-mile Native Animal Nature Trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats, and features live native animal exhibits. Open daily from 10-4 except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. 898-3980, www.oatlandisland.org. 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah

Pets & Animals A Walk in the Park

Professional pet sitting, boarding, dog walking and house sitting services offered in downtown Savannah and the nearby islands. All jobs accepted are performed by the owner to ensure the safety of your pets. Local references available. Please call 401.2211 or email lesleycastle@gmail.com to make a reservation.

Dog Yoga

Class is held every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to SaveA-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. Savannah

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, hand-held can openers, puppy training pads, canned tuna and mackeral, bath sheets and beach towels, blankets and buckets to hold supplies for trappers. Contact Sherry Montgomery at 351-4151 or sherry@coastalpetrescue.org.

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

Insured, bonded, certified in pet first aid and CPR. 355-9656, www.athomepetsitters.net.

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Savannah Kennel Club

The club meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Ryan’s 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. 209 Stephenson Ave , Savannah

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 http://www.caninepalacesavannah.com/

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the AfricanAmerican Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605. Savannah

Tea time at Ola’s

A 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. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, Savannah http://www. liveoakpl.org/

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Religious & Spiritual

Live Web-streaming

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.

Savannah

Attend church from home Sundays at 9 and 11am with Pastor Ricky Temple and Overcoming by Faith Ministries. Log onto www. overcomingbyfaith.org, click ’Watch Now’.

927-8601. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

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Deeply rooted in Celtic spirituality and hospitality. Find a welcoming space, a sense of belonging, a loving encounter with God where everyone has a place at the table. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th and Abercorn ,

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, located on Johnson Square. Christ Church, 28 Bull St. ,

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 898-3477.

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DrUUming Circle

First Saturday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Troup Square at Habersham and Macon streets.

Drummers, dancers and the drum-curious are welcome. Call 234-0980 or visit uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www. uusavannah.org/

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1-877-4948629, www.freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yshoo.com. Savannah

Midweek Bible Study

Every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com. Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue , Savannah http://www.montgomerypresbyterian.com/

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 45 p.m. and Youth Praise will meet Sundays from 5-6 p.m. Call Ronn Alford at 925-9524 or visit www.wbumc.org. White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd , Savannah

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus by Night, Savannah

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

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Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call Janet Pence at 2474903. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Realizing The God Within

A series of Metaphysical/New Thought classes presented by The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, featuring metaphysical minister and local author Adeeb Shabazz. Mondays at 8pm.

619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Soka Gakkai of America

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SGI is an international Buddhist movement for world peace and individual happiness. The group practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Introductory meetings are held the third Sunday of the month. For further information, call 232-9121.

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Stand for Peace

A sllent witness for peace that will be held in Johnson Square the fourth Sunday of every month from 1-2pm until the occupation ends.

Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee. 224-7456, 231-2252, 234-0980, uusavannah.org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation offered weekday mornings 7:30-8:30am; Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with Study Group following from 6:30-7:30pm; Friday evenings from 6-6:30pm. Sundays from 9-10:30am which includes a Dharma talk.

Donations accepted. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, cindy@alwaysoptions.com. The Savannah Zen Center, 2424 Drayton St. , Savannah

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 233-6284 or 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com. Celebrating diversity. Working for justice. Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith.

Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary. 2340980, admin@uusavannah.org or www.uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah

Unity of Savannah

A church of unconditional love and acceptance.

Sunday service is at 11 a.m. Youth church and childcare also are at 11 a.m. 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Spiritual Tapas offers something different every Saturday at 6:15 p.m.: spiritual movies, discussion groups, guided meditations, great music and all things metaphysical. www.unitysavannah.org Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd , Savannah http://www.unityofsavannah. org/

Women’s Bible Study

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www.wesleyctrs-savh.org/

Sports & Games Savannah Disc Golf Club

Open Doubles Tournament at 1 p.m. each Saturday at Tom Triplett Park on U.S. 80 between Dean Forest Road and Interstate 95.

Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West , Pooler

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A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 598-9860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah.freeservers.com. Savannah

Al-Anon Meetings

Meetings for families and friends of alcoholics are held every Monday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 11am. Melissa, 844-4524. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http:// www.fpc.presbychurch.net/

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Senior Citizens, Inc. hosts a Caregiver’s support group for individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. The group meets every second Monday at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Road. For more information, call 236.0363, ext. 143. Savannah Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group

For past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. Call 350-3438 or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Bipolar Support Group

John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a bipolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m.

Cancer support group

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1 Administrative executives, to lower-level workers 6 Series of actions: abbr.

10 Toothy degree?

13 “Ready ___, here I come!”

14 It’s already been on 16 “...depressed, or is ___ mess?” (lyrics to They Might Be Giants’ “Particle Man”) 17 Review #1: “I, a male? A good jest.”

20 Part of IPA 21 Art colony of New Mexico 22 Asimov-inspired Will Smith movie 23 Review #2: “Filmy ennui, sir.”

26 Sudoku-like puzzle 28 Instant oatmeal direction 29 More frigid 30 Rowing teams 32 Coming-out honoree, for short 35 Court figure: abbr.

36 Review #3: “O, burn!”

37 Juice 38 Word before milk or flour 39 Brute 40 Drink at a ski lodge 41 G or F, on sheet music 42 Chevy Chase title role 43 Review #4: “Dat the ‘S.N.L.’ fool?”

48 Name of the “divided by” sign with a line and two dots 49 On ___ with (equal to) 50 1996 Olympics honoree 53 Review #5: “Re-perks, eyes mist” 56 Winter hrs. in Nome 57 “Say ___ the Dress” (TLC reality series) 58 Famous Roman fountain 59 Some satellite radios, once 60 “Push th’ Little Daisies” band 61 Hawkins of school dances

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2 Mountains through Russia 3 Legal compensation 4 Turf ___ (football player’s malady) 5 Waldorf ’s heckling parter, on “The Muppet Show” 6 Number on a liquor bottle 7 Actress Witherspoon 8 Hosp. areas 9 Bisected 10 Abu ___ 11 Cornerback Sanders 12 Adds some seasoning 15 Chuck who can “kill two stones with one bird” 18 Improvement of sorts 19 Soup du ___ 24 You can’t type “you” without it 25 “___ a Letter to My Love” (Bernice Rubens novel) 26 Sedonas and Rios, e.g.

27 ___-1 (“Ghostbusters” vehicle) 30 Concoct 31 Moscow’s Olympics team: abbr.

32 Stuck together, perhaps 33 Org. against workplace discrimination 34 Ho-hum 36 Hearty bowlful 37 Enemies 39 Unkempt 40 Breath mint brand since 1951 41 451, to Nero 42 Criticism 43 1970s-’80s NCAA college football record-holding quarterback Neil 44 Deep, dark pit 45 Swallow homes 46 Poker Flat chronicler 47 Printer brand 51 First name in denim 52 Adjective used by Rastas 54 Dir. opp. WNW 55 Major time period

Meets the first Wednesday of the month from 11am-12pm. at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street across from Candler Hospital. The group is open to anyone who is living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-8784.

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Caring for Us

A support group for caregivers of ill or injured family members or loved ones. Call Kimberlee Mitchell at 350-3399.

CASA Support Group

For parents and caregivers of children who have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care. The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org. Savannah

Celiac Support Group

For anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 507-2592.

Children’s Grief Groups

Open, drop-in support groups for children ages 6-17 who have experienced a loss by death. Meets Tuesdays 6-7pm at Full Circle, a

Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. 303-9442. Savannah

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633. Savannah

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 355-1221 or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Group

Polio survivors and guests are invited. Candler Heart & Lung Building, http://www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org/

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250. This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@ hotmail.com. 55 Al Henderson B;vd. , Savannah

Debtors Anonymous

Meets Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, 225 W. President St. in the third floor New Beginnings Room. Enter on President Street through the left-hand set of glass doors between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Arrive early, as the entry doors are locked promptly at 5:30 p.m. For information, e-mail DAsavannah@ yahoo.com. Savannah http://www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Depressive/Manic support group

Open to persons diagnosed with depression. Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 920-0153 or 927-2064.

4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Divorce Recovery Group

For men and women dealing with the pain and shock of divorce. For more information or to sign up, call Paula Morris, 353-2808. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave ,

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Domestic violence support group

SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Inc. Building at 3205 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

Savannah

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:306:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St..

819-6743. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

First Line

An after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Meets the third Thursday at 5 p.m. in the gym at The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center.

4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Grief 101

A 7-week educational group offering support and coping tools for adults who have experienced a loss by death. Meets Tuesdays 6-7pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. RSVP to 303-9442. Savannah

Heart Beats for Life

A free support and education group for those who have suffered, or want to prevent, Heart, and/or Diabetes problems, everything from heart attacks, strokes, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, excess weight. Please contact : Jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org (912) 598-8457.

HIV/AIDS: My Brothaz Home

A support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House

Provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, follow-up care and parent-child activities funded by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families. Please call 236-5310 for information. Hope House of Savannah, 214 E. 34th St. , Savannah

“Sum Sudoku” Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column, and 3x3 box (as marked by shading in the grid) contains the digits 1–9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by heavy black lines; and 3) the sums of the numbers in each area marked off by heavy black lines total the little number given in each of those areas. For example, the digits in the upper-leftmost square in the grid and the square directly to its right will add up to 13. Now quit wastin’ my time and solve!!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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meets the fourth Monday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Women’s Services Conference Room at the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial Health. Call 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

KidsNet Savannah Parent Support Group

meets on the first Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave. Call Carole Kaczorowski at 598-7001, Lorr Elias at 351-6375 or Bruce Elias at 644-5916.

Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave , Savannah

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 2349999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Lupus Encouragement Group

A support group that is open to patients with lupus, their family members and friends.

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) “The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,” writes Guy Murchie in his book *The Seven Mysteries of Life.* Microbes with short life cycles live there in abundance, “eating, breathing, excreting, floating, swimming, competing, reproducing.” Next time you look up at a puffy cumulus, see it as a large city that hosts a teeming host of living things. Speaking of invisible fecundity, let’s turn our attention to you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are largely unaware of how much creative energy has been building up within you. Your homework is to tap into it and unleash it.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) My friend Alcea, the pagan priestess who leads group rituals, is a responsible sort who has humble respect for the power of the spirit realms. She thinks there can be value in seeking help from the beings who dwell on the other side of the veil, but you’ve got to be careful. They can be as clueless and misguided as the less evolved characters who live on the material plane. That’s why Alcea is especially impeccable around this time of year, when the veil between the worlds is thinner and our dimension is more accessible to the spirits. Having said all that as a caveat, Taurus, I want to let you know that this would be an excellent time for you to call on the help of your most intelligent, interesting, and loving ancestors.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes,” said Buddha. “He who loves no one has no woes.” Even if you agree with this sour observation, I urge you to override the warning it implies. Now, more than ever, you can and should attract rich benefits into your life by expanding the frontiers of your empathy –– even if it means you will feel the hurts of others more deeply. And what exactly are those rich benefits? Here’s one: Getting close–up views of the ways people suffer will help you avoid suffering like that yourself in the future.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) In the film *Postcards from the Edge,* the character played by

Meryl Streep made a monumental declaration: “Instant gratification takes too long.” I know exactly what she meant. Sometimes I wish I could have what I want before I have to endure even a moment of frustrated longing. I bring this up, my fellow Cancerian, because in the coming week we may get our yearnings satisfied before we fully express them. Of course, there could be a downside to this situation: Since the magic will be materializing so quickly, you’d better be very sure you really want what you even start to wish for.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) Cement is the most common human–made material in the world. Combined with water to make concrete, it is a fundamental ingredient in many buildings and roads. And yet no one knew its precise structure until recently.

Then a group of scientists figured out that its strength comes not from its orderliness but rather from its messiness. At the atomic level, cement’s molecules display both regular geometric patterns and areas of random variation. It’s in these chaotic areas that water molecules bind with the cement, creating a structure that’s both flexible and robust.

This is the kind of foundation I urge you to work on in the coming weeks, Leo –– a configuration that will endure exactly because it has a lot of give.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) In my dream last night, the High Priestess from the Tarot deck came to life and gave me the following message: “Tell Virgos that when their deep hunger starts to stir, they should not eat from the bowl of delicious seeds. That meager meal would not satisfy their deep hunger. Rather, they should plant those seeds and let them grow up. The resulting harvest *will* satisfy their deep hunger.”

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) It’s an excellent time to see if you can remove some of the neurotic twitches from your erotic itches.

For example, you could use all your ingenuity to talk yourself out of the silly guilt you feel for having a certain idiosyncratic desire –– a desire that, if acted out, would hurt no one, and that is therefore, by definition, healthy. Here’s an-

other possibility: You could invoke the full powers of your imagination as you free yourself from things that prevent you from experiencing maximum pleasure, like old wounds, simmering anger, rank egotism, and limiting beliefs.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) The astrological vibes suggest that you open yourself wide, try everything, and give freely. I urge you to adapt as your motto an exhortation that once came out of the mouth of the seven–year–old cartoon character Dennis the Menace: “Hey! Wake up! Let’s go everywhere and do everything!”

More than any other phase in many moons, Scorpio, this is your moment to make YES your battle cry. The world is asking you to be bigger than the old you, wilder than five blood oaths put together, and as strong as the full moon rising over a mountain.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

The average middle class person alive today has more goodies than the kings and queens of times past. In fact, even during this time of economic retrenchment, most of us have a higher standard of living than 99 percent of all the humans who’ve ever walked the planet. In pointing this out, I don’t mean to discount the suffering of those who’ve lost their jobs and homes. But I think it’s helpful to keep our collective deprivations in perspective. Similarly, I like to remember that no matter how much our personal trials may test us, they are more bearable than, say, the tribulations of the generation that lived through the Great Depression and World War II. Keep this in mind, Sagittarius. As you wander in the limbo between the end of one chapter of your life story and the beginning of the next chapter, it’ll really help to stay conscious of how blessed you are.

Halloween costume suggestion: a saint tending to the needs of the dispossessed and underprivileged.

alliances; 2. a sweet, jangly uproar where you encounter a strange attractor –– a freaky influence that makes the hair on the back of your neck rise and lights up the fertile parts of your imagination; 3. a sacred party where you get a novel vision of how to connect with the divine realms more viscerally.

Halloween costume suggestion: something that incorporates a hub, wheel, or web.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) The members of the congregation at St. Peter–at–Gowts Church in Lincoln, England had a minor crisis a few years ago. For years, they had prayed to a very old stone sculpture they assumed was a likeness of the Virgin Mary. Then a nosy archaeologist came poking around and informed them that the figure was actually Arimanius, the god of the underworld in the ancient Mithraic religion. I encourage you to make sure you’re not under a comparable misimpression, Aquarius. This is an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to seek the help of higher powers, but it’s crucial that you direct your invocations to the right source.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) Some of history’s worst tyrants have been terrified by kittens.

Napoleon, Genghis Khan, and Mussolini all had ailurophobia, a morbid and irrational fear of domestic felines. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were also discombobulated by cats. I bring this up, Pisces, because it reminds me of a certain situation in your life. I’m betting that a pushy or domineering influence that distorts your emotions will soon be susceptible to being spooked by a seemingly harmless little thing.

Maybe you could turn this into a permanent advantage. How skilled are you at purring? cs

meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. 355-5196. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Memorial Health Bleeding Disorders Support Group

Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth. com/

Memorial Health Focus

Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For information, call Saundra at 350-3396. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http:// www.memorialhealth.com/

MomsNext

As mothers enter the school years, new challenges and issues arise, but the need for community and hope remains. Discussion time on topics relevant to mothering, tips and resources. Starting in October, monthly meetings will be held at the Islands YMCA, from 10:00am-11:30pm. Please call 898-4344 or 210-0491 for more info and to register.

Multiple Sclerosis support group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523. St James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave , Savannah

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

meets the third Sunday from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Sports Education Building, Room 226. 351-7035 or 353-7143. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. , Savannah http://about. armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html

Overcoming the Stigma of Seizure Disorders

meets the fourth Thursday at the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church at Abercorn and Gordon streets. A free story/coloring book, I’m Feeling Just Ducky!, is available for children to better explain seizure activity.. Call Pam Steadman at 233-1006. Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.wesleymonumental.org/

Overeaters Anonymous

meets Wednesdays at 5:30pm. Melissa, 844-4524. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http://www.fpc. presbychurch.net/

Overeaters Anonymous

meets Fridays, 6:30pm. Melissa, 844-4524.

Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd , Savannah http://www.unityofsavannah.org/

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth. com/

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PRIDE Support Group

It’s prime time for intense and momentous social events. Of the gatherings you may attend, I hope you’ll find at least one that fits the following descriptions: 1. a warm fluidic web of catalytic energy where you awaken to new possibilities about how to create close

Rape Crisis Center

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http:// www.memorialhealth.com/ assists survivors of rape and sexual assault.

The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 233-7273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families.

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinderblock wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique.

In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

The group welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, and family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it. For information, call Martyn Hills at 651-4094.

S-Anon Family Group

A fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For information, call 663-2565.

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

Providing services for survivors of domestic violence. All services are confidential and free.

3025 Bull St. 651-0004. Safe Shelter Outreach Program, 3025 Bull St. , Savannah

Sexaholics Anonymous

A fellowship of men and women whose purpose is to help those with sexual addictions.

351-7440.

Spinal Injury Support Group

Meets every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial Health. For information, call Jami Murray at 350-8900. Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Spouse/Life Partner Grief Support

An open, drop-in support group for adults.

Meets Thursdays from 11am-12:30pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. 303-9442. 7212 Seawright Dr. , Savannah

Stroke Support Group

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Troup Square Al-Anon Family Group

A support group for friends and family of alcoholics, with special attention to issues of adult children of alcoholics. 495-9758 or www. al-anon.alateen.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Truancy Intervention Project

meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 428 Bull St. in the United Way Building. The project can educate you regarding the new truancy law and how it impacts your child. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

United Way’s First Call for Help

Telephone information & referral service that provides expertise and relief to individuals and families in need, with a database of more than 500 agencies and organizations. 651-7730.

United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

Victim-Witness assistance program

is for families of murder victims. The meetings are at 6 p.m. in the Chatham County Courthouse on Montgomery St. third Thursday of each month. 652-7329. Chatham County Courthouse, 133 Montgomery St , Savannah http://www.statecourt.org/

Wheeze busters

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368.

Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

Women’s Self-Harm Support Group

Speak with someone who has survived a stroke, who will listen and understand stroke patients’ experiences. Groups meet in three locations -- every Tuesday from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.; every Friday from 10-11 a.m. at Savannah Speech and Hearing, 1206 E. 66th St., (call Jane Medoff at 355-4601); and every third Thursday of the month from 4-5:30 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church at 1 W. Ridge Rd. on Skidaway Island. Call Ann Farr at 598-1766 or Shirley Nack at 598-7047. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http://www.fpc. presbychurch.net

For women with self-harm disorders. Dr. Patricia English, 335-2508. Free, although love offerings will be accepted.

Support Group for New Moms

Dinner Theater: “Dead Men Don’t

Sometimes being a mom isn’t what you expected. Offers new mothers a chance to share their feelings in a safe, friendly environment.

Meets 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month at 10am. Call Marlin, 786-4114 for more info.

The Parents of Difficult Teens Group

for parents having problems with their teens and pre-teens. 353-7699.

The Savannah Parkinson’s Support Group meets the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium. Call 355-6347 or 238-4666. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Theatre “Cabaret”

The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina kicks off it’s ’09-10 season with the award winning musical about 1930s-era Germany and the infamous Kit Kat Club. Show runs Sept. 30 - Oct. 25. Visit www.artshhi.com to order online, or contact the box office at 843-842-ARTS. The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina ,

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Enjoy dinner and a Roaring ’20s era who-dunnit murder mystery revolving around a cast of shady characters in a speakeasy. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Oct. 2 - Feb. 28.

Seating begins at 7pm. Call (912) 231-8888 for reservations. Il Pasticcio, 2 E. Broughton St. ,

Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire?

An interactive performance that lets the audience solve the crime. The cost includes the show and a choice of three dinners. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The Pirate’s House, 20 E. Broad St , Savannah http://www.thepirateshouse.com/

Volunteers America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

the Savannah Tree Foundation at (912) 233TREE or visit us online at http://www.savannahtreefoundation.com.

Lifelink of Georgia seeks volunteers

Needed to speak to community groups, pass out information at health fairs and organize awareness-raising events. Potential volunteers include transplant recipients and their families, patients waiting for organ or tissue transplantation, donor families or anyone interested in organ and tissue donation. Call 341-0000.

Lifelink of Georgia, 18 Chatham Court South , Savannah

Literacy tutors needed

Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry is looking for volunteer tutors. There are 3 upcoming volunteer training sessions on 10/26, 11/3, 11/5. Please call (843) 681-6655 for more information.

to sort, clean, & shelve salvaged foods from reclamation centers where bent cans or crumpled boxes of nutritious food is sent. Apply as soon as possible. 912-236-6750 ext 109.

America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St , Savannah http://www. helpendhunger.org

Literacy volunteers needed

CASA needs volunteers

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries

to speak up for abused children in court for their best interests and to help ensure they are placed in safe and permanent homes. Call 447-8908.

Community Health Mission

This non-profit organization is looking for volunteer nurses, doctors, nurses practitioners and development/fundraising volunteers to work at the center, which provides free medical care for working uninsured individuals. Flexible schedule. Apply by mail to: Community Health Mission, Inc. Attn: Dr. Miriam Rittmeyer, 310 Eisenhower Dr., Suite No. 6. Savannah, 31406.

Fax number is 352-3980 or send email to mrittmeyer@chmsavannah.org. For info, visit www. chcsavannah.org. Community Health Mission, Inc, 310 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 6 , Savannah

First Steps

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910. St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sjchs. org/

Forestkeeper Volunteers Needed

Volunteers meet the second Saturday of each month at 9:00 a.m. at different locations each month to help care for trees and beautify our community. For more information, please call

Crossword Answers

Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047. Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd , Savannah http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/ needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call 652-3661. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St , Savannah http://www. liveoakpl.org/

Meals on Wheels

Senior Citizens Inc.’s Meals on Wheels volunteers are responsible for delivering hot, nutritious meals to seniors on routes that typically do not exceed one hour in length. Volunteers may deliver as frequently as they choose and all meals are brought to the area by Senior Citizens Inc. staff. Training and support is provided.

Call 236-0363. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. , Savannah

Oatland Island Education Center

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Volunteer organization in partnership with the community that rehabilitates houses of lowincome homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children. Visit www. rebuildingtogethersavannah.org. cs

Therapeutic Massage Specialists Sore and Tired Muscles?

My Brothaz Home, Inc. is sponsoring this support group. For information, call Lady Maverick or George at 231-8727.

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Transgender Support Group

An open, drop-in support group for adxults who have experienced a loss by death.

Meets Tuesdays from 6-7pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. 303-9442. Full Circle Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright

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3BR, 1 Bath $89,000.

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3BR, 1-1/2BA, freshly painted $98,900.

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NICE, BRICK Home, Port Wentworth. 3BR/2BA, huge family room, privacy fence. Walking distance to shopping. Very close to I-95. Motivated seller. $142,000.

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4BR/1.5BA on Beech St.$900 & 3BR/1BA, Cedar St.$750. BOTH have Central HVAC and will do Lease/Option or Section 8. Deposit required.

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Fisherman’s Paradise For Sale $129,000 Large, Well Maintained 16X80, Fully-Furnished, 3BR/2 Bath, Raised Ceilings, King Master w/Garden Bath, Front Porch. Tucked away in great cul-de-sac neighborhood. Private but very convenient, short walk to everything.

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TWO CLASSIC Ardsley Park Homes 202 E. 51st St. & 721 E. 51st Street Each offered at $204,900. Each $70,000 Below Appraisal. 3BR, Possible 4th, 2BA, LR w/fireplace, Separate DR, CH&A, High ceilings, Hardwood floors.

HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 238-4915 WILMINGTON ISLAND HOME 1554 sq ft , all brick, 3 BR/ 2 BA newly renovated, wood burning fireplace, 2 year old roof, home warranty and termite bond included. $179,900. (912)897-9796

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Bnet Management Inc. Savannah East 2304 SHIRLEY DRIVE $875 3BR/1BA, 1700sqft, with large garage, LR, DR, laundry hookup, large fenced yard.

2031 NEW MEXICO ST. $875 3BR/1BA, 1200Sqft.

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1131 EAST 38TH ST.

2BR, LR, DR, Laundry, Porch. $595/Month, $595/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 1219-1/2 EAST PARK AVENUE: 1-Bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, brand new stove, refrigerator, totally updated. $450/month, water I ncluded.

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for rent 855 15 QUAIL FOREST DRIVE: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in kitchen, 1-car garage, fenced backyard, washer/dryer connections, central heat/air. $950/month + deposit.

Call 912-596-7551.

16 Culverton Ct 3BR, 1.5 BA, $925

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1713 EAST 39TH ST.

3BR/1BA, Family Room, Covered Patio, 2-Car Carport. $675/Month, $675/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 Art PAtrol for the Latest Openings & Exhibits connectsavannah.com

3BR, 2BA, $925

14 Lewis Drive, apt-c.

2BR/1.5BA, $625

1317 Golden St. 2BR/1BA, $500

1140 E. 55th

3BR/1BA $550

1138 E 55th St. 2BR/1BA, $450.

+DEPOSIT, NO-PETS, NO-SMOKING. Call Bill:656-4111 16 S. STILLWOOD COURT

Windsor Forest, 3BR/2BA, LV, DN, Garage, Fenced Yard, Courtyard. $995/Month, $995/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981

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1904 VASSAR STREET

Liberty City, 3BR/1BA, LV, DN. $795/Month, $795/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 1 BR Apt. $400 per month Plus deposit. 216 W. 39th Street. Central heat/air, furnished appliances.

Room For Rent: $110/weekly.

Call 912-657-0458 or 912-921-1774

1240 E. VICTORY DR/ DAFFIN PARK .

2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, W/D conn, gas heat & water. No pets. $775/month. Reese & Company. 236-4233 1/2 OFF 1ST MONTH’S RENT! Rent A Manufactured home, 14x70, on a high/wooded lot. 3BR, 2BA, save $$$, Gas, heat and stove, central air, refrigerator, full miniblinds, carpeting and draperies, washer/dryer hookups, 48sqft. deck w/hand rails and steps, double car cement parking pad. Swimming pool, recreational areas, onsite garbage service (twice weekly) and fire protection included, cable TV available, guest parking. Starting at $500/month, including lot rent. 800 Quacco Road. 925-9673.

1315 Bonaventure Rd Large 4BR 2BA home CH&A, fenced yard, all appliances included, $1200/month plus deposit.

695-7889 or 507-0222

SCAD STUDENTS WELCOME! Best deal in the Gordonston area, great family home or SCAD rental. This huge 2400sq ft home is nestled just 5 minutes from downtown Savannah and 10 minutes from Tybee Island, 5 bed 2.5 bath estate home has huge backyard for entertaining and magnificent upstairs porch overlooking entire property. All this for just $77 per sq ft.

Seller is motivated; call Josh for an appointment today 912-667-2390.

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2144 LOUISIANA AVE.

2BR/1BA, large LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, fenced yard. Pets ok with approval. References/credit check required. $735/month, $700/deposit.

898-0078

2201 WASHINGTON ST.

Sandfly, 3BR/2BA, LR, DR. $895/Month, $895/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 2301-B ABERCORN ST. 1 BR/1 Bath, Bonus Room, W/D conn, all electric.

No pets, $550/month. Reese & Company 236-4233

for rent 855 2334 Ranchland Dr. 3BR/1BA house for rent equipped kitchen, washer & dryer included, central heat/air, carport, large backyard. Serious inquiries only. $800/month + deposit.

Call 912-234-6150

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2407 GODBEE AVE, Garden City. 3BR, 1 Bath, Living Room, Kitchen/Dining room combo, no appliances. No Pets. $500/month, $500/deposit. 912-663-9973

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245 HOLLAND DRIVE

Southside. 1BR/1BA Condos, Laundry Room, Storage, Screened Porch. $550/Month, $550/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 Read Week At A GlAnce to find the best events this week. connectsavannah.com

2 bedroom duplex, 1 furnished, one unfurnished. CH&A, $500 and $550.

Clean, quiet area. Off Chevis Rd. 927-3595 and 656-3595 Art PAtrol for the Latest Openings & Exhibits connectsavannah.com

for rent 855 2BR/1BA DUPLEX: 103 East Fairmont Avenue (Southside). Total electric, washer/dryer hookups, fenced-in yard.

Quiet neighborhood, close to everything. $675/rent, $650/security deposit. Call Chip at 912-665-2300 or Dawn at 661-0409.

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W.58th: 3BR/2BA, all electric $725.

Elmdale: 4BR/2BA, fireplace $925.

Eden, GA: 3BRs, large lot $645.

Garrard: Private 3BR, great workshop $795.

Orchard: 2BR, kitchen/den combo, carport $650.

W. 48th St: 1BR, all electric $425.

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Islands, 3BR/2BA, LV/DR, Garage, Fenced Yard. $995/Month, $995/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981

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3/4 Brick off Montgomery & Staley on 3 lots. 8 rooms, Newly painted.

Sale/Rent. No reasonable offer refused.

Call 912-224-4167

37 WARREN DRIVE

Port Wentworth, 3BR/1BA, LR, DR, Fenced yard, Garage & Workshop. $875/Month, $875/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981 3BR, 1-1/2BA Brick Home. $750/month; 1st month FREE. House located on cul-de-sac, has additional room that can be used as 4th BR, fenced backyard, storage shed. Open House: Friday, Oct. 23rd, possibly Saturday. Call for appt.

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504 SHERMAN AVENUE

3BR/1BA, Family Room, New Carpet, Stove & Refrigerator. $675/Month, $675/Deposit. Call Helen Miltiades Realty 231-1981

116 E. Bolton St. Great location across Forsyth Park, near SCAD & Kroger.

Newly renovated duplex, washer/ dryer, H/W floors, Central H/A, 2 Fireplace, Large back Porch, Courtyard. Wireless Internet, Digital Cable & Water included.

Top Unit 2BR, 2 Bath w/ Bonus room - $1,375 Bottom Unit 3BR, 2 Bath - $1,500 Contact:

912-220-1020 or fvenetico@hotmail.com

for rent 855 732 EAST BOLTON: 3BR/1.5BA Duplex, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookup, fenced backyard $650/month plus deposit. Call 655-3637.

9306 LEACH DRIVE

Paradise Park, 3BR/1-1/2BA, LV/DN. $990/Month, $990/Deposit. CALL HELEN MILTIADES REALTY 231-1981

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Brand New Interior Lovely two bedroom on Laroache Ave. with central heat/air, kitchen furnished, wooden blinds, stone floor kitchen, carpet, no pets. $600/m. Call 912-661-4814

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AVAILABLE NOW! Four Bedroom Houses 133 Cormorant Way $1350 Three Bedroom Houses 7 White Ibis Ln. $1500 132 E. 48th St. $1275 22 Brandle Ln. $995 302 E. 65th St. $900 3618 Oakland Ct. $895 605 Dyches Dr. $895 15 Wilshire Blvd. $825 2231 N. Fernwood $795 1906 E. 58th St. $750 Two Bedroom Houses 1507 E. 48th St. $850 18 Chippewa Dr. $775 APT/TOWNHOUSE Three Bedroom Pooler: 303 Gallery Way $1100 Two Bedrooms 3 Kingslan Ct. $950 Windsor Crossing $665 5608-B Jasmine Ave. $675 1210 E. 54th St. $595 1132 E. 53rd St $575 1203 E. 54th St. $595 1234 55th St. $525 One Bedroom 740 E. 45th St. #3 $725 5608-A Jasmine Ave. $595 COMMERCIAL 11202 White Bluff Rd. $2000 offices, kitchen, bathroom, parking FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

FOR RENT Upstairs, 2 bedroom washer/dryer connections CH&A, balcony, front and rear. Off street parking. $650/month $500/deposit.

201-A West 39th & Barnard. 604-5040

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Isle of Hope: 3BR/2BA, large den, washer/dryer connection, fenced yard. No pets, 1yr. lease. $1000/month, $700/security deposit. Call 912-308-8284.

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Largo-Tibet area.

Newly renovated 2BR/2BA Apt., washer/dryer hookup. No pets. No section 8. $685/month, $685/deposit.

656-7842 or 704-3662

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Section 8 Accepted ARDSLEY PARK AREA 721 East 57th ST 3BR/2BA, CH&A, no smoking, no pets, $1175/mo, $600/deposit. Call for details 484-1347

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1305 East 39th St. 3BR, 1BA, LR/DR, kitchen w/range & refrigerator, washer/dryer connections, CH&A $750/month w/$725/deposit.

329 Woodley Rd. Southside, Total Electric, CH&A, 3BR, 2BA, Living room, Den, Kitchen/Dining, W/D connections. large fenced corner yard. $975/Rent, $950/Deposit. Pets OK with approval.

2227 Louis Mills Blvd.

3BR, 1BA, Living room, Eat-in kitchen, W/D connections, CH&A, large yard. $750/Rent, $725/Deposit.

2215 Louis Mills Blvd.

Mobile home, Total Electric, 2BR/2BA, Living room, kitchen/dining, W/D connections, CH&A, Covered Deck, Car Port, Fenced Yard. $695/Rent includes water & $650/Deposit.

2345 Ogeechee Rd. 3BR/1BA, LR, DR, hardwood floors, CH&A, washer/dryer connections, range & refrigerator. $725/Rent, $700/Deposit.

2302 Louisiana Ave. 3BR, 1.5BA, LR, DR, kitchen w/range & refrigerator, washer/dryer connections, CH&A, corner lot. $750/Rent, $725/Deposit.

Pets OK with Approval.

References & Credit Check Required on Rentals

898-4135

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GEORGETOWN-KINGS GRANT 6 East White Hawthorne, 2BR/2BA, kitchen furnished, newly remodeled. All amenities included, no pets. $785/month+security, No Sec tion-8 Call:912-507-4704

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HALCYON BLUFF SUBDIVISION -Available Now!

Unique executive style 3 bedroom/2 bath home with sunken living room, wood floors, dishwasher, ceiling fans, garage, Central H & A/C. $1149/per month, $1399/security deposit. Military & Police discounts available.

No indoor pets. No smoking. 920-1936

HIGHLAND WOODS 800 QUACCO ROAD 925-9673

Mobile Home lots for rent. First month rent free! Wooden deck, curbside garbage collection twice weekly, swimming pool and playground included.

Cable TV available.

HOME NEWLY RENOVATED!

CLEAN 2BR/1BA, new kitchen, washer/dryer hookup, hardwood floors, CH&A. References & employment required.

1319 E. 54th Street. $525/rent, $525/deposit. Section-8 welcome to apply.

912-897-0985

HOUSE FOR RENT: 4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, total electric. $900/month; Single rooms $125/week.

Call 927-1908 Hwy 80 Ogeechee River 2bedroom/2bath beautifully updated, private deck, floating dock, appliances and water included. $1000/month.

912-272-7242

LARGE 1BR: Whitaker Street. High ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace, A/C, furnished kitchen, off-street parking. Clean, Antique, Nice neighborhood. 691-2368.

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897-1984, 8am-7pm Westside, Lamarville **1929 Cowan Ave: 3BR/1.5BA $775/month. **1919 Cowan Ave: 4BR/1BA $775/month. **1921 Fenwick 3BR/1BA, $775/month. **1921-B Fenwick 2BR D u p l ex , 1BA $550/month. *All above have carpet, A/C, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application. Oneyear lease minimum.

Deposit same as rent.

None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

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MIDTOWN Completely Renovated, 2BR/1BA. 7 COLUMBUS DRIVE. CH&A, Large yard, NO PETS/SMOKING. $675/rent, $675/deposit.

References/Employment Required all: 912-897-0985

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595 WEST 54th STREET: 2 Bedroom Apartments/1.5 baths, washer/dryer connection/total electric, deposit *$330, $660 monthly.

Section 8 Welcome.

Call 912-232-7659.

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Midway, $575/month.

912-884-5359 or 977-1416

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RENT TO OWN #95 Savannah Pines, garden city, totally remodeled. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, $1500 down payment, $425/month. no credit check.

Lovely brick apt. (all brand new inside).

2BR, kitchen furnished, washer/dryer connection, CH&A, all electric $600. No pets. Call 355-6077

3222 Bee Road: 2BR, 1Bath $595/month.

Call 897-6789 or 344-4164

RENT: DUPLEX 1203 E. 54th. 2-bedroom, 1-bath $475/month plus deposit of $475.

Two blocks off Waters Ave, close to Daffin park. Call Adam @ 912-234-2726, Days/Nights/Weekends.

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Duane Court: 2BR, 1 Bath, Completely remodeled. 675/month.

RENOVATED TOWNHOME: 2 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths w/new appliances, carpet, tile, paint, fenced yard.

4110 Crane Street. $650/monthly. Call 912-604-8009.

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2BR/2BA Condo $675/rent, $500/dep.

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ONE TWO & THREE Bedroom Apartments for rent. 656 East 36th & 623 West 48th Street.

Call 912-232-3355.

RENT-TO-OWN: 3yr. option to buy. Large 3BR/2BA all brick home, 2-car garage. Desirable location.

Call 404-826-0345 for appt.

2BR/1 Bath, furnished kitchen, washer/dryer connections. Free Rent with qualified application. $550/rent, $500/deposit.

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Section 8 welcome.

Renting at below market value. 3 or 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, .75 acre. Includes appliances, very clean, quiet neighborhood. Effingham. Call Jim 912-661-3331

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Call Gwen, 912-964-7675

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Two bedroom, 1.5 bath townhouse apt, total electric, $600/month with washer & dryer $625.

Call Debra at 912-356-5656 TOWNHOME: 1600 Habersham St. between 32nd & 33rd St., Savannah. Thomas Square area. Spacious 2BR/1BA, kitchen and living room, central heat/air, total electric. $575/month plus $575/deposit.

Virtual tour at www.habershamplace.com. Call Adam @ 234-2726.

TOWNHOUSE: 100 Lewis Drive Apt 5B. 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath two-story townhome. Washer/dryer connections, all appliances.

No pets. $600/month, $600/deposit. Call 912-663-0177 or 912-663-5368.

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OFF TIBET, Lovely 2 Bedroom Brick Apt. Washer/dryer connections, blinds, carpet, central heat/air.

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Southside Apt. only $585 per month! Small, quiet complex in a great location between the malls.

Moss Gate Apts., 10600 Abercorn St. Call Jeanette at 920-8005

NICE 2BR/2BA Townhouse, Southside, fully furnished kitchen, central heat/air, wallto-wall carpet and more. $785/monthly. Call 507-7934 or 927-2853

MOBILE HOMES: Available for rent. Located in mobile home park.

Starting at $450 per month and up.

912-658-4462 or 925-1831.

One, two and three bedroom apt & houses, located throughout Savannah.

Monthly special. Section 8 welcome.

272-6820

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912-398-1821 912-224-0710- ESPANOL TRAILA PARA VENDER #95 Savannah Pines, Garden City. Completamente Remodelada 2 cuartos, 2 banos $1500/ entrada, $425/mensuai NO CHEQUEO CREDITO. 912-224-0710 SALT CREEK RD Singlewide mobile home 2BR/1BA $475 dep. + $475 rent. Call 912-964-4451

VARNEDOE DRIVE: Newly renovated, 2BR/1BA, $625/month.

CAROLINE DRIVE: Newly Renovated 2BR/1BA, $675/month.

BEE ROAD: 2BR/1BA $595/month.

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WINDSOR CROSSING Condo Total electric, 2BR, 2BA, water & trash included $675.

OAK FOREST Renovated, 2BR/1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $525.

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COASTAL CT. Nice 2BR/2BA Apt, furnished kitchen $650.

CRESTHILL 3BR/1BA, furnished kitchen, home $775.

SPEIR ST. Nice 3BR/1.5BA Home, fenced backyard, carport $975.

WILMINGTON ISLAND 2BR/1BA, furnished kitchen, Duplex $685.

LOUISIANA AVE. Spacious 3BR/1BA Home, LR, den, 2 screened porches $725.

BERWICK LAKESPOOLER 3BR/2BA Home, Furnished kitchen, eat-in, family room, garage, fenced backyard $900.

WEST WOOD-RINCON 3BR/2BA Home, furnished kitchen, eat-in, garage, fenced backyard, deck $895.

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1st week $100. 2nd week until starting at $125/week.

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over 20 yrs. Freshly painted Apts $150/wk.

Rooms $70-80/wk. Furnished and utilities included. Call 234-9779 NEAR MEMORIAL/ DELESSEPS East Savannah. Furnished, includes utilities, central heat and air, Comcast cable, television, internet, washer/dryer.

Hardwood floors, ceramic tile in kitchen and bath.

Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. 5 minutes to Memorial Hospital. **ALSO PLACES AVAILABLE IN WEST CHATHAM! Call 912-210-0144.

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Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $400/$500 monthly, $125/security deposit, no lease. Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown: 912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

Roommate for large furnished Victorian near library $150/weekly. $540/monthly. Utilities, washer/dryer, tv, cable, internet, included. Full apartment also available. Monday-Saturday. 912-231-9464 Roommates Needed to Share 3BR/3BA house near Savannah State $150/week. All utilities included. Washer, dryer, central air, cable.

912-856-7222 ROOMMATE WANTED. Mature professional for 3BR/2BA home. Cable.

W/D, Utilities included Berwick Cottonvale area. $370 monthly. Call Ed at 912-234-0854

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Chevy Tahoe LS. 3rd row, seating, 97,500 miles, 20” Giovanni rims. $6500 firm. 507-4948 1985 Mazda RX-7 196,000 miles, runs great, sunroof, airdam, spoiler OBO $1,000.00 (912)988-1714

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HARLEY DAVIDSON Softtail 2005 many extras, 4k miles, garage kept, like new $11,900. Also 1968 GMC pickup $2200.

912-412-4911 JAGUAR XK8 2002- 2 door convertible, white with tan top, chrome wheels, loaded! Excellent condition, 45k miles $17,000. 912-412-8722

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Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 Free Motorcycle FREE TO GOOD HOME! ‘88 Honda CM400.

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(912)441-7167

ROOMS FOR RENT: Cable, refrigerator, total electric. $140/weekly.

APT. FOR RENT, total electric $450/month. Call 912-313-0227.

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