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“Uplifting Comedy Date Night" Thursday, August 17th Donna The Buffalo with Special Guest Friday, August 18th The Charlie Fog Band Saturday, August 26th David Allan Coe w/Special Guest Peewee Moore Wednesday, August 30th Satisfaction: The International Rolling Stones Tribute Thursday, August 31st Saving Abel with Special Guest Friday, September 8th P.O.D. -Alien Ant Farm, PowerFlo, Fire From The Gods Thursday, September 13th Lonestar with Special Guest, Military & First Responder Appreciation Concert Friday, September 15th Jackyl with Special Guest Friday, September 22nd THE WEIGHT BAND

(former members of The Band, Levon Helm Band & Rick Danko Group)

Saturday, September 30th

Outlaws with Special Guest Scooter Brown Band Saturday, October 7th The LACS Big Smo, Demun Jones Saturday, October 14th Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Saturday, October 21st

Donna The Buffalo with SPECIAL GUESTS

Friday, August 18th

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

David Allan Coe with SPECIAL GUEST

Peewee Moore

Wednesday, August 30th

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

Saving Abel

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Friday, September 8th

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

P.O.D. - Alien Ant Farm PowerFlo & Fire From The Gods Wednesday, September 13th

Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

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Corey Smith with Special Guest Friday, October 27th Mother’s Finest w/Special Guest Thomas Claxton Friday, October 27th

Blue Oyster Cult with SPECIAL GUEST

Friday, February 23, 2018

Blue Oyster Cult Friday, February 23, 2018

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Off the Path Eclipse Party MON 8.21

Fort Pulaski will offer arts, crafts, and Junior Ranger activities for children, plus special programs about the science behind eclipses and the history of past eclipses around the world. The eclipse will begin at 1:15 p.m. and end at 4:15 p.m., with maximum darkness around 2:45 p.m. Free eclipse viewing glasses will be available to the public while supplies last.

11 a.m.

Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

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WEDNESDAY 8.16 Film: 54th Birthday Salute to John Stamos

This beloved, hunky actor and occasional rock musician is best known for his work on TV, but he’s also enjoyed a modest feature film career. The PFS has dug up one of his most obscure and most ridiculous theatrical film roles for this special tribute.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8

Film: Vanishing Bees

SUGA (Savannah Urban Garden Alliance) hosts this four-night film series in conjunction with Mixed Greens.

7 p.m.

Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. Free and open to the public

Kane Brown

Country’s hottest new star takes the stage.

8 p.m.

The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $20 savconcerts.com

THURSDAY 8.17 BroadwayHD: Incident at Vichy

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Celebrating the Centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth, Incident at Vichy returns the work of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Richard Thomas to Signature for the first time since his 1997-98 Residency.

7 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $15

Film: Growing Cities

SUGA (Savannah Urban Garden Alliance) hosts this four-night film series in conjunction with Mixed Greens.

7 p.m.

One Hundred Miles, 2424 Drayton St., Ste B Free and open to the public

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FRI 8.18

“Americana Pioneer” singer-songwriter, stream-caster and actor David Olney has released more than 20 albums over four decades. His new “Don’t Try to Fight It” recording was produced by award-winning singer-songwriter Brock Zeman and reunites David with Red Parlor Records, released 2007’s acclaimed “One Tough Town” album.

8 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $20 general admission 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.org

Book Release Party FRI 8.18

To celebrate the release of Zach Powers’s new Savannah travel guide, “100 Things To Do in Savannah before You Die,” enjoy free beers at Pinkie Masters.

4 p.m.

The Original Pinkie Masters, 318 Drayton St.

Savannah VOICE Festival: Milnes Master Class

Legendary baritone and artistic leader of the VOICE Programs Milnes shares the wisdom and experiences with audiences while working with the 2017 Studio Artists, who perform for the Master for feedback and instruction.

1 p.m.

Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

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Savannah VOICE Festival: VOICES in Sacred Song

In this summer’s Community Concert, Savannah’s own Timothy Hall & the 2017 Festival Artists present music from oratorio, liturgical music and inspirational song.

6:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Free savannahvoicefestival.org

Uplifting Comedy Date Night

Invest in an evening of music and good clean humor together. A boatload of hilarious comedians will free your mind and soul.

8-10 p.m.

The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $14.50 912-596-4496. seltzer.jerry@gmail.com. comedydatenight.com

FRIDAY 8.18 Book Release Party

To celebrate the release of Zach Powers’s new Savannah travel guide, “100 Things To Do in Savannah before You Die,” enjoy free beers at Pinkie Masters.

4 p.m.

The Original Pinkie Masters, 318 Drayton St.

Donna The Buffalo

Feel-good groove oriented Americana roots rock since 1989.

8 p.m.

The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $8 savconcerts.com

An Evening with David Olney

Americana Pioneer singer-songwriter, stream-caster and actor David Olney has released more than 20 albums over four decades.

8 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $20 general admission tybeeposttheater.org

Yoga Relay

Individuals or teams will participate in a Relay of one hundred sun salutations.

Proceeds will be donated to the Caregiver Institute.

6 p.m.

Demere Center for Living, 6000 Business Center Dr. $30 savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops

SATURDAY 8.19 The Farm Hands

The Farm Hands are one of the most exciting and talked about band in bluegrass music.

8 p.m.

Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 East Hwy. 80. $23

Film: Lost and Found

Part of Tybee Island’s Movies in the Park summer series.

8:45 p.m.

Memorial Park, 403 Butler Ave. Free

Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Forsyth Park forsythfarmersmarket.com

Gardening Session

Kerry Shay, an organic farmer and owner of landscaping company Victory Gardens, provides free instruction. third Saturday of every month, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Free and open to the public

Improv Comedy: Sorry Not Sorry Dry-Humps the 80s

Join improv team Sorry Not Sorry as we journey down the mysterious path of a night of improvised comedy inspired by iconic pop culture from the 1980s.

8-9:15 p.m.

Fan Fest Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street.

Georgia Southern University football $9 program will hold a practice at Armstrong 646-283-5817. savimprov@gmail.com. saState University’s soccer field as part of its vannahcomedyfest.com/sorry-not-sorry preseason preparations.

Odd Lot Improv: Saturday 5 p.m.

Shenanigans Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St. An improv comedy show in the style of Free and open to the public “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Followed by Savannah VOICE Festival: Studio long form comedy.

Opera: Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro 8 p.m.

The VOICE Studio artists appear in the Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 W Liberty St second annual studio production this $10 time of Mozart’s masterpiece about the day in the life of the famous factotum.

6:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. CONTINUES ON P. 6 $42

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Savannah VOICE Festival: Rossini’s Il Savannah Voice Festival: Opera Barbiere di Siviglia Scenes and Songs SVF reunites some of its favorite cast members of past productions for a delightful journey into Beaumarchais’ first comedic installation of the Barber Trilogy, sprinkled with a bit of romance.

6:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $62 savannahvoicefestival.org

After two weeks of intense study and hard work, the VOICE Studio Artists present their artistry to audiences that have followed their progress throughout the Festival.

5 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $42 savannahvoicefestival.org

Solar Eclipse Primer and Digital Planetarium Show

Sunday Supper: Summer in the South

Tybe City Limits: Kris Youmans Band, Abe Partridge

MONDAY 8.21

Learn why eclipses occur and safety viewing tips, and receive a complimentary pair of eclipse viewing lenses. The program is offered five times throughout the day.

10:30 a.m.

Oatland Island Wildlife Ctr, 711 Sandtown Rd. $8 adults, $6 children 912-395-1517

The Tybee Post Theater brings two soonto-be-country superstars to the stage this month.

8 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $15 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.showare.com/

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SUNDAY 8.20 Lift Every Voice

In honor of the recent opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, these sites will open for free: Beach Institute, in partnership with the City of Savannah’s Research Library and Municipal Archives; Davenport House Museum; Georgia Historical Society; Georgia State Railroad Museum; Ossabaw Island Foundation; Pin Point Heritage Museum; and Telfair Museums’ OwensThomas House. begins at noon Free

Ricardo Ochoa’s Tribute to the Legends of Jazz Violin

Velvet Caravan founder member and violinist Ricardo Ochoa has summoned a collection of first class musicians including pianist Kevin Bales from Atlanta, GA and bassist Alexander Berti from Miami, FL to pay tribute to the legends of Jazz violin.

5 p.m.

Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

Free for Coastal Jazz Association members and students, $20 non-members

Enjoy a Southern summer dinner with a pig on the smoker from Southern Soul BBQ in St. Simons Island, baked beans, a lowcountry boil, horseradish slaw, stewed peas, BBQ pork rinds, and peaches and cream.

5:30 p.m.

The Grey, 109 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $40

Off the Path Eclipse Party

Fort Pulaski will offer arts, crafts, and Junior Ranger activities for children, plus special programs about the science behind eclipses and the history of past eclipses around the world. The eclipse will begin at 1:15 p.m. and end at 4:15 p.m., with maximum darkness around 2:45 p.m. Free eclipse viewing glasses will be available to the public while supplies last.

11 a.m.

Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Savannah VOICE Festival: Opera Idol The audience gets the chance to vote for their favorite artists and directors of opera companies hear SVF’s emerging artists.

6:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $42 savannahvoicefestival.org

TUESDAY 8.22 Savannah VOICE Festival: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia

he Famous Barber is scheming and dealing in this operatic masterpiece as Rosina and Almaviva need the Figaro’s expertise to be together, despite Bartolo’s scheme to keep her for himself. SVF reunites some of its favorite cast members of past productions for a delightful journey into Beaumarchais first comedic installation of the Barber Trilogy, sprinkled with a bit of romance.

6:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $62 savannahvoicefestival.org

NEWS & OPINION EDITOR’S NOTE

BY JIM MOREKIS

jim@connectsavannah.com

ONE OF the most consequential local news developments of recent times, in terms of long-term impact, just happened.

And it is literally a news development, as in it will affect how and where Savannah gets much of its news.

Unless you’ve been vacationing in North Korea for the past week, you probably already heard that the Savannah Morning News will be sold to a huge multinational conglomerate.

That said, make no mistake: The sale of the Morning News will have an impact on everyone who lives, works, and votes in Savannah, and certainly for everyone who works in local media, one way or another.

This is a paradigm shift of major proportion. And contrary to what you might assume, I’m not necessarily as thrilled about it as you might think.

An independent alt-weekly paper like Connect Savannah thrives on having the foil of a daily paper to push against.

I have always maintained that people in Savannah should read all local newspapers. Connect is confident enough in our product that we feel our work will be even

While I have been in competition with the Savannah Morning News most of my professional career, I paid my dues at the paper on more than one occasion.

My first journalism job out of college was as a copy editor at the Morning News, when they were still based on Bay Street. It was an invaluable starting point for learning the basics of the craft in a high-pressure environment.

Years later, I was a freelancer at the Morning News when I was urged to apply to be the new editor of Creative Loafing Savannah, which eventually merged with Connect into the form you know it today.

Long story short, the local daily paper — which had been family-owned and Georgia-based under one banner or another since 1850 — will be an asset owned by a company based far, far away from Savannah itself.

Long story short, the local daily paper — which had been family-owned and Georgia-based under one banner or another since 1850 — will be an asset owned by a company based far away from Savannah itself: GateHouse Media.

GateHouse is headquartered in New York state. It emerged from bankruptcy as recently as 2013.

Post-bankruptcy, GateHouse itself is managed by the Fortress investment firm, based on Wall Street. Fortress has over $70 billion in assets, its management of GateHouse being a tiny, almost microscopic component of that portfolio.

But wait, there’s more.

Fortress itself is owned by the SoftBank Group, which is based in….. Tokyo.

So very soon, the daily paper of record in Savannah not only won’t be locally owned, or Georgia-owned — it will arguably not even be American-owned.

That said, some disclaimers: Despite persistent misinformation in some quarters, Connect Savannah does not nor has it ever been affiliated in any way with the Savannah Morning News.

Our ownership has always been different, and we have always been in direct competition with the company which has owned the Morning News.

We’ve also always been Savannah-based.

There is no catch, no loophole, no “but.”

We have as little to do with the sale of the Morning News as we do with a new Cracker Barrel opening in Ohio, or a used bookstore changing hands in Portland.

further enhanced when people know what is being written elsewhere.

We welcome the presence of a robust daily paper, because a robust daily paper is good for any community.

That tide lifts all boats, informationwise, and also helps us maintain our own branding as something identifiably different from the mainstream.

While I’m certainly flattered to hear it when some people say they “get all their news” from Connect Savannah — something I do hear a lot — the truth is you’d be better off availing yourself of as many options as possible.

We prefer as well-informed a citizenry and readership as possible, and that can only happen when people are avid readers and consumers of news from a wide variety of sources.

If, as some evidence indicates might be the case, GateHouse guts the Morning News staff even further and begins outsourcing content outside of the market, that might indeed be a short-term advantage for Connect Savannah, both in terms of attracting more readers and in attracting more advertisers.

It will, however, be a net negative for Savannah itself. And that’s nothing to celebrate.

(An intriguing aside about content generation: One of the specialties of the SoftBank Group is.... robotics.)

On a personal level, the sale of the Morning News also marks the sad passing of an era.

I took a year’s hiatus from alt-weeklies in 1998, when I managed the nightside at the Morning News, and learned quite a bit in a short amount of time about management, news judgment, and design.

You could almost say I grew up at the Savannah Morning News. My mother worked nightside in the ad composing department there when I was a little boy.

I’d sometimes hang out at work with her after school, exploring the nooks and crannies of that sprawling, quirky old building on Bay, like a scene out of a Harry Potter movie.

That’s what they mean when they say printer’s ink is in your blood. And it’s certainly in mine.

Of course, the Savannah Morning News moved out to Chatham Parkway some years ago. Their former building on Bay was converted into condos for people who move to downtown Savannah and then complain about the noise.

And the Morning News stopped being Savannah-owned longer ago than that.

Connect Savannah is proud to say the word “Savannah” in our name really means something — and is really our home base, and our home.

But it’s also important to recognize the full implications of the dramatic paradigm shift in local media now happening with the pending sale of our competition. CS

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Oh HELL NO, Savannah isn’t ‘the next Brooklyn’

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavannah.com

BY NOW you’ve probably read the recent Vogue article that compared our fair Southern city to the hippest borough in all the land, or at least seen the clicks and heard the clucks.

Channeling Carrie Bradshaw and presumably sitting in a sunny Williamsburg studio enjoying small-batch kombucha and a cronut, a certain “luxury lifestyle journalist” lit up lil’ Slowvannah by posing the question, “Is This Old Southern Town the Next Brooklyn?”

The answer from us folks who live here ought to be a resounding “oh hell no.”

It’s not that the comparison isn’t meant to be flattering. If we accept Brooklyn as the apogee of artistic innovation and success—and it seems that much of the world still does—then this glowing assessment of our creative class is a high compliment, though more than a little condescending.

The local artisans and businesses

These azaleas don’t smell and other Savannah myths busted. Also, lots of trees grow here, not just the one. PHOTO BY STEFANIE SESKIN

mentioned in the piece definitely deserve to be elevated into Vogue’s world-class realm, and Chia Chong’s crisp photographs absolutely belong in its pages.

No matter what your student debt tab, a deep curtsy to SCAD is requisite when discussing the historic preservation efforts that made all this prettiness possible, though the idea that anyone comes here to “sniff the azaleas” is dubious, as the kind that grow here literally have no scent.

But if the aim is to showcase artsy high achievers, the article misses out on many of our internationally recognized creatives, notably Graveface Records, the indie label basically reinventing the music industry, and Etsy darling Lovelane Designs, its hand-printed canvas superhero capes so renowned that Target appears to have ripped off the concept.

Other aspects of the piece are more problematic. The author arrived at the name drop party a little too fashionably late, as Marc Jacobs left his Broughton Street shop empty in 2015 and doesn’t appear to be bringing his sexy back anytime soon.

And who are these locals who have “long

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complained about the dearth of luxury accommodations” here and how can we help them build a new hotel in their front yard?

Some of the most egregious head-shakers come in the “Where to Eat” section.

Leading with Charleston’s Sean Brock and his local iteration of Husk (its contractors were just fined $37,000 by the City for killing a century-old tree) effectively eclipses the true geniuses of Savannah’s wellbeyond-established food scene.

For sure, to present The Grey as a “rehabbed bus station” and relegate Chef Mashama Bailey to a paltry third paragraph is either woeful oblivion or a calculated insult. (Maybe once upon a time someone couldn’t get a table at Prune?)

And with all due respect to my former Connect colleague Tim Rutherford, it’s kind of specious to present him as a “local food writer”—as homeboy moved to Asheville, NC over a year ago. (On a related note, I hereby pronounce Asheville as the Next Next Brooklyn.)

But what really got me all bothered is the quote describing Savannah as “authentically Southern with an edgier vibe”—edgy like a chronic 26 percent poverty rate and failing schools?—as well as referring to this storied, 300-year old city as the “New ‘It’ girl.”

Chile, Savannah is a grown-ass woman who doesn’t need your New York glitter sprinkles to validate her elegant beauty and creative capacities. What she does need is a sensible zoning enforcement, more job opportunities and an engaged citizenry willing to hold its leadership to a definitive, democratic vision.

Because I’m pretty sure that last thing we want to be around here is the next Brooklyn.

Listen, I love New York City, too; adore it, wanna make out with it, can’t wait to visit again.

While most of my perception of living in today’s Brooklyn is gleaned from Lena Dunham and Girls, I do know from experience that there’s nothing like gourmet hot dogs delivered to a house party in Williamsburg at 3am.

But I’m old enough to remember when Brooklyn used to be the place where starving artist friends went to pout after they got priced out of the East Village, and the fact that millennials now mimic the style of old ladies in babushkas is kind of amusing.

The gentrification, not so much. (Google Spike Lee’s rant about how Fort Greene Park has turned into the rhymes-with-featherplucking Westminster Dog Show.)

Much like Savannah, the reclamation of Brooklyn’s urban spaces began in the 1990s, and carpet rezoning in the early 2000s made way for commercial and residential development that has all but driven out the African American, Puerto Rican, Jewish and other working class families that lived there for generations.

Native New Yorker Jeremiah Moss examines somberly this in his blog-turned-book,

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, a sad chronicle of Ma-and-Pa outfits and provincial landmarks lost to corporate franchises and twee boutiques, the city’s essential character crushed under the heel of so many Louboutin boots.

Most of us already know there is a heavy price to pay when your beloved neighborhood becomes a place where people can actually afford bespoke shoes and $600 end tables.

Before we welcomed their gorgeous faces back home, Samita Wolfe and her beau Andrew Sovine moved to the hamlet of Bedford-Stuyvesant “in front of the wave,” only to find out quickly that the creative lifestyle required a Park Avenue patron or six or seven side hustles.

“All I did was work all the time to make rent,” laments Samita. “There was no chance to ever volunteer or give back to the community. I barely even had a social life.”

She did make a fortuitous business connection there and re-opened the formerlyof-South Brooklyn Film Biz Recycling prop house in Savannah earlier this year.

As a touring musician Andrew can pretty much live anywhere, and the couple’s mortgage on a super cute bungalow on the eastside makes every gig’s paycheck go a lot further. It also allows them to be involved in various civic endeavors.

Tourist district nuttiness aside, Savannah’s still-reasonable living is what gives the artists time to create, the entrepreneurs space to experiment and the rest of us time and energy to build the community we want to be.

It also means enjoying $5 Greyhounds at a half-empty Pinkie Masters, just the kind of spot that would probably be full of insufferable Wall Street bros if it was in Bushwick.

If Savannah was the next Brooklyn, we’d be totally screwed, because it means we’re on the fast train to becoming preciously unaffordable, economically homogenous and pretentious as pluck. In terms of urban density, it’s also vital to note that our entire city’s population could fit into the 2.7 square miles of Bed-Stuy, so kiss the sky good-bye.

But unless we’re looking at ourselves through Vogue’s $500 Tom Ford glasses, I don’t think we have to worry.

“Savannah can’t be Brooklyn. There’s no good Chinese food here,” points out Andrew.

“And no Ethiopian food,” adds Samita.

“Really, no good take-out at all.”

Plus, tons of trees grow here, not just that one.

So while the Vogue headline might spark a Twitter kerfuffle, the comparison just doesn’t fit. And the people who make Savannah exceptional are here because this place isn’t like anywhere else in the world.

And I don’t know any of them who want to live someplace where you can’t get breakfast for under $16, handcrafted cronuts be damned. cs

STILL LOCAL. STILL STRONG. We aren’t changing.

For over fifteen years Connect Savannah has been an independent voice giving readers local news and opinion about the issues that matter most to our community–especially in the areas of arts and entertainment.

We’re not changing our mission, and we’re not changing our ownership.

While there are major transitions happening on the national and local media landscape, Connect Savannah continues to be owned and operated by Savannah-based Morris Multimedia, Inc. as it has been since 2001.

We know it can be confusing. But we just want to set the record straight and let readers know that Connect Savannah and Morris Multimedia, a privately held and locally owned company founded in 1971 by Charles H. Morris, is not affiliated or affected by the pending transfer of ownership of the local daily newspaper.

Thanks for letting us clear that up.

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NEWS & OPINION POLITICS The crowd filled the interior of Bible Baptist Church. PHOTO BY JIM MOREKIS

Carter town hall provides confrontation, entertainment

Church setting allows for larger crowd but raised other issues

BY JIM MOREKIS

jim@connectsavannah.com

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AFTER a February town hall at Armstrong Center which had overflowing crowds and was marked mostly by people yelling over the congressman — and each other — a move to the larger confines of Bible Baptist Church was marketed by Buddy Carter as a way to fit more people into the event, in a more peaceful setting.

Except at his latest town hall last week, the venue itself seemed to frame much of the discussion.

Audience members arrived to find the congressman’s staff had filled the pews with anti-Affordable Care Act literature and talking points. It was a bit of a jarring development for those who prefer church and state to stay as far apart as possible.

Some audience members said though they’d been promised they could use red and green flash cards to indicate agreement or disagreement with things the congressman said, they were told by law enforcement upon entering the sanctuary that they couldn’t. (The crowd would later ignore the injunction and use them any10 way, with no disruption or repercussion.)

Most controversially, members of Planned Parenthood said they were told they couldn’t pass out literature on church grounds, supposedly because it contradicts the church’s stance on abortion.

All of it added up to a sense that using a church as a venue was perhaps not wholly about fitting a larger crowd into the town hall.

None of it sheltered Congressman Carter from a variety of confrontational questions, many involving women’s rights in the wake of Carter’s comment on a news channel urging the president to “snatch a knot” in the backside of those in the way of repealing the Affordable Care Act. The now-notorious comment seemed at odds with Carter’s repeated pleas for civility and respect from the pulpit of the church during the town hall.

A questioner brought up the phrase, asking Carter how he could he request civility when he speaks like that about women.

In an answer which brought groans, Carter replied that he wasn’t talking about one woman, but was using the phrase in plural about a number of people.

Carter was challenged directly on the issue of Planned Parenthood’s literature and side-stepped the question with a

statement of his position on abortion: “I’m not against women’s rights. I’m against killin’ babies. That’s all there is to it,” he said.

Most directly, a young questioner asked if Carter would still be against abortion if his wife were raped.

In an answer many saw as splitting hairs at best and hypocritical at worst, he responded that “it’s still a baby” but that an abortion would be a “personal decision” between his wife and him.

Several local political celebrities had particularly pointed interactions with Carter.

Former Chatham County Commissioner Tony Center got an ovation for saying to the congressman, “I appreciate your stance on civility. Will you please relate those same remarks to the president of the United States?”

Former Mayor Edna Jackson made a soliloquy of sorts urging Carter to put aside partisanship and work with Democrats on issues of concern to all Americans.

She also received huge applause from the crowd when she said, “All immigrants are not bad people. Even if they don’t speak English they are among our best workers.”

Local activist Linda Wilder Bryan — right before asking the question about

Buddy Carter repeatedly urged ‘civility.’

PHOTO BY JIM MOREKIS

snatching a knot — also got in a crowdpleasing zinger.

After Bryan’s greeting to the congressman, Carter joked “Wanna trade places?”

To which Bryan, not missing a beat, said, “Yes. Yes I would.” The audience went wild.

While the vast majority of questions came from a place of opposition to Carter and to Republican policies in general, the congressman seemed to have a larger cohort of supporters at this town hall than at the last one.

One supporter thanked Carter for holding the meeting, pointing out that the majority of Republican members of Congress are avoiding town halls altogether in the wake of Trump’s election.

While for the most part Carter held to mainstream Republican talking points on issues like abortion and transgenders in the military, he let the air out of the crowd’s balloon a bit in his measured reply to a question about impeaching Trump should Mueller investigation find proof of collusion with Russia.

“No matter who is president, if conclusive proof is found I would vote to impeach,” Carter said, leaving a bit of wiggle room with the word “conclusive.”

On the issue of climate change Carter also departed a bit from party orthodoxy by admitting that climate change is real, but that he questions how much is caused by human activity. CS

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Widening roads isn’t always a good idea Observation: Once one person parks a car in a bike lane, others are sure to follow.

BY JOHN BENNETT

john@bicyclecampaign.org

IF SAVANNAH is “the New Brooklyn” as hinted in a widely circulated Vogue magazine piece, is it reasonable to conclude Tybee is the New Coney Island?

Last week Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman called once again for something many New Brooklynites and New Coney Islanders will support: improvements to our version of the F train, known locally as “Tybee Road.”

The Georgia Department of Transportation’s “SR 26 / US 80 Bridges Replacement Project” proposes changes designed to, “improve travel between Savannah and Tybee Island and to ensure the integrity of the US 80 bridges.”

These include replacement of the Bull River and Lazaretto Creek bridges (the replacements will provide safe passage for people walking and riding bikes), paved shoulders, and intermittent turn lanes.

Each time Buelterman urges GDOT to make the project a top priority, as he should, he’s joined by a chorus of people

who also suggest widening U.S. 80 to four lanes is the best way to make trips to Tybee safer.

I devoted an entire column to why that’s a terrible idea, but I am compelled again to offer this reminder: Adding lanes does not automatically reduce crashes. In fact, the opposite is often true.

Having offered Fact No. 1 above, how about I lay some more on you?

Fact No. 2: Streets that are designed to be safer for people who walk and ride bikes are safer for everyone, including people who drive. When protected bike lanes are added, sidewalks widened, and other traffic calming measures implemented, crashes are reduced for all users. Data from “Complete Streets” projects all over the country proves this again and again.

Fact No 3: Repurposing car travel lanes to create safe places for people to walk, ride bikes, use wheelchairs, push strollers, or wait for the bus does not automatically create congestion.

“A common misconception is that reducing the number of through lanes will cause

traffic to become more congested.” However, when traffic calming measures are applied “correctly in the right locations,” according to a Federal Highway Administration report, a “roadway’s effective capacity can be maintained.”

Over and over these facts have been tested and proved. Now, I’m calling on the research community to determine the validity of some observations I’ve made while driving, cycling, and walking in Savannah.

Observation 1: If one motorist parks in a bike lane or on a sidewalk, without consequences, others will soon do the same. I’m not sure a car has ever been towed from a bike lane in Savannah, which makes signs warning of that fate easy to dismiss and parking in bike lanes hard to resist.

Observation 2: On my morning commute on Lincoln Street, I frequently find myself “sharing” the street with more bicycles than cars even during our annual summer humidity festival, the least comfortable time of year to ride a bike in Savannah. I put “sharing” in quotes above because that doesn’t really describe what’s

happening. I share a small fraction of the street with other people on bikes, and people who walk and use wheelchairs. People in cars take up the lion’s share of the street and often help themselves to even more as described in Observation 1.

Observation 3: People who walk and ride bikes are forced to use only small scraps of certain streets because on-street parking spaces are treated as sacred ground and suggesting the removal of even a few spaces — even in the name of public safety — is regarded as heresy. The city’s Traffic Calming Needs Assessment Application asks this fateful question of residents who would like traffic calming measures considered for dangerous streets in their neighborhoods: “Are you willing to lose onstreet parking in front of your home?” In other words, “Are you sure you really want to do this?”

Complaining about losing the privilege of on-street parking is the easiest way to scuttle projects that would restore the true right of citizens to move through their city safely and freely. Even in neighborhoods with ample off-street parking, residents can easily derail efforts to make streets safer.

“But where will people park when I throw a party?” is a lamentation that killed one beneficial bike lane project in our city.

Whether you think becoming the next Brooklyn is good or bad, there’s no need to get too excited or worried just yet, if we consider this metric: Brooklyn has more than 300 miles of bike lanes, bike paths, and greenways.

A generous accounting of similar facilities in Savannah still adds up to less than 30 miles. By this measure Parkside isn’t going to become the New Park Slope anytime soon. CS

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‘A more inclusive and nuanced history’

Savannah’s historic African American sites offer free day Aug. 20

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavanah.com

Images of Boy Scouts with “Statue of Liberty” circa 1950s (above) and Red Cross nurses packing supply bags circa 1940s (upper right) from W. W. Law Collection on display at the Beach Institute. COURTESY OF CITY OF SAVANNAH RESEARCH LIBRARY & MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

At lower right: Pin Point Heritage Museum.

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the Owens-Thomas House’s African American historical ties. Visitors learn about life in the slave quarters, one of the best preserved examples in the country with its original haint blue paint, and gain appreciation for the invisible efforts that took place in the exquisitely restored butler’s pantry off the grand dining room in the main house.

The Owens-Thomas House recently announced it is one of only 12 museums in the country to receive funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities this year, garnering a $250K grant that it will use to further enrich its presentation of antebellum Savannah and early AfricanAmerican experience.

A massive project is currently underway to create new education galleries and interactive installations in the slave quarters as well as perform key preservation updates that include rerouting the HVAC through the original fireplace flues.

“This ensures that the house is conserved properly and allows us to present the relationships between the residents and enslaved people in all their honest complexity,” says Browning-Mullis.

The complex, multiple layers of Savannah history can be explored as never before during Sunday’s simultaneous events. While the

Owens-Thomas House and the Davenport House focus on the local enslaved people of the early 19th century, other participants in the Lift Every Voice event present different aspects of the African American experience in Savannah.

The Georgia State Railroad Museum has designed a special tour to highlight African Americans’ vital contribution to the Central of Georgia Railroad, and the Georgia Historical Society has put together a unique display of archived materials.

Outdoorsy folks can visit the coastal marshes of Ossabaw Island to learn about the people who built the North End plantation, and the Pin Point Heritage Museum will offer its tours led by descendants of the Gullah-Geechee freedmen who founded this still vibrant community. (Note: The Ossabaw Island tour is already at capacity.)

A treasure trove of fascinating items will be on display at the Beach Institute, which

has partnered with the City of Savannah’s Research Library & Municipal Archives to showcase materials in the Institute’s spacious gallery.

Highlights include an original copy of the Boston-based abolitionist newspaper The Liberator and an 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly that mentions Savannah’s newest Freedman school. Well-preserved newspaper clippings chronicle milestones such as the integration of the police department in 1947.

Old birth registries, voter lists and other public records verify African American citizenry in Savannah going back hundreds of years, and the City’s involvement in the darker side of history is documented in the Municipal Slavery Project.

The exhibit is a rare glimpse of the materials outside of the archives, but all of them are available for perusal after they return.

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THE OPULENT rooms of the OwensThomas House have offered a historic glimpse into the 19th-century life of some of Savannah’s wealthiest families since it was bequeathed to the Telfair Museum of Art in 1951, the braided tassels and rich mahogany furniture giving rich context to the times.

In the 1990s, however, tours of the popular house museum began to include not only the background of the Owenses and Thomases but folks named Emma, Peter and others who lived in the slave quarters at the back of the property during the 1820s and 1830s.

Museum curators worked diligently to reinterpret artifacts and architecture to include the African slaves who interacted daily with the residents and performed the upkeep of the manse, contributing much to the home’s history.

“There has been an evolution in the way we present the life of enslaved people at this site, starting with not referring to them as nameless ‘servants,’” says Telfair Museums Curator of History and Decorative Arts Shannon Browning-Mullis of her predecessors’ efforts to shift and expand the historical narrative. “It’s our job to bring humanity to their stories.”

Broadening the narrative of American history to include more African American stories is the aim of Lift Every Voice, a yearlong celebration of the inauguration of The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. As part of the global initiative, the OwensThomas House has partnered with seven of Savannah’s historically significant organizations to offer a day of free admission this Sunday, August 20.

“Savannah has begun to make strides in presenting a more inclusive and nuanced history,” notes Browning-Mullis, who organized the collaborative event.

The curator keeps a copy of the seminal book Slavery and Freedom in Savannah on her desk as a constant reminder of the mission to continue exploring and expanding

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“These records are public, and they belong to the City of Savannah,” explains Luciana Spracher, director of the Research Library and Archives on the first floor of City Hall.

“We want people to know that they can come and do research and have the firsthand experience with archival materials.”

Many of the items in the City’s exhibit at the Beach Institute have been curated from the vast collection of photos, art, legal documents and other artifacts from the collection of Civil Rights leader and historian W.W. Law, now owned by the City.

Law also amassed thousands of significant images and pieces of correspondence, including a personal letter from poet Langston Hughes inviting Law to visit him in Harlem.

Sunday’s visitors will also experience the Institute’s current exhibit, “Law & Music,” a kid-friendly, interactive installation that uses the community icon’s records and cassettes to showcase the connections between science, math and song.

“It’s all meant to speak to multiple generations,” says Spracher.

Some historians and curators see the local and national Lift Every Voice events as a way to thread previously separate schools of study into a more complete context.

“What I tell people is that it’s all

The Owens-Thomas House recently received a 2017 NEH grant. COURTESY OF TELFAIR MUSEUMS

American history, but what so many people know is American mythology,” explains Jamal Touré, a historical interpreter whose lively presentations can be seen at the Davenport House and through his tour company Day Clean Journeys.

“We can only know history when we know something of everyone’s stories.

We’re trying to put the pieces together.”

As we piece together Savannah’s stories from slavery through Civil Rights to the present, we also connect with the larger

uniting narrative of which Savannah plays a vital part, Touré explains. He notes that “Lift Every Voice” comes from the anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” composed in 1900 by author, attorney and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, who was born in Jacksonville and rose to become a dynamic force in the Harlem Renaissance.

In his funereal poem “Go Down, Death,” Johnson not only mentions our city, but one of its most storied African American neighborhood:

And God said: Go down, Death, go down Go down to Savannah, Georgia Down in Yamacraw, And find Sister Caroline.

She’s borne the burden and heat of the day, She’s labored long in my vineyard, And she’s tired— She’s weary— Go, Death, and bring her to me.

“He understood the importance of this community to history,” reflects Touré.

“We have individual facilities here that need to be supported and valued, absolutely.

But no matter where you are in Savannah, African American history is all around you.”

Browning-Mullis agrees, and though she organized Sunday’s collaboration of some of the city’s most diverse explorations of its African American story, she hopes the need for it will wane.

“For me, I want this event to become obsolete,” she vows.

“I want African American history to be fully integrated into Savannah’s story every single day.” CS Lift Every Voice: African American Historic Sites Free Day When: Noon-4pm, Sunday, Aug. 20 Where: Various locations around Savannah Info: telfair.org

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The debate about net neutrality is only a decade old, but feels like it’s been going on forever—probably because it’s existed mostly within the realm of the hypothetical. At long last we have something concretely terrible to worry about.

The concept of net neutrality refers to the principle that, to crib from the Harvard Business Review, “a broadband internet provider should not block, slow, or otherwise unfairly discriminate against any website or online services.” The examples of what this might look like, as you note, tend to invoke a “tiered” Web, where premium pricing buys you faster, better service, or maybe it costs more to access bandwidth-heavy sites like Netflix.

Not the most terrifying prospect in itself, maybe, but proponents of net neutrality fear a slippery slope. Say ISPs can charge different rates for different content, or even occlude access to certain kinds of content; then say the New York Times publishes a damning investigation into Comcast’s corporate practices. The concern is that, absent federal regulation, Comcast could retaliate—block nytimes.com, or slow it to a crawl, or charge a fee to view it,

or whatever. The net-neutrality folks see this as a First Amendment issue, where the government should intervene preemptively to protect free expression online.

This sort of thing hasn’t really happened, at least so far; as I say, the whole thing’s been a bit hypothetical. According to opponents of net-neutrality rules, that’s no coincidence: this is a self-regulating system, they argue, that doesn’t require government interference. The feds don’t need to make sure Comcast doesn’t mess with your Netflix; fear of consumer discontent will ensure good behavior.

Entrusting our civil liberties to the free market may sound like a naive plan at best, particularly as ISPs tend to face only limited competitive pressure. Still, neutrality opponents may be on to something.

They’re particularly het up over a rule issued in 2015 by Barack Obama’s Federal Communications Commission that reclassified ISPs as “common-carrier utility services,” subject to stiff federal oversight. It isn’t hard to make the case that common carriers of the past—think railroads, or the Ma Bell-era phone system—wound up losing a step innovation-wise, and I suppose it’s not impossible the Internet could go the same way.

The ISPs themselves have been on both sides of the question. Some sued to overturn the Obama regulations but have recently come out in support of “permanent, strong, legally enforceable” rules, per a Comcast statement this year. They want Congress—that famously effective governing body—to take up the issue, rather than leave it to the executive branch. One senses the ISPs are a little sick of the debate too and have gotten to the point of just wanting some consistent guidelines.

Fat chance. As with everything else these days, Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has injected elements of both chaos and menace into the netneutrality debate. His administration has (naturally) taken steps to reverse Obama’s rule, raising the specter of regulations that simply toggle on and off depending on who’s in power.

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This is where your worst-case scenario emerges. We know that, absent regulation, an ISP could block or slow access to disapproved content. Let’s imagine that content is an unflattering article about the president. Now, in a hypothetical unregulated world where it was technically in that ISP’s power to do such a thing, it’s still difficult to see it happening, assuming pre-2017 Washington rules remain in play.

But now? It’s 2017. We’ve got a president who loves publicly going after corporations, particularly media outlets, who’ve displeased him. We know his Twitter activity can move the stock market. Scandal is meaningless to him; Congress has yet to stand up to him.

We’ve already seen ISPs participate in the suppression of internet speech in places like China and Russia. I submit it’s not that hard to envision a time when an ISP might think carefully about what kind of content it allows to be seen on the Web, for fear of poking the orange dragon. No external pressure required—this would simply be the brutal bottom-line logic of capitalism responding to the self-preserving impulses of authoritarianism. Not to put too rosy a spin on it or anything. CS

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NEWS & OPINION BLOTTER 2017 Sav/Chatham County Crime Stats through Sunday August 13

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Metro officers arrested a suspect who robbed CVS on Abercorn Street late Sunday.

“Officers were called to CVS, 5401 Abercorn St., about 11:45 p.m. after a man demanded cash from the register. Witnesses told officers the man put his hand in his shirt so that it resembled a gun,” police say.

“He left the area with an undisclosed amount of cash. Metro officers quickly identified Gary Cooper, 58, as a suspect and took him into custody,” police report.

Cooper has been charged with armed robbery, possession of drug related object for use and simple assault.

West 49th Street shooting appears self-inflicted Detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred in the 1100 block of West 49th Street on August 13.

At about 12:30 a.m., officers responded to the area and found Reginald Hope, 40, suffering from non-life-threatening injuries.

Hope provided investigators with conflicting statements and was, at times, uncooperative. At this time, the shooting appears to be self-inflicted.

Two injured in West 54th Street fight

Detectives are investigating a shooting and cutting that occurred in the first block of West 54th Street on August 12.

At about 10:30 p.m., officers responded to the area and found Tatum Duke, 26, and Pasquel Torrez-Guittrercz, 37, suffering from non-life-threatening injuries.

Both were transported to the hospital for treatment.

Investigators determined that Duke and Torez-Guittrercz, who knew each other prior to the fight, had a verbal altercation that escalated and turned physical. During the fight, Duke was cut and Torez-Guittrercz was shot.

Bank robbery suspect sought

The circumstances leading up to the fight are still under investigation. Charges are forthcoming.

The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Robbery Unit detectives are asking Metro arrests murder for the public’s help identifysuspect who fled to ing a suspect in a robbery that Savannah Bank robbery suspect occurred today at the Wells On August 11, the SouthFargo in the 10400 block of east Regional Fugitive Task Force worked Abercorn Street. in conjunction with Savannah-Chatham “At about 10:30 a.m., Metro officers Metropolitan Police Department’s Strate- responded to the bank. Reportedly, the gic Investigation and K9 units to arrest a suspect entered the store, pointed a gun man wanted for a Hardeeville, South Caro- at the tellers and demanded money. The lina murder. tellers complied, and the suspect left the “Through the gathering of intelligence, scene on foot, heading north on Magnolia officers determined Devon Dunham, 30, Street,” police say. was at the Days Inn in the 200 block of “The suspect is described as a black Stephenson Avenue. They responded to male with a slim build. During the incithe scene and took him into custody withdent, he wore a black shirt wrapped around out incident. Dunham is being held in the his face, a brown hat, a blue jacket and light Chatham County Detention Center for his blue latex gloves. He also carried a black charge of murder, pending extradition to trash bag in his hand,” police say.

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FOR 28 YEARS, Donna the Buffalo has had music fans of all genres and generations kicking up their heels in the festival dirt, cavorting through the concert halls, and spinning the band’s many releases on repeat.

Proudly touting themselves as “a band for the people,” Donna the Buffalo formed while vocalist/acoustic guitarist/fiddle player/accordionist Tara Nevins was attending SUNY Potsdam. Having studied classical violin since she was just five years old, Nevins performed in her high school orchestra before pursuing a degree in classical violin at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. During that time, her love of old-time and traditional music led to a place in the old-time band St. Regis River Valley String Band.

Donna the Buffalo’s formation comes down to a simple fated turn of the radio dial.

While in Ithaca, New York for a gig, Nevins and St. Regis River Valley String band performed live in Cornell University’s WVBR studio.

At that very moment, Jeb Puryear, then of the Bubba George String Band, was cruising around and tuned into the radio broadcast. Puryear loved St. Regis’s old-time sound, and he and some friends headed to the band’s show that evening.

There, he and Nevins met, played together, and a musical kinship was formed.

As Donna the Buffalo’s songwriters, Nevins and Puryear began composing energetic tunes with vintage arrangements. A friend suggested the name “Dawn of the Buffalo” for the fresh project; when the band misheard it as “Donna the Buffalo,” they knew it was the perfect blend of rustic and whimsy.

In 1989, the band self-record and selfreleased its debut cassette The White Tape.

The Red Tape, produced by friend Mitch Easter of R.E.M.-producing fame, followed in 1991.

Donna The Buffalo’s first official album, released on CD, arrived in 1993. On that album, Nevins’ love of zydeco music, braided into folk, rock ‘n’ roll, and Cajun music, shone through.

The band has been touring since its inception, and trips down South provided great inspiration to Nevins.

“Traveling down Louisiana absolutely influenced us,” Nevins says. “We all love it.”

Throughout their ten album discography, Donna the Buffalo’s sound carries a compassionate warmth paired with impish grooves. The delightfully eclectic blend of influences, seamless dynamics, and explorative flair can’t keep an audience still: Jam band loyalists, hippies, mountain

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Donna the Buffalo bring their eclectic sounds to The Stage on Bay. PHOTO BY BILL DAVIS

music aficionados, and folk music fans all swarm the stage when Donna the Buffalo comes to town.

Throughout the years, Nevins and Puryear have remained the band’s only original members, bringing on players with a variety of musical backgrounds.

“Jeb and I have been at it for about 26 years, and the band we have now has been going for the better part of ten years,” says Nevins. “It’s definitely the best band we’ve ever had. The gelling, how we are as a band, how the songs have evolved, how tight we are…we’ve grown a lot over the years.”

The founding members are constantly writing; despite a relentless touring schedule, most of their creative time happens while at home. They’re currently in the process of making a followup record to 2013’s Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday.

“We’re always writing, and we’ve got a bunch of new songs, so we’ll see what ends up on the record,” Nevins says.

For Donna the Buffalo, songs come into full formation while playing in front of an audience.

“They evolve from the stage to the recordings,” explains Nevins. “We rehearse them, play them live, and eventually go in the studio and record.”

In addition to performing and recording, the band and its members have become synonymous with excellent

festival booking. GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, established in 1991 in the band’s hometown of Trumansburg, New York, was Donna the Buffalo’s brainchild.

These days, the festival is held in multiple locations, including North Carolina (Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival) and Miami, Florida (The Virginia Key Grassroots Festival).

This year, Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg hosted Culture Camp, a pre-festival fest of instrument, dance, and movement workshops with themed nightly dinners and dances.

Nevins is proud of the new endeavor and the inspiring community that it’s built.

“People learned how to play fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin,” she explains. “We had a singing workshop…we have youth workshops, adult workshops, and everyone learns together, all-ages.”

In booking GrassRoots Festival, Nevins seeks to showcase folk and roots music from all around the world. This year, she was particularly struck by DakhaBrakha, the Ukrainian world music quartet that’s become a Savannah Music Festival favorite.

“We had everything from Drive-By Truckers to DakhaBrakha and back!” she says. “We have Cajun music, old-time, Del McCoury.”

Throughout their time as a band, Donna

the Buffalo has also become known for their activism. Recent efforts include “The Stampede,” a tour to raise awareness to the inappropriate use of corporate money in politics. Teaming up with Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen, the band used its platform to speak out against legalized corporate bribery.

Their work and sound will pave Donna the Buffalo’s legacy, but their fandom is crucial to the band’s existence, too. Affectionately called The Herd, DtB fans are an engaged and supportive bunch from all walks of life. The band honored their dedicated Herd with the song “I Love My Tribe” on Tonight, Tomorrow And Yesterday. Nevins looks forward to meeting more Herd members in Savannah.

“We’re very fortunate to have the kind of following we have,” she says. “It’s definitely very much a community feel. We know so many familiar faces, it feels like a migration—no pun intended! I don’t know where we’d be without The Herd. They keep us going, give us purpose. They make us happy. It’s a beautiful give-and-take.” CS

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RICARDO OCHOA, Savannah’s own inventive violinist, has been known to surprise his audiences onstage. He’s just as surprising when he talks about his influences.

“I try not to listen to jazz violinists,” Ochoa says. “As a classical player, I listen to a lot of violinists—you learn a lot from playing what they do. But I always found any jazz, you are always better off listening to somebody else instead of getting the language affiliated.”

The Connect Savannah reader-voted “Best All-Around Musician” tfor two years running is ready to surprise himself by offering a musical tour of jazz violin history: A Tribute to the Legends of Jazz Violin.

The program is a welcome challenge for the performer. Savannahians are used to seeing Ochoa with his gypsy jazz troupe Velvet Caravan and as Principal Second Violin in the Savannah Philharmonic

Orchestra. For this special show, presented by the Coastal Jazz Association, Ochoa will perform the works of four influential players: “Father of Jazz Violin” Joe Venuti, classical-violin-prodigy-turned-jazzvisionary Eddie South, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, and American violinist Stuff Smith.

With four completely different styles, Ochoa hopes to share the diverse articulation of his instrument.

“There are different backgrounds and different perspectives,” he says. “It’s a history of jazz violin—the ups and downs of the instrument itself and how it was viewed in the beginning and how they approached the music and the instrument.

I think from the audience’s point of view, it’s more fun to have the comparison and variety.”

His selections will highlight the pioneers of the swing era and whisk the audience back to the very early days of jazz music.

Venuti is really the very first one that was really accomplished,” Ochoa explains.

“He was born at the turn of century, so he

was right there in the 1920s, when jazz was really born. He dedicated himself to playing jazz. He plays very fast but he swings really hard at the same time; he’s very creative with his arrangements.”

South was born around the same time as Venuti and was a prominent player in Chicago.

“He was classically trained with abilities to play,” Ochoa says. “But he couldn’t get a job in an orchestra because he was black. He decided to play jazz, then went to France and continued his studies. Then he went to Budapest and studied with classical and gypsy violinists so he developed gypsy into his repertoire and turned those classical tunes into jazz tunes.”

Also a singer, South was a highly entertaining player, engaging his audience while showing off his chops.

Ochoa calls Grappelli the “obvious choice” for a showcase of prominent jazz violinists.

“He’s a French guy, and his style of playing is very sophisticated, very French,” he says. “He plays with tempos, back and forth, stretches the lines, compresses

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“It’s a history of jazz violin—the ups and downs of the instrument itself and how it was viewed in the beginning and how they approached the music and the instrument. I think from the audience point of view, it’s more fun to have the comparison and variety.” people accompanying you at that level.”

Bells and Ochoa first teamed up while teaching at Jazz Camp in Hilton Head.

At the teachers’ concert, Ochoa was impressed with Bells’ ability to carry out ideas and work with his fellow musicians.

“He has a magic power,” Ochoa attests.

“It’s a very rare experience, and I’m looking forward to working with him and being challenged.”

Audiences are sure to gain new insight into the world of jazz violin through Ochoa’s musical exploration.

“I wanted to do something for my selfish violinist self,” he laughs. “I just wanted to do something where I can really improve.

I wanted to really study some of these guys and how they play; this is the best way to do it.” CS

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the lines. So when he plays a melody, he doesn’t play it straight—he does this fooling around the melody. It’s like speaking French!”

Smith, meanwhile, was inspired by the sound of the trumpet and players like Louis Armstrong.

“His sound is more rough, you know?”

Ochoa says. “Not as delicate and beautiful as the other guys, but emotionally and rhythmically, it was amazing. He was also an entertainer, and liked to play a lot of blues.”

To prepare for the show, Ochoa’s been practicing four to six hours a day for the past four to five weeks.

“It’s definitely a challenge, but I also think I’m going to come out a better musician after that,” he says. “I’m always trying to find ways to improve; I think this is going to help.”

Ochoa is accompanied by three musicians: pianist Kevin Bells, bassist Billie Sutton, and drummer Justin Varnes.

“Those guys, it’s like driving a Ferrari,” Ochoa says. “I’m sitting back, and these guys, they’re machines. It’s amazing to think what you can do when you have

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Singer-songwriter David Olney makes his Tybee Post Theater debut this weekend.

Olney is acclaimed by critics, songwriting fans, and musicians—Townes Van Zandt called him “one of the best songwriters I’ve ever heard”— and the Post Theater is a fine listening environment to see this national treasure.

The prolific Olney has released more than 20 albums in four decades, including his most recent, Don’t Try To Fight It. Recorded by award-winning singer-songwriter Brock Zeman, the album continues Olney’s soulful storytelling style that’s captured fans for ages.

Olney’s music has been recorded by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien, and more, and fans of the show Nashville have heard many of Olney’s originals on television. He last performed in Savannah for the big Night Flight Café reunion; don’t miss any chance to catch his riveting style of true, heartfelt Americana in action.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 7:30 P.M., $20, ALL-AGES

Brooklyn-based raw rock ‘n’ rollers The YeahTones hit El-Rocko this weekend.

The band was founded by Floridian Jake Pinto after he earned a music degree in New York. Though he studied jazz and went through a more formal training, Pinto’s style in The YeahTones leans on scuzzy, blues-lined rock in the vein of Black Keys and ’60s rock ‘n’ roll. Matching shirts make for a nicely coordinated wall of sound at live shows.

The band released a full-length, Eviction Notice, in 2016.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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Called a “modern-day Buddy Holly plus Dwight Yoakam divided by the Mavericks” by Rolling Stone, Girls Guns & Glory brings a sense of tradition to its sound. With guitarist and songwriter Ward Hayden at the helm, the band has been together for 10 years and is breaking through as a “need-to-know” act.

Their most recent release, Love and Protest, recalls Nashville’s golden age with modern rock ‘n’ roll sensibilities. Recorded analog—the band wanted to get away from screens and get to the heart of the music— the vintage warmth of tape is fitting for Girls Guns & Glory’s all-American sound.

They’re joined by young Wilmington, North Carolina-based jam band Medicated Sunfish.

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After you’ve watched the solar eclipse on Monday, head over to The Jinx for a swingin’ bash with Savannah’s own Fabulous Equinox Orchestra. Take off those eclipse glasses and get down to swing standards, Motown favorites, the hits of Frank Sinatra, and more.

Led by Louisiana natives and perfectly Southern gentlemen Jeremy Davis and Clay Johnson, The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra is a 17-piece big band that’s full of energy and fun.

Monday’s event will also be an opportunity for the audience to learn about the Two Hundred Club of the Coastal Empire, an organization that responds with immediate financial assistance to the surviving spouse and children of local first responders who lose their lives in the line-of-duty.

Keep an eye out for Orchestra members throughout the day; the group’s offering brass band pop-up concerts throughout downtown.

MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 6:30 P.M., FREE, 21+

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KYLE, now based in Atlanta, began making their instrumental math rock here in Savannah on the house show scene. The band’s currently embarking on their Summer Salman Dreams 2017 tour. Give their most recent release, the three-part epic ‘The Juice,’ a spin on Bandcamp.

Savannah’s uplifting rhyme queen Valore takes the stage, along with Savannah queer noise-punk band Pointless Honey.

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WEDNESDAY 8.16 LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, 9:30 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, 9 p.m.

Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Isaac Smith, 9 p.m.

Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m.

Kayak Kafe Midtown Eric Culberson, Sweet Potato and the Pies, 6 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner, 7 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Jason Bible, 9 p.m.

PS Tavern Trivia, 7 p.m.

The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Latin Music Night, 9 p.m.

The Space Station at Starlandia Machine Dreams, Kali Masi, Rich Animals, 8 p.m.

The Stage on Bay Kane Brown, 8 p.m.

Tree House Wobble Wednesday Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Last Band Standing: Metaluna vs. Pocotaglio Road vs.

Southpaw Band, Brandon Reeves, 5 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 9 p.m.

The Goddamn Gallows, Askultura, Birdcloud @THE JINX

Gutterpunk kings The Goddamn Gallows are back with Nashville duo Birdcloud, pictured, and Miami rumba punks Askultura.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 9 P.M., $10 ADVANCE $15 DAY OF, DOORS AT 9 P.M., SHOW AT 10 P.M., 21+

TRIVIA & GAMES

The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m.

Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo, 10 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Adults Only Trivia, 9 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Tubby’s Trivia, 7 p.m.

World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Totally Awesome Bar The Comedy Underground Presents: Dr. Chuckles, Comedy Psychologist, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Scaryoke, 10 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Georgia Kyle, 7 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Aaron Zimmer, 4 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Liv Annalise Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Frank Bright, Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Stan Ray, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) TWINZ, 7:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 6 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

THURSDAY 8.17

The Britannia British Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m.

Tybee Island Social Club Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

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Little Lucky’s Live DJ SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

Barrelhouse South Mister F, 9 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Cohen’s Retreat Munchies and Music, 5:30 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Fannie’s on the Beach Christy and Butch, 8 p.m.

Applebee’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Trivia and Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night, 9 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

PS Tavern Karaoke

Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke Totally Awesome Bar 80s and 90s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Wormhole Karaoke

COMEDY

The Stage on Bay Uplifting Comedy Date Night, 8 p.m.

DJ

The Jinx Live DJ, 10 p.m.

Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Carnival Bar Theatre The Downtown Delialhs w/ Swingin’ Six Tease, 10 p.m.

Club One The Petty Fam Tour, 9 p.m., Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

Foxy Loxy Cafe Vinyl Appreciation, 7 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m.

FRIDAY 8.18 LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South Medicated Sunfish, Girls Guns and Glory, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, Jerry Zambito and the Bayou Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Casimir’s Lounge Whitley Deputy, 8 p.m.

Club Elan G4SHI, 10 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club The Mustard, 10 p.m.

Dockside Seafood Bluegrass Happy Hour, 4 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner, 7 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Cory Chambers, 8 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Keith Aherne, Wood and Steel, 4 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Amy Taylor, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Gary Byrd, 9 p.m.

Pour Larry’s Hidden Element, 10 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

The Stage on Bay Donna The Buffalo, 8 p.m.

Taste of India Don Read, 6:30 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater An Evening with David Olney, 8 p.m.

Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Vic’s on The River Frank Bright The Warehouse Zack Wilson, Ben Keiser Band, 2 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Christy Alan Band, Bill Hodgson, Ear Candy, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Voodoo Soup, 9:30 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Coach’s Corner Trivia, Movies & Music Trivia, 8 p.m.

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

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COMEDY

Foxy Loxy Cafe Comedy Night, 7:30 p.m.

DJ

Club 309 West DJ Zay Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ D-Frost Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m.

Carnival Bar Theatre The Downtown Delialhs w/ Swingin’ Six Tease, 10 p.m.

Club One Drag Show PS Tavern 80s and Ladies

SATURDAY 8.19 LIVE MUSIC

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Barrelhouse South Turtle Folk, El Dub, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, Brett Barnard and the Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Club Elan Bear Grills w/ Wooli, 10 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club DJ Square One, 10 p.m.

Doc’s Bar Crazy Chester, 9 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge The YeahTones, 9 p.m.

The Jinx The Goddamn Gallows, Askultura, Birdcloud, 10 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Zack Wilson, 7 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Gordon Perry Duo, 8 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Magic Rocks, 8 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Luke Lander, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Pour Larry’s Hidden Element, 10 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Randy Wood Guitars The Farm Hands, 8 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Frank Bright The Warehouse Rachael Shaner, Eric Culberson, 2 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Band, Hannah Noel, Bill Hodgson, Permanent Tourist, 1 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Roger Jaeger, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Applebee’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke &

Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Karaoke, 8 p.m.

PS Tavern Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Savannah Coffee Roasters Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans, 8 p.m.

Sulfur Studios Improv: Sorry Not Sorry Does E.T. the Extraterrestrial, 8 p.m.

The Wormhole Comedy Planet presents Ben Kronberg, 8:30 p.m.

DJ

Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Carnival Bar Theatre The Downtown Delialhs w/ Swingin’ Six Tease, 9 & 11 p.m.

Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 8.20 LIVE MUSIC

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, noon Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Irritating Julie, 1 p.m Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa Ricardo Ochoa’s Tribute to the Legends of Jazz Violin, 5 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

DJ

Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Exclusives Bar & Grille Open Mic Poetry Night, 7 p.m.

MONDAY 8.21 LIVE MUSIC

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music The Jinx After-Eclipse Party w/ the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra, 6:30 p.m.

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CULTURE THE ART•BEAT OF SAVANNAH

A scenic view at the LGBT Center

BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

LOCATION Gallery’s second location in the Savannah LGBT Center officially opened earlier this month, and its first solo exhibition is “Scenic” by Karen Abato, hanging now in the lobby.

“Scenic” is such a good fit for an introduction to this space, it’s almost serendipitous. Abato’s body of work is solely nature landscapes and female nudes. The juxtaposition of these works, in a subtle way, reminds us that bodies are just as part of nature as mountains or rocks, and it sends a message of acceptance that pervades the spot.

“I’ve had a difficult time showing nudes, even when I lived in Long Island,” recalls Abato. “Certain venues feel like it’s not appropriate. People don’t want their children to see bodies. These are human landscapes, right? Humanscapes.”

The pairing of bodies and landscapes is partly due to a visit that director Peter Roberts paid to Abato’s studio.

“For a long time, all I painted was nudes,” Abato says. “So [Roberts] came to my studio and saw landscapes and women’s bodies, and we decided that would be a nice combination.”

Roberts also chose to exhibit artists who identify as LGBT in the first exhibitions held in the Center.

“It’s a point of pride and it’s a point of inspiration for kids at risk, sort of troubled kids, troubled people, or parents of people in the LGBT community,” he explained.

“It’s about inclusivity. The challenge for me is to curate and come up with ideas that are more inclusive.”

Hosting a show of female nudes painted by a proudly out woman bolsters the message of community and acceptance that the Center strives to provide.

Abato paints in a style that she terms “abstract realism” because her paintings are based on realism, but she always gives them a twist.

“All of these have been created by

“Ice.” PHOTO BY KAREN ABATO

putting down a texture with a palette knife and staring at it until I find something,” Abato explains. “It can be women or it can be landscapes, it’s just whatever comes out.

It’s whatever it tells me to do. What’s cool about it for me is that I don’t know what it’s gonna look like. I don’t usually have a plan, and it just happens. That’s the cool thing about the palette knife, is if you do something and then you look at it long enough, it kind of emerges, like a scribble drawing.”

Currently, Abato works as a credentialed and board-certified art therapist, and some of her techniques she uses in art therapy, like scribble drawing, come out in her work.

“There’s this open air technique we use that has to do with setting an intention for the day,” Abato explains. “So you draw and write, all on the same page, and you usually end up finding a solution. So I wrote this rant about forgiveness and this image arose, a pattern with a moon or sun and tumbledown rocks. That pattern is a theme in my work, and I’m not sure why.”

Abato got into the practice of seeking form from texture when she lived on Long Island as a grad student. She didn’t have the money to buy canvas, so instead she picked up driftwood from the beach.

“I would do oil glazes and I started to find bodies in the grain. It’s something you do when you don’t have money for a canvas,” she laughs.

“Scenic” will remain up at the Savannah LGBT Center through the end of Septem“I See You.” PHOTO BY KAREN ABATO ber. CS

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Location Gallery’s second spot off to a great start

“Dawn.” PHOTO BY KAREN ABATO

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CULTURE VISUAL ARTS

5 Emily Earl “S&M on Broughton Street.” ALL PHOTOS BY

“Can I Use Your Light?”

“Halloween Blowout.”

“I Saw Him Standing There.”

really awesome Polaroid camera from her for $2. I realized it was broken, so it sat in my closet for a year and one day I fixed it in five minutes. I went downtown with some friends and took a couple pictures, and I was like, “Oh, my God, this is amazing!”

That’s how I started doing it. It was more for fun at first, but then I got so obsessed.

The quality of the images in terms of tones and sharpness was great. So what I do is go downtown, shoot Polaroids, put them in the box in the end of the night in a stack, then I come back and scan them all in. If I’m really excited about them I come back that night. I scan them in super-high resolution, then edit in Photoshop, and then I print.

Something that I really care a lot about for my personal photography is what makes a timeless moment, and what imagery or symbols stick with us through time, and how to play off that. Last week I went down to Mata Hari to take pictures there, and there’s one girl doing her lipstick with the phone camera and another girl in front of her furiously typing on her phone. And I’m just like, how crazy that we’re standing in this old historic kind of cobblestone tunnel. The juxtaposition is bizarre.

EMILY EARL.

with

Questions

High Museum of Art in Atlanta has purchased several works by this local artist

BY RACHAEL FLORA

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EMILY EARL has been a mainstay in Savannah’s art scene for a while now, so her stint in the spotlight has been long overdue.

Earl is the winner of this year’s APG / High Museum Purchase Award. The High’s assistant photography curator, Gregory Harris, selected seven of Earl’s photographs from her Late Night Polaroid series to be included in the High’s permanent collection. On Aug. 17, APG will present the award to Earl in a reception at the APG Gallery.

Earl is a co-founder of Sulfur Studios and works as the Director of Public Relations there. She also operates Prismatic Prints, a print shop, out of her studio.

We talked to Earl about the path that led her to this award, what makes a good photo, and the fortune of a good yard sale.

1.

Congrats on the award! How did you end up winning?

Emily Earl: I had four pieces from my Late Night Polaroids in this show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta called Edge to Edge—it was a survey of

contemporary photography, of just Georgia photographers. The MOCA is in this warehouse space where downstairs there have all these different galleries, and one of the galleries separate from the MOCA is the Atlanta Photography Group [APG] Gallery. When I was in Edge to Edge, I ended up going to that gallery and following them online, and I found out they do an international call for entry for a portfolio every year. I was like, well, I was just in this show in the same building, and maybe I’ll get it.

So I just went for it. I really didn’t think I was going to get in because it’s international, and I got in.

Six or seven photographers were chosen for the Portfolio 2017 show in the APG Gallery. The grand prize was they were gonna have Gregory Harris come in and pick one of the bodies of work from the show to be bought for the Purchase Award, and he picked me. It was totally crazy. I was super surprised—I was really not expecting any of that.

2. Tell me more about the Late Night Polaroids series—how did it come about?

So, I went to a yard sale. [laughs] She was a photographer moving out of the country so she was selling everything. I got this

3.

How do you judge your Polaroids for success?

I look for the technical elements—good exposure, composition, how sharp it is.

With Polaroids, it’s not through the lens focusing, it’s a range finder, so I have to guess how far away it is from the camera.

I won’t know if it’s in focus until I’ve got it and am looking at it. A lot of this happens so quickly that the person’s gone. I’ve gotten really good at focusing, so it’s not an issue, but it is something I’m nervous about every time. All that boring technical stuff for sure, but I think most photographers will tell you, you know when you’ve got it.

When the moment is right, you know it. I use a flash and the flash is really bright on this thing! Eight times out of ten, they’re like, “Oh, I blinked,” and I’m like, no, you didn’t. I know that was the shot of the night.

It’s an intuitive thing. I also think a lot of this is because I’m so familiar with the city that I kind of know, I really love certain backgrounds. I’m like, “Okay, if someone walks over there, I’m gonna take it.”

4. How do you think this award will affect your personal career?

I don’t really know yet. I certainly can’t predict that. I feel really honored to be included because just looking at their website, the photographers they have in their permanent collection are some of my ultimate idols. So just to be in there next to some of these people is pretty insane. Definitely in the last two years, I’ve had some really great luck with my personal work and I feel really good about that. We’ll see what happens.

5.

With all the projects you’ve taken on, how do you carve out time for your own art?

I’m so busy doing stuff here that in the last two years, it’s been challenging. When I first started doing [Late Night Polaroids], it was 2012 and I had two part-time jobs, so I had a lot of time to work on this. Now I do so much for the studio and the print shop [Prismatic Prints], and it’s tough to balance it. But it’s really important to me to remind myself to continue making more, and as long as I keep a good flow going, it’s all good. CS

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OPENINGS & RECEPTIONS

AGUA — LeeAnn Ritch shares her work of surfing and island life from Costa Rica, Tortola, Mexico, California and Tybee Island.

Fri., Aug. 18, 7 p.m. Fork & Dagger, 609 1/2 Abercorn St. OTHER SITUATIONS — Liliana Porter is best known for her photographs and installations exploring the conflicting boundaries between reality and fiction and the ways in which images are circulated and consumed. Selected works feature anonymous miniature figurines confronted with overwhelming tasks as a metaphor for the burden of labor and domesticity; others present icons such as Joan of Arc and Che Guevara as their legacies are reduced to representations in cheap, everyday merchandise. Aug. 17-Jan. 7. scadmoa.org/.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

TEMPORAL — New York-based artist Miya Ando explores images and materials and their associative cultural significance. Her exhibition brings together three significant works and series made of wood, steel and silk chiffon. Aug. 17-Jan. 14. scadmoa.org/.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS ANIMAL INSTINCT — The diversity of animal imagery in Animal Instinct reveals the wide-ranging roles animals inhabit in an anthropocentric world. This exhibition offers a chance to reflect on our relationships with animals and how they are an intrinsic part of our lives. Through Nov. 26. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. BODY LANGUAGE: FIGURES AND PORTRAITS — Work by Alexis Javier and Emily Earl. Through Sep. 6. In Vino Veritas, 102 E. Liberty St. BRITTON DOCKERY — A native of Savannah for 24 years, Britton Dockery first began his artistic endeavors as an adolescent. Inspired

by Dali and Magritte, Britton has continued his artistic endeavors over the years as a self taught artist, transcending techniques and liberal views have made his art what it is today. Through Sep. 21. sentientbean.com.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. CAROL FLEISCHAKER COHEN — Carol’s life’s passion has always included searching for ways her art can express her life’s journey. . Through Aug. 31. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn Street.

FILM: HER + HIM — Akram Zaatari’s film “Her + Him” tells the story of Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo and a woman known only as Nadia, who entered Studio Van Leo in 1957 and asked to be photographed in the nude. The film explores the entire series

of the images, which documents Nadia undressing in 12 poses, and also includes an in-depth interview with Van Leo about conventions related to his work.

Through Sep. 10. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. GENERATION — This exhibition brings together two generations of Iraqi-Canadian women artists--mother Sawsan Al Saraf and her daughters Tamara and Sundus Abdul Hadi--offering a dialogue between their artworks as to how three members of the same family respond artistically to complex themes of representation, identity, and displacement in a Last week to catch Jared Seff’s ‘Modern Gladiators’ at Roots Up contemporary global world. Through Sep. 10. telfair.org/jepson/. Jeping with the visual arts at a young age. Telfair son Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Museums proudly boasts the largest public GOD AND MODERN MAN — What is the relationship between God and modern man?

Through Oct. 15. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. HATTIE SAUSSY: REDISCOVERY OF AN ARTIST — Savannah artist Hattie Saussy (1890-1978) distinguished herself as a great American painter by effortlessly fusing elements of impressionism into her realist compositions, formulating her own traditional yet unique painting aesthetic. Through Sep. 24. telfair.org. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. HEATHER RINIKER: EMBROIDERED MAGNOLIA LEAVES — This art encompasses Heather’s passions of handmade and nature, her values in resourcefulness and simplicity, all while being able to express her creativity in an intricate and unique manner. Through Aug. 31. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. I’M TRYING TO TELL YOU — Maggie Mullin O’Hara’s exhibition will incorporate the mediums of video, performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. The show will include a site-specific sculptural video installation featuring a yearlong performance piece created specifically for the show. Through Nov. 5. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. KAHLIL GIBRAN AND THE FEMININE DIVINE — Renowned for his literary masterpiece “The Prophet,” Lebanese-American artist and writer Kahlil Gibran began experiment-

collection of visual art by Kahlil Gibran in the United States. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. LAW AND MUSIC — The exhibit features content from W. W. Law’s music, book, periodical, and photograph collections, and includes interactive activities designed to introduce children to the math and science concepts embedded in music. Through Jan. 1, 2018. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

LIVE OAKS ILLUMINATED — The southern live oak, with its Spanish moss encased limbs, captures the imagination and provides a backdrop for Savannah. Join us in unveiling Barbara Northrup’s latest series exploring the ubiquitous trees of our region. The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St. LOVELY LITTLE THINGS — Caitlin B. Alexander is an illustrator based in Austin, Texas.

“Lovely Little Things” is a collection of prints that are nostalgic yet fresh, charming yet mature. Through Sep. 24. foxyloxycafe.com.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. MODERN GLADIATORS — A solo show featuring artwork from Jared’s “Modern Gladiator” series depicting the mixed martial arts culture in paint and beauty. The ancient theme of combat as sport, is ubiquitous across history and time and has been participated in and represented by a vast array of cultures and art forms. Through Aug. 21.

Roots Up Gallery, 6 E. Liberty Street.

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NIGHTLIFE BURLESQUE

BY ANNA CHANDLER

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Meet The Petty Fam!

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All-black burlesque revue brings first tour to Savannah

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Special Guest Star, Phoenix Midnight PHOTO BY BEARD OF POWER STUDIOS

THERE’S a new Fam in town.

The Petty Fam, an all-black burlesque revue, brings its first tour to Club One on Thursday.

The traveling trio features talent from across the United States. May Hemmer, “The Cocoa Barbie” of New Orleans, Nox Falls, “The Violet Vamp” of Amarillo, Texas, and international boylesque star Tre Da Marc of Minneapolis, Minnesota have come together to celebrate the art of burlesque and people of color, challenge the standards imposed on burlesque performers, and reclaim the word “petty.” “‘Petty’ and the way we look at it has always been seen in a negative connotation,” Hemmer explains.

“It’s a thing a lot of people like to call women of color and people of color: ‘You’re just being petty.’ It’s seen in a negative way, and especially with the current political climate, we want to take back the word.

We’re not going to take stuff lying down anymore. If something is wrong, we’re not going to sit there and accept it.”

Rita D’LaVane of The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue, who is a guest performer at the Petty Fam’s Savannah stop alongside Gainesville, Florida’s “Naughty Nubian,” Phoenix Midnight, appreciates the way the tour challenges the problematic ideal of burlesque performers.

“Everybody’s supposed to be thin and white and beautiful to do burlesque—that’s what the mainstream audience expects,” she says. “That’s what people expect—and Dita Von Teese-level production value. No one can afford that, and not all burlesque is Dita or Moulin Rouge!”

D’LaVane points out that the mentality goes beyond audiences; it exists within the burlesque community, too.

“There are people who are producers who prefer to book people who are thin, white, and beautiful,” she notes. “Sweet Tease is the opposite of that. We’re for the idea that everybody who wholeheartedly wants to perform can perform.”

Hemmer has been performing burlesque, neoburlesque, and nerdlesque since 2011. During her time winning audiences over as “The Sassiest Thing in New Orleans” and fetching awards like “Master of Tassels” in the Louisana Regional Burlypicks, Hemmer has had the opportunity to travel and befriend fellow burlesque artists at festivals and conventions. The bonds formed through those events sparked the idea for The Petty Fam Tour.

“We wanted to do something different, and we’d been friends for a few years,” Hemmer says. “We thought, why not have fun and do what we love all at the same time?”

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Nox Falls, “The Violet Vamp” of Amarillo.

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friends after admiring one another’s work.

“At festivals, when you’re one of the only black people here, we’re going to talk and hang out!” says D’LaVane. “It’s like, ‘You’re somebody who looks just like me and thinks like I do and has gone through things like I have.’”

Many artists within the burlesque community are standing up for POC visibility.

While attending last year’s Burlycon, the annual burlesque educational and social convention, D’LaVane was inspired by a

panel of performers of color discussing pay equality, racism, and tokenism within the community.

“There’s going to have to be a concerted effort to change what’s been set in place for so many years,” she says.

“We’re not going to let people bogart POCs,” Hemmer says. “We started calling ourselves ‘petty’ to stand up for stuff, and it just got around…we started getting known as ‘The Petty Fam.’ We were always on Facebook together commenting…so we

ran with it!”

D’LaVane encourages the Club One audience to come with an open mind.

“Often when people find out I do burlesque, they say, ‘Oh, like the movie! It must be so much fun!’—that’s completely a fantasy, it’s not real at all,” she says. “If you come knowing these people are going to be themselves and are going to express themselves, it’s going to give you something you probably thought couldn’t be given to you before. Be vulnerable to experience.”

Though she’s unsure what direction this new ensemble will take, Hemmer looks forward to bringing the Petty Fam to Savannah.

“I used to have a nine to five,” she says.

“Now, I have the 24/7 job of being a mom!

I think we’re going to do [the tour] at least once a year in a certain part of the country. We’re hoping to grow it and make it something where we can have more guests appear. We want to say, ‘Hey, come in. Welcome to the family.’” CS

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However, anyone who has spent enough Since 2009, Ele FINE Fusion was Wilmtime in Savannah would add pho, ramen ington Island’s fine-dining destination. noodles, spicy Korean BBQ tacos, duck Given its high price point, upscale dining dumplings and sushi to that list. alcoves and dinner-only menu, it seemed The Ele and the Chef restaurant colleclike Ele FINE Fusion was typecast for a tion have been disseminating Asian fusion select audience. While Ele FINE Fusion across Savannah for about ten years. had regulars seeking a sushi fix, a majority Ele Tran and Chef Sean have become of Islanders and Savannahians kept it on icons in the Savannah food scene, owntheir special occasion list. ing and operating several restaurants in With all that being said, Ele Tran and the Savannah and Charleston areas. Ele Chef Sean decided it was time for a change. and the Chef’s Asian dynasty evolved from Following a 4-month long renovation, Ele humble beginnings, when the twosome FINE Fusion was redefined as Current traveled to Savannah to open their first Kitchen & Cocktails.

Vietnamese eatery named Little Saigon on Current, which opened in early July Wilmington Island.

2017, embodies the breezy coastal atmo30 Over the years, the restaurant collection sphere that the Islands exude while

maintaining the trendy-chic charisma that all Ele and the Chef’s restaurants have.

As parents, Ele Tran and Chef Sean wanted to transform Ele FINE Fusion into an upbeat family-friendly eatery, serving as a spontaneous social hotspot. The ultimate objective was to design a space that was more snazzy than most Island bars and grills, but laid-back enough to stop in on the way to the beach.

Upon arrival, the most noticeable addition is the new outdoor dining area. Large porch swings, bistro tables and hanging ferns produce an inviting alfresco ambience.

Inside, a refreshed version of the former sushi bar remains on the left of the front entryway and bar seating, with the back wall removed, remains on the right.

Diners can choose to go left and dine in one of the intimate glassed-in partitions, each with only a few tables and high-backed booths. This area is dubbed as the sophisticated side, as it was a special feature in Ele FINE Fusion and was revamped to fit Current’s theme.

On the right, Current’s newly renovated space boasts a modernized open concept dining area and bar. This vivacious side of the restaurant is studded with marble tables, golden lamps, and eclectic black, white and grey tiled flooring, all enclosed by floor to ceiling windows.

A newfangled bar adorned in scalloped marble accompanies the vivid space. The tri-sided bar can also be accessed by those waiting in the front lobby and those eating outside on the veranda.

In just a month, Current has been busier than expected, opening for lunch on weekdays at 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on weekends in addition to dinner at 5 p.m. seven days a week.

While Ele Tran designed the new space, Chef Sean revamped Current’s menu so that it catered to everyone. Keeping with the casual coastal motif, the wide-ranging menu offers starters, sushi, a raw bar, salads, sandwiches, entrees, a kid’s menu and desserts. The affordable price-point conveys approachability and encourages family-style sharing.

Chef Sean incorporated a few favorite dishes from his other restaurants and added some novel offerings that are exclusive to the new joint. The Turmeric Mussels, for example, are a crowdpleaser from Chive Seabar & Lounge.

The mussels were served in a clay pot, bathed in a creamy yellow sauce infused with turmeric, yellow curry, white wine, fennel, garlic and onion. The effervescent broth was both light and indulgent, matching the mussels’ subtle sweetness.

Another seafood starter that embodied seaside cuisine was the spicy tuna tartare.

Ample knobs of avocado and raw sushi tuna, mixed with masago, were molded on a bed of vibrant green seaweed. This salad was crowned with flash-fried crabsticks and served with drizzles of poké sauce and spicy mayonnaise.

While sandwiches like the Lemon-Dill Salmon Burger and Seared Beef & Goat Cheese grace the menu, a Vietnamese delight that is only offered at Current are the Bánh Mì Sliders. Two snack-sized buns are piled with roasted pork, sriracha, pickled vegetables, jalapeno, daikon, cucumber, and cilantro. These petite sliders, served with parmesan fries, harmoniously pack a punch of sweet, spicy and briny notes.

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Current’s dinner entrees are categorized by sea, grill, and land. From the sea, menu items range from simple staples like fish tacos to complex compositions like Sri Lankan fish curry.

From the grill, pork belly, tenderloin, tofu, salmon and chicken cater to all palates.

By the land, comforting noodle bowls like the Ramen Bowl or Current House Noodle are similar to those found at the Flying Monk.

In order to bolster a sense of community, Current offers a “Current Summer Nights” pig roast every Saturday outside on the front porch. This laid-back and relaxed family night is filled with live

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Ele FINE Fusion’s era may have ended, but Current Kitchen & Cocktails has resurrected its purpose of providing Asian fusion fare accessible to all. It’s a place that jibes with the Island vibe, while standing out for all the right reasons.

As can be expected, The Ele and the Chef restaurant collection have more in store for Savannah. Coming to downtown this fall is the Little Duck Diner, a classic family-style diner serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with an Asian fusion twist. CS

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STEP

OOO The new documentary Step focuses on the members of an inner-city Baltimore high school step team, but what’s most surprising about the film is how comparatively little time is spent on the dancing. To be sure, there are numerous sequences in which we watch the girls practice, and of course there’s a big dance competition at the end.

But the majority of the picture examines the lives of these young women away from the hoofing, centering instead on their family lives and their efforts to graduate and be accepted into college. It’s not unreasonable, then, to assume that the title doesn’t refer to their chosen form of dancing as much as it refers to the steps each girl must take if she wants to break free from her surroundings and escape into the world at large.

The picture primarily focuses on Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger and Tayla Solomon, three seniors at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. Cori is the brainy one (she’s hoping to get into Johns Hopkins on a full scholarship) while Tayla is the sardonic one (she’s constantly rolling her eyes at her mom, a corrections officer with as much boundless energy as any of these girls).

As for Blessin, she’s the founder of the step team as well as the center of the movie. Bright and beautiful, she lives for dance but has trouble applying herself in other areas. With plummeting grades and a mother who doesn’t always come through for her, she’s the one most in peril

of not moving forward, and the later scenes in which she realizes she may get left behind as her peers are receiving their college acceptance letters pack an emotional wallop.

More straightforward than many other documentaries about kids in competition, Step isn’t as richly detailed or narratively mutable as something like Hoop Dreams or Spellbound. But by focusing on the hopes and aspirations of three distinct individuals – and by raising the stakes via opening the film with the 2015 police-sanctionedand-court-approved slaying of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray—the movie posits that, while artistic expression may be a way of life, the environment in which it’s often practiced may be more subject to matters of life and death.

adventures of a young boy who gets to hang out with a gunslinger and fight a wicked sorcerer.

The boy is Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), who suffers from recurring dreams involving an imposing tower. The gunslinger is Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last in a long line of peacekeepers sworn to protect the title edifice. And the sorcerer is the Man in Black—no, not Johnny Cash, but a vile being seeking to destroy the Tower and thereby unleash all manner of otherworldly evildoers.

The Man in Black is played by Matthew McConaughey, who seems to have based his performance on the most obnoxious car salesman he’s ever met. McConaughey’s Man in Black isn’t frightening in the least, but he could probably get you a sweet deal on a Lincoln Continental.

THE DARK TOWER The casting of Elba makes more sense O than that of his surfer dude co-star, but The long-in-the-making movie The Dark while he brings the proper degree of graviTower runs 95 minutes yet is based on the tas to his role, the thinness of the screenStephen King book series that ran over the play means that there’s little depth to his course of eight novels. Such a condensation characterization. The entire film suffers may not be quite as vexing as attempting to from a similar measure of surface sheen. place all of Shakespeare’s texts onto a sinPotentially interesting players come gle Post-it note, but it nevertheless ranks and go, other worlds and dimensions are as an exercise in futility. visited, and characters engage in weighty Despite the material’s links to other proclamations like “He who aims with his King staples, the movie has less in common hand has forgotten the face of his father,” with the prolific author’s output and more “He has the shine!” and “The gun is good; in common with such Young Adult adapta- the penis is evil” (wait, that one’s from tions as the Divergent and Percy Jackson Zardoz; never mind). series. Certainly, there are nods here and But by barreling through the story at there to the King oeuvre (It, 1408, The Mach speed, nothing is allowed to mariShining), but stripped of dramatic heft, the nate and deepen. What’s left, then, is film mainly plays like the YA-sanctioned a shallow fantasy in which most of the

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unimaginative action sequences consist of little more than Roland shooting his pistols at various villains. It may be High Noon in the land of The Dark Tower, but it’s a low ebb for viewers expecting anything of substance.

ATOMIC BLONDE

OOO The logical companion piece to the summer hit Baby Driver, Atomic Blonde is another movie largely defined by its cool-as-ice characters, its action-packed set-pieces, and its awesome mixtape of classic tunes readily available for iTunes download.

But whereas Baby Driver (the better picture, though not by much) loses some tread during its final act, this adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City feigns in the opposite direction, getting off to a rocky start before blossoming into something rousing and rejuvenating.

Charlize Theron, newly minted action star thanks to her fast and Furiosa turn in Mad Max: Fury Road, is equally as kick-ass here—she’s Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent operating in Berlin at the tail end of the Cold War. Landing in the divided city just as the Berlin Wall is about to collapse, Lorraine must find out who killed a fellow operative while also locating an explosive list that contains the names of double agents.

She’s ordered by her MI6 superiors (Toby Jones and James Faulkner) to hook up with the department’s agent in Berlin, a live wire named David Percival (James McAvoy), but she also comes into contact with a gruff CIA agent (John Goodman), a mysterious woman (Sofia Boutella) who’s been following her, and assorted other players in the spy game.

Atomic Blonde is the sort of movie in which nothing is as it seems, as scripter Kurt Johnstad serves up a full menu of double-crosses, triple-crosses, false identities, and startling character revelations.

Some of it doesn’t work (the film reveals its hand regarding McAvoy’s Percival far too soon), but the flurry of activity at least is consistent with the rest of the movie’s kinetic approach.

David Leitch, a former stuntman on

such films as The Bourne Ultimatum and 300, made his directorial debut (albeit uncredited) alongside Chad Stahelski on 2014’s John Wick, but his work on Atomic Blonde is far more impressive. There’s a lengthy fight sequence in this picture that’s among the best of recent times – filmed in one uninterrupted take, it’s less fanciful and more realistically sloppy than many such filmic fisticuffs, as characters can barely stand even as they continue to wallop each other.

As noted, the soundtrack is superb, even if it isn’t always as hardwired into the action as cleverly as the songs in Baby Driver. For instance, After the Fall’s “Der Komissar” figures prominently in one scene, the sole reason apparently being that – whaddaya know! — the song title is in German and this movie is set in Germany.

Then again, the film does open with one brilliant David Bowie song—“Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”—and closes with another brilliant Bowie tune (not telling), so let’s not be too harsh on Leitch for turning to his iPod to score the picture. Like his personal playlist, Atomic Blonde rocks.

A GHOST STORY

OOO If the minds behind The Guinness Book of World Records ever elect to add a category called “Most Walkouts For A Single Movie,” then I expect writer-director David Lowery’s A Ghost Story might have a shot at grabbing the tarnished-brass ring.

Moving at the speed of molasses trying to drip up a wall, the movie clocks in at just over 90 minutes, yet many fidgety viewers will swear it runs at least four hours.

One five-minute scene consists of nothing more than Rooney Mara’s character eating an entire chocolate pie, and if there’s any sequence in the movie likely to leave an audience member shrieking in frustration and bolting for the adjacent auditorium showing The Emoji Movie, it’s probably this one.

Yet for those who get attuned to its leisurely approach, A Ghost Story proves to be a fascinating watch. Lowery’s decision to have his film move with the speed of a turtle with four broken legs is deliberate,

tying into themes regarding love, loss, identity, and time. Especially time.

At its center is a young couple identified only as C (Casey Affleck) and M (Mara).

The two are in love, with one of their relatively few conflicts coming from the fact that M wants to move from their present house while C wants to remain there. One day, C is killed in a car accident just outside the home, but he soon returns as a ghost.

Intriguingly, the ghost isn’t some CGI specter or a Patrick Swayze hunk but rather a figure in a white sheet, the sort seen in Peanuts strips and in costume shops come Halloween. C remains in the house over the years/decades/centuries, and just when it seems the movie can’t possibly get any more existential, a leap is taken (both literally and figuratively) that spins it in a new direction.

Aside from one interlude with a chatty hipster (Will Oldham), the dialogue is kept to a bare minimum, another tactic that makes the movie feel longer than its actual running time. Yet Lowery’s approach is key in providing the picture with its melancholy mood, and he’s backed by a score from Daniel Hart that only emphasizes the pervading wistfulness.

A mournful rumination on not only what it means to be human but also what it means to be something else entirely, A Ghost Story is a haunting experience no matter how you slice it.

DUNKIRK

OOO Dunkirk is already being hailed in some quarters as one of the greatest war films ever made and in other corners as a typically overrated Christopher Nolan endeavor. Neither claim is accurate, although it should be noted that the enthusiasts are closer to the mark than the Nolan naysayers.

Certainly, Dunkirk hardly belongs in the same class as Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan or any of the other superb combat flicks that have been produced over the past 100-odd years. Focusing on the unlikely — some would say miraculous — evacuation of over 300,000 surrounded Allied soldiers from the French beaches over the course of a few days in 1940, the movie is stripped down in terms of its characterizations.

Various players are represented in only scattered scenes, and character names are often hard to come by. A few recognizable actors appear here and there — Tom Hardy as a courageous pilot, Cillian Murphy as a shell-shocked soldier, Kenneth Branagh as a concerned officer, and Bridge of Spies Oscar winner Mark Rylance as a British citizen commandeering one of the rescue boats — but most of the cast is comprised of up-and-comers whose boyish faces are often hard to distinguish in the darkness and under the dirt.

Worse, Nolan’s decision to tinker with time won’t bother those who can keep up but is certain to anger and irritate those whose knives are already unsheathed.

Yet to suggest that Dunkirk is a movie lacking in emotion because it’s lacking in sharply etched players is incorrect. Nolan’s strength here is his ability to place audiences right into the thick of the various struggles taking place by air, land and sea.

Backed by Hans Zimmer’s forceful score as well as sound effects that deserve this year’s Oscar, he comes up with a movie that works beautifully as an aural and visual assault. This in turn heightens the senses in terms of what’s at stake for all these soldiers and civilians, and viewers with any semblance of empathy will easily be engaged, enraged and, ultimately, inspired.

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS

OO The latest eye-candy achievement from director Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets should be seen on a large movie screen — preferably in 3-D — or not seen at all.

Based on the influential French comic series Valerian and Laureline, the movie opens with a clever and amusing prelude that spans the centuries (backed, of course, by David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”) before shifting to a lengthy segment in which the visual effects dominate everything else. But rather than the CGI distancing viewers (as if too often the case), they prove to be completely immersive and instead invoke sympathy for the alien creatures placed front and center.

Unfortunately, the movie then switches over to the human protagonists, and all magic is quickly dispelled. Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne), two 28th-century government agents doing their part to make the universe a safe place to live, are introduced as they flirt with one another, and the witless banter recalls Katherine Heigl and Gerald Butler far more than it stirs memories of Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott.

From there, the film blazes through one frenetic episode after another, all featuring cutting-edge effects that are especially striking in 3-D. The storyline involving a rogue commander (Clive Owen) isn’t particularly inspired but it is perfectly serviceable, and late-inning appearances by Rihanna and Ethan Hawke are properly entertaining.

But it’s ultimately all for naught when balanced against the dead weight at the center of the film. That would be DeHaan and Delevingne, neither of whom are especially convincing in their trite roles. CS

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DRINKING LIBERALLY Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.

A gathering of Liberals for an informal discussion of politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and the world around us. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. third Thursday of every month. (912) 341-7427. livingliberally. org/drinking/chapters/GA/savannah.

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GREEN PARTY OF CHATHAM COUNTY People, Planet and Peace over Profit!

Meets Saturdays and the first Tuesday of every month. Join the Facebook group, @ChathamGreens, to find out about upcoming local events. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

SAVANNAH AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr. org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

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AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo. com. Info is also available at www. savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part by the Savannah Friends of Music, www. savannahfriendsofmusic.com ongoing. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html.

Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR ARTISTS TO TEACH AT STUDIO SCHOOL The studio school in downtown Savannah seeks qualified artists interested in joining the team during spring and/ or summer sessions 2017. Seeking artists to present workshops for adult programming and/or teach short term summer classes for youth programming. Through Aug. 31. 912-5963873. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA

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Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN DELILAHS DANCE CABARET The Downtown Delilahs dance cabaret are holding auditions for several upcoming shows. To set up an audition, contact Jade Bills at 912-272-7601. Through Nov. 1.

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CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR TITUS ANDRONICUS Savannah Shakes theater troupe holds auditions for their next performance, Titus Andronicus. They’re looking to fill each of their 18 roles and for crew members.

Auditions consist entirely of cold reads from the play, from the Arden edition of the text. The show is tentatively set for the last two weekends in October. Auditions are August 16 and 17 at 6:30pm at Savannah Coffee Roasters. Through Aug. 17. savshakes@gmail.com. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR SAVANNAH STAGE COMPANY’S YOUNG WRITERS NIGHT Savannah Stage Company’s next production is a young adult playwriting

competition open to all middle and high school students in Savannah/Chatham County. Several winners will be selected to watch their work come to life in a professional staged reading. They will be taken on a mentored journey through the editing, directing, and rehearsal process of building a play, then watch their work culminate in the professional reading. Finalists will be selected on performance night, September 23, from each age group to receive an additional prize package. Deadline for submissions is September 1 and can be submitted to artistic@savannahstagecompany.com as a PDF document. Winners will be notified September 9. Through Sep. 1. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR VIGNETTE SAVANNAH Are you a student living fabulously in a studio apartment or a creative with an efficient yet stylish workspace?

Maybe you’re renewing your space after Hurricane Matthew, decorating your home for the holidays for the first time, or just want to share the character & charm of your historical home? Whatever your space, Vignette Savannah would love to feature you. Vignette Savannah is a web presence that features the most creative and eclectic living, leisure, and work spaces in Savannah. Tell us about yours at vignettesavannah@gmail.com, and check us out in the weeks to come at vignettesavannah.com. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

CALL FOR JESUS-YESHUA PRODUCTION CLUB AND VIDEO CREW Contact Brenda Lee at 912-236-3156 or at revbrendalee@yahoo.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN PTSD STUDY Are you a recent combat veteran experiencing psychological or emotional stress related to your combat? You may be eligible to receive first-line medication and talk therapy interventions with proven effectiveness. PROGrESS is a study looking to learn more about how to effectively treat recent combat veterans with PTSD. The therapies are not experimental. You will be randomly assigned to receive either psychotherapy, medication, or both. For more information about the PROGrESS study, please call 912-920-0214 ext. 2169. ongoing. Online only, none.

CALL FOR VENDORS FOR SAVANNAH ZINE FEST PULP Books & Gallery is now accepting vendor applications for the first annual Savannah Zine Fest, taking place October 7th. The Savannah Zine Fest aims to bring together DIY enthusiasts, zine makers and independent publishers across the Southeast for a day of selling, buying and trading. We are taking applications from independent publishers of all forms of printed matter, including zines, comics, artists’ books, magazines, etc. Interested in becoming a vendor? Visit www.

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savannahzinefest.com to reserve your table. Please email info@savannahzinefest. com for more information. Through Oct. 7.

PULP Bookstore and Gallery, 412 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

CALL FOR WORLD WAR I ITEMS FOR CITY EXHIBIT The City of Savannah Research Library & Municipal Archives is currently planning a World War I Centennial exhibit for 2018 to honor Savannahians’ role in the war.

The City would like to include items from local residents and families to further personalize the exhibit. Residents are asked to share World War I related artifacts or documents with the City to help create the exhibit. To lend an item to the exhibit or to learn more about the exhibit, please contact Luciana Spracher, City of Savannah Library & Archives Director, at Lspracher@ savannahga.gov or (912) 651-6411. ongoing. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

POLLUTION OF OUR WATERWAYS EXHIBIT Ships of the Sea Museum is now accepting submissions for a 2018 exhibit on the pollution of our waterways. Inspired by Jason deCaires Taylor’s public art piece “Plasticide,” we are seeking the aid of artists to demonstrate in a visceral, yet authentic way the local and global effects of water pollution. Submission deadline is 30 October 2017. For more information please see our website at: shipsofthesea.org Through Oct. 30. 912232-1511. wendymelton@shipsofthesea. org. shipsofthesea.org. shipsofthesea.org.

Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

RELIGIOUS ETHNIC ARTISTS NEEDED Religious ethnic (JESUS-YESHUA) artists and musicals needed for upcoming season.

A classical accompanist and conductor for sacred music and gospel singers needed.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee (912) 2363154; email: revbrendalee@yahoo.com ongoing. No physical address given, none.

TELL US YOUR GHOST STORY? Organization seeks to document your first hand experiences with psychical phenomenon for analysis and potential investigation. Our investigators have reputable credentials and long time investigation training and connections with the top minds and researchers in parapsychology field research and other areas. We are especially interested in Chatham and neighboring counties with special emphasis on Savannah itself and the Historic District. Interviewees should be comfortable with video documentation of themselves and events w/privacy level negotiated beforehand. ongoing. amchclub@yahoo.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

BENEFITS

LAST BLAST OF SUMMER GOLF TOURNAMENT Celebrate the last bit of summer with the Coastal Jazz Association. Wear your flipflops, Hawaiian shirts and summer beachtime best for a round of golf. Proceeds support the Coastal Jazz Association and Savannah Harbor Foundation. $200-$1000 Fri., Aug. 18, 11 a.m. 912-201-2009. dana.

schultz@westin.com. westinsavannah. com/. Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

PURPLE PANCAKES The Imprincenator serves purple pancakes to benefit Savannah Chatham CASA and will take photos with guests. Fri., Aug. 18, 7:30 a.m. The Funky Brunch Cafe, 304 E. Broughton St. SCMPD ANIMAL CONTROL SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation.

Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

WESTERN THEME DANCE TO SUPPORT CASA Dance at “Wild Bill’s Dance Hall” Benefits Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). Line Dance and 2-Step Lessons, Open Dancing, Nursery available ($8), Prizes for Best Dressed Western Hero, Pot Luck Dinner, Silent Auction and Family Fun! Tickets at door $10 per person or $20 per Family Through Aug. 25, 6:30-10 p.m. 912-604-9087. dhargroves@gmail.com. facebook.com/ events/2349076355317414/. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St.

CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS

$8 COMMUNITY GENTLE POWER YOGA This class is designed to move and stretch your body at a slower pace. If you are looking for a class without any jumping or fancy arm balances, this is the class for you. We do not heat the room during this practice. Mondays, 4 p.m. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. $8 COMMUNITY POWER MAX If you are looking for a practice that will challenge you physically and mentally, this is the class for you. These 75-90 minutes classes will stretch and strengthen your body, and cultivate balance. You will be wrung out and then juiced back up, ready to face any challenge that comes your way. This class is heated to 90 degrees.

Tuesdays, 10 a.m. savannahpoweryoga. com. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. $8 COMMUNITY POWER YOGA In just one hour you will stretch your muscles, build strength, find your balance, open your hips, get upside down and enjoy some stillness. You will leave feeling refreshed and invigorated. This class is suitable for all levels - from raw beginners to experienced yogis. This class is heated to 90 degrees. Thursdays, 7:15 p.m., Fridays, 6 a.m., Saturdays, 7:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, noon. savannahpoweryoga. com. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3.

AERIAL SILK CLASSES Come fly with us and try something new

this summer. Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks all while suspended in the air. Increase strength and flexibility in a different way. Weekly classes held on Fridays. Very limited space available, reserve your spot and register online today.

Youth Classes 4:30-5:30 Adult Classes 5:307:00 $20 Fri., Aug. 18. 954.682.5694. elyse. thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net/ aerial-silk-arts.html. thestudiosav.net. The STUDIO, 2805-b Roger Lacey Dr. ART, MUSIC, PIANO, VOICE COACHING Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056.

BASIC SELF DEFENSE Essential self-defense for adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com.

Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

BEADING CLASSSES AT EPIPHANY BEAD & JEWELRY STUDIO Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times.

912-677-3983. epiphany.indiemade.com.

Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. BEGINNERS AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CLASS Savannah Speech & Hearing will host a six-week series of classes for those interested in learning beginners American Sign Language (ASL). The class will be instructed by Crystal Clarkson. $80 Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

912-355-4601. speechandhearingsav. com. savannahspeechandhearing.org/.

Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. BEGINNING BELLY DANCE CLASSES Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com.

BOATING SAFETY CLASS The Georgia DNR along with the Chatham County Marine Patrol will be conducting a Boating Safety Course on the third Saturday every month at the Savannah Mall Conference Room (lower level by Burlington Coat Factory). This course is free to the public. This is a Georgia DNR approved class that is required for anyone that was born after January 1, 1998 if they want to operate any power vessel or personnel watercraft on Georgia waterways. To sign-up for this class go to www.gooutdoorsgeorgia.com or call the Georgia DNR @912-264-7237. Class size is limited to 30 participants. Free Sat., Aug. 19, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 912-264-7237. www. gooutdoorsgeorgia.com. Chatham County Marine Patrol, 71 Ross Road.

BRIDGE LESSONS Competitive Bidding (BB2), Saturday, February 4 at 10AM. Defensive Signals (BB5), Monday February 6. They are 4 week classes. Intermediate and advanced workshops continue on Fridays at 10AM. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave, Sandfly. Also, games are held in the afternoon and/or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Check our website for fees and

schedules of games and other classes. ongoing. 912-228-4838. bridgewebs.com/ savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. CHAMPIONS TRAINING CENTER Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

CHINESE LANGUAGE CLASSES The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University offers free Chinese language classes starting January 17. To register, please call 912-358-3160. ongoing.

912-358-3160. confuciusinstitute@ savannahstate.edu. savannahstate.edu. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. CLAY CLASSES Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-351-4578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com.

BOATING CLASSES Classes on boat handling, boating safety and navigation offered by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. See website or call to register.

912-897-7656. savannahaux.com.

CREATIVITY COACHING Do you have a creative idea but don’t know where to start? Is it time to move forward with your project? Work with your very own creativity coach and learn how to blast through blocks, plan your time, and enjoy the richness of a creative life. See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/ creativity_coaching/ or contact Creativity@ LaurenL.com ongoing. Online, ---.

DIVAS & PUMPS: ADULT HEELS DANCE CLASS Divas & Pumps is a dance class teaching walks, struts, freestyles, and choreography to hits by our favorite Divas. Come get your life every Wednesday at 7:30. $15 Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. 323-539-1760.

DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL.COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. DUI PREVENTION GROUP Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers.

Meets monthly. $40/session 912-443-0410.

FAMILY LAW WORKSHOP The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

FANY’S SPANISH/ENGLISH INSTITUTE Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing.

912-921-4646.

FREE BEGINNER BRIDGE LESSONS Dates are August 14, 21, 28, and September 11. Games are held in the afternoon and/ or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Check our website for fees and schedules of games and other classes. 912-228-4838. www.bridgewebs.com/savannahclubs.

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Through Sep. 11, 7 p.m. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. HOUSING AUTHORITY NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am.

Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: MonFri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. INTRODUCTION TO JEWELRY For beginners and beaders who want to grow beyond wirework and cold connections as a jeweler. Concentrating on basic techniques, this workshop focuses on building strong soldering skills. You will fabricate a bezel setting (one of the most popular ways to set a stone) and learn rock solid ring making strategies.

225.00 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 770-3610405. christina@dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com/. dreamcatstudio. com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. KNITTING & CROCHET CLASSES Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website.

Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com.

LIFE CHALLENGE COACHING In an environment of patience, nonjudgement and compassion, we will explore the source of your challenge, the beliefs that hold your challenge in place, and discover & enact healthy and healing life changes. For appointment, contact Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) to 912-429-7265. ongoing.

Online only, none.

MUSIC LESSONS--MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS AND STYLES Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels for Guitar (electric, acoustic, bass, classical, jazz), Piano, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Voice as well as Music Theory/ Composition/ Ear Training. We teach public, private and home school students as well as adults at all experience levels. Located at 15 East Montgomery Crossroads in Office #205 near White Bluff Road, Savannah, GA. ongoing. 912388-1806. smisavannah@gmail.com. savmusiciansinstitute.com.

NEW HORIZONS ADULT BAND PROGRAM Music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school/college and would like to play again. Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month.

All ages and ability levels welcome.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. NOVEL WRITING Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publication. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-onone or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting.

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ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES Photography Workshops: Beginner to Advanced level. 4-hour sessions. $250 per student. See website for complete list. 410251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography. com. chrismorrisphotography.com/learn.

PIANO VOICE-COACHING Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing.

POWER SELF DEFENSE Get fit and develop powerful selfdefense skills. For active adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com.

Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

R&B SOUL ADULT LINE DANCING The R&B Soul line dance group Savannah Show Stoppers are conducting line dance classes every Monday night at the West Broad St. YMCA and every Tuesday nights at the John Delaware Center. Both classes starts at 6:30. Lamont Hunter, the founder of the Savannah Show Stoppers, is the Instructor. Donations Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-220-7712. hlamont70@yahoo.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. REIKI TREATMENT Reiki relaxes & rejuvenates; promotes emotional & physical healing; reduces neuromuscular & arthritic pain. E-mail request for appointment/ Fee base at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) 912429-7265 ongoing. Online only, none.

A. ROPER STUDIO - VOICE TECHNIQUE AND COACHING Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music.

Audition and competition preparation.

Located 15 minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-4840628. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718.

SAMBA SAVANNAH DRUMMING WORKSHOP Learn Afro-Brazilian rhythms with drumming instructor Andrew Hartzell.

All ages. $10 Sundays, 2:30 p.m. starlandiasupply.com. Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street.

SASS & SWAG ADULT HIP HOP Sass & Swag is a high energy, adult hip hop dance class. Learn hip hop grooves you can take to any party or club, and learn a choreographed routine to today’s hottest hits. Mondays at 7:30 pm. $15 Mondays, 7:30 p.m. 323-539-1760.

DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL.COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. YOUTH AND TEEN AERIAL SILK CLASSES Youth Class ages 8+. Teen Class ages 11+. Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks and Hoop while suspended in the air. Weekly classes held on Fridays through the month of September only.

Very limited space available, reserve

your spot and register online today. $20/ class $75/September package ongoing.

954.682.5694. elyse.thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. ZONA ROSA WRITING WORKSHOP Become the writer you were meant to be: Join Zona Rosa, the internationally acclaimed, monthly Savannah-based writing workshops founded and led by award-winning author Rosemary Daniell.

Over 180 Zona Rosans have become published authors. For information, contact Rosemary at info@myzonarosa.com.

Also ask about the week-long, intensive Sixteenth Annual Zona Rosa Writing and Living Retreat,Tybee Island, July 22-29, 2017. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

13TH COLONY SOUND (BARBERSHOP SINGING) “If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!”

Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. ABENI CULTURAL ARTS DANCE CLASSES Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-6313452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com.

AVEGOST LARP Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

BALLROOM DANCING PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM LOVEZOLLA’S PIZZA IN POOLER, GA. Teacher will be Alan Cloud from Essi’s Ballroom who will be teaching Rumba. Lesson begins at 7:00 pm followed by two hours of ballroom dancing from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Please bring snacks and refreshments to share. No alcohol please.

Public welcome. $10 for members; $15 for non-members; and $25 per couple. Sat., Aug. 19, 7-10 p.m. 912-547-9705. 78vette@ planters.net. usadance.com. USA Dance Savannah, 301 U.S. 80.

BUCCANEER REGION SCCA Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting 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. See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org.

BUSINESS NETWORKING ON THE ISLANDS Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

CHATHAM SAILING CLUB Friday evening social event at the clubhouse. Meet Members and their families who all enjoy water based activities but whose prime interest is sailing. This

BYOB event is free and all are welcome, but Membership is encouraged after several visits once interest is gauged!! We look forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. COASTAL BEAD SOCIETY Coastal Bead Society monthly meetings, 12 noon on the third Friday of the Month at the Coastal Georgia Center, 303 Fahm Street, near SCAD. All beaders are welcome. ongoing. wyrnut18@gmail.com. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

FIBER GUILD OF THE SAVANNAHS A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. HISTORIC FLIGHT SAVANNAH A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC, to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org.

HISTORIC SAVANNAH CHAPTER: ABWA Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257.

HOSTESS CITY TOASTMASTERS CLUB Toastmasters International is an organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, seminars, and contests.

Regardless of your level of comfort with public speaking, you will find a club that is interested in helping you improve your speaking abilities. Free Tuesdays, 6:15-7:15 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. KNITTERS, NEEDLEPOINT AND CROCHET Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

LOW COUNTRY TURNERS A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230.

MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART LADIES AUXILIARY Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. PHILO CAFE Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations.

Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe.

Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.

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Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn. com. vvasav.com.

WOODVILLE-TOMPKINS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@ comcast.net.

CONCERTS

Film: Lost and Found

Part of Tybee Island’s Movies in the Park summer series.

FREE SAT., AUG. 19, 8:45 P.M. WWW,TYBEEFEST.COM. MEMORIAL PARK ON TYBEE ISLAND, 403 BUTLER AVE.

com.

SAVANNAH TOASTMASTERS Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment.

Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SAVANNAH VEGGIES AND VEGANS Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events.

Mondays.

SCAD DAILY TOURS

SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, in Savannah, Atlanta, and Hong Kong. Tours allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. Free MondaysSaturdays. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/ daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of Art and Design, PO Box 2072.

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DAYSPRING TRIO GOSPEL CONCERT The Dayspring Trio is an award winning southern gospel trio from Americus, GA. Their polished vocals and tight harmonies have been compared to the likes of the Booth Brothers and Greater Vision. Despite their relatively young ages, these young men have been singing together for over 15 years. Free Sat., Aug. 19, 7-8 p.m. 912964-4210. pwmsecretary@gmail.com. Port Wentworth United Methodist Church, 201 Turnberry Street.

THE LOVE AND SOUL EXPERIENCE Kimberly Gunn Music Presents The Love and Soul Experience every third Friday of the month beginning May 17th. There will be music, poetry, comedy, creative arts, and networking. Kimberly Gunn Music and friends will provide musical entertainment. An event for ages 18 and up. $10 Admission $12 VIP third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m. (912) 224-6084 or (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: MILNES MASTER CLASS Legendary baritone and artistic leader of the VOICE Programs Milnes shares the wisdom and experiences with audiences while working with the 2017 Studio Artists, who perform for the Master for feedback and instruction. Free Thu., Aug. 17, 1 p.m. savannahvoicefestival.org. westinsavannah.com/. Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: OPERA IDOL Competing for prizes and special opportunities, singers work with the Festival’ s Artistic Director, Sherrill Milnes and Executive Director, Maria Zouves in a master class setting. The audience gets the chance to vote for their favorite artists and directors of opera companies hear Savannah VOICE Festival’s emerging artists. $42 Mon., Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m. savannahvoicefestival. org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: OPERA SCENES AND SONGS After two weeks of intense study and hard work, the VOICE Studio Artists present their artistry to audiences that have followed their progress throughout the Festival.

Say farewell to the Studio Artists in their final Festival performance at this historic and iconic Savannah venue. $42 Sun., Aug. 20, 5 p.m. savannahvoicefestival. org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: ROSSINI’S IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

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RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912-344-5127. Savannah Tree Foundation, 3025 Bull Street.

SAFE KIDS SAVANNAH A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

SAVANNAH BREWERS’ LEAGUE Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/.

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. SAVANNAH AUTHORS WORKSHOP If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about it, Savannah Authors Workshop is looking for you and has space for a few new members. We meet on the first and third Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m. at 630 East Victory Drive. We have members of all standards, from multiple-published to never-tried. Have a look at our website www.savannahauthorsworkshop.com and call Christopher Scott, President, 912-2726309. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

THE SAVANNAH CHINESE CORNER The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check the Facebook group to see meeting location. ongoing. facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SAVANNAH COUNCIL, NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES A dinner meeting every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at local restaurants. 3rd Tuesday in November; none in December.

For dinner reservations, please call Sybil Cannon at 912-964-5366. ongoing. 912-7487020. savannahnavyleague.us.

SAVANNAH GO CLUB This is a new club for the board game “go” (igo, weiqi, baduk). For places and times, please call John at 734-355-2005. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SAVANNAH GO GREEN Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

SAVANNAH KENNEL CLUB Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub. org. Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH NEWCOMERS CLUB Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events help you learn about Savannah and make new friends. Ongoing sign-up. savannahnewcomers.com. ongoing.

SAVANNAH PARROT HEAD CLUB Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. ongoing. savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.

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he Famous Barber is scheming and dealing in this operatic masterpiece as Rosina and Almaviva need the Figaro’s expertise to be together, despite Bartolo’s scheme to keep her for himself. SVF reunites some of its favorite cast members of past productions for a delightful journey into Beaumarchais first comedic installation of the Barber Trilogy, sprinkled with a bit of romance. $62 Sat., Aug. 19, 6:30 p.m. and Tue., Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m. savannahvoicefestival.org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: STUDIO OPERA: MOZART’S LE NOZZE DE FIGARO The VOICE Studio artists appear in the second annual studio production – this time of Mozart’s masterpiece about the day in the life of the famous “factotum” .

Before you see The Barber of Seville, SVF will skip to the second part of the story as Count Almaviva, Rosina and the Barber fast forward to the ‘crazy day’ of Figaro and Susanna’s wedding. $42 Fri., Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL: VOICES IN SACRED SONG In this summer’s Community Concert, Savannah’s own Timothy Hall & the 2017 Festival Artists present music from oratorio, liturgical music and inspirational song. Free Thu., Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. savannahvoicefestival.org. fpc. presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. TYBE CITY LIMITS: KRIS YOUMANS BAND, ABE PARTRIDGE The Tybee Post Theater brings two soonto-be-country superstars to the stage this month. $15 Sat., Aug. 19, 8 p.m. 912472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.showare.com/. The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave.

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2017 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK The Pooler Chamber of Commerce gives the 2017 economic outlook. Pre-registration is required, and payment is required to be considered registered. Thu., Aug. 17, 11:30 a.m. Savannah Quarters Country Club, 8 Palladian Way. AUDIO TOUR OF SAVANNAH’S HISTORIC DISTRICT Take a self-guided audio tour right on your smartphone to learn about the architecture of Savannah’s Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.

The tour is developed by the American Institute of Architects Savannah Chapter.

Local architecture firms’ award-winning restoration projects are featured alongside contemporary residential buildings that stand in harmony in the city’s colonial-era squares. Also included in the tour are civic and government projects that introduced new architectural styles with buildings in the International and Modernist styles, from the 1970s to 1990s. To access the tour, download the free Geotourist app on the Apple iTunes and Google Play app.

Free Through Sep. 5, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. info@ geotourist.om. aiasavannah.org/. Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

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Common Grounds is a collaboration of the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Wesley Fellowship. We meet on Wednesday nights for open theological discussion on hot button issues. All are welcome regardless of faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey.

We are open and affirming of the LGBT community. Order for Compline by candlelight is offered on Sunday nights at 8PM. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/ commongroundssavannah. The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. DR. APOSTLE IDELL CHEEVER CELEBRATION A formal evening celebrating 85 years of life and 60 years in ministry for Dr. Apostle Idell Cheever. This will be an unforgettable evening giving honor where honor is due.

100.00 Sat., Aug. 19, 6-10 p.m. 478-7197555 or 912-921-1921. bfirsta@bellsouth. net. eventbite.com. Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 Gen. McIntosh Blvd.

DRINKS AFTER WORK This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinks-afterwork/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF SAVANNAH In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com.

Savannahexchange.org. Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Street.

GUIDED TOURS OF THE LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. Tours are Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and must be scheduled. To schedule a tour, contact Megan Chandler at 912-525-5029 or mchandle@lucastheatre.com. ongoing.

912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. IWORSHIP CAFE OPEN MIC NIGHT Its an evening of artistry designed to elevate you. Come out and here positive vibes from local spoken word performers, singers, and musicians. Performers can sign up in advanced or walk-in. Free third Saturday of every month, 8 p.m. theinheritancecenter@gmail.com. ticsav. com/iworship-cafe. ticsav.com. The Inheritance Center, 42 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

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Honey Tasting and Body Care Samples + Store Tour

Daily honey tastings and body care demonstrations. Come see honeybees in the observation hive or call 912.629.0908 to schedule a tour of the Bee Garden. Garden tour available March through October. $3 PER PERSON. MUST CALL AHEAD. FREE MONDAYS-FRIDAYS, 10 A.M..

912-234-0688. JESSIE@SAVANNAHBEE.COM. SAVANNAH BEE COMPANY, WILMINGTON ISLAND, 211 JOHNNY MERCER BLVD.

Ossabaw Island will open free of charge in honor of the recent opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Free Sun., Aug. 20, noon. Ossabaw Island, 1 Cane Patch Rd. THE ORIGINAL MIDNIGHT TOUR One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

PBJ PANTRY A free food pantry held every Thursday, 10-11am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 ongoing. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

RED SHOE SOCIETY CLAY SHOOT RMHC’s Red Shoe Society will be welcoming teams to try their skills at 13 sporting clay stations. Registration begins at 12:00 PM with a tasty pre-game lunch provided by McDonalds. Then at 1:00 PM the tournament begins. Stay after the

last pull for prizes and drinks. When you register, you’ll be supporting the efforts of the Ronald McDonald House to create a home away from home for families of critically ill children in our community.

Plus, you’ll get a commemorative tee and koozie. $600 (team of 4) Thu., Aug. 17, 1-4 p.m. 912-350-7641. rgibson@bwwco.com. redshoesocietyce.com/events/red-shoesociety-clay-shoot/2017/8/18. Forest City Gun Club, 9203 Ferguson Avenue.

RICHMOND HILL FARMERS MARKET Come get the freshest produce, baked goods and interesting local crafts at the Richmond Hill Farmers’ Market. Tuesdays, 2 p.m. J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill.

SAVANNAH STORYTELLERS Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm.

Reservations encouraged by calling 912349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore. com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, and allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms

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and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. For more information please visit, https://www. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/dailytours. ongoing. SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. SHIRE OF FORTH CASTLE FIGHTER PRACTICE Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org.

SOUTHBOUND BREWERY SATURDAY TOURS AND TASTES Savannah’s first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday - Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. Hang out, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah’s first craft brewery. Free Saturdays, 2-4 p.m.

912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com.

Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. ST. PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING All former students of St. Pius X High School are invited to attend this meeting.

Meet old friends, make new friends and have a great time. Several social events are hosted throughout the year. Dues are $24 a year. third Saturday of every month, 1 p.m. Savannah Classical Academy, 402 Market Street.

UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY Unity in the Community is a nonprofit organization that promotes and hosts free, family-friendly culturally diverse events to give back to the community. The events feature handcrafted ethnic arts and crafts, home-based businesses, and community nonprofits. Entertainment is provided by churches and other local individuals and groups. third Saturday, Sunday of every month. riverstreetsavannah.com/. River Street, River St.

FITNESS

$8 COMMUNITY MEDITATION CLASSES Join us for breath work, guided meditation, and yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique to relieve stress, quiet the mind, and find the calm within. All proceeds support local organizations. $8 Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912349-2756.

AERIAL YOGA CLASSES Increase flexibility and strength using aerial yoga, a relatively new approach to a traditional yoga practice. We use a silk fabric called a ‘hammock’ to support the weight of our bodies, helping us achieve various postures with more depth, ease and excitement. Every Saturday. Class size limited. Required to register online ahead of time. $25 Saturdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m.

954.682.5694. elyse.thestudio@yahoo. com. thestudiosav.net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. AIKIDO CLASSES Aikido is a traditional Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba, ‘O Sensei’ or

(‘Great Teacher’). On a purely physical level it is an art involving throws and joint locks that are derived from Jujitsu and Kenjutsu (open hand and weapon based techniques).

Beyond the self defense aspects of the art its true goal is to challenge its practitioners to discover their best selves. $50/month for JEA Members, $70/month for NonMembers, or $80/8-class punch card Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-6040958, 912-346-2650. AikiNorm@aol.com, AikidoBilly@hotmail.com. CoastalAikido. com. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. BALLET BODY TONING Ballet Body Toning is a ballet inspired workout designed to improve balance, flexibility, and use body resistance to strengthen core, legs & booty. This workout is low impact and scorches major calories and teaches you basic ballet! Call to make a reservation before class. This is a semi-private class so space is limited! $10.00 Wednesdays, Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@ gmail.com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. BALLROOM FIT Always wanted to learn how to ballroom dance? Don’t have a partner? Want to get in shape and have fun in the process? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this program is for you! Learn how to ballroom dance and get a great workout in the process. We use all styles of music that are modern or traditional. Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Jive, Samba, Paso Doble, Foxtrot, Waltz, Hustle, and more! Check out our schedule for more details. 4 classes for $40, 10 classes for $80, UNLIMITED for $120 Sundays, 5-6 p.m., Mondays, 6-7 p.m., Tuesdays, 12:30-1 p.m., Wednesdays, 12:30-1 & 6-7 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:30-1 p.m. 612.470.6683. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. BARIATRIC SURGERY SUPPORT GROUP Located in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery.

Call or see website for info. third Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. 912-350-3438. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. BEACH BODY WORKOUTS WITH LAURA MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

BEASTMODE FITNESS GROUP TRAINING Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results.

Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. BEGINNING POLE FITNESS Pole fitness is a fun and flirty way to get in shape! Taught by Pole Dance America National Professional Champion Sabrina Madsen, you’ll learn the basics of pole dance in a safe and welcoming environment. Gain strength, balance and

confidence. Beginner Classes are open to all shapes and sizes and are for ladies only (men welcome at our Intermediate Class). $25 for drop-in or $100 for a package of 5 classes Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. 801.673.6737. info@firstcityfitness.com. firstcityfitness. com/pole-fitnessparties.html. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. BLUE WATER YOGA Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm.

Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. CANDLE(LIT) COMMUNITY FLOW Catherine Mulligan teaches this vinyasa flow yoga class in efforts to raise money for local charities in the Savannah community.

The class is heated, candlelit, and set to upbeat music. Charities are rotating and chosen based on feedback from the students who show up. $8 Thursdays. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham St. DANCE DYNAMIX Dance DynaMix is a choreographed dance fitness class inspired by funky hip hop and sleek jazz moves! No dance experience required. Call 732.232.3349 to reserve your spot ahead of time, as class space is limited. Stay after class for a 30 minute stretch to wind down for the weekend with! $10.00 Wednesdays, Fridays, 10-11 a.m. 732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@ gmail.com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. FIT4MOM SAVANNAH STROLLER STRIDES A group of moms that meet with strollers and workout at Savannah Mall, Daffin Park and on occasion Hull Park. Also offer HIIT Classes to other Moms who have any age children. The HIIT program is a kid free program. 1 hour long stroller based workout with kiddos. Moms- Pre and Post Natal, and kids of stroller age. Savannah Mall (M,W,F). Daffin Park (T,Th), Hull Park (Sat) ongoing. ashleyyoungblood@fit4mom.com. savannah.fit4mom.com. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. FITNESS CLASSES AT THE JEA Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. 912-3558811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. FREE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments.

Free to attend. Open to anyone in need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com.

FREE YOGA FOR CANCER PATIENTS St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeing offers Free Yoga for Cancer Patients every Monday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in Candler’s Heart & Lung Building, Suite 100. The very gentle movements and breath work in this class will give you much needed energy, it will make your body feel better, and it will give you a mental release. This class is free to cancer patients. Mondays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

912-819-8800. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. FUNCTIONAL TRAINING CLASS

Celebrate fall with a Saturday morning workout class. All levels welcome. A smooth mix of cardio and strengthening exercises. Call Kara 912-667-0487 if interested. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

GET EXCITED AND MOVE This program is designed to combat the effects of Parkinson disease for Savannah/ Chatham-area people and their caregiver.

The activities are designed to enhance and improve muscular strength, and endurance, coordination, agility, flexibility, speed work, and voice command. $10 a month Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10:3011:30 a.m. 912-376-9833. psgsav@gmail. com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive.

DUDE’S DAY AT SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m.

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. HIKING & BIKING AT SKIDAWAY ISLAND STATE PARK Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail.

Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am-10pm. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

KUNG FU SCHOOL: VING TSUN Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-5150.

LIVING SMART FITNESS CLUB St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which is an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesdays, the classes are held at the center, at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (Mondays/Wednesdays).

Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605.

Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. MOMMY AND BABY YOGA Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. PILATES CLASSES Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.

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com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. PREGNANCY YOGA Ongoing series of 6-week classes.

Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. PREGNANCY YOGA CLASSES Pregnancy is a transitional time when many physical and emotional changes take place. Pregnancy Yoga is about honoring these changes in ourselves, our body and our baby. Yoga strengthens the rapidly changing body and increases the ability to relax, and helps to prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and motherhood.

Pregnancy Yoga classes are offered as a 6 week session on Thursday evenings from 6pm – 7:15 pm. The class is suitable for all stages of pregnancy and no prior yoga experience is necessary. $120 - six week session Thursdays. 912-704-7650. ann@ douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. QIGONG CLASSES Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 ongoing. qigongtim.com/.

RENAGADE WORKOUT Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only.

Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912376-0219 ongoing. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

RICHMOND HILL ROADIES RUNNING CLUB A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing.

LADIES DAY AT SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. See website for info. ongoing.

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

SAVANNAH DISC GOLF Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am.

Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm.

Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am.

All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. ongoing. savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com.

SAVANNAH STRIDERS RUNNING AND WALKING CLUB With a one-year, $35 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes.

Fun runs. Advice from mentors. Monthly meetings with quality speakers. Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. ongoing. savystrider.com.

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Lose calories while dancing and kickboxing. No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/ turbokicksavannah.

YOGA FOR CANCER PATIENTS AND SURVIVORS Free for cancer patients and survivors. The classes help with flexibility and balance while also providing relaxation. Located at FitnessOne, on the third floor of the Memorial Outpatient and Wellness Center.

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:45 p.m. 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. YOGA RELAY Individuals or teams will participate in a Relay of one hundred sun salutations.

Proceeds will be donated to the Caregiver Institute. $30 Fri., Aug. 18, 6 p.m. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops.

Demere Center for Living, 6000 Business Center Dr. ZUMBA FITNESS Isn’t lifting weights and running on the treadmill boring? Come join Sheena’s Zumba Fitness class and have fun while burning calories! The class regularly has 75+ participants that know that Sheena is the best Zumba instructor in Savannah! So show up early and see you soon! Free with YMCA membership Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 912-354-6223. facebook.com/ZumbaFitnesswithSheena/. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. ZUMBA FITNESS (R) WITH APRIL Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm.

Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. ongoing. 912-349-4902.

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

ALL YOU CAN EAT MUSSELS Make your Tuesdays “Ruesdays” at Rue de Jean in Savannah with ALL YOU CAN EAT mussels! Choose from 6 different flavors and enjoy baby greens salad, bottomless pommes frites, and warm bread all for just $24. One order per guest. Reservations suggested.

39ruedejeansav.com/reservations $24 5-9 p.m.. ruedejeansavannah.com. holycityhospitality.com/39-rue-de-jeansavannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. BETHESDA FARM AND GARDENS STAND Each week, this popular organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, seasonal vegetables, herbs, free range eggs, a variety of plants, goat milk soap, firewood and more. In addition, 100 percent grass fed ground beef in various quantities are available at the farm stand, which is raised and distributed

by Bethesda Academy’s Cattle & Beef Operation. Specialty cuts are also available. merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. FIRE & WINE Half priced bottles of wine, campfires in

the courtyard, marshmallows and s’mores kits. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe.com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. FORSYTH FARMERS MARKET Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. GHOST COAST DISTILLERY TOURS Tour & Tasting Visit Ghost Coast Distillery, where you will hear about Savannah’s unique history of drinks and revelry, while learning how we create our unique, hand crafted spirits. Hours Tuesday – Wednesday: 12–6 (last tour starts at 6) Thursday – Saturday: 11-8 (last tour starts at 8) Tours begin every hour, on the hour Closed Sunday and Monday Tour with tasting: $12.50 Tour with tasting and Souvenir Bottle of Ghost Coast Vodka 261: $32.00 All guests must be 21+ or accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

ID Required $12.50 Saturdays. (912) 2980071. ghostcoastdistillery.com. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. HAPPY HOUR 39 Rue De Jean favorites at happy hour prices! Enjoy $4 house wine, $4 well cocktails, $8 daily cocktail feature, Moules en Six Preparations for $8, $8 1/2 dozen raw oysters, and more. Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 912-721-0595. holycityhospitality.com/39-rue-de-jeansavannah/promotions/. holycityhospitality. com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. HONEY TASTING AND BODY CARE SAMPLES + STORE TOUR Daily honey tastings and body care demonstrations. Come see honeybees in the observation hive or call 912.629.0908 to schedule a tour of the Bee Garden. Garden tour available March through October. $3 per person. Must call ahead. Free Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.. 912-234-0688. jessie@savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

PREPARE SUNDAY SUPPERS AT UNION MISSION Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission’s shelters for homeless people. Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. ongoing. 912-236-7423.

PRESS PLAY BOOMBOX BRUNCH Brunch is served from 11 am – 3 pm. Jason B. James Live vinyl DJ spinning classic soul, R&B, indie, rock, pop, and everything in between begins at noon. foxyloxycafe.com.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. SUNDAY SUPPER: SUMMER IN THE SOUTH Enjoy a Southern summer dinner with a pig on the smoker from Southern Soul BBQ in St. Simons Island, baked beans, a lowcountry boil, horseradish slaw, stewed peas, BBQ pork rinds, and peaches and cream. $40 The Grey, 109 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

TYBEE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET

Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, granola, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. tybeeislandfarmersmarket. com. Stephen Johnson, 206 Miller Ave. WINE SAMPLING Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer. luckysmarket.com/ savannah-ga/. Lucky’s Market, 5501 Abercorn St. WING AND WHISKEY WEDNESDAY Join us Wednesday for $1 Wings, $3 and $5 Whiskey tiers. $1-$10 912.657.6856.

Kitchen 320, 320 Montgomery Street.

HEALTH

BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS St. Joseph’s/Candler’s SmartSenior offers blood pressure screenings on every Monday from 10 AM to Noon in the SmartSenior office, #8 Medical Arts on 836 E. 65th Street. No appointment is necessary; the screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, call (912) 352-4405. ongoing. St. Joseph’s/ Candler Medical Arts Building, 836 E. 65th St. ENROLLMENT ASSISTANCE FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE Free in-person, enrollment and renewal assistance for children’s health insurance programs, Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids, Pregnancy Medicaid and other public benefits (SNAP and CAPS) will be available.

Please bring a government-issued ID and the most recent month’s income documents. third Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. 912-661-1272. Rincon Library, 17th Street & Highway 21.

FREE HEARING AND SPEECH SCREENING Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-3554601. savannahspeechandhearing. org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/.

Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. FREE HEARING SCREENINGS The Savannah Speech and Hearing Center offers free hearing screenings every Thursday from 9-11 a.m. Children ages three years old to adults of all ages are screened on a first-come, first-serve basis by a trained audiology assistant. If necessary, a full audiological evaluation will be recommended. Free and open to the public Thursdays, 9-11 a.m.

912-355-4601. speechandhearingsav. org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/.

Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. FREE HIV TESTING AT CHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed. Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. ongoing. 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. HEALTH CARE FOR UNINSURED PEOPLE Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.Fri., 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or appointment. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center,

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1302 Drayton St. HYPNOSIS, GUIDED IMAGERY AND RELAXATION THERAPY Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

LA LECHE LEAGUE OF SAVANNAH A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. ongoing. 912897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

LECTURE: THE GOLDEN HEALERS: A STUDY OF GINGER AND TURMERIC’S EFFECT ON HEALTH Wellness company executive Ross Harding will present this lunchtime lecture presented as part of the 2017 enmarket Encourage Health Education Series. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required, as a healthy lunch will be provided.

Free Tue., Aug. 22, 11:30 a.m. Savannah Morning News, 1375 Chatham Parkway.

LIVING SMART FITNESS CLUB An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm-7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:30-7:00 Zumba at St. Joseph’s Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) ongoing. 912-447-6605.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HOTLINE First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services.

Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoing. 800-2647154.

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH CLASS This course gives an overview of reproductive anatomy and physiology and explains the process of labor and delivery in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The fourweek course includes a tour of the labor and delivery unit. This class is popular, so please register early $75 per couple Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. THE SAVANNAH 7-DAY DIABETES REPAIR If you are ready to take control of your life and health, call today, enroll in this fun but intensive seven week program to heal your body of diabetes. You will learn how changing can heal. You can reverse diabetes by following a new protocol, even if you have been diabetic for years.

Includes over a year of follow-up support. $450 Thursdays, Saturdays. 912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. WOMENHEART OF ST. JOSEPH’S/ CANDLER WomenHeart of St. Joseph’s/Candler welcomes women heart patients or women at risk of heart disease to its monthly support network meeting at 5:00-6:30 PM in Building #6 at the Medical Arts Center at 836 East 65th Street. For more information call 912-388-1836 or email womenheartsavannah@gmail.

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

BY MATT JONES

©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) Answers on page 45

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1 Indian drum 6 Toward the back of an airplane 9 Poison dart frog in “Rio 2” played by Kristin Chenoweth 13 “Please continue” 14 OMG or LOL 15 ___ rock (genre for Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 16 “Ditto!”

17 Activist org. that can’t decide?

19 Soccer team whose players are scarecrows?

21 Smartphone bill info 22 Basketball announcer’s phrase 23 D&D or FFXV, e.g.

25 ___ Plaines, Illinois 26 Chemistry suffix 28 Pokémon protagonist Ketchum 30 “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave 32 Fail to ever mention God in France?

36 Green with the clean version “Forget You” 37 Outdoor sporting gear chain 38 Orangey-brown, like some port 42 Food list with amortized appetizers and beveraged buyouts?

45 Classic 1981 Galaxian follow-up with tractor beams 48 Devoured

49 President pro ___ 50 Summer in the cité?

51 Tool before down or cakes 53 Highlight reel segment 56 Dragging feeling 58 Spaghetti sauce brand you can only get in one place?

62 Megastore for all your ballet accessory needs?

64 Skin softener (“or else it gets the hose again”) 65 Compound with a hydroxyl group 66 Too close ___ comfort 67 Moves around in a Newton’s cradle 68 Contradict 69 Clip-___ (some pinchy earrings) 70 ___ a customer

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1 Perfectly 2 Make upset 3 Fake Kazakh 4 Luxury hotel chain 5 Weak conditions 6 Letters on an envelope addressed to a company 7 Bakery sackful 8 ___ and feather 9 Report cards’ stats 10 “Everything Now” group ___ Fire 11 “The Wizard of Oz” scarecrow portrayer 12 “Uh...possibly...”

13 Rag on 18 Team Carmelo Anthony was drafted into in 2003

20 Aziz of “Parks and Recreation” 24 Louvre Pyramid architect 26 “Monsters, ___” 27 Ruby of “Do the Right Thing” 29 Shenzi in “The Lion King,” e.g.

31 Island “where America’s day begins” 33 Actor Idris of 2017’s “The Dark Tower” 34 Camp out in the elements 35 Low-cal CadburySchweppes drink 39 “Don’t touch this wall!” sign 40 First compass point clockwise from N (on a 16-point compass) 41 Taco Bell’s parent company ___! Brands, Inc. 43 ___ Paulo (Brazil’s most populous state) 44 Dictionary cross-reference phrase 45 Doted on Doctor Who or Dothraki, maybe, with “out” 46 When some kids’ bedtimes are set 47 “Imagine” songwriter 52 He sang about Bennie and Daniel 54 Pennywise, for one 55 Bandleader Shaw 57 Reprehensible 59 It’s never mine alone 60 L.A. rock club Whisky a ___ 61 Young ___ (kids) 63 Eerie sighting

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com Free of charge third Thursday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. 912-388-1836. womenheartsavannah@gmail.com. facebook.com/womenheartsavannah. St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Arts Building, 836 E. 65th St.

1020 Abercorn Street.

WHAT MAKES A FAMILY A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing. 912-352-2611.

KID’S HAPPENINGS

BOOK RELEASE PARTY To celebrate the release of Zach Powers’s new Savannah travel guide, “100 Things To Do in Savannah before You Die,” enjoy free beers at Pinkie Masters. Fri., Aug. 18, 4 p.m.

The Original, 318 Drayton St. SHORT STORY COMPETITION The Savannah Authors Workshop will sponsor its 2017 short story competition open to Georgia writers. The first prize is $100; second is $50; third is $25. Each submission must be an unpublished short story of less than 1,500 words and will be accepted from 8/1 to 10/31/2017. Entries will be anonymous, identified only by a code-word selected by each entrant. There will be a single anonymous judge. Authors must not identify themselves anywhere in their entries. The full competition rules and entry form are available by email only from: christopher92883@gmail.com Through Oct. 15. No physical address given, none.

SAVANNAH CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SCHOOL YEAR HOURS SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum.org ongoing. Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

TODDLER TIME Bring your 2-4 year old to enjoy stories, games and learning designed just for them.

Each week there will be a different naturebased theme. $5 parking Thursdays, 10 a.m. gastateparks.org/skidawayisland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

TODDLER TUESDAYS AT OATLAND ISLAND WILDLIFE CENTER Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children. Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd.

LGBT

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FIRST CITY NETWORK Georgia’s oldest LGBT organization (founded in 1985) is a local non-profit community service organization whose mission is to share resources of health care, counseling, education, advocacy and mutual support in the Coastal Empire.

Members and guests enjoy many special events throughout the year, including First Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm. Mondays. 912-236CITY. firstcitynetwork.org.

GAY AA MEETING True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. ongoing.

SAVANNAH PRIDE, INC. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBTQI community in the South.

Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. PO Box 6044, Savannah, GA 31414. 501c nonprofit. ongoing. info@savannahpride.com. savannahpride.com.

STAND OUT YOUTH A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912288-1034. info@standoutyouth.org.

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LITERARY EVENTS

NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

COFFEE WITH A RANGER Start your morning right by getting coffee and having a discussion with a park ranger.

Fridays, 8:30 a.m. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

DOLPHIN PROJECT Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment.

Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. ongoing. thedolphinproject.org.

FATAL (BUT NATURAL) ATTRACTIONS The Dolphin Project presents - “Fatal (but natural) Attractions: Inspiring Connections with Wildlife without Staging Conflicts.”

A very entertaining and informative talk

by Dr. Kimberly Andrews, UGA Odum School of Ecology. Heavy hors d’ouvres & non-alcoholic beverages are included in admission price. You may B.Y.O.B. $10 Sat., Aug. 19, 6:30-9 p.m. 912-6573927. thedolphinproject@gmail.com. thedolphinproject.org. Richmond Hill Museum, 11460 Ford Ave. GARDENING SESSION Learn how to garden and harvest vegetables and herbs to bring home. Kerry Shay, an organic farmer and owner of landscaping company Victory Gardens, provides free instruction. First and third Saturday of every month. Free and open to the public third Saturday of every month, 8:30-9:30 a.m. charleshmorriscenter.com.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. OFF THE PATH ECLIPSE PARTY Fort Pulaski will offer arts, crafts, and Junior Ranger activities for children, plus special programs about the science behind eclipses and the history of past eclipses around the world. The eclipse will begin at 1:15 p.m. and end at 4:15 p.m., with

maximum darkness around 2:45 p.m. Free eclipse viewing glasses will be available to the public while supplies last. Mon., Aug. 21, 11 a.m. nps.gov/fopu/. Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

SOLAR ECLIPSE PRIMER AND DIGITAL PLANETARIUM SHOW Learn why eclipses occur and safety viewing tips, and receive a complimentary pair of eclipse viewing lenses. The program is offered five times throughout the day: 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. $8 adults, $6 children Sat., Aug. 19, 10:30 a.m. 912-395-1517. oatlandisland. org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. WALK ON THE WILD SIDE A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native animal exhibits. Open daily, 10am4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. WILDERNESS SOUTHEAST A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115. wildernesssoutheast.org.

PETS & ANIMALS

LOW COST PET CLINIC TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.

5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

OPERATION NEW HOPE Operation New Hope allows inmates to train unadoptable dogs from the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. The goals of the program are to decrease the recidivism rate among Chatham County inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, and help previously unadoptable dogs find loving homes. The graduated dogs are available for adoption can be viewed at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www. chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope is funded by the Humane Society and community donations. ongoing. chathamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav. org/. Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. ST. ALMO’S Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL

BAND OF SISTERS PRAYER GROUP All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver

or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ georgia.

BLUEGRASS CHURCH SERVICE Come to our annual bluegrass service.

Southern Tied will be adding a country sound to our praise. Free Sun., Aug. 20, 9:30-10:30 a.m. 912-925-5924. Info@ wbumc.org. wbumc.org/. White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd. BUDDHIST MEDITATION Everyone is welcome. Experience not necessary. Visit our website for location, meditation periods and classes. savannahzencenter.com. Individual instruction upon request. Email Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

CATHOLIC SINGLES A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@diosav.org. diosav.org/familylifesingles.

COVINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Registration is August 21. For further information, contact Pastor Johnny Bowen at 912-663-3753. Through Aug. 21, 5 p.m. The Crossroad Baptist Church, 8510 Middleground Rd. GRATITUDE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARES Gather with others to share gratitude.

Everyone welcome. Park next to Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. facebook.com/ savannahgratitude. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. GUIDED SILENT PRAYER Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org.

JESUS YESHUA Holidays and plans for 2017 underway for young adults and college Christians.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee @yahoo. com or call (912) 236-3156. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

MARITIME BETHEL “Sundays on Thursdays” worship at the Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220-2976.

The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road.

A NEW CHURCH IN THE CITY, FOR THE CITY Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Courses are now being offered at the new Savannah Extension of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Full course loads for both Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees will be offered. Apply now at www.nobts. edu to start classes this winter. ongoing.

912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com.

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PSYCHIC MEDIUM YOUR PAL, ERIN Ready to reconnect you with your loved ones who’ve passed and your own inner knowing? I’m here to help. Let’s all work together to create the amazing new life you truly desire, releasing old situations that no longer serve you. Readings available in person and by phone. 60 minutes, $65.

Group readings of 5 or more, $30 per person for 20 minutes. Get your personalized, 45 minute prerecorded “Tuesday Tune-Up” emailed to your inbox for just $45. Visit www.yourpalerin.com for more information or contact psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com today. ongoing. Online only, none.

READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

SAVANNAH FRIENDS MEETING (QUAKERS) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info.

All are welcome. ongoing. 636-2331772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH REIKI SHARE During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah.

Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. and third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street.

SERVICE OF COMPLINE Enter the stillness of another age. Gregorian Chant sung by candlelight at 9:00-9:30 p.m. every Sunday night by the Complne Choir of Christ Church Anglican. Come, say good nigh to God. All are welcome. ongoing.

Christ Church Anglican, 37th and Bull.

SOUTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” ongoing.

TAPESTRY CHURCH A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here.

From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga. org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. THEOLOGY ON TAP

Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm-10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

BROADWAYHD: INCIDENT AT VICHY BroadwayHD is an online streaming service on a mission to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. Celebrating the Centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth, Incident at Vichy returns the work of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Richard Thomas to Signature for the first time since his 1997-98 Residency. $15 Thu., Aug. 17, 7 p.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. FILM: 54TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE TO JOHN STAMOS This beloved, hunky actor and occasional rock musician is best known for his work on TV, but he’s also enjoyed a modest feature film career. The PFS has dug up one of his most obscure and most ridiculous theatrical film roles for this special tribute. The exact title of this motion picture will not be revealed until showtime, but it’s an infamous guilty pleasure that has earned a small and devoted cult following worldwide. $8 Wed., Aug. 16, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. FILM: GROWING CITIES SUGA (Savannah Urban Garden Alliance) hosts this four-night film series in conjunction with Mixed Greens. Free and open to the public Thu., Aug. 17, 7 p.m. One Hundred Miles, 2424 Drayton St., Suite B. FILM: LOST AND FOUND Part of Tybee Island’s Movies in the Park summer series. Free Sat., Aug. 19, 8:45 p.m. www,tybeefest.com. Memorial Park on Tybee Island, 403 Butler Ave. FILM: VANISHING BEES SUGA (Savannah Urban Garden Alliance) hosts this four-night film series in conjunction with Mixed Greens. Free and open to the public Wed., Aug. 16, 7 p.m. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

SPORTS & GAMES

ADULT AND JUNIOR TENNIS CLINICS On Thursdays. Intended for a class size

of 4-8 students. Buy four classes, get the fifth class free. $15 per class ongoing.

912-201-2000. westinsavannah.com. theclubatsavannahharbor.com/index.php.

The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. ADULT COED FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE 8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

BEARS ELITE FOOTBALL Learn the fundamentals of football. Ages 4-12. Sign up now. Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 912-272-6684. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. DERBY DEVILS ROLLER DERBY CLASSES Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs. See website for info. ongoing. savannahderby.com.

FAN FEST The Georgia Southern University football program will hold a practice at Armstrong State University’s soccer field as part of its preseason preparations for the season opener at Auburn University. The practice, followed by the Meet the Eagles Fan Fest, will mark the first time in program history the Georgia Southern Eagles will practice on Armstrong’s campus. Free and open to the public Fri., Aug. 18, 5 p.m. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html.

Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. GRIEF 101 SUPPORT GROUP Seven-week morning or evening adult support group offers tools to learn to live with loss. Tuesdays, 10am-11am; or Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Free of charge.

Offered by Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

SATURDAY GROUP RUN OR WALK Join us in our quest for fitness. Beginners are welcome. We can help you exceed your fitness goals. Free Saturdays, 7-8:15 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live.com. savystrider.com. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

SAV. STRIDER WEEKLY GROUP RUN OR WALK DOWNTOWN Join us for a run or walk downtown or over the bridge if you’re feeling froggy. The best part is afterwards when we get coffee or whatever else your heart desires from Savannah Coffee Roasters. Free Sundays, 7-8 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live. com. savystrider.com. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

SAVANNAH BIKE POLO Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. ongoing. facebook.com/ savannahbikepolo.

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Thursdays, 5:30pm until dark. Sundays, 4:30pm until we get tired. The west side of Forsyth Park. Bring a smile, two shirts (one light or white, one dark), water, and cleats (highly recommended). ongoing. savannahultimateproject@gmail.com. savannahultimateproject.wordpress.com/ pick-up/. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. USMNT (SOCCER) AMERICAN OUTLAWS CHAPTER USMNT is a national soccer team that represents the U.S. in international soccer competitions. American Outlaws Savannah chapter of USMNT meets regularly.

Call for details. ongoing. 912-398-4014. savannahflipflop.com. Flip Flop Tiki Bar &

Grill, 117 Whitaker St.

SUPPORT GROUPS

ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS Adult children of Alcoholics is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes.

Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. 24 Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Drive.

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Are you troubled by someone else’s drinking? Please go to alanon.org for daily meeting schedule. ongoing. savannahalanon.com.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily

throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. ongoing.

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

ALTERNATIVE PATH TO GRIEF Adults who have experienced the death of a loved one are invited to join others in exploring what happens when creative, activity-oriented methods are used to explore their grief journey. Processing grief and emotions can be much more than “just talk” when we lower our adult barriers and release the need to be in control. The new experiential group incorporates music and mindfulness, art activates, and sharing.

Thursdays. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

“To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard.

This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion —never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life.

Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thoughtout, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Congratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy.”

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The coming days would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher.

I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Your education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

“If you love someone, set them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In 1892, workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them—with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVER AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP For individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-236-0363 x143.

AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers. Call for info. ongoing. 912-355-7778.

BACK PAIN SUPPORT GROUP Second Monday of every month,7:00pm.

Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone

How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing

in compassion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

You know about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism.

You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Here’s a definition of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’—imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows?

That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action. cs

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is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 ongoing.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm. In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. ongoing. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS GROUP Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-844-4524. fpc. presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. ongoing. 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. CHILDREN’S GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Seven week structured educational support group for children 6-17. Support, coping tools, utilizing play and activity to learn to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

CONNECT FOR KIDS This group is for children who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS For people with debting problems. Meets Sundays, 6:30pm at Unity of Savannah.

See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

EATING DISORDERS ANONYMOUS Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Email for info. ongoing. edasavannah@ yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. ESSENTIAL TREMOR SUPPORT GROUP For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life. First Thursdays, 3:00pm-4:30pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-819-2224. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. FAMILY TO FAMILY EDUCATION PROGRAM NAMI Savannah offers their Family to Family Education Program to families who have a loved one diagnosed with a chronic mental illness. This free 12-week class is taught by trained NAMI family volunteers, and participation and discussion is confidential. The class includes diagnosis, crisis, relapse, medications, communication techniques, problem-solving skills, recovery, rehabilitation, and self-care. Starting date is Monday, Sept. 11 at 6pm. Reservations are necessary as space is limited. Call Lisa at 912-313-3272 or Pam at 912-401-2689. ongoing. namisavannah.org. NAMISavannah, Inc., 7805 Waters Ave., Suite 2B.

FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-8196743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. GAMBLING PROBLEM 12 STEP PROGRAM Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. ongoing. 912-748-4730.

GEORGIA SCLERODERMA SUPPORT GROUP A group for people with scleroderma for the greater Savannah area and surrounding counties. Meets regularly. Call for day and time. Lovezzola’s Pizza, 320 Hwy 80 West, Pooler. Info: 912-412-6675 or 912-414-3827. ongoing.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling for children, teens and adults is available at no charge.

Counseling is offered at 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H in Savannah, and appointments are also available in the United Way offices in Rincon and in Richmond Hill. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442.

HospiceSavannah.org/GriefSupport.

HEAD AND NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP MEETING This group is open to individuals with cancers of the head and neck area and their caregivers. At the meetings, we have a brief discussion from experts in the treatment of head and neck cancer and allow time for group discussion. For more information, please call Suzy Buelvas at 912-350-7845.

Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. HOWARD HAND IN HAND CHILDREN’S SUPPORT GROUP Hand in Hand is a support group for children that have a family member or loved one affected by cancer. third Wednesday of every month. 912-819-5704. Hand in Hand is a support group for children that have a family member or loved one affected by cancer. For more information, call 912-8195704. third Wednesday of every month, 2 p.m. 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. KLINEFELTER SYNDROME/47-XXY SUPPORT GROUP For parents of children with this diagnosis, and for men with this diagnosis. Started by the mother of a boy with 47-XXY. Email to meet for mutual support. ongoing. amkw21@gmail.com.

LEGACY GROUP: FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ADVANCED AND RECURRENT CANCER. Group addresses the concerns of advanced and recurrent cancer survivors from the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of healing. To register for a specific session and to learn about the group, please call Jennifer Currin-McCulloch at 912-350-7845. ongoing. 912-350-7845.

Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA AND MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call or see website for

info. Located in the Summit Cancer Care office at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m.

912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Call for the Savannah Lowcountry Area NA meeting schedule. ongoing. 912-238-5925.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Is food a problem for you? Overeaters Anonymous can help. Savannah meetings Mon 6:30pm, Wed 5:30pm, Fri 6:30 p.m. See website for locations and info, or call 912358-7150. ongoing. oa.org/meetings.

PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH IEP’S (INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PLANS) For parents of children attending ChathamSavannah Public School System who have IEP plans, to offer mutual support through the challenges of the IEP process. Email for info. ongoing. amkw210@gmail.com.

PARENTS OF ILL CHILDREN Backus Children’s Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment.

Case manager facilitates the meetings.

Meets weekly. Call for info ongoing. 912350-5616. memorialhealth.com/backus. memorialhealth.com/backus. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Ave. PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP The Parkinson’s Disease Support Group will meet on the first Thursday of the month from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds Street. Featuring medical and therapeutic guest speakers, join us for discussion, support, and new community activities. For more information, call Fran McCarey at 912-819-2224. ongoing. 912355-6347. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: MAN TO MAN This group is for prostate cancer patients and their caregivers. Meets in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute.

Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. RAPE CRISIS CENTER Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week. 912-2337273. ongoing.

REAL TALK Real Talk and Peer to Peer is a support group for the LGBT community to come together to sit, eat and socialize while talking about issues relevant to the community. Meetings are completely confidential and private. Meets in the Lecture Conference Room. third Monday of every month, 4-5 p.m. 912-231-0123 ext.

1410. Chatham Care Center, 107 Fahm St. REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SUPPORT GROUP Second Tuesdays at 7pm in Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For anyone with this disorder, plus family members/ caregivers interested in learning more. Call for info. ongoing. 912-858-2335. sjchs.org/.

Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St.

SBC TOASTMASTERS Toastmasters is an organization dedicated to the art of public speaking. In a friendly, supportive atmosphere, members learn to speak more precisely and confidently via prepared speeches, impromptu speaking, and constructive evaluations. It’s fun, informative, and a great way to network with area professionals. Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m. 912-663-7851. St. Leo University, 7426 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Suite A. SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS If you believe you have a problem with sex addiction (or are wondering if you might) and you want to change your behavior, we recommend that you attend a meeting of Sex Addicts Anonymous. The only requirement is a desire to stop your addictive sexual behavior. Meets Mondays at 7 pm. Call for venue information. ongoing. 731-412-0183. saa-recovery.org.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SISTERS NETWORK (BREAST CANCER IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY) A national organization to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer on the African American community. At the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial. Call for info. fourth Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. 912-236-7405. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SPINAL INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial.

Call or see website for info. ongoing.

912-350-8900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SPOUSE/LIFE PARTNER SUPPORT GROUP Open support group for adults whose spouses or life partners have died. Meets Thursday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP A support group for those whose loved ones have died by suicide. Meets the 3rd Monday of each month at Full Circle from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. third Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Suicide often leaves survivors with guilt, anger, hurt and unanswered questions. Hospice Savannah/United Way of Coastal Empire/ Coastal Suicide Prevention Alliance offer an

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ongoing support group. Third Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm. Safe and confidential. Free to attend. Barbara Moss at Full Circle of Hospice Savannah, 912-629-1089. ongoing.

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

TEENS NURTURING TEENS (CANCER SUPPORT) Support group for teens with a family member or loved one impacted by cancer.

Meets at the Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for information. ongoing. 912-819-5704.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. TEENS WITH NO ONE TO TURN TO Help for people ages 11-18, or concerned parents of teens. Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-234-4048. parkplaceyes.org.

TRANS* SUPPORT GROUP Our meetings vary; we have discussions, watch documentaries, share stories, give out resources, plan community events, have social hour. Come check us out some time if you exist on the Trans* spectrum and are looking to help build community! Free third Sunday of every month. 843-368-4490. info@transcendentsSAV.org.

YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION Young breast cancer patients and their caregivers in the greater Savannah, Hilton Head, and Coastal Georgia area are invited to join this group. Meetings include presentations from local medical community and discussions. Meetings conducted in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Saturdays, 4-6 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

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BETHESDA SEEKS VOLUNTEER DOCENTS FOR NEW HISTORY MUSEUM/VISITORS CENTER Bethesda seeks volunteer docents for their new visitors center/museum. Volunteer docents needed during regular museum hours, Thurs.-Sat. 10am-4pm. Docents will share Bethesda’s rich history and inspiring legacy with visitors from across the country and around the world. ongoing. 912-3512061. Elizabeth.brown@bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave.

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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR BONAVENTURE Bonaventure Historical Society is looking for about a dozen people, each with three hours a month to spare and a willingness to meet, greet and assist visitors to Bonaventure Cemetery. Volunteer hours are 10 am to 1 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Training for the visitors center and to become a BHS tour guide provided. For more information, contact our Volunteer Coordinator at ewoalo@hotmail.com or go to our website, www.bonaventurehistorical.org. ongoing. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb. nsf/cemeteries/bonaventure.html.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR DOG FOSTER CARE GRRR (Georgia Rescue, Rehabilitation and Relocation) is in need of volunteers for its dog Foster Care Program. Fostering gives animals a second chance at life and allows them to receive temporary care from loving foster parents before finding their forever homes. It is a rewarding experience for both humans and pets in need. Please contact Kathryn at 912-656-5900 for more info. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR GEORGIA REGIONAL HOSPITAL’S COMMUNITY GARDEN Georgia Regional Hospital is in need of volunteers for their community garden.

Contact Jessica Mathis at 912-356-2826 or email her at jessica.mathis@dbhdd.ga.gov. ongoing. Georgia Regional Hospital, 1915 Eisenhower Drive.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR HOSPICE ANGELS Do you have a big heart and time to share?

Hospice Savannah is currently looking for amazing volunteers to make a difference in the lives of Hospice patients. Some of these patients have no family and would be forever grateful for the time you could share with them. Become a Hospice Angel to help individuals that are seriously ill and/ or Homebound. If you are interested in volunteering, call 912-748-6000 or email hospiceangels@affinishospice.org. ongoing. hospicesavannah.org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR HOSPICE SAVANNAH Share your love, friendship and empathy with caregivers and hospice patients in their homes or nursing homes.

Hospice Savannah is seeking caring volunteers to provide companionship and caregiver respite throughout Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty and Long counties. There are also opportunities to volunteer in our Hospice House on Eisenhower Drive, in our administrative offices or at Full Circle Grief and Loss Center off Chatham Parkway. Please complete an application on-line at www.

HospiceSavannah.org/volunteer or call the volunteer department at 912.355.2289 for more information. No prior experience is needed - just a loving heart. Volunteer training will be offered Monday, May 10 in the community education room at the rear of Hospice House from 8:30 am to 5

pm. Pre-registration is required. ongoing. hospicesavannah.org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE TYBEE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LIGHTHOUSE Volunteers are the backbone to the Tybee Island Historical Society and Lighthouse.

Because we are a non-profit we rely on volunteers to help us succeed everyday.

If you’re interested in volunteering at the lighthouse please call Gus Rehnstrom at 912-785-5801 or email lhvolunteers@ yahoo.com. For more information visit: www.tybeelighthouse.org. ongoing. tybeelighthouse.org/. Tybee Island Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Ave. DOCENTS AND VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT FLANNERY O’CONNOR HOUSE Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home seeks additional volunteers and volunteer docents to help on Fridays and Saturdays, 1p-4pm, and for possible extended hours. Duties: greet visitors, handle admissions, conduct merchandise sales and help with tours.

Docent training and written narratives for reference during tours are provided. ongoing. 912-233-6014. haborrello@aol. com. flanneryoconnorhome.org. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

DOLPHIN PROJECT SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Dolphin Project needs boat owners, photographers, and other volunteers to help with scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along coastal Georgia. Must be age 18 or older. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-232-6572. thedolphinproject.org.

GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The clinic serves people without insurance and those whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Call to volunteer. ongoing.

912-964-4326.

HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED IN CHATHAM AND OTHER COASTAL COUNTIES Island Hospice, THA Group’s nonprofit hospice service, seeks volunteers for patient socialization and caregiver respite. Also seeking nonpatient contact volunteers who can contribute by providing services including, but not limited to, office work, crafting, sewing, light yard work, housekeeping, playing guitar for patients, and licensed hairdressers. Serving patients in Chatham, Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Liberty, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, and Screven Counties in Georgia, and Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Charleston, Colleton Counties in South Carolina. See website or email or call for info. ongoing. 888-8424463. kbuttimer@thagroup.org. thagroup. org.

LIVE OAK PUBLIC LIBRARIES Volunteers needed to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty Counties. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-652-3661. liveoakpl.org.

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NEEDED St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Health Center, a free clinic serving the uninsured, seeks physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, lab techs, and patient care techs.

Non-clinical volunteers needed to to schedule appointments. Contact Stephanie Alston. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. OATLAND ISLAND WILDLIFE CENTER Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. PRE-SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Seeking early childhood education majors, retired elementary teachers and/or community residents to help 3 & 4 year olds with language development skills. Mon.-Fri., 9am-12noon. Call for info. ongoing. 912447-0578. sjchs.org/1969.cfm. St. Mary’s Community Center and Health Center, 812 W 36th St. RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM Share time and talents through the RSVP program of the Equal Opportunity Authority. Seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations. Call for information. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x123.

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE Help in the “home away from home” for families of hospitalized children. Volunteers needed to provide home-cooked meals for families at the house. Volunteer internships available for college students.

Call or see website for info. ongoing.

912-356-5520. rmhccoastalempire.org. rmhccoastalempire.org/. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue.

STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING Lessons and tours. East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. email or call for info. ongoing. 912-4843200. eastcoastpaddleboarding.com.

TUTORING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Education majors, retired reading teachers or community residents sought to volunteer for a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. sjchs. org/body.cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. TUTORS SOUGHT FOR ADULT LEARNERS (GED PREP AND LITERACY NEEDS) The Adult Community & Education Program at Royce Learning Center seeks volunteer tutors to assist adult learners. Monday Thursday, 5pm-7pm. Tuesday & Thursday, 9am-11am. Classes at Royce Learning Center and at Wesley Community Center.

Free tutor training. Email or call for info. ongoing. 912-354-4047. kmorgan@roycelc. org.

URBAN HOPE An after school program for inner city children seeking adult volunteers to help with homework, Bible Study, art classes, and more. See website or email for info. ongoing. urbanhopesav@aol.com. urbanhopesavannah.org.

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SEAPORT HIP HOP FESTIVAL 2017 Featuring: Bone Thugs and Harmony, Trina, Ying Yang Twins, Young Dro and Project Pat. Friday, November 17, 2017 at the Savannah Civic Center in the MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ARENA, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Savannah, GA 31401. Doors at 7:00pm / Show at 8:00pm. Tickets Available @ www.etix.com or charge by phone 1-800-5143849. For more info contact: 330-883-1745.

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Brick, Block, Concrete, Stucco, Brick Paving, Grading, Clearing, etc., New & Repair Work. Call Michael Mobley, 912-631-0306

Jobs Help Wanted CLIFTON’S DRY CLEANERS Has Immediate Opening for Counter Help & Shirt Presser.

Apply within: 8401 Ferguson Ave. No phone calls.

MAINTENANCE PERSON NEEDED For Rental Houses. Experienced in Carpentry, Painting & Lawn maintenance. Call 912-897-1984

*Application fee $50* *$200 Off 1st Full month’s rent for well qualified applicants*

Find us on Facebook at: B Net Management, Inc. for available property listings 9 Lands End Circle: Southside off Lewis Dr. & Abercorn.

3BR/2BA, LR, DR, carpet, laundry room, kitchen w/ appliances, fireplace, fenced yard $965/month.

801 W. 39th St. 3bd/1ba Central heat and air, fenced in backyard, LR and dining room $850/month.

1535 East 54th Street: 3BR/1BA, off Waters, central heat/air, LR/DR, laundry room, carpet, kitchen w/appliances, fenced-in yard $925/month ($125 utility allowance) 1605 Grove St. 2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, w/d hookups, kitchen, fenced-in backyard. $1050/month.

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Insurance Claims. We Buy Wrecks. 49 years Exp. Call 912-355-5932.

ADS RECEIVED BY 5PM FRIDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE WEDNESDAY ISSUE OF THE NEXT WEEK.

Merchandiser/Driver $12.25 hr. Starting Local Boar’s Head distributor is looking for a Merchandiser/ Driver. No experience needed, will train. Must possess a valid driver’s license and be at least 18 years old. Call 912-201-3370 and ask for John. Fax Resume to 912-349-1777,Email: office@ctwprovisions.com or come fill out an application in person at: 4912 Old Louisville Road, Suite #402, Savannah, GA (Monday thru Friday, 8:30 to 5:00)

NOW HIRING CHILDCARE ATTENDANT: Must be available to work any shift.

Call 912-443-4649 SAVANNAH DRY CLEANERS Has Opening for Presser.

Apply at: 4110 Waters Ave. @ 58th Street. Call Mr. Bill @ 912660-1045

We are currently hiring experienced warehouse workers to unload containers in the Savannah, GA area.

This is an incentive based position with a guaranteed base, but we have many employees earning upwards of $12-$18/hour based upon productivity.

We can work with your schedule.

Please contact Yvonne James at: 5 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd, Suite 140 Savannah, GA 31406 Phone: 912-433-6555 Email: yjames@3plworx.com www.my3pljob.com

Real Estate For Rent

1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS. & ROOMS FOR RENT

Westside / Eastside Savannah. Adult Living.

Furnished, all utilities incl.

Washer/Dryer on premises, cable TV, WiFi/ Internet. $130-$200/weekly.

Requirements: Pay stubs/ID. Call 912-677-0271

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DUPLEX: 1220 East 55th Street.

2BR/1BA $590/month plus $590/ deposit. One block off Waters Avenue, close to Daffin Park.

Call 912-335-3211 or email adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ Nights/Weekends.

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*1704 Reynolds: 3BR/1BA, fresh paint, washer/dryer included. $900/month. *5613 Betty Drive: 3BR/1BA, fresh paint, washer/dryer included. $950/month. 912-257-6181 SINGLE, Family Home w/ Room for Rent: Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Ceramic tile in kitchen & bath. Shared Kitchen & bath. Call 912963-7956, leave message

CLEAN, QUIET, NICE ROOMS & EFFICIENCIES from $100-$215. Near Bus lines.

Refrigerator, Stove, Washer & Dryer. Mature Renters Preferred. *SPECIAL PRICE FOR MONTHLY RENTALS* For More Info, Call 912-2723438 or 912-247-7969

ROOMS FOR RENT - Ages 40 & better. $150 weekly. No deposit. Furnished rooms. All utilities included. On Busline.

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SENIOR LIVING AT IT’S BEST FOR AGES 50 & BETTER Shared community living for full functioning seniors ages 50 & above. Nice comfortable living at affordable rates.

Shared kitchen & bathroom.

All bedrooms have central heating/air and cable.

Bedrooms are fully furnished and private. Make this community one you will want to call home.

SAVANNAH’S HOUSE OF GRACE also has community housing with its own private bath. Different rates apply.

Income must be verifiable.

We accept gov. vouchers.

Prices starting at $550.

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SHARED LIVING for age 40 & older. Furnished room, CH/A, SOUTHSIDE HOUSE FOR RENT: cable. Shared bath, kitchen and 138 Van Nuys. 3BR/1.5BA. Located common area. $170 & up (utilities between 2 malls. $950/month included); $640/month. Safe plus deposit. Call 912-272-6919 environment. ID/Proof of income required. 912-308-5455 SYLVAN TERRACE RENTAL: 8 Rooms, 2 Baths. Semi furnished. SHARED LIVING for Senior citizen/ Available end of August. $1,400 Retired. Furnished room, CH/A, cable. Shared bath, kitchen and per month. Call 912-354-3884 common area. $170 & Up (utilities monthly. Safe Commercial Property for included)/$640 environment. ID/Proof of income Rent required. 912-308-5455

SMART MOVE FOR STYLIST SHARED LIVING: Fully Beauty Salon for Lease Furnished Apts. Ages 40 Fully equipped. Parking lot. 4 & better. $170 weekly. No styling chairs, 8 dryers, Barber deposit. All utilities included. area possibly. 2 Baths. High Walk Call 912-844-5995

in area. Smart move for up and 514 EAST ANDERSON STREET: coming entrepreneur. Call 9124BR/2BA Home. Convenient to 272-6853, Ask for Alfreda bus line, near SCAD campuses, vicinity of grocery stores, Room for Rent restaurants, etc. Available Sept. 1.

To view, call Leia Grant, 912-507ROOMS FOR RENT 6843 $75 MOVE-IN SPECIAL ON 2ND WEEK large, furnished. Busline, No Bees; No Honey, Clean, cable, utilities, central heat/air.

Rooms with No Classified Ad; $100-$130/weekly. bath $145. Call 912-289-0410.

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Roommate Wanted 130 ALPINE DRIVE: Roommate Wanted. All utilities included.

Near Hunter AAF. Available immediately. $650/month $100 deposit, or $150/week. Call 912272-8020

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