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Moving Wall Memorial

What: The

smaller, traveling version of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall spends 4 days in Pooler.

Opening ceremony Thursday at 2pm.

When: Thu. Oct. 28, Fri. Oct. 29, Sat. Oct. 30 Where: Pooler Recreation Complex, off Pooler Parkway

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Wednesday Invisible Children

What: A screening of the groups new film

“Go” looking at child soldiers in Uganda.

When: Wed. Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m.

Where: City Church, 125 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public

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Film: Night of the Blood Beast (US, 1958)

What: A campy, so-bad-it’s-good horror/sci-

fi schlock fest.

When: Wed. Oct. 27, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5

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Zombie Prom is a cross between Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Thursday Lecture: Frances Anderton

What: Anderton is the radio host of KCRW’s

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“Design and Architecture” and L.A. editor for Dwell Magazine.

When: Thu. Oct. 28, 5:30 p.m.

Where: SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. Cost: Free

Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte

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What: Georgia Southern Opera pres-

ents this light-hearted Mozart work in Italian (with English supertitles projected above stage).

When: Thu. Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., Sun. Oct. 31, 3 p.m.

Where: Georgia Southern Performing Arts Center, Statesboro Cost: $10/general, $7/students+faculty

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Theater: The Glass Menagerie

What: The Collective Face Ensemble pres-

ents Tennessee Williams’ classic tale.

When: Thu. Oct. 28, 8 p.m., Fri. Oct. 29, 8

p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 3 p.m.

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

Theater: Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon What: 209 fairy tales as frenetically told by 2

antagonistic narrators in 1 impossibly complicated and hilarious story-

line. Performed by AASU Masquers.

When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28, 29, 30, 31 Where: Jenkins Hall Black Box Cost: $10

Theater: Zombie Prom

What: A campy romp through America’s

“Atomic Age” and the “Golden Age” of horror comic books – a cross between Grease and The Rocky Horror Show.

When: Thu. Oct. 28, 8 p.m., Fri. Oct. 29, 8 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 11:59 p.m.

Where: Mondanaro Theatre, 217 MLK Jr. Blvd. , Cost: Free Info: http://www.scad.edu/

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Friday SAV/HHI Speed Classic

What: Three days of car racing on

Hutchinson, including the opportunity to ride along for a lap or two.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Savannah Harbor Race Course, Hutchinson Island Cost: $20-90 Info: http://www.hhiconcours.com

Lecture: German Socialstaat Revisited

What: Associate professor Thomas Howard

discusses how slowing population growth will affect social welfare programs.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 12 p.m.

Where: AASU Univerity Hall rm 156 Cost: Free and open to the public

Oatland Halloween Hike

What: A trick or treat event geared toward

younger children featuring forest critter costumed characters along a trail.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Oatland Island Wildlife Center Cost: $8/child, $6/adult Info: oatlandisland.org/

YPS 5th Anniversary

What: The Young Professionals of Savannah

celebrate their 5th year with a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Empire.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 6 p.m.

Where: First City Club, 7 E. Congress St. , Cost: $35/members, $45/non-members Info: www.ypsav.net/

Fall Festival

What: Overcoming By Faith hosts this safe

alternative to Halloween. Costumes encouraged. Free candy for kids, music and more.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Where: Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe St., Cost: Free and open to the public

What: Altered versions of classic horror

films set to an original soundtrack performed by Aux Arc, Manatee, Magic Places and more. Wear costumes.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-10 p.m.

Where: The Co-Lab, 631 E. Broad St. , Cost: $5 Info: http://zecolab.tumblr.com/

Fall-O-Ween Festival

What: A haunted trail walk on Friday

night, followed by games hayrides and other activities Saturday.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 2 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Island State Park, Diamond Causeway Cost: $5 parking fee

Moose Lodge Haunted Forest

What: Moose Lodge #1550 hosts this

spooky annual event. Proceeds benefit Backus Children’s Hospital.

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.-11:59 p.m., Sat. Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.-11:59 p.m.

Where: Moose Lodge, 2202 Norwood Ave. Cost: $7/adults, $5/children

Museum, 460 MLK Jr. Blvd., Cost: Free

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. 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Polk’s Market, 530 E. Liberty St

Trick or Treating at the Roundhouse

What: A costumed celebration. Themed

crafts, stories, and of course trick-ortreating throughout the Roundhouse!

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St., Cost: $6/child w regular adult admission Info: www.chsgeorgia.org/

Cannon Firings

What: Re-enacting history with a bang.

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 11 a.m. 2 PM, Where: Old Fort Jackson Cost: museum admission Info: http://www.chsgeorgia.org/

Yellow Fever!

Food Demo & Book Signing

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

When: Fri. Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. 8:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 9:00 PM, , Sat. Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m. 8:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 9:00 PM, Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State St. Cost: Adv: $15/adults, $10/kids; Door: $17/adults, $15/ Info: davenporthousemusuem.org

copies of her new book “Savannah Celebrations: Simple Southern Party Menus” When: Sat. Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Kitchens on the Square, 38 Barnard St. Cost: Free

What: Experience the living history

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Saturday 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. 30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park Cost: Free

Snake and Turtle Tales

What: Learn what is fact and fiction

about local reptiles and amphibians.

Reservations req’d.

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

Where: Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum Cost: $20/person, $10/children under 12 Info: www.wilderness-southeast.org/

Get Out the Vote Rally

What: Voter education information from the Chatham County Voter Registration office as well as two film screenings, “The Intolerable Burden,” and “Passing the Torch to America’s Youth.” Part of Freedom Week.

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights

What: Food writer Martha Nesbit signs

Pagan Pride Masquerade Ball

What: Live music by Free Candy, bellydancing, tarot card readings and much more. Costumes encouraged.

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 9 p.m.

Where: The Wormhole, 2307 Bull St. , Cost: $5 Info: www.wormholebar.com/

Halloween PAW-rade

What: Includes an adoption fair, pet

costume contest, silent auction, parade and more. Proceeds benefit Jacob Smith Elementary School and participating pet rescue agencies.

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Habersham Village Shopping Center, Habersham and 61st St. Info: http://www.TailsSpin.com/

Lecture: Citizens Climate Lobby What: Steve Valk discusses recent

climate data and the political environment surrounding the battle over global warming. Lunch provided. Call to reserve space.

When: Sat. Oct. 30, 12 p.m.

Where: Exchange Restaurant, 6710 Waters Ave. Cost: Free

Trunk or Treat

What: Food, fun, games and plenty

of candy. Hotdogs and chili for sale.

Proceeds benefit the church.

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Jewish Food Festival

What: Shalom Y’all! A sampling

of traditional Jewish fare like blintzes and kugel alongside unique local favorites like Rabbi Belzer’s AhMein Lo Mein.

When: Sun. Oct. 31, 11 a.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Food tickets for sale; entertainment is free Info: www.mickveisrael.org/

12-Hour Halloween Movie Marathon

What: Six rare horror masterpieces including “City of the Living Dead”, “Profondo Rosso”, and “Carnival of Souls”, among others.

When: Sun. Oct. 31, 12 p.m.-11:59 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703d Louisville Rd. Cost: $7/film or discount for full day pass Info: www.psychotronicfilmsavannah. org/

Halloween Skate Competition

Kaleidoscope dance performances

What: A showcase of dance ensembles

from around the state, including UGA’s ballet ensemble, Innovation performing arts, Savannah Arts Academy, Islands Dance Academy and more.

When: Mon. Nov. 01, 7 p.m.

Where: Johnny Mercer Theater, 301 W. Oglethorpe St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.savannahcivic.com

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Tuesday

Lecture: Gullah-Geechee Culture in Coastal Georgia

What: Jamal Toure discusses the his-

tory and culture of the Gullah-Geechee.

When: Tue. Nov. 02, 7 p.m.

Where: Savannah History Museum, 303

MLK Jr. Blvd. , Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.chsgeorgia.org

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Wednesday SNCC 50th Anniversary Program What: A public program discussing the

What: Beginner, Intermediate and

Advanced groups. Prizes for best trick, best costume, and more. Registration from 9-11am.

When: Sun. Oct. 31, 12 p.m.

Where: Woody’s Skatepark, 218 Windsor Forest Rd. Cost: Registration: $15/adv, $20/day of Info: www.woodysskatepark.com/

history and significance of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights movement. Featuring Charles McDew, former SNCC Chairman from 1961-1964.

When: Wed. Nov. 03, 7 p.m.

Where: Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Grand Opening

Film: G.O.R.A (Turkey, 2004)

What: The grand opening of a photogra-

phy studio above the new Time Machine Portraits location. Prizes and refreshments.

When: Sun. Oct. 31, 2 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Broughton Studios, 112 W. Broughton St. Cost: Free Info: www.broughtonstudios.com

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Monday Lecture: Trends in Community Trees What: Dr. Kathleen Wolf, from the

University of Washington, discusses trees, greenspace and community health. Presented by the Savannah Tree Foundation.

When: Mon. Nov. 01, 3 p.m.

Where: Mendonsa Hearing Room, MPC, 110 E. State St. , Cost: Free Info: www.savannahtree.com/

What: Bizarre, high-tech sci-fi spoof from Turkey which has become an infamous cult film worldwide. With English Subtitles.

When: Wed. Nov. 03, 8 p.m.

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

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The best government money can buy

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

It’s not only Film Fest time and Halloween season — election day’s coming up. This week, courtesy of our own Patrick Rodgers, we give you interviews with all three Georgia gubernatorial candidates: Roy Barnes, Nathan Deal, and John Monds.

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Earlier this year I wrote a column titled “We the Corporations,” about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the name of free speech to allow unlimited donations to outside political groups, which are then free to use that money to pay for political advertising.

I’m happy it was one of the best–received columns I’ve written, but I’m sorry I had to write it, because the situation isn’t getting better.

The move towards granting corporations full citizenship rights on par with actual humans has been going on for quite some time, but that crucial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission ruling took things to the next level, with predictable results.

A deluge of outside money, some of it from foreign sources, has flooded this year’s campaigns, in some cases making what would normally be sleepy local affairs into vectors for the kind of corporate cash that once were reserved for only the most high–profile races.

The tsunami of cash is making a mockery of a democracy which was already on life support. Money isn’t everything — witness Meg Whitman’s flailing gubernatorial campaign despite spending $120 million of her own money — but it’s certainly something, or else donors wouldn’t be so eager to donate and politicians wouldn’t be so eager to soak it up.

As tilted as the playing field already was

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toward big moneyed interests, the difference between American politics before Citizens United and after nearly defies description: • Outside spending in this year’s election season is up 91 percent — basically double — from 2008, a presidential year.

• A single so–called SuperPAC (a political action committee set up specifically to take advantage of Citizens United), Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, is expected to contribute over $250 million to Republican campaigns.

• In Colorado alone — the 24th most populous state — $23 million in outside money has been spent so far.

• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce poured over $5 million into campaigns just last week.

• Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch donated $1 million to Republican gubernatorial candidates in the name of his “fair and balanced” network’s parent company.

• As a recent New York Times column put it: “Every day sets a new record. Last Friday, there were 1,200 television ads in Las Vegas for the Senate race.”

Over a thousand political ads on TV. In one day. In one city.

So who is benefiting most from the Supreme Court ruling?

Clearly, the mainstream media appreciates it, because they’re getting a huge influx of ad revenue during a time when revenue is down.

As for political parties, both Republicans and Democrats alike are equally eligible for these

unregulated contributions, as are the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, and I guess The Rent is Too Damn High Party as well.

Labor unions and advocacy groups like PETA and the Sierra Club also saw their free speech rights expanded by Citizens United. But anyone with a modicum of civics education could have predicted the deluge of funding would benefit the side that most favors big corporations. (At last count American corporations were sitting on at least $1 trillion in cash holdings. That’s cash.)

When corporations were given unlimited free speech rights it was only natural that their “free speech” would monetarily benefit the political party most likely to do their bidding.

Specifically: Republicans have received eight times the amount Democrats have in outside spending post-Citizens United.

This is not to shed any tears for the rudderless Democrats, who through their usual hazy focus, too-clever-by-half gamesmanship and tendency to splinter along racial, ethnic and sociopolitical lines have largely botched their control of the federal reins.

They will almost certainly lose control of the House of Representatives this Tuesday, and regardless of which side you’re on you’d be hard-pressed to say they don’t deserve to lose.

In any case, the modern Democratic Party is nearly as beholden to corporate interests as Republicans are, as evidenced by President Obama’s tepid efforts at Wall Street “overhaul” and his version of health care “reform,” which is predicated on mandating coverage for 40 million new insurance customers.

The fact that right wingers and Tea Partiers are so vitriolic in their rhetoric against Obama’s essentially staid, corporatist ideology only shows how extreme they themselves have become. continued on next page

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Number of states that cast more than 50 percent of their ballots in early voting (Tennessee, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas)

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Number of seats that need to change hands in order for Republicans to take control of the House of Representatives

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Number of years since the last time Republican primary voters outnumbered Democratic primary voters, as was the case this year

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ABOUT THE FILM FESTIVAL: Of course this is also our huge Savannah Film Festival special issue, in case you didn’t already catch on.

Besides excellent design work from our art department, headed by Brandon Blatcher, I have to give a special shout-out to our A&E Editor Bill DeYoung, who truly out-did himself by taking on the vast bulk of the Film Festival advance coverage.

When Connect Savannah interviews various actors, directors, and writers involved in Savannah Film Festival movies, in most cases we’ve actually seen the movies we’re writing about. We try to get review copies of these films in advance before we interview anyone — not a standard practice in the rest of your local media, to be sure.

ABOUT THAT OTHER FILM FESTIVAL: The ‘Movies Savannah Missed’ series from Psychotronic Films is holding a full day marathon of campy horror flicks all day Sunday at Muse. Check out Patrick’s story this issue.

ABOUT HALLOWEEN: To find out the best way to combine your nightlife with the Halloween season, check out our spotlighted gigs in “Noteworthy” in this week’s Music section. cs

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Perhaps the most outrageous aspect of the current state of campaign financing is that donations from foreign sources are completely unregulated.

A recent investigation found that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has accepted donations from such patriotic, apple pie, all-American sources as the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Ah, yes — oil–rich Middle East sheikdoms donating to U.S. political campaigns. What could possibly go wrong?

Another outrageous part of current campaign finance law is that the identity of donors doesn’t have to be disclosed.

(To be fair, the Supreme Court supports full disclosure. Congress took up a bill to force identification of donors, but it was quashed by Senate Republicans.)

It would be nice to think that the Tea Party would address these issues of foreign influence and donor transparency, since so much of their rhetoric revolves around American exceptionalism and grassroots organization. But so far, barely a peep from them on the subject.

Anyway, whichever side wins out this Tuesday, you’ll know you’ll have the best government money can buy. Enjoy!

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Governor’s race:

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Roy Barnes is a familiar face in the Governor’s mansion, but that doesn’t mean he’s had an easy time during this campaign. Since winning the Democratic primary, he’s been part of a media street fight with Republican opponent Nathan Deal, from campaign commercials to debates. We caught up with him last week by phone to talk about what will make the difference on election day.

What do you see as being the most important issues for the state right now?

Roy Barnes: I think that the two issues that are inextricably woven are jobs and education. Jobs because we need to get the state back on growth mode and going in the right direction rather than the wrong direction; and education because the skills and education levels that we have are what we need to fill the jobs that we can attract. Those two issues together are the major issues.

In a year when everyone when everyone is talking about jobs and the direness of our economic situation, what specifically would you like to see happen if you’re elected and what differentiates you from your opponents?

Georgia’s former governor from 1999-2003 is back in the ring for a chance to lead one more time

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Roy Barnes: First, I have a proven record of creating an atmosphere in which jobs grow. During the time when I was governor, Georgia was the fourth fastest growing state in the union even though we had September 11th in the midst of that term. There were 235,000 jobs created while I was governor. I have a proven track record.

Here are the specifics. One, Georgia should give preference to contracts from state and local governments to Georgia companies that employ Georgia workers.

Two, we should disqualify and not allow tax credits to American companies who ship jobs overseas.

Three, we should expand the Georgia Works program where if you’re drawing unemployment compensation, an employer can hire you and pay you $100 per week and you can continue to draw unemployment so you can have trial employment for up to two months. 63 percent of those who’ve gone through this pilot program have found permanent employment.

Number four, we should give a two year tax incentive for new employment by the state of Georgia paying the federal payroll tax for every new employee for a period of two years.

Lastly, we should suspend the Georgia capital gains tax for two years if you’ll agree to do several things: Invest

in a Georgia company that creates a specified number of new jobs, invest in a Georgia start up, invest in a Georgia community bank that needs re–capitalizing, or purchase a parcel of Georgia real estate. I think those things taken together will jumpstart our economy.

One of the criticisms that’s been floating around is that your plan is unrealistic and will require tax increases. Is there any truth to that?

Roy Barnes: We debated this last night.

When I pushed, they say, “You’re proposing $2.4 billion in new spending.” I said, “Where? Show it to me.”

The only thing that Congressman Deal could point to was that I said we should have a full school year of 180 days and that we should stop the furloughs of school teachers.

Let me tell you, if we can’t fund that, then why do we exist as a state? These are baseless attacks.

I’ve said all along, you create priorities. You make sure that you run the state properly and you have enough money. Have I been critical of some special interest tax breaks? I have been, and I think some of them should be rolled back.

But at the same time, I’ve never voted for a tax increase. Congressman Deal voted for the largest tax increase in Georgia’s history, that was an increase in sales tax in the late 1980s. I never sent a tax bill to the General Assembly when I was governor because we worked the state from the expense side rather than the revenue side.

You can’t give away to special interests all of the tax revenue. When you cut taxes for a special interest, you cut the school year and you cut teachers.

That’s not a good thing.

This has been one of the more brutal governors’ races that I can remember so far as the campaign is concerned.

Does the mudslinging obscure the bigger issues or are some valid points being raised in all of this?

Roy Barnes: I think you have to define mudslinging. I don’t think it’s mudsling-

I have a proven record of creating an atmosphere in which jobs grow. During the time when I was governor, Georgia was the fourth fastest growing state in the union even though we had September 11th in the midst of that term. There were 235,000 jobs created while I was governor. I have a proven track record. amount of media it’s going to make things close.

I have great faith in the people of the state of Georgia. They see through all of this. I’ve watched them over the years.

They ferret out the truth.

I think there’s some legitimate issues here about integrity, truthfulness and transparency. I think the people of Georgia see that.

Is it sort of dumbfounding to see the polls and see that Deal has a lead or that you’re running neck and neck despite the number of scandals that aren’t just alleged, but are clearly documented over the course of his career?

In the years between now and 2002, there’s been a lot changes in how people get their information, with social networks and all that. Have you noticed a change in how the campaign works because of those technologies?

Roy Barnes: I think it is. It’s not surprising. The Republican Governors Association has spent four or five million dollars down here trying to obscure the true facts. Any time you have that

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Roy Barnes: Absolutely. The transfer of information is instantaneous. With the tweets from debates and everything else, it’s just ‘bam,’ it’s there. We’ve used it heavily. In 1998 when I ran, we were one of the first campaigns to use a website. Now, just look how it’s come.

Is it helping to create a more informed citizenry or is it creating spheres of like–minded people who become echo chambers for certain points of view? Is it helping the political process or hurting it?

Roy Barnes: I think it helps it. The more information that is available, even though it may be of different opinions, the better the electorate. cs Election Day is Tuesday Nov. 2.

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ing to take the position that a full time elected official should not do business with the state of Georgia and receive a monopoly that put a million and a half dollars in his own pocket. I don’t think that’s mudslinging. If he does, I’m sorry.

I don’t think it’s mudslinging when you say you should disclose all your income tax returns including schedules and explain why you only pay two percent tax on $400,000 of income over a two year period.

I don’t think it’s mudslinging to ask why did you use your position in Congress and staff to try and get you a private road paved and to get a landfill.

Those are matters of integrity and the over–reaching touchstone of every governor ought to be that he be fully transparent and in his financial and tax dealings. I think those are legitimate issues.

Do I like the misconstruing of my record, saying that we had the highest job losses in Georgia history? That was one month, right after September 11th. That is the reaction I got when I said you should come clean about your finances.

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Governor’s race:

Nathan Deal

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal came out on top of one of the most toughly contested primaries in recent memory, and then won a run-off vote against former Secretary of State Karen Handel by a margin of less than one percent. After a few months slugging it out with Democratic candidate Roy Barnes, Deal is ahead in the polls by a few points. We caught up with him by phone two weeks ago on his way to a campaign event.

What would you say are the most important issues facing the state right now?

Nathan Deal: It’s the same issue that we face across the nation, to improve our economy, and specifically to improve job opportunities in the state of Georgia. Many other things are associated with that, such as improving the quality of our K–12 education.

The central issue that is most pressing on Georgians is the lack of job opportunities, and the fear on the part of those who are employed that they may lose their job in the future.

Unemployment still floats around 10 percent, what would you do specifically in your first year to help stimulate job growth?

Republican Nathan Deal survived a bitter primary and is now leading in the polls despite alleged scandals

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Nathan Deal: I believe what you have to do is figure out what it is going to take to get people to come to our state and create new jobs, or the ones who are here to be willing to expand their job base. Currently, Georgia is in the bottom half of states in terms of friendly business climate for taxes.

We proposed early in the campaign what we call a real prosperity plan that dealt with tax reform. On the corporate side, it would cut corporate taxes by one third and it would wave taxes on new and start up businesses until they got established.

We believe that’s one of the ways we can improve our job climate. It would then put us, instead of being in the bottom half, it would put us in the top one third, actually ranked number 16 in the nation. That would make us ahead of every state in southeast on the corporate side.

I think that would be a great recruiting tool and a great reason to ask people, when they’re looking for places to send jobs, businesses and manufacturing, to say this is the state in the southeast with the most friendly tax climate for business.

The Tax Reform Council has been meeting since August, and will present their recommendations to the Legislature in January. Because you have a tax plan of your own, would you be ready to accept their recommendations, if they differed from your own?

Nathan Deal: Like everybody, I’m watching the work that they’re doing and they’ve certainly reached out all across our state and I think that’s good.

As you know, it’s going be an up or down vote as to the package that they recommend, and the ability to amend their proposal doesn’t exist in the format in which it’s going to be presented to the General Assembly.

I think it’s premature for me to say I would whole heartedly support or would oppose. I would hope I would be in a position to support it, and I know that these are very responsible individuals that are on the council.

I look forward to them presenting something that will be acceptable not only to me, but hopefully to the General Assembly and the public at large.

The big story this year has obviously been the ascension of the Tea Party into political power and influence. Do you feel that as a Republican you’ve been able to bridge the divide the right wing and the Tea Party? Have they given you support or are they leaning toward the Libertarian candidate?

Nathan Deal: I think we have a lot of support from people who are associated with the Tea Party movement in Georgia. These individuals share many of the common goals that I have, and that is smaller government, less government spending and more freedom for individuals. Those are principles that have always been embodied in the Republican point of view.

On those core principles on which the movement was founded, they should be favorably inclined to my party and to me based on the campaign I have run and the issues that have been part of my campaign platform.

Nathan Deal: I’m not familiar with who has done that. There’s always going to be those who prefer their candidate and it was a very difficult primary, but I believe, by and large, we had a victory dinner here in Atlanta last night and it was a very successful event. Every one of the major candidates who had been in the governor’s race was there. We’re working as a team.

have not made what I consider to be unrealistic promises.

I believe that we cannot afford to raise taxes on Georgia families and Georgia consumers; that we need to be able to streamline government operations and prioritize it, and put our money where our most important issues are. That means to be able to live within our means and still do as good, if not a better job.

In my proposals for things like education reform, it’s simply to give flexibility to local school systems. They can decide how they want to spend their money. If we give them that freedom, we know they’ll produce great results.

Currently, Georgia is in the bottom half of states in terms of friendly business climate for taxes. We proposed early in the campaign what we call a real prosperity plan that dealt with tax reform. On the corporate side, it would cut corporate taxes by one third and it would wave taxes on new and start up businesses until they got established.

I look forward to making sure our party moves forward with unity. The worst thing that could happen to our state would be to go into a season of gridlock.

We’re gonna have a Republican General Assembly, we’re gonna need a Republican governor who will work with them and not a governor who will veto every substantive piece of legislation that a General Assembly controlled

by Republicans would put on his desk.

I’ll work cooperatively.

I have a great relationship with Speaker Ralston and Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle. I believe you’re gonna see Republicans unite and I look forward to being not only the nominee but the next Governor.

You and Mr. Barnes have been running pretty closely in the polls, what do you see as the differential when November 2nd rolls around?

Nathan Deal: The latest poll I’ve seen has me up by several percentage points, but I’m running as if I’m behind or tied.

That’s the campaign mode we’re in is to work extremely hard to get our message out. When people look at the questions that are being posed in terms of what is your philosophy on government, I

Do you feel that some level of local control is what’s missing right now?

Obviously the Georgia school system has seen better days. Is that part of a broader solution you see?

Nathan Deal: I have said that we have too much money to put in what is called categorical grants. They’re put in silos where you can only spend the money in those silos, things like transportation can only be spent there, staff development can only be spent for that purpose.

I believe if you let school systems decide whether they really need another school bus versus keeping teachers in a classroom and avoiding furloughs, they will make the right choices and I trust them to make those correct judgment calls. cs Election Day is Tuesday Nov. 2.

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I read this week that there had been a couple of members of the state GOP committee that had stood down because they didn’t feel that you were a good representative of the party. Do you feel like there’s some dissension in the ranks, or is this just the usual political process?

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John Monds

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A third party candidate never has it easy in what are essentially two-party elections in this country. But in a year most notable for voter outrage and anti–incumbent sentiments, Monds stands a chance to capture an unprecedented amount of support as the Libertarian candidate. We caught up with him by phone last week to talk about why he thinks he can make big improvements to state government.

What do you see as the most important issues facing Georgians right now?

John Monds: It’s definitely the economy — the economy and jobs. That’s number one on folks’ minds all across Georgia.

It takes a lot of time, money and effort to run for governor. Why did you feel like it was important to throw your hat in the ring?

John Monds: I wasn’t willing to wait on someone else to take the lead and share a vision about turning this state around.

We’re on the wrong track. I was willing to take a leap of faith and jump out there. I’m still smiling and the campaign is going well.

The third party is the perennial underdog, but with voter dissatisfaction so high and the Tea Party gaining steam, do you think that this could be a unique opportunity for somebody like yourself?

John Monds: Absolutely. All across Georgia voters have been voicing their displeasure with the lack of leadership that’s been going on. Once again, getting back to those things that work, limiting government in people’s lives, letting them keep the money they’ve earned and respecting their individual rights, those are things that people are looking for so the message has been doing well all across the state. I think we’re gonna surprise a lot of people with how we perform in this election.

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As I was going through some of the issues you discuss on your website, two things caught my attention: Reducing nonviolent drug offenses and allowing Sunday alcohol sales. Although they are obviously controversial to some voters, could they also play a role in both generating revenue and helping balance the budget?

John Monds: We shouldn’t have a tax system that punishes people who produce, and that’s what we have with income tax. It affects small business owners and that’s the economic engine that runs things. That’s why I talk about eliminating income tax and going to a broader based consumption tax, we

need to get rid of some of those exemptions.

Once you stimulate the economy and get it growing, that’s gonna drive revenue up. You have to look at the revenue side and making us more competitive with our regional neighbors, but you also have to look at the spending side, getting rid of wasteful programs and projects.

I’ve been advocating for zero–based budgeting and reviewing what government does, and what it doesn’t live up to and all the promises. We need to look at those areas of inefficiency and do something different.

With consumption based taxes, in discussions about whether or not to add sales tax to food purchases, I’ve read that such a practice would put an undue burden on lower income families.

If you were to do away with income tax and create a consumption-based tax, would that burden lower income families or would it balance out because of the elimination of income tax?

John Monds: I think it would balance out. How you do that is those on the lower income scale need more opportunities. They need higher paying jobs instead of subsidized living.

If you change how you do business in the state, you allow businesses to grow, and you put Georgians in a competitive environment with other states around the country. We want to pull everybody up. The system that we have now is really geared to special interests and pay to play. We need to get rid of crony capitalism and get back to the free market. I think if we do all these things Georgia will thrive, even those on the lower economic levels.

De–regulation and the free market are thrown around as pro–consumer in political rhetoric, but often in reality they end up benefiting big businesses and those who can manipulate the system. Where is the line between enough regulation to ensure that things work properly and enough freedom to ensure that businesses are able to do what they need to do?

We shouldn’t have a tax system that punishes people who produce, and that’s what we have with income tax. It affects small business owners and that’s the economic engine that runs things.

That’s why I talk about eliminating income tax and going to a broader based consumption tax, we need to get rid of some of those exemptions.

How does that play out with environmental oversight? The Savannah River is important for industry as well as natural habitat, but there are a lot of companies dumping waste into it. On the other side, you’ve got government agencies watching over that as much as they can given their limited resources.

Where does that fall in the spectrum of what government should and shouldn’t be doing?

able. Because of special interests and various lobbying by big business with cozy relationships, a lot of times these corporations are not held accountable.

When you talk about limited government, setting standards, looking out for fraud and waste and negligence, those are proper roles for government, but that doesn’t mean they should be everywhere. I agree with that example. That is probably a good place for government to be.

John Monds: That’s an area that government probably has a proper role. If companies are dumping, government’s role should be to hold them account-

It’s been interesting to see the Tea Party come into its own as a political force.

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John Monds: I think there are a lot of misconceptions by the media. I’ve enjoyed being at the Tea Parties and I’ve enjoyed having citizens and residents of Georgia engaged in the political process. My message stays the same. It doesn’t matter what group I go in front of, whether they’re on the right side of the spectrum or the left side.

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John Monds: We’re doing as many events as possible. We’re going all the way to November 2nd. We’re talking to anybody who wants to hear from us.

We’ve got a couple of big televised debates coming up and that’s really going make a difference — going up against the other candidates and having people see talk on the issues.

I’m pretty excited. It’s been going well and we’ll see what happens. cs Election Day is Tuesday Nov. 2.

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John Monds: If the private sector can do things, they ought to have an opportunity to do so and prove it works.

When you talk about a constitutionally limited government, we should do those things that government is supposed to do and hopefully do them well. Then, we need to get them out of what they shouldn’t be doing, and that’s some of the mistakes we’ve made on the national level and the state level.

The government oversteps its authority and tries to do everything for everybody, often it doesn’t do anything well.

That’s what we’re stuck with right now.

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Environment

by Sharon Bordeaux

Garden like a guerrilla You see them one night as you drive alone through a gritty neighborhood.

With a shiver of fear you check the door locks and consider doing a fast U–turn.

The gang, wearing murky clothing and carrying what might be shotguns, stops in front of a chain link fence and begins lobbing something over the top.

You notice they are armed with shovels and hoes.

You relax; no harm will come to you.

These are guerrilla gardeners seedbombing a sadly neglected bit of the earth.

What a wacky world we live in. Even with the multitudinous distractions of our high-tech society, there are people who care enough about growing plants to engage in the radical activity called guerrilla gardening — people who are willing to take a risk by planting illicitly on land they do not own for the purpose of adding beauty and creating community.

Early in the history of the movement a lot of condoms were used. I mention that just in case your attention was wavering.

A guerrilla gardener’s preferred weapon of mass creation is the seed bomb. First used in New York City in the 1970s, seed grenades were made by stuffing condoms with seeds and a growing mix. These were surreptitiously thrown into barren spaces where it was

Early in the history of the movement a lot of condoms were used. I mention that just in case your attention was wavering. hoped that some of the seeds would sprout.

Nowadays guerrilla gardeners tend to use condoms in the predictable way and instead construct their seed balls from molded clay and fertilizer. There are recipes on the internet for all sorts of missiles, including seed bombs.

The edgy/chic retailer Anthropologie sells them. Seed bombs seem almost commonplace, as if most people keep a stash in their backpacks or purses and periodically toss them into derelict landscapes.

But we aren’t doing that in Savannah.

At least not to my knowledge. At least not yet.

Guerrilla gardening seems like a good fit for a city noted for its quirkiness. Not that I’m promoting it because it is, after all, an illegal activity....

The thrill of clandestine missions is actually what draws some folks to guerrilla gardening: secret plans, adrenalin rushes and the resulting, inevitable camaraderie.

Yes, there are occasional skirmishes with law enforcement, but tolerance or mild irritation are more common.

Paradoxically, like many anti–establishment practices, guerrilla gardening

often becomes mainstream. That has happened in New York City where guerrilla gardeners, among the first in the United States, began with one renegade garden.

Decades later, with the support of authorities and citizens, the group has planted over 600 gardens in the metropolis.

The robust guerilla gardening faction in Los Angeles was begun by a man who prefers to be known as Mr. Stamen.

Now an official nonprofit with over 900 members, the organization is well known and appreciated.

A recent daytime landscaping in front of a liquor store was possible because the owner gave permission. He also gave out free beer. A passerby sang “We are the World” to the volunteers That could be the theme song for the guerrilla gardening movement, with “troops” mobilized internationally.

Covert gardening is growing and not so stealthily. A guerrilla gardener in London has written two how–to books and created a website that serves as a worldwide network for those who garden on the sly (guerillagardening.org).

This peaceable revolution where grenades explode wildflower seeds

and a garden appears overnight has a contagious spirit of green renewal. Seed bomb–making party, anyone?

Horror story update: In the first Green Matters column I wrote about a lawn in my neighborhood that had been purposely killed by an herbicide. The most common herbicide in both agricultural and home usage is Roundup.

A reader sent me a website link at www.biosafety-info.net that reveals the toxic effects of this chemical. The toxicity leaves no life untouched, from earthworms to birds to dogs to humans.

We should be alarmed, even terrified.

An extensive study of Roundup’s effects on non–target organisms found that it caused a 70 percent decline in amphibian biodiversity.

Frogs, frogs, where art thou?

Can you visualize the famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream?” That was my expression when I learned the following: Monsanto, the producer of Roundup, has guaranteed its market for the weedkiller.

Crops genetically engineered by Monsanto (and highly favored by agribusiness) are the only plants able to tolerate Roundup. All other vegetation is eliminated, including non–Monsanto crop plants.

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Meet your machete

A man was sitting at his mother’s house when a woman came to the door and asked to speak with him.

His sister, who’d answered the door, left the house after she notified him of the visitor. The woman at the door ran into the house and began to ask the man to give back the items he took from her house. The man said he had no idea what she was talking about, and asked her to leave. The woman persisted and ran into his room, She was rummaging through his belongings and screaming at him when she grabbed a machete out of its sheath and began to swing it around. She chased him through the house and out the door. A witness outside waiting for the man saw the woman and drove off in order to avoid damage to her car. The man made it back inside and closed the door, locking it. The machete wielding woman

caused significant damage to the screen door. The man had a small cut on his finger. The man ran out the back door.

The woman attempted to follow him.

He was picked up by his mother a few blocks away and police were notified.

• Police were called about a report of a body floating in the river. Upon arrival, the officer saw a body face down in the water wearing a brown long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.

The officer advised a back-up unit to make contact with witnesses while he tried to keep up with the body, which was floating down the river. Dispatch was advised to send Marine Patrol. Detectives arrived on the scene. The body was transported to the Army Corps of Engineers on Hutchinson Island, where it was identified as a female. A forensic officer took pictures and finger prints. The remains were transported to the GBI crime lab. It’s believed that the woman took her own life, however, autopsy results are pending.

• Police were dispatched to a cell phone store on Abercorn Street in response to a man passed out on the side of the road.

When the officer arrived, he found the man lying on his stomach and unresponsive, but breathing. When he woke the man up and asked him how much he’d had to drink, the man replied “too much.” The officer asked if he could check his pockets for his ID and he consented. The officer found three small bottles of whiskey on his person. He was arrested for public intoxication.

• An officer driving north on Montgomery Street stopped a black SUV that turned the wrong way onto a one way street. The driver handed over his license, registration and proof of insurance. He then fumbled around and told the officer that he had given him the wrong insurance card (which he hadn’t) and proceeded to give him the insurance card for another vehicle. The officer noted the smell of alcohol com-

ing from the driver whose eyes were bloodshot and glassy.

The officer asked if he’d been drinking and he replied that he had taken a shot of whiskey at about 2:45 a.m. while working at his job as a bartender. The officer asked if he’d consent to a field sobriety test, which he did. The driver failed the horizontal gaze nystagmus test, but also mentioned he had a “lazy left eye.” During the walk and turn test, the driver had difficulty maintaining his balance. During the stand on one leg test, the driver raised his arms too much to maintain his balance and then put his foot down and asked if he could stop counting. The driver refused to submit to a preliminary breath test and was read the Implied Consent notice for suspects over 21. He was transported to CCDC. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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We’re bombarded with fundraisers and retail products sporting pink ribbons to raise money to “fight breast cancer.”

Do pink ribbon campaigns do any good, or are they mainly a way for corporations to fleece consumers by leveraging fear and sympathy? Where is all the money raised by pink ribbon campaigns going?

—Jill Gatwood, Albuquerque A lot of people are starting to wonder about this. It’s not so much that consumer products companies are exploiting concerns about breast cancer to sell more yogurt or lipstick, although that’s part of it. The real issue is that we don’t have much to show for all the ribbons, runs, and billions of dollars spent on research. Instead we’ve built a vast breast cancer industry that generates lots of jobs, profits, and awareness, but so far nothing that will prevent breast cancer, and nothing that will reliably stop it besides the knife.

To give the run-for-a-cure crowd some credit, pink ribbon campaigns have been remarkably successful in what they set out to do, namely increase breast cancer awareness and funding for research. The color pink and pink ribbons have been used as symbols since the 1980s, initially by what’s now called Susan G. Komen for the Cure, perhaps the best-known advocacy group.

The idea got a boost in 1992, when the Estee Lauder cosmetics company teamed up with Self magazine to create an awareness campaign symbolized by pink ribbons. Things took off from there, leading to what critics call “pinkwashing” during Breast Cancer Awareness Month every October, in which pink-ribboned products, events, and publicity come at you from all sides.

If it all seems a little chaotic, that’s because it is. No single entity is in charge of all the pink ribbon campaigns.

In contrast to Canada, where the pink ribbon symbol is controlled by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, in the U.S. anyone can slap a pink ribbon on anything.

None of these stunts is necessarily a scam, and no doubt many are well intended. But they often involve considerable effort for decidedly modest results.

One often-cited example is Yoplait’s program, in which the company donates ten cents to the Komen group for each beribboned yogurt lid mailed in. That’s nice, but think about it: If you save 120 over the four-month campaign, you’ll have to store and ship them, the postal service will have to transport them and Yoplait will have to count them, for a total donation of $12.

You’d save yourself and everyone else a lot of trouble if you just sent a check.

Laborious though they may be, such schemes have generated plenty of money for breast cancer research. The Komen foundation has awarded $450 million since 1982, the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade $640 million since 1992, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation $250 million since 1993.

Federal funding has also increased dramatically. In 1990 the National Cancer Institute allotted $81 million to breast cancer research. In five years that amount had nearly quadrupled to $309 million, and in 2009 was $685 million.

It’s unfair to say all that expenditure accomplished nothing. The NBCC notes that breast cancer killed 44,000 Americans in 1991, compared with 40,000 now—seemingly only a slight improvement. But that’s deceptive, since the population has grown. NCI data shows the breast cancer death rate has fallen by roughly a third since 1990.

What hasn’t appreciably improved is breast cancer incidence—that is, the number of women who contract the disease. Despite some improvement in the past decade, it remains about 25 percent higher than it was 30 years ago.

This has led pink ribbon skeptics to hint darkly about a conspiracy involving fund-raising groups, manufacturers of carcinogenic products, and drug companies, who contrive to keep the research focus on detection and treatment rather than prevention. That keeps the lucrative cancer business humming while deflecting attention from the underlying causes, namely carcinogens released into the environment.

Paranoid? Maybe. Still, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer has increased from one in 20 in 1940 to one in eight now. I’ve seen 70 percent of that increase reasonably attributed to longer life and better early detection. What accounts for the remaining 30 percent?

Nobody really knows. cs CECIL ADAMS

New York City artist Sally Davies offered in October the latest evidence of how unattractive today’s fast foods are to bacteria and maggots. Davies bought a McDonald’s Happy Meal in April, has photographed it daily, and has noted the lack even of the slightest sign of decomposition. Her dog has ignored it.

(Several bloggers, and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, have made discoveries similar to Davies’.) Food scientists “credited” a heavy use (though likely still within FDA guidelines) of the preservative sodium propionate but also the predominance of fat and lack of moisture and nutrients -all of which contribute to merely shrinking and hardening the burger and fries.

Compelling Explanations

• Raymond Roberts, 25, was arrested in Manatee County, Fla., in September after an ordinary traffic stop turned up a strong smell of marijuana. At deputies’ behest, Roberts removed a baggie of marijuana from his buttocks, but when the deputies saw another plastic bag right behind it (containing a white substance believed to be cocaine), Roberts said, “The weed is (mine),” but “(t)he white stuff is not ....”

• Firefighter Richard Gawlik Jr. was terminated by Allentown, Pa., in August for abusing sick leave after he posted his daily golf scores on a public website during three days in which he had called off from work. Allentown firefighters’ contract allows them up to four consecutive days’ sick leave without a doctor’s note, and given their shift schedule of four days on,

four days off, a four-day, undocumented derelictions, such as sleeping and drinksick call effectively means a 12-day holiing on duty and refusing to attend a class day -- a pattern that describes 60 percent on search warrants), the judge ruled that of all firefighter “sick” days, according to Bowker’s dismissal seemed too much like an analysis by the Allentown Morning improper retaliation for the affair.

Call. (Gawlik’s union president said the I Demand My Rights union would appeal and that “playing golf was well within the guidelines of • A lawyer in Xian, China, filed a law(Gawlik’s illness).”) suit against a movie house and film dis• Woody Will Smith, 33, was convicted tributor for wasting her time — because in September of murdering his wife after she was exposed to 20 minutes of advera jury in Dayton, Ky., “deliberated” about tisements that began at the posted 90 minutes before rejecting his detime for the actual movie to fense of caffeine intoxication. Smith begin. Ms. Chen Xiaomei is rehad claimed that his daily intake of questing a refund (equivalent Remember sodas, energy drinks and diet pills of about $5.20) plus damages to vote next had made him temporarily insane of an equal amount, plus the Tuesday! when he strangled his two-timing equivalent of about 15 cents wife with an extension cord in for “emotional” damages 2009, and made him again not — plus an apology. responsible when he confessed • In an April journal the crime to police. (In May 2010, article, University of East Anglia a judge in Pullman, Wash., ordered professor Brett Mills denounced a hit-and-run driver to treatment the 2009 British TV documentary instead of jail, based on the driver’s series “Nature’s Great Events” on “caffeine psychosis.” Some doctors the ground that the program’s believe the condition can kick in with omnipresent and intrusive as little as 400 mg of caffeine daily video cameras violated animals’ — an amount that, given America’s privacy. “(The animals) often do engage coffee consumption, potentially portends in forms of behavior which suggest they’d a sky-high murder rate.) rather not encounter humans,” he wrote, • An Iowa administrative law judge “and we might want to think about equatruled in September that former police ing this with a desire for privacy.” officer William Bowker of Fort Madison Bright Ideas deserved worker’s compensation even though he had not been “laid off ” but • British entrepreneur Howard James, rather fired -- for having an affair with the who runs several online dating sites, wife of the chief of police. Although the opened another in August to worldwide city Civil Service Commission had denied attention (and, allegedly, thousands of him coverage (based in part on other sign-ups in the first five days): dates for

ugly people. James said new members (accepted from the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Ireland) will have their photos vetted to keep out “attractive” people. (Based on web pages, the photoevaluation process is working well.)

• Beyond “MacGyver”: Keith Jeffery’s book on the British intelligence service MI6, published in September and serialized in The Times of London, revealed that the first chief of the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War I recommended, as the best invisible ink, semen, in that it “would not react to (ink-detecting) iodine vapor” and was, of course, “readily available.”

Super-Exclusive Addresses

(1) Mr. Hamen Vile was transferred from Gulgong Hospital in Australia, in August, to another about 30 miles away after Gulgong was discovered with dangerous levels of asbestos. Vile had lived full-time at Gulgong since 1952, when he suffered an accidental gunshot in the back. (2) Recently, MSNBC and The New York Times discovered that 104-year-old Montana copper-mine heiress Huguette Clark has cloistered herself for the last 20 years in an ordinary room at an unnamed New York City hospital. All of Clark’s affairs are handled by an attorney who has almost no contact with her but oversees her three well-maintained estates in Connecticut, Santa Barbara (Calif.) and New York City, worth, respectively, $24 million, $100 million and $100 million. cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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There is, of course, a little bit of Hollywood in all of us.

The annual Savannah Film Festival taps into that tendency to admire and vicariously participate in the cinematic arts, on a grand scale, with eights days of screenings, competitions and celebrity appearances, all intended to give us that heady rush of red–carpet specialness.

And what do you know? Year after year, it works.

The 2010 edition of the SCAD–sponsored festival begins Saturday, Oct. 30, and this year the lineup is as good as ever. Several of the feature films are considered early contenders in the Academy Award race — and we’re getting, essentially, a first look at them, before much of the rest of the movie–obsessed world.

Chief among these are Rabbit Hole, with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as grieving parents; 127 Hours, from Oscar–winning director Danny Boyle, the true story of a Utah hiker forced to sever his own arm in order to free himself from a fallen boulder; Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s ballet–world thriller with Natalie Portman; the British films Another Year, The Kid and Made in Dagenham; the fly–fishing drama The River Why; Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance’s intense ode to romance, with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams; Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in Fair Game.

The list goes on and on. In 2009, we saw Precious, The Messenger, An Education, Up in the Air and others. Jeremy Renner of The Hurt Locker — which was last year’s major winner at the Academy Awards — even made an appearance.

The Savannah Film Festival might not be in the same league, importance–wise, as Cannes, Sundance, Toronto or London, but it’s increasingly becoming noticed in the industry as a springboard to bigger things. Besides, film people just like to visit.

Liam Neeson’s in town this week, to receive an award prior to the screening of Fair Game on Tuesday evening. Likewise, Sir Ian McKellen and Isabella Rossellini will be lauded on Thursday, Nov. 4 and Friday, Nov. 5, respectively.

Other well–known guests for 2010 include writer/director/star Edward Burns, Friday Night Lights star Zach Gilford (he’s in The River Why) and actress/producer Virginia Madsen. Miles Teller, young co–star of the emotionally wrenching Rabbit Hole, is to be honored prior to that film’s premiere showing.

And longtime friend and organizer of the Festival, publicist extraordinaire Bobby Zarem, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday evening, Nov. 3 Of course, SCAD fills the week with panels and workshops designed with its young student filmmakers in mind.

And did we mention the parties? cs Savannah Film Festival Screenings at Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St., and Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Morning and afternoon screenings: $5 general public $3 students, seniors and military Free for SCAD students, faculty and staff with valid SCAD ID Evening screenings: $10 general public $5 for SCAD students, faculty and staff with a valid SCAD ID Tickets and multi–event passes at tickets.scadboxoffice.com Phone: (912) 525–5050 Online: filmfest.scad.edu

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Festival Opening: 6 p.m., Broughton Street in front of Trustees Theater Black Swan: 7:30 p.m., Trustees Theater

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Black Swan

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Dressed: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Wanting Alex: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Frog in the Well: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater To Whom it May Concern: Ka Shen’s Journey: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Leonardo: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre The Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Masks: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Off–Line: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Ormie: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Zero: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre In Between: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater The Kid: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater Rabbit Hole: 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Miles Teller receives the Discovery Award.

The Desert of Forbidden Art: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater The Secret Friend: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Cueb: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Focus: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Grampa Kevorkian: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Mashed: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Mon Monde: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Prayers for Peace: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Samsquatch: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Up Under the Roof: 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre Earthwork: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Up There: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Signal: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre En Route: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Snapshots: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Girls Named Pinky: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre The Candidate: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

Tuesday, Nov. 2 Automorphosis: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Sudden Death!: 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Quadrangle: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Night Catches Us: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater SCAD Student Showcase: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre I Am: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre You Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Know Jack: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater Fair Game: 7 p.m., Trustees Theater.

Liam Neeson receives Outstanding Achievement Award.

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The documentary Automorphosis screens Nov. 2 and 5

Wednesday, Nov. 3 Wanting Alex: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Dressed: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre The Illusionist: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Monogamy: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre

Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice: 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Surprise major studio film in pre-release. Bobby Zarem receives Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Gods and Monsters: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Appearance by Sir Ian McKellen Blue Valentine: 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Sir Ian McKellen receives Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Appearance by Tanya Hamilton

Automorphosis: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Sudden Death!: 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre I Know a Woman Like That: 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. Introduced by Virginia Madsen.

The Desert of Forbidden Art: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre The Secret Friend: 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre Seduce Me: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Appearance by Isabella Rossellini.

Blue Velvet: 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater Made in Dagenham: 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Isabella Rossellini received Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Panels and Workshops All events in Gutstein Gallery unless indicated. Admission is free for SCAD students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students, and $5 for the public

Adobe CS5 and the DSLR Video Revolution/Stereo 3D Editing

(Part One) Nov. 5, 2:30–3:30 p.m.: Adobe digital workflow specialists Dave Helmly and Mike Kanfer tour you through an end–to–end solution for making the most out of your DSLR camera and footage. Learn shooting techniques and settings for producing the best–quality footage and the best methods for on–set media management. Experience the logging, editing, color correction, VFX, conforming and output process. Gain insight on the latest camera rigs, from amateur to pro and view footage from Hollywood professionals who have pushed this new medium farther than anyone could have ever imagined.

(Part Two) Nov. 5, 3:30–4:30 p.m.: Helmly and Kanfer with a comprehensive look at affordable stereo 3–D video techniques for students, enthusiasts and professionals. They’ll show you a variety of cameras and rigs that you can build yourself, as well as teach you how to shoot, synchronize, edit, color correct and output your footage with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. See live examples of Adobe’s easy–to–use solution for professional quality HD editing, including techniques for making 3–D Blu–rays.

Animation – The Short Story

Nov 4, 2:30 p.m.

With very little funding available to make short animated films, the processes of writing and completing the production of an animated short, while meeting the demands of a studio job, can be a slow and testing process.

This panel of animation filmmakers will discuss the challenges and triumphs they faced in completing their shorts and provide

Casting Director, Actor, Agent

Nov 5, 11:30 a.m.

Casting directors, agents and actors share their experiences and knowledge about the casting process. They address what kinds of changes, if any, are necessary when casting or directing for the screen and television. Do the different mediums require different casting and directing techniques? These experts share their insights about the process and give professional guidance for aspiring casting directors, agents and actors.

Getting the Gig

Nov 2nd , 11:30 a.m.

The first–hand stories of some of your favorite television hosts and the stories of how they took their passion and created a brand. This panel of experts will show you the behind–the– scenes reality of television, managing a business and “instant fame.”

Kodak Presents “Stop By. Shoot Film.”

Nov 2 and 3, 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.– Lucas Theatre (reservations required) Discover how easy and fun it is to use motion picture film–and get the best images you’ve ever created. You’ll talk with a top cinematographer, learn how to use a 16mm camera and film, then shoot your own scene–all in under two hours. Following the event, you’re sent a DVD of your footage.

Lost – The Editors

Nov 1, 2:30 p.m.

Meet some of the dialog, sound, and film editors behind the successful ABC series Lost. This discussion will focus on real–world issues and workflows that professional editors are faced with in their daily work.

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Multi Platforms: Creating Content For All Media

Nov 2, 9:30 a.m.

In the ever–evolving, content rich world of non–fiction television, how do you determine which platforms best meet the needs of your project? In this panel, industry experts will give their insight as to what you should focus your resources on and how each platform can drive a brand.

The Art of Filmmaking

Nov. 4th, 11:30 a.m.

Follow the creative process of filmmaking from concept to distribution.

Hear from industry veterans as they talk about the financial and creative “opportunities” that arise from making a motion picture.

The Cable Documentary

Nov 1, 11:30 a.m.

A panel of experts will discuss how the cable documentary goes from idea to the screen and what the cable networks are looking for in a final product.

The Next Big Hit

Nov. 1, 9:30 a.m.

Whether it’s is the next Project Runway or just a local cable access show, there is opportunity available to content developers and creators for their ideas to become the next big hit. This panel will discuss what it takes to get your idea from “your head to the screen.”

The Silver Screen Society – Staged Reading

Nov. 3, 11:30 a.m.

The Silver Screen Society’s 2009 screenwriting contest winner Kate Fitzpatrick and the first public reading of her screenplay The Swine Fever.

What Do Films Mean?

Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m.

This panel will introduce a variety of scholarly perspectives on cinema and engage the audience in a dialogue designed to enhance the film–viewing experience. The panel will offer an academic perspective on several of the festival’s films, exploring how their context (historical, social, cultural, theoretical, aesthetic) might help us better understand the significance of individual films and allow us to identify patterns and trends among the films.

Presented by the SCAD Cinema Studies Department.

Young Director’s Forum

Nov. 2, 2:30 p.m.

This is one of the most popular panels during the Savannah Film Festival and it helps students to understand how to make the transition from academia to a filmmaking career. Guests include Emmy Award–Winning producer, Barry Rosenbush (High School Musical 1, 2 and 3), Emmy Award–Winning director Michael Lembeck (The Tooth Fairy, Santa Clause 3, Californication) and director Lev Spiro (Blue Mountain State, Weeds, The Wizards of Waverly Place–The Movie). CS

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savannah Film festival Come the 19th of November, Nick Moran will be on movie screens all over the world, playing Scabior the Snatcher — a bad, bad dude — in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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Rupert Friend stars as Kevin Lewis in director Nick Moran’s The Kid.

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The Kid Director Nick Moran tells a disturbing - and true - story

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

As an actor, Moran is well remembered as hapless Eddie the card sharp in Guy Ritchie’s ultra–vi Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Directing, however, has become this veteran Londoner’s lock and stock– in–trade. He was at the Savannah Film Festival in 2009 with his directorial debut, Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, and this week he returns with his second feature, The Kid. The Oct. 31 screening at the Trustees Theater will be the official U.S. premiere of the film, which has generated quite a buzz in Great Britain already.

That’s because The Kid is based on the bestselling memoir by Kevin Lewis. The book sold a million copies in the U.K. Born into poverty in a state council home outside London, Lewis was physically and emotionally abused by his alcoholic parents, who literally kept him locked in his room – when they weren’t beating him.

Despite several successful stints in foster care, young Kevin was always sent back home, where things just got worse, and as he grew, his anger, hurt and explosive temper grew with him.

He took to drinking – a lot – and swallowing copious amounts of painkillers.

As a young adult, Lewis fell in with some unsavory characters, who exploited his rage by selling him as a street fighter – he’d meet some burly guy in a junkyard and, while other men cheered and made bets – knock him senseless.

The Kid, like Lewis’ book, is a violent film. And like the memoir, it’s riveting drama because – as Moran says in this interview – it’s all true. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Rupert Friend (The Young Victoria), an actor with a slight build and a high, mousy voice, plays the grownup Kevin Lewis in Moran’s movie.

P.S. It all turns out OK. Today, Lewis is one of England’s most successful crime novelists.

Moran will be in attendance, for a Q&A session, following the second screening of The Kid the morning of Nov. 4.

Kevin Lewis’ life was pretty violent.

Considering you’re going for a broader audience, did you have to tone things down for the film?

Nick Moran: The thing about the book is that it’s no punches pulled, if you’ll pardon the pun. As Kevin says, if he’d known the book was going to be published he would have toned it down. But because he wrote it for his wife, everything was in there. He had lots of discussions with his publishers saying “Can’t we tone this down, or take that out?” and their opinion was no, that’s what’s so good about it. Leave it in there. Let’s have a genuine account.

And I think they were right. Because what’s so unique about the book is that it is so candid. And that candor is

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Perhaps because it all actually happened, I never could predict where it was going. Standard movie conventions don’t apply. When Kevin goes to the gangsters to get his money, in every other film those guys would’ve shot him in the back as he was leaving. But he just walks out the door.

Nick Moran: Journalists who saw the film have asked Kevin “Aren’t you afraid they’ll come after you now?”

And Kevin says “Well, I only took what they owed me.” And I think that’s right.

We sexed it up a little bit for the film, but the fact that he only took what was owed, I think there’s an element of they might leave him alone: It’s more trouble than it’s worth. He rumbled us, but all he took was what he was owed. And I think that’s why he didn’t get shot in the back on the way out.

Also, there’s a very different gun culture in the U.K. We are actually a much more violent country than the U.S., but with far less fatalities because people just tend to give each other a good kickin.’ Our police run ‘round with truncheons and bits of wood, and our kids all stab each other instead of shooting ‘em. It’s knives and sticks and a sort of thug culture, rather than a gun culture. So if someone buys a gun in this country, it’s a big deal. We’ve got such stringent laws. It’s impossible to own a firearm, and it’s very rare that anyone gets shot.

In the U.K., as I understand it, the police don’t carry guns.

What was your first impression of Kevin when you met him?

Nick Moran: One of the many things I liked about the idea of making the film was when I met Kevin, and he doesn’t look like Jason Statham, or Stone Cold Steve Austin, you know? He doesn’t look like a bare–knuckle boxer. He’s just a normal guy, and he’s a little bit fey.

And that’s the reality. Those are the real guys that go around doing this. It’s not the guys that are doing it professionally, the WWF, it’s just people that are desperate. It’s not sportsmen, it’s alcoholics and people that are in extreme debt that end up doing these things.

I thought that was far more interesting. If I’dve met Kevin and he looked like Stone Cold Steve Austin, I would’ve thought “Well, this’ll be a really boring, predictable film about a tough guy.”

He’s like Peter Parker – Spider–man – or the Incredible Hulk. He’s just this normal guy who’s so full of rage, and so used to violence, that when he does get angry he doesn’t have a fear factor.

There’s an ocean of violence in him.

I think you see that when he beats up the school bully. He doesn’t do it conventionally – he bites him and stabs him until he stops moving.

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Nick Moran: The only people that do any shooting are the Armed Response Teams of the police. I talk to coppers in New York and they’re saying you can go eight, nine years without un–holstering your weapon. The idea is that you’ve got it, not that you need to use it.

Whereas in the U.K., because the only police that do have guns are the Armed Response Teams, they just turn up and shoot people.

Anyway, you have to remember that Kevin’s still got a gun when he walks out, and they haven’t.

Nobody knows that when he gets outside, he throws up in the dumpster, then throws the gun in there.

The great thing about writing something that’s based on Natascha McElhone plays Kevin’s abusive Mum in The Kid. reality, there’s sense behind it. Because it happened.

coming from someone who’s writing something not because he wants to publish it.

We had to tone down the film a bit, because there were more instances, and we just picked the choice cuts. The film, I feel, is more about the genesis of the book than Kevin’s life. It’s about how this book came into being and all these things sort of made sense. And he got a sort of kismet payback on all the misery he’d suffered.

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because he’s insane. I thought that was far more interesting than the conventional movie idea that it’s a big guy. And because it’s based on real life, I think every movie convention gets thrown out the window.

Natascha McElhone is one of England’s most beautiful actresses. In your film, she plays Kevin’s abusive monster of a mother, with horrible teeth. How was she with the thought of getting all uglied up for the part?

Nick Moran: We tried Writer/director and actor Nick Moran on the set of The Kid. to do like a Charlize Theron in Monster. The look like this, or can I have a nicer idea was, instead of getting dressing gown? Or I think this jewelry’s somebody who could actually play that a bit gaudy. She really went for it. I think part, let’s get someone from the Brit given more time she would’ve gone for Hollywood list and see if they want to it more. ugly up for this role. You know who’s on It’s not a flattering role, and most the list. people don’t recognize her for the first And Natascha said yes. And she few minutes.

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How was Kevin as far as the locations you used, the way things looked?

Nick Moran: Me and Kevin went off and wrote the script. Kevin had written a first draft, which was very good, and then we spent three weeks together writing another draft – just changed things around a little. But we went everywhere – drove around to the estate, drove around to the real houses, and met a load of the real people. And then, to be honest, he just sort of walked away and let us get on with it. He’d come on set mostly just as a visitor, with friends and family. If the actors wanted to, he’d go off and have a chat with them.

He had a little bit of a panic once the film was finished. He saw it, and halfway through the film he was like “I don’t talk like that! That’s not my voice!

Why’s he talking like that?”

And at the end, where you see the real Kevin, he suddenly realized – My God, I do talk like that! Rupert’s impersonation is very, very accurate.

That’s a big payoff, where you see and hear the real Kevin ...

Nick Moran: When you see the big reveal at the end, suddenly you realize, that’s why Rupert speaks and sounds and acts like this. Because a lot of people were confused – “Why have you employed a geek to play this role?”

Once you see it, it’s “Oh, that’s quite interesting. He’s some geeky bloke, he’s quite good at boxing, and comes from a hideous background and has got this insane pain tolerance and anger level.

But really, he’s a bit of a school geek.”

And that doesn’t make sense until you see the last minute of the film. CS The Kid screens at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 31 and 11:30 a.m. Nov. 4, at Trustees Theater Q&A with director Nick Moran on Nov. 4

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Burns The Nice Guy Johnny filmmaker is looking for new ground to break

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

For an initial outlay of $24,000 (paid, for the most part, through his credit cards), Edward Burns made his first film, The Brothers McMullen, in 1995.

After it took the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Fox Searchlight picked up the rights, tacked on a Sarah McLachlan song, and put Burns’ Irish Catholic comic drama into theaters. It grossed more than $10 million.

Burns comes to the Savannah Film Festival this week with a screening of Nice Guy Johnny, his ninth movie.

After McMullen, Burns had a run of mostly–successful

“I never dreamed bigger than telling small stories,” says filmmaker Edward Burns.

independent films, including She’s the One and Sidewalks of New York. Like his hero, Woody Allen, he wrote and directed them all, and assigned himself co–starring roles.

Every once in a while, he’d take an acting job in someone else’s movie – he was a member of Tom Hanks’ unit in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, and played Angelina Jolie’s love interest in Life or Something Like It – but he always returned to the role of auteur, writing and making films about ordinary people in his beloved New York.

In Nice Guy Johnny, Burns plays the fun–loving, freeloading uncle to the title character (Matt Bush), a young sports DJ who’s afraid to follow his dream.

Which, of course, is an issue that Edward Burns can relate to. In fact, he’s still battling to maintain his independence.

The Nice Guy Johnny site says the film is “available everywhere.” But it doesn’t have studio distribution, and it isn’t going into theaters. What’s the deal?

Edward Burns: We’re breaking new ground with a brand new distribution model. My last film, Purple Violets, we released exclusively on iTunes for six or nine months before the DVD. We did this because what’s been happening to the vast majority of indie films that get released are dying in the theater. Everyone has their theories as to why the audience just isn’t there any more for these titles. But that’s the sad reality.

And the average cost is $38 million to market a film for theatrical release. Now obviously the little movies don’t spend anywhere near that, but that gives you an idea of just how much we need to spend to compete in that space.

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The reality is: You can’t compete! Which is why I think the movies aren’t doing any business.

You’re taking that concept into new areas?

Edward Burns: On this film, we never thought about theatrical. With the Purple Violets experiment with iTunes, we did not hit a home run financially, but we did hit a very solid single. That one pre–dated Apple TV, it pre–dated people watching movies on their phones, on their iPads, on their laptops, so the potential is that much greater.

The much bigger part that has changed the whole conversation for these titles is Movies on Demand channels. The fact is that independent films have been doing really robust business there.

On Oct. 26, we go into 42 million homes. Versus four screens in your New York/L.A. release. So right there, the potential upside is so much greater.

And not having distribution is great because now I don’t sell my movies. I license my movies to a company called Film Buff, and they send it out through all of these digital platforms. I still own my titles, and anybody in the music business will tell you how important it is to own your work.

As writer, producer, director and actor, I would imagine it would be nice to think you don’t have to worry so much about marketing and the business end of things.

Edward Burns: The answer would be yes, but it’s unrealistic to think that you can just hand it off. Because, in the past, if you hand it off and walk away, or if you’re not asked to participate, you wind up with a poster that you hate.

Or they’re gonna change the title of the movie. Or you end up seeing the DVD box and it looks nothing like the film you made. Now, when you own it, you’re involved in every decision that

gets made.

The idea for the film was born out of whether or not to take a job to be a director–for–hire, or to be a writer/director who makes his own films. This is my life’s work, I guess. These are my babies, and I don’t want to hand them over to somebody else. If that means I’ve got to learn how to be a little bit more of a businessman, if that means I’ve got to spend three months figuring out how to sell this movie, or how to get the movie financed, I’m willing to do it because the alternative is just to show up and do a gig for a paycheck. And that’s not why I got excited about the movies.

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After your runaway success with The Brothers McMullen, did the world seem wide open to you? Did you think you were going to be the next Scorsese?

Edward Burns: There was talk right after McMullen about the size of the budget I could get for my next film. And I remember saying, at Sundance, “I don’t want to spend more than $3 million.

Because I know that at $3 million they’ll give me creative control, up to a point.

At $3 million it’s almost impossible for the next film to lose money. And I’ll be able to stay in business.”

I love and adore Scorsese, but in film school I wasn’t dreaming of competing with the guys who make the big spectacles. My hero was Woody Allen.

My other hero was Truffaut. I’d sit and watch Godard’s Contempt and love the fact that the second act of the whole movie is two people talking in their apartment. That’s what got me excited about movies. I never dreamed bigger than telling small stories, so I feel like I’m kind of in the place I’d always imagined I’d be in.

I thought it would be easier to raise the money, but talk to any filmmaker.

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Purple Violets was my eighth film, so I thought why not? Why don’t I just check this out? A lot of my peers were doing it.

So I read a bunch of screenplays.

There was one in particular I liked enough to say “All right, I’ll give two years of my life to this.” And I almost said yes.

I took that one last weekend to read the script again.

Do I wish I could make that kind of money making my own films?

Absolutely. I’d be lying to you if I said otherwise.

However, I just thought “I don’t need to do this yet.” In five years, I might tell you “Here’s the honest truth: I needed the money and that’s why I did it,” or I’ll tell you how excited I was to finally direct a horror film!

I love making these small films.

There’s enough of an audience out there that I can still eke out enough of a profit to get to make another one. So that’s what I chose to do.

What was the genesis of the Nice Guy Johnny story?

Edward Burns: I wanted to explore a guy who’s wrestling with his dreams.

And the conflicts that arise from that.

Inevitably, if you’re going to choose your dream you’re going to disappoint some people in your life. Some might even accuse you of being selfish or self–centered.

That’s when the idea of this guy who’s nice to a fault was born. He’s so self–sacrificing that he’s going to potentially screw up his own future.

The mentor character that I created for myself, Uncle Terry, is a bit of a selfish, lying, conniving, cheating sort of a character. I wanted to create the antithesis of Johnny; maybe he needs a little bit of selfishness in his life.

Another big part of it was the character of Brooke, the other sort of mentor–slash–love interest in his life.

Since I was playing with this notion of dreams, I wanted to create that female fantasy character ... quite honestly, she came from a lyric in a Springsteen song, “Jungleland.” Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain. Whatever she represented, that promise, from when I was a teenager through my 20s, how that girl – had I met her in that parking lot – could change my life in a weekend or in a day, is exactly what I wanted to create.

Are you, yourself, closer to Johnny or to Terry?

Edward Burns: I think I’m probably closer to Brooke! She’s a little bit more of the realist.

Writing, acting or directing – which is closest to your heart?

Edward Burns: It’s no contest. Writing, by far. I go to bed with a note pad next to my bed, to jot down notes. I wake up thinking about the thing I’m writing, or another script I want to write. It is the thing that consumes me. I don’t think about writing novels. I think about writing movies. CS Nice Guy Johnny screens at 9:30 p.m.

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Before he began his successful stint as Det. Robert Goren on the long–running TV drama, D’Onofrio turned heads with performances in Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black, The Whole Wide World and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, among others.

He’s coming to the Savannah Film Festival Tuesday with Don’t Go In the Woods, his feature–film directorial debut.

D’Onofrio, 51, wraps up his detective duties during the final season of Criminal Intent – he’ll make just eight “guest” appearances starting in January – then heads immediately into his next directing gig, a family drama called Johnny and Me, about a man obsessed with the music of Johnny Cash.

Don’t Go in the Woods is a horror movie. A group of hip young musicians head to the pineys to “get away from it all” and write songs for their next album. But there are unexpected visitors, including a group of girlfriends who bring unwanted distraction to the band.

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Although television — more specifically, Law and Order: Criminal Intent — has been his bread and butter for the past nine years, actor Vincent D’Onofrio is making a concerted effort to get back to his first love, the movies.

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Vincent D’Onofrio in his signature role, as Det. Robert Goren on TV’s Law and Order: Criminal Intent. D’Onofrio will make several “guest” appearances on the show’s upcoming ninth (and final) season, but his heart’s in the movies. Shortly, he’ll direct his second feature, Johnny and Me.

Vincent D’Onofrio: I was dealing with the Johnny Cash estate – the lawyers and everything, to clear the music rights – and they love the script, but we have to do a lot of dotting I’s and crossing T’s kind of stuff. And that was taking a long time. And I just wanted to shoot a movie, because I really like to shoot. I had made a short and really enjoyed that.

We have this property upstate, a house in upstate New York, and my wife and I were driving back.

I was talking to her about really wanting to shoot another film, and we started thinking about what we have, what friends we have, and how we could do it for cheap. And where and stuff.

And we came up with that, because I have 100 acres of woods upstate. One of my closest friends is a really amazing lyricist and composer, Sam Bisbee.

And I have all these writer friends, and a crew that’s very loyal – we’re all loyal to each other. And I thought of this story of doing a horror musical.

Vincent D’Onofrio: I think for this type of film, I was always confident that it would work for the film, rather than against it. Because the truth is that unless there’s like a major actor in a horror film, the performances are pretty flat and pretty inexperienced anyway. What it does is give it a certain feel. It gives the movie a certain kind of B–movie feel, which I like a lot. Kind of that “slacker” feel that Linklater and Smith were doing back in the day.

I think flat is better than overacting.

I was confident that if I cast unknown actors, and I got them to just trust me, that we would be able to get away with it in that way.

These kids were very confident, so there weren’t a lot of re–takes. They trusted me completely. I talked to each of them about who they are, as people, and that’s what I want in the movie.

They didn’t need to put on airs or act in a different voice, or do anything silly like that.

How much post production work was there?

Vincent D’Onofrio: We’re talking about a couple of weeks – 12 days of shooting, and a couple weeks of post. I took my time with the editing because I could. I didn’t have anybody over me or my film. I re–cut it a few times – we only had so much footage, there was only so much I could do, so I wanted to use whatever we had to its potential.

There is a semi–classic old horror film called Don’t Go in the Woods. How much of that is in your movie – or was it just “I used the title”?

Vincent D’Onofrio: I didn’t know about the other film, actually. I’m not a big horror genre person. I had no idea about it. So it’s nothing like that movie.

I’ve never seen that movie, so I can’t imagine it’s anything like it. I really just thought of the title at the same time I thought of the story.

The people that play the musicians – are they a real band?

Vincent D’Onofrio: Three of the guys were a real band called The Dirty Dirty.

But they’re not a real band any more, ‘cause they’re young and they like to do many different things. And some of the women in the film are friends of theirs.

Some they didn’t know at all.

At some of the screenings of Don’t Go in the Woods, they come with me and play the songs from the movie for the

audience.

When they play together, they’re a really tight band. They’re very impressive kids, I gotta tell you.

What’s next for Vincent D’Onofrio the actor?

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Vincent D’Onofrio: Since I’ve left the show, I’ve been very busy doing my own stuff. I’ve done a couple of parts when my friends who are directors have asked me. I think before the end of the year I’m going to start to pursue roles in movies again. You know, decent roles.

And once I do that, we’ll see if I’m going to be acting in film again. I don’t know! It’s a funky business. You just don’t know. The only thing, you can’t be as desperate. You have to do your own thing. I decided a long time ago, when I was a kid, to not be desperate and to do what I felt like doing. And that everything would be OK if I did it to my fullest. It’s always kind of worked with me, even with the TV show.

After such a long run as a character on TV, do you worry that you might be typecast?

Vincent D’Onofrio: I don’t think about it in those terms. I’m reminded, every time I go to buy milk on the corner, that the fans of the show think of me as the character of Goren. But the business is much more educated and a lot different from when I first started.

What people really care about is whether or not you can make them money. I think that if they believe you can sell their film, or help that film get sold, then you’re going to be cast in that movie. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done before.

I think if you have a decent reputation as an actor – that’s something I’ve been able to keep, which I’m very happy about – and people think that you’re gonna help them, then you get cast in movies. That’s what it’s all about. CS Don’t Go in the Woods screens at the Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2 Followed by a Q&A with Vincent D’Onofrio

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friend who was very much like her. She was African–American and she had a very interesting past. She was one of the first people to protest inside the White House. She and the kids had gone in when they were in their early 20s, right after Selma happened. They’d all gotten a prison sentence.

And when I was 14, I was in the basement and she had all these amazing political books, Race in South Africa, Black Suicide ... all about the black experience.

Very intellectually radical politics.

So that suggests to you a much deeper past, things that she didn’t necessarily talk about?

Left: Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington in Night Catches Us. Right: The film’s writer and director Tanya Hamilton

Night Catches Us Tanya Hamilton’s film explores life after the Black Panthers

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

For her first feature film, writer/director Tanya Hamilton takes us back to 1976, when the political unrest of the previous years was taking something of a breather. Things in America weren’t perfect, but Vietnam was over, Nixon was gone, and the turbulence of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s had given way to a sort of “now what?” feeling.

Hamilton’s film is Night Catches Us, the story of Marcus, who’s come home to Philadelphia for his father’s funeral.

Marcus (Anthony Mackie of The Hurt Locker) had been an active member

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What attracted you to this time period, and to the socio–political atmosphere?

Tanya Hamilton: The most truthful and concise reason is that I’m a foreigner, if that makes any sense. I was born in Jamaica. I came here when I was 8, in the late ‘70s. My mother had a

Tanya Hamilton: Oh, a hundred percent. I remember finding these letters that her mother had written to RFK and other people, trying to get her out on work release. And I thought that was incredible: Here’s someone I’ve known for many years, and she was so grumpy, and her politics were different from what I was putting together. And on a character level, I think that’s what I found so fascinating — coming a little bit out of a war.

What would it be like for people who, having lived through that time, and that sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that they were living with?

Did the story, therefore, suggest itself to you?

Tanya Hamilton: I had and I have a tremendous sense of romanticism, I think. And it’s from a naive perspective, obviously. I mean, I know the trials and tribulations, but there is something extremely romantic about that time, about the idea of people rising up. There’s a revolution, and it’s in your back yard.

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Complicating matters is Marcus’ rekindled romance with Patty, the widow of his best friend. Although Patty (Kerry Washington, Ray) is now a successful attorney, and is raising a young daughter all by herself, she’s looking for the same kind of love and connection that eludes Marcus. And Patty, too, has a dark past she can’t seem to escape.

Add to the equation Patty’s impressionable young cousin, Jimmy, who embraces many of the old Panther idealism, only to discover that much of it just doesn’t work any more.

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Where has Marcus been for four years?

Tanya Hamilton: The way that I saw it, as the writer, was here’s this guy, he’s been doing odd jobs all over the U.S., and going wherever he doesn’t have to connect with anyone. Wherever he doesn’t have to have anybody know him too much.

I see him as this wanderer, a guy who eternally yearns for a family and for stability, but can’t commit to it. Because although he is a local hero, and a great sort of moral center, I think he’s really damaged.

It felt important for me to ground the character in a space where he comes from this fractured family: a father who’s a deeply Christian minister with a son who rebels with the idea of becoming a Panther and embracing violence — whatever the umbrella of the day ultimately was. But Marcus’ politics overruled what he wanted to do.

And then you have the other brother, who becomes a Muslim.

So Marcus doesn’t really have a place to go home to. I always felt that when he finds the Patty character, what is attractive about her, beyond the fact that they share a past, was that there’s something real there. There’s a child, and the potential for a wife and for him to be a father. And those are things that he really wants.

To me, the most dramatically intriguing character is Jimmy.

Tanya Hamilton: I love Jimmy as well.

In many ways, he is my super favorite character. I had great ideals for him.

As the filmmaker, I can be very honest about this and say that I look back on

the film and can say that I love it, it’s definitely my labor of love. But I look back and see the places where I feel like I definitely didn’t accomplish what I wanted, and Jimmy is really at the top of the list.

Jimmy is the one place where I had a social and political agenda. I feel like Jimmy’s all the guys I went to high school with in the ‘80s in D.C. who killed each other over bullshit.

He latches onto the bright spot that is so blinding. In my own personal timeline, I thought that Jimmy knew of the Panthers as a child, and they were incredible, they were these men who were attractive and strong, all these really incredible, positive images in a way, of what men are supposed to be. But what black men are also not allowed to be in our media society.

And then they get destroyed from within. And Jimmy’s left with nothing.

He has no mother, no father, and he ultimately is also looking for family.

When the Panthers implode from the pressures of the police and the FBI, pressures from the outside – OK, the party dissipates, whatever, but the greater tragedy is that the community suffers so tremendously.

Because at their core that’s why they were so beautiful, and what made them amazing. That they were ultimately about supporting the community. They were the true grassroots black urban organization.

I feel like Jimmy’s a product of that destroyed environment. He loses, in a way, the role model he needed to grow up as a man. CS Night Catches Us screens at 11:30 a.m.

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Australian film takes you under the front lines to tell a true story of courage and sacrifice in the mud and blood of the First World War

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

One of the most fascinating — but curiously little–known — chapters of military history came during World War I in Belgium.

In an attempt to break the stalemate of trench warfare, British, Canadian and Australian miners, most of them civilians, spent more than a year digging 22 tunnels under German lines.

At the end of those tunnels they put a fantastically huge amount of explosives.

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In June 1917, the charges were detonated under a section of the Messines Ridge, a place known only as Hill 60 from its name on military maps.

The explosion — at that time the largest detonation in history, heard as far away as London — instantly killed or buried tens of thousands of German troops and broke through a key sector

of the German line. The topography remains altered to this day.

The Australian film Beneath Hill 60 portrays the real–life experience of Oliver Woodward, commander of a group of Australian civilian miners recruited for the Western Front tunnel projects.

Woodward leaves behind his own mining firm and his young sweetheart Down Under to serve his country.

With an outstanding Aussie cast (led

by Brendan Cowell), darkly compelling cinematography, and a tight storyline, the $10 million film gives little indication of its comparatively low budget, taking you not only behind the front lines but under them to the riveting atmosphere as the tunnelers race against time to finish their lethal engineering.

We spoke with screenwriter David Roach about his work on the film.

How did you decide to base a script on Oliver Woodward’s story?

David Roach: The original story came from a diary that was discovered by a miner in far North Queensland, a diary written by Oliver Woodward just for his family. Without that diary — which was about to be thrown out, by the way— no one would know this story, because the whole mining project was a big secret at the time.

The second reason we wouldn’t know about it was that military mining was considered ungentlemanly at that time.

The “gentlemanly” way to fight in those days was you gathered in a line and an officer blew a whistle and you all advanced forward across No Man’s Land.

Sounds ridiculous now, but in those days that’s what it was like.

Another reason this story would have remained hidden is that when all the other troops came back at the end of the war to victory parades, these miners and tunnellers stayed on and helped rebuild Europe, since they had so much engineering expertise. When they came back, all the victory parades were over.

Why did you think it necessary to use flashback sequences of Woodward’s time in Australia?

David Roach: It was inevitable for this particular film, because to make a whole film set in tunnels and trenches in the mud and blood of the First World War would be intensely claustrophobic for the audience. You need that claustrophobia to build pressure and tension, but you also need some sunshine. You need a little bit of breath.

You also break first–person narrative to show the experience of a young German miner involved in constructing counter–tunnels to the Allied projects.

David Roach: When the Germans started to be blown up by Allied tunnels, they went to Bavaria, found some coal miners, gave them rudimentary training, and sent them to the bloodiest battlefield in history. The tragedy is that in any other situation these two groups of miners would have had lots to talk about together.

When the concept was brought to me I decided one of the things I didn’t want is one of these war films where the enemy is just evil shadows. I wanted to show that the Germans had families and feelings and memories of their own.

Why is World War I so important to the Australian psyche, as opposed to say World War II when you were actually under threat of invasion?

David Roach: When you’re trying to finance a project and are seeking funding, normally what happens is you pitch the story, they look at you and say “What’s in it for us?” With this, we’d say this is a story about World War I, and before we could get to the next sentence they’d say “Oh, my grandfather served in World War I,” or “My uncle was killed at the Somme.” Because such a huge proportion of males in Australia went to the war, the male population was pretty well devastated. And because enough time has passed, there’s a lot of romanticism associated with that war.

Australia was a British colony then — we’re still a part of the Commonwealth — and the attitude was if anyone was going to attack Britain, then we were going to help our mother country. It’s an

old–fashioned notion now, but in those days we wanted to prove ourselves.

A lot of these men went to that war because it was a great adventure. Most had never left Australia and many had never traveled beyond their communities. By Australians participating in that war, it changed us forever. From that point on we considered ourselves more independent, and we wouldn’t venture into a war without a lot of thought.

Where did you shoot the battle scenes?

David Roach: We shot the entire film in Townsville, on the coast of Queensland.

Many of the real characters in the story came from this little mining town.

There was tremendous interest there because of the shared history. We got an intense amount of community support.

We found these older women in their 80s who had beautiful handwriting and got them to write the letters to the front from loved ones. They’d ask, “What should we write?” and we told them no one’s going to see it close up, write whatever you want. Several times on set when the actors opened these letters and read them, they got all teary because what these women had written was so beautiful, and so appropriate.

We needed extras with no limbs to portray wounded soldiers. All that’s done with computers these days, but that’s very expensive if you have a moving camera. That was well beyond our budget. So our producer went on the radio and said, “If any of you has lost a limb, if you want to come help us we’re filming this scene tonight.” I was completely embarrassed!

But the afternoon before the all– night shoot, these men turned up. Some were veterans of very recent wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. One man had lost both legs only a few months earlier and was just starting to learn to use artificial legs. They all said “We’re here to help.”

About four in the morning we gave them hot soup and blankets, and the crew gave them a round of applause.

One of the men said “We did it for those blokes.” I thought he meant the actors.

He said, “No, we did it for the diggers. The miners.” You realize that spirit the veterans have goes all the way back.

Hopefully that spirit made its way to the screen. cs Beneath Hill 60 screens Mon., Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Trustees and Thu. Nov. 4 at 2:30 p.m. at the Lucas. David Roach will attend both screenings.

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The story about the women is also extremely important to me. When I was researching this and found out that the real Oliver Woodward did actually fall in love when he was 26 and Marjorie was 16, it got me thinking that that sort of thing must have happened all the time. Not just in Australia, but wherever a soldier went off to war, young women would fall in love with them and promise to marry them when they got back.

Of course the man that came back was a completely different man from the one who left. My feeling is those women had a completely different kind of courage than the soldiers, and that needed to be expressed.

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En Route from SCAD filmmaker Colin Levy Mon Monde from SCAD filmmaker Chrystin Garland

Grampa Kevorkian from SCAD filmmaker Claire Almon

Cueb from SCAD filmmaker Alex Knoll

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Filmmaker: Colin Levy Age: 22 Hometown: Lutherville, Md. At SCAD: Film & Television program Where’d the idea come from?: “I like the idea of following somebody’s life visually as they find their niche in society.

Visually, there’s a lot you could explore in a short film: A kid who loves the water ends up being a marine biologist.

A kid flying a kite ends up being a pilot.

But it wasn’t until I found the twist, the reverse–chronological approach, that I felt this was a movie I had to make.

“It’s interesting to contemplate how the decisions you’ve made in your life have built upon each other and, bit–by–bit, assemble your present self.

Even the smallest decisions could have unexpected and unlikely implications; a choice between, say, Raisin Bran and Fruit Loops may actually be a choice between two diverging futures. With

SCAD student shorts

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There are 13 student–made short films in competition at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Of these, seven were made by current or recently–graduated SCAD students.

Over the festival’s eight days, they’re being screened in groups, as addenda to various features, and as part of the SCAD Student Showcase on Nov. 1 (see our Screening Schedule for details).

We spoke with all seven of the SCAD short–makers. Look for the remainder in next week’s issue, as we cover Part Two of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival.

En Route A live–action short, it begins with the horrific, burning image of a downed passenger jet. Then we see the pilot’s life in reverse – including jobs, marriage and school – going all the way back to his boyhood fascination with planes and flight.

this film I wanted to explore fate and destiny, chance and possibility – raising questions more than making a particular statement.”

How was it made?: “We set out to capture some pretty ambitious images in the making of En Route. My visual effects supervisor Sandro Blattner led over a dozen artists on the visual effects for many months – every one of them deserves a lot of recognition. A lot of the live–action cockpit footage was shot on green screen. The plane crash was almost entirely CG. The plane and debris were modeled, lit and textured by hand, smoke was simulated and rendered at high resolution, the live–action elements were painstakingly rotoscoped, and final touches, including falling embers and heat waves, were composited in to give you the finished shots.”

A charming, hand–drawn black– and–white short in which children share their memories of their late grandfather (they are the filmmaker’s siblings).

Filmmaker: Claire Almon Age: 29 Hometown: Augusta At SCAD: Working on her MFA in Animation thesis at the Atlanta campus Where’d the idea come from?: “Aram Trevor Kevorkian was my maternal grandfather. He was larger than life, charismatic, generous and the patriarch of the family. To his grandkids, he was almost magical. In my eyes he was full of gentleness, laughter, and joy even though he could be stern at times. We had a special relationship of mutual adoration and love that really can’t be described in words.”

How was it made?: “I animated the piece by drawing each frame in Flash and then I painted every frame digitally in Photoshop. So even though it was digital it was all hand drawn with a Cintiq. My goal was to achieve the look and feel of pen and ink wash.

“I wanted to evoke the bittersweet feeling of remembering someone we’ve loved dearly and lost. The end goal was to create an emotional experience that an audience could share in, rather than presenting a play–by–play retelling.”

Mon Monde In this delightful hand drawn/cut– out animated short, a boy and a girl meet, and as the hands of a clock move forward in time they each live a separate life, eventually maturing, growing old ... and coming together again.

Filmmaker: Chrystin Garland Age: 22 Hometown: Elk Grove, Cal. At SCAD: Graduated last spring with a BFA in Animation Why this subject?: “I am a really big romantic, so it was inevitable that I would gravitate towards something about love and loss. The image of a wooden cuckoo clock came to mind.

There are some clocks that have a bird pop out and chirp every hour, while others feature a little boy and girl emerging from the clock. Regardless whether they kiss or dance across the stage, it got me thinking ... ‘What happens after they go back inside?’

“I thought it was kind of sad that the couple only saw each other once every hour, only to immediately return to their own separate doorways. I know

that if I lost someone I loved, I’d want to search for him as long as I could. This film is kind of an exploration of that.”

How was it made?: “After a lot of brainstorming, we decided that animating the film in Adobe Flash would be the best production method. Once the characters where moving properly, a team of artists and I would break up each piece of the character to color on separate layer. This way we could create the illusion of a ‘cut out’ puppet with separated joints. The whimsical background pieces were all created in Photoshop, and later composited in Adobe After Effects, where some very talented compositors added paper textures and shadows to all of the characters and environments. This stage of post production is also where effects, such as the twinkling lights and moving cog pieces, where added.”

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Cueb A very short short done with computer animation. A spaceman lands in an alien world, only to be challenged by an odd, enormous monster who seems to be made of magnetic rectangles and squares.

Filmmaker: Alex Knoll Age: 23 Hometown: Holland, Mich.

At SCAD: Graduated last spring with a BFA in Animation Why this type of animation?: “I’m drawn to computer animation primarily because it’s like an infinite space in which I can create and play with ‘toys,’ definitely a childhood dream of mine.

“Most people who go into this field and similar ones, all probably aspire to shoot for the very top of the chain, wanting to direct or be the producer, but I really just want to work as a regular animator on fun projects with fun people.”

Was it fun or arduous?: “My original project I had roughly eight months invested into working on it, primarily by myself, when I realized it was too ambitious and wouldn’t get done. I had the space guy already finished, but everything else was a disaster and I had to scrap the whole project. So besides the space guy I made this entire thing from scratch in just over 24 hours (since I had to have SOMETHING done in order to graduate). I worked with a sound guy for a few months after that and had some time to clean up some of the effects, but the bulk of the project was done in only a day (something I will hopefully never have to do again).” cs

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Left, Free Candy play Tantra on Friday night; at right, GAM plays their legendary annual Halloween show Saturday night at the Jinx

HALLOWEEN IN THE CLUBS

The big orange–and–black falls on a Sunday this year, so your nightclub Halloweeny stuff pretty much happens Friday and Saturday nights.

Of course, there’s always The Rocky Horror Show at Club One, but for out–and–out musical madness, and Halloween decadence on a rock ‘n’ roll scale, check out Free Candy at Tantra Lounge on Friday the 29th. Ian Zimerle is on guitar and vocals, and the other three members of this brand– new garage/punk/surf band are moonlighting belly dancers! Britt Scott (who’s been doing lots of singing around town) is on guitar and vocals, Nicole Edge plays drums, and Alexandra Mitchell slaps that upright bass.

The fabulous Nickel Bag of Funk has the Saturday night spot at Tantra.

The Jinx welcomes the annual All Hallows Weekend gig from GAM, once the most popular band in Savannah (and beyond), now semi–retired because the guys are doing so many other things (like raising families, for a start). Keith Kozel, Kevin Rose, Ronny Kersey, Ricardo Ochoa and Josh Safer play theatrical, complex and dynamic music, and their over–the–top Halloween shows are the stuff of local legend. They’ll take the stage at 11 p.m. Saturday. As always on a Jinx Halloween there’ll be blood wrestling – bikini–clad babes grappling in fake blood between GAM sets.

At the Live Wire, Passafire – Savannah’s mondo popular reggae/pop export – plays a rare local show Saturday, and on Friday the Wormhole Bar’s bringing in Caltrop, Faun Fables, Convict Fiction and the glorious soundscapes of Sinister Moustache. Saturday night, it’s the Wormhole’s fully–decadent Savannah Pagan Pride Halloween Ball, with belly dance performances, sets from the aforementioned Free Candy, Anitra Opera Diva and others, tarot card readings and full participation from the group called The Real Witches of Savannah.

KEVIN BARRY’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY

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117 W. River Street Music at 8:30 p.m. daily Let’s all hoist our glasses to New Yorker Vic Power, who first threw open the wooden doors of Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub 30 years ago – it was Halloween, October 31, 1980.

From the start, Power meant to re–create the beloved cozy pubs of his youth – no TV, no video games, no frills. And there’s a separate room, just for music. Says regular performer Carroll Brown: “It’s Vic’s theory that if live entertainment and good conversation, and a good choice of adult beverages is not enough for you, then you can go somewhere else.”

The fact that it’s stayed that way, and has remained a popular spot even though America’s fascination with Irish pubs all but went out in the too–trendy 1990s – is testament to his vision. So here’s to ya, Vic. Barry’s is closed Sunday for a private celebration, but onstage through Saturday is County Galway multi–instrumentalist Gabriel Donohue, who played both guitar and piano in the Chieftains’ touring show, and thus appeared five times at Carnegie Hall.

“Vic is the aficionado of Irish pubs,” Donohue says. “Sometimes he knows more than the entertainers do about the music. He’s a dedicated Irish pub owner. It’s just a great room to play in because the focus is on the stage. Most pubs you go into, the music is an afterthought. You get these corporate container pubs – they come over in containers from Ireland and get reconstructed over here.”

Power, of course, would have none of it: In 1980, he recalls, “I worked it myself. The rent was so cheap, and there was nothing else going on. I figured I could work the bar myself. I planned on building it up and then getting out of here, but it didn’t work that way.” CS

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Russian Festival @ Rincon photos by christina m. bunn

In this busy festival season, one of the most friendly and fun events — despite its relatively low profile — is the annual Russian Festival, held at St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church in Rincon this past Saturday.

Here’s a photo chronicle of some of the day’s entertainment. CS

The Ballet School’s Character Dance Troupe

Father John Caparisos of St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church in Savannah sang with his wife Sophia The Ballet School Character Dance Troupe performing a Russian dance

The Mark Spivak School of Dance wore themselves out doing Russian dances

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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. Chakaia Booker, ‘Sustain’ — SCAD exhibitions department presents 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.

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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 David Wolobah — An exhibition of colorful landscapes by Wolobah, who is visiting from Monrovia, Liberia. SSU Social Sciences Building Gallery 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. Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker St. Debbie Mueller & Tad Willis — The featured artists at 209 include Mueller, who works with pottery and ceramic, and Willis, a self-taught painter.

Gallery 209, 209 E. River St. Facing the Sun — French expressionist Jean Claude Roy debuts new work. Grand Bohemian Gallery , 700 Drayton St.

Work by Panhandle Slim and son Tex is at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar; opening reception is Thursday night from 6-8:30 p.m.

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. Closes Oct. 29.

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

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.

No Boundaries — An multimedia exhibition of work by people with disabilities in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. SSU King-Frazier Student Center

Kobo Group Show — Featured artists include Doris Grieder (fibers), Sonya Ho (encaustic painting) and Stephanie Tames (pine needle art). Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St.

No Ordinary Folk — An exhibition of sculpture, drawings and paintings from self-taught folk artists from around the Southeast. Runs through January 3, 2011. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St.

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Panhandle Slim, Tex Monroe and Friends — Local folk artist Panhandle Slim and his son Tex host an exhibit featuring their paintings along with work by some of Tex’s Kindergarten friends.

Opening reception (costumes encouraged): Oct. 28, 6-8:30pm. Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Rights, Relationships and Roadtrips — A collection of photos shot during the 50th anniversary conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Reception: Nov. 2, 6-8pm. Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Southern Ease — A group show celebrating Southern living. Featuring Jan ClaytonPagratis, Laura Dinello, David Kaminsky, John Olenyik,

Lori Keith Robinson, Cedric Smith and more. Chroma Gallery, 31 Barnard St. Spill — Juried exhibition featuring 25 works exploring responses to the Gulf oil disaster. Gallery Talk: Oct. 31, 3-5pm. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. The Art Cure — Work by breast cancer survivors plus works donated by other artists. Month long silent auction benefits Susan G Komen Foundation. Closing reception: Oct. 29, 5-9pm. Horizon Gallery, 206 E. Bay St. The Gift of Family Photography — A touching collection of portraits of hospice patients and their families.

Hospice Savannah Gallery , 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

The Night Gardener — Whimsical new paintings

by Lisa Ocampo that will resonate with Lewis Carroll fans. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Tiffani Taylor auction — New work featured at re-opening of Ruth’s Chris. Silent auction proceeds benefit SCAD Scholarship fund. Opening reception (ft. live music by Roger Moss): Oct. 28, 5-8pm.

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, 111 W. Bay St. Watercolor Extravaganza — Watercolor classes with painter Dennis Roth as well as live demos, refreshments and sale prices for paintings and giclees. October 30-31, classes held at 9am, noon and 3pm. Studio Phase 3, City Market cs

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Chicken with a side o’ greens at Bluffton BBQ

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If you told me a $2 slider was capable of sending my taste buds into nirvana I’d have laughed. But that’s exactly what happened over lunch at Sammy Green’s.

The menu is very casual: sliders, tacos and hot dogs. Nothing is over two bucks except full sandwiches and salads.

I took a troupe with me and the oohs and aahs from this bunch of demanding gourmands was fascinating.

I chose two sliders and a taco. The Danang slider with slow cooked pork was true to its Vietnamese roots – topped with Asian slaw, a micro herb salad, pate, mayo and Sciracha chili sauce. For such a diminutive sandwich, it was a model of flavor, temperatures and textures.

My China Town slider, again with pork, was topped with sweet and tangy pickled cucumber, scallions, Hoisin BBQ sauce, mayo and, yep, more Sciracha.

My lone taco featured pork on a steaming hot corn tortilla and toppings of cabbage, lime, cilantro, red onion, radish and roasted salsa.

Beef brisket or tofu are options for virtually every item on the menu. I didn’t sample a hot dog, but several of my companions did – and found a delicious grilled frank topped with more goodies. They were particularly fond of the Coney Island dog topped with chili.

Soft drinks are old school fountain-style – and I could have consumed a Big Gulp’s worth of the homemade root beer.

Two sliders, a taco and a root beer...just over $8. Wow! I did score a piece of house made carrot cake to go – do not pass it by.

I slipped into South Carolina recently to grab a bite at Bluffton BBQ. In a village known for its art galleries and out–of–town license plates, this little joint is unpretentious and delicious.

Pitmaster Ted Huffman once told me he left the pipefitting business to pursue his goals of making barbecue, smoking cigars and being able to buy beer wholesale. He’s done just that, and in the process consistently delivers what may well be the best example of pulled pork you’ll find on either side of our river.

Tucked off to the side of the trendy faux village, The Promenade, Bluffton BBQ is easy to find. Follow the smell of smoking meat and the sound of pa–fffft, the unique snap and fizz of a PBR being popped.

Pulled pork is served on toasted white bread with a slice of tomato and pickle slices. Ted’s tangy red sauce is on the side. Count on tender, moist and mildly smokey.

Drinks are self serve: sweet tea, soft drinks or beer. Don’t ask for unsweet ea – Ted has a manifesto he will recite.

We tried chicken, too. It was nicely sprinkled with a flavorful dry rub and was as equally moist and tender as the pork.

A side of collard greens are so good they’d make your grandma weep in defeat. ’Cue places oughta be joints – with the owner talking to guests while wearing his fat–stained apron. Ted has accomplished that – and made Bluffton BBQ a true destination for smoked meat fans.

I’ve written about the Merlot before, but last week tasted Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc from the same producer.

I was especially interested in the Pinot Noir, with a price tag that hovers in the $10–$12 range.

Pinot at that price is often tricky, and doesn’t express as well as higher priced competitors. This one performs nicely and delivers the characteristics I like to see in Pinot.

Juice for this wine comes from California’s Central Coast, a region that has a solid reputation for other varietals – and is growing in popularity as a source for Pinot Noir. The unique topography, warm days and cool nights make this exceptional Pinot turf.

Don’t forget to give this wine some air.

Even inexpensive red wines benefit from decanting – or at least opening a couple of hours in advance. Right from the bottle, this wine is a bit too “hot” for my taste. The tannins and alcohol are too pronounced. However, I opened mine, decanted for two hours and found a much smoother, more enjoyable wine in my glass.

Tart red cherry is the first aroma you should sense, then count on that flavor, as well as red currants and tangy spices to coat your palate.

It does possess the silky mouthfeel I enjoy in Pinot Noir. I shun those that don’t at least deliver this overwhelmingly unique characteristic.

This wine pairs well with lamb kabobs, smoked sausage, or your favorite mushroom risotto.

The newly released 2009 Chardonnay is soft and creamy with apple, tropical fruits, vanilla and spice. A nine–month oak aging program brought beautiful balance to this Chardonnay without stave–slapping you silly with over oakiness.

Likewise, the 2009 Sauvignon Blanc marries together New Zealand grapes to create an appetite-arousing wine that’s alive with the flavors of Meyer lemons and Key limes.

My recent oyster-on-the-halfshell craving was kicked up a notch when I accompanied a half dozen with a glass of Cupcake Sauvignon Blanc. cs

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Several other band members are SCAD graduates.

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Mo ’Mags’ One more chapter in the continuing saga of Steel Magnolias. Robert Harling’s play, after a record–breaking run last month by the City of Savannah, is being produced by the Tybee Arts Association Nov. 5–14. We’ told you about this earlier, and we’ll focus on the Tybee production in an upcoming issue.

Here’s the new twist: The Hinesville Area Arts Council’s Liberty Theatre is doing Steel Magnolias Nov. 12 and 13 in Midway’s Dorcester Civic Center. Those flowers of pulchritude sure are bloom-

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Wonder when the Garden City production will turn up?

And now, this • On Dec. 3 and 6, I Cantori does its annual Christmas concerts at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Skidaway Island.

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I was in Florida last weekend, visiting family, and several times I was asked about the music scene in Savannah: What kind of stuff comes through there? What are the local bands like?

The answers were easy, because in all the mid–sized Southern cities I’ve called home, Savannah has the most fertile musical ground I’ve ever been honored to till.

There’s something and someone different every single week, I told my relatives; the local players are, for the most part, fantastic, and the regional artists that pass through offer a stunningly high percentage of quality, no matter one’s musical preferences.

In my inbox just this morning was the announcement of a Nov. 6 show at the Wormhole, featuring not only the wonderful Savannah singer/songwriters Dare Dukes and General O, but a band from Atlanta called Oryx and Crake.

These guys combine acoustica and electronica in interesting ways, with delicately brooding songs that convey immense emotionalism with a combination of guitars, mandolins, keys and samples, autoharp and a delectable violin and cello.

Plus bass and drums (yeah, it’s a pretty big band).

The Oryx and Crake CD appeared just a month or so ago. Said the Atlanta Journal–Constitution: “The album is easily among the best local releases of the year ...

Few bands come out of the box with such a singular, well–developed identity. It’s a marvel.”

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The Psychotronic Film Society honors ghosts, ghouls and zombies with 12-hour horror movie marathon

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Scary movies have always had a special place in the hearts of filmmakers and audiences. Even in the earliest days of cinema, tales of supernatural terror quickly rose to the forefront; the silent movie classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens was made in 1922 and released in the America in 1929.

The genre expanded through the golden age of the silver screen, making Dracula, Frankenstein and other movie monsters the faces of the country’s col-

lective childhood terror. Over the years, the ranks of the fear–inducing characters grew, and Norman Bates, Jason Voorhies, Michael Myers (Halloween,

not Wayne’s World) and Freddy Krueger all became household names.

“While there are many people out there who simply cannot stand the notion of watching a scary film, on some fundamental level, the adrenalin rush that comes from being frightened is a turn–on to most folks,” explains Jim Reed, the founder and Artistic Director of the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah.

What better time to celebrate the long–standing tradition than on Halloween?

This Sunday, the Psychotronic Film Society and 6th Sense World are teaming up to serve a heaping helping of zombies, ghosts, monsters and psychopaths. Per the PFS mission to rediscover lesser–known–but–awesome movies,

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the selections aren’t necessarily the standard Halloween choices that will be ubiquitous on cable all week.

From forgotten classics to obscure contemporary fare, the series contains some gems with which even the most dedicated of fans might not be familiar.

“When I curate a special event such as this, I try to showcase a variety of smaller sub–genres,” says Reed. “we start off the day with an eerie and ultra–obscure art–house picture (Carnival of Souls), followed by a bona fide classic many critics call the finest ‘haunted house’ movie ever made (the original 1963 version of The Haunting), and then things start to take a weird turn.”

Several of the films showing later in the day are cult classics that might be familiar to connoisseurs, but Reed has

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Noon – Carnival of Souls (USA, 1961) Little–known favorite of cult film fanatics tells the tale of a woman who survives a car accident and starts a new life, but is haunted by a shadowy figure and an abandoned carnival. It was a big influence on legendary director George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.

2 p.m. – The Haunting (USA, 1963) Forget the cheesy remake, this tale of terror involves a doctor researching the supernatural who takes a team of assistants into the Hill House, well–known for its history of violent incidents.

4 p.m. – City of the Living Dead (US/Italy, 1980) After a priest commits suicide, the gates of Hell open and the dead rise from their graves to kill the living. Two couples have to get the gates closed before there’s no one left to stop the zombies. One of the goriest movies of its time, and filmed here in Savannah.

6 p.m. – Profundo Rosso (Italy, 1975) Italian master of suspense Dario Argento (Suspiria, Phenomena) crafted this thrilling story (also known as Deep Red) about a psychic and an investigative reporter who team up to solve the murder of a musician. The killer is out to make sure questions about the murder are never answered.

8 p.m. – Tourist Trap (USA, 1979) After their car breaks down near an old roadside attraction, a group of teenagers are tortured by a psychopath with the power to control the mannequins who keep him company. Stephen King said it’s his all–time favorite horror movie!

10 p.m. – The Signal (USA, 2007) An allegorical tale about the power of media to mutate normal people into killers, The Signal was made a few years ago by several Georgia filmmakers.

When a mysterious frequency begins transmitting to all the cell phones, televisions and radio, a psychotic rampage ensues. cs

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gone out of his way to find director’s cuts of those films that were given awkward edits before being released in America.

Think 12 hours is too much? There are some diehard horror fans that will definitely try and survive the full 12 hours of murder and mayhem.

“There are several people who are planning to make all six,” says Reed.

“Those that do will get a concentrated master class in the history and evolution of the contemporary horror film, post–1960.”

However, for those with busy schedules, the event is designed so that you can stop by and catch a movie at any time during the day.

The marathon’s closing film, The Signal, which was shot in Atlanta, is the most contemporary of any of the selections (released in 2007), but it may be the most surprising too.

“While there are scenes which may be hard for some folks to take, in its totality, I think The Signal is one of the most interesting, unpredictable and thought–provoking horror films I’ve ever seen,” Reed says.

If you haven’t had a chance to catch a movie at Muse yet, you’re missing out on what is fast becoming one of the premier spots to catch films that haven’t made it to local screens – plus candy and soda are only $1. Take that movie theater.

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From his spaghetti Westerns through the surprise box office smash Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood has offered increasingly mature treatises on the subject of death, specifically how it relates to the act of one person taking another’s life. Hereafter, Eastwood’s newest and (arguably) most misunderstood movie, finds the filmmaker coming at us from a quieter place, examining the notion of death away from the sudden impact of a 357 Magnum or other forms of violent, purposeful retribution.

The result is a haunting experience certain to resonate with more discerning filmgoers, as well as a return to form for Eastwood after the Rocky–like theatrics of Invictus.

The script by Peter Morgan (The Queen) follows three separate stories that eventually dovetail in one satisfying finale. The first focuses on George Lonegan (Matt Damon in a beautifully modulated performance), a bona fide psychic whose ability to glimpse into the afterworld has left him alone in this world. The second tale follows French journalist Marie Lelay (Cecile de France), whose near–death experience during the devastating 2004 tsunami has understandably affected everything from her career to her relationships. Finally, there are Marcus and Jason (Frankie McLaren and George McLaren), twin lads from London who find their brotherly bond seemingly severed on the heels of a tragic incident.

Hereafter unfolds with the patience of a good book, a factor likely to turn off more antsy audience members. Yet those who don’t flinch

at its meditative rhythms will find much to appreciate, starting with the understated manner in which Eastwood and Morgan present their material. Steadfastly refusing to engage in dogmatic pursuits, the pair are content to offer a universally accessible look at the manner in which people become so preoccupied with the notion of death that they are unable or unwilling to live for themselves.

The picture’s low–key approach extends to the fleeting supernatural moments, shot in a matter–of–fact way that’s neither fussy nor forced. Indeed, Hereafter emerges as the most gentle picture in Eastwood’s filmography, a sincere push for establishing meaningful connections among the living in our own world, as well as a ruminative exploration on the importance of making peace with this life before venturing into the great unknown.

MY SOUL TO TAKE The best thing about My Soul to Take is that it may force otherwise sensible folks to revisit director Wes Craven’s past works and finally realize that he’s always been nothing more than a hack in

the horror field, a Uwe Boll with a better sense of where to place the camera. (Forget Scream and Freddy Krueger; Red Eye and The Hills Have Eyes, neither great but both certainly watchable, represent his apex of aptitude.)

In this head–smackingly stupid film, seven children are born on the same night that a serial killer known as the Ripper is brought down. Sixteen years later, the kids, now obnoxious high school students, are being picked off one by one, begging the question: Is the Ripper still out there somewhere, or did his soul enter one of the babies on that fateful night long ago?

To his credit, Craven keeps his rampant misogyny in check – in most of his films, it’s the victimized women who receive the fetishistic close–ups and elongated death scenes, but here, each slaying (male and female) is as dully and incompetently presented as the next. His screenplay is so haphazard that one wonders if he was writing pages minutes before each day’s shooting commenced; additionally, there are no horror set–pieces worth mentioning, and Craven’s stock high school characters would have made John Hughes cringe. It all adds up to a soul–crushing waste of time.

Waiting For ‘Superman’ EDITOR’S NOTE: As of this writing, Waiting for ‘Superman’ is not yet playing in Savannah but due to the extreme buzz it has generated, we’re running this review anyway.

Davis Guggenheim, who won an Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth, here presents another inconvenient truth: The United States public school system just isn’t working. This comes as a shock to absolutely no one, but unlike most recent nonfiction pieces that play partisan politics (usually siding with the left), this is a rare one that people from all walks of life can rally behind.

Still, what it does share in common with those other documentaries in this downtrodden age is its belief that we lowly citizens can all band together to help fix the

Red The action extravaganza Red is fun for a multitude of reasons, covering its bases quite nicely. Fans of movie stars doing the unexpected can revel in the sight of Dame Helen Mirren handling a machine gun the size of a Buckingham Palace guard house. Devotees of inventive visual gags can delight in the sequence in which John Malkovich uses his weapon to bat away a threatening hand grenade. And aficionados of clever scripting can enjoy the moment when Bruce Willis describes Karl Urban by

noting he has â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretty hair.â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more to enjoy, which makes Red among the better action spectacles of recent vintage. It admittedly gets bogged down in the late going, when the tired genre conventions stake their claim with predictable doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;crosses and expected character epiphanies, but overall, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smart, slick endeavor that gets added mileage from its cast of seasoned screen vets.

How seasoned? The arithmetic mean of the five topâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;billed starsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ages is 59; throw 93â&#x20AC;&#x201C;yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;old supporting player Ernest Borgnine into the equation, and the calculator starts to overheat.

Based on the DC comic book of the same name, Red actually plays like a wink to Danny Gloverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic line from the Lethal Weapon series: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too old for this shit.â&#x20AC;? In Red, these aging exâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;agents are definitely not too old for the challenges placed in front of them, all of which stem from the fact that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re marked (along with several others) for termination as a result of their participation in a covert operation that took place back in 1981. Frank Moses (Willis) is one of these former CIA hotshots trying to save his own skin, a task made more difficult by the fact that (shades of Knight and Day) he also has to protect the innocent woman (a winsome Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Louise Parker) inadvertently mixed up in these dangerous dealings.

Over time, Frank is able to reunite several of his oldâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;school allies â&#x20AC;&#x201C; collected Joe (Morgan Freeman), unhinged Marvin (Malkovich, whose offâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;kilter acting makes more sense here than in Secretariat) and steely Victoria (Mirren) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and even secure some muchâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;needed assistance from an old Cold War nemesis (Brian Cox). Opposing them are two determined CIA suits (Urban and Rebecca Pidgeon), a sleazy businessman (Richard Dreyfuss, reprising his oilyâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Republican act from The American President and W.) and no less than the vice president of the United States (Julian McMahon).

By employing imagination in all facets of the production, Red manages to avoid being lumped together with another recent title with AARP credentials: the generic, geriatric The Expendables. Besides, in a celebrity smackdown between Sylvester Stallone and Helen Mirren, my moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the great Dame.

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wishful thinking on the part of the filmmakers as it is a viable reality, and Waiting for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Supermanâ&#x20AC;? is predictably heavy on the outrage and frustration and light on the inspiration and hope.

But because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a universal issue that affects legions of folks across the country â&#x20AC;&#x201C; particularly the children â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sort of film that begs to be seen.

Documentaries are often no different than their fictional brethren in that they follow a template that provides viewers with easily designated good guys and bad guys. Here, the clearâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;cut hero is the passionate and charismatic Geoffrey Canada, head of the Harlem Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zone and one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most successful education reformers.

The antiâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;hero(ine) role falls to Michelle Rhee, the controversial chancellor of Washington, D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public schools system whose hardline methods have improved DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schools but angered many adults in the process (Rhee, who correctly notes that it always ends up being about the adults instead of the kids, resigned her post Oct. 13).

As for the villain, that would be the American Federation of Teachers, painted here as a rigid union whose membership is more interested in protecting the terrible teachers among its ranks than in serving the children.

Speaking of the children, the heart of the film of course rests with its youngest subjects, five students (in LA, NYC and DC) whose best chance at having a bright future lies in whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be randomly selected in their respective localesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; education lotteries to be transferred from their lowâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;performing neighborhood schools to successful charter schools.

While this climactic section of the picture proves to be the most schematic (whose name or number will pop up next?), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible not to be left either elated or heartbroken, depending on which way the (lottery) ball bounces.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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The world needed an immediate remake of Sweden’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, cash–in–quick product. Crafted with extreme care by writer–director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), this is that rare retelling that pays the utmost respect to its predecessor – I’d be hard–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 Road’s Kodi Smit–McPhee) notices he has new neighbors in the form of Abby (Chloe Grace Moretz of Kick–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 doesn’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 Sant’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 ’08 take), he’s to be commended for creating a film that ably stands on its own.

Still, for all of Reeves’ accomplishments, the most thrilling aspect of Let Me In is that it’s the first movie in 31 years from Hammer Film Productions, the studio responsible for many of the horror classics of the 1950s and ’60s.

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

in the “evil that kids do” mini–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 10–year–old Lilith (Jodelle Ferland) from execution by her seemingly religious–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 isn’t even one–tenth as terrifying as her comedy New In Town.

You Again There’s a lot about You Again that’s instantly disposable, from its generic title to its bland leading lady to a storyline that’s as weightless as a sponge cake.

But leave it to the old pros in the cast to prevent this from completely sinking into the abyss of immediately forgotten comedies. 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.

CASE 39

DEVIL

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? Let’s just say that when filming began, David O. Selznick was still combing the country for the perfect Scarlett O’Hara.

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

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 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 is, uh, heaven–sent.

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EASY A 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 wants to dump her, the resident Jesus freak 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.” There’s 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 benefits from the adult supervision. CS

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Democratic Party

For info, contact Tony Center at 912-2339696 or TonyCenter@comcast.net Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 313 W. York St. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.net/

League of Women Voters

meets first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3, Candler Heart and Lung Building. Must be 18 or older. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Purrs 4 Peace

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 Blessed Sacrament School Auction

A country hoe-down complete with mechanical bull. Auction items include vacation packages, jewelry, art and more. Nov. 6, 6:30-9:30pm. Tickets: $25/adv, $30/door.

Blessed Sacrament School, 1003 E. Victory Dr. www.bss-savannah.org

Broadway on Bull

Saturday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. at the Savannah Theatre. Proceeds benefit Live Oak Public Libraries. Tickets are $35 for adults, $17 for children ages 16 and under. To order tickets, call the box office at 233-7764 or purchase online at www.savannahtheatre. com.

provided. Call 236-5310.

Maurice Brown @ 912-428-1709

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.

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.

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

SMA Angels Charity Ball

Nov. 13, 6pm at the Riverfront Marriott.

Live/Silent Auction, Dinner and Dance.

Featuring the band “Swingin Medallions”.

Profits go to support research for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is the number one genetic killer of children under the age of two. Tickets $75 - Table of ten $750. www.smaangels.org

Classes, Camps & Workshops

A charity softball tournament with proceeds benefiting local and international charities assisting orphans held at the Paulson Softball Complex. There will be both men (competitive & Fun League) and Co-ed Leagues available. Admission to the park is an Item for operation Christmas Child or a $2 donation. The team Entry Fee is $300. Nov. 6th. For info: play4orphans@ aol.com or 912-604-0786

Abstinence Education

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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 Auditions: Diva Daughters Dupree

An open call for actors interested in performing a staged reading Dec. 8-9. There are 6 parts, 3 female/3 male. The “Diva Daughters Dupree” tells the story of three African American sisters who struggle with cultural assimilation, consumerism and race. Auditions: Nov. 2, 7-10 p.m. S.P.A.C.E. Black Box Theater. 9 W. Henry St.

Junior League Community Applications

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

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.

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.

The SAIF takes place Feb. 4-5 at the Coastal Georgia Center. Submissions for 10 different categories are being accepted until Dec. 1 via the website Without A Box. For more info: www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com

Flying Fortress 5k

Holly Days Bazaar

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

St. Thomas Thift Store grants

Savannah International Animation Festival

Savannah’s Got Talent II

Whatever your talent, bring it! $10 entrance fee for the first 30 to enter. Sign-up: Tuesdays & Thursdays (5:00-7:00pm). 3 minutes to show off your talent. First prize $150. Nov. 13, 2010 @ Delaware Center 1805 Lincoln St. 7:00 pm-10:00pm. For info:

$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.

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

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, DWI, offenders, and anyone seeking to gain knowledge about 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.

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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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

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.

Music Lessons

New “mommy and me” music classes starting in Nov. Certified teacher with BA in Music Education. New classes offered for students ages 6 months-5 years. Private lessons also available for piano, woodwinds, brass, beginner guitar, and more!

Contact Ms. Amy at msamyschoolofmusic@ gmail.com or at 912-659-0993.

New Horizons Adult Band Program

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.

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.

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

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

Conversational Spanish Group

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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. 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/

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.

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/

Clubs & Organizations 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.

Clean Coast

Meets monthly on the first Monday. Visit www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

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

Coastal Bicycling Tour Club

Hosts rides on Saturdays. 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.

11/13: Gullah Gallop, 21-41 miles, meet on St. Helena, 9am. Call Darrell for info: 912598-2181. 11/27: Ridgeland, 28-32 miles.

Call Darrell for info: 598-2181. 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

Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Meditation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more. Call 912-695-

2305 for more info. http://www.meetup. com/SavannahEnergyHealers/

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, artists, writers, teachers and historians for discussion, site exploration and creative collaboration. Meets the 1st & 3rd Thursdays at the Sentient Bean, 6:30pm. 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 Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org. Savannah

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 regular social gatherings. Free to join. Email savannahadventureclub@gmail.com or visit www.savannahadventureclub.com

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

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

Savannah Art Association

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 912232-7731 for more info.

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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 3735571 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

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2011 Savannah Yoga Center Charity Calendar The calendar features SYC teachers doing yoga in some of Savannah’s most beautiful hidden gardens.

2011 calendar proceeds will go to helping one of our very own yoga teachers here at SYC. To buy a pre-print discounted calendar & for info on how to become a sponsor, please visit www.SavannahYoga.com

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

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

Savannah Parrot Head Club

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

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/savannahwine-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 meetand-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm.

Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891. 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: 912-238-0514

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 912596-5267.

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A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Monthly meetings for the Writer’s Salon are held on first Tuesday and the Book Club meets on the third Tuesday.

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 call 912-631-3452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. E-mail: abeniculturalarts@gmail.com St. Pius Family Resource Center,

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 Mar-

tin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. ,

Basic Ballroom Class

Learn the waltz with the Moon River Dancers. Ken Howard, instructor. St. Frances Cabrini Church, 11500 Middleground Rd. Nov. 6, 1-3pm. Cost: $5. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 308-9222 for more info.

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

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.

Beginners Fusion Belly Dance

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/

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

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

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops

and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com or 912-704-2052.

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

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. ,

Putting on the Ritz Ball

A Ballroom Dance-stravaganza at the American Legion. 1108 Bull St., Saturday, Nov. 27, 8pm-midnight. Black tie optional.

Cost: $15 in advance. $20 at the door.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 308-9222 for more info.

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

Salsa Savannah

Tuesdays at Tantra (8 E. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-9pm, open dancing 9pm1am. Thursday at Saya (109 W. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-8pm, open dancing 911pm. Bachata lessons at Saya Thursdays from 8-9pm. For more info: www.salsasavannah.com, 912-704-8726.

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.

Shake Loose 2010: Dance Festival

The Souls Ablaze Dance Group perform hip hop, modern, and lyrical dances! Nov. 7, 6-8pm. FREE admission. Call 912-691-1148 for info. Sanctuary Church of Savannah, 8912 Whitefield Ave. www.thesanctuarysav. org/

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

The Savannah Dance Club

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and

Events AASU Pirate Preview Open House

November 13, 9am: Armstrong faculty, staff and students will be on hand with info about scholarships, financial aid, admission requirements, degree programs, student life and more. Tours of student housing available. Call 912-344-2503 for info. Free and open to the public. AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 13040 Abercorn St. ,

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. 912-6516823. 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.

Gullah-Geechee Seafood Festival

Saturday, Oct. 30 at noon on St. Helena Island. Cast net making and fishing demos, music, a presentation by Queen Quet and more. Free admission. Seafood dinners for $10/plate. www.gullahgeecheefishingassociation.com or call 843-838-1171.

Jam-O-Rama

An open forum music night where musicians are invited to come and collaborate with others in a big open jam session. $3 donation to enter and play. Thurs. Oct. 28, 7pm-10:30. The Co-Lab, 631 E. Broad St. Email: music@thecolabstudios.com for more info, or visit: zecolab.tumblr.com

MoogFest 2010

A three-day event featuring panels, workshops and live music celebrating the legacy of electronic music pioneer Robert Moog. October 29-31 in Asheville, NC. Features performances by Devo, Big Boi, Girl Talk and many more. For info and tickets: www.moogfest.com

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 Armstrong Center is available for meetings, seminars, workshops or social events. Classrooms, meeting space, auditorium and 6000-square-foot ballroom. 344-2951. Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah

Film & Video 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

Fitness A New Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

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 912-4141091. 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 912660-7399 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/

Crunch Lunch

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.

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

Hatha Yoga classes

Every Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 8196463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being, Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and precrawlers) at the Savannah Yoga Center.

The cost is $14 per class. Multi-class discounts are 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 12:30pm-1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am-10:30am.

All levels welcome! Private and SemiPrivate classes are by appointment only.

Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://sacontinues on p. 62

“Greater-Than Sudoku” For this “Greater-Than Sudoku,” I’m not givin’ you ANY numbers to start off with! Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1–9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1–9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on). psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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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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Health

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.

Bariatrics at Memorial

Open to anyone interested in learning about bariatric procedures. Surgery info session: Nov. 3, 6pm at the Medical Education Auditorium, Memorial Health. Support group mtg: Nov. 3, 7pm, and Nov. 18, 6pm.

Same location as info session. For info: 912-350-3438.

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

two-hour session designed to educate and support the mother planning to breastfeed. $20 per couple. 6:30pm-8.30pm, Nov. 23, Memorial Health. Call 912-350-BORN (2676) for info, or register online: women. memorialhealth.com.

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

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.

Pregancy Yoga

Rolf Method Bodywork

Squats N’ Tots

The Yoga Room

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

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:10 p.m., Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031.

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.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

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

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

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets 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.

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

Stand Out Youth

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/

What Makes A Family

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.

Basic Breastfeeding Class

Better Breathers of Savannah

Every Step Counts Survivors Walk

9am, Saturday, Nov. 27 - all cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to join the monthly walk. Free and open to everybody.

For more info or to register, call DeDe Cargill at 912-398-6554.

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/

Healthcare for the Uninsured

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. ,

Help for Iraq War Veterans

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

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

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/

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.

Monday-Saturday by walk-in or appt. at Ye Olde Herb Shoppe, 23 E. Broughton St., 912.495.0358. For more info call Woods at 618.799.1695 or healthuniversal@live.com

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

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

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

La Leche League of Savannah

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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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

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 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.

Medicare Advantage Education Fair

Medicare beneficiaries have the opportunity to enroll in either traditional Medicare coverage or a Medicare Advantage plan.

Each option offers different benefits. Compare plans to learn more. 10am- noon and 2-4pm, Nov. 4, GenerationOne, Memorial Health. Call 912-350-7587 for info.

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: www.ellenfarrell.com or 912-247-4263

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.

Prepared Childbirth Class

Full-day course explains the process of labor and delivery in easy-to-understand terms, plus a tour of the labor and delivery unit. $75 per couple. 9:30am-5pm, Saturday, Nov. 6, Women’s Health Institute, Memorial. Call 912-350-BORN (2676), or register online at women.memorialhealth. com.

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.

Walk on the Wild Side

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.

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

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Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

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Readings & Signings

Religious & Spiritual

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

Tea time at Ola’s

DrUUming Circle

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 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/

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

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/

Gregorian Chant by Candlelight

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.

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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.freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yahoo.com.

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Midweek Bible Study

Every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com.

Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue , Savannah http://www. montgomerypresbyterian.com/

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 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)

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/

Realizing The God Within

12 n. Lathrop ave. savannah | 233-6930 | mon-sat 11am-3am • sundays 1pm-2am Turn right @ the Great Dane statue on Bay St. We’re on the left just past the curve!

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.

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Unitarian Universalist Church 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

Unity of Savannah

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.

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Women’s Bible Study

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

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

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.

Savannah Bike Polo

Soka Gakkai of America

Stand for Peace

A sllent witness for peace that will be held in Johnson Square the fourth Sunday of every month from 1-2pm until the occupation ends. Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee.

224-7456, 231-2252, 234-0980, uusavannah.org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation: 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

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

Savannah Bridge Run 2010

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 Double-Pump 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

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.

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Al Anon Family Groups

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/

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.

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Support Groups

Al-Anon Meetings

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

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Amputee Support Group

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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

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39 Arizona senator Jon 41 ___ Energy Center (home stadium of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild) 42 Purina competitor 43 “Little Miss Sunshine” actor Paul 48 Message frantically tapped out 50 Signature for #43 51 Feature of Mary, but not marry?

52 City where Yo-Yo Ma was born 53 “Star Trek” crew member 54 Joe Namath was one 55 Muse of lyric poetry 56 Habitual ways 57 Clear Channel-sponsored annual rock event 61 Battle 63 Lang. of T.S. Eliot 64 Compass dir.

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Gray Matters Brain Injury 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. Savannah

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. Savannah

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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.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

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

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First Line

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/

Alcoholics Anonymous

“Solve for X--mad skillz with math skills.

Fibromyalgia 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

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

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

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 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. 1-80033-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-

Grief Support Group

Gynecological Cancers Support Group

Join other gynecological (cervical, ovarian, uterine, and endometrial) cancer survivors and their loved ones to share the experiences of treatment and recovery. Nov. 17, 23pm. Anderson Cancer Institute, Memorial.

Call 912-350-7845 for info.

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: 912-598-8457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.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, 3507845. 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. 2349999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , 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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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/

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) In the Chinese province of Fujian, there used to be people who believed they could communicate directly with the dead. If they slept on the grave of the person they wished to reach, their dreams during the night might lead to a meeting with the spirit of the departed.

I propose that you consider something similar, Aries.

Why? Because according to my reading of the astrological omens, you would benefit from communing with your ancestors. If you can’t actually spend the night near their final resting place, find another way to contact them in dreams. Put their photos under your pillow, maybe, or hold one of their beloved objects as you sleep. Halloween costume suggestion: the ancestor whose influence you need most right now.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) In an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, performance artist Marina Abramovic stared into the eyes of a succession of different strangers for 700 hours. Actresses Marisa Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among those who received her visual probes, as well as 1,400 less famous folks.

I think it would be fun for you to do a variation on her ritual, Taurus. Are you up for some deep eye gazing? Halloween costume suggestion: a mystic seer; a god or goddess with a third eye; a superhero whose power is X–ray vision.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) Have you ever seen the edible fungi known as truffles? They are bulbous, warty clumps. Because they grow underground near trees, specially trained pigs and dogs are needed to sniff out their location. In parts of Europe their taste is so highly prized that they can sell for up to $6,000 per pound. In my opinion, the truffle should be your metaphor of the month this November. I expect that you will be in the hunt for an ugly but delectable treasure, or a homely but valuable resource, or some kind of lovable monster. Halloween costume suggestion: a Frankensteinian beauty queen or underwear

model, a rhino in a prom dress, a birthday cake made of lunchmeat.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) Don’t try harder, Cancerian; try easier. Don’t turn your focus into a white–hot beam of piercing intensity; relax your focus into a soft–eyed enjoyment of playing around with the possibilities. Don’t tense your sphincter, marshal your warrior ferocity, and stir up your righteous anger at how life refuses to conform to your specifications; rather, send waves of tenderness through your body, open your heart to the experiment of blending your energy with life’s unpredictable flow, and marvel at the surprising revelations and invitations that are constantly flowing your way. Halloween costume suggestions: Mr. Smooth, Ms. Velvet, Dr. Groovalicious, DJ Silky.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) “I wanted to change the world,” said writer Aldous Huxley. “But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” I suggest you adopt that as your operative hypothesis, Leo. Maybe in a few weeks it’ll make sense for you to shower your loved ones with advice, and maybe you’ll eventually get re–inspired to save humanity from its foolish ways.

But for now your assignment is to fix, refine, and recalibrate your own beautifully imperfect self. Halloween costume suggestion: hermit, anarchist, keeper of a gorgeous diary, do–it–yourself brain surgeon.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) In last May’s national election, none of Britain’s three political parties got a majority. For a while, the country had no leader. Eventually, the rightwing Conservatives and the leftwing Liberal Democrats formed a weird coalition, making Conservative David Cameron the Prime Minister. Some people had mixed feelings about the deal. “I said it was like a cross between a bulldog and chihuahua,” London’s mayor announced, “but what I meant is it will have a fantastic hybrid vigor.” I suspect that a certain

merger you have in the works, Virgo, could yield similar feelings. Halloween costume suggestion: half–bulldog, half–chihuahua; part hummingbird, part–crocodile; equal mix of Gandhi and Napoleon.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Five white tigers at a Chinese wild animal park became way too tame for their own good.

Maybe they’d hung around humans too long or their lifestyle was too cushy. Whatever the reason, one of their essential instincts atrophied. A zookeeper put live chickens into their habitats, hoping they would pounce and devour, but instead they retreated as if unnerved.

Tigers scared of chickens?!

Since then the zoo officials have been taking measures to boost the big cats’ bravado.

I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I’m worried you might be headed in the tigers’ direction. Undomesticate thyself! Halloween costume suggestion: a big fierce creature.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) You could really use your own personal doorman or doorwoman –– someone who would accompany you everywhere you go and help you gain entrance through the portals you encounter. In my vision of what you require, this assistant would go further. He or she would find secret camouflaged doors for you, and do the equivalent of uttering Ali Baba’s magic words “Open Sesame!”

He or she would even *create* doors for you, allowing you to penetrate obstacles. If you can’t find anyone to fulfill this role for you, do it yourself. Halloween costume suggestion: a doorman or doorwoman; a gatekeeper from a fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Is the highest form of courage embodied in a soldier fighting during a war? Irish poet William Butler Yeats didn’t think so. He said that entering into the abyss of one’s deep self is equally daring. By my astrological reckoning, that will be the location of your greatest heroism in the days ahead.

Your most illuminating and productive adventures will be

the wrestling matches you have with the convulsive, beautiful darkness you find inside yourself. Halloween costume suggestion: a peaceful warrior.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) The average spammer sends out 12,414,000 emails before snagging the money of just one gullible dupe. You’re not going to have to be quite that prolific in order to get the word out about what you have to offer, but you’ll have to be pretty persistent. Fortunately, to improve your odds and raise your chances of success, all you have to do is purify your intentions. So make sure your gift or idea or product or service has integrity. Halloween costume suggestion: holy salesperson; angel hawking real estate in paradise; infomercial spokesperson for free cake.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Sunlight may smell spicy or musky to you these days. The wind might have a flavor like chocolate liqueur or a ripe peach. The hum of the earth as it turns may sound like a symphony you heard once in a dream. Your body? Electric.

Your soul? Sinewy. In other words, Aquarius magic is afoot.

The hills are alive with future memories that taste delicious.

Your feet will touch sacred ground far more than usual.

Halloween costume suggestion: a character from a film that changed your life for the better.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) In the middle of the last century, avant–garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger threw a masquerade party called “Come as Your Madness.” One of the invited guests was the Piscean writer Anais Nin. She appeared as the ancient fertility goddess Astarte, but with an unexpected wrinkle: She wore a birdcage over her head. This Halloween I urge you to be inspired by Nin’s decision to portray her madness as a goddess, but reject Nin’s decision to cage the head of her mad goddess.

Find a disguise that allows you to embody the best and most beautiful part of your craziness, and let it roam free.

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1BR apt. 1124 E. 33rd St. Big, bright & roomy! Hardwood floors, mosaic tile in kitchen, central heat/air, beautiful architectural features, front porch and small fenced-in backyard. Large house divided into duplex. Pets welcome! $600/month.

912-257-5596

2BR/2BA, southside condo, carpet, tile, pool, free water, screened porch, washer/dryer included. $675/month.

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Duplex: 1105 E 38th 3BR/1BA, stove refrigerator, dishwasher, w/d hookup, CH&A, no pets. $625/mo, $625/deposit. 748-4182 or 596-9577

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•2231 Gwinnett 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath $850 •2160 Vermont 2 Bedroom $695 •22-A Mastick: 1 Bedroom, $495

Harbor Creek Subdivision 3BR/2BA, LR, dining, kitchen, den, fenced backyard, large screened porch. $1500/month, 912-897-6789 or 344-4164

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2027 E. 36th Street 3BR/1BA $650.

202 Croatan 3BR/1BA $825.

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Reese & Company. 912-236-4233 •2318 Alabama 3BR/2BA, $800/mo

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2BR & 3BR Apartments, starting at $450 and up. heat/air, washer/dryer connections, Call 912-313-4580 APARTMENT: All electric, newly renovated, 2BR/1BA, kitchen w/stove & refrigerator, 1018 E. 31st St. $725/month, $675/deposit. 912-257-0217 ••Caroline Drive- 2BR/1BA, living room, kitchen, $650/month •Varnedoe Drive- 2BR/1BA, living room, kitchen, $625/month 912-897-6789 or 344-4164 DOWNSTAIRS STUDIO Apt. in Ardsley Park. $525/month, includes water, trash and sewer. Call 912-713-4581

For rent 921 West 46th street.

2BR/1BA, separate dining, fireplace in living room, CH&A, $575/month, $575/deposit. References required.

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OAK FOREST-2BR, 1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $500-$525 DUANE COURT-2BR, 1BA Apt, furnished kitchen, $625.

37-A KANDLEWOOD DR.-1BR/1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $550.

256-A CROATAN-2BR, 1BA, newly remodeled $525.

6-B COASTAL CT. 2BR/2BA, furnished kitchen $600 WINDSOR CROSSING CONDO-total electric, 2BR, 2BA, $650.

1323 E.DUFFY: 2BR/2BA, newly remodeled, furnished kitchen $800 2206 LOUISIANA: 2BR/1BA, furnished kitchen $500.

113-A LADONNA Wil. Island, 2BR/1BA, furnished kitchen $675 RINCON: Like new 3BR/2.5BA exec. townhomes, pool $850.

Frank Moore & Co. 920-8560 FrankMooreCo.com FOUR BEDROOM HOUSES 1117 Wilmington Is.Rd $1650 124 Runner Rd $1500 724 Windsor Rd. $1295 THREE BEDROOM HOUSES Landings 4 Woodward Ln. $1600 Godley Station 26 Greatwood Way $1250 Islands 36 Deerwood Rd. $1050 Georgetown 26 Full Sweep $1195 Port Wentworth 110 Pleasant Dr. $925 Southside 207 Travis St.$850 15 Wilshire Blvd $875 Off Skidaway 1734 E.33rd St. $795 Ardsley Park 1224 E.48th St. $995 Near Cloverdale 1217 McCarthy $850 Near Hospital 315 E.58th St. $775 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

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1bed 1bath $375 3bed 2bath $850-$1000 3bed 3bath $1000 Please call 912-823-3302 or visit www.mtpisgahproperties.com LARGO/TIBET AREA 2BR/1BA Apt, Rent $595, Security deposit $350. Call 912-704-3662 or 912-656-7842 Midtown Home: renovated, clean 2BR/1BA, new-kitchen, washer/dryer hookup, hardwoodfloors, CH&A. References & employment required.

1314 E. 54th Street. $525/rent, $525/deposit.

912-897-3801 MUST SEE! 2BR apt. LR, DR, hardwood floors, lots of closets. Quiet neighborhood,near Candler/Hunter. 19 Berkeley Place, 31405. $595/month.

354-4574 NEWLY RENOVATED 2324 Florida Ave. 2BR/1BA LR, DR, Central H/AC, $665/rent, $650/deposit.

No Section 8.

912-897-4009 OAK FOREST DRIVE 2BR/1B, furnished kitchen, $500 dep/$500 rent.

WINDSOR CROSSING 2BR/2B, furnished kitchen, w/d, screened porch, downstairs unit. $500/dep/$650 rent JASMINE AVE. DUPLEX 2BR/1B, furnished kitchen, total electric. $550 dep/$550 rent.

Contact ZENO MOORE REALTY 927-4383 OFF Delesseps: Lovely 2BR Upper, brick apt, kitchen furnished, CH&A, washer/dryer connection, all electric, $550 No pets. 912-355-6077

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RENT: DUPLEX 1204 E. 54th. 2-bedroom, 1-bath $475/month plus deposit $475. One block off Waters Ave., close to Daffin Park. Call 912-234-2726, Days/Nights/Weekends.

RENT: DUPLEX 1218 E. 53rd. Garage Apt. upstairs, behind duplex.

1-bedroom, 1-bath. $595/month, utilities paid by landlord plus deposit.

Call 912-234-2726, Days/Nights/Weekends.

SOUTHSIDE •1BR apts, washer/dryer included. Water & trash included, $600/month.

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3BR/2BA at 7324A Wisteria Street.

AC, ceiling fans throughout, large backyard. $850/month, $1000/deposit.

Available Oct. 25th. Call 678-849-5334

THE BRANNEN COMPANY •2216 Utah Street• 3BR, very large master bedroom, refrigerator & stove, central heat/air, fenced yard. $825/month, $800/dep.

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TOWNHOUSE- Lewis Dr. 2 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath, Stove, Refrigerator, washer/dryer connections, dishwasher, central heat/air, total electric, no pets. $600/month $600/deposit.

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APT/TOWNHOUSE Three Bedrooms Large Apartments 211 W.40th St. $750 527 E.38th St. $725 Duplexes 1203 E.54th St. $550 1234B E.55th St. $550 1210 E.54th St. $575 Two BedroomsNear Sav’h Mall 98 Hidden Lake $895 Near Memorial 733-1/2 E.53rd $750 S/S Ground Unit Windsor Crossing $650 Near Hospital 1107 E.57th St. $575 Furnished 116-1/2 E.Gaston St. $1285 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038 Happenings: All the info about clubs, groups and events. Only at www.connectsavannah.com

TWO & THREE BDRM. SINGLE FAMILY HOMES FOR RENT

8621 E.Creighton Place, Southside Near St.James Church/School.

3BR/2 Baths, fenced yard, carport $825/month, $800/deposit.

2106 S.Fernwood Drive 3BR/2 Baths, fenced yard, carport $825/month, $800/deposit.

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32 GOEBEL Avenue: 3BR/1.5BA garage apt. $750/month.

SEAGATE: 3BR, bonus room, 2BA, DR, family room, eat-in kitchen, fenced backyard $1300/month.

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ConneCtSavannah.Com WHITEMARSH ISLAND 1010 Old Oatland Island Road.

3BR/2BA, workshop, Large lot. $1400/month. 912-658-4329

ROOMS FOR RENT

$75 MOVE IN SPECIAL SOUTHSIDE-EASTSIDE - WESTSIDE New Large Clean Carpeted Rooms, only 2-4 rooms per guest house. Quiet Areas, Busline. Cable, Fridge, TV, utilities, furnished rooms. Rooms with PRIVATE BATHROOMS available. $99-$159/Week.

DISCOUNT FOR FOOD SERVICE AND HOTEL EMPLOYEES EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS 2BR/1BA & 1BR/1BA APTS. LR, kitchen, refrigerator, stove, all utilities & cable included.

Weekly $179, $215, $225.

Monthly $880 w/utilities. No Credit check.

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AVAILABLE ROOMS:

CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065 CLEAN, FURNISHED ROOM on busline, $110-145/week plus deposit.

Utilities Included. Call 660-2875 EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week + deposit. Call 912-844-5995.

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rooms for rent 895 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.

ROOMMATES WANTED West Savannah: Very Clean, newly remodeled w/central heat/air, stove,refrigerator,cable, washer/dryer, WiFi. On busline. $125/week or $500/month. Call 912-503-5713.

ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995.

ROOMS for Rent w/microwave, refrigerator, & cable. Starting at $100/week.

Ask for Tony: 912-323-6859 or Ed: 912-428-6529.

Room for rent in nice mobile home, in Pooler fully furnished, interest, cable & all utilities included. $350/mo. Must have job & car.

Call 656-5997 Roommate Wanted: 130 Alpine Drive. $480/mo. or $150/week. $250/deposit. Near Hunter AAF. share 1/2 electric. Available Nov 1st. 912-272-8020 transportation 900

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LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

Looking for two responsible persons. 2 rooms available. Privatebaths, CH&A/cable/telephone.

Immediate occupancy. $500/month, $125/security deposit Mr. Brown: 912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

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Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, cable,refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140/weekly, no deposit.Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, cable w/HBO, central heat/air. No deposit. Call 912-398-7507.

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in business over 20yrs.Freshly painted Apts $150/wk. & $165/wk.Rooms $80/wk. Furnished and utilities included.Call 234-9779

1999 Infiniti Q45, 4 door, sedan leather seats, heated power seats, windows & locks, cd player, sunroof, V-8, BOSE stereo, Great condition. 1 owner, 174K miles, No mechanical problems, $8500 484-6106 BUICK Lesabre, 1997- 4-door, 135,660 miles, runs good $1500. Call 912-655-9556 CADILLAC CTS, 2003- Very good condition, one owner, estate, fully loaded. $8500. Call 354-3884 CHEVY C1500, 1991- RWD, new 350 87-95 comp engine, dark blue color. Asking $3,000 or best offer. Call 912-306-9989 or 912-920-0915 FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

FORD 3500, 2001- Crew cab, Superduty.Excellent running condition, needs front rotors,4WD, dual wheels, new tires,full bed and shell, many extras. $10,000 negotiable. Call 912-927-7030 GMC Suburban 1500, 1998-Automatic, 178,000 miles, PW,PL, 3rd row seats $6500.

FORD Mustang, 1998, 125,600 miles, automatic, 17” Cobra wheels, new seats, PW,PL,remanufactured motor $4650.

843-301-2976 GMC Yukon, 1998, in good condition, AC works, good engine, $3700 OBO Call 912-224-3253

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