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Marine Science Day 2010

What: Tours,

hands-on activities, exhibits, nature hike, reptile show and behind the scenes tours of the aquarium.

Oct. 16, noon-4 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, 10 Ocean Science Circle Cost: Free When: Sat.

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Where: Savannah Association for the Blind, 214 Drayton St. Cost: Free Info: 912-856-7124.

Story Time at the Roundhouse

Lecture: Games your children are dying to play

Wednesday What: Fun crafts and stories for kids with a

What: Professor Doug Masini discusses the

theme related to the season.

When: Wed. Oct. 13, 10 a.m.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St. Cost: $4/child with regular adult admission Info: http://www.chsgeorgia.org/

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Fall Frolic

What: Live music, picnic supper and silent auction with proceeds benefiting the Savannah Tree Foundation.

When: Wed. Oct. 13, 6 p.m.

Where: Lodge at Skidaway State Park, 52 Diamond Causeway Cost: $75/person Info: www.savannahtree.com/

Film: The Incredible Paris Incident (Italy, 1967)

What: A mash up of the superhero and se-

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cret agent genres. A supermodel villain, bad dubbing and a swinging soundtrack.

When: Wed. Oct. 13, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5 Info: psychotronicfilmsavannah.org/

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Thursday Marc Jacobs In-store Appearance

What: Renowned designer signs limited edition t-shirts with all sales benefiting Savannah Skate Park project.

When: Thu. Oct. 14, 2 p.m. or so Where: Marc by Marc Jacobs Store, 322 W. Broughton St.

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dangers of huffing and hypoxic “choking,” and what parents should do to be more observant of warning signs.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 12 p.m.

Where: AASU Univerity Hall rm 156, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: http://www.armstrong.edu/

Savannah Greek Festival

What: Get your Greek on at this annual Sa-

vannah tradition that includes food, dancing, music and marketplace.

When: Thu. Oct. 14, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri. Oct. 15, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat. Oct. 16, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Where: St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church, 14 W. Henry St. Cost: $2 donation after 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday and all day Saturday

Great Ogeechee Seafood Fest Marc Jacobs appears Thursday to sign limited edition T-shirts to benefit the Savannah Skate Park

Faith Leaders Seminar to curb youth violence What: A discussion about how communities

can collaborate with agencies to help reduce violence among youth.

When: Thu. Oct. 14, 8 a.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 N. Fahm St. Cost: $20/registration fee Info: familyviolencecouncil.org/

Business Intelligence and Customer Experience What: Todd Bell, CIO of Verizon Wireless,

discusses how the company uses intel.

Sponsored by the Technology Assoc. of GA. When: Thu. Oct. 14, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Where: Meddin Studios, 2315 Louisville Rd. Cost: Free and open to the public

Lecture: Tracking pollution

What: Marc Frischer and Dana Savidge dis-

cuss new technology for tracking pollution.

When: Thu. Oct. 14, 7 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, 10 Ocean Science Circle Cost: $5 Info: skio.usg.edu/

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Friday White Cane Day Celebration

What: Raising awareness about safety for the

blind and white cane laws.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m.

What: Friday features a 5k and live music.

Saturday features music and dance headlined by The Little River Band. Of course, there’s loads of seafood too.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 5 -11 p.m., Sat. Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun. Oct. 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: J.F. Gregory Park , Richmond Hill Cost: $5-10

An Evening of Jazz

What: Nashville-style swing Jazz arranged

by local renowned violinist Ricardo Ochoa and songstress Huxie Scott. Benefits Royce Learning Center.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $35-75 Info: http://tickets.scadboxoffice.com/

Gay & Lesbian Film Festival What: Three days of award win-

ning films from around the globe presented by the Savannah Gay and Lesbian Film Society.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Oct. 16, 11 a.m. 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM, , Sun. Oct. 17, 7 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Cost: $60/festival pass; prices vary per film Info: http://www.sglfs.com/

Moose Lodge Haunted Forest

What: Moose Lodge #1550 hosts this spooky

annual event. Proceeds benefit Backus Children’s Hospital.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.-midnight, Sat. Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.-midnight Where: Moose Lodge, 2202 Norwood Ave. Cost: $7/adults, $5/children

Yellow Fever!

What: Experience the living history pro-

gram that takes you back the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1820.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. 8 PM, 8:30 PM,

Book Festival.

When: Tue. Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

Where: Wesley Monumental Church, 429 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: http://www.georgiahistory.com

Film: Hiding

kind’s ancient biochemistry with the modern world. Sponsored by Brighter Day Natural Foods.

When: Tue. Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 N. Fahm St. (behind the visitors center) Cost: Free and open to the public

Lecture: Caveman Diet...or Not What: A talk about reconciling man-

What: A documentary about

North Korean refugees who smuggle themselves into China and face incredible hardship.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: Free Info: http://www.Linkglobal.org/

Theater: The Glass Menagerie

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What: The Collective Face Ensemble

presents Tennessee Williams’ classic tale of the Wingfield family.

When: Fri. Oct. 15, 8 p.m., Sat. Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Sun. Oct. 17, 3 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/general, $10/students, $12/ seniors Info: www.musesavannah.org/

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Saturday Cruise the Wildlife Refuge

What: Join a naturalist guide for a trip up the river and through the Savannah Wildlife Refuge. Reservations required.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 8:30 a.m.

Where: Wilderness Southeast Cost: $75/person Info: 912-236-8115. www.wildernesssoutheast.org/

Leap into Literacy

What: The Coastal Savannah Writing

Project hosts an idea conference featuring Tom Kohler and Susan Earle.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. Cost: $10/person, or $100/group of 12 Info: cswp.armstrong.edu/

Embrace Grace Conference

What: A women’s conference featuring

author Liz Curtis Higgs.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Christian Church, 55

Al Henderson Blvd.

Cost: $20/adv, $25/door, discount for groups available Info: savannahchristian.com/

Forsyth Farmers’ Market

What: The Savannah Local Food Col-

laborative hosts this weekly market featuring regionally grown, fresh food and food products.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park Cost: Free

Model Building Seminar

What: A full day workshop for intermedi-

ate to advanced model builders.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Mighty Eighth Airforce Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. Cost: $25 Info: www.mightyeighth.org/

Polk’s Saturday Market

What: Featuring a variety of arts, crafts

and specialty foods vendors along with all the market’s usual produce and local goods.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Polk’s Market, 530 E. Liberty St. Cost: Info: polksfreshmarket.com/

Savannah Record Fair

What: SCAD Radio hosts record

and collectibles vendors from around the country.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where: River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free Info: www.savannahrecordfair.com/

Tybee Festival of the Arts

What: Juried art show and live music in South Beach parking lot. Rain or shine.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: South Beach Parking Lot, Tybee Cost: Free and open to the public Info: http://www.tybeearts.org/

Cannon Firings

What: Re-enacting history with a bang.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 11 a.m. 2:00 PM, ,

Sun. Oct. 17, 11 a.m. 2:00 PM, Where: Old Fort Jackson Cost: museum admission Info: http://www.chsgeorgia.org/

Derby Devils vs. Soul City

What: Savannah’s Derby Devils

take on the Sirens from Augusta.

Furious roller derby action. Doors open at 6pm.

When: Sat. Oct. 16, 7 p.m.

Where: Supergoose Sports, 3700 Wallin St. Cost: $10/adv, $12/door Info: http://www.savannahderby.com/

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Sunday Lindsapalooza

What: Live music from Eric Culberson,

The Looters, and Junkyard Angel, plus an oyster roast, silent auction, and more. Proceeds benefit Lindsay’s Place to serve individuals with special needs.

When: Sun. Oct. 17, 1 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Sandfly Sports Bar, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Cost: $20/ticket Info: www.lindsaysplace.org/

Lecture: Jane Nangle

What: She discusses volunteerism, the

Pine Woods Project and independent living. Part of JEA lecture series.

When: Sun. Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Where: JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $10/non-members, $6/members

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Monday The Art of Great Fashion

What: A fashion show and art exhibit

fundraiser for the Telfair Academy Guild featuring a 1960s inspired Fall line runway show by designer James Hogan.

Call for reservations.

When: Mon. Oct. 18, 6 p.m.

Where: Desoto Hilton Ballroom, 15 W. Liberty St. Cost: $75/person Info: 912/790-8800

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Tuesday Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis

What: NYT-bestselling author James

Swanson, who wrote “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer,” gives a free talk sponsored by Georgia Historical Society and the Savannah

Lecture: The Surveyor in Colonial America What: John Caramia of the Coastal

Heritage Society and Willie Balderson of Colonial Williamsburg discuss.

When: Tue. Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

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

Cost: Free and open to the public

Reflections on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster What: Jane Griess of the Savannah

Coastal Refuges and Lindsay Coldiron of the Savannah NWR discuss their experiences in the Gulf during the oil spill.

Hosted by Ogeechee Audubon Society.

When: Tue. Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

Where: JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public

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Wednesday A Peek into 6 First Ladies’ Styles

What: Nancy Clarke, White House Chief Floral Designer during 6 different administrations, discusses creating arrangements for everything from state dinners to daily decor.

When: Wed. Oct. 20, 10:30 a.m.

Where: Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St. Cost: Free and open to the public

Breast Cancer Awareness Soiree What: Party to “Think Pink.” Benefits

National Breast Cancer Foundation.

When: Wed. Oct. 20, 7 p.m.

Where: Civvies, 22 E. Broughton St. Cost: $12/adv, $15/door

Theater: The Diviners

What: In a farm town during the Depres-

sion a preacher and young boy set out to correct shortages of water and faith.

When: Wed. Oct. 20, 7 p.m.

Where: Jelk’s Auditorium - Country Day School , 824 Stillwood Dr. Cost: $10/general, $8/students

Film: Happiness (US, 1998)

What: Dark comedy-drama about sexual

perversion and familial dysfunction.

When: Wed. Oct. 20, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: psychotronicfilmsavannah.org cs

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Managing expectations

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Unless you’ve spent the last couple of weeks under a rock, you know that former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown is once again a former manager. He recently resigned from his new job in Arlington County, Va., under odd circumstances.

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In his Sept. 30 resignation letter to the Arlington County Board, Brown — who spent a grand total of four and half months on the job — referenced his wife’s declining health.

But according to several published reports, he was forced out for other reasons.

Board Vice Chairman Chris Zimmerman shed some light in an interview with the DC website tbd.com, saying that Savannah and Arlington are “comparable in the basic sense. But [Savannah’s] not part of a three-state area, an area with the influence of the federal government. It may not be as comparable as may have been thought at the time.”

Another board member, Jay Fisette, also contradicted Brown’s resignation letter by saying this on video at a public meeting: “When the board determined that Mr. Brown’s fit with our organization was not what we hoped for, Mr. Brown was given the opportunity to submit an official resignation letter.”

Still, Board members seem unwilling to put 100 percent of the blame on Brown: Fisette added that “there was no one issue or

one decision” by Brown that led the board to ask for his resignation.

“He didn’t do anything horrible. He’s a good guy,” Zimmerman echoed. “It’s unfortunate.”

“Unfortunate” is a relative term. The truth is that Brown is doing far better for himself in unemployment than most of us do in full employment, as detailed in our special “By the Numbers” below.

The figures — a $125k severance package on top of the nearly 100k annual pension he’ll receive for the rest of his life courtesy of Savannah taxpayers — are a sick joke to the typical City of Savannah resident making do on the median annual salary of $29,000.

We want our most important officials to be fairly compensated. But the realization that government salaries, benefits and pensions are now dwarfing many jobs in the private sector is fueling the serious anti-government anger felt throughout the U.S. right now.

The Arlington County Board itself is feeling heat over the decision, as evidenced by Fisette’s defensive statement that Brown’s severance

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package from Virginia “was fully consistent with the terms of his contract and was not discretionary.”

The chances of Brown returning to his old job here are zero, for a lot of reasons — some having to do with the circumstances of his Virginia resignation and others having to do with current political realities in Savannah.

The only real — but still exceedingly thin — silver lining for Savannah taxpayers is knowing we don’t have the only local government in the U.S. that makes expenditures that they and their constituents eventually regret.

All Greek to me: Greek Americans like to play a little game when we finish watching a movie or TV show. We scan the credits for Greek names, which of course are very easy to detect because they usually end in “is” or “os” or “ou.”

We play this game mostly because a Greek name is always, always somewhere in the credits. Try it yourself — in my experience it’s 100 percent.

Anyway, this weekend marks the 59th Annual Savannah Greek Festival at the Hellenic Center on Anderson St. It’s a tasty and fun fundraiser for St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church across the street.

In this issue, it’s Greek names a-plenty as I interview parishioner Mary Catherine Mousourakis about the preparations for the Festival and some key improvements. cs

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Editor, Regarding your review of the recent Yeasayer show: Are you kidding me?

So I went to the Yeasayer/Washed Out show... (shakes head). Washed Out was my ENTIRE reason for going to this show.

Sadly I arrived at 8:08. The show was set to start at 8. I saw three minutes of Washed Out and their set was done (a 20-minute opening act... I thought the standard was at least an hour).

I know they only have a six-track EP, but I expected them to play at least an hour. How can you go on tour with six tracks?

Yeasayer went on, and for the first 30+ minutes I thought I was witnessing the worst music I’ve ever heard. It felt like an Irish Christian rock band.

Utterly horrible.

I was going to walk out, but I paid $22 for the show and felt I should stick around. But in the words of my friend Will, “I will pay $22 to leave right now.”

Two nights before the Yeasayer show, Emancipator played at Live Wire with St. Andrew and Fuzz. That show was an adventure in electronica!

Two edity dubstep performers with Emancipator playing sick semi–organic downtempo beats with live guitar and a few hip hop a capellas and a touch of a Sigur Ros vocal.

Is Savannah THAT disconnected from what electronic music actually is, to think that Yeasayer is electronica?

To semi–quote Lewis Black: Yeasayer is to electronica what KFC is to chicken.

I’m sorry to be so negative, but I had to hit up the Distillery on the way home to salvage my night, and the alcohol opened the gates to my frustration.

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by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Political rhetoric at the national level might lead you to believe that the Constitution is a sacred document. But Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state Constitution is still very much a work in progress judging by the amount of proposed changes to it on the November ballot.

When voters head to the polls next month there will be five amendments seeking approval of Georgians across the state. Be aware, these changes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly the new Bill of Rights, and that means that the truth hidden behind these cleverly crafted bits of policy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly selfâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;evident.

So, to help elucidate whether you should vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;yeaâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;nayâ&#x20AC;? on these initiatives come November, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone searching for a bit of clarity.

Amendment 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; authority to enforce nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;compete clauses

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to make Georgia more economically competitive by authorizing legislation to uphold reasonable competitive agreements?â&#x20AC;?

The vague, seemingly innocuous phrasing of the language that will appear on the ballot has drawn the ire of progressives who claim it masks the potential impacts on employees.

The amendment would give judges authority to interpret nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;compete clauses. Currently, if there are even small technical problems with a con-

tract a judge is forced to throw out the whole thing, which makes businesses uncomfortable.

Brett Grayson, the public face of Jobs for Tomorrow, the special interest group supporting passage of the amendment, sees the language as a public service designed to keep the state from missing out on economic development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Legislators went through several different editions before they got to language they were comfortable with,â&#x20AC;? says Grayson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of that goal was to avoid getting into the weeds with the legal language. It just makes peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes glaze over.â&#x20AC;?

While the opposition sees the amendment as an undue burden on employees who might sign a contract that, if they were fired, would prevent them from finding other work in their chosen profession, the response from supporters is that such a take is misinformed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you know the current law, you know that nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;competes could apply to any employee at any level,â&#x20AC;? Grayson explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the new law, nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;competes are specifically limited to key employees. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be your top executives and your managers with

access to sensitive data or customer information.â&#x20AC;?

In the enabling legislation (HB 173) that takes effect if the amendment on the ballot passes, the definition of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;key employeesâ&#x20AC;? this new law might apply to is a linguistic study in legalâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;ese.

According to the bill: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Key employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; means an employee who, by reason of the employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investment of time, training, money, trust, exposure to the public, or exposure to customers, vendors, or other business relationships during the course of the employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employment with the employer, has gained a high level of notoriety, fame, reputation, or public persona as the employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative or spokesperson or has gained a high level of influence or credibility with the employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customers, vendors, or other business relationships or is intimately involved in the planning for or direction of the business of the employer or a defined unit of the business of the employer.â&#x20AC;?

The bill is 18 pages long and reads just like that.

While the new language is supposed to restrict the applicability of nonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;compete clauses, according to State Congressman Kevin Levitas, the lead sponsor for the resolution that put the amendment on the ballot, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It affects business all the way from mom and pop shops up to large corporations.â&#x20AC;?

However, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very limited class of people to whom these types of agreements apply,â&#x20AC;? Levitas explains.

Our take: The deeper you dig into this the more confusing it gets. Georgia is one of only eight states that doesn’t give judges the authority to interpret the intent of business contracts.

Does that make us a bastion of free-

people in the state.”

The question becomes not whether this should be done, but how to pay for the expensive changes necessary to see improvements in underserved areas.

If Amendment 2 is approved, the state will add a $10 fee to the cost of vehicle registration for all privately owned cars, trucks and motorcycles.

The money would be put in a trust that would be used at the discretion of the state’s Trauma Network System committee, an independent panel of health care professionals and business people.

As of 2008, there were 8.4 million vehicles registered in the state, meaning that more than $80 million per year would be available to improve facilities at existing trauma care facilities, as well as build new facilities or incentive existing hospitals to take the necessary steps to become trauma centers.

If you think all hospitals are the same, think again. In the state of Georgia there are 154 criteria that need to be met in order to be a Level One trauma

Georgia is one of only eight states that doesn’t give judges the authority to interpret the intent of business contracts. Does that make us a bastion of freedom or slow to adapt to the changing world of business? We don’t know, but we get nervous when special interest groups representing big business tell us something is good for any one other than them. dom or slow to adapt to the changing world of business? We don’t know, but we get nervous when special interest groups representing big business tell us something is good for any one other than them.

Amendment 2 – Dedicated Trauma Care Funding

“Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to impose an annual $10 trauma charge on certain passenger motor vehicles in this state for the purpose of funding trauma care?”

There is a definite need for Georgia to improve its trauma care network statewide.

“The death rate from traumatic injuries in Georgia is 20 percent higher than the national average,” says State Senator Greg Goggans, who was the lead sponsor on the resolution to put this amendment on the ballot. “The reason is because we do not have enough trauma centers to serve the 9.5 million

center (facilities that are equipped to deal with the most severe trauma cases), including the availability of specialized staff and technology. The combination of all these makes the associated expenses a daunting prospect for a financially stable health care institution.

“They’re concerned that if they say they’re a trauma center then they’re gonna get a bunch of unfunded care coming in and change the financial balance of their institution,” says Dr. Gage Ochsner, a trauma surgeon with Memorial and a member of the Georgia Trauma Network System. “It’s important to be able to go in with dedicated funding, so there’s money here to help you offset the cost of being a trauma center.”

Currently, there are only four Level One trauma centers in the state, and Memorial is one the second busiest after Grady in Atlanta.

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Some opposition has raised questions about Levitas’ involvement because his wife, who is legal counsel for Huddle House, is also part of the group that incorporated Jobs for Tomorrow with the Secretary of State’s office.

Grayson says one of the major beneficiaries of the changes, besides technology firms, are franchises looking to protect themselves from management employees who are trained and immediately jump ship to open competing businesses.

“If you believe businesses have some right to defend or protect their hard earned success, and their intellectual property, than it follows that you ought to have some clear but very limited rules on how to do that,” says Grayson.

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per year,” says Ochsner. “We cover 24 counties in Georgia and four in South Carolina.”

The difficulty with having a single facility serving such a large geographical area is something called “the golden hour.” Trauma patients who receive care within the first hour after an injury have drastically improved chances of survival.

Department of Transportation to enter into multiyear construction agreements without requiring appropriations in the current fiscal year for the total amount of payments that would be due under the entire agreement so as to reduce long–term construction costs paid by the state?”

Currently, Georgia’s Constitution requires departments’ multi–year

We like freshly paved roads, safe bridges and job creation just as much as everybody else, but it’s only been two years since the DOT was accused of borrowing against future revenue and running up $2 billion in debt.

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For children, that window is only about 30 minutes.

If there were more trauma centers spread out across a broader geographic area, it would mean that patients could be stabilized at satellite Level Three trauma centers, or airlifted to the nearest level one.

Although there has been some opposition to this, most notably from the state’s Libertarian Party, they are angrier at the creation of a new tax rather than being motivated by the idea that the trauma network is satisfactory as is.

Goggans recognizes the political danger in increasing fees during the recession. However, he sees the measure as a moral imperative rather than an attack on the earnings of John Q. Public.

“It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing,” he says. “When one, as a citizen, has the ability to give of themselves to save another 1,000 per year in the state of Georgia then it’s the right thing to do.”

Our take: Legislators were hoping the “Superspeeder” law would generate the necessary revenue for this, but the increased speeding fines only generated about 10 percent of what they were hoping. With budget revenues decreasing, the only way to fund this type of initiative is with dedicated funds that aren’t accessible to politicians.

At the risk of sounding like Sally Struthers, for as little as three pennies a day, you can help save lives.

Amendment 3 – Multi–year contracts for Department of Transportation “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to allow the Georgia

projects to be funded upfront, ensuring they’re not carrying over debt into the following year.

“It’s a longstanding principle in Georgia that you have the money on hand to pay for what you’re going to do that year,” says David Spear, Press Secretary for the Department of Transportation.

For the Department of Transportation, this has become a bit of problem.

If they are funding a $20 million project using their annual revenue from the motor fuel tax but only need $5 million to cover the costs of the first year, then the other $15 million just sits in an account rather than being used to help start other projects.

For the DOT, allowing projects to be paid for incrementally would increase the number of projects that could be started at once, creating jobs and improving infrastructure more quickly.

Following an audit report last summer that raised serious questions about the DOT’s accounting practices from 2006 through 2008, including what Governor Sonny Perdue described at the time as “Enron–type accounting,” State Transportation Board member Jay Shaw says that things have been straightened out.

“We’ve got more information now than we’ve ever had,” says Shaw. “I can assure you we know where the money is at and where it’s going.”

Our take: We like freshly paved roads, safe bridges and job creation just as much as everybody else. But it’s only been two years since the DOT was accused of borrowing against future revenue and running up $2 billion in debt.

With long term plans for improving the rail system in Georgia, there

Amendment 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Multiâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;year contracts for energy efficiency upgrades â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for guaranteed cost savings for the state by authorizing a state entity to enter into multiyear contracts which obligate state funds for energy efficiency or conservation improvement projects?â&#x20AC;?

This amendment is a little different than the DOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposition and in a pretty significant way.

Currently, the state of Georgia spends about $225 million per year on electricity and water for state buildings, according to an estimate from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority.

The federal Environmental Protec-

maintenance costs associated with the old equipment.

Our take: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supported by both state Republicans and environmental groups. If you think too hard about that, it seems too good to be true, but we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t figure out the downside. The state doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to pay for anything, and we make much needed steps toward making older, stateâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;owned buildings more environmentally friendly. Winâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Win.

Amendment 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Annexation of Industrial Property â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to allow the owners of real property located in industrial areas to remove the property from the industrial areas?â&#x20AC;?

Even though this initiative is going on ballots statewide, if passed, it will

This is one of those weird technicalities that come along every so often, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bizarre that it requires a constitutional amendment to make it happen. tion Agency estimates that if the state could reduce utility consumption by 25 percent, the savings would amount to $530 million over ten years.

So, what this amendment seeks to do is leverage that savings into an investment in making old buildings more environmentally friendly without requiring capital outlay from the state.

This solution, which has garnered broad biâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;partisan support, has been on the table a few years and has been enacted in other states with some success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost every state other than Georgia is doing this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alabama, South Carolina, Florida,â&#x20AC;? says Jason Rooks, the spokesman for Taxpayers for Energy Efficiency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without the budget problems, it probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have attracted the attention it needed to get done.â&#x20AC;?

Companies, using a competitive bidding process, will conduct energy audits on state buildings and plan for ways to reduce consumption and the cost of installation. The state picks the best one, the company fronts the cost of labor and equipment, and is paid back by the state annually as savings are realized.

While each company is paid back over several years, the state then gets the long term savings once contracts are complete, and the icing on the cake is that the state also saves money on

only affect one or two properties. One it will definitely affect is near Dean Forest Road and Highway 21.

According to State Representative Bob Bryant, who sponsored the resolution to put this on the ballot with support from most of the rest of Chatham Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state officials, the parcel cannot be annexed by either Garden City or the City of Savannah because it is designated as an industrial area. (This has nothing to do with the annexation of Southbridge.)

If the amendment passes, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that the land is even guaranteed to be annexed, it will simply give the property owners the right to be annexed if they so choose. It could actually remain in the unincorporated county if they chose to do nothing.

Our take: This is one of those weird technicalities that come along every so often, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bizarre that it requires a constitutional amendment to make it happen. If you vote yes, you let some property owners decide what municipality they would like to join. If you vote no, then you know something we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. cs Election day is Nov. 2. To comment, email us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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A local political wag — who will remain anonymous for now— had these Chinese fortune cookies made up in the wake of City Council’s controversial (second) trip to China.

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Wormsloew, above) at the Tybee Pirate Fest. This is a collection of photos by our A&E Editor Bill DeYoung, who swashed his buckle at the event.

JinHi Soucy Rand and husband Mark Rand hosted a John Lennon Birthday Party at Muse Arts Warehouse Saturday; Lawrence Forbes, attendee and Lennon CD raffle winner, is at right.

Fall is here

Police were called in reference to an injured person on River Street shortly after 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Upon arrival, the officer noted a female sitting on the curb surrounded by several people.

Her knee was bleeding and visibly swollen. One of the people standing around her, who identified himself as her husband, said that they had been walking with a group of tourists who’ve been stranded by a trolley company. His wife fell while on the cobblestones. They helped her up and she walked about 100 yards before saying she couldn’t walk any more. EMS took her to the hospital.

• Police responded to a hospital in reference to an assault report. The officer met with the victim in the ER where he was being treated for lacerations on his left wrist. The young man said he’d

been at a downtown bar where he met a young woman. He was walking her to her car after the bar closed when they were approached in the area of Congress Lane and Montgomery Street by a man who asked them for money. The victim refused and tried to walk away.

Before he could leave, three more guys showed up and re–asserted the demand for money. One of the men hit the guy in the face, dropping him to the ground.

The female ran away. The victim gave them $80, and the group left the area.

One of the victim’s friends tried to treat the wounds, but then transported him to the hospital for proper treatment.

• Just shy of lunchtime, officers spotted a sports car driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed. An officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the car pulled quickly into a Southside neighborhood and police lost sight of it temporarily. Residents pointed them in the right direction. Still speeding, the reckless driver ran a red light, narrowly missing another vehicle, and then lost control. The sports car rolled into a nearby canal. The driver had a

suspended license and an outstanding warrant in another county.

• One night an officer spotted a man riding a bicycle with no light. He instructed him to stop, but the cyclist continued peddling and ignored the officer. After making a turn into a lane, the man dropped his bike and started running. The officer exited the vehicle and pursued him along the eastern border of Ardsley Park. While chasing him, the officer saw him throw several plastic bags into nearby bushes. Two blocks further, the suspect lost his footing and the officer told him to put his hands behind his back. Once another officer arrived on the scene, the other went back to look for the backs. He found them both, one with what appeared to be a green leafy substance, and the other an off–white rock like substance. The man had an outstanding warrant. The substances field tested positively, one as marijuana and the other as crack cocaine.

• Police were called to a residence in response to a daughter striking her mother several times in the head.

The girl suffers from bi–polar disorder and had become upset after finding out that the guy she had been talking with was married. The mother sustained no injuries, but said her head was a little sore.

• Shortly after one in the morning, a fast food restaurant on Mall Blvd was held up at gunpoint by two men dressed in all black with blue bandanas over their faces. They entered through a back door that had been propped open while an employee took out the garbage. They got about $200 in one and five dollar bills before running back out the door they had entered. The manager told police he suspects one was a former employee. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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What’s the deal with a storm glass?

Hammacher Schlemmer sells one and says, “Although how it functions remains a mystery, the ability of the stormglass to predict atmospheric change is well documented.” Does it work? If so, how? Or is it just a crappy lava lamp? —Dan Hey, don’t knock lava lamps. For $179.95, a storm glass from Hammacher Schlemmer gets you a weather forecast of dubious accuracy. Whereas a 25-buck lava lamp, aided by the right combination of tunes and substances, will let you see God. A storm glass, also called a weather glass or camphor glass, is a glass tube containing a mixture of ammonium chloride, potassium nitrate, camphor, water, and alcohol, making a normally clear liquid in which different types of white crystals periodically grow and dissolve. The idea is that the mixture is so finely balanced that minor fluctuations in atmospheric conditions will change the solubility of the chemicals and produce a wide variety of crystal shapes, from tiny floating flakes to large masses of feathery fans. Each supposedly predicts a certain type of weather.

The inventor of the storm glass is unknown, but descriptions date to the late 18th century. Early theories held that the chemical blend inside was sensitive to light, heat, wind, atmospheric pressure, or even electrical charge. In some glasses the contents were exposed to atmospheric pressure via a flexible rubber cap, but other models were hermetically sealed. (The sealed version is standard nowadays, mainly because a whiff of the contents can bowl you over.)

Interest in storm glasses crested in the 1860s, when such scientific notables as Michael Faraday, Robert Fitzroy, and Charles Tomlinson investigated their properties. Fitzroy, meteorologist and captain of HMS Beagle (of Charles Darwin fame), touted the glasses’ accuracy in his Weather Book of 1863.

Tomlinson, on the other hand, tested

a glass for several months and found it was sensitive only to heat, calling it a “rude thermoscope.” Japanese research from 2008 backs this up, pointing to temperature change as the sole cause of crystal growth.

I decided we should check this out.

However, no way was I shelling out $179.95. No problem, said my assistants Una and Fierra. We’ll make some storm glasses of our own.

They researched storm glass recipes and ordered the appropriate chemicals and laboratory equipment. A hitch: initially no scientific supply house would ship the goods to a private residence, doubtless seeing in the ominous-sounding chemicals the ingredients of a terrorist plot. Una eventually convinced one supplier to send the chemicals after producing her engineering license.

Toiling late one night at Straight Dope Labs, Una and Fierra made six storm glasses. Each consisted of a big test tube filled with the precisely measured chemical mixture, then capped.

At first the experiment looked like a bust—the storm glasses became opaque with massed crystals. But after a few days the initial crystal growth settled to the bottom of the tubes, leaving the liquid above clear. Thereafter new crystals would grow or diminish in response to ...well, that’s what we meant to find out.

Every day for 12 weeks, Una and Fierra recorded local weather conditions plus their observations of the crystals in each glass. Problems emerged. First, how do you read crystals? Previous researchers’ descriptions were vague, but this much seemed plain: clear liquid meant clear skies, while crystals or cloudiness meant precipitation, which we defined as rain. This gave us a couple simple tests: the storm glass was clear or it wasn’t; rain fell or it didn’t.

In the end, accuracy for individual glasses ranged from 45 to 54 percent, for an average of 49 percent. I’ve got a penny that can do as well as that.

Defenders of the storm glass may blame this on our simplistic scoring method. Suppose a storm glass develops crystals, indicating rain, and subsequently the weather is overcast and threatening—but no rain actually falls.

Was the storm glass wrong?

To avoid such ambiguities, I had Una look strictly at days when it rained: did the storm glasses show crystals or not? Result: 53 percent accuracy, with a range of 38 to 62 percent.

Personally, I’m sticking with the lava lamp. cs By cecil adams

• More Creative Alternate-Site Surgery: Doctors from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington announced in September that they could just as well handle certain brain surgeries by access not in the traditional way through the top of the skull but by drilling holes in the nose and, more recently, the eye socket. (Since classic brain surgery requires that the top of the skull be temporarily removed, the breakthroughs mean fewer complications.) These innovations follow on the inroads in recent years in performing kidney-removal and gall-bladder surgery not by traditional abdominal incisions but through, respectively, the vagina and the anus.

The Continuing Crisis

• In a heartwarming climax to an adopted son’s emotional search for his birth mother (who gave him up for adoption 33 years ago), Richard Lorenc of Kansas managed to track down mom Vivian Wheeler, 62, living in Bakersfield, Calif., where she is retired -- as a circussideshow “bearded lady” (the result of hypertrichosis, also known as “werewolf syndrome”). Lorenc said he can see their similarities right through Wheeler’s beard, which she keeps now at a length of 11 inches. The relationship was to be confirmed by a DNA test paid for by the Maury Povich TV show, but at press time, the result had not been announced.

• Sports Fans Over the Line: (1) Marie Murphy, a fifth-grade teacher in Stratford, N.J., and her husband lost almost

everything in a house fire in April, but From left to right!” Kennedy and Jennifer when she arrived at the burning home, thought that was inappropriate, considershe defied firefighters and dashed inside ing that Kennedy is 6 years old. The team, to retrieve a single prized possession: her given the chance to renounce the cheer, Philadelphia Phillies season tickets. “My voted in September to keep it and instead husband was so mad at me...” (Later, a to punish Kennedy for taking the dispute Phillies representative gently informed public. her that the team would have reprinted Bright Ideas her tickets for free.) (2) Justin Witcombe, 31, showed a reporter in Geelong, Austra• The older the religion, the seemingly lia, in September his full body of tattoos more likely its practitioners are to adopt of his three idols in life: boxer Mike clever workarounds to theological Tyson, the rock group KISS, and obligations that modern society his local Collingwood soccer team, has rendered inconvenient. whose mascot is inked prominently Orthodox Jews are among So, Michael, on Witcombe’s penis. the most creative, as News of You Busy • At least 13 percent of U.S. the Weird has demonstrated, These Days? teenagers report having intentionreporting their imaginative ally injured themselves as cries treatments of divorce rituals for help, and among the more and expanding the concept extreme manifestations is “embedof the “home” in which pracding” -- the insertion of glass, wood, titioners must remain during metal and other material, just under the Sabbath. In September, in the skin. Writing in the October issue preparation for the Yom Kippur of the journal Radiology, a doctor holy day, caffeine addicts -- tradiat Nationwide Children’s Hospital tionally hard-hit by the day’s fastin Columbus, Ohio, followed up on ing requirement that prohibits 11 cases involving 76 self-embedded ingesting anything “by mouth” objects in arms, neck, feet and hands, -- reportedly made a run on drug stores including an astonishing 35 placed by one in Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, boy (staples, parts of a comb, parts of a N.Y., to buy caffeine suppositories. fork).

• A Breakthrough in Political Cam• Jennifer Tesch’s daughter, Kennedy, paign Technology: New York gubernatowas kicked off her cheerleader squad rial candidate Carl Paladino, waging a (supporting a youth flag-football team) in particularly contentious battle, mailed out Madison Heights, Mich., after coma flier in September suggesting that Demplaining to her mother about the saucy ocratic state politicians are corrupt, with language of one of the cheers in the girls’ photos of seven of that party’s current and repertoire: “Our backs ache!/Our skirts recent office-holders and accompanied are too tight!/We shake our booties!/ by a special odor-triggering paper that

releases a “garbage-scented” smell when exposed to air (and which supposedly grows even more foul over time).

• Sherin Brown, 23, happened to be walking through a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood in August at the exact moment that a tractor-trailer accidentally clipped a light pole, sending it crashing to the sidewalk. First responders found Brown pinned under the pole, screaming for help, and had her taken to a hospital.

Afterward, investigators discovered a nearby surveillance camera, which revealed that Brown had stepped out of the way of the falling pole but then, with no one else around, had crawled underneath and began wailing in “pain,” perhaps in anticipation of a future lawsuit.

• Steven Black, one of five suspects in a federal credit card and check-cashing fraud ring, was arrested on Aug. 30 in Maryland Heights, Mo., following a car chase. In a search, police discovered that Black was carrying $1,540 in cash, in a roll tied with a shoelace to his scrotum.

• Outsmarted Himself: Gene Cranick, who lives outside the city of South Fulton, Tenn., was offered firefighter service by the city for an annual $75 fee but declined to pay. In September, firefighters stood by watching as Cranick’s home burned to the ground. (They had been called to the scene by Cranick’s neighbor, who had paid the fee and feared Cranick’s fire might spread to his property.) cs

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SUGARLAND

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, with Little Big Town and Randy Montana Savannah Civic Center’s MLK Jr. Arena, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. $39.50, $51.50.

Crucial to the success of this country music duo is inexhaustible vocalist Jennifer Nettles, a Georgia native whose earthy charm, and sweet, no–nonsense tones put her somewhere between Reba McEntire and Faith Hill in the sensitivity–cum–gusto department. But Nettles – partnered in Sugarland with singer/guitarist Kristian Bush – began as a gospel–tinged power belter in the Atlanta band Soul Miner’s Daughter. Sugarland followed in the wake of the Jennifer Nettles Band, which had become one of the state’s most successful indie exports.

Originally a trio, with singer/songwriter Kristen Hall, Sugarland arrived in 2002 and scored a platinum album with Twice the Speed of Life four years later. The pair’s chart–topping singles include “It Happens,” “Already Gone,” “All I Want to Do,” “Want To” and “Settlin,’” and Nettles’ duet with Jon Bon Jovi on “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” was also a No. 1. Sugarland’s fourth album, The Incredible Machine, will be released next week – and, wouldn’t you know it, the first single (the incredibly catchy “Stuck Like Glue,” which might be country’s first hip hop record) is in the Top Ten as you’re reading this! See sugarlandmusic.com

FRONTIER RUCKUS

At 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, with Brandon McCoy Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $5 advance, $8 day of show.

When Michigan–based Frontier Ruckus played this year’s Bonnaroo Festival, Rolling Stone reviewed the band’s set as one of the best of the bunch. “Their songs are full of rich, rural details,” said the mag, “frozen lakes, swaying trees, highway lights glowing in the deep night. Add to the mix baleful brass and trembling percussion, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for Gothic Americana.” Live, the band creates rich, evocative music with acoustic guitars, banjos and the occasional trumpet and accordion.

There are drums and bass, too. Let’s try this: Frontier Ruckus is like a better–educated Avett Brothers crossed with an agriculturally–minded Sufjan Stevens; lead singer Matthew Milia’s melancholic voice evokes a young Levon Helm. See frontierruckus.com

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Bernie’s Oyster House (Tybee) Samuel Adams Band (Live Music) 6-10 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Pat Garvey (Live Music) 8:30 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Zoogma (Live Music) Electronica jam band with a killer light show 10 p.m.

Sandfly Bar & Grill Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar & Grill Trivia Night Tantra Lounge Open Mic Night (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Warehouse Thomas Claxton (Live Music) KARAOKE Dew Drop Inn Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke TRIVIA Hang Fire Trivia Night

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South Florida jam band The Heavy Pets perform Thursday, Oct. 14 at Live Wire Music Hall, while Tampa–area indie folker Ryan Powers Boyle appears Monday (Oct. 18) at the Co–Laboratory, on a bill with Savannah acoustic artist Sincerely, Iris (a.k.a. Todd Murray, pictured) and the folk/blues group Sad Bastards ... that same night, Train Wrecks frontman Jason Bible is solo at the Sentient Bean, with Bill DeYoung (yours truly) in the opening slot ... CS

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Acoustic music legend Peter Rowan comes full-circle to the ‘Ancient Tones’

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

One of the great pioneers of modern acoustic music, Peter Rowan is not only a melodist and a lyrical tale–spinner, he’s a versatile acoustic guitar player with a fine tenor singing voice.

If that says “bluegrass” to you, well, you’re about half right. Because while

Rowan was a member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys for several years in the 1960s, he took roots music into new territory with the bands Earth Opera, Muleskinner and Seatrain, and proceeded to blow a whole generation of hippie minds with David Grisman,

Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements and John Kahn in the much–loved Old & in the Way. Rowan’s best–known songs from this era include “Panama Red” (yes, the New Riders of the Purple Sage hit) and the Tex–Mex lament “The Free Mexican Airforce.” On another early hiatus from the Grateful Dead, Garcia recorded Rowan’s “Mississippi Moon” and “Moonlight Midnight.”

While eclecticism comes naturally to Rowan – he’s played in rock bands,

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On working for Bill Monroe: “Bill assumed that everybody understood the dues he had paid, and what he expected, but he never explained it to anybody. He was like a stern father who expected you to understand what he understood. When I came to the music it was the ‘60s, bluegrass had been around for a while and I was prepared.

Whereas in the early days, Bill had to describe to people what he wanted and rehearse and rehearse and rehearse – by the time I got to him, he didn’t rehearse at all.”

On co–writing with Monroe: “Here’s a man who was rooted in the actual earth of the old Southern culture.

Where if you want to farm on his land, he owns what you grow. And the band was like that. If I came up with a song that he had any part of, it was his, right from the beginning. I really did write ”The Walls of Time“ with Bill, I wrote a lot of the words. But the closer you got to the fire of Bill Monroe, the more chance you had of being burned. He was a turbulent person who could have this glacial exterior. He wouldn’t record ‘The Walls of Time’ because he knew that if he did he’d have to face up to giving me credit.”

On moving forward: “There was no acrimony when we parted; however, he did his Bill Monroe number on the last show I played with him, down in Baltimore in March of ’67: He would do this thing where he’d drop his pick on the floor, then he’d look at you and ask you to pick it up for him. I don’t think I did it. I saw Bill a

lot when I was in Nashville in the ‘80s, before he died, and he said to me ‘Pete, them were good days.’”

On Old & in the Way: “David had an explosive sort of mind in terms of creativity. You’d play a little something and he’d say ‘Let’s go with that!’ And then Garcia was a further extension of that whole thing. Jerry was the opposite of Bill Monroe, in the sense that whatever you had personally in terms of creative direction, go for it.

He was very supportive of it.”

On his return to bluegrass: “I didn’t think, for a long time, that bluegrass was a good vehicle for all my songs. So I did things like reggae, and Spanish–influenced stuff. My personal arc of my musical journey. So I went back to the beginning. What always appealed to me are the virtues of bluegrass – the deep, soulful, two, three, four–part singing ... this ancient quality. Some dreamlike songs. Songs that put you in a place of understanding dire situations through the music – from Ernest Tubb through Bill Monroe through Merle Travis’ ‘Dark As a Dungeon, Down in the Mine.’ Stuff that came from those years and those traditions. All that music really reached me because it was talking about real things.

“It also had the fiddle tunes and stuff.

But there’s a haunting to it. And what Bill Monroe called that sound was ‘The Ancient Tones.’ When you can hear the Ancient Tones, there’s a spiritual value in that. The hair starts to rise on the back of your neck. And I realize I have to play bluegrass, because there are things I have to say that couldn’t be in any other kind of music.

“I can’t keep following musical traditions in all different directions – I’ve got to come home. It’s fun to mix it all up and get eclectic and have great fun, but in terms of my own personal writing – I can do bluegrass, I can sing, and I’m not gonna waste it.” CS

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Touring behind a new CD, Legacy, the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band performs Saturday at Randy Wood Guitars.

The band includes Jody Stecher (mandolin, vocals), Keith Little (banjo, vocals) and Paul Knight (bass, vocals).

Rowan is a deeply philosophical man, perhaps because of his longtime devotion to Tibetan Buddhism.

At 68, he says, “I can’t keep following musical traditions in all different directions – I’ve got to come home.”

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Savannah’s premier metal band — and one of the nation’s premier metal bands, for that matter — played an energetic, intimate show last week at Broughton Street clothery Civvies, sponsored by Primary Art Supply. Baroness is set to go on tour in Australia this week with Metallica and Lamb of God. Here’s a visual chronicle of the local show on this and the following page.

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Amanda Wingfield, the family matriarch in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, is one of the holy grail roles for women in theater. “So much so,” says actress Dandy Barrett, “that if you look at the history of women who have played her, you will find quite an array of ladies, everybody from Katharine Hepburn to Joanne Woodward.”

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Barrett is playing Amanda in the Collective Face production of The Glass Menagerie, opening this weekend at Muse Arts Warehouse.

It’s her third show for the fledging Savannah group, following Enchanted April and Frozen, and she’s chomping at the bit to play Amanda, one of Williams’ trademark faded Southern belles, a woman for whom sadness and tragedy have become second nature.

“I believe that Amanda is of an era, in a particular geographic locale,” Barrett says. “She was reared in the south, in the teens, and in my mind she was the daughter of an Episcopal minister. And she was reared to be a lady. She was not of the upper class South – her daddy was not a landowner – but I think Amanda always aspired to be that. And then was swept off her feet by a dashing telephone salesman.”

As The Glass Menagerie unspools, 16 years have gone by since Mr. Wingfield hit the road, leaving Amanda alone with two children to raise – headstrong Tom and his timid, crippled little sister Laura.

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In the meantime, her Glass Menagerie co–stars are Maggie Hart as Laura, Jonathan Ashley Able as Jim, the gentleman caller, and Richie Cook as Tom. Cook’s character narrates the story – it’s what’s known as a “memory play.”

Poole has done a bit of finagling with the exposition. “We started with this very de–constructed idea and we’re building the play bit–by–bit,” the director says. “So our set moves and shifts and never stays stationary.

“We start off in a gigantic warehouse; Tom is going to write the great American play, because he is Tennessee Williams. And so he’s searching for his past, or trying to escape from it. And realizing to let go of his past, he has to remember every bit of it. Especially Laura, and his relationship with her.”

Although The Glass Menagerie is a perennial in the fertile garden of American dramas, Poole believes his timing is just about perfect.

“Why do we want to do these classic plays?” he says. “Is it because we want to revisit the past? Is it because they’re relevant to today?

“I have an idea about that. We’re going to be seeing a lot of Depression–era plays because of the economic status we’re in right now. So we’re trying to re–visit times that are very familiar.

Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is popping up everywhere. The most popular musical to produce right now is Annie.” CS

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bial steel magnolia. She is the iron fist in a velvet glove.”

Williams’ semi–autobiographical play takes its title from Laura’s prized collection of tiny glass animals. Like her, they’re fragile. Or are they?

Amanda, unknowingly, is smothering both Laura and Tom. “In my view, she does that out of devotion to her children,” Barrett says.

“Sometimes she has a funny way of showing it, and a funny way of expressing it, but do not we all?

“And that doesn’t mean that she does not, on occasion, find herself just overcome by life. And really wanting to just throw it all over. But she never does.”

Barrett arrived in Savannah in the fall of 2006, following her retirement from long and fruitful careers in business, government and media. Her first show here was Little Women for the City of Savannah, followed by a production of Agnes of God that was directed by David Poole, who would eventually co–found the non–profit Collective Face. Poole is directing The Glass Menagerie.

She had begun dabbling in community theater while living in Conecticut – which, because it’s just an hour outside New York City, seemed to have its own set of rules.

“In Connecticut then, and it’s probably still like this, many people were very conscious of their ‘place’ in life.

Their status, so to speak.

“But in the theater, nobody asked you. Nobody cares where you work, nobody cares how much money you make or don’t make, nobody cares. It’s ‘Hi, this is the theater, what can you do?

What can we do together?’ It’s a great leveler. And I like it that way.”

Next on Barrett’s “wish list” is the conniving Mrs. Venable in Williams’ twisted psychological drama Suddenly, Last Summer.

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Spooky juice What you drink should not be the least bit scary – but that doesn’t mean the label can’t be the hit of your Halloween party!

Leave the vampire fangs at home and head to the package store to score beers and wines that are guaranteed to put a macabre chill over your celebration.

First up, Coney Island Freaktoberfest. On the surface, this is a typical domestic Oktoberfest, or Marzen, beer.

But pour it in a pint glass and watch the blood–sucking wannabes gather!

This 22–ounce bottle pours freakishly blood red in the glass – with a distinctive pink head. It’s mild to the taste, low

in alcohol – and the perfect session beer for your fright night session at 6.66 percent ABV. It’s from the Shmaltz Brewing Co. which also deploys Coney Island labeled beers that celebrate the freak show scene of classic boardwalk days.

Robert Mondavi Jr. creates the bewitching series of California wines under the label Spellbound. The haunting, dark label graces varietals ranging from Chardonnay and and Riesling to big Cally reds like Cabernet Sauvignon, Old Vine Zin and Petite Sirah. Each is

bites & Pieces Tim’s restaurant hopping turns up intriguing and satisfying meals.

an easily accessible party favorite with treat–like pricing of $14–$17 per bottle.

The Gothic atmosphere of England is the perfect setting for beers from Wychwood Brewery. I lean toward Scarecrow, an organic, golden pale ale that is a pub favorite around Oxfordshire. Pretty balance and ABV under 5 percent make this an easy witching hour quaffer.

Of course, Wychwood Wychcraft beautifully brews a trio of malts and a trio of hops into a easy drinking, citrusy refreshing blonde ale. It’s another lower ABV beer that won’t leave you bulging at the seams in last year’s costume.

Also from Wychwood is Hobgoblin, a rich, ruby beer that pairs perfectly with stews, roasted meats – and your favorite grilled Halloween treats. This is a quintessential all hallows Eve brew with ABV over 5 percent.

Dining with the devil? Take a bottle

of Garnacha de Fuego 2009 from Spain’s famed Calatayud region. This rich red Garnacha is loaded with body and brimming with tantalizing fruits.

A leering and bony smile stares back at you from the Aussie label Skulls Red Wine. Wine guru Robert Parker, who some critics claim dances with the devil on a regular basis, scores this blend of 60 percent Grenache and 40 percent Mataro a serious 90 points.

Lastly, Food and Wine magazine winemaker of the year Charles Smith offers Velvet Devil, a Washington state Merlot that is among the most elegant feeling and perfectly balanced Merlots I’ve ever tasted. The odd thing: This Merlot is, to the nose and the palate, rich with the essence of Kraft Caramels.

Let it rest in the glass for a while – and the distinctive hint of candied apples rises to the forefront. Odd, entertaining – and sublimely Halloween! Boo! cs

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Fall into fall menus

Geneva Geneva’s is closing

With fall weather comes a change of season — and a change of menus for many area restaurants. Chefs are sourcing fall veggies, look for lots of root veg dishes, savory braised meat dishes and the inclusion of wild game on higher end dining menus.

Soups will get heartier, breads more dense and meals will overall be “winter warmers” as opposed to lighter, summer seafood dishes.

One such dish was the cassoulet I had a few weeks ago at Circa 1875. A Facebook posting last week indicated the little Broughton Street French carry–out, Papillote, was serving cassoulet as a special. I had to check it out.

It was a slightly different expression – and served in an aluminum carryout container, but was insanely delicious and satisfying. Of course, the cassoulet base, a thick, hearty bean stew, was beautifully spiced and textured. House made confit duck and braised lamb shank topped the beans, which also featured big chunks of sausage peeking through a thick layer of toasted bread crumbs.

Cassoulet may be considered a French peasant dish, but it’s hard to deny it a title befitting more elegant cuisine. My only disappointment was that I was unable to sample a second dish — rabbit with mustard and dried plums.

Other recent specials have included a crayfish sandwich

Geneva Geneva’s Home Plate restaurant on Bee Road has closed. Owner Geneva Wade has been in the restaurant business since 1983 and has operated her current location for more than three years.

According to a statement, Wade plans to “look at opportunities in the catering business and possibly offer her own specialty items directly to consumers.”

It’s a sad day for fried chicken fans — and Geneva’s many friends.

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The cassoulet at Papillotte

and braised rabbit leg stuffed with mushrooms and served with crispy polenta. Desserts range from petite and light, like macaroons, to heavier but equally decadent treats like brownies or crème brûlée. Facebook and Twitter followers received notices of special menu items and discounts.

Chef Herve Didailler trained in Europe and has eight Michelin–rated restaurants on his resume. Papillote is a deliciously sublime treat in a world too crowded by less deserving eateries. It is remarkable food that over-delivers for the value.

Athens–based Your Pie is opening a location in Savannah soon. The website indicates a location near The Lady and Sons, but savannahfoodie.com hears the location may actually be on Broughton in the former A Vida storefront.

Your Pie prepares brick oven pizza using home made doughs, sauces and fresh ingredient. It has three locations in Athens, as well as in Watkinsville and Charleston, SC. Additional franchises are already in the works. cs

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Something to So, in the past, if you wanted some delicious sushi in Savannah and you weren’t a Rockefeller, your choices were A) Sakura and B) ...Sakura.

Not that I dislike Sakura. I almost lived in there once.

But it does get a little tiring ordering pretty much the same things at that one restaurant that is the only place in Savannah that caters to your Otaku–need to eat Japanese food. It’s OK, though! A long time ago (about half a year) there opened in the Screamin’ Mimi’s shopping center a discreet and simple sushi place named Ta Ca. I told you that story to tell you this one: I didn’t go to that restaurant then, but I did go just a few days ago — and it was awesome.

They have kind of a tiny menu in comparison to the mighty Sakura but it’s all good. I got the JT Roll, a side of fried rice and some red bean ice cream for dessert. The JT roll was well-prepared and had avocado slices, eel and eel sauce drizzled on top of it, with tempura shrimp and happiness within.

I really love eel sauce and I got an extra side of theirs, which is especially good for some reason. The roll’s a little pricey at almost $9, but it’s pretty big, especially if you get a side to help you pre–game.

The fried rice was a little disappointing. It seemed to me to be regular rice fried with just enough soy or teriyaki to give it color, but no flavor other than a vague (but pleasant) nuttiness. It’s easily fixable, though — extra soy and some white sauce (or “shrimp sauce” as it’s called here) and it’s quite delicious again. They give you a very generous helping too, which is awesome because it’s only $2.

On to the ice cream! Their ice cream is the good and proper Japanese mochi ice cream, which is a gelatinous rice cake wrapped around a ball of ice cream. Personally, I’m not fond of the mochi aspect of the ice cream, but here it was quite tasty.

Usually, guys, I just perform surgery on my ice cream to withdraw the creamy goodness from within the hated gelatin shell, but this proved unnecessary on this occasion.

I still did it, though.

Anyway, the ice cream was delicious and red bean is seriously the best flavor to get. If you’re going to get vanilla, just go to Kroger and pick up some Breyers.

I think they’re still 2 for $5.

One thing that Breyers probably has on this ice cream is that Breyers isn’t grainy. The ice cream was slightly grainy and I thought it was just the texture of the red bean at first. But I tried my friend Sara’s green tea ice cream (very fragrant and with a strong, strong flavour) and it too was grainy.

Other than those few missteps, the whole experience was great! By far the best part about the meal was the attentive and on–point service.

That poor waiter, though.

One of my friends is a bad diabetic, and because he was recovering from a stint in class with high blood sugar, he was very dehydrated. Every time our waiter would bring Mr. Diabetes another Diet Coke, he’d have to run off for another water refill or a sweet tea or to get me a sauce.

It’s not my fault I’m a sauce fiend.

A final thing that surprised and pleased me was that Ta Ca has superior quality sweet tea. For this being a Southern town, I have noticed, with no small amount of dismay, that there are few places in Savannah with good sweet tea.

Tea is not optional in my book, people.

So, yes. Ta Ca is a good restaurant.

You should go there. You will not regret it, I promise.

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Imagine cooking — on your own, from scratch — 30,000 servings of a particular recipe.

Now imagine cooking a whole menu of recipes, 30,000 servings of each.

Now imagine cooking 20 percent more on top of that.

That’s this year’s new, improved, bigger and better edition of the Savannah Greek Festival, running Thursday–Saturday at the Hellenic Center of St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church.

“Everything you buy here is made by parishioners,” says Mary Catherine Mousourakis, one of a younger generation of congregation members who are slowly but surely taking on more

responsibility for putting on the beloved annual event.

“We start cooking for the Festival at the end of May or early June in order to get everything done,” she says. “We cook four days straight just to get the baklava done.”

In some ways a victim of its own success, the Greek Festival has had minor issues in the past keeping up with audience demand for its delicious homemade Greek food, occasionally running out of key menu items by Saturday night.

With the 20 percent increase in production, that’s unlikely to happen this year.

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active in the community and showing Savannah what it means to be a Greek American.”

Mousourakis says the church remains open to suggestions from Festival goers.

“We always want to know if you lived in another city and that city’s Greek Festival had such–and–such. We want to know that.”

She says the Festival tries its best to accommodate audience demand for particular menu items “People ask every year when we’re going to offer galaktoboureko,” she says, referring to the tasty, custard–filled pastry dessert. “But we’re still trying to figure out how to fit that into our cooking schedule. I laugh every time someone says, ‘You guys should do this twice a year.’ Are you kidding?” cs 59th Annual Savannah Greek Festival When: Oct. 14–16, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.

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Several other changes have been made to the Greek Festival specifically to make it more user–friendly to the throngs who crowd the Hellenic Center each year: • Layout: “There’s been a change to the layout of the gym, so it’ll be an easier flow of traffic and you can get to the different areas a bit more readily than in times past,” says Mousourakis.

• Credit cards: “Credit cards will be accepted everywhere this time, not just in some areas. People always show up and say, ‘Oh, I don’t have any cash, do you have an ATM?’ Now they can use credit cards wherever they want.”

• More vendors in the market area: “There are more people signed up this year than last year, and there’s a greater variety,” Mousourakis says. “There will be more of the stuff that people usually buy, things like cheeses and olive oil, fresh things like that.”

While ostensibly a fundraiser for St. Paul’s, due to the gradually rising cost of food — and the Festival’s desire not to overreach their audience’s “ouch limit” — the Festival isn’t a huge moneymaker.

“It’s a community thing, really,” says Mousourakis. “It’s more about us being

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Blues musician David Jacobs-Strain

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A clean–cut white guy from Oregon, in his 20s, David Jacobs–Strain is one of today’s more direct links to the old Mississippi delta bluesmen.

Hailed as a blues prodigy before his 12th birthday, Jacobs–Strain is a slide guitarist whose prowess on the acoustic guitar have made him a sort of modern– day folk hero in the Pacific Northwest.

At David Grisman’s invitation, Jacobs–Strain appeared alongside many of the nation’s great string players on the Tone Poets compilation. Boz Scaggs chose him to open two cross–country tours.

Jacobs–Strain has an emotional singing style, and in his songwriting (and playing style) he’s transcended traditional blues to incorporate rock, jazz, folk, and the sort of swinging, soulful Southern hybrid of great ’70s bands like Sea Level and the Atlanta Rhythm Section.

There are two Chatham County shows coming up for Jacobs–Strain. On Saturday, Oct. 23, he’ll perform at the Ships of the Sea Museum, in an 8 p.m. concert put on by the Savannah Folk Music Society.

Tickets are $10 public, $5 students and seniors, and free for Folk Society members.

The next day (that’s Oct. 24) Jacobs– Strain will play at the Tybee Post Theatre.

It’s the second time this year the Friends of the TBT have had music inside the still–being–renovated vintage building.

That show is at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15.

See savannahfolk.org and tybeeposttheater.org.

@ Duly noted: Australia’s Little River Band will be in Richmond Hill’s Gregory Park Saturday at 9 p.m., headlining the Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival. Of course, it’s 2010, and Glenn Shorrock, who sang lead on all the boys from Oz’s great ‘70s hits (“Reminiscing,” “Lady,” “Cool Change”) is long gone from the lineup. Having said that, of course they’ll play all those tunes anyway. Just wanted you to understand. Admission is $12 adults, $3 children 12 and under. @ Stan Ray and Jefferson Ross have begun the Savannah Songwriters Series, monthly “in the round” acoustic shows with our area’s pre–eminent singer/songwriters. The next one is Nov. 7 at Cha Bella Restaurant. See savannahsongwriters.com. @ The Tybee Arts Association production of Steel Magnolias now has official performance dates: Nov. 5–14 in the Tybee Arts Center. See tybeearts.org @ In our exclusive interview with John Mellencamp a few issues back, the sometime Tybee and Daufuskie resident talked about recording parts of his No Better Than This album in Savannah.

Privately, Mellencamp told me he’d like to perform here but he wasn’t exactly crazy about the Savannah Civic Center.

Well, concert dates have just been set for Columbia (Feb. 26) and Atlanta (Feb. 27).

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The Art Cure — Paintings by breast cancer survivors plus works donated by other artists. A month long silent auction with proceeds benefiting Susan G Komen Foundation.

Horizon Gallery, 206 E. Bay St., theartcure.blogspot.com/ The Night Gardener — Whimsical new paintings

by Lisa Ocampo that will resonate with Lewis Carroll fans. Opening reception (attendees are encouraged to wear costumes): Oct. 22, 6-9pm. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. , http://www. galleryespresso.com/

William Armstrong’s muchanticipated seasonal show happens this weekend; opening reception is Friday and show continues Sat. & Sun. 2nd Annual FAAA Fine Arts Exhibition — The exhibition highlights artwork created members of the Friends of African American Arts, featuring work in a variety of media from artists including Peggy Blood, Phil Starks, and Luther Vann. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. , http:// www.kingtisdell.org/ Arrivals and Departures — An exhibit featuring work

by Savannah Art Association members past and present in the new art gallery on the ticketing level of the airport.

Airport Art Gallery, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport Birds in Flight — An installation by Matt Hebermehl of his signature, patterned bird forms hanging in the Jepson’s atrium. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www. hebermehl.com/

Chakaia Booker, ‘Sustain’ — The SCAD exhibitions department presents Sustain, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Chakaia Booker. Sustain pairs Booker’s signature abstract sculptures fashioned from found tires with a series of photogravures the artist recently created at SCAD. Highlighting her use of sustainable materials, these prints offer a rare view of the artist’s process as she ceremoniously forages the industrial landscape.

Collected Work of Harriett Speer — Speer is a language teacher and self-taught artist who transforms the act of observation into something transcendent. Louise Shipps Gallery at St. Paul’s, 34th St and Abercorn St, http://www. stpaulsavannah.org/

Death Mask and Macabre Artifacts — The death mask of General Joseph Wheeler, mourning broaches and bones collected from the gravesite of Button Gwinnett, among other items. Runs through Nov. 15. Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker St. , http://www. georgiahistory.com/ Finding Art in Nature — Three women’s views, featuring the work of Doris Grieder, Sonya Ho, & Stephanie Tames. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St.

Heart, Spirit and Soul — An eclectic exhibition of paintings, sculptures and other items by artists Ron Shaffer, Betsy Haun, Carolyne Graham and Margaret Clay. JEA Art Gallery, 5111 Abercorn St.

Four Squared — An exhibition by four artist-mothers about their experiences of making art amongst the chaos of raising young children. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery , 9 W. Henry St. , http://www. savannahga.gov/arts

Mapping the Past — Collection of historical maps dating back as far as the late 16th century depicting North America, Great Britain and the world. SCAD Museum, 227 MLK Jr. Blvd, http:// www.scad.edu/scadmuseum Nature Graphics — A diverse collection of nature photography by Dr. Michael Wein-

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Merril Lynch Building, 7414 Hodgson Memorial Dr. No Ordinary Folk — An exhibition of sculpture, drawings and paintings from self-taught folk artists from around the Southeast, including Ulysses Davis, William Golding, Bessie Harvey and more. Runs through January 3, 2011. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www.telfair.org/ Southern Ease - A group exhibition celebrating the charm of living and working in the Southeast. Artists included; Brynn Carroll, Jan Clayton-Pagratis, Laura Dinello, Nancy Doolan, David Kaminsky, Ikeda Lowe, John Olenyik, Lori Keith Robinson, Cedric Smith, and Daniel Smith. Oct. 21st - Nov 13th.

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Tybee Festival of the Arts — Juried art show and live music in South Beach parking lot. Rain or shine. Sat. Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. South Beach Parking Lot, Tybee Island. Free and open to the public, www.tybeearts.org/ William Armstrong — Seasonal art show by one of Savannah’s most popular artists, William Armstrong, is October 15-17. Opening reception Friday, October 15, 5-10 p.m. at the William Armstrong Art Studio, 145 Habersham Street. Free and open to the public, featuring wine, hors d’oeuvres and more. The exhibit continues Saturday, October 16 from 1-6 p.m. and Sunday, October 17 from 1-5 p.m. The latest exhibit showcases 41 paintings.

Un/Inhabited — Art by Alison Elizabeth Taylor through Oct. 29, at Pei Ling Chan Gallery, MLK Blvd. SCAD exhibitions department presents an exhibition of two-dimensional works and an installation by Alison Elizabeth Taylor who introduces marquetry, or wood veneer inlay, into the vocabulary of contemporary art. cs

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by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

To select the films for this year’s Savannah Gay and Lesbian Film Society Festival, director Deb Riney traveled to San Francisco in June, for the annual two–week Frameline Festival.

Frameline is the biggest LGBT media fest in the world. Over 10 days, Riney watched more than 100 films. And she brought back what she calls “the best of the best.”

The SGLFS festival runs Friday through Sunday, Oct. 15–17, at the Jepson Center for the Arts.

The festival, Riney says, has the same mission as the group’s monthly film screenings. “Our intent and focus is to organize and manage year–round cinema that supports and strengthens LGBT visibility through the media arts,” she explains. “It gives the community – the overall community – access to see films and videos that provide entertainment and also deal with a wide variety of issues related to sexuality and gender.”

This year’s features include the lauded Peruvian drama Undertow, the drag parody Baby Jane, the New Zealand documentary The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls and the groundbreaking BBC film The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister.

“They wouldn’t play in Savannah if we didn’t bring them in,” Riney says.

She’s particularly excited about the short films on the menu, including The New Tenants, which won the Academy

Award last spring for Best Live Action Short Film.

She sees her festival as an opportunity for the gay and straight communities to enjoy creativity on the same level.

“There’s so many negative things out there in societal culture about LGBT,” Riney says. “Some people are so firm in their ‘Oh, no, it’s gay, lesbian! Those people are so blah, blah, blah.’

“I’m not one to say you need to beat somebody over the head with a placard, or corner them on ‘Why aren’t you open to respecting my rights,’ this and that,” she says.

“Whereas in screening a film that’s a neutral, entertaining kind of space, it might cause someone to look at something in a different way. It’s a subtle and entertaining thing, and maybe they open their mind just a little bit.”

Schedule The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. “I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.” Thus wrote wealthy British landowner Anne Lister in 1820. This BBC dramatization is based on the detailed

Top: New Zealand’s Topp Twins in character. Above: Peru’s Undertow combines elements of Brokeback Mountain and Ghost.

journals (some four million words) Lister kept — the behind–closed–doors bits written in a code not deciphered until the 1980s. The plot centers on Lister’s all–consuming love for Mariana Belcombe (Anna Madeley), who’s married to a man. When the film aired last spring, veteran actress Maxine Peake earned rave reviews for her portrayal of Lister. Peake, said the Daily Telegraph, “is an extraordinary actress – both intensely human in her vulnerability and intensely disquieting.” Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. Jools and Lynda Topp are Kiwi comedians – they’re openly gay sisters from Huntly, New Zealand, and they

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Maxine Peake, left, has the title role in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister.

also happen to be one of the country’s most popular performers — they play acoustic guitars and sing, they yodel and their standup is very, very funny (think Benny Hill meets the Indigo Girls). This documentary film, directed

by Leanne Pooley, broke New Zealand attendance records when it premiered in the spring of 2009.

Short films: Titles include Never Too Late, Tech Support, Ajumma! Are You Crazy???, Chico’s Angels: 24ish, Door Prize, Dyke Dollar, Gayby, Go Go Reject, Loop da Loop and Giuseppe, Masala Mama, The New Tenants, Three Minutes, Cakes and Sand, Mad at the Dirt: The Joans. Swimming. Oct. 16, 3:30 p.m.

Riney’s pick is Dyke Dollar. “That’s a really well–written, well–scripted film,” she explains. “It’s based on the fact that in the 1990s gay activists began stamping their dollars to prove that they contributed to the American economy.

Laura Terruso, who directed, based the story on one of those dollars. And it’s a riot. It’s hugely funny and right on.”

Undertow: Peruvian writer/director Javier Fuentes–Leon’s supernatural fantasy is a gay, seaside variation on Demi Moore’s Ghost; Miguel, a fisherman with a pregnant wife, has an affair with the artist Santiago. The latter — who’s looked down upon by the villagers as a rather effeminate “outsider” — drowns, and his spirit comes back to haunt Miguel, imploring him to acknowledge their love and declare himself to the village. Oct. 16, 4:45 p.m.

Deb Riney: “I didn’t even realize how many awards Undertow has taken up to this date. Some of the best Latin American actors play in it. It’s just beautifully done, on so many levels. It really is part Brokeback Mountain and part Ghost. That’s a perfect description for it.”

Baby Jane: Billy Clift wrote and directed this all–drag horror comedy, a take–off on the cult classic Whatever

Happened to Baby Jane? This time, instead of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, we get Matthew Martin and J. Conrad Frank as those weirdo sisters in frilly dresses and wigs, hammily one–upping each other in glorious black and white.

As if that weren’t enough, the character of Elvira is played by an actor named Alotta Boutee, formerly of Harlem Shake Burlesque. Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.

“Billy Clift,” says Riney, “is over the top. He is one of the cleverest, most creative people I’ve run into over the years.

It has references to Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s other films. You have to pay attention — it moves rather quickly.

There’s all kinds of little parodies, yet it still maintains all the stuff that the original had – like the bird and the doll and the chocolates. And the guys that play the roles are dead ringers. It’s so good.” CS Savannah Gay & Lesbian Film Society Festival Where: Jepson Center, 307 York St. When: Oct. 15–17 Admission: Festival pass (all films and receptions): $61 Friday screening (“The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister”): $16 Friday screening plus Club One reception: $21 Saturday Matinee (“The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls”): $11 Saturday Matinee (Shorts Fest): $11 Saturday Matinee (“Undertow”): $11 Sunday Closing Film (“Baby Jane”) with reception: $16 Advance tickets at SGLFS Box Offices: Creative Approach, 306 Jefferson St.; Home Run Video, 4 East Liberty St., TailsSpin, 4501 Habersham St. Online: savannahgaylesbianfilmsociety. com

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Secretariat

Until the Sports Illustrated subscription runs out at the Walt Disney Studios offices, I expect audiences will continue to be privy to cookie– cutter yarns centered around notable achievements in the sports world. Secretariat is the latest from the studio stable, and it relates the truly remarkable story of the magnificent racehorse that set records while winning the Triple Crown in 1973 (and simultaneously appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated while doing so).

The races are exciting, but to get to these sequences, we’re forced to wade through a lot of vanilla material about the difficulties faced

by Secretariat’s determined owner (typically reliable Diane Lane) and flamboyant trainer (John Malkovich, taking neither his role nor the movie seriously). Despite these tepidly staged interludes, the overall picture isn’t quite as bland as, say, The Rookie or Miracle. Still, the staidness made me long for the studio’s earlier sports flick Alive – at least that one had rugby players munching down on each other.

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Michael Douglas won the Best Actor Oscar for his sly turn as uber– capitalist Gordon Gekko in 1987’s Wall Street, but the majority of the film’s running time was commandeered by Charlie Sheen as his gullible protege Bud Fox. That timeshare worked for that picture, but with the 23–years–after–the–fact Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, it’s no secret that we’re all here for Douglas. But aside from a quick glimpse of him in the prologue, he doesn’t return for a full half–hour, meaning that it’s Shia LaBeouf calling the shots. He’s passable as a financial whiz kid who’s in love with Gordon’s daughter (Carey Mulligan) but finds himself turning to her estranged dad to help take down a corporate nemesis (Josh Brolin). But it’s Douglas’ continuing commitment to his iconic role that sporadically gooses the proceedings, at least until a mawkish conclusion that resembles nothing so much as a Wall Street – and Wall Street – crash.

Art (or entertainment) doesn’t exist in a vacuum, which makes It’s Kind of a Funny Story appear even more puny upon continuous reflection. Screened before the recent spate of teen suicides, the film (based on Ned Vizzini’s novel) seems even more trivial and pretentious in their wake, a fuzzy drama about a privileged New York teen (inert Keir Gilchrist) who checks himself into a mental health ward. Why, you ask?

Because he thinks about jumping off a bridge due to –– well, there’s this cute girl, you see, and, oh, yeah, the world situation is pretty bad, and, uh, homework sucks.

But all it takes to set him right is a grotesque fantasy sequence set to “Under Pressure” (David Bowie should sue), a dour mentor (The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis) dealing with his own issues, and all the sitcom–ready patients parading around the hospital corridors.

Where’s Nurse Ratched when you really need her?

NEVER LET ME GO A fairly good movie that had greatness within its grasp, Never Let Me Go, based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, uses softcore science fiction to jump–start its tale of an Earth in which cloning became a reality decades ago.

The result is that people are now being produced specifically for the purpose of donating as many organs as possible before death takes them away; three of the young adults facing this dreadful fate are imperturbable Kathy (Carey Mulligan), impetuous Ruth (Keira Knightley) and impressionable Tommy (Andrew Garfield). Perhaps mindful of its British setting, director Mark Romanek outfits the picture with a stiff upper lip, never allowing for any variations of tone and counting on the material to jolt the audience into emotional awareness. It’s an interesting gambit that’s only partly successful, respecting the viewers’ intelligence but too often reducing the capable actors to blank slates and the storyline to a glass that’s only half full.

The Social Network Like the screwball comedies and film noir staples of yore, The Social Network exhibits an extraordinary gift for gab. Words fly like machine gun strafes, and arguments generally end with the more verbally adroit speaker standing over the other person like a wave that’s managed to tumble a surfer. If screenwriting was considered a sport, Aaron Sorkin’s script wouldn’t just be competing for year–end movie awards but for Olympic gold as well.

One of the best films of the year, The Social Network is the fascinating (though factually sketchy) story of how a Harvard nerd by the name of Mark Zuckerberg (superbly played by Jesse Eisenberg) created Facebook and in the process became the world’s youngest billionaire. Yet this isn’t an inspiring movie about an underdog beating the odds as much as it’s a prickly mishmash of how one person’s insecurities led to material gains even as his personality remained stuck in an arrogant, off–putting zone.

As depicted here, Zuckerberg is frightfully brilliant, yet brains don’t compensate for the manner in which he screws over people, particularly his only friend (Andrew Garfield, much better here than in the upcoming Never Let Me Go).

And when Napster co–founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake, impressively playing sleazy) worms his way into the game, the fledgling company really takes off, but at what cost to Zuckerberg’s already blackened soul?

Coming off the overrated slog The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher keeps the proceedings – two separate lawsuits on top of the Facebook genesis material – moving at a rapid clip, a task made easier by Sorkin’s breezy, biting dialogue and animated performances by a well–chosen cast. But a quick pace isn’t the same as a hurried one, and The Social Network takes its time in showing how one loner was able to unite 500 million friends, even as he remained perpetually hidden on the other side of the cold, glaring screen.

The world needed an immediate remake of Swedenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 Let the Right One In about as much as it needed another vampire flick, yet the good news is that Let Me In can hardly be construed as a shoddy, cashâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;inâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;quick product. Crafted with extreme care by writerâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), this is that rare retelling that pays the utmost respect to its predecessor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be hardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;pressed to single out even one frame that cheapens the memory of the original.

As before, the setting is an apartment complex in a frozen environment (here, Los Alamos, N.M)., where lonely young Owen (The Roadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kodi Smitâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;McPhee) notices he has new neighbors in the form of Abby (Chloe Grace Moretz of Kickâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Ass) and a man he assumes is her father (Richard Jenkins). Picked on by bullies and exhibiting some disturbing character traits himself, Owen is happy to become friends with this strange girl who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like candy and can only hang out with him at night.

Reeves largely sticks close to the look and tone of the first film, but not in the

annoying manner of Gus Van Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atrocious Psycho remake. Reeves is clearly thinking for himself, and while his slight altercations result in a picture not quite as powerful as its predecessor (particularly during the climax, a mesmerizing piece of filmmaking in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 take), heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to be commended for creating a film that ably stands on its own.

Still, for all of Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; accomplishments, the most thrilling aspect of Let Me In is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first movie in 31 years from Hammer Film Productions, the studio responsible for many of the horror classics of the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s.

With Let Me In, the revived company has risen from the grave in impressive fashion.

OK, so I exaggerate by a decade or seven, but the point is that for this to have had a shot at succeeding, it probably needed to predate Orphan, The Omen and perhaps even The Bad Seed in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;evil that kids doâ&#x20AC;? miniâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;genre. As it stands, its thudding familiarity is only compounded by its narratively limp and technically humdrum presentation.

Renee Zellweger stars as a social worker who saves 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;old Lilith (Jodelle Ferland) from execution by her seemingly religiousâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;wacko parents, only to eventually figure out that the adults were only trying to save the world from their demonic daughter.

Along the way, cop Ian McShane demonstrates remarkably poor aim when

it comes to firearms, child psychiatrist Bradley Cooper discovers hornets crawling out of every bodily orifice, and Zellweger manages to make a horror film that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even oneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;tenth as terrifying as her romantic comedy New In Town.

You Again Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot about You Again thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instantly disposable, from its generic title to its bland leading lady to a storyline thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as weightless as a sponge cake.

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CASE 39 Case 39 is one of those unwanted Hollywood bastards, a production that was completed years ago and has even been released in other territories but is only now making its stateside debut.

Just how old is this picture? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say that when filming began, David O. Selznick was still combing the country for the perfect Scarlett Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara.

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Kristen Bell, only fitfully succeeding in making an impression, plays Marni, who’s shocked to learn that her brother (Jimmy Wolk) is marrying Joanna (Odette Yustman), the girl who made her life an endless hell back in high school. Everyone in Marni’s family thinks Joanna is the greatest, so Marni makes it her mission to expose her as malicious and deceitful. For her part, Marni’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) is aghast when she discovers that Joanna’s aunt is a former school chum (Sigourney Weaver) with whom she had a falling–out decades ago on prom night.

The Marni–Joanna clashes offer little that’s new, so the fun is in watching those exquisite older actresses, Curtis and Weaver, square off against each other. Throw in the always–welcome Victor Garber as Curtis’ husband, an amusing bit by Kristin Chenoweth as a dance instructor, and a cameo by a former Dallas star that almost made me fall out of my seat, and you may want to give You Again a chance. But only if Mean Girls isn’t playing on cable.

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Agatha Christie meets M. Night Shyamalan in Devil, and damn if the mystery author’s inspiration doesn’t put the hack auteur’s career back on the right path. Make no mistake: There’s nothing special about Devil, but after a string of notorious flops, it’s surprising to see Shyamalan involved with a film that’s at the very least watchable.

Still, any praise should be followed by an asterisk, since his contributions are relegated to co–producing the picture and coming up with the storyline (John Erick Dowdle and Brian Nelson get credit for the direction and screenplay, respectively). But regardless of how the muted kudos is parceled out, the end result is a moderately entertaining tale that borrows Christie’s Ten Little Indians template of putting a group of strangers together and having them get picked off one by one. Here, we find five people trapped together on a stuck elevator, with the added element of having the killer among the quintet actually being the devil in disguise.

The supernatural angle occasionally lapses into silliness (the pontificating by a superstitious security guard grows overbearing), but Dowdle comes up with some interesting visuals, and the atmospheric score by Fernando Velazquez (The Orphanage) is, uh, heaven–sent.

The Town Is it safe to assume the Gigli wisecracks are permanently behind us?

Granted, Ben Affleck’s professional dalliances with Jennifer Lopez – specifically, Gigli and Jersey Girl – didn’t exactly aid a career lull further bogged down by the likes of Surviving Christmas and Paycheck. But a better selection of roles as well as a stunning directorial debut with 2007’s Gone Baby Gone have led to a resuscitation that continues with The Town, his second eye–catching effort as writer–director.

While The Town doesn’t quite match the giddy pleasures of Gone Baby Gone (which, after all, was second only to No Country for Old Men on my 10 Best list for ’07), it aptly illustrates that Affleck won’t have to contend with either the label of “beginner’s luck” or “sophomore jinx.” A crackling drama with a fine sense of both spacial relationships (thank Affleck the director) and character relationships (thank Affleck the writer), this adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves (co–scripted by Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard) is set in a section of Boston known for producing more bank robbers than anywhere else in the country.

One of these heist–happy fellows is Doug MacRay (Affleck), who leads his three accomplices (the most volatile played by The Hurt Locker’s Jeremy Renner) on a caper that results in the masked bandits briefly taking a hostage, bank employee Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Electing to keep tabs on Claire to insure she doesn’t get too chummy with the FBI (repped by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm) and reveal anything that might incriminate the gang, Doug strikes up a friendship with the unsuspecting woman, a camaraderie that quickly turns into love.

A genre flick like this can’t avoid all the cliches, but it manages to sidestep some of the biggest ones. At any rate, it’s the little moments that make this stand out, whether it’s a cop looking the other way or a final sip from a soft drink resting on the ground. The film can quickly shift from funny (as when Claire tells Doug that she’d be able to recognize her kidnappers’ voices if she ever heard them again) to frightening (Pete Postlethwaite’s wiry frame and low voice belie his demonic disposition), and it plays out in ways not expected.

Exhibiting a complete command of his craft, Affleck sets The Town on fire, and his career behind the camera should only continue to heat up.

Heathers in the 1980s. Clueless in the ’90s. Mean Girls in the noughts. It seems like every decade insists on giving audiences a razor–sharp high school satire centered around the travails of a brainy and likable female protagonist. Easy A appears to be this new decade’s first entry in the sweepstakes, and while it can’t quite compare to its enduring predecessors, it will do just fine until something more permanent comes along.

Borrowing from the ’80s oeuvre of high school flicks – and not always gracefully (any film that uses the Breakfast Club anthem “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” for a crowd–pleasing finale is definitely cutting corners) – Easy A casts Emma Stone in a potential star–making performance as Olive, a virginal wallflower who, through convoluted means, ends up being tagged as the biggest slut at her California high school. Her best friend (Alyson Michalka) wants to dump her, the resident Jesus freak (Amanda Bynes) wants to alternately save or condemn her, and various nerds want to score with her.

Soon, Olive is likening her situation to Hester Prynne’s in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and rather than fight the rumors, she starts parading around the campus grounds wearing tight–fitting clothes accentuated by a red letter “A.” The Hawthorne comparisons are often clumsy, and Olive’s friends and tormentors are a rather nondescript lot (most invisible of all is Penn Badgley as the only guy who treats her decently). But there’s still much to enjoy: Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as the Coolest Parents Ever; Thomas Haden Church wearing sensitivity well as a congenial teacher; Lisa Kudrow in a welcome appearance as a shallow guidance counselor; and no shortage of clever retorts penned by debuting scripter Bert V. Royal. Easy A may be about the kids, but aside from Stone’s contribution, it mostly benefits from all the adult supervision.

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Even with the odds against him, I’d put my money on the dude who speaks softly and carries a big slice–and–dice stick.

More fun than a barrel of Sylvester Stallone DVDs, Machete is gleeful trash that delivers on the promise it held when it was just a twinkle in creator Robert Rodriguez’s eye, as one of the mock trailers shown in the 2007 Rodriguez–Tarantino collaboration Grindhouse. I’ll leave it up to the culture critics to determine whether its outlandish brand of gore and violence is more detrimental to society than the more realistic sadism exhibited in movies like Kick–Ass, but everything about Machete is so over the top that it’s impossible to feel as if one’s morals are being compromised by this thing. When a movie quickly moves from a sequence in which the title bad–ass (played

by Danny Trejo) decapitates several men with one swift 360–degree turn to a scene in which a naked woman retrieves a hidden cell phone from her vajayjay, it’s clear that nothing’s to be taken seriously.

That’s not to say the movie won’t incense a significant amount of folks, particularly our friends in the GOP. As expected, the Mexicans are the heroes, demanding to be treated like people and eager to have a crack at the American Dream. On the other side of the spectrum are the rich Texas fat cats determined to keep them down, including a right–wing Senator (Robert De Niro) who ruthlessly guns down illegal border crossers when he’s not busy hitting the campaign trail.

Whether it’s a beefy Steven Seagal or a topless Lindsay Lohan, viewers never quite know who or what Machete will throw at them next. Rodriguez’s shooting style is as playful as ever, but the film’s greatest pleasure rests with the casting of Danny Trejo. Usually spotted in fleeting roles as a menacing thug, Trejo fills the screen in his biggest part to date.

The Last Exorcism

The prospect of journeying to Hell and back seemed less daunting than sitting through another horror yarn made in the faux–documentary style of The Blair Witch Project, but The Last Exorcism proves to be a pleasant surprise – even more so since Hostel gorehound Eli Roth is listed as one of the film’s producers.

Unlike Roth’s hard–R outings as a director, The Last Exorcism is rated PG–13, but don’t let that debatable

rating give the false impression that this is one for the whole family to enjoy. Director Daniel Stamm uses the fake cinema verite style to milk a lot of tension out of this feature in which the charismatic and cynical Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), a reverend who no longer believes what he preaches, takes along a two–person documentary crew to perform an exorcism in some remote Louisiana hellhole, to prove conclusively that exorcisms are bogus (he employs a smoking crucifix and iPod–emanating growls in his act) and merely prey upon the superstitions of rubes.

Cotton thinks he’s found a perfect showcase as devout farmer Louis Sweetzer (Louis Herthum) insists that it’s his sweet and innocent teenage daughter Nell (Ashley Bell) who’s causing the livestock mutilations while being demonically possessed. After some initial scoffing, Cotton realizes that there is indeed something wrong with the girl, but is it merely psychological trauma or is Satan really hanging around?

Eat Pray Love With trips to Italy, India and Bali, Eat Pray Love easily qualifies as travel porn, and the first third of its title promises a fair amount of food porn as well. But whereas these labels often prove to be a superficial picture’s whole reason for being, more complex movies use them as mere window dressing on a story that’s already involving down to its core. Eat Pray Love, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir of the same name, joins the aforementioned pictures in this distinguished class.

This is a richly rewarding experience, following one woman’s journey both across the globe and within herself. Julia Roberts delivers her strongest performance since Erin Brockovich a full decade ago – as Liz Gilbert, she brings to the forefront the doubts, frustrations and longings inherent in a woman who soon realizes that she’s not content with her marriage or with her surroundings and elects to set out on new adventures.

Liz finds both spiritual and physical nourishment during her travels, but her lessons aren’t conveyed to us in the usual cookie–cutter platitudes; instead, the dialogue is frequently lyrical and lovely, never cheapening the thoughts or feelings being revealed. CS

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Three minutes of simultaneous purring by cats (and honorary cats) around the world, conducted online (Facebook & Twitter) each Sunday at 3 p.m. by Savannah residents Confucius Cat and his human Staff. Details at www.ConfuciusCat.blogspot.com. Contact @ConfuciusCat (Twitter) or Acolytes of Confucius Cat (Facebook).

Savannah Area Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyoungrepublican.com or call Allison Quinn at 308-3020.

Savannah Tea Party

meets the first Monday (excluding Holidays) of each month from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the SRP offices located at 11 East 73rd Street. All persons interested in America’s Future are invited. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-598-7358 for additional info.

Benefits Breast Cancer Awareness Soiree

Primary Art Supply and Civvies host this party benefiting the National Breast Cancer Foundation, October 20, 7-11pm at Civvies, 22 E. Broughton St. Admission enters you into several raffles from participating local businesses. Tickets: $12/adv, $15/door, available at Civvies or Primary.

Fall Celebration

The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home hosts this event featuring a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment and a full bar. $100/donation per person requested. October 16, 6:30-9pm. 504 E. Bay St. Call 912-233-6014 for more info.

Flying Fortress 5k

The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum will host The Flying Fortress 5K Run on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 8:30am. Benefits the restoration of the museum’s B-17 bomber, City of Savannah. $25 registration fee. www.mightyeighth.org

Holly Days Bazaar

A luncheon at the Green-Meldrim house, Silent Auction, an heirloom plant sale, treasure room, book sale, arts and crafts, religious gift items for sale, homemade jams and relishes, organ recitals and tours of the church. Nov. 10, 10am-2pm. St. John’s Episcopal. 1 W. Macon St.

Hope House of Savannah

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

Little Lambs Fall Sale

Little Lambs Consignment Sale! First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue. Friday, Oct. 15, 9am-2pm & Halfprice Sale Saturday, Oct. 16, 9am-12pm.

Children’s Fall & Winter clothes, toys, baby equipment, and maternity. Benefits our Preschool.

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinder-block wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique. In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

Thunderbolt Museum Fundraiser

Oct. 15, 4-7pm: Spaghetti Dinner benefiting the Thunderbolt Museum Society will be held at the museum. Tickets are $7.00 each. Call 912-351-0836 for info. Thunderbolt Museum, 2702 Mechanics Dr. , Thunderbolt

Trick or Trot Road Race

The Sunrise Rotary hosts its 13th Annual Fall Classic 10k Run, 5k Run/Walk on Oct. 30 at the May Howard Elementary on Wilmington Island. Proceeds benefit The Midtown Community Center, West Broad Street YMCA, and SAFE Shelter. Contact Dodie Gay at 912-655-6117. To register for the race or to donate, visit www.TrickorTrot. net

Call for Entries Comedy Contest

A contest to find the best stand up comedians. November 5th at the Bay Street Theatre. Hosted by the Savannah Comedy Revue. More info: savannahcomedyrevue. com

Junior League Community Applications

The Junior League is accepting applications for its “Done in a Day” community assistance projects and funds. JL volunteers assist local organizations or social service agencies through hands-on volunteer work and funding of up to $1500.00 per project.

Open to 501c3s with focus on those advocating for women and children. Application deadline: Dec. 15. www.jrleaguesav.org or call 912-790-1002.

St. Thomas Thift Store grants

The St. Thomas Thrift Store is accepting applications for grants from coastal Georgia charitable organizations. Contact Paige Case at pbinnscase@comcast.net for info and an application. Grants will be awarded in December and disbursed in January 2011. Deadline for applying is November 15, 2010.

Telfair Holiday Trunk Show

Interested in participating in the Telfair Museum Stores’ Trunk Show this holiday season? Call 912-790-8830 for more information.

Classes & Workshops $1 Gymnastics Class

Coach Wayne teaches gymnastics in the Savannah Mall every Saturday. Introductory class is $1. www.coachwayne.com, or call 912-925-0800.

Abstinence Education

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

Program activities last for about 2 hours every Wednesday at SSU. Transportation is provided. Snacks, field trips and supportive services are provided at no charge. 2365310. Savannah http://www.savstate.edu/

Art Classes

Experimental and classical art. Draw and paint figurative or abstract. Choose the technique which interests you the most.

Lean about other artists and art history.

The teacher is a former art professor with two masters in art and 20 years of experience in teaching art. contact: 912-604-3281

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

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

Beading Classes

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

Children’s Art Classes

Small groups or private lessons. Daffin Park area. Instructor Torrey Kist holds MFA in Painting and worked with Telfair education dept. Call 912.354.5988 or email tskart@yahoo.com for more info.

Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish?

Come to the mesa de espanol the second Thursday and last Friday of the month at 4:30 p.m. For information, e-mail cafecontigo@gmail.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. , Savannah

Conversational Spanish Group

Want to improve your Spanish skills?

Meet at the Sentient Bean every Monday, 5:00pm. Group focuses on increasing vocabulary, grammar, and conversational confidence! Free and open to all levels of experience. Call Ronnie at 912-257-0333, or email dvorakquartet12@yahoo.com for more info.

Cooking Swiss Meals

Cooking and eating good Swiss food is so much fun. We will be a small group in a relaxed atmosphere. We meet on Saturday at 11:30am. Cook together and eat around 12:30pm. Cost is $90 for 6 meetings.

Call: 912-604-3281

Dating With Success

Discuss strategies to feel great dating and enjoy dating. Improve your dating skills.

This is for people of all cultures, colors races and ages. For more info, call: 912604 3281

the dangers of driving impaired. A must see for teenage drivers seeking a drivers license for the first time or teenage drivers who already received a license. The group meets once a month and the cost is $30.00.

For more info: 912-443-0410.

English as a Second Language

We are tiny groups, 2-4 students. Learn English in a fun, relaxed way. We meet when you have time in a coffee shop downtown Savannah. Single meetings are available too. There is a small fee per class. call: 912-604-3281

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register.

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German Language Classes

Have fun learning German with small groups of 3-6 students. Classes meet Monday & Thursday evening at the Sentient Bean. The choices are Beginners I or II, or advanced Conversational class. There is a small fee per class. I am a native professor from Switzerland. For more info: (912) 604 3281 The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave ,

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm.

Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 34:30pm. For more info: 912-232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

Infant/Child CPR Class

Held the first and third Monday of the month, 6:30 PM in the Candler Professional Bldg., Room 508. The class is for new and expectant parents. $25 per person. For more info and to register, call 819-3368 or 800-501-4054 or www.sjchs.org.

Intro to Photoshop

Learn to use Adobe Photoshop. Nov. 20 from 9am-3pm. $59 per person. Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building located on the Georgia Southern University campus. Contact Jennifer Morris at (912) 478-0538 or jennifermorriss@georgiasouthern.edu

Knitting Class

Knit your own scarf, hand-warmer or blanket. You choose your colors and what you like to knit. I teach you how to do it. We meet in small groups downtown Savannah. Meeting in a coffee shop. There is a small fee per class. Please call my cell: 912-604-3281

Mindfulness Meditation Class

Instruction in mindfulness stress reduction meditation. Group practice with time for questions and comments. Wednesdays, 7:15-8:15pm. Yoga Co-op Savannah. 2424 Drayton St. $13/class (less with membership). www.yogacoopsavannah.com or 912-429-7264.

DUI Prevention Group

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Modeling at the Mighty 8th

Intermediate to advanced model building seminar. $25/person. October 16, 9am-3pm at the Mighty 8th Airforce Museum. 175 Bourne Ave. Pooler. Reservations recommended. Call Heather: 912-748-8888.

Music Lessons

Certified teacher who holds BA in Music Education is offering private music lessons. All ages and stages welcome. Piano, brass, woodwinds, music discovery, and beginner guitar. Please contact Ms. Amy at 912.659.0993 or visit www.msamyschoolofmusic.com

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A music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school or college and would like to have the opportunity to begin playing again. Dust off your instrument every Monday night at Portman’s Music Store (Abercorn) at 6:30p.m. The cost is $30.00 per month. All ages and ability levels are welcome. Contact Pamela Kidd at 912-354-1500 for more info.

Paddleboarding Lessons

East Coast Paddleboarding offers paddleboard lessons, rentals, tours and sales. It’s easy to learn, anyone can do it. Savannah/ Tybee Island Eastcoastpaddleboarding.com or 781-267-1810

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

Offering a variety of business classes. Call 652-3582. Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street , Savannah

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes

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

Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program

This 14-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance. Call Ms. Musheerah Owens 912234-0525 ext.1506 The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www. thestarfishcafe.org/

Sustainable Living Workshops

Two-day session includes intro to permaculture design. Building with rammed earth, bamboo, thatched roofing and more; plus rain water collection and pond building.

Oct. 22-24. Small class size. Deposit of $45

by Oct. 18 reserves space. For more info: http://GARDEN-MUSE.com/ or email garden_muse@comcast.net

Tax Prep Training

Classroom training teaching participants to prepare tax forms or answer tax questions on a one-on-one basis at one of our Tax-Aide sites in Savannah. For info: e-mail taxaidesavannah16@bellsouth.net or call 598-1789.

The 7 Deadly Sins of the Science Fair

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will offer a special program to offer science fair advice and guidance to students and parents. October 16, at 12:30 p.m. and, again, at 2:30 p.m. in the McGowan Library Auditorium on the Skidaway campus. 10 Ocean Science Circle. www.skio.usg.edu or call (912) 598-2325.

Volunteer 101

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

The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www.HandsOnSavannah.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www. uwce.org/

Weather Spotter Training

CEMA and the National Weather Service offer free training. Thursday, Oct. 28th at 5:30pm. Space is limited. If you are a weather enthusiast and are interested, reserve your spot by Monday, Oct. 25th. Dustin Hetzel at DJHetzel@ChathamCounty.org to reserve a seat and directions to the Chatham County Annex.

Clubs & Organizations Asian American Women’s Group

For anyone interested in creating a community to support one another, to experience belonging and build friendships with a group of Asian American Women. The goal is to foster intergenerational dialogue between women ages of 25-75 on topics like family, expectations and being bi-cultural. Meets twice a month. Email Lene22@aol.com for more info.

Buccaneer Region SCCA

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

Coastal Bicycling Tour Club

Hosts rides on Saturdays. 10/9: 28-40mi, meet at Gallery Espresso, 9am. Call John for info: 660-4088. 10/16: Springfield/Clyo, 28-38 miles, meet in Springfield, 9am. Call John: 660-4088. 10/23: Southbridge, 33-43 miles, meet at Kroger on Rt. 17, 9am. Call Bill, 315-825-5217. 10/30: Costume ride, 25 miles, meet at Bull and Gaston, 10am. Call Dick for info: 598-7476. www.cbtc.org

Coastal MINIs

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together. Visit coastalminis.com. Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah

Coastal Readers & Writers Circle

A Creative Writing and Reading discussion group that meets the 3rd Sunday of every month, 3:30-5pm at the new Savannah Mall Branch Library. Bring: Passages from any of your writing that you would like to read and passages from a book, publication, or production that you would like to share with the group. www.TellingOurStoriesPress.com for more information

Exploring The American Revolution in Savannah

Interested in exploring the role Savannah played in the American Revolution? It is the goal of this organization to attract a wide range of interested persons including, visual artists, writers, teachers and historians for lively discussion, site exploration and possible creative collaboration. Email, Kathleen Thomas: exploretherevolution@gmail.com

Habitat For Humanity

Construction Volunteers Needed every Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-2:30p. Training and tools will be provided. Volunteers must be over the age of 18 to assist at the construction site. Please call 353-8122 or email admin@habitatsavannah.org for more information and to sign up.

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

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

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Every Wed. 5:00PM at My House Consignments & More, 206 W. Broughton St. No fees. Wanna learn? We love to show what we know. Many different levels get together in the store. Talk, knit, share have fun! Call 912-236-4111

Low Country Turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

Make Friends in Savannah

For anybody, every age, every race and nation. We chat, hang out, go to movies and more. Meet in a coffee shop downtown Savannah. A small fee covers the efforts of the organizer, a well educated, “out of the box” woman, who lived in New York and Europe.

Call 912-604-3281.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. Call 786-4508. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. , Savannah

Moon River Chorus

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

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting. Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:15-11:30 am Call 898-0869 and 897-6167 or visit www.mops.org. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http://www.fbcislands.com/

Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group

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

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

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

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

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Safe Kids Savannah

Safe Kids Savannah, a coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, holds a meeting on the second Tuesday of every month from 11:30am-1pm. Visit www. safekidssavannah.org or call 912-353-3148 for more info

Savannah Adventure Club

Dedicated to pursuing adventures, both indoors and outdoors, throughout the Low country and beyond. Activities include sailing, camping, skydiving, kayaking, hiking, tennis, volleyball, and skiing, in addition to

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The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 655-0994.

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail Wendy Wilson at Wendyq1053@yahoo. com.

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

Savannah Art Association

The non-for profit art association, the Southeast’s oldest, is currently taking applications for membership. The SAA offers workshops, community programs, exhibition opportunities, and an artistic community full of diverse and creative people from all ages, mediums, and skill levels. Please call 912-232-7731 for more info.

Savannah Brewers’ League

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

Savannah Browns Backers

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

Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at Tubby’s Tank House in Thunderbolt. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@comcast.net or 925-4709.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Guardian Angels

Come meet the Local Chapter of the Guardian Angels on the 1st Monday of every month from 7pm-9pm at Elite Martial Arts in Pooler,GA. Free snacks and drinks and info on the Guardian Angels. For more info:www.SavannahGuardianAngels.com

Savannah Jaycees

Meeting and information session held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more. Must be 21-40 years old to join the chapter. 101 Atlas St. 912-353-7700 or www.savannahjaycees. com Jaycee Building, Savannah

Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 484-6710.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah

Savannah Wine Lovers

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

Savannah Writers Group

meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7pm at Books a Million to discuss, share and critique writing of fiction or non-fiction novels, essays or short stories. A meet-and-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm. Contact Carol North, 912-9208891. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

Son-shine Hour

Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 10-11. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers. Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@gmail.com Savannah Mall,

Southern Wings

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

Stitch-N’s

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Free Spinning fiber into yarn group meets the first Monday of each month at 1pm. Wild Fibre, 6 East Liberty Street (near Bull St.) Call for info: 912238-0514

Tarde en Espanol

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

236-8566.

The 13th Colony Patriots

A Tea Party group that meets the 13th of each month at Logan’s Road House at 6pm. 11301 Abercorn St. Open to the public. Dedicated to the preservation of the United States Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. www.13thcolonypatriots.com or call 912-596-5267.

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God On Broadway!

Where Theology and Theatre come together as you’ve never seen before!

OCTOBER WORSHIP SERIES

3 – South Pacific 10 – Fiddler On the Roof 17 – Big River 24 – The Music Man 31 – Jekyll and Hyde 11:15 a.m. Worship Service - Come early as these are popular services.

1008 East Henry St. (corner of Waters Ave.) For more info, check out our website: www.asburymemorial.org

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events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends.

Call 351-3171.

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Presents

regular social gatherings. Free to join.

Email savannahadventureclub@gmail.com or visit www.savannahadventureclub.com

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All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. at meet at 207 E. Charlton St (Flannery O’Connor’s Childhood Home). Call 233-6014, facebook Peacock Guild or email peacockguild@ googlegroups.com for more info.

The Philo Cafe

A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at Books-A-Million, 8108 Abercorn St., each Monday. Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by. No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook.

Theremin/Electronic Music Enthusiasts

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

Philip Neidlinger, theremin@neidlinger.us.

Tybee Performing Arts Society

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

Urban Professionals

Meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail. com. Vu Lounge at the Hyatt, 2 W. Bay St. , Savannah

Victorian Neighborhood Association

General meetings are on hiatus for July and August, but will resume Tuesday September 14 at 6pm, and continue on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, at the American Legion Hall located at 1108 Bull Street. Committee Meetings will continue to be held during the summer months. For more info visit the VNA website at: vna.club. officelive.com

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. Savannah

Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance.

Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes are held Monday through Friday at the St. Pius X Family Resource Center. Classes start at $25.00 per month. For more information

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Adult Intermediate Ballet

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

African Dance & Drum

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

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 12:00-3:30. Open to the public. Cost $5.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo.com. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. ,

Ballroom Dance Party

October 16. Cha-Cha lesson starts at 7 PM. Mack McKenzie, instructor. Social dance from 8-10:30 PM. Cost: $10 for members, $15/non-members. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 308-9222 for more information. Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd.

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St., 231-0888. Every Thursday, 7PM-8PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr., 398-4776 kleokatt@gmail. com or www.cairoonthecoast.com

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

C.C. Express Dance Team

Meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building.

Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Savannah

Ceili Club

Experience Irish Culture thru Irish social dancing. No partner or experience needed.

Learn the basics of Irish Ceili dancing. 7176 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Mondays at 7:30 p.m. For more info email PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com.

Chicago Step Classes

Coastal Georgia Steppers is offering adult Chicago-style steppin dance classes every Sunday from 4:00– 6:30pm at the Tominac Gym on Hunter Army Airfield. All are welcome. Free admission; no partner required. For more info, send email to Robert. neal75@yahoo.com.

Flamenco Enthusiasts

Dance or learn flamenco in Savannah with the Flamenco Cooperative. Meetings are held on Saturdays from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance. Any level welcome. If you would like to dance, accompany or sing, contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com. Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St , Savannah

Free Swing Lessons

Every Thursday at Doubles Night Club (7100 Abercorn St.) Join the SwingCats for a free lesson at 7:30pm, followed by dancing from 8-10pm. No partner required. Drink specials.

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. Tues: 6-7pm & Thurs: 7-8pm. Visit www.cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091 Private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome.

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

Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Savannah

Every Tuesday, 6-7pm. If you have never danced before or have limited dance experience, this is the class for you. Cybelle, a formal bellydancer for over 10 years will guide you through basic bellydance and fusion Walk ins welcome. 15.00/class 912414-1091 http://cybellefusionbellydance. wordpress.com/

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

Beginners Fusion Belly Dance

Low-cost spays and neuters for cats and dogs Free transport available Call for an appointment:

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Irish Dance Classes

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Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany B. at 272-8329.

Modern Dance Class

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels. Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912-354-5586.

Pole Dancing Class

For exercise...Learn dance moves and spins while working your abs, tone your legs and arms, a total body workout. Ladies Only! The only thing that comes off is your shoes. Pre-registration req’d. Beginners Classes, Wednesdays 8pm. Level II Classes, Mondays 8pm. Pole fitness, Mon&Wed, 11am. 912-398-4776 or visit www.fitnessbodybalance.com. Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. ,

Salsa Classes

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

Salsa Lessons

Offered Saturdays 11:30am-1pm. $10.00 per class. Packages prices also available. Contact Kelly 912-398-4776 or www. fitnessbodybalance.com

Salsa Lessons

Salsa Savannah offers beginner and intermediate salsa lessons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at several locations. For more info, contact: salsasavannah@gmail.com, or call 856-7323. www. salsasavannah.com

Savannah Shag Club

Shag music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr.

Swag-a-polooza

A SWING/SHAG DANCE COMPETITION— beginning on Mon. Oct. 11 (Columbus Day) @ 6:15pm. Quality Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn each Monday evening through 11/2 with Trophies, Prizes & Cash awarded on 11/8 during an Awards Ceremony & Banquet. Open to public, everyone invited, casual dress. Info: 912-398-8784 or 912927-4784

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The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered last two Monday’s. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com. Lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

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Tickets are on sale now for the Savannah Music Festival’s presentation of violinist Robert McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra’s performance of “The American Four Seasons,” a composition by Philip Glass done for McDuffie and inspired by Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Performance is Nov. 17. For more info: www.savannahmusicfestival.org

A New Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

The Seasons Project

Tybee Festival of the Arts

21st Annual Mustang and all Ford show

Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Armstrong Atlantic State University- Enroll in MUSTANG 101!!!

11935 Abercorn St. Info: Contact Mark Davis, 912-352-9229 Email: MARK68GTCS@ aol.com

Diesel Train Rides

Take a ride back in time at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum. Saturdays (11am, 1pm, 2pm) and Sundays (1pm, 2pm) in September and October. $10 adult admission.

601 W. Harris St. 912-651-6823. www. chsgeorgia.org

Display of Civil War Artifacts

An exhibition of items recently unearthed from a former prison site known as Camp Lawton, near Millen, GA. Includes many rare personal items, such as picture frames, belt buckles and other items. Georgia Southern University Museum. Statesboro. $2/admission. On display through the end of April 2011.

Hidden History of the Owens-Thomas House

The first after-hours tour of the home including stories, information, and encounters not included in the traditional daytime tour. Hidden History takes place each Wednesday in October and begins at 7 pm.

Tickets are $20 each (Includes the Hidden History experience and a Telfair Pass) Free for Telfair members. Reservations req’d.

Call Cyndi Sommers: 912-790-8880.

Music in the Parlour with Diana

An afternoon of music, with homemade scones and sweet tea. Saturdays and Sundays, 1-3pm. $30/person. Limited seating.

Reservations required. Call Diana Rogers: 912-236-2866.

The Armstrong Center

The Tybee Arts Association presents a juried art show, live music, and more in the South Beach Parking Lot. Oct. 15, 10am6pm; Oct. 16, 10am-5pm. Free and open to the public. www.tybeearts.org

Yellow Fever!

A living history production presented by the Davenport House Museum every Friday and Saturday evening in October. First show at 7:30pm, then every half hour until 9pm.

324 E. State St. Call 912-236-8097 for info or reservations. Adults: $15/adv, $17/door.

Kids: $10/adv, $15/door. Not appropriate for children under 8.

Film & Video 2nd Annual LGBT Film Festival

Three days of award winning LGBT films at Telfair’s Jepson Center for the Arts. 7:30 pm Fri, Oct 15: “The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister”, Reception/Shows following at ClubOne. On Sat, Oct 16, 11am: “The Topp Twins:Untouchable Girls;” 1:30pm: international ShortsFest; and 4:45 pm: “Undertow”. Sunday closing film, 7 pm: “Baby Jane.” For info and tickets go to www.sglfs. com.

Psychotronic Film Society

Hosts weekly screenings every Wednesday, 8pm, at the Sentient Bean. Offering up a selection of films so bad they are good, cult classics and other rarities. For upcoming schedule visit: www.sentientbean.com

Reel Savannah

Hosts screenings of critically acclaimed independent films from around the world at Victory Square Cinemas, 1901 E. Victory Dr. For schedule and more info, visit www. reelsavannah.org

The Armstrong Center is available for meetings, seminars, workshops or social events. Classrooms, meeting space, auditorium and 6000-square-foot ballroom. 3442951. Armstrong Atlantic State University,

giant imported rug auction Sunday, October 17th at 1pm Preview Saturday, October 16th, from 11am-3pm and Sunday, October 17th, 11am-1pm.

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Bull Street Auctions

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VING TSUN ( Wing Chun) is the worlds fastest growing martial arts style. Using angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them makes VING TSUN Kung Fu effective for everyone. Call Sifu Michael Sampson to find out about our free trial classes 912-429-9241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop Ins welcome.

Belly Drills

Belly Drill your body with Cybelle. This is an intense dance workout utilizing basic bellydance moves. Geared to all levels of ability. Dance your way to a better sense of well being. Bring water bottle. Thurs: 6-7pm. Visit www.cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091.

Walk-ins welcome.

Bellydancing for fun and fitness

The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music.

Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@yahoo.com

Bellydrills

2 hour dance workout utilizing basic bellydance moves. This is geared to all levels of ability. Dance your way towards a better sense of well being. Bring water bottle. $25/class. 912-414-1091 http://cybellefusionbellydance.wordpress.com/

30 minute Core and ABs concentration class. Offered 11:30am & 12:15pm Mon, Wed & Fri @ Fitness Body & Balance 2127 1/2 East Victory Dr. www.fitnessbodybalance.com 912-398-4776.

Curvy Girl Bootcamp

Exercise class assisting women of size to reach their fitness goal. Every Tues & Thurs, 6-7pm. Lake Mayer Community Center. $70 a month or $10 per session.

For more info call 912-341-7710 www. preservethecurves.com/curvycamp

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba.

Prices vary. Call for days and times. 3558111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

Fix Your Back

This 45 minute class takes a new twist on boring old back exercises. Try having fun and giving back pain the boot at the same time. Every Thursday at 6:30. $40 per month. Space is limited. 912-660-7399 Consistentintegrity@yahoo.com

Hatha Yoga classes

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available. Walk-ins welcome. Call 232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. , Savannah http://www.savannahyoga.com/

Pilates Mat Classes

Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am-8:30am, Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm, Thurs 12:30pm1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am-10:30am. All levels welcome! Private and Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.2380018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates.com/

Pregancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 8-week sessions are held on Tuesday evenings from 6-7:15 PM at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. Cost is $100 for 8 weeks. Call Ann Carroll at 912-7047650 e-mail ann@aikyayoga.com.

Rolf Method Bodywork

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

Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

Squats N’ Tots

Stretch and strengthen overused body parts, as well as focus on muscle endurance, low impact aerobics, and abdominal work. Your baby (age 6 weeks to one year) can get in on the fun, or simply stay close to you on your mat. Call to pre-register

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First City Network, Savannah http://www. firstcitynetwork.net/

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

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

Healthcare for the Uninsured

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

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

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Basic Breastfeeding Class

Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call 843-6838750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo. com. Family Health & Birth Center, 119 Chimney Rd , Rincon http://www.themidwifegroup.com/

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Zumba Fitness

Classes every week in the Pooler and Rincon area. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music dance themes that create a dynamic, effective fitness system. All ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. $7 per class. For info, contact Carmen at 484-1266 or calexe@comcast.net.

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor.

236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. 307 E Harris St , Savannah

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets first Tues of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call Christina Focht at 663-5087 or email christina@savpride.com.

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What Makes A Family

Oct. 26, 6:30pm. Women’s Services Conference Center at Memorial. two-hour session is designed to educate and support the mother planning to breastfeed.

Topics include information on preparing to breastfeed, basic breastfeeding concepts, nutrition, and more. $20/couple. Call 350BORN for more info.

Better Breathers of Savannah

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

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a. m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the SJ/C AfricanAmerican Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 for appt. Every Monday from 10a.m.-12p.m. at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appt necessary. Every MondayFriday from 10a.m.-2p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah

Free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street.

Call 355-4601. 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing. org/

Harvest of Hope Retreat

Oct. 15-17: Cancer survivors and their families will come together for a funfilled weekend retreat. The event includes programs for the entire family, such as massage, yoga, fishing, arts and crafts,

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

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Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

HypnoBirthing Classes

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

Hypnosis

One-on-one hypnosis for losing weight, quitting smoking, insomnia, and other issues. 80% of your actions are controlled by your subconscious. Good for all issues. It’s safe. You are always in control and it works.

912-660-7399.

I am your ‘life’ coach

You like to be happy, healthy and successful? I am your coach, helping you to live your life to your fullest potential in all fields. I help you to expand your talents. I offer small groups or one person appts.

Please call: 912-604-3281

Ionic Foot Spa Detox

A method used to remove toxins from the lymphatic system and help health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and more. Includes a free one-on-one holistic consultation.

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La Leche League of Savannah

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

Lecture: The Caveman Diet...or Not

Brighter Day Natural Foods hosts a free lecture about “Reconciling Our Ancient Biochemistry with the Modern World” on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 E. Fahm Street (behind the Visitors’ Center). Learn more about the perfect diet based on our ancient genetic makeup. For a complete flyer stop by Brighter Day (1102 Bull St), or email Barbara: brighterdayfoods@comcast.net.

Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes

Free lecture sponsored by Brighter Day Natural Foods. Learn specific foods, supplements and lifestyle changes to help reduce appetite, lose weight, control blood sugar levels and improve insulin function.

Features author Jack Challem. Nov. 4, 7 p.m., DeSoto Hilton, 15 E. Liberty Street.

Call 236-4703 for more info, or email Barbara Harrison, brighterdayfoods@comcast. net.

Meditation and Energy Flow Group

Meet with others who practice meditation or want to learn how, discuss techniques, & related areas of holistic health, healing, Reiki, Energy Medicine, CAM. Reduce stress, increase peace & health! For info:

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Memorial Health blood pressure check

Free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 350-7587.

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

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-2647154.

The Quit Line

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

Yoga for Meditators

A physical yoga practice developed for people who sit in meditation. Thursdays at 6pm. $10/class. Savannah Zen Center. 505 Blair St.

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

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

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Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Offering a variety of fun educational programs including Beach Discovery Walks, Marsh Treks, Turtle Talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. Open daily, 10am-5pm. For more info, call 912-7865917 or visit www.tybeemarinescience.org.

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Walk on the Wild Side

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

Wilderness Southeast

Offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. Their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or sign-up on our website www.wildernesssoutheast.org.

Wildlife Refuge Week

Kayak tours through the waterways of the Savannah NWR on Oct. 9, 15 & 16 at 8:30am. Meet at Refuge visitors center then depart for launch site. Participants must be 16+. No experience necessary. Call 843/784-2249, or email swampchicks@aol. com, for reservations (fees vary per tour).

There will also be a group of advanced paddlers heading out on Oct. 17. Call for details.

Pets & Animals A Walk in the Park

Professional pet sitting, boarding, dog walking and house sitting services offered in downtown Savannah and the nearby islands. All jobs accepted are performed by the owner to ensure the safety of your pets.

Local references available. Please call 401.2211 or email lesleycastle@gmail.com to make a reservation.

Dog Yoga

Every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. in Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-A-Life.

Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www. thesavannahyogaroom.com. Savannah

Halloween PAW-rade

Includes an adoption fair, pet costume contest, silent auction, parade and more.

Proceeds benefit Jacob Smith Elementary School and participating pet rescue agencies. Oct. 30, 11am-3pm at Habersham Village Shopping Center (Habersham & 61st Sts.). For info, www.tailsspin.com

Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Lester host low cost vaccine clinic for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. The cost for each vaccination is $12.00, with $2.00 from each vaccination to be donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies. Habersham Village Shopping Center. For more info: www. tailsspin.com

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

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

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

Signing: Martha Nesbit

The local author signs copies of her new book “Savannah Celebrations: Simple southern party menus” Sat. Oct. 16, 1-3pm at Barnes & Noble, 7804 Abercorn St.

Tea time at Ola’s

A book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, Savannah http://www.liveoakpl.org/

Religious & Spiritual Christian Businessmen’s Committee

Meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 898-3477. Savannah

DrUUming Circle

First Saturday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Troup Square at Habersham and Macon streets. Drummers, dancers and the drumcurious are welcome. Call 234-0980 or visit uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

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For a peaceful end to your day attend the chanted service of Compline (Singing Good Night to God) sung at 9pm every Sunday night by the Compline Choir of historic Christ Church (1733) on Johnson Square; 28 Bull Street. Open to the public. All are welcome! Call 232-4131 for more info.

Live Web-streaming

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

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

Metaphysics For Everyday Self-Mastery A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1-877-494-8629, www.freedom-

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Midweek Bible Study

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

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 4-5 p.m. and Youth Praise will meet Sundays from 5-6 p.m. Call Ronn Alford at 925-9524 or visit www.wbumc.org. White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd , Savannah

Nicodemus by Night

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

by Night, Savannah

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Women’s Bible Study

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

Sports & Games American Singles Golf Association

Open to golfers age 21+. Members participate in local golf outings, and the occasional multi-chapter regional outing.

For more info, email: gallopinggolfer@ gmail.com

Savannah Bike Polo

A series of Metaphysical/New Thought classes presented by The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, featuring metaphysical minister and local author Adeeb Shabazz. Mondays at 8pm. 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

The Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run takes place Saturday, Dec. 4 and features 5K Run/Walk, a 10K Run, a Double-Pump Race, a Team Challenge, the DoublePump Team Challenge and a 1/4 mile Kids Run. Register before Oct.31 for $28, from Nov. 1-Dec.2 for $30. www.savannahriverbridgerun.com

Soka Gakkai of America

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

Stand for Peace

A sllent witness for peace that will be held in Johnson Square the fourth Sunday of every month from 1-2pm until the occupation ends. Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee. 224-7456, 231-2252, 2340980, uusavannah.org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation: Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with study group following 6:30-7:30pm; Sundays 8am-9:30am which includes Dharmatalk. Donations accepted.

Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach cindy@alwaysoptions.com. The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. Savannah. More info: savannahzencenter.com The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. , Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church

Services begin Sunday at 11 a.m. at 1001 E. Gwinnett St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. Religious education for grades 1-8 is offered. For information, call 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

Celebrating diversity. Working for justice.

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Responsibility Matters®

Two Sunday morning Celebration Services - 9:15 and 11:00. (Children’s Church and childcare at 11:00.) A.W.E. interactive worship service at 7 p.m. every first Friday of the month. Noon prayer service every Thurs. To find out about classes, workshops and more visit, www.unityofsavannah.org or call 912-355-4704. 2320 Sunset Blvd. Unity Church of Savannah, Savannah

Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call the clerk, 912-3736276 Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www. trinitychurch1848.org/

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Unity of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary. 234-0980, admin@uusavannah. org or www.uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. Check out www. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information.

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Texas Hold ’Em Poker League

Free Texas Hold Em poker league is available to the public. Teaches new players how to play and advanced players can come and work on their skills. Prize tournaments for season points leaders. www. series7pokerleague.com for more info.

Support Groups Al Anon Family Groups

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

Al-Anon Meetings

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

Alcoholics Anonymous

If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, call 912-356-3688.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

Senior Citizens, Inc. hosts a Caregiver’s support group for individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Meets every second Monday at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Road.

For more info, call 236-0363, ext. 143.

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Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Bleeding Disorders Support Group

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

Cancer support group

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

Caregiver’s Support Group

Meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

For more info: 912-925-5924.

White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd. ,

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

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

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Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 3551221; or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250.

This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@hotmail. com. 55 Al Henderson B;vd. , Savannah

Diabetes Support Group

Free Seminar + Discussion. Improve your health or help a loved one by learning about healthy alternatives. Every Thursday 6pm-7:30pm at the W.W. Law Library, 909 E. Bolton Street (@Waters), For more info call Woods at 618.799.1695 or healthuniversal@live.com . Bring a pen and paper.

Domestic Violence Hotline

The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-800-33-HAVEN.

Domestic violence support group

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

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:306:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 819-6743. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

First Line

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

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support

Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Meets the third Thursday at 5 p.m. in the gym at The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center. 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Grief Support Group

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 450 Mall Blvd. Seven-week support groups for children and adults are offered by the bereavement counselors at no charge as a complementary service of Hospice Savannah. For information call 912.303.9442 or visit www.HospiceSavannahHelps.org.

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Heartbeats for Life

A free support and education group for those who have suffered or want to prevent or reverse Heart Disease, and/or Diabetes problems. Contact, Jeff: 912598-8457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlifega.org

Hope House

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

KidsNet Savannah Parent Support Group

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

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

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

Living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group

meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion.

355-5196. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Memorial Health Focus

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

Multiple Sclerosis support group

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“Sum Sudoku” Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column, and 3x3 box (as marked by heavy lines in the grid) contains the digits 1–9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by dots; and 3) the sums of the numbers in each area marked off by dots total the little number given in each of those areas. For example, the digits in the upper-rightmost square in the grid and the two squares directly to its left will add up to 20. Now quit wastin’ my time and solve!!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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Narcotics Anonymous

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

National Alliance on Mental Illness

A recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Tuesdays: 6:30-8pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Thursdays: 6:30-8pm, Pine Woods Retreat, 1149 Cornell Ave. Suite 3A. Saturdays: 1:303:30pm, Candler Heart & Lung Building (2nd Floor). Call 912-353-7143 for more info.

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Overeaters Anonymous

Meets weekly at several locations. Please visit www.oa.org to locate a meeting.

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group

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

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group

Meets the first Thursday of the month. 56:30pm in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For more info, call 355-6347 or 238-4666.

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1 Sensitivity training targets 7 Just about 13 They may be made without the yolks 15 Pasta specification 16 Forms a menacing group 17 Eye drop that makes your pupils widen, e.g.

18 They think alike, according to the saying 20 Mythological 2011 movie with Anthony Hopkins 21 “My Name Is Asher ___” 22 Heavy snorer’s problem 23 Letter that looks like a horseshoe 24 List-ending abbr.

26 ___-hoo (chocolate drink) 27 Forest clearings 28 Uppity type 30 Gets the tangles out 32 Travel like a scent 34 Rancid’s category 35 Dining option 38 He loved Lucy 41 Raid the arsenal early 42 Move like a wallaroo 44 London gallery 46 Drink in a sleeve 47 Painter Matisse 49 WWII naval vessel 50 E pluribus ___ 51 Rite of passage for girls 53 Apostle known as “The Zealot” 55 Calm down 56 Forcing out 57 Specification in the ketchup aisle 58 Came to be, like an uncertain feeling 59 Exactly

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1 Word game with dice 2 Turkish inns 3 Certain urban Swiss 4 Olympian Korbut 5 The T in Ferrari TR 6 Short and thick 7 Boxers Muhammad and Laila, for two 8 Bad variety of cholesterol 9 The dating scene, to some 10 Discreetly 11 Iggy Pop’s backup group, with “The” 12 Mountainous regions of planets 14 Driving disasters 15 ___-line phone plans 19 Gas in glass 23 Warner who played Charlie Chan 25 It can be 1% 27 Wildebeest 29 Wilkes-___, Pa. 31 Soundgarden hit of 1994 33 Having XX chromosomes: abbr.

35 Spanish tennis champ ___ Sanchez Vicario 36 Request when your friends are locked out 37 Country guitarist Atkins 39 Rescue from destruction 40 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” refrain 41 They’re positive 43 The joint 45 Old anesthetics 47 Put up some paintings 48 “___ easy to fall in love...”

51 City on the Rhine 52 Gozer’s minion, in “Ghostbusters” 54 DI doubled

PRIDE Support Group

This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Rape Crisis Center

assists survivors of rape and sexual assault.

The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 233-7273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

The group welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, and family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it.

For info, call Martyn Hills at 651-4094.

S-Anon Family Group

A fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For info, call 663-2565.

Seeking Support

1st Generation AA Northerner seeks same for support, fellowship and creative pursuits.

Call Anna: 912-412-0294.

Self-Help Support Group for People with HIV/AIDS

For more information on a support group for men and women living with HIV/AIDS, please contact Mary Jackson at My Brothaz HOME, Inc. at 912-231-8727. These two groups are confidential and only for persons

with verified HIV/AIDS.

Senior Citizen’s Inc. Alzheimer’s Support Group

For families of persons suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. Second Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Stacey Floyd at 236-0363. 3025 Bull St , Savannah

Smoking Cessation Support Group

is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking.

Call 819-8032 or 819-3368.

Spinal Injury Support Group

Meets every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial Health. For info, call Jami Murray at 350-8900. Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Support Group for Parents of Ill Children

who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity. Meets once a week.

Call Donna at 350-5616. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/backus

Teens nurturing teens

Meets the third Sunday of the month at 3 PM on the 2nd floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. This group is for teens who have a family member or loved one impacted by cancer. For more info, call 819-5704.

The Work of Byron Katie

The Work of Byron Katie ends unnecessary suffering. Let’s do some worksheets together. Looking for others who are interested in doing TW. I am a 2003 Graduate of the School for the Work with Byron Katie.

Contact twwurs@gmail.com, or call Urs 912-484-0134 for more info; or read “Loving What Is”

Tourettes Community of Savannah (TiCS)

Meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

For more information contact. Michelle McGee 912-224-9201 or sign up on the Facebook page Tourette’s Community of Savannah. Call for meeting place and times

Troup Square Al-Anon Family Group

A support group for friends and family of alcoholics, with special attention to issues of adult children of alcoholics. 495-9758 or www.al-anon.alateen.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

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is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

Theatre Auditions for murder mysteries

Auditions for paid roles in two productions by Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. “Marriage Can Be Murder” and “Murder Ahoy.” Seeking actors ages 18-60.

(6 Women – 8 Men). Auditions ongoing from Oct. 12 - Nov. 5 by appt only. Call 912-2474644 for info.

Auditions for new theater company

Hard Hearted Hannah’s Playhouse holding auditions Oct. 15 at 6pm & Oct. 16 at 3pm at the Oyster Bar on River Street, second floor, for its 2011 season launch. Seeks 4 men and 4 women, ages 25-60. All are paid roles. Please prepare short monologue.

Bring resume with theatre experience and headshot if available. contact Sheila Berg 912-659-4383 or sheilab@hardheartedhannahsplayhouse.com.

Auditions: “Hands of the Spirit”

Savannah Community Theatre hosts auditions for an upcoming production (Feb. 2011). Auditions held Oct. 12-29 By Appointment ONLY. Please call 912-247-4644. Seeking actors, singers, dancers ages 18 and up.

Three Men (African-American), Two Women (African-American), Two Men (Caucasian), Two Women (Caucasian), Choir Singers – Trained and Untrained Dancers.

GSU Performing Arts Center

The GSU-PAC 2010-2011 schedule includes The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Gershwin on Broadway, Stomp, A Chorus Line, and more. Statesboro, GA. For info and tickets, visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu/pac or call 912-478-7999.

Improv Comedy with the Odd Lot

The improv comedy troupe meets every Monday, 8pm at the Muse Arts Warehouse.

703d Louisville Rd. www.musesavannah.org

Volunteers America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

To help with various tasks around food bank and warehouse. Apply as soon as possible.

912-236-6750 ext 109. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St , Savannah http://www.helpendhunger.org/

First Steps

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910. St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Good Samaratin Clinic

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The Good Samaritan Clinic serves people without insurance and whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. To volunteer call Greta continues on p. 52

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(March 21–April 19) Until recently, no cricket had ever been observed pollinating a flower. All the evidence showed, in fact, that crickets don’t help flowers –– they devour them. Then one night last January on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, researchers discovered that the species known as the raspy cricket was responsible for pollinating wild orchids. They even caught the magic act on film.

I regard this turn of events as akin to an upcoming development in your life: Someone or something you’ve never thought of as a fertilizing force for you will become one.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) My date and I decided to go see the film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. As we entered the theater, we passed a short, elderly Chinese woman in a brown uniform. She was bent over sweeping the floor. Suddenly she stood up straight, looked me in the eye, and extended her left hand toward me. Confused, I reached out toward her. She pressed something in my hand, then returned to sweeping. As I walked, I unrolled the paper scroll she had given me. It read, “Tell your Taurus readers they should be alert for helpful messages coming from sources they would usually ignore or neglect.”

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) Of all the signs in the zodiac, you are currently the best at carrying out the following activities: gliding, flowing, leaping, skipping, twirling, undulating, reverberating, galloping, and rub–a–dub–dubbing. I suspect you will also excel at rumbling, romping, rollicking, and cavorting. If all goes well, Gemini – – which is to say you show how much you love your body and throw off any inhibitions you might have about celebrating your instinctual nature –– then you will be at the low end of the scale in performing these activities: shuffling, mumbling, wallowing, pigeonholing, and pussyfooting.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22)

you than brute force. You prefer your influence on people to be appreciated, not begrudgingly respected. And I certainly don’t want you to forsake any of those inclinations. But I would love to see you add a dash of aggressiveness and a pinch of vehemence to your repertoire in the coming week. I’d be thrilled if you raised your voice a bit and gesticulated more vigorously and projected your confidence with an elevated intensity. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your refined approach will benefit from a dose of subliminal thunder.

Among Google searches starting with the phrase “who is,” the top–rated is “God,” while “Satan” is a distant tenth. Running ahead of Satan but behind God are Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. If I were you, Capricorn, I wouldn’t be Google–searching any bigger–than–life entities like those four in the coming week. The characters you need to research are non–divine, non–celebrity types who might bring interesting influences into your life –– people who would have a direct influence on your access to resources and on your ability to call forth the best from yourself.

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AQUARIUS

A Harvard study (tinyurl. com/BeExtraNice) proved that people who did good deeds or even visualized themselves doing good deeds had increased physical endurance and willpower. Unfortunately, the study showed that those who harbor nefarious intentions are also able to draw on extra fortitude.

In other words, you can boost your energy by either being compassionate or evil. I recommend the latter over the former, Leo, especially now that you’re entering a phase when it makes spiritual sense to build your courage and tonicity.

Time magazine created a list of the 50 worst inventions.

Included among the most terrible creations that human ingenuity has ever come up with are plastic grocery bags, sub–prime mortgages, hydrogenated oils, and pop–up ads.

Now let’s switch our attention to your personal equivalents of these monstrosities. To climax the atonement phase of your own astrological cycle, I recommend that you do the following: 1. Identify the three worst ideas you have taken seriously during the past decade. 2. Carry out one formal action to correct or make amends for the consequences of each bad idea. 3.

Really, truly, forgive yourself as best as you can.

Explorers found a 30,000–year– old carved stone artifact in a German cave and brought it to the University of Tubingen for study. Experts there determined that it had a dual purpose for the ancient humans who made it. Phallic–shaped with rings around one end, it was obviously a sex toy. But other markings indicated it was also used to start fires by striking it against flints. I’d like to make this power object your symbol of the week, Aquarius.

You’re in a phase when you should be alert for ways to mix business with pleasure and practicality with adventure.

VIRGO

SAGITTARIUS

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease,” said French philosopher Voltaire.

With this in mind, let’s evaluate your current discomfort.

From what I can tell, healing forces beyond your control and outside of your awareness are going to be working their mojo to chip away at your problem.

But it will still be wise for you to occupy yourself in activities that you think will expedite the fix. Doing so will minimize your anxieties, allowing nature to do what it does best.

For your assignment this week, I have borrowed from a list of suggestions offered

by Sagittarius poet Kenneth Patchen in his book The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Feel free to improvise as you carry out at least three. 1. Discourage all traces of shame. 2. Bear no cross. 3. Extend all boundaries.

4. Blush perpetually in gaping innocence. 5. Burrow beneath the subconscious. 6. Pass from one world to another in carefree devotion. 7. Exhaust the primitive. 8. Generate the free brain. 9. Forego no succulent filth. 10. Verify the irrational.

11. Acquire a sublime reputation. 12. Make one monster at least. 13. Multiply all opinions.

14. Inhabit everyone.

You’re not exceptionally scared of the dark, Pisces, but sometimes you seem to be intimidated by the light.

You can summon the spunky courage to go crawling on your hands and knees through dank tunnels and spooky caves in quest of treasure that’s covered in primordial goo, but you may play hard to get when you’re offered the chance to unburden yourself of your cares in wide–open spaces. What’s up with that? Don’t get me wrong: I’m proud of your capacity to wrestle with the shadows in the land of the lost; I’m gratified by your willingness to work your karma to the bone. But I would also love you to get a share of rejuvenating rest and ease now and then. Do you think you could manage to have it both ways? I do.

A reader wrote to me bemoaning the fact that her new Cancerian boyfriend is addicted to safety. She speculated that since he is a member of an astrological sign renowned for its timidity, she should probably either get used to the suffocating lack of action or else bolt from the relationship now. In reply, I sent her a quote from one of the most heroic Cancerians of the 20th century, Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” Moral of the story: It’s a ripe time for you to rise up and refute people who think you’re a brooding wallflower.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22)

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22)

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Usually you specialize in having a light touch. You’d rather nudge than push. Nimble harmony is more interesting to

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

(Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18)

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20)

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Help Feed the Hungry

Savannah Hosea Feed the Hungry is in need of regular volunteers to maintain the food and clothing rooms. One or two regular volunteers are needed as a telephone clerk/receptionist. We also need several strong arms with vans or trucks to load, deliver, and unload boxes of produce 3x a week. Daytime hours. Visit 141 Telfair Rd. or Call 912-232-3085.

Literacy volunteers needed

Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week.

Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047. Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd , Savannah http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries

needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call 652-3661.

Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St , Savannah http://www.liveoakpl.org/

Oatland Island Education Center

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Volunteer organization in partnership with the community that rehabilitates houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children. Visit www.rebuildingtogethersavannah.org.

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Share your time and talents with others.

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The Volunteer Center

is a service of the United Way of the Coastal Empire. Call 2-1-1 or 651-7726, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon-Fri, or send e-mail to volunteer@uwce.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

The Women’s Center

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Call Rhonda Anderson at 236-4226 or 447-5711. Wesley Community Center, 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www. wesleyctrs-savh.org/

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JEEP Grand Cherokee 4x4, 1995Cold a/c, runs super! $2750 OBO, 441-2150.

LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

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NICE ROOM for rent, private bath, cable, electricity and water paid, $125/week +deposit. No drugs allowed. Call 912-428-6324 NO DEPOSIT- Limited time East & West Chatham & Bloomingdale •REDUCED RENT!• •Rooms $100 & Up. Furnished, includes utilities, central heat and air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Hardwood floors. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. Call 912-210-0181.

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Move-In Special! Located on Westside $125, Call 844-9718 ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995.

ROOMMATE NEEDED: Share 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment (Southside Location). $425/month, utilities included!

Available 10/18!!

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LINCOLN Coupe LSC, 1992- 42K original miles, 5OHO motor, good condition.

2,500.

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cars 910 1998 Mustang. 5-speed, cold a/c, V-6, Runs fantastic! $2850 OBO. Call 912-441-2150 CADILLAC CTS, 2003- Very good condition, one owner, estate, fully loaded. $8500. Call 354-3884 CAR FOR SALE Pontiac Sunfire, 1998, blue $2,000.

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