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Find out at DSDA's annual Paw-Walk and Green Grits Green foods, green drinks and green treats — all yours for the taking, if you head out for the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority's March F1rst Friday, Green Grits.

At Green Grits on March 4, from 5:30–8 p.m., you can savor Southern comfort at its greenest with local Boro farmers Stacy and Paula Freeman of Freeman’s Mills, who will be providing Green Grits to all, free of charge.

Man's best friend is invited to join the fun and to get a jump on St. Patrick's Day spirit. Cover your dog with four-leaf clovers and deck him out in green for a chance to win the doggie contest of your companion’s dreams. Enter you precious pup into

the Annual Downtown Statesboro Paw-Walk. Enactus and Paws and Claws of Georgia Southern have joined forces to bring bandanas made

by Georgia Southern’s fashion and merchandising program to support the Humane Society of Statesboro and Bulloch County. Purchase some of these amazing bandanas for yourself or your pet to support the health and welfare of animals here in Bulloch County.

The DSDA will be packing out the Courthouse Lawn in green with games, a bouncy house for kids, the Downtown Statesboro Paw-Walk and Girl Scouts selling cookies galore!

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This is a good week to be a the basement, is carried out by theater lover. As you can see over-the-top characters and is from our cover, we were so ridiculously funny. I have seen excited about the incoming two or three different producshows that we couldn't pick just tions of this show put on by the one to feature. I've never seen Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, South Pacific, but I'm looking and I have cried from laughing forward to seeing the Averitt every time.

Center take on one of the big But Shakespeare, like all classics with our local talent. great comics, knew that the Brittani Howell best comedy is informed by I'm also waiting with impatient eagerness for the Moscow tragedy, and there are some Festival Ballet's Sleeping Beauty. I, for heavy undercurrents in this play. The one, have never been much for ballet, show starts off with Viola washing but after watching some of the promoashore and sobbing for her twin tional footage (on our Connect Facebook, brother, who she believes went down if you're interested), I think they may with their ship. She soon becomes an have made a convert out of me. Have emissary to the Duchess Olivia, who you seen the way these people jump? is deep in mourning for a double loss: They're like frickin' superheroes. I didn't her father and her own brother. Even think people were even capable of half though Olivia and Viola are rivals for Orsino's love (well... sort of ), Viola is the things these dancers are going to do.

But my heart has and always will have immediately drawn with fellow-feeling a soft spot for the Bard. If I could only to this bereaved sister. Nursing the choose one of these three productions to pain of unrequited love herself, Viola is sensitive to Olivia's anguish as she tries go see (a choice, thank goodness, neither I nor anyone else will have to make), I to dissuade the duchess from falling would pick Twelfth Night. for her false male persona, Cesario; While the title of my column is and on top of it all, she has to put up actually taken from a line in Much Ado with Orsino's "bro talk" in which he About Nothing, Twelfth Night is my allcomplains about the unfeeling nature time favorite Shakespeare show. Like of women and how, boo hoo, he always most people, I encountered it first in my gets friend-zoned and will never find a high school English class and second wife.

And overlying all of this is Viola's ache in the Amanda Bynes' movie She's the for her lost twin. Like all Shakespearean Man. (Don't judge me, okay?) I found comedies, Twelfth Night ends with marthe storyline of the twins, Viola and riages, but the play's most satisfying Sebastian, incredibly alluring — I had always wanted a twin as I was growing reunion is not a romantic one but a fraternal one, as the siblings rediscover each up, and the idea fascinated me. The other. What was lost is now found, and second appeal was the character of Feste. tempests are kind after all.

Gleeful, clever and mischievous, he is all It is bittersweet: as the audience, we the fun of Puck and Ariel without the know we rarely get back the things — or supernatural element — and I'm a sucker the people — we lose. But it is heartfor Shakespeare's tricksters. breakingly, beautifully hopeful, because But as I got older and came to a more mature understanding of the play, despite knowing its unlikelihood, we still I came to appreciate Twelfth Night for want it. We still rejoice that someone other reasons. For one, it's funny as else got it. And that complicated hell — staged productions have a ton of empathy is a feeling that stays with you long after Feste's last song is sung. fun with the swapped gender jokes and So, friends: Get thee to a theater. physical comedy, and once you get a handle on the language, just reading the Brittani Howell is the editor of Connect play can get you cackling. The servants' Statesboro. If you'd like to reach out, shoot subplot, in which the kitchen staff tricks a message to editor@connectstatesboro. the head house manager into making an idiot of himself and getting locked in com!w

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ARTS. MUSIC. ENTERTAINMENT. GSU Planetarium presents: Back to the Moon For Good

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Wednesday

GSU Sandford Hall — Film screening: “Get in the Way: The Journey of John Lewis,” 4 p.m.

Eagle Creek Brewing Co. — Open mic night with Daniel Navarro, 6– 9 p.m.

Mellow Mushroom — Trivia, 8 p.m.

Locos — Trivia, 9 p.m.

Gnat’s Landing — DJ and karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wild Wing Café — Beer pong, 9 p.m.

Orange Constant, 10 p.m.

Applebee’s — Live DJ, 9:30 p.m.–close

Millhouse — Dalton Hutcheson and the Joe Anderson Band, 9 p.m.

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GSU Planetarium — Planetarium public evening, “Back to the Moon,” every half-hour from 6– 10 p.m. Free and open to the public. Tickets distributed in math/physics building during the week leading up to the event, and in the planetarium lobby the day of the event.

Averitt Center for the Arts — South Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/ adults, $10/youth GSU

Wild Wing Café — Trivia, 9 p.m.

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Statesboro Regional Public Library — Brain Games, 5 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Thursday

Averitt Center for the Arts — South Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/ adults, $10/youth [pg.

10] Eagle Creek Brewing Company — Trivia, 7 p.m.

El Sombrero (Fair Rd.) — Trivia, 7:30–9:30 p.m.

In case you haven’t heard, the Moon is trending again… and in a big way. Like in the glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, our big white space neighbor is enjoying the attention of lunar explorers. Only this time, they’re going back to the moon for good.

The award-winning 24-minute Google Lunar XPRIZE fulldome planetarium show chronicles teams around the world competing for the largest international incentivized prize in history, by landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon.w

Eagle Creek Brewing Co. — The Orange Constant acoustic set, 6– 9 p.m.

Three Tree Coffee Roasters — Live music night, 6–9 p.m.

Locos — Jason White, 8 p.m.

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GSU RAC — All Paws for a Cause 5k Run/ Fun Walk with Future Veterinarian’s Society, 7:30 a.m. Registration: $22 Averitt Center for the Arts — South Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/ adults, $10/youth Eagle Creek Brewing Co. — Josh Johannson, 7–10 p.m.

Whitaker Black Box Theatre — Coastal Rock Productions Presents: Pridemeat, Sincision, Hall of the Elders, and Citadel, 7 p.m. Cover charge: $7 Southern Billiards & Bar — BiRDPERSON, 9 p.m.

South City Tavern — The Matt Brantley Band, 8 p.m.

Gnat’s Landing — Dalton Hutcheson and the Joe Anderson Band, 10 p.m.

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Averitt Center for the Arts — South Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/adults, $10/youth First Baptist Church — Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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Locos — Cornhole tournament, 7 p.m.

El Jalapeño — Live DJ

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Bigshow’s Burgers and Bar (Brampton Ave.) — Trivia, 8–9 p.m.

Dingus Magee’s — Trivia, 9 p.m.

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Tuesday

Gnat’s Landing — Trivia, 6:30 p.m.

GSU Foy Building — Guest artist Mark Snyder, 7:30 p.m.

Locos — Jam Session open mic night, 9 p.m.

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Wednesday

GSU Foy Building — Brass studio solo recital, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Mellow Mushroom — Trivia, 8 p.m.

Locos — Trivia, 9 p.m.

Gnat’s Landing — DJ and karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wild Wing Café — Trivia, 9 p.m.

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Three Tree Coffee Roasters — Live music night, 6–9 p.m.

Averitt Center — Dallas Brass, 7:30 p.m. $25/ adults, $10/youth [pg. 13]

Thursday

GSU Williams Center — UPB-UnPlugged, 6:30 p.m.

GSU Performing Arts Center — Twelfth Night, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $6/ students, $12/general admission

Statesboro Regional Public Library — Read Book Club, 6:30–8 p.m.

GSU Performing Arts Center — Twelfth Night, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $6/students, $12/general admission [pg. 10] Averitt Center for the Arts — Georgia Southern Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

GSU Performing Arts Center — Twelfth Night, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $6/ students, $12/general admission

Moonshiners — Jon Langston, 8 p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door Wild Wing Café — Beer pong, 9 p.m.

Applebee’s — Live DJ, 9:30 p.m.–close

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Downtown Statesboro — F1rst Friday, “Green Grits” and 2nd Annual Paw-Walk dog contest, 5:30 p.m. [pg. 3]

South City Tavern — BiRDPERSON, 8 p.m.

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Statesboro Regional Public Library — Coupon Club, 11 a.m.

Statesboro Regional Public Library — Preserving Family Photos, 12–2 p.m.

El Jalapeño — Live DJ and karaoke, 8–11 p.m.

Bigshow’s Burgers and Bar (Brampton Ave.) — Trivia, 8–9 p.m.

Dingus Magee’s — Trivia, 9 p.m.

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Tuesday

Statesboro Regional Public Library — Women’s Day, Sip and Sketch, 6 p.m. Enjoy International Women’s Day with a cup of tea, a sketch pad and the company of creative ladies. Free and open to the public, but space is limited. Reserve your spot at the library reference desk.

GSU Russell Union — Great Minds Lecture Series by Jason Hoelscher, “Art, Information and Complexity,” 5:30 p.m.

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Join EGSC for a Sousa Spectacular East Georgia State College will host the Georgia Southern University Wind Symphony as they present a Sousa Spectacular on Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

The concert will be held at the Luck F. Gambrell Center Auditorium and will begin with a short pre-concert chat with the conductor about the program and its presentation.

The Sousa Spectacular will feature a concert in the style of a John Philip Sousa Band. It will be conducted

by Dr. Colin McKenzie, Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at GSU. He will be assisted by Tito Osibodu, graduate conductor, and the program will feature GSU professor of clarinet Dr. Linda Cionniti.

“We are excited to present this ‘Sousa Spectacular’ to the audience at East Georgia State College,” said

Dr. McKenzie. “The program does not feature music written only by Sousa, but is presented as a performance in the style of the John Philip Sousa Band.The format will be typical of what he would have presented in the heyday of popularity of his famous touring group. It will open with a transcription of an opera overture, will include a selection for a guest soloist, and will, of course, feature many of Sousa's works (some of which the audience will likely know well, and others with which the audience may be less familiar).

Also typical of this style concert is the use of encore pieces which are not included in the program, but are announced by placards throughout the concert. It really should be a fun event; we may even have a surprise or two for the audience!”

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Gnat’s Landing — Trivia, 6:30 p.m.

GSU PAC — Moscow Festival Ballet presents Sleeping Beauty, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25/ patrons, $10/students [pg. 14] GATA’s — Beer pong tournament, 8 p.m.

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GSU Foy Building — Spring Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m.

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Arabic Coffee Hour bridges cultures Have questions about life in the Middle East?

Ask them over coffee at GSU club Once a week, a group of Georgia Southern University foreign language students get together to drink coffee and discuss Arabic culture, in a format that is free and open for public participation.

Together with two teaching assistants — one from Egypt and the other from Tunisia — Youssef Salhi founded the Georgia Southern University Arabic Club in 2012, when he began as the school’s first full-time lecturer of Arabic. Before then, Georgia Southern worked with Fulbright Scholars who taught for one year only before returning to their own countries.

Upon being hired full-time at Georgia Southern, Salhi got to work on major departmental goals such as establishing a minor (check), creating a study abroad program (check; 18 students will be traveling with Salhi to Morocco this summer), beginning an Arabic Club (check) and establishing a major (in the works).

“My chair and the dean of the college are very supportive in making sure that Arabic is here to stay and keeps growing,” Salhi said.

Indeed, enrollment in Arabic classes at GSU has steadily risen since 2012, and the Arabic Club — now run by

“We are part of this campus, we are part of this community, and we try to be active the whole time.

Our students know that Arabs are just like everybody else. The more people make that connection, the easier it gets.”

— Mr. Youssef Salhi, lecturer of Arabic at Georgia Southern University

students, with Salhi acting as advisor — has grown in size. Attendance has also increased at their weekly coffee hours, which typically consist of 20– 25 minutes of presentation, followed by questions, comments and socializing.

“Our attendees are as diverse as our campus,” said Mr. Salhi, who believes that one of the best things about the Arabic Coffee Hour is the interaction

between Arab international students and Americans. Students “really enjoy learning about the culture from people their age,” he said.

To that end, during last semester’s coffee hours, Salhi’s advanced Arabic students did a weekly presentation about Arab pop culture, with topics ranging from hip-hop to fashion.

This semester, the focus is on cultural aspects outside of pop culture, such as weddings, poetry and the roles of women.

“We do teach culture in class, but sometimes we do not have enough time to talk about [it] because we have to focus on the language,” Mr. Salhi explained.

If people come for the cultural education, they might also come for the refreshments. The club offers Arabic coffee, a strong brew mixed with cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger and peppercorn. Although typically served black, milk is available, too, as “it might be too strong, at first” for some newcomers. There is always a spread of both Arabic and American food, too, such as pizza or kabsa, a traditional Saudi rice dish. These are served along with various sweets from both cuisines, as the Arabic Club tries “to give [attendees] a taste of both cultures.”

The Arabic Club keeps very busy, offering a myriad of on-campus events that promote Arabic language and culture. There are monthly movie nights, complete with subtitles, as well as poetry nights, which began in Arabic and have expanded to become international nights, featuring Spanish, French and Arabic, with translations into English.

In fact, the Arabic Club makes everything it does accessible to English speakers.

“We want to communicate in a language that everybody understands,” said Salhi, adding that everyone from

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The Arabic Club also brings guest speakers to campus. Last semester, they hosted Dr. Jack Sheehan, a wellknown scholar specializing in the public perception of Arabs. In April, Dr. Sheehan will return to campus to speak about the American entertainment industry’s portrayal of Arabs, and the GSU library is currently hosting Dr. Sheehan’s related exhibit — also open to the public — which sheds light on Hollywood’s vilification of Arab characters.

Beginning with early Hollywood’s silent films, which featured the evil sheikh who absconds with a blonde bombshell and forces her into his harem, American cinema so commonly portrays “the Arab bad guy with the beard and turban,” said Salhi.

“Women are in the background, veiled, with no voice. We cannot make these assumptions about other minorities.

But with Arabs and Muslims, it’s somehow okay, this negative discourse.”

The climate on campus is friendlier than media portrayals of MuslimAmerican relations would lead one to believe.

“Students [at GSU] are openminded, open to learning, and respectful,” said Salhi. With regards to the contentious American political climate, he stated, “We are part of this campus, we are part of this community, and we try to be active the whole time. Our students know that Arabs are just like everybody else. The more people make that connection, the easier it gets.”

The GSU Arabic Coffee Hour meets in the Forest Drive Building, Room 1227 every Wednesday from 4–5 p.m.

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Fighting for a ticket to the Dance backs against the wall and will likely need to win at least three out of four to have any hope of making the trip to New Orleans for the conference tournament.

The Eagles can’t afford to overlook a rival who is desperate for a win — plus, let’s Brown not forget how the Eagles stole a win on a four-point play at the buzzer when these two teams met in Boone last month. App may be looking for some payback.

Looking up the standings, the Eagles are chasing UT-Arlington (9-6) and UL-Lafayette (10-6) for a spot in the top four and a first-round bye.

Southern will get a head-to-head shot at UL-L in the regular season finale next weekend. The Eagles will also get a chance to gain some ground on UL-Monroe (11-5), who currently sits in second place. With a three-game cushion, Little Rock (14-2) has all but wrapped up the regular season title.

A top-four seed would mean a first-round bye, and three wins in New Orleans would punch a ticket to the Big Dance. Finishing outside the top four would force a team to win four games in four days in order to win it all — and they would face an opponent with fresher legs in each round.

Personally, I like how the Sun Belt protects its higherseeded teams. The doublebye for the top two seeds and first-round byes for third and fourth puts importance on the regular season; plus, the conference wants the best team to represent it in postseason play. But if fifth-place Georgia Southern isn’t able to grab one of those top four seeds, it is going to create an uphill climb for the Eagles in Georgia Southern forward Montae Glenn, right, the tournament. gets position in the paint against Arkansas State On the women’s side of forward Anthony Livingston after grabbing an offen- things, Georgia Southern sive rebound in the first half at Hanner Fieldhouse (4-12) is just one game out on Feb. 18. of eighth place in the con-

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Georgia Southern guard Ike Smith, top, drives and dishes against Arkansas State guard Frederic Dure during the the first half at Hanner Fieldhouse Thursday. ference standings with four games to play. The Eagles hosted Georgia State (4-12) Monday night (after press deadline) and then Appalachian State (5-11) comes to town Thursday. And it just so happens that App is the team sitting in that coveted eighth spot.

Arkansas State (16-0) has locked up the regular season title and No. 1 seed while Little Rock (12-4) and UL-Lafayette (11-5) are battling for second place and the double-bye.

Georgia Southern (7-18 overall) has improved from last season’s five wins, but the Eagles have to be disappointed with the number of second-half leads they have let slip away. This team has been competitive with pretty much everybody in the league, but hasn’t seemed to find a way to close the

deal. In the last six games, the Eagles have lost five, but have had a lead at halftime in three of those losses.

The good news for the Eagles is they are still alive with four games to play — and three of those four (State, App and UL-Monroe) are winnable games against teams they are fighting for a spot in the tournament field, so Georgia Southern controls its own destiny when it comes to punching a ticket to New Orleans.

Thursday night will be the final home game of the season for both the men and women — and it’s a huge night for both teams. Eagle Nation, let’s give them the home court advantage they deserve so they can finish the season strong and make a run in the conference tournament.w

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It’s crunch time.

With four games left in the regular season, the Georgia Southern men still have a shot at elbowing their way into the top four in the conference standings, but the Eagles will have to finish strong.

Alex Southern is in the midst of a huge home stand, and this week is rivalry week for the Eagles. Georgia State comes to town Tuesday night for game that will be televised nationally on ESPN2. Tip time has been moved to 6 p.m.

State escaped with an overtime win over Southern in the teams’ last meeting in Atlanta earlier this season, but the Panthers have been reeling since. They have lost seven of their last nine games, but picked up a much-needed win over Arkansas State Saturday night. The Panthers (7-9) are in a three-way tie for sixth place — one game behind Georgia Southern (8-8) in fifth.

Georgia Southern will host Appalachian State (5-11) Thursday night. The Mountaineers have their

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'South Pacific' guarantees 'one enchanted evening' The Averitt STARs is bringing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s enchanting musical, South Pacific, to the Emma Kelly Theatre from Feb. 25–27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m.

Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the romantic story of two couples whose happiness is threatened by the realities of war and their own prejudices. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with French plantation owner Emile despite her conservative upbringing. Similarly, U.S. Lieutenant Cable becomes romantically involved with an island native and struggles with the idea of bringing an Asian bride home to meet his family. As the war against Japan quickly approaches their island of paradise, both Americans struggle to overcome their own cultural prejudices with their unorthodox love affairs.

Director Glenn Spell believes that South Pacific is a unique story that incorporates real issues that are rarely explored in the theatre. Its portrayals of interracial marriage were radical in the post-war years of the show's premiere: in fact, the Georgia legislature tried, unsuccessfully, to ban the song "You've Got to

be Carefully Taught" — which criticized contemporary society's inherent racism — from being performed during the show's initial tour through the state in the late 1940s.

“The show illustrates how people can achieve happiness by realizing that there is more to life than social mores,” Spell said. “There are some serious issues addressed in the musical but the story is really quite heartwarming.”

Cast in the female lead, Nellie, is Bethany DeZelle, who currently stars in a national commercial and who won Best Actress at the 2015 Emma Awards for her performance of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. Playing Emile, Nellie’s romantic counterpart, is Averitt Center veteran J.J. Crawford, who was nominated for Best Actor at the 2014 Emma Awards for his performance of Harold Hill in The Music Man. In addition, Brandi Harvey, fresh off a staring roll in the acclaimed production of Dreamgirls, is the understudy for Nellie and will perform in the Sunday matinee. With the strong vocal talents of both actresses, folks may have to see the show twice.

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Present mirth, present laughter: 'Twelfth Night' Cross-dressing, complicated love triangles and rampant mischief? Sounds like the story of a typical Mardi Gras weekend — but it isn’t. Actually, it’s the plot of one of William Shakespeare’s later comedies, Twelfth Night. But the parallel works so well that the director decided to reimagine the play in New Orleans.

Twelfth Night is originally set in the imaginary island nation of Illyria, ruled by a feudal system of dukes and duchesses. Duke Orsino is desperately in love with the Duchess Olivia, who will have none of him, and into the midst of this courtly drama crash-lands a young, shipwrecked woman. Alone and

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Luther Billis, center, portrayed by Alan Tyson, schemes with fellow American Seabees on how to travel to a nearby island to witness a Boar's Tooth Ceremony during a scene from the Averitt STARS production of the classic Broadway musical "South Pacific." sional actors in both leading roles,” Spell said. “It’s a very sentimental thing because they’re both experienced, and they completely transform into their characters.”

Based on a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by James A. Michener, the original Broadway production won 10 Tony Awards and includes many memorable songs such as "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair," and "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy."

friendless in a maledominated society, Viola disguises herself as a man and joins Orsino’s court. Viola falls for Orsino, who sends her to woo Olivia, who — rather than responding to Orsino’s advances — at once falls for Viola’s male persona, Cesario.

Confused yet? Wait until Viola’s twin brother shows up to throw everyone for a loop.

“The main idea of this show is that love is something people have excess of, and as soon as people are bitten by the love bug, they fall hard and they fall really fast,” said director Gage Crook. “Which is the reason we set our production in the 1920s, because the

Accompanying Spell is Alan Waters as the assistant director for the show, musical directors Robert Cottle and Kelly Watson, and Kaye Miller as the choreographer.

Tickets for the show are $16 for adults ($20 for members) and $10 for all youth. To reserve your ticket please call the Averitt Center for the Arts at (912) 212-2787 during box office hours, or purchase online at www.averittcenterforthearts.org. Box office hours are Tuesday–Friday from noon to 5:30 p.m.w

characters have so much excess about them.”

Take Olivia, who is grieving so deeply for her late father and brother that she swears off love for life; or the imperious steward Malvolio, whose excess of

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11 already, which would raise our feline count to four. But our cats hardly like each other, and would certainly behave very badly were we to introduce another.

One neighbor recently mentioned the line of animals outside our front door in the morning, waiting for food. The other animals are stories for another time, but one of them is, of course, Quasimodo. We’ve shortened his name to Quasi, as we’ve learned to find him beautiful, and we like to think of him now as sort-of-ours, a pseudo-stray.

Last week, when he was showing signs of feeling better, I tried to encircle his tail in my hand for the first time. He whipped around like a snake.

He could have bitten, but he didn’t, choosing instead to warn me: You don’t own me; we’re not there.

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itself really well to the kind of warm, topsy-turvy world that Illyria is, where people fall in love with each other at first sight.”

Crook is a fairly young director: In fact, this is Crook’s third full production as a director, and the first show he has directed with the Theater and Performance program. His last GSU production was The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged!) with Theater South, the university’s student theater group; and he directed Sordid Lives at the Averitt Center in 2014.

But last summer, theater professor Lisa Abbott reached out to ask Crook to direct the show. Crook was familiar with Twelfth Night from his under-

graduate studies, and, as he said, “it was an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

They have trimmed some of the more antiquated, obscure jokes that only a dedicated Shakespeare scholar would understand, but Crook and his cast have adhered closely to the original script — including the songs Shakespeare wrote into the script for jester, Feste. Though the songs — “Oh Mistress Mine,” “Hey, Ho! The Wind and the Rain” and “Come Away, Death” — have been musically written and rewritten countless times since their birth in the Elizabethan theater, because his show’s aesthetic is so entrenched in New Orleans, Crook has recruited Robert Cottle, a musician

and music educator at the Averitt Center for the Arts, to write some original music to accompany the lyrics.

Crook says Cottle’s music has a simple, jazzy sound that fits well in the 1920s setting.

To match the decadence and spectacle of the plot and setting, rather than using the black box space, the CAT performers will be taking the stage in the Performing Arts Center for a threenight run.

Twelfth Night will run March 3–5 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for Georgia Southern students and $12 for members of the community. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office in advance or at the door.w

Quasi: A stray's tale Katherine Fallon When the stray cat showed up in our yard, yowling beneath the bedroom windows in the dark of night, we weren’t sure what to think of him. His head was too big for his emaciated body, and his tail was scrawny as a city squirrel’s. One ear was intact, but the other was heavily notched by injury. Fat pink scars stretched across his throat, above the arm. He didn’t clean himself well, and we cringed at his bony, ruffled rump. We thought he was so ugly that we named him Quasimodo.

Quasimodo didn’t want us to adopt him. He’d never been in our yard before that night, and didn’t come again without being tempted with lunchmeat and wet food. Every time we saw him somewhere in the neighborhood — hiding beneath one person’s car, or another person’s shed — we trilled our tongues in imitation of a meow, and before long, he began to think that sound was his name.

More than a year later, Quasi is finally a regular at our house, coming each morning for breakfast.

We call his sound-name into the evening to offer him supper, and coo it to him as he trots across the street or lawn to meet us. And although both of us have come away

TWELFTH, from page 10 pride moves his subordinates to knock him off his high horse in a hilarious gas-lighting sequence. The Duke Orsino opens the play with language of gluttony: pining for love of Olivia, he begs for such an excess of love that his aching heart might be satisfied.

In addition to re-situating the play in time, Crook’s production has been relocated geographically, placing the action in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

“It was like the Bohemia of the South, in a way,” Crook said. “… To be perfectly honest, I love the aesthetic of the French Quarter, and I think it lends

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with bleeding forearms on occasion for having startled him, we have persisted; in fits and starts, we have earned his trust.

First, we petted the crown of the head, between his mismatched ears.

Later, we dared a slow stroke down the back of his neck. Not long ago, my hand cupped itself to receive his torso for the first time, petting him along the length of his spine and noticing, happily, that the bones there have receded beneath healthy flesh.

A few weeks ago, Quasimodo went missing for a number of days.

We feared the worst, and checked the glass door over and over again, day after day, hoping he would show up and assuage our fears. After nearly a week, he did, but because we are so ginger in petting him, it took us another couple of weeks to recognize the wound he was suffering from: Something — a possum? a dog? — had bitten his face, and taken his cheek away with it. The sore was massive and deep, oozing pus, unnaturally green and gray in color. He smelled like rot and bled on the sheets we left outside for him to sleep on. The gouge was pretty clearly infected, and based on its size and depth, we were afraid he might die without treatment.

And so we went from feeding a

stray to medicating him, crossing the boundary into healthcare, thus stewardship, for Quasimodo. He just finished a two-week round of antibiotics, getting one pill, encased in cheese, each morning and night, assuming he comes by twice daily.

He still leaves blood on the sheets, which we launder with regularity, but the wound has changed in color to the typical red and brown of healthy scabbing, and has begun to resemble living, healing flesh.

We’re those people whose menagerie toes the line between eccentric and overkill. When someone we know encounters an animal in need, we are the first people they ask to adopt or foster it.

If it were up to my partner, we’d have rescue animals to the rafters. She once adopted a couple dozen rats, fated to be euthanized after laboratory testing, and despite not being a Cat Person, she adopted the three cats we do have when she realized they were having their whiskers burned off at raging parties.

Truthfully, I’m not much harderhearted: A handful of years ago, I drove across the country with a deformed chicken named Felina in a cat carrier, sneaking into hotel rooms while clerks were looking the other way, in order to keep her from being killed.

There is little in life as gratifying as befriending a surly beast, be it cat, human, chicken, stoat or goat, and sometimes we wonder aloud whether we shouldn’t just let Quasimodo indoors

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The all-American big band experience Dallas Brass comes to the Emma Kelly stage and Arkansas before eventually spreading out across the whole country. So far, they’ve traveled to every state except Hawaii.

One of Levine’s primary goals before each show is ensuring the audience has a fun time. To that end, Dallas Brass has incorporated elements

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will include workshopping with band students from Southeast Bulloch High School. In addition, Dallas Brass will hold a master class with Georgia Southern students the following day.

“Music has enriched our lives," Levine said. "We believe that music enriches people’s lives, so we want to get kids excited about playing music, listening to music, appreciating different styles of music. It’s all about music appreciation. We want to inspire the kids, just like other people inspired us. That’s what our student mission is all about."

Statesboro residents can expect to see Dallas Brass perform at the Averitt Center on March 4 at 7:30 p.m.

“Dallas Brass has a wonderful reputation for doing great work with students and putting on a fabulous show, and we are always eager to bring such groups to our community,” Brandi Harvey, program development director for the Averitt Center, said.w

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All the way from Dallas, Texas, Dallas Brass is bringing big-band excellence to the Emma Kelly stage on Friday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. While here, the Dallas Brass will also be offering a free master class to the community.

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They’ve toured nationwide and overseas, their set is comprised of both classical masterpieces and contemporary songs, and they’ve performed at both Carnegie Hall and The John F. Kennedy Center. Now, Dallas Brass, the internationally acclaimed music ensemble, will find themselves in Statesboro performing a range of compositions illustrating the growth and evolution of American music.

Comprised of traditional brass instruments and accompanied by drums and percussions, Dallas Brass has entertained general audiences for over 30 years with sets showcasing a distinct mix of swing, Dixieland, Broadway and patriotic music.

“I like to think of it as a fun, downhome show. We essentially trace American music from the time of George Washington to the present day,” Michael Levine, founder of Dallas Brass, said. “We try to do as big of a variety as we can. We’re playing a lot of music that people don’t often hear in their lives. You don’t turn in the radio and hear George Gershwin, or Leonard Bernstein, or Scott Joplin — some of these great names in American music. We’re trying to really pay tribute to a lot of these people and the history of American music.”

Levine, who is a trombonist trained in classical music, founded the group in 1983 as a means to play gigs around Dallas.

“We played weekly weddings, grand openings, cocktail parties and all these other social events. We were primarily functioning as background music. That was a lot of fun, but after a year or so doing that, I just got antsy and wanted to play more for people who were listening,” Levine said.

Levine restructured the ensemble as a concert group and found an agent, playing shows soon afterward.

They toured all over Texas, Oklahoma

of theatre into their performances to make it more visually interesting.

“We do a little bit of lighting, and we move around a little bit. It’s not extravagant, but we’re not just going to sit there and stand at the music stands for two hours. We talk to the audience. We tell them a little bit about the piece and composer. We try to do it in a fun way. You’re just getting some little tidbits, some little trivia and some interesting fun facts.

We concentrate on a lot of these things that will add some frosting to the cake,” Levine said. “We want people to smile, we want them to laugh, and we want to touch as many emotions as we can.”

The members of Dallas Brass have also devoted a tremendous amount of time educating students as well.

They’ve traveled to numerous schools across the nation, workshopping and imparting tips of the trade to students. Their work in Statesboro

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The Moscow Festival Ballet is bringing Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty to Georgia Southern's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Be spellbound by 'Sleeping Beauty' ballet Moscow Festival Ballet brings pure magic of dance to classic fairy tale Katherine Fallon Ballet began as royal court entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, spreading soon after to France. It remained relevant and innovative in France into the 1800s, when it momentarily lost momentum there and picked up speed in other countries, including Russia. The Russians have maintained a stronghold ever since, and on Tuesday, March 8, the experts are coming back to town: The renowned Moscow Festival Ballet are bringing the 20th-century classic, Sleeping Beauty, to the Performing Arts Center at Georgia Southern University.

Even considering its aristocratic genesis and strict physical repertoire, ballet has become an accessible art

form for all stripes of people over the years. Ballet is also a performance art especially suited to storytelling, and is thus equalizing and communicative. In fact, the most famous ballets relate common fairytales and romances, such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Cinderella.

“Classic fairy tales and classical ballet compliment one another,” said Alexander Daev, a dancer who also acts as Associate Artistic Director and Ballet Master of the Moscow Festival Ballet. “Ballet gives the fairy tales an invigorated audio and visual [element], and fairy tales give ballet a story.”

“These are stories and scenes that people will be very familiar with,” said Stacie McDaniel, director of the Performing Arts Center. “[The ballet] is good for families, and

children love it.”

Sleeping Beauty’s plot is certainly familiar: upon her birth, a princess is condemned by a vengeful fairy to prick her finger upon the needle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, and die. While she can’t undo the curse entirely, a better-tempered fairy amends the curse to result in sleep instead of death; the princess can only be awakened by true love’s kiss.

Those who have seen the Disney movie will also likely recognize the ballet’s gorgeous score, composed in 1889 by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who also wrote The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

The Moscow Festival Ballet has toured throughout the world, garnering rave reviews wherever their pointe shoes land. This will be their third performance at Georgia Southern; two years ago, they brought another classic, Cinderella, to the stage.

“They’re a fantastic company with beautiful dancers,” McDaniel said.

“Sometimes the days are very long,” said Daev, citing three-hour daily rehearsals prior to performance. “But to enjoy what you do makes it worthwhile, and this is what we live for: to dance and to perform. To make sure

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that the audience has the best experience possible, and will enjoy classical Russian ballet.”

To that end, founder and artistic director Sergei Radchenko has done extensive research into Marius Petipa’s original choreography of Sleeping Beauty, and into the ballet’s original stage production, offering audiences a truly authentic experience.

“We are as close to the original masterpieces as possible,” Daev said.

“Only modern technology for the stage and ever-evolving dancers’ techniques bring us into the present time.”

This evening in the Moscow Festival Ballet’s international touring season is a show you won’t want to miss. “[Sleeping Beauty] is a great performance, and very accessible,” said McDaniel. “There will be moments of humor, beautiful costumes and scenery. It’s really going to be a good time.”

The Moscow Festival Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty will take place on Tuesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the PAC building. Tickets are available online at etix.com, and at the PAC box office Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.w

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Having amassed a collection of over 40 different historic cameras, ranging from the early 1900s to the present, the Georgia Southern Museum invites visitors to travel back in time and explore the history and science of cameras with their latest exhibit.

Curated by Georgia Southern professors and staff members Dr. Delena Gatch, Jessica Hines and Jeremy Wilburn, the camera-centric exhibit will have its opening reception on Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 4–6 p.m.

“The genesis of this exhibit was that the museum had this core collection that was donated by a Georgia Southern faculty member back in the 80s," said Dr. Brent Tharp, museum director. "We thought it was a nice collection and that it would be an interesting story to try and get out.

“There’s this incredible story that our camera collection covers. We’re looking at the changing technology and also the changing social history that these cameras have. As soon as cameras came out and became available for the general public, they became a part of every aspect of our lives — invention, discovery, surveillance, iconography and fame. All of these things that affect our daily lives, the camera immediately became a part of.”

In addition to the original camera donations that the museum contained, additional cameras were added to the display from the personal collection of Jeremy Wilburn, who is GSU’s campus photographer.

“Being able to see all the different types of cameras made over the last 100-plus years is pretty unique, and I'm thankful to the Georgia Southern Museum for allowing me to display some of my collection alongside other

pieces that have been donated,” Wilburn said. “I think for people who grew up with film cameras, this exhibit will be a nice trip down memory lane. Since hearing about the exhibit, I've had people tell me not only that they are excited to come see it, but also which camera they used to shoot with and how their dad used to own a cool old Brownie or a folding Polaroid.”

Visitors at the exhibit will be able to see a timeline of events detailing the evolution of photography and its progress and growth in technology and artistry.

In addition, the exhibit will have interactive displays and hands-on activities involving a darkroom, 3D-printed camera components, pinhole cameras and a cameras obscura with a live scene of Sweetheart Circle.

Museum staff are expecting a good turnout and a fun, positive reaction from visitors for the camera exhibit. After all, the museum, which first started in 1982, was recently ranked 19th among 30 schools selected across the country for its permanent exhibit about Georgia's Coastal Plain region.

The list, “30 Most Amazing Higher Ed Natural History Museums” was compiled by BestCollegeReviews.org on criteria that included community involvement, opportunities for college students, availability to the public and collection of artifacts and specimen.

“From the very beginning, the university museum was highly focused on setting high standards for collections, education and exhibits. We were determined to be an accredited museum,” Tharp said. “We were first accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 1999 and then again in 2010. That accreditation means a lot. It means we’ve gone through a vigorous self-study.”w

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The Statesboro Herald is looking for a new independent newspaper delivery contractor for the Bulloch County Area. Contracts will be awarded to energetic individuals who can ensure competent on time delivery to Herald customers by 6:30 am each morning.

Overnight, weekend and holiday delivery is required.

Serious enquiries only.

Competitive pay is based on subscriber delivery and is adjusted for today’s costs. A reliable means of transportation with backup is required. A valid Georgia driver’s license and current insurance is also required.

Inquire in person at One Proctor Street, Statesboro, GA 30458

Public Works Department

Leaf & Limb Collection Driver

$12.04/hr + Competitive Benefits.

Must apply online @ www.statesboroga.gov Equal Opportunity Employer

Public Works Department

Apply - Mon-Fri - 8 am 5pm 49 South Rountree Street, Metter, GA Drug and Alcohol Screening Required EOE Fire Department

Firefighter

LPN POSITIONS for 7AM-7PM & 7PM-7AM C.N.A. POSITIONS for 3PM-11PM & 11PM-7AM TREATMENT NURSE-LPN Applicants must have a valid GA Driving License, Social Security Card, Current RN License, LPN License and C.N.A. Certification.

Apply in person @ Pleasant View Nursing Center-475 Washington Street, Metter, GA 30439 Pleasant View Nursing Center is a Drug Free Work Place

QUALITY COMPLIANCE MANAGER Immediate opening for a self-motivated individual to work collaboratively at all levels of the organization to improve healthcare quality & patient safety. Educates staff regarding EMR, quality standards and organizational improvement initiatives. Continuously evaluates and monitors clinic flow to ensure an efficient patient visit. Assists in implementing standards, policies and procedures in support of local, state, federal & other regulatory requirements. Coordinates Employee Safety Programs. Coordinates activities for Patient Centered Medical Home. (PCMH) Valid RN Georgia license preferred or other health related degree Minimum of 3 years clinical experience. Prior quality improvement, leadership and primary care experience highly desirable. CPR Certification required. Demonstrated ability to set priorities and organize work responsibilities to insure completion of assigned tasks. Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office programs & electronic medical record system.

Patrol Officer City of Metter

$10.21/hr + Competitive Benefits.

Must apply online @ www.statesboroga.gov Equal Opportunity Employer

Pleasant View Nursing Center

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Street & Stormwater Equipment Operator

With CDL $12.04/hr, without CDL $11.46/hr + Competitive Benefits.

Must apply online @ www.statesboroga.gov Equal Opportunity Employer

Excellent benefits including retirement, health, life, dental & disability insurance, paid holidays, vacation & sick time. Please send resume in confidence to: HR Dept, 215 North Coleman Street Swainsboro, GA 30401. hr@eghc.org EGHC is an equal opportunity employer and provider.

RETIREMENT COMMUNITY RETIREMENT COMMUNITY In In Savannah, seeks an Savannah, seeks C.N.A with exp.

Experienced Cook with shifts with Senior living. ranging from 6am-2pm or Call 912-898-8880; 2pm-7pm. Previous experience Fax 912-898-0087 in working with Senior Adults.

Call Window Cleaners 912-898-8880; Fax Looking for professional widow 912-898-0087 cleaners. must be able to lift and climb ladders. Call ————————————— 912-682-1919 ———————

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Experience healthcare aid is GRAPHIC DESIGNER – needed urgently to take care Hinesville of elderly people CNA optional, We are seeking a smart and creative $970 per week, Send resume to Graphic Designer to assist our staff behrendsroxanne@yahoo.com in developing print and online for details. advertising campaigns for area

Metter Ford is looking for a Sales Professional. Applicants should possess excellent customer relations skills, a desire to succeed, but most importantly ethics, honesty and integrity.

We offer an excellent pay plan, above average benefits including 401k and a great working environment.

Applicants shold apply in person, fax a resume to 912-6854876 or email a resume to metrford@pineland.net.

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Beautifully Restored Large 14x17

Cars/Trucks/Vans

1 bedroom, kitchen, dining room, 4 full bath

9 E. Grady St

Beautiful Home priced to Sell

5000sqf, 2.66/acres inside city limits. 4/5-bedrooms, 5-bathrooms, living/dining, sun-room, office, den with/fireplace, Swimming-pool, large kitchen with custom cabinets.

912-681-3739. Serious only

Zoned: Commercial /Residential 912-678-5542

Eagle Village

3 bedroom, 2 bath. Deposit $495 and rent $495 for first 3 months. 912-587-9850. eaglevillagemhc@hotmail.com

Wanted

Motivated, Active Certified Teacher and Activities/Physical Education Instructor for a Child Care Institution in Sylvania GA.

EFFICIENCY APARTMENT

Utilities included $85.00 weekly. Call 912-587-5418.

Certified Teacher position requires a Georgia Certification as either a Regular Ed or Special Ed teacher. Grades 7-12 are preferred.

Activities/Physical Education Instructor requires a minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent. A Degree is preferred.

Must be certified, or capable of becoming certified after hiring in CPR, First Aid, CPI and as a life guard.

Both positions require background check, drivers license and drug screening.

Contact: AMIkids at 912-829-5300 or email your resume to savannahriver-do2@amikids.org

FOR LEASE

Approx 7500 s/f single level office bldg. 11 large offices plus 2 large conference rooms. 4 restrooms, 2 w/3 stalls each. Alarm system 404-862-4002. Available 3/31.

Available NOW! 2 BR 2 BA Duplex. $550 per month.

Washer/Dryer.

Lawn maintained for you. Close to GSU campus and town.

Call 770-330-1497.

Quiet Living

Groundskeeper

$10.90/hr + Competitive Benefits.

Must apply online @ www.statesboroga.gov Equal Opportunity Employer

Real Estate Land/Lots For Sale Candler County mini-farms 12-23 acres. Ask about owner financing!

Pam Chance, Keller Williams Realty 912-2328580 or 912-429-2715

1 bedroom unfurnished or

Wise Choice Realty 2 bed/1 bath starting at $695 3 bed/2 bath starting at $850 912- 681-9473 Statesboro, GA www.wisechoicerentals.georgiamls.com

2015 Nissan Altima 4dr Automatic, 2200 miles, Gray/Charcoal, Remote start, Siriusxm radio, Zero Gravity seats, backup camera, Special Edition,$18,500 Bryan 912-536-3176 2015 Nissan Altima 4dr,2000 miles,Gray, charcoal cloth,zero gravity seats,blue tooth,spoiler, SirusXM, Special Edition, remote start, backup camera, 27/38 mpg, $19,500 OBO, 912-536-3176

Cars for sale

1998 Buick Century, 4 door, automatic, ac, 1996 Buick Park Avenue, 4 door, 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SL, All clean and good condition. 912-531-2967

For Rent

Public Works Department

2013 VW Passat SEL 46. Ex condition 30,500 mi, garage kept, auto, cruise, nav, camera leather-heated seats, sunroof, all power opts, all maintenance performed. $17,900.

703-909-8082 or 912-587-4545.

Studio Furnished Conveniently located near Statesboro Mall . Visit or call Mill Run 912-489-8402

South Main

6 bedroom house for lease or sale. Begin lease June or August. Details 912-6827468.

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'Love' at first sight: A look at Netflix's latest “I’ve been asking and asking, and I haven’t gotten f—ing anything,” says Mickey, played by Gillian Jacobs.

“Hoping and waiting and wishing and wanting love… Hoping... hoping for love has f—ing ruined my life.”

The romance in Love avoids being another cookie-cutter display of cute couples doing cute things. Instead, there’s a refreshing amount of uncomfortable darkness and authenticity attached to Netflix’s latest original feature, a Judd Apatow-produced romantic comedy show starring Gillian Jacobs (Community) and co-creator Paul Rust (I Love You Beth Cooper).

Part of its authenticity comes from its relaxed, naturalistic, pitch-perfect pacing. Jacobs and Rust’s characters, Mickey and Gus, only encounter each other near the very end of the 40-minute pilot. In fact, excluding the second episode, the first half of the 10-episode-long series spends long periods of screentime with the leads separated and away from each other.

Early in the season, Mickey and Gus spend an entire episode deciding when and what to text each other while they each go about their separate days.

Episodes tend to range between 30–40 minutes; the additional runtime, in comparison with a traditional network sitcom, gives Love the opportunity to let its comedic and dramatic

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scenes breathe. Sparks fly and butterflies flutter in spectacularly slow fashion for Mickey and Gus. In Love, laughs might occur quick and often, but romance is truly a slow burn.

Like most people’s venture into dating, Love doesn’t quite get it right the first time. It starts out super raunchy and uneven in its first episode.

However, as soon as the second episode begins, it finds and settles into a nice groove. Characters rise above and deconstruct their original archetypes, become more grounded and given greater depth.

Jacobs’ heartbreaking portrayal of a woman left damaged and vulnerable by both addiction and a bad string of horrible boyfriends is absolutely breathtaking. In addition, Rust’s ability to emit low-key charm, in what could have easily been a pathetic and grating character, also deserves applause. The chemistry and repartee between Jacobs and Rust is what keeps Love’s heart alive and beating.

By the end of the show’s run, Mickey and Gus are still just as confused and unclear about how to navigate love and the messiness that comes with it. However, they, along with the show, have grown and transformed into something better than what they were before.w

PISCES (Feb. 20– March 20) — Play hard and aim to please. Your ability to bring valuable information, strength and original ideas to any partnership you form will bring future opportunities and success.

ARIES (March 21– April 19) — Look at the big picture, but withhold your intentions until you feel you are in a position to win. Time is on your side, and precision and strategy will improve your chance to excel.

TAURUS (April 20– May 20) — Call in favors owed and be willing to offer an additional incentive to ensure continued support and backup if required. Don't give in to pressure from someone lacking integrity.

GEMINI (May 21– June 20) — You need to take care of your interests.

Do and look your best in order to earn respect and gain the help you'll need to deal with any competition you encounter.

CANCER (June 21– July 22) — Attend a cultural event or sign up for a trip that will educate you regarding your domestic choices. If you take the initiative, you can improve your life.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) — Don't get angry or take part in something that will challenge your physical well-being. Check out positive changes that you could make to enhance your personal life. Romance is highlighted.

VIRGO (Aug. 23– Sept. 22) — Think before you take action. Make your plans carefully and only share them with people you feel could help. Don't take on someone else's responsibilities.

LIBRA (Sept. 23– Oct. 23) — Spend time on self-improvement. Whether it's a physical change or one that will broaden your awareness or skillset, it will result in positive change.

Your love life will flourish.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24– Nov. 22) — Walk away from anyone trying to make you feel guilty. Put time and energy into making alterations at home that will give you the freedom to delve into a potentially compelling project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23– Dec. 21) — Keep an open mind and don't make assumptions based on secondhand information. Focus on being your best, not trying to change others to fit your needs. Fair play will win favors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22– Jan. 19) — Getting together with former co-workers will be enlightening. Your experiences and the skills you have developed will prompt an interesting proposal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20– Feb. 19) — If you give everyone space, you will be offered the same in return. Working alone will allow you to achieve what you set out to do without interference.w

Holli Deal Saxon WEEKEND SHOPLIFTING — At Beall’s Outlet, a woman cut a price tag off an $8 pair of shoes and wore them as she walked out of the store, failing to pay. She was arrested. At Belk, a man walked out without paying for a jacket and was not apprehended. Two women were arrested for shoplifting $170 worth of food, clothing, electronics and hygiene products from Walmart Supercenter, and another customer left without paying for $250 in power tools and a projector. What takes the cake, though, is a man who used a movie theater prop to buy $9 in food and get $91 back in cash at Son’s Doner Kebab.

ALL IN THE FAMILY — A Maria Sorrell Road woman said a man locked her out of her bedroom and she could not get her phone and inhaler. She said they were separating because he is dating her sister.

DOWN, BOY — A D. Anderson Road woman said she tried ending a relationship with a man who chased her around the yard and pushed her.

He started beating her and bit her hands when she used them as shields, she said. He was arrested.

DOGGONE IT — A Knob Creek Drive man told deputies another man threatened him with a dog leash wrapped around his wrist and attached

to a choke chain.

LEAVE THE PIZZA, BRING THE CANNOLIS — A Statesboro Circle woman called police because someone “maliciously rubbed pizza crust” in her windshield and left a slice of pizza behind.

STARTING YOUNG — A teenager was arrested for showing up at a victim’s St. Charles Place apartment and pointing a gun at her.w

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