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A Bounty of Delicious Food and Rousing Good Times

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Mother’s Day Buffet Sunday, May 8th 2011, 11am-3:30pm Adults $27.95 ~ Children 4-12 $11.95

Our Bountiful Feast Includes: Salads: Tomato & Mozzarella • Seafood Pasta • Ambrosia • Smoked Mackerel Dip Antipasto • Pickled Beets • Tossed Salad • Peel & Eat Shrimp • Smoked Salmon Entrees: Prime Rib • Glazed Ham • Honey Pecan Chicken Poached Salmon • Seafood Au Gratin Side Dishes: Macaroni & Cheese • Sweet Potato Casserole • Green Beans Corn Pudding • Garlic Mashed Potatoes First Mates’ Buffet for the Kids: Chicken Fingers • Baked Pasta Marinara Mac n’ Cheese • Tater Tots Our Fabulous Dessert Buffet …and more!

We will offer our regular Dinner Menu beginning at 4pm

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Exhibition Opening May 19, 5 pm, Jepson Center Join us for this celebratory event that will include comments from City officials, a book unveiling and a preview of the exhibition.

Followed by a reception to celebrate the opening of Ebb and Flow and Tradition/Innovation.

Free and open to the public.

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Hyatt Windows Restaurant Sunday, May 8th, 2011 ¡ 11am – 4pm Adults $39.95 ¡ Children ages 5-12 $19.95, 4 & under free In The Beginning Puree of white asparagus with chive crème fraiche, Trilogy of cauliflower with oven dried prosciutto and fennel scented oil, New potatoes with wild leeks and grain mustard, Baby cucumber and carrot salad, Watercress, orange and fennel salad, Farfalle pasta with spring vegetables and cured tomatoes, Wheat berries with artichokes and spring peas, Spiced rhubarb and berry parfaits, Spring greens, baby spinach and crisp romaine hearts with assorted toppings and dressings, Assorted local cheeses with dried fruits and nuts

Seafood Bar Spiced Peel & Eat shrimp, oyster on the half shell and green lip mussels, Smoked salmon with mini bagels, cream cheese and egg confetti, Smoked seafood martinis with peppered vodka

Prepared to order Organic eggs and omelettes with seasonally inspired ingredients, Belgian waffles, Maple syrup, fresh fruit compote and whipped cream, Assorted breakfast pastries with sweet butter

Carved to order Black pepper and sea salt seared prime rib of beef, Coca-Cola glazed southern ham, Thyme jus, grain mustard, horseradish cream and mint jelly, Herb foccocia bread and cheddar chive biscuits

Main Dish Sweet Grass Dairy camembert and wild mushroom quiche, Sugar cane and thyme scented bacon, Chicken apple sausage links, Roasted new potatoes with caramelized Vidalia onions, Lavender seared pork medallions with mustard greens and local blue cheese, Herb grilled chicken with roasted fennel and tomato slaw, Lobster mac & cheese, Pecan crusted trout with ramp pesto and caramelized peaches, Petite springtime vegetables

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Freebie of the Week |

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What: San

Live Music: Bombasta

Antonio based group features horns, turntables, guitars and percussion to fuse Latin and rock.

April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium Cost: Free and open to the public When: Fri.

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Green Product Expo

Georgia Historical Society Annual Book Sale

Thursday

Friday

What: U.S. Green Building Council hosts this

showcase of green products and services.

When: Thu. April 28, 12 p.m.-7 p.m., Fri. April 29, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Where: Charles Morris Center, 10 E. Broad Cost: $10

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

FREE

What: Raises funds for GHS’s library and

archives.

When: Fri. April 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. April 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Hodgson Hall, 501 Whitaker St.

SCAD Style: Glen Senk

Hidden Garden Tour

What: Urban Outfitters CEO shares

What: Walking tour of eight private gardens in Savannah’s historic district, a tour of OwensThomas house and tea.

When: Fri. April 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat. April 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Historic District, downtown Cost: $45/person Info: www.gcofsavnogstour.org/

thoughts.

When: Thu. April 28, 4:30 p.m.

Where: SCAD Student Ctr, 120 Montgomery Cost: Free

ThincSavannah Visionary

FREE Awards

What: Honors a local creative mind who will be chosen from one of six nominees.

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

Where: ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Cost: Free and open to the public

Film: “Bill Cunningham New York”

art

What: Documentary about famous NYT pho-

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

tographer who captured fashion and street life for decades.

When: Thu. April 28, 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center - Neises Auditorium, 207 W. York St. Cost: $6 (cash only)

Shrine Fest

What: Proceeds benefit Alee Shriners.

Headliners Marshall Tucker Band, McIntosh County Shouters, Atlanta Rhythm Section.

When: Thu. April 28, 6 p.m., Fri. April 29, 6 p.m., Sat. April 30, 1 p.m., Sun. May 1, 1 p.m.

Where: Memorial Stadium, Skidaway Rd Cost: $10/day

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What: A benefit for the Second Harvest Food

Bank. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, complimentary bar and live music by the Trainwrecks.

When: Thu. April 28, 7 p.m.-10 p.m.

Where: Second Harvest Food Bank, 2501 E. Presidents St. Cost: $75/person

Live Music: Chrisette Michele

What: Grammy winning vocalist performs at

AASU. Openers Rafael Casal & The Get Back.

When: Thu. April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium Cost: $10/students, $20/general, $25/day-of

Matthew Freeman Project Benefit Free movie in Forsyth this Thursday

Theater: As You Like It opens

What: Masquers present a social media-in-

fused modernization of Shakespeare comedy.

When: April 28-April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Sun. May 1, 3 p.m.

Where: Jenkins Hall Theater - AASU Cost: $10 Info: 912-344-2801. www.armstrong.edu/

FREE

Films in Forsyth: The Goonies What: ‘80s classic about kids who

discover pirate treasure.

When: Thu. April 28, 8 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free and open to the public

Panel: The future of Korea

What: Representatives from the Korea Eco-

nomic Institute and the State Department.

Savannah Council on World Affairs.

When: Thu. April 28, 8 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. , Cost: $10/non-members, Free/CWA members

FREE

Theater: Melancholy Play opens What: Written by Sarah Ruhl and

directed by Madeline O’Hara. Closing matinee features alternate cast.

When: Thu. April 28, 8 p.m., Fri. April 29, 8 p.m., Sat. April 30, 8 p.m., Sun. May 1, 3 p.m.

Where: Mondanaro Theatre, 217 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free

What: A cookout to gather donations of pens,

paper, and other school supplies to be distributed in Afghanistan.

When: Fri. April 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Colony Bank, 5987 Ogeechee Rd

Lecture: Plays of Martin

FREE McDonagh

What: Prof. Richard Bryan discusses works of the Irish playwright and filmmaker.

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

Where: AASU Gamble Hall rm 103 Cost: Free and open to the public

FREE

SCAD Style: Style of the ’60s

What: On the 45th Anniversary of “Val-

ley of the Dolls”, a distinguished panel discusses its lasting style impact.

When: Fri. April 29, 4 p.m.

Where: SCAD Student Ctr, 120 Montgomery Cost: Free

Flannery O’Connor Birthday Party

What: Garden party in honor of the writer’s

birthday. Refreshments and hors d’ouevres.

When: Fri. April 29, 5-9:30 p.m.

Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home,

207 E. Charlton St. Cost: $20

Benefit Concert for Japan

What: Performance by the Spirit I Am Band,

featuring Dale Worley, Georgia Kyle, Russell Swinger, Ryan Sylvester and others.

When: Fri. April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Cost: Donations

What: A duo of cello and guitar.

When: Fri. April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van

Horn , Tybee Island Cost: $20 Info: www.tybeeposttheater.org/

Films in Forsyth: Toy Story

FREE 3

What: Oscar nominated 3rd

installment.

When: Fri. April 29, 8 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free and open to the public

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Saturday Farmers Market

Lecture: Geography of

FREE Gender

What: Jane Rago discusses identity in Flannery Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing.

When: Sun. May 1, 3 p.m.

Where: Flannery Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton St. Cost: Free and open to the public What: Annual pops concert.

When: Sun. May 1, 3 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium Cost: $14/person, Free AASU students

Film: There But for Fortune (US, 2010) What: Doc on protest singer Phil Ochs.

Part of Movies Savannah Missed series.

When: Sun. May 1, 2, 5 and 8 p.m.

Where: Muse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Cost: $8

features locally grown fruits, veggies, herbs and other items.

When: Sat. April 30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park

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Plantation History Day

Moving Beyond Racism

includes tours of Springfield Plantation, a book signing of Crossroads and Conflict and refreshments.

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

Where: Springfield Plantation, 6 miles east of I-95 off Islands Highway Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.dunhamfarms.com/

series of discussions.

When: Mon. May 2, 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Coastal Ga Ctr, 305 Fahm St. Info: www.movingbeyondracisminsavannah.com/

What: The Forsyth Park farmers market

What: Special Liberty County program

Sidewalk Arts Festival FREE What: Hundreds of artists decorate Forsyth Park sidewalks

When: Sat. April 30, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free and open to the public

Taste II

What: A day of art, live music, and food.

When: Sat. April 30, 2 p.m.-11:59 p.m.

Where: Meddin Studios, 2315 Louisville Cost: Donations Info: www.tasteartsavannah.com/

SSU Scholarship Gala

What: Black-tie event benefits fund.

When: Sat. April 30, 7 p.m.

Where: Tiger Arena , 3219 College St. Cost: $150/single, $250/couple Info: savannahstate.edu/gala2011

Live Music: The Goliards

What: Ancient music ensemble per-

forms Raimbaut the Troubadour

When: Sat. April 30, 8 p.m.

Where: St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church,

1802 Abercorn St. at 34th St. Cost: $10

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Sunday 11th Annual Doggie Carnival

What: Vendors, adoption info, activities.

When: Sun. May 1, noon-4 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free and open to the public

Savannah Winds Concert

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Live Music: Montana Skies

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Monday What: The initial meeting for a monthly

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Tuesday FREE

Offshore Wind Forum

What: Dr. Sam Shelton from

Georgia Tech on offshore wind technology.

When: Tue. May 3, 7 p.m.

Where: Coastal GA Ctr, 305 Fahm St. Cost: Free and open to the public

FREE

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LNG Forum

What: Citizens for Clean Air and

Water host a public forum on LNG issues When: Tue. May 3, 7 p.m.

Where: Candler Hospital, Marsh Auditorium, 5353 Reynolds Rd. Cost: Free and open to the public

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Wednesday Davenport House Curatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tour

What: A special tour of the house exam-

ining areas usually off-limits to visitors.

When: Wed. May 04, 4:30 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State Cost: $15

Film: Psychomania aka The Death Wheelers (1971, U.K.)

What: Motorcycle stunts, a psychedelic

soundtrack and campy hilarity.

When: Wed., May 4, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: www.sentientbean.com cs

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Let me get right to the point: You have only until April 30 to go to connectsavannah.com and vote in our Best of Savannah Readers Poll.

After that we will download all the results, compile them, and assemble our annual “Best of Savannah” special issue, set to hit stands May 18.

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look 08 at the possible impact of boycotts in the wake of Georgia’s Arizona-style immigration bill. by patrick rodgers

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10 Savannah Country

Day school set to receive prestigious national environmental award. by jim morekis

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18 noteworthy Music 29 theatre 30 food & drink 33 local film 35 film reviews

snapshot of our readers’ preferences — and refrain from any really obvious attempts at ballot-stuffing (after a decade-plus of doing this contest, we’re getting pretty good at sniffing those out.)

There are lots of copycat contests like ours out there now, many of them overlapping their voting period with ours.

But Connect Savannah’s Best of Savannah

contest remains by far the most extensive and complete such local endeavor, and I’m confident our readers won’t be confused by any of the various efforts to mimic it.

In other news this week, while the new Sunday sales bill got most of the political attention in Georgia, another key development came with the passage by the state General Assembly of a controversial, Arizona-style immigration bill.

In this issue our Patrick Rodgers delves into the details of both the bill and the opposition to it.

While as of this writing Gov. Nathan Deal hasn’t signed the bill into law, it seems almost a sure thing that he will. What’s less of a sure thing is whether the various threats of an economic boycott of the state — which could impact Savannah’s tourism industry — will materialize. cs

Editor, When reading the crime and punishment section of any newspaper (the business pages), I’m continually reminded of the gross inequities inherent in our criminal justice system.

Virtually every day there are reports of CEOs and directors of major corporations who are charged with fraud and tax evasion -- on a grand scale.

More often than not, those charged with such offenses end up making a settlement or plea agreement. Usually, those agreements result in fines and/or monetary settlement of lawsuits that don’t even begin to compensate victims of the crimes.

Moreover, having agreed to huge multi-million-dollar settlements, there is usually a denial that there was any wrongdoing. To add further insult to injury, few are ever incarcerated.

If you hold up a convenience store, and you’re caught, you’ll have the cuffs snapped on your wrists, get thrown into the slammer, and almost surely will do time. If you are one of those ‘pillars of society’ who unlawfully

drains hundreds of millions from their companies and stockholders, cause job losses in the thousands and financially ruins many lives, you’re more apt to first die from natural causes than you are to spend any time in prison.

There seems to be a dual standard of justice in this country when it comes to theft: one for the landed gentry, one for the ‘common criminal’. Punishment should be meted out according to the gravity of the crime.

Paul G. Jaehnert

On the price of gas Editor, An AP article titled “Obama says new task force will examine gas prices” and dated 04/21/2011, quotes our President as saying “We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain”.

The article then postulates that with the 2012 campaign in mind, the White House is anxious to show the public that it is taking action to address rising gasoline prices. Those gasoline prices hit a national average of $3.84 on Thursday, about $.30 higher than

a month ago and almost $1.00 higher than a year ago.

Let’s examine what makes up that $3.84 average per gallon price on gasoline: • Federal taxes: 18.4 cents per gallon • State and local taxes: 22 cents per gallon national average • Refining costs: 24 cents per gallon • Transportation costs: 26 cents per gallon • Retailer fees: 10 cents per gallon • Crude oil: $2.67 per gallon (42 gal. barrel @ $112.29 per barrel) • Oil company profit: 16.6 cents per gallon A few other facts: 1) Retailer fees are not pure profit. Out of those fees, the retailer must pay his overhead, taxes, and salaries, usually leaving him only 2-3 cents per gallon of profit.

(2) We must also consider the fact that compared to most other countries in the world, gasoline is cheap in the United States.

(3) Oil companies have made record profits during the last few years and most of the oil company CEOs make salaries (including stock options and benefits) in the millions of dollars each year.

If we are looking at cutting the price per gallon, where should we begin and which components of that $3.84 can/should we cut?

Here are a few other questions you should consider before answering that question: (1) Can the price of crude oil be controlled at all and who has the greatest influence on that? (2) What would be the impact of exerting controls on the price of crude oil? (3) Are taxes exorbitant? (4) What would be the impact of reducing any or all of those taxes?

Cutting the price per gallon on gasoline is not as cut-and-dried as one might think at first glance.

For a politician to take a stance against rising gas prices is a good political move but how realistic is it and how much impact can they really have? If they can and do have an impact, what would the costs and reactions likely be?

We must learn to interpret political double-speak because the last 50 years or so should have taught us that U.S. politicians, regardless of party affiliation, have a strong aversion to stating the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Robert M. Collinsworth

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Photos from a March rally held at the State Capitol in Atlanta to protest HB 87

Boy, oh, boycott

Georgia economy could take a hit if Governor Deal signs new Arizona-style immigration bill

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Organizations opposing House Bill 87, Georgia’s pending immigration reform bill, are planning a comprehensive boycott of tourism and in–state businesses if the bill is signed into law by Governor Deal.

“There are definitely discussions going on,” says Erik Voss, the Executive Director of the International Center of Atlanta, who has been part of meetings, but whose organization hasn’t officially taken a stance on whether it will support the boycott or not.

HB 87, known as the “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011,” is similar to Arizona’s contentious SB 1070, which was signed into law last spring amidst massive rallies and protests.

Groups from around the country have sent letters to the Governor’s office requesting that he veto the bill, and warning of the consequences of signing the bill into law.

“A national network of organizations...has sent a letter to Governor Deal of Georgia notifying [him] of efforts underway to organize a national boycott of Georgia,” says a press release from Somos Georgia, a coalition of immigrants’ rights groups that opposes the legislation.

On April 6, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network sent Deal a letter saying “Organizers of the boycott are prepared to contact all conventions, organizations, companies, cities, counties, and states that are participating in the Arizona boycott, to advise them of the current status of the legislation and put them on notice regarding the pending Georgia boycott.”

On April 11, a coalition of groups dropped off petitions containing 23,000 signatures to the governor’s office. The signatures of those opposing the bill had been gathered in two weeks.

The governor’s office has downplayed the situation. When we asked if they had received correspondence opposing HB 87, Press Secretary Stephanie Mayfield responded to our email with a single sentence: “Our constituent services department has not received any correspondence from the group below as of late.”

When asked to explain what group she was referring to, or to quantify “as

of late,” we received no response.

A boycott of tourism, the state’s second largest industry, could have significant impacts. Nearly a quarter million people are employed by tourism–related industry, according to the state’s Department of Economic Development, and a reduction in visitors to the Peach State would affect private business and public sector budgets alike.

In Savannah, visitor spending in 2009 was more than $1.2 billion, of which 38 percent was lodging, 26 percent was food and beverage, and 17 percent was retail, according to data from the Savannah Chamber of Commerce.

Visitors also generate more than $12 million annually in hotel/motel tax revenue locally.

Fearing the economic outcomes of both negative national media attention and the potential boycott, the Atlanta City Council formally called for Gov. Deal not to sign the pending law. The Fulton County Commission also opposes the legislation, according to reports by the Atlanta Journal–Constitution.

In Arizona the economic impact of SB 1070 was substantial, including $141 million in lost spending by conference attendees, thousands of lost jobs in

the state, and $14.4 million in lost tax revenue, according to a study commissioned by the Center for American Progress.

“Georgia has a lot more at stake,” says Jerry Gonzalez, who heads the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.

“Our tourism industry is much larger than Arizona’s, and it’s more widespread across the state.”

The economic stakes for Georgia are bigger than a tourism boycott, with some groups also discussing a boycott of in–state businesses like Delta, Home Depot and Coca–Cola.

“Home Depot didn’t take a position on the bill for or against,” said a representative for the company.

The bill’s opponents, however, argue that even if corporations didn’t support the legislation, their silence provided tacit consent, and their political clout would be sufficient to stop the legislation in its tracks.

Regardless of whether the boycott happens, or if its effects are felt by businesses or tourist destinations, Deal’s signature on HB 87 will cost the state millions of dollars.

Beyond the hypothetical impacts, the one certainty seems to be that taxpay-

The long term effects of the bill are unknown or ineffective in many aspects.

Last week, Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black announced that the department would carry out a “truthful, thorough” study on the effects of the legislation to the state’s agriculture industry.

The study will be completed by January 1, 2012. The law takes effect on July 1, 2011 if it is signed by the governor.

Although immigration reform has been sold as salve for the lack of job creation in the state — once all the illegal immigrants are chased off, citizens can have their jobs (even if those jobs are some of the lowest paying and thankless) — Georgia’s bill likely won’t have the same “attrition through enforcement” affect on the job market that supporters of Arizona’s legislation celebrated.

While businesses with more than 10 full time employees will have to enact the E–Verify system to ensure legal status of all employees — or lose their business license in the state — only “future” employees will need to be screened.

In short, this means that the “illegal aliens” HB 87 wants to chase out of Georgia’s labor market won’t even be subject to the check. Cs

LOS NUMEROS

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percent increase in Hispanic population in Georgia from 2000-2010

23,000

number of signatures on petitions gathered by opponents of Georgia’s HB 87 in two weeks

425,000

estimated number of undocumented immigrants living in Georgia

$12 million

median hotel/motel tax revenue generated annually by visitors to Savannah

$141 million

amount of direct spending by conference attendees lost by Arizona following passage of their SB 1070

$1.2 billion

amount of visitor spending in Savannah during 2009

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ers will absorb the cost of legal fees incurred by the state as it defends the law in court.

“There will be federal litigation as the next step of this process,” says Gonzalez.

“There are very serious constitutional questions with this legislation.”

In Arizona, a federal court filed an injunction preventing implementation of several pieces of SB 1070. That ruling was upheld in appellate court recently.

In a year, Arizona has surpassed $1 million of spending on legal fees battling over the constitutionality of that state’s immigration reform measures, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That same report found that the town of Hazleton, Penn., has already spent more than $2.8 million defending immigration enforcement ordinances it tried to pass last year.

When Georgia spends money on defending a bill that contains likely unconstitutional language intended to supersede the authorities of the federal government, it will come from a budget that has already seen more than $2.9 billion in cuts, including hundreds of millions in cuts to education.

While the state is paying for court costs, local governments will also be forced to figure out how to pay for increased administrative costs associated with new regulations they must comply with in order to maintain current levels of state funding.

Local governments who fail to file annual reports detailing compliance measures of public contractors and sub–contractors could be penalized with a ten percent cut in state funding.

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Savannah Country Day is the first school in America to receive prestigious global enviro award

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

It’s perhaps ironic that a private school in Savannah known for its upper–crust, conservative and somewhat exclusive demeanor would also be the most environmentally progressive school in the area.

Or maybe even the country?

Savannah Country Day School is the first–ever U.S. winner of the “Green Flag” Eco–Schools award.

The award will be presented in a ceremony this Thursday, April 28.

Before we talk about what the award is and what they had to do to get it, let’s cut to the chase and talk about what’s really important: The things Savannah Country Day students actually experience on campus that educate them about ecosystems and the environment.

“In kindergarten they have an herb garden they work in,” explains lower school teacher Carrie Stubbs–Vetrovsky, who was instrumental in submitting the application.

“In first grade they have a fruit orchard. In second grade we do metamorphosis. We take monarch butterfly eggs from milkweed in the garden and bring them inside to study them.”

And third graders experience an entire organic vegetable garden.

It doesn’t stop there: “Everybody at all levels works on composting,” says Stubbs–Vetrovsky. “It starts with staff with preconsumer waste in the cafeteria. We’re moving to post–consumer waste very quickly. Students are separating lunch food into compostable and non–compostable materials.”

Country Day already garnered national attention for its Silver LEED–certified lower school building, completed in 2008. But much more than that goes into winning the Green Flag.

The National Wildlife Federation is the U.S. sponsor for the award, which is administered by the Foundation for Environmental Education and recognizes winners in over 50 countries.

“The National Wildlife Federation has had an environmental education program for over 40 years, but we didn’t have a program that directly addressed environmental education in K–12 schools,” says Laura Hickey, senior

director of Eco-Schools USA. In 2008 the NWF applied successfully to become official U.S. host of the competition, which itself has been around since the mid–1990s.

The process involves schools registering as “Eco–Schools.” “They have to undertake a seven-step framework that’s the same in every country, with an eco-action team comprising students, faculty, administrators, parents and community members,” says Hickey.

But it’s primarily a student–driven process, which includes an environmental audit of the school based on areas like energy, water, transportation, and climate change.

The really cool thing about the award is that it doesn’t just look at school grounds — it’s about curriculum as well.

“It’s not meant to be additive,” says Hickey. “This shows there are ways you can take existing curriculum and add in environmental concepts that are important for students to know.”

This includes the concept of “green hour,” i.e., class time outdoors.

“Children need to be outside every week for instruction time, not just for recess,” says Stubbs–Vetrovsky.

Country Day’s excellence in this area is due to a couple of key factors, says Stubbs–Vetrovsky, who came to the school from the local public school system.

“Here we have more freedom to learn, rather than always feeling the need to worry about standardized tests.”

Also, the administration is extremely supportive. “Our administration is unique in the fact that it gives our teachers a lot of freedom,“ says Stubbs–Vetrovsky. “They trust us as professionals to make decisions on our own that are best for the children.” cs The Eco-Schools Green Flag award will be presented to Savannah Country Day in a flag-raising ceremony at the school this Thursday at 2 p.m.

Savannah Country Day students enjoy environmentally themed curriculum as well as “green hour,” i.e., class time outside

Freedom from chili dogs and toxic turf Have you ever tried to persuade a vegan to eat a hamburger? Hold a juicy ground beef patty up to his mouth, say “It’s good for you; your body needs the protein; it’s so yummy.”

No matter what argument you use he will not take a bite. It’s a choice he’s made, and wherever vegans go they abide by that decision.

If you’ve chosen to avoid pesticides it’s not so simple.

You have the ability to keep your own house, yard and garden free of those chemicals but once you leave your property you are like a vegan being force-fed a chili cheese dog.

In parks, roadsides, medians and cemeteries the application of herbicides, fertilizers and pesticides is common practice. We seldom know what’s been sprayed and what residue lingers.

One lovely afternoon last fall I noticed small white warning flags posted at Forsyth Park. On the southern lawn two young mothers with their babies were picnicking on a small blanket.

When I asked them if they had seen the chemical application signs they grabbed their children and fled.

Children tumbling in the grass, Frisbee and soccer players falling onto the turf and kicking up dust that they and bystanders inhale, dogs rolling on the ground and going home to nap on the sofa — these are just a few of the ways toxic landscaping chemicals get personal with us.

In the following cautionary statement regarding the use of pesticides in schools and on playgrounds, the

In public places, the application of herbicides, fertilizers and pesticides is common

nonprofit Beyond Pesticides coalition sounds like it’s in cahoots with Monty Python’s Department of the Bleedin’ Obvious: “Pesticides should never be applied when students or employees are in the area or may be in the area within 24 hours of the application. In reality, certain types of pesticides, such as carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, reproductive toxins, developmental toxins, neurotoxins, persistent compounds and substances, bioaccumulative compounds and substances, toxicity category 1 acutely toxic pesticides and ground water contaminants should not be used around children.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not keen about such chemicals being around me, my friends, my family, my pets, the birds, the butterflies, the bees, the waterways or children.

But they are being used. Routinely.

The quantity of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fungicides applied in the

urban landscape has increased and far exceeds the quantity of these chemicals used in agriculture.

For solace I turn to New Jersey.

Over 30 N.J. municipalities have committed to pesticide–free public parks in response to concern about the safety of children and the environment.

New Jersey is in the process of passing the strictest anti–pesticide law in the nation. The Child Safe Playing Field act essentially bans all chemical applications on recreational fields, school playgrounds and at day care centers.

Environmentalists have been alarmed about toxic landscaping for years; they’re now joined by people concerned about another precious resource: our children. The organization Physicians for Social Responsibility agrees that one of the most overlooked pesticide contact pathways is the urban environment.

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New Jersey is in the vanguard but a growing number of municipalities and states have integrated pest management systems (IPMs) mandating the reduction of pesticides on public lands.

Unfortunately, these laws are not always understood or implemented.

Boulder, Colorado, however, has clearly paid attention. There the IPM is so successful that no herbicides have been used on Boulder’s urban playing fields or park turf since 2003. Only after every attempt to utilize non–chemical methods has been exhausted is the decision made to use the least toxic product and to spot apply only.

The public’s right to know is recognized and addressed rigorously through a website and phone message system that informs of any areas that will be treated a week or more in advance.

In Savannah the Parks and Trees Department, which maintains the northern section of Forsyth Park and the squares, takes a conservative approach regarding chemicals, applying them only on a per-situation basis.

Because of this policy you’ll notice a few weeds in the grassy spaces, indicating that the department is not heavy– handed with herbicides.

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Too much of a good thing?

An officer requested assistance after stopping a subject on Montgomery Street. When backup arrived, they saw a woman standing on the side of the road yelling, “thank you Jesus, thank you for perfect peace.” She then yelled, “Take me to see Paula Deen, take me to the restaurant.”

She tried to walk out into oncoming traffic, and was stopped. Two parking attendants stated they had seen her lying in the road earlier. An officer found a plastic bag with some of her possessions, including a new cell phone and the contract. They discovered her name, and a home address in Maryland. The woman continued with the irregular behavior and was transported to Memorial for evaluation.

• A man was arrested after an incident of piss and run. An officer on patrol through downtown around 1:30 a.m. stopped at a traffic light and saw the man urinating on the side of a building. The suspect looked up, saw the cop and took off running down Broughton Lane toward Barnard Street. The officer caught up with him, instructed him to “stop running” and “get down on the ground.” He complied and was taken into custody without incident.

• An officer discovered a disabled vehicle sitting along the on ramp for the Talmadge Bridge. It was stopped at a very narrow portion of the roadway and could have been a hazard for other motorists. The officer discovered three people sitting in the vehicle. As he greeted the driver, the officer noticed a pungent odor of unburnt marijuana coming from the vehicle. He asked the trio why they were stopped in such a peculiar location. They said that they’d run out of gas and were waiting for the driver’s girlfriend to wire them money.

The officer asked the driver for his

license, and he said that he didn’t have one. The officer walked back to his car to call in a report and noticed several dried blood stains on the back bumper. The officer asked the driver about the blood, and he replied that he’d gotten excited after getting a girl’s number, had jumped up on the bumper and gotten cut on the antenna. The car didn’t have an antenna. When asked if there were any weapons or drugs in the car, the driver said that there was a fake pistol under the driver’s seat. He also said that the marijuana could be found in the pockets of “the white boy” in the passenger seat. After searching the passenger, the officer found 9 plastic baggies of green leafy substance. The guy said he had them in order to “make some money.”

He was placed under arrest.

• A man called police on behalf of his sister in order to translate for her because she doesn’t speak very much English. He translated for her as she

explained that her neighbor, who is also Vietnamese, came into her house, pinned her down and pulled out a knife. The phone started to ring. The woman explained to her assailant that it was a call about her parents, who were dying. He let her answer the phone. It was actually her mother on the phone, who was not dying. That was just an excuse to get away. She couldn’t say much to her mother, and then the assailant figured out that he had been lied to and came at her again with the knife. The assailant shouted that “he is going to kill her one day, he just doesn’t know when.”

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Your 1996 column on the mysterious giant Planet X some astronomers thought might lurk beyond Pluto needs updating.

You should tell the story of the dwarf planet Eris, whose discovery was directly responsible for the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. —VoronX Ordinary bloggers and journalists are fine for staying current on nuclear meltdowns, Middle East upheavals, and other passing phenomena. But it’s up to Straight Dope to keep planets straight.

Here’s where things stood as of 1996.

Planet X was the name astronomer Percival Lowell gave in the early 20th century to the hypothetical celestial body that would account for irregularities in the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet then known.

In 1930, what we now call Pluto was discovered in the location Lowell had predicted for Planet X. But this discovery was coincidence, made possible by sheer doggedness on the part of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who found the new planet—Pluto, it turned out, was far too small to budge Neptune.

The search for Planet X continued.

In 1972 astronomer Joseph Brady predicted it’d be a massive body with an orbit at a steep angle to those of most other planets that took 464 years to revolve around the sun. Brady’s conjecture was never widely accepted, and more precise observations during the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby established that the supposed anomalies in Neptune’s orbit were, in fact, nonexistent.

In short, there was no Planet X. End of story? Naturally not. In 2005 astronomers poring over telescopic images discovered another largish object out past Neptune. Initially called 2003 UB313, it bore several distinctive traits: First, it was the most distant object known to orbit the sun other than a few comets. Second, it was pretty big, with a diameter roughly a fifth of earth’s, although it was only a quarter of one percent as massive. Third, and here we

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get to the interesting part, it takes 557 years to circle the sun, and its orbit is at a steep angle to those of the other planets, much as Joseph Brady in 1972 predicted for Planet X. Again, however, it was just coincidence. Eris was nowhere near as massive as Brady’s hypothetical giant. Nonetheless, 2003 UB313’s discoverers had Planet X on their minds and nicknamed their find Xena, after TV’s warrior princess. Wiser heads prevailed, and ultimately the thing was named Eris.

The discovery of Eris proved to be the downfall of Pluto. The two objects were about the same size; if Pluto was a planet, so was Eris. Astronomers were now faced with the prospect of a planetary roster consisting of eight large to really large planets plus two dinky ones.

Pluto’s status as a planet had always struck some people as dubious, not only because of its size but also its funky orbit, which is itself sharply angled and at times brings Pluto closer to the sun than Neptune. The arrival of Eris on the scene revived the argument.

The problem wasn’t just Eris. Pluto is in a remote section of the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit known as the Kuiper Belt. For a long time astronomers thought there wasn’t much in the Kuiper Belt other than Pluto and its moons, dust, and the occasional comet.

Then starting in 1992 they discovered the first of what are now more than 1,000 known Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs. Some think the KBO count could eventually reach 70,000. The Kuiper Belt, in other words, was like the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—that is, a region of crud, little if any of it worthy of planetary designation.

One attempt to preserve Pluto’s planethood wound up elevating several other miscellaneous objects to planetary status, including the asteroid Ceres and Pluto’s moon Charon. This will never do, the International Astronomical Union decided. In 2006 it demoted Pluto to dwarf planet.

You’d think that would mean the end of the Planet X saga, too. Not so. “Planet X” has now become the default term for any large orbiting item of interest on the solar system’s fringe. To learn more, NASA has launched the New Horizons space probe, which will fly past Pluto in 2014 and later, past some KBOs. The space agency doesn’t expect to spot any new mystery objects. But at least speculation about future Planet Xs won’t be so wildly off the mark. cs

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Businesses typically resist government regulation, but in March Florida’s interior designers begged the state House of Representatives to continue controlling them, with a theatrically ham-handed lobbying campaign challenging a deregulation bill.

Designers righteously insisted that only “licensed professionals” (with a minimum six years of college and experience) could prevent the nausea Floridians would suffer from inappropriate color schemes (affecting the “autonomic nervous system” and salivary glands). Also, poorly designed prison interiors could be turned into weapons by inmates. Furthermore, deregulation would contribute to “88,000 deaths” a year from flammable materials that would suddenly inundate the market in the absence of licensing. Said one designer, addressing House committee members, “You (here in this chamber) don’t even have correct seating.” (If deregulation is successful, competition will increase, and lower fees are expected.)

Cultural Diversity

• The longstanding springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March CNN dispatch. Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about 23 cents each. Many residents consider the tradition gross, but for devotees, it represents, as one said, “the (joyous) smell of spring.”

• The port town of Kumai, Borneo,

consists of low-rise shops and houses Council Bluffs, Iowa, in February to an serving a population of 20,000 but apparently lengthy series of sexual experialso many tall, windowless box buildences with boys and young men, which ings perforated with small holes. The he initiated by suggesting that ejaculatstructures are actually birdhouses, for the ing would help the victims gain “sexual town’s chief industry is harvesting the purity” by (as he explained to detectives) nests of the hummingbird-like swiftlet, “getting rid of the evil thoughts in their constructed of its own saliva, which, mind.” Eight victims reported multiple properly processed, yields a sweet-tasting purification sessions, with one estimating paste with alleged medicinal qualities and as many as 100. highly revered throughout Asia, accordQuestionable Judgments ing to a January BBC News report.

• In January, while the Texas • For Career Day in April Legislature debated budget cuts that at Shady Grove Elementary would almost certainly cost Allen School in Henrico, Va., kids best of savannah: High School (just north of Dallas) heard a local plastic surgeon voting ends describe his specialty, but not at least $18 million and require april 30! layoffs of teachers and other school until afterward did parents personnel, construction was conlearn that the surgeon had tinuing on the school’s new $60 brought along as props million football stadium. Noted saline breast implants (which a New York Times report on the stahe passed around for the kids to dium (which 63 percent of voters aphandle). Many parents were outproved in a 2009 bond referendum), raged, and even one calmer parent “(O)nly football supersedes faith and commented, “Career Day sure isn’t family (among Texans).” what it once was.”

• The End Is Near, But How Latest Religous Messages Near? In March in Owensboro, • Former stripper Crystal Deans, Ky., James Birkhead, 52, was sentenced to who said she learned the trade at age 18 5 1/2 months in jail for making survivalist bombs to protect his family after but later retired and turned to God for help through a rough patch of her life, he became alarmed by the movie 2012, now offers free pole-dancing classes in which portrays the chaos expected next Spring, Texas, near Houston, expressly for year when the world ends (as supposChristian women. Her gyrations may be edly foretold by the Mayan calendar). By contrast, Edwin Ramos of Vineland, N.J., the same as when she was working, she said, but now everyone is clothed, and she is busy traveling the East Coast in his RV dances only to “Christian music.” trying to warn people that the end will • Youth pastor Brent Girouex, 31, not be in 2012 but actually this month was urged to confess by his minister in - May 21, 2011. (The discrepancy would

not exist if there had been a biblical year “0” after B.C. and before A.D.) • Marie Stopes International is a prominent London charity that robustly promotes a woman’s right to choose abortion, but a whimsical public service campaign in January has created unusually savage criticism. The organization partnered with the British comedy music band The Midnight Beast to produce a video suggesting anal sex as a contraceptive of choice. Among the lyrics of one song, “One up the bum, and it’s no harm done/One up the bum, and you won’t be a mum.”

Least Competent Criminals

A man stole Waltham, Mass., student Mark Bao’s notebook computer in March, but Bao used his automatic onlinebackup service to access the hard drive while the thief was using it, to discover a performance video of a man (presumably the thief) dancing (lamely, thought Bao) to a pop song. Bao uploaded the video to YouTube - where 700,000 viewers showed it the proper disrespect - and also tracked down the thief ’s e-mail address and informed him of his new Internet “stardom.” Shortly afterward, the still-unidentified thief turned in the notebook to Bentley University police with an apology to “Mark,” begging him to take down the video.

Recurring Themes

Apple’s iPad 2 is in short supply worldwide, and so, coincidentally, are paper models of the device demanded by those of Chinese heritage at the Qingming

Names in the News

Arrested in Aurora, Colo., in January and charged with stalking his wife: Joseph Moron. Appointed to a senior executive position in January in the global communications firm Alcatel-Lucent: George Nazi. Arrested for dealing marijuana in March in Fairfax County, Va.: Kevin Lee Cokayne. Appointed as interim chief medical officer of Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., in March: Dr. Richard Frankenstein. Arrested for DUI in April by a California Highway Patrolman (“CHiP”): Eric Estrada (not the actor).

Posthumously rejected as the namesake for the new government office center in Fort Wayne, Ind., in March: former Fort

Wayne Mayor Harry Baals.

A News of the Weird Classic

Among the Republicans swept into office in November (1994, a banner year for the GOP) was Steve Mansfield, elected to Texas’ highest criminal-appeals court. Among Mansfield’s campaign lies or exaggerations (freely admitted in a post-election interview in the publication Texas Lawyer) were his claims of vast criminal-court experience (he is an insurance and tax lawyer), that he was born in Texas (actually, Massachusetts), that he dated a woman “who died” (she is still alive), and that he had “appeared” in courts in Illinois (never) and Florida (advised a friend, but not as a lawyer).

During the interview, Mansfield said that he lived in Houston as a kid, but when the reporter asked him if that was a lie, Mansfield reluctantly admitted it was. Mansfield said he planned to stop “exaggerate(ing)” now that he is one of the highest-ranking judges in Texas.

(Update: He served one six-year term.)

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At 9 p.m. Sunday, May 1 Loco’s Grill & Pub, 301 W. Broughton St. $10 Now here’s something special. Fleet–fingered guitarist Eddie Roberts started this deliriously hot funk and soul band in Great Britain in 1999, and in the intervening years the NM’s have become the premier act on England’s (surprisingly vibrant) jazz/funk scene.

Reviewing the tour opener this past Saturday night, the Boston Globe raved: “The groove was the thing, and no slow songs the order of the day.

The crowd responded to the band’s stretched-out, hard-driving jams by turning itself into a sweating, gyrating mass for the duration.”

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The New Mastersounds have collaborated with Corinne Bailey Rae, among others – the list of jam partners and studio–mates is impressive: Everyone from George Porter of the Meters to Karl Denson of Lenny Kravitz’s outfit to Portishead’s Andy Smith.

The Leeds-based quartet is about to release an all-new album, Breaks From the Border; the Straight Outta Leeds: The New Mastersounds take over Loco’s Sun. May 1 Savannah show will be followed by a hotly-anticipated two-night stand at New Orleans’ House of Blues (“with special guests”). Come July, they’ll play the Fuji Festival in Japan, alongside Wilco, Widespread Panic and the Avett Brothers.

To sample the real deal, go to www.newmastersounds.com and get a free download of “This Ain’t Work,” recorded live earlier this year in San Francisco.

Will the Savannah audience turn itself into a sweating, gyrating mass? Take a tip from Dennis Cook of Jambase: “In a time where far too many people think bunk like Black Eyed Peas and John Legend is soul music, the New Mastersounds are around to keep things honest and true.”

ULTRAVIOLET HIPPOPOTAMUS

At 8 p.m. Thursday, April 28 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $6 From Grand Rapids, Mich., where fans use this band’s smoking–hot grooves to keep warm.

UV Hippo is a tight jam–rock band fusing funk, rock and jazz in a rich amalgam of high–tech stoner stuff and delightfully proggy forward motion. Traveling with a killer, Pink Floydian light show, the guys utilize keyboards (from B3 organ to moody electronica), congas and other dexterous percussion, great guitars, bass and thunder–drums. They’ve got three albums out of decisively groovy original tunes (Background Music, Songs For the Reaper and the new Square Peg, Round Hole).

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where he studied film. He told the audience he’d very nearly enrolled at SCAD, but “it wasn’t far enough away from home” (he’s a South Carolina native).

His advice for art school students: “Stick to your guns. Learn to teach.

Learn to flip burgers.” And never, ever forget to work on your art – or music – in every spare moment.

His art school tenure, he said, constituted “some of the best years of my life.”

And the hits just kept on coming: “Big Burned Hand,” “Summer in Savannah,” “Tree By the River,” “House By the Sea,” “Rabbit Will Run,” “Cinder and Smoke.”

And how’s this for a long sprint off a short emo–folk pier: One song turned

into a piledriving mambo, with the three horn players blasting a smoking dance riff over and over until even the ushers couldn’t help but sway.

The opening set from a four–piece band called the Low Anthem illustrated just how powerful an artist Sam Beam has become. The Rhode Island outfit’s music consisted of dreary and repetitive sad bastard songs, played on an assortment of cool instruments du jour, including musical saw and a bowed banjo.

In any other setting, the Low Anthem might have been enjoyable in a depressing, indie–folk way. But once Beam and company took over, their irrelevance was quick and final. CS

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The touring version of Iron & Wine is a three–ring circus, an 11–piece band with drums, percussion, a synthesizer, two backup singers and a muscular three–man horn section.

The ringmaster is Sam Beam, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who’s walked a labyrinth of changes since his earliest days as a proud purveyor of simple, breathy indie folk.

There was no way those who decry Beam’s decision to “flesh out” the Iron & Wine sound — the passionate fans who’ve followed him for a decade — could have come away from last Saturday’s show at the Trustees Theater with anything less than awe.

Beam was in total and absolute command of the assembled musicians.

Every note, every chord, every phrase was in service of his songs. Never once did the big band feel like overkill.

Many of the earlier Iron & Wine numbers, from “The Sea and the Rhythm” to “Sodom, South Georgia” and “Free Until They Cut Me Down,” had been re–arranged to best utilize the massive unit.

And guess what? Everything worked.

Beam himself is a natural focal point.

With his long, bushy beard, kind eyes and black prairie–pastor suit, he cuts a messianic figure, and his lyrics are rife with vague biblical references smoothie–blended with impressionist poetry and the occasional street crudity.

His high tenor voice often veered into a blissful falsetto, and when the two singing sopranos at stage right joined him for a few bars of three–part harmony, it was a mix made in pop–music heaven.

The opening song was “Me and Lazarus,” one of the standout tracks on the latest Iron & Wine album, Kiss Each Other Clean. Throughout the concert Bean returned to the new batch of tunes again and again. Although the album is barely three months old, some of them were also re–arranged. “Walking Far From Home” began with Beam, a capella, before each of the band members kicked in, in turn, culminating in a rousing tent preacher singalong.

Beam, who’s not exactly a Chatty Kathy, nevertheless talked to the audience every once in a while. He reflected on his time at Florida State University,

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More than a taste

The city’s biggest arty party returns from hiatus

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

This year has had no shortage of cultural events, from Pulse to Stopover, the Music Festival to the Urban Arts Festival; and the Book Festival to BandWagon – it seems like there’s been something going on every weekend since late January.

If you thought you were already stuffed from a spring of cultural gluttony, it’s time loosen your belt another notch and grab a place at the veritable buffet of art and music known as Taste, which takes place this weekend at Meddin Studios.

Described by organizer Rachel Raab as “a cultural indulgence,” the event is a great chance to either immerse yourself in the depths of local talent (if you’re already familiar with a lot of the regulars in the art and music scenes), or get a survey course introduction to a lot of the amazing work being done in and around Savannah (if you aren’t already in the know).

“It’s just independent people getting together to make something happen, to merge all sorts of people and art forms,” explains Raab, who has worked with a team of about half dozen people to put together the event.

The first Taste event took place way back in 2009, when the Meddin building existed in its previous incarnation, M.E.A.T., a collection of artists’ studios and exhibition space.

More than 1,200 people flocked to the inaugural Taste to check out live music, a massive art exhibit, live painting and much more. There was a fashion show, a suspension act, jugglers and food. It was equal parts art show and side show – a circus of local creativity and a celebration of the community that’s formed around it.

Not long after clean up ended, work

began to convert the former slaughterhouse into what is now Meddin Studios, the state–of–the–art digital production facility – and just as soon as the event was born, it seemed to have lost its home.

After two years on hiatus, Taste was originally slated to take place in the Starland District, but after Meddin co–owner Nick Gant heard about the event’s resurgence, he offered organizers the chance to return to the original location.

Scenes from the inaugural Taste.

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There will be indoor and outdoor stages that will host performances by more than 20 different acts (including notables like KidSyc@Brandywine, General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers, Chupacabra and Boom Chick), a visual art exhibit featuring more than two dozen artists, live painting, dancing, vendors, demonstrations and more. 12 hours long, the event is packed from front to back with things to do and see, and fueled almost exclusively by local talent – a feat that seems worth celebrating.

“It’s not too often in Savannah you can come and enjoy an all day, all ages, free event and just get down, hang out and look at art,” says Raab. “It’s an

extravaganza. Everything you could want in one night.”

The event will also help raise money for local non–profit organization My Brothaz Home, which helps fight HIV/ AIDS locally through preventation, education and outreach. CS Taste II When: April 30, 2 p.m. – 2 a.m.

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Winning entries from 2010: Casey Crisenbery’s American Greetings chalk art (left) and Best in Show (center) by Madison Burger and Sam Spratt. Right: Making the scene.

You talk the talk, but can you chalk the walk?

For the 30th year, SCAD sidewalk artists take over Forsyth Park

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Artists participating in the SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival are given three hours and a blank, bumpy concrete page to create a masterpiece.

Well, the word “masterpiece” might be pushing it a bit.

For that matter, the word “artists” might be, too.

These 800–some folks – students from all scholarly disciplines, along with SCAD alumni and prospective high school juniors and seniors – are competing for cash awards.

Loads of springtime afternoon fun, are perhaps a tan, are in the goody bag for everyone.

For this, the 30th year of the festival, the judges include Ed Murrieta, senior creative director of character art for the Cartoon Network; Dan Weiss, senior creative recruiter at American Greetings; and Rachael Cole, art director for Schwartz & Wade Books.

The canvas is Forsyth Park. The medium, of course, is chalk.

“Some people get very, very serious

about it, because it’s a long tradition for SCAD and everything,” says Casey Crisenbery, an illustration senior who’ll be chalking his way through his fourth Sidewalk Arts competition on Saturday.

“But for me, I’ve always done it in the spirit of having fun. It’s Parents Weekend as well, and my parents have always come down and really enjoyed it, too.

“I take it seriously, but I also make sure that I’m having fun. Because I think that’s really part of the joy. You get to see everyone else’s work too, and it ends up being a really great event, for the community as well.”

Yes, it’s Savannah’s first warm spring day in the park. Food and drink vendors will be there, naturally, to take your money in exchange for their refreshments. There’s a children’s art area.

SCAD is screening movies in the park, too, to set the mood: The Goonies

is unspooled Thursday, with Toy Story 3 on deck for Friday.

Both films start at 8 p.m. Bring your lawns chairs, et cetera.

The sidewalk chalk event starts promptly at 11 a.m. Saturday.

At the 2010 festival, Crisenbery was the winner in the American Greetings category. “The piece I chose to do last year was a character that I was working on that quarter for my Childrens’ Book class,” he explains. “For illustration.

“I was drawing him a lot, and I thought it would be a really good piece just to do for fun because of the colors.

It turned out very nice. I was happy with it.”

For this year, he’s still not entirely sure. “About a week beforehand, I kind of think about what I would like to do,” Crisenbery explains. “I might sketch out a little picture, or something to give me an idea of what I’ll actually draw. But a lot of it, when you get there, you just see how it works. I know some other students do a lot of preparatory work, but it just depends.”

For the second year, SCAD is letting potential chalk–masters who can’t make the park date send in computer designs. Deadline for the Cyberwalk Arts contest is April 28 - anyone can check out the 2011 submissions at scad. edu/sidewalkarts.

Casey Crisenbery, whose media of choice are acrylics and colored pencil, will be hunkered down over his little corner of Forsyth Saturday, chalks in hand. You’ll know him because both of his parents will be sitting right there, in lawn chairs. “They come down to keep me company,” he says.

“We have the time frame to do the chalk art, and after that’s up we usually walk around looking at the other pieces.

It’s always fun.” CS SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival Where: Forsyth Park When: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, April 30 Films in Forsyth: “The Goonies” at 8 p.m.

April 28; “Toy Story3” at 8 p.m. April 39 Admission: Free

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“All the world’s a stage,” says the character Jaques in Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, “and all the men and women merely players.”

Immortal lines from an immortal Elizabethan comedy – indeed, one of the Bard’s most enduring and adaptable works. Over the centuries, men and women have played the As You Like It roles on many stages, in many different sorts of interpretations.

This weekend, the Masquers troupe at Armstrong Atlantic State University is turning another Shakespearean screw – As You Like It, re–set in contemporary New York City.

“I was actually watching some Mel Brooks movies, and I had been thinking of doing As You Like It,” explains director Peter Mellen. “I suddenly realized, ‘You know, I’d love to see what Mel Brooks would do with this play!’”

In the original As You Like It story, an evil French duke has exiled his brother – indeed, he’s exiled anyone he doesn’t agree with – to the Forest of Arden.

Rosalind, a member of the royal family, flees to the forest disguised as a man. There, a banished member of the court, Orlando, seeks romantic advice from the disguised Rosalind (Orlando’s in love with Rosalind, but doesn’t know

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he’s actually talking to her, in the manner of a lot of such comedies).

A lot of other stuff goes on, concerning false identities, unrequited love and the ever–popular battle between good and evil.

“We never actually say where we are, but the image we’re trying to create is that Orlando works at the Plaza Hotel,” Mellen explains. “That’s the palace.

“People get run out of, or run away from, the Plaza Hotel, to Central Park.

where you’re no longer actually doing his play. So we’re trying to be faithful.

“I guess my guiding principle was, he wrote a comedy, he would like people to laugh. And it’s our job to tell that story.

It’s a comic love story, so we have to tell a comic love story and hopefully make people laugh.”

Who couldn’t laugh at this? In Mellen’s re–telling Frederick, the “bad duke,” is being played by a female. “Remember Leona Helmsley?” asks Mellen.

“I suddenly realized, ‘You know, I’d love to see what Mel Brooks would do with this play!’”

Some of them are trying to escape, and others are just the people who hang out in the park.”

For his all–student cast, Mellen has retained the florid Shakespearean language – for the most part.

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Congress is in session Talk about getting royal treatment: I was the only guest lunching at the new Congress Street Social Club.

Lunch service had only begun a few days earlier. The past weekend had been rocking, but this sleepy Tuesday left the large courtyard, the cool, dark dining room and the downstairs game room wanting for a gang of folks enjoying business lunch.

I suspect that once the word is out, it’ll be a different picture.

The core of the menu is bar food, but these creations have decidedly upscale improvements. Salads, burgers (beef, chicken, turkey or veggie), wings — the usual suspects have been dressed up for Congress Street Social Club’s debut.

My blackened chicken social club was a perfect sized grilled chicken breast filet on a right–sized bun. It was hot and flavorful, and then the topping kicked in with a chorus of texture and added flavors.

Of course, nothing is bad topped with hand cut smoked bacon. Then add caramelized onions, guacamole, cheese, lettuce and tomato for a fully satisfying sandwich.

I added sweet potato fries and a soft drink, and the check still barely squeaked past 10 bucks.

I need to revisit to sample some other good looking burger combinations, and I’ll have to take a guest to sample the house dessert. The giant, skillet baked chocolate chip cookie is topped with two layers of French caramel, Swiss chocolate, two scoops of French vanilla bean ice cream and whipped cream.

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Killer wine!

The predator lurking in my wine rack wasn’t something from science fiction. In fact, in the monster food chain, this predator would be at the bottom of the heap.

However, in the world of wine, this predator is a big deal, a relentless killer with a simple name: Ladybug.

The cheery little red bugs are the foundation of vineyard pest control programs around the globe. More than one winemaker has paid homage to the lowly ladybug on labels. Barely larger than a BB, Cocinella septapunctata is a really big deal to viticulturists.

One such label is Predator 2009 Old Vine Zinfandel. This is a label from Rutherford Ranch in Napa, where I visited last summer, but did not sample the Zin. If I had, I might still be living in the tasting room parking lot.

As Zins go, Predator possesses all the characteristics I look for in this varietal. The fruit comes from the nearby Lodi, situated between the Sierra Foothills and the San Francisco Bay Delta.

Marine influences produce cool afternoon and evening breezes, ideal conditions for growing the region’s world–renowned Zinfandel. Predator grapes are carried by Zin vines that are 50 years old or more — which insures great maturity and concentration of flavors.

The wine itself is rich and jammy with blackberry fruit and a wood smoke aroma that carries well into the palate. It is extraordinarily well–balanced with silky tannins and a honey smooth mouthfeel. Let it linger in the

glass and spice comes calling – in the form of pepper and vanilla.

It’s about $22.

Anthony Terlato continues the tradition of making Zin brought by his grandfather from Italy around the turn of the 20th Century. The elder, John Giarrusso, was a butcher by trade, but loved to share his homemade Zin with customers.

Terlato isn’t a big producer, pulling his Giarrusso 2008 Estate Bottled Zin from a mere 8–acre vineyard block in California’s Dry Creek Valley. What he lacks in volume, he makes up for in flavor.

Again, it’s jammy – a common descriptor with Zin, and presents a melange of black fruit flavors.

Black pepper adds character and work it a while in the glass – discover a hint of lavender on the nose. About $20.

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Contemporary country music “it” girl Miranda Lambert’s coming to town

Miranda Lambert When Miranda Lambert was born, in 1983, the country charts were dominated by the likes of Kenny Rogers and the Oak Ridge Boys. Those guys are still around, of course, but several generations of country stars have come and gone in between.

In the wake of contemporary, down– home, sassily pretty gals Gretchen Wilson and Taylor Swift, Lambert has emerged as country’s “it” girl. She’s had three No. 1 country albums (Kerosene, Crazy Ex–Girlfriend and Revolution) and has topped the singles chart once (“The House That Built Me”) and come darn close with “White Liar,” “Gunpowder & Lead” and “Heart Like Mine.”

Lambert – who’s engaged to fellow current country star Blake Shelton – has a concert date Sunday, June 5 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Arena (in the Savannah Civic Center), supported by Josh Kelly and Ashton Shepherd.

Tickets will be available shortly through etix.com.

In other Civic Center news, tickets are on sale now for a June 17 comedy show starring the massively talented Cedric the Entertainer. Cedric “and Friends” will be in the Johnny Mercer Theatre; tickets are $35–$55 at etix.

Coming in the clubs Club dates to watch for: My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult plays the Wormhole May 4; Austin’s astonishing Bright Light Social Hour returns to Hang Fire May 20;

Hammond B3 organ wizard Ike Stubblefield, who knocked everyone dead at the recent Savannah Music Festival, will be at Live Wire Music Hall May 21; the Jinx has American Aquarium onstage May 21, and Quintron & Miss Pussycat back May 23.

Savannah’s elusive acoustic wunderkind Dare Dukes makes two local appearances in May, both at the Sentient Bean: May 7 with Brandon Nelson McCoy and Hope for Agoldensummer, and May 26 with Rebecca Pronsky.

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Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $20.

• Decemberists on tour: Colin Meloy and the gang share the bill with Justin Townes Earle May 2 at the Cobb Center in Atlanta; the band plays Raleigh’s Amphitheatre June 11 (post–Bonnaroo) with Best Coast. You’re welcome.

• Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is the latest offering from the Collective Face theater group; it’s onstage May 12–21 at Muse Arts Warehouse.

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Richard Law & Roosevelt Watson — The JEA’s monthly exhibit features work from Law, whose work explores black culture and the Lowcountry, and Watson, whose colorful work dabbles with abstraction and surrealism.

Reception: May 19, 6:308:30pm JEA Art Gallery, 5111 Abercorn St.

Ching Levy — A collection of new paintings including expressionist and abstract works exhibiting more of a Western influence than her previous show highlighting traditional Chinese painting techniques. Ta Ca Sushi, 513 E. Oglethorpe Ave.

RSVP — A chain of response-based, collaborative artwork by more than 20 local artists, including Richard Leo Johnson, Ellen Susan and more. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor, www. thincsavannah.com/

Domain: Drawings, etchings, lithographs — A collection of work by artist Curtis Bartone.

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Silver and Ink — An exhibition of student work in commercial and fine art photography as part of a weekend event series. Exhibit: April 30, 6-9 p.m. River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd. , www.scad.edu/

Four Art Educators — AASU’s Spring 2011 graduating art education degree candidates display their work. Reception: April 29, 5:30pm AASU Fine Arts Gallery, 11935 Abercorn St. , www.armstrong.edu/ Hang ’em High — Savannah State University’s Art and Design Society presents an eclectic group exhibition of local and community artists.

SSU King-Frazier Student Center, rm 132, 3219 College St. , www.savannahstate. edu/ If Your Dream Doesn’t Scare You, It Isn’t Big Enough — Kristine K. Stevens presents an exhibition of poignant wall-sized excerpts from the travel memoir she wrote during a solo trip around the world. Reception: May 4, 6-7:30pm. La Galerie Bleue - Montgomery Hall, 3515 Montgomery St. , www. kristinekstevens.com

Tacking in Time — A retrospective of 25 years of work by artist Bertha Husband, including paintings, short films, books and more. Artist talk: May 6, 7 p.m. Opening Reception: April 8, 5-7 p.m. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery , 9 W. Henry St. , www.savannahga. gov/arts

SCAD’s annual photography event series “Silver and Ink” happens April 28-30, culminating in an exhibit April 30, 6-9 p.m. at the River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd. (shown here is work by Ben Rollins). For a full list of all Silver and Ink panels and discussions, which are free and open to the public, go to scad.edu/experience/events Jacqueline Susann and the Style of the ’60s — Pieces from Susann’s personal archives, period garments and current fashions and designs inspired by the author, the book and the movie (“Valley of the Dolls”) that defined the culture of the 1960s. Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. , www.scad.edu/ Momentary Suspension — A new site-specific cut-paper installation that features watercolors and two-dimensional studies by internationally renowned artist Andreas

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New Southern Paintings — A new collection of Lowcountry-inspired watercolors and oils from painter Ray Ellis. Ray Ellis Gallery, 205 W. Congress St. , www.rayellis. com/

Recent Works: Peloso and Rager — Two artists with different approaches, but similar proclivities for epic subject matter with an ancient, sacred manuscript feel. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. , www.galleryespresso.com/

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art — An exhibition tracing the development of psychedelic art over the past 40+ years. Runs through

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known artist, was to use the power he had as a known artist to push his political causes, things that he believed in. So from very early on that was part of his life, and to the very end.”

So what went wrong?

Unlike Dylan, Ochs stayed too long at the party. He was still writing and singing protest music in 1966, when Dylan had long since “gone electric” and was coming up with “Visions of Johanna” and “Sad–Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” – songs of such universal beauty (and appeal) that no one would ever attach the limiting phrase “protest singer” to his name again.

The folk revival had run out of steam.

Ochs’ 1967 Pleasures of the Harbor album was a 180–degree turn, heavily orchestrated balladry that bore little resemblance to his earlier material. It bombed, as did everything else he attempted in his later years, including the ironically–titled Phil Ochs Greatest Hits.

The documentary includes new interviews with many of Ochs’ folk music contemporaries (Seeger, Joan Baez, Peter Yarrow), members of his family,

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and his left–wing political associates Tom Hayden, the late Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner and even Sean Penn (who didn’t know Ochs, but who speaks eloquently about the folksinger’s politics).

It was, most agree, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago — and the savage beating protesters received at the batons of Mayor Daly’s police — that soured Ochs on the idea that young America was going to affect righteous and moral change.

Then came Richard Nixon. And the escalation of the war in Vietnam. And Watergate.

Ochs all but gave up.

In 1973, during a worldwide trip (in which he routinely visited local bordellos, the film tells us) Ochs was robbed and beaten on an African beach. His attackers, among other things, crushed his vocal chords.

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Ochs was driven by both a burning need to poeticize the struggles of the downtrodden, which he did as a gifted lyricist and guitarist, and an equally strong desire to become a well–known star.

But the times, they were a–changin.’

In the end, he wasn’t able to transition away from the former, and the latter consumed him.

The comparisons with Dylan are everywhere – both were students of the Woody Guthrie/Weavers school of journalizing civil rights, political oppression and the apparent suffocation of the American Dream. Both were wordsmiths of the highest caliber, the bright shining lights of the folk revival of the John F. Kennedy era.

In There But For Fortune, Pete Seeger says that when he was introduced to Dylan and Ochs – on the same day – he was convinced he’d just met the two best songwriters of the generation.

In his prime, Ochs was a passionate activist who believed in change.

“He organized rallies from the get–go,” Bowser told Green Cine. “I have to say that was part of the folk movement. If you wanted to put on a concert, if you wanted 20 people to show up... it was always a pass the hat, print pamphlets, put up your own fliers thing. He grew up in a musical world that encouraged that.

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Both Allende and Jara were assassinated. Ochs hosted one last concert to raise money for the country’s refugees.

Said Bowser: “It was just one thing after another, Phil couldn’t get out from under what was happening. As someone very smart says in the film, Phil had a big enough ego to take it all personally.”

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and schizophrenia, Phil Ochs committed suicide on April 9, 1976.

The film includes numerous live performance clips, including Ochs’ landmark appearance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and sequences from political rallies and television programs.

And his songs – “Love Me I’m a Liberal,” “I Ain’t Marching Anymore,” “Cannons of Christianity,” “Here’s to the State of Mississippi,” “The War is Over” and “Crucifixion” – tell Ochs’ story more poignantly than all the talking heads put together.

Now they sing out his praises on every distant shore But so few remember what he was fightin’ for Oh why sing the songs and forget about the aim?

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It’s tempting to refer to Richard LaGravenese as the Doctor Dolittle of screenwriters, as the man who successfully brought Nick Evans’ novel The Horse Whisperer to movie houses has now been tasked to do likewise with the adaptation of Sara Gruen’s mammoth bestseller, Water for Elephants. But to be fair, LaGravenese is more than just an animal act, as he’s known for other lofty cinematic translations like A Little Princess, The Bridges of Madison County and the underrated Beloved.

Water for Elephants follows suit: It’s an adaptation that manages to be tasteful, mature, and even on occasion insightful. But that can only take a movie so far when there’s no one around to constantly fan those flames of literary respect into something inherently, pulsatingly cinematic.

Robert Pattinson, best known for Twilight, and Reese Witherspoon, not especially known for Twilight (but in a Trivial Pursuit aside, she did star alongside Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon in a 1998 movie with that name), respectively play Jacob and Marlena. He’s an orphaned vet–school dropout who winds up landing a gig looking after the animals (including a soulful pachyderm) at a ramshackle circus; she’s the big top’s main attraction, as well as the wife of the quick–tempered owner, August (Christoph Waltz).

August is already sadistic enough, but when

he notices an attraction growing between his wife and this newcomer, his rage becomes even more pronounced, resulting in a jealous fit that threatens to destroy not only the lovebirds but the circus itself.

Waltz’s ringleader is almost as villainous as his Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (for which he won an Oscar), but the actor’s excellent performance keeps his character from deteriorating into a buffoonish villain. He far outclasses the two stars, whose lack of chemistry undermines the love story that rests at the film’s center.

Visually, the picture is exquisite – the art direction by Terrence Malick regular Jack Fisk and camerawork by Brokeback Mountain cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto immerse us so thoroughly in the circus world that we almost smell the sawdust (though thankfully not the elephant dung) – but emotionally, it proves to be as airy and insubstantial as cotton candy.

The evocative employment of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake was merely one of the reasons why Black Swan emerged as the best movie of 2010, but director Darren Aronofsky and co. were hardly the only filmmakers last year who turned to the 19th–century Russian composer to service their motion picture. Strains from Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet feature prominently in one of the climactic scenes in Xavier Beauvois’ Of Gods and Men, and its use functions as an emotional release for both the film’s anxious protagonists and its equally worried viewers.

Loosely based on a true story, this thoughtful drama centers on a group of French monks who have devoted themselves to living peacefully among a Muslim community in Algeria during the 1990s. But when Islamic terrorists bring violence to the area, these Christians are forced to decide whether to flee to France – and safety – or remain with the needy Muslim villagers and possibly forfeit their own lives. At least two of the men – Christian, the leader (Lambert Wilson), and Luc, the doctor (the great French actor Michael Lonsdale) – believe they must stay, but others aren’t so sure.

The early passages could use some tightening, since the bulk of the complexity emerges during the second half. Reminiscent of the 1945 Gregory Peck drama The Keys of the Kingdom, which found a devout man of the cloth struggling with his own human failings while embracing his religion in a foreign land, Of Gods and Men takes it a step further by examining the ease with which different cultures and different religions can peacefully coexist (importantly, the monks never try to convert the villagers) as long as politics, proselytism and power plays are kept out of the picture.

Resolutely refusing to be misinterpreted as an anti–Muslim screed (Christian even has a monologue in which he insists on separating the terrorists from the innocent civilians), the movie instead warns against rash judgments, harmful hate mongering and ugly stereotyping – a film ultimately as much about Rush Limbaugh and his ilk as it is about Osama bin Laden and his.

The Conspirator Boston Corbett, the soldier who fatally shot John Wilkes Booth after the latter assassinated Abraham Lincoln, had years earlier removed his own testicles (with scissors!) so he wouldn’t succumb to the feminine wiles of prostitutes. Dr. Samuel Mudd,

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one of the men convicted as part of the conspiracy to kill the president, is believed by many to merely have been a victim of circumstance, unaware as he tended to Booth’s broken leg that this man had just murdered the nation’s leader.

Clearly, there are many fascinating stories surrounding the death of one of this country’s most revered presidents, and The Conspirator relates one of them. But it’s a doozy: the arrest and trial of Mary Surratt, the only woman charged with taking part in the plot to kill Lincoln.

The guilt or innocence of Surratt remains a mystery even to this day, although director Robert Redford’s solid film leans strongly toward a “not guilty” verdict. Presented primarily as a principled widow and a mother fiercely protective of her son (who was involved with Booth, if arguably not with the murder scheme), Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) has the support of her idealistic lawyer (James McAvoy) but not many others – certainly not prosecuting attorney Joseph Holt, played by Danny Huston, nor Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, portrayed by Kevin Kline as an oily cross between Donald Rumsfeld and Alexander Haig.

Surratt’s fate – freedom or the gallows? – is hardly a secret, but since the studio has opted to build this up as a historical cliffhanger, I won’t ruin the ending here. But The Conspirator hardly needs this manufactured suspense, as it does a compelling job of presenting a lesson not found in most school texts.

RIO The color–drenched animated yarn Rio, which bursts onto the screen scene like a Starburst commercial writ large, contains an early sequence in which the film’s caged animal protagonist inadvertently bounces out the back of a moving vehicle and finds himself in strange environs. This is similar to the opening of the recent Rango, which found its central critter likewise falling out of a car and thus suddenly becoming exposed to a life less ordinary. But the difference between the pictures soon becomes clear.

Extending an olive branch to adult viewers, Rango was crafty enough to include references to such decidedly grownup fare as Apocalypse Now and Chinatown. For its part, Rio is strictly for the kids, and anyone expecting this Brazilian–set film to contain any

references to City of God (or, heck, even The Boys from Brazil) will be sorely disappointed.

As straight–ticket children’s fare, Rio is better than many toon flicks aimed squarely at this undiscriminating audience (Gnomeo & Juliet, for example), with its visual splendor and Jesse Eisenberg’s patented nerd shtick helping overcome deficiencies in the narrative and a slew of humdrum ancillary characters. Eisenberg provides the voice for Blu, a macaw raised from infancy by a Minnesota bookworm named Linda (Leslie Mann).

A bumbling scientist (Rodrigo Santoro) convinces Linda to bring Blu to Rio de Janeiro so he can mate with Jewel (Anne Hathaway) in an attempt to prevent the extinction of the species, but the feathered pair hardly prove to be “lovebirds” – as they themselves later point out, they’re more like “acquaintance birds.”

A smuggler (voiced by Carlos Ponce but oddly looking like Justin Timberlake) steals the rare birds with the assistance of his two imbecilic minions and a Scar–like cockatoo named Nigel (Jemaine Clement), and it’s up to the timid Blu and the feisty Jewel – with a little help from their avian friends (as well as one drooling bulldog) – to extract themselves from this dire predicament.

Except for its use in one stunning aerial sequence set in the skies around the Christ the Redeemer statue, the 3–D is (as is often the case) negligible and only in place to justify elevated ticket prices. Visually, the film commands attention on its own, not only in the flight sequences but also during the musical numbers. But the story is drab and uninvolving, and the big–name cast (Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, George Lopez) is ill–equipped to bring the dull characters to life.

The exception is Eisenberg, who is accorded the script’s few decent lines and draws some mild laughs from them. Of course, coming so soon after The Social Network, it’s hard not to recall Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg; as continuing proof that Rio misses its mark at connecting with adults, there are no references to Blu as the creator of FaceBeak.

YOUR HIGHNESS As screen couplings go, the less charitable might gaze upon the union of Danny McBride and Natalie Portman and be reminded of Princess Leia forced

Arthur Here’s the dirty secret about 1981’s Arthur: It’s no classic. While a gargantuan box office hit and a double Oscar winner, it hasn’t exactly entered the annals as an equal compatriot of, say, Some Like It Hot or Annie Hall. In ret-

rospect, this likable lark wasn’t even the funniest film of its year (both Blake Edwards’ S.O.B. and Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I offer more laughs per square footage of film). So the fact that Hollywood has dared to serve up a remake is hardly a earthshaking scandal; after all, it’s not like somebody foolishly decided to remake Citizen Kane or The Godfather or Psycho (oops; scratch that last one).

The result is that the new Arthur is a minor guilty pleasure, a freewheeling comedy that offers a fair number of laughs for those who haven’t yet grown tired of Russell Brand (a rapidly shrinking demographic, admittedly). Brand is (dare I say it?) the equal of Dudley Moore, who enjoyed a career high mark (and an Oscar nomination) for the original but whose luster dimmed once it became apparent that he tackled every role as if he were portraying a drunk.

For his part, Brand draws upon his own party–animal status to play the childlike millionaire, a perpetually inebriated ne’er–do–well who’s blackmailed into agreeing to marry the strong– willed daughter (Jennifer Garner) of a ruthless businessman (Nick Nolte) but instead finds love with a sweet girl

(Greta Gerwig) from the wrong side of the tracks.

Certainly, the best component of the original was John Gielgud’s hilarious, Oscar–winning turn as Arthur’s droll butler, Hobson. Here, the character has been reconfigured as Arthur’s long–suffering nanny, and while Helen Mirren conveys the role’s requisite bite, she simply doesn’t make the same impact as her predecessor.

Also detrimental to the film is its lurch toward contemporary political correctness (the ’81 model was cheerfully, unapologetically rude), most obvious in the dreary attempts (particularly toward the end) to show Arthur learning about the dangers of alcoholism and the joys of a day’s hard work.

HANNA With a young girl as its steely–eyed, bloodletting protagonist, Hanna can’t help but be compared to Kick–Ass, what with its steely–eyed, bloodletting Hit Girl.

While Kick–Ass was criticized in many circles for glorifying the mayhem exacted by its pint–sized heroine, direc-

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tor Joe Wright is careful not to allow the same charges to be hurled against his new picture. As ably portrayed by Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan, Hanna likewise is out to avenge a dead mother, but Wright and his three writers treat her cat–and–mouse game against the person responsible – a hissable CIA operative played by Cate Blanchett – with a hardcore efficiency that eschews any sops toward gorehounds.

With even Hanna’s dad (Eric Bana), the ex–agent who teaches her how to survive at all costs, opting for tough love instead of tender moments, this is a brutal and uncompromising motion picture – at least for the most part, until it cowardly tries to sidestep the obvious fate of some of its most likable characters, hoping that audience members won’t remember to question it afterward.

The choppy denouement could stand to be longer – the film wraps up even as we’re still trying to process new information and fill in the blanks (some of which remain glaringly empty) — but with its crisp action sequences and unfussy acting, Hanna is a chase flick that on balance is worth catching. CS

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to sit half–naked and chained next to Jabba the Hutt. But this unlikely match is the least of the problems plaguing Your Highness.

God almighty, this is one awful movie, a real feat considering that even the most juvenile of comedies can score at least a couple of guffaws off a steady stream of pot and dick jokes. But this stinkbomb manages the unpardonable sin of being boring for long stretches of time as well as unfunny all the time.

As a dim prince, McBride’s stoner act can’t touch that of either Cheech or Chong; as his heroic brother, James Franco seems as out of it as he was hosting the Oscars; as a warrior woman, Portman somehow maintains her dignity while wasting her talents; and as a damsel in distress, Zooey Deschanel is unpardonably ill–utilized.

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Democratic party

For info, contact Tony Center, Chair, at 912233-9696 or tonycenter@comcast.net For daily updates, join our Facebook page (Chatham Democrats Georgia) and visit our web site: http://chathamdems-ga.com/ccdc/ Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 313 W. York St. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.net/

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 help Coastal pet rescue

The local pet rescue organization is in the running to win a new vehicle from Toyota. Visit Toyota’s Facebook page, facebook.com/toyota.

Visitors to the page can vote once a day for the organization that they feel is most deserving.

hope house of savannah

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

household supplies Drive

Park Place Outreach, youth emergency shelter is accepting canned food and household supplies. Household items needed include, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, fabric softener, paper towels and toilet paper. Please visit www. parkplaceyes.org for directions.

pierogie sale

Baba’s Kitchen. 10am-noon, 1st Sat. of every month; March 5th, April 2, May 7 and by appointment. ph. 912-826-5176 or e-mail babas.

pierogies@gmail.com St. Mary Magdalene Sisterhood 1625 Fort Howard Rd. Rincon, GA 31326

rape Crisis Center incest survivor’s group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinderblock wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique.

In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

ssU scholarship gala

7 p.m., Saturday, April 30, at Tiger Arena on the SSU campus. This year’s gala theme, “Expanding the Rising Legacy.” Includes live music by Teddy Adams and Huxsie Scott, silent auction, and more. Individual seats are $150, couples are $250 and reserved tables start at $750. for more info, call 912-358-3059 or visit: www.savannahstate.edu/gala2011

Turtle Trot 5K

7th annual Turtle Trot, a 5K beach run that benefits the Tybee Sea Turtle Project, takes place Saturday, April 30 at 8:30am. $20 for members of the Tybee Island Marine Science Center and $25 for non-members. Those who pre-register by April 24 will receive a free Tshirt. www.tybeemarinescience.org/turtle-trot

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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.

Band Camp at ssU

Marching band camp for middle and high school students June 19-25. residential camper fee of $250 includes three meals a day, instruction, a camp T-shirt and campus lodging. Commuter campers will pay a fee of $110, which includes lunch, instruction and a camp T-shirt.

Registration ends June 1, 2011. For more info, contact Arthur Wright III at 912-358-3369 or wrighta@savannahstate.edu.

Banking Basics and Budgeting

auditions: Melodies and repentance

learn simple steps you can take to tell your money where to go instead of just wondering where it went. Based on the FDIC Money Smart program. May 9, 6-7:30pm at the Carnegie Library branch, 537 E. Henry St. To register to attend, please call 912-691-2227 or email your name and phone number to cccs@cccssav.com.

Call for artists - “spoked”

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/

Call for Entries Open call for short film. A Morose Musical About a Composer’s Fear of Retribution.

Saturday, May 21. 10:00am-5pm and May 28, 10-4pm at Adler Hall, 532 Indian St. For more info: scadmusical.wordpress.com The exhibition “Spoked” celebrates work that represents bicycles and bicycle culture in its many forms. an entry form, entry fee, artist statement and digital images of the artwork should be submitted to Desotorow Gallery by 5pm, May 10. www.desotorow.org. Call 912.355.8204 or email info@desotorow.org

Classes, Camps & Workshops $1 gymnastics Class

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

Beading Classes

Boater safety Classes

SCMPD hosts a series of certified safety classes. Does not include on the water instruction. Participants may qualify for insurance discounts. Must be at least 12 years old. April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, August 20, September 17, October 15, November 19. For info or to register, call 912-921-5451. Free and open to the public.

Champions Training Center

Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah.com/

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

Craniosacral Class

Craniosacral class for LMTs and healthcare practitioners June 2-5, 2011 Hilton Head Island, SC - 32 NCBTMB CEUs www.islandsomatherapy or 843.422.2900 for more info

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.

exercise at Forsyth park

Stretch, tone and strengthen under the trees with Carol, former NYC Rockette, 10-11am, Mon-Fri. Meet at the Stage in Forsyth Park.

Please bring a mat. $5 donation appreciated.

Family Law workshop

A 2-hour course for those representing themselves in a family legal action. 1st Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7:30 pm. The fee is $20 and provides forms and assistance in the filing of divorce, child custody modifications, legitimations or contempt legal actions. Preregistration is recommended. For info: www. mediationsavannah.com or call 912-465-6686.

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. Savannah

german Classes

Ongoing classes for beginners and experienced adults. We read, learn and talk. Everybody who likes to learn German is welcome and will have a lot of fun. Individual training and translations are available too. For more info, please call: 912-604 3281

guitar, Bass & Double Bass Lessons

New to the area teacher with 10+ years experience has available openings for all beginner/intermediate students. Studio located 2 blocks from Daffin Park. Call 401-255-6921 to schedule a 1/2 price first lesson!

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happenings | continued from page 38 Guitar, mandolin and bass lessons

Guitar, mandolin or bass guitar lessons. emphasis on theory, reading music and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. 912232-5987

Holy Books of the World’s Religions

6-part class to learn about the scriptures of Taoism/Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Michael Freeman, M. Div., will lead this examination of religions texts, focusing on their commonality and uniqueness. Wednesdays from 6:30-8pm, May 4 to June 8, 2011 Free and open to the public. Unitarian Universalist BELOVED COMMUNITY. 1001 E. Gwinnett.

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: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

Lead Paint Removal

Savannah State University ’s Housing Health Training Program (HHTP) is offering a Renovate, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP) class on May 14. After completing the course, workers will be certified to conduct renovations where lead based paint is present For info, or to register: http://web.savannahstate.edu/class/ hhtp-about.shtml

Life Drawing Saturdays

A life drawing class. $10 for three hours.

Work from a live model in a creative atmosphere. Contact LifeDrawingSavannah@gmail. com for more info. The Wormhole, 2307 Bull St. http://groups.google.com/group/LifeDrawingSavannah

Mindfulness Meditation Class

Instruction in mindfulness stress reduction meditation. Group practice with time for questions and comments. Wednesdays, 7:008:15pm. Yoga Co-op Savannah. 2424 Drayton St. $13/class (less with membership). www. yogacoopsavannah.com or 912-429-7264.

Ms. Amy’s School of Music

A small privately owned studio offering: Private and Group Lessons, Piano, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, and more! Parent & Me classes for infants - toddlers. Group preschool music classes WWW.MSAMYSCHOOLOFMUSIC.COM

New Horizons Adult Band Program

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.

Savannah Conservatory for the Performing Arts

The Salvation Army’s Conservatory for the Performing Arts is currently offering instruction in Piano, Guitar, Visual Arts, and Voice.

Classes are held on Tuesday night beginning at 5:30 pm. Our students receive instruction from gifted local and nationally acclaimed artists and performers. $60 per quarter (10 weeks). E-mail the Arts Program Coordinator at salarmyarts@gmail.com Or call 912-3528366

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

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

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 912-234-0525 ext.1506 The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www.thestarfishcafe.org/

Summer Art Camp

Summer Art Camps for Ages 5-11 at Art on the Park Studio conveniently located on Daffin Park. June 6-10 or June 20-24 for ages 5-7.

Drawing Workshop for ages 8-11, June 13-16.

Early bird rates available before May 6. Call 912.354.5988 or email tskart@yahoo.com for curriculum information and registration fees.

Clubs & Organizations Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. Generally meets on the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. Email: Kaza Ayersman, godzillaunknown@gmail.com or visit www.avegost.com

Buccaneer Region SCCA

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

Coastal 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 6pm.

Email, Kathleen Thomas: exploretherevolution@gmail.com for more info.

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

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Honor Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending our area World War II veterans to Washington DC to visit the new WWII Memorial. All expenses are paid by Honor Flight Savannah, which is not a government-supported program. They depend on donations from the community to fund their efforts. For more info: www.honorflightsavannah.org

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!

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Low Country Turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m.

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

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 e-mail to

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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.

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Safe Kids Savannah

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

Samaritan House Food Pantry

Reaching out to those in need in the Pooler/ Chatham area. For more info please call 912748-5847.

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

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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 912-232-7731 for more info.

Savannah Brewers’ League

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

Savannah 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 $60. 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.

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

Savannah Jaycees

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

Savannah Newcomers Club

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

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

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 meet-and-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm. Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah 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.

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

236-8566.

A Tea Party group that meets the 13th of each month at Logan’s Road House at 6pm.

11301 Abercorn St. Open to the public.

Dedicated to the preservation of the United States Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. www.13thcolonypatriots.com or call 912-5965267.

The Peacock Guild

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.

Victorian Neighborhood Association

Meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month, at the American Legion Hall located at 1108 Bull Street. 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

Windsor Forest High Class of ’91 Reunion

The Windsor Forest High School class of 1991 will hold its 20 year reunion on July 23 at 7pm at the Alee Temple Ballroom. Cost is $75/couple or $40/single. For more info, visit Facebook: WFHS Reunion and WFHS ’91 Reunion or Email: WFHS91@gmail.com

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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

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Annual Membership Meeting on May 26th at the Plantation Club on Skidaway Island beginning at 11am. Includes music performance.

Luncheon will follow for $24. For reservations contact Barbara McLaughlin at 598-0971 by May 23rd. For additional info, call President Lynne Davis at 355-4252. New members are welcome to attend.

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free comic book day

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Saturday may 7th EXCLUSIVELY AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: HOME RUN VIDEO & COMICS 4 W. LIBERTY STREET (912) 236-5192 COMICS & MORE 137 E. MONTGOMERY XRD. (912) 925-7700

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Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912-232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information

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 912272-2797. 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

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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/

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

Cost $3.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo. com.

Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. ,

Basic Ballroom Class

May 7th. The lesson will be Foxtrot for beginners and start at 1:00 PM. The location is St. Francis Cabrini Church at 11500 Middleground Road near the intersection of Dutchtown Rd. The lesson is in the parish hall located in the church office building. The cost is $5, singles are welcome.

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 912354-5586.

Moon River Dancers’ Monthly Dance

May 21 at the Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. There will be an intermediate Foxtrot lesson from 7-8pm, followed by dancing until 10:30 pm. For USA Dance members: $10 single, $15 couples; nonmembers: $15 single, $20 couples. For more info, contact Jamie at 912-308-9222, or visit the website at www.usadancesavannah.org.

Pole Dancing Class

Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required.

Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www.fitnessbodybalance.com or 912-3984776. Nothing comes off but your shoes Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. ,

Salsa Classes

Learn Salsa “Rueda de Casino” style every Wednesday, from 6-7pm Beginner, 7-8pm Intermediate, at the Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Grace, 234-6183 or Juan, 3305421. Delaware Recreation Center, Savannah

Salsa Lessons

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

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

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

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 8567323. www.salsasavannah.com

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-596-0889 or www. cairoonthecoast.com

Salsa Lessons

The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. $15/class. Tues: 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. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

Salsa Savannah

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.

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

Tuesdays at Tantra (8 E. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-9pm, open dancing 9pm-1am. Thursday at Saya (109 W. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-8pm, open dancing 9-11pm. 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.

The Savannah Dance Club

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:15-11 p.m. FREE basic Shag and/or West Coast Swing lessons each Monday.

Lesson schedule posted at Facebook/Savannah Dance Club. Dance lessons 6:15-7:45pm.

Special discount on 2011 membership thru Feb 15. For info: Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit Facebook/Savannah Dance Club Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

Events Craft Brew Fest

Tickets for the September 2-4 4th Annual Savannah Craft Brew Fest are on sale! Tickets can be purchased at www.SavannahCraftBrewFest.

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Come shop for original art, flea market finds, fresh baked goods, fresh produce, plants and more. April 9, May 14 and June 11 9am-Noon.

At Energy Oasis Timber Trail at Harris Trail in Richmond Hill. Vendors welcome-community groups, individuals- for only $10 per space.

Call Energy Oasis at 756-5865 info@energyoasis.com or Linda Kennedy 663-3373

Game Developers eXchange

The Southeast’s premier game development conference, May 13. Keynote will be CJ Cowan of Bungie Studios, creator of the award winning Halo series. A mix of sessions focusing on game art, design and production disciplines. Registration for SCAD students and alumni is $45, and general registration is $60. For more information or to register for GDX, visit scad.edu/gdx.

Gullah-Geechee Day Trip to Ossabaw

Travel by boat to Ossabaw Island. Learn the history of Ossabaw’s Gullah-Geechee people, from the early 19th century through the mid-20th century. Fees for the May 7 Gullah Geechee Day Trip are $50 for Friends of Ossabaw, $70 for “Future Friends of Ossabaw.”

To register, go to www.ossabawisland.org and click on the “Gift Store” page, or call 912-2335104.

Midway Art Festival

April 30, 10am-4pm at 70 Martin Road, Midway GA. Exhibits of work from Coastal Georgia artists, plus demonstrations and more. Free admission and parking. 912-884-3726 or visit www.themidwaygallery.com

Moving Beyond Racism

A program focused on furthering the dialog about race in Savannah hosted at the Coastal Georgia Center beginning on May 2. There will be 10 groups of 10 people each, who will engage in facilitated discussion about various aspects of race, racism and improving race relations. For more info: www.MovingBeyondRacismInSavannah.com

Music in the Parlour with Diana

Step into the past for an intimate view of Victorian life in Savannah. Full of music and history. Saturdays and Sundays, 1-3 pm. Reservations required. Call 912-236-2866. Sweet tea and scones will be served.

NOGS Hidden Garden Tour

Walking tour of eight private gardens in Savannah’s historic district plus the Owens Thomas House garden, and house tour and tea in the garden of the historic Harper Fowlkes House. April 29 and 30, 10 am to 4 pm. $45/person or $40/person in groups of 10 or more. All proceeds go to local charities. website www.gcofsavnogstour.org

Prescription Take Back Program

Drop off any unused or expired prescriptions at a secure collection box located at the AASU police department office, on campus, at 11935 Abercorn St. Collection is available 24 hours/ day, April 25-30. The program is sponsored by the DEA and DOJ to help reduce prescription drug abuse.

SHS Classes of the 1970s

f you graduated from Savannah High School during 1972 - 1979, on Washington Avenue and you are interested in participating in an SHS 1970’s Alumni Picnic Gathering, July 9, 2011, Savannah GA, Please contact Carolyn, 912-655-6576 or Rosalynn, 912-257-8601

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

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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 world’s 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.

Savannah

Belly Drills

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: 7-8pm. $15/class. Visit www.cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091.

Walk-ins welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

Bellydancing for fun and fitness

The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music. Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@yahoo.com

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 912-3984776.

Curvy Girl Bootcamp

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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/

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and pre-crawlers) 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 7:30am8:30am, 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 Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates.com/

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Ihop ‘n’ Go Available 24hrs a day Kids eat FREE every day 4pm-10pm Just 5 minutes from downtown!

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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

Psychotronic Film Society

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com and at the Savannah Civic Center Box Office Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., by phone, toll-free 800-351-7469 (outside of the 912 area code) or local Savannah: 912- 6516556 Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have a modicum of cooking skills. Your task is to create a hearty, tasty soup from scratch without the benefit of a recipe. You will need a variety of ingredients, but on the other hand you don’t want to just throw in a welter of mismatched ingredients without regard for how they will all work together. To some degree you will have to use a trial–and–error approach, sampling the concoction as it brews. You will also want to keep an open mind about the possibility of adding new ingredients in the latter stages of the process.

One more thing: The final product must not just appeal to you. You should keep in mind what others would like, too.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) Many artists want “to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye,” says Brian Eno, a Taurus genius renowned for his innovative music.

He prefers a different approach.

He’d rather “shoot his arrow” wherever his creative spirit feels called to shoot it, then paint the target around the place where it lands. That’s why his compositions don’t resemble anyone else’s or fit into any traditional genre –– it’s Brian Eno–like music. Can I talk you into trying a similar strategy in the coming weeks and months, Taurus? I’d love to see you create a niche for yourself that’s tailored to your specific talents and needs.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) When World War I ended in 1918, the victorious nations demanded crushing financial reparations from the loser, Germany. It took 92 years, but the remaining $94 million of the debt was finally paid last October. I hope this story serves as an inspiration to you, Gemini. If entities as notoriously inflexible as governments can resolve their moldering karma, so can you. In the next few weeks, I’d love to see you finally clean up any messes left over from your old personal conflicts.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22)

I know how secretive you Cancerians can be because I’m one of your tribe. Sometimes the secrecy is a bit neurotic, but more often it serves the purpose of sheltering your vulnerable areas. I’m also aware of how important it is for you to be self–protective. No one is better than you at guarding your goodies, ensuring your safety, and taking care of your well–being. I would never shame you for expressing these talents and I would never ask you to downplay them.

Having said that, though, I want to make sure that in the coming weeks they don’t interfere with you getting the blessings you deserve.

It’s crucial that you allow yourself to be loved to the hilt. You simply must let people in far enough so they can do that.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) With a fortune of $27 billion, business tycoon Larry Ellison is the sixth richest person in the world. His monumental sense of self–importance is legendary.

One of his colleagues says, “The difference between God and Larry is that God does not believe he is Larry.” Ellison seems to be what astrologers call an unevolved Leo –– an immature soul whose ego is a greedy, monstrous thing. Evolved Leos, on the other hand, are very different. Are you one? If so, you do a lot of hard work on your ego.

You make sure that in addition to it being strong, it’s beautiful and elegant. It’s not just forceful; it’s warm and generous. It gets things done, but in ways that bless those who come in contact with it. For you evolved Leos, this is Celebrate Your Ego Week.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Seventy–five percent of all adults confess they would like to have sex in the woods at least once in their lives, and yet only 16 percent say they have actually enjoyed that thrill. If you’re one of the 59 percent who would like to but haven’t, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make it happen. Your capacity for pleasure in wild places will be at a peak, as will your courage for exotic adventures. In fact, I suggest that between now and May 21 you consider carrying out three fantasies that have been marinating in your imagination for many moons.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

It’s time for the Big Squeeze. All the contradictions in your life are coming up for review. You will be asked to deal more forthrightly with enigmas you’ve been avoiding, and you will be invited to try, try again to unravel riddles you’ve been unable to solve. Does all that sound a bit daunting? It could be. But the end result should be evocative, highly educational, and maybe even exhilarating. The scintillating play of opposites may caress you with such intensity that you’ll experience what we could refer to as a metaphysical orgasm.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) In the coming weeks, I would love to see you get excited about many different people, places, animals, and experiences. And I hope you will shower them with your smartest, most interesting blessings. Do you think you can handle that big an outpouring of well–crafted passion? Are you up for the possibility that you might blow your cover, lose your dignity, and show how much you care? In my opinion, the answer is yes. You are definitely ready to go further than ever before in plumbing the depths of your adoration for the privilege of being alive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Here’s poet James Schuyler: “It’s time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.” In my opinion, that’s almost the right advice for you these days.

I’d prefer it if you didn’t actually rip out the violets to make room for the harder–to–grow blooms.

Would it be possible to find a new planting area that will allow you to keep what you already have in the original planting area? One way or another, I think you really should give yourself a challenging new assignment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

“Dear Dr. Brezsny: For five years my wife and I have been married but still have made no children.

We have consulted uncountable physicians with no satisfying result. Please predict a happy outcome for our troubles. When will the stars align with her womb and my manhood? She: born December 31, 1983 in Chakdaha, India. Me: born January 7, 1984 in Mathabhanga, India. – Desperate for Babies.” Dear Desperate: I’m happy to report that you Capri-

corns have entered a highly fertile period. It’s already going strong, and will culminate between May 16 to May 23. I suggest you jump on this sexy opportunity. You couldn’t ask for a better time to germinate, burgeon, and multiply.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) “Welcome home, beautiful!” I hope you hear those words or at least experience those feelings very soon. In my astrological opinion, you need to intensify your sense of belonging to a special place or community. You’ve got to grow deeper roots or build a stronger foundation or surround yourself with more nurturing –– or all of the above. And that’s not all. As you bask and thrive in your enhanced support system, you also deserve to feel better appreciated for the wonderful qualities you’re working so hard to develop in yourself. Ask and you shall receive.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) Whatever you have been trying to say, it’s time to say it stronger and clearer. You can no longer afford to hope people will read your mind or guess what you mean. Your communications must be impeccable and irresistible. A similar principle holds true for the connections and alliances you’ve been working to ripen. It’s time to raise your intensity level –– to do everything you can to activate their full potentials.

Starting today, you’d be crazy to tolerate shaky commitments, either from yourself or others. Be sharp and focused and unswerving, Pisces –– keen and candid and to the point.

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 912-704-7650 e-mail ann@aikyayoga.com.

Rolf Method Bodywork

For posture, chronic pain and alignment of body/mind/spirit. Jeannie Kelley, LMT, certified advanced Rolf practitioner. www.islandsomatherapy.com, 843-422-2900. Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

Squats N’ Tots

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

The Yoga Room

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

Yoga Classes

Every Saturday noon-1 PM. City of Savannah Recreation Services. Windsor Forest Community Center. $10/ month. 308 Briarcliff Circle, Savannah, GA 31419. Instructor: Dr. Mahesh Gupta.

More Information: 921-2105 or 351-3841

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.

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. 912-547-6263. Savannah

Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call 912-288-7863 or email heather@ 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.

Health Better Breathers of Savannah

Meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with the disease.

For info, call Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@ yahoo.com.

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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 3554601. 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 Classes

Offered at the Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Parkway. Ongoing series of 5-week sessions held Tuesdays 6-8:30pm and Saturdays, 9-11:30am. Open to all women regardless of birth site. Private instructions also available.

For more info, contact: Sharon Kennedy, 904327-0499, kennedysharon47@gmail.com or Joyce Ann Leaf, 912- 844-2762, douladeliveries@comcast.net

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.

Kidney Disease

Learn about causes, risks, symptoms and treatments at this class held every Monday.

Call Leah Mitchem for more info: 912-2322691

La Leche League of savannah

The Midwife group

Assistance with pre-natal and post-partum care, family planning and more. The Midwife Group and Birth Center. 912-629-6262. info@ themidwifegroup.com The Midwife Group & Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Pkwy , http:// www.themidwifegroup.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.

Dolphin project of georgia

The Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at your school, club or organization. We offer a fascinating powerpoint with sound and video about our estuarine dolphins and their environment. We have age-appropriate programs and related handouts. For details about TDP: www. thedolphinproject.org or contact Gayla gayla@ thedolphinproject.org

Lng Liability Forum

On May 3, 2011, Citizens for Clean Air and Water will present a Forum on Liability for Liquified Natural Gas. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds Road, in the Marsh Auditorium. The Forum will begin at 7PM and is free and open to the public.

Tybee island Marine science Center

Offering a variety of fun educational programs including Beach Discovery Walks, Marsh Treks, Turtle Talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. Open daily, 10am5pm. For more info, call 912-786-5917 or visit www.tybeemarinescience.org. Tybee Island

walk on the wild side

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

wilderness southeast

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

Pets & Animals

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/

natural Vision improvement

Weekend Workshop in Savannah. Learn methods for relaxed and improved vision.

Come learn a new way of seeing! May 20-22.

Class fee is $275. To register go to www. brighteyescnei.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.

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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. 897-9544, www.lllusa. org/web/SavannahGA.html. Family Health and Birth Center, Savannah

Meditation and energy Flow group

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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 African-American 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 Monday-Friday from 10a.m.-2p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah

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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.wilderness-southeast.org.

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Professional pet sitting, boarding, dog walking and house sitting services offered in downtown Savannah and the nearby islands.

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Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Lester host low cost vaccine clinic for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. The cost for each vaccination is $12.00, with $2.00 from each vaccination to be donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies.

Habersham Village Shopping Center. For more info: www.tailsspin.com

Pet Care and Adoption Fair

Grooming, low cost vaccines, local service providers and rescue agencies. May 7, 11am3pm at Habersham Village (Habersham & 61st) and Jacob G. Smith Elementary. Visit www.tailsspin.com for details.

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

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

St. Almo

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912234-3336.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

Tea time at Ola’s

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

Religious & Spiritual Christian Businessmen’s Committee

Meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 8983477. Savannah

DrUUming Circle

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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.

Live Web-streaming

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

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

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

Midweek Bible Study

information.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

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

Support Groups

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Call 355-1221; or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

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

Nicodemus by Night

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

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call the clerk, 912-373-6276 Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Realizing The God Within

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

619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Soka Gakkai of America

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.

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation: Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with study group following 6:307:30pm; Sundays 8am-9:30am which includes Dharmatalk. Donations accepted. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach cindy@alwaysoptions.com. The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. Savannah.

More info: savannahzencenter.com The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. , Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church

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

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary.

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.

Unity Church of Savannah, Savannah

Women’s Bible Study

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

Sports & Games Savannah Bike Polo

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

Texas Hold ’Em Poker League

Al Anon Family Groups

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

Al-Anon

Alanon is for families and friends of alcoholics. New group meeting on Isle of Hope at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2 St. Thomas Avenue off of Parkersburg Rd. Monday nights at 7:30. Selma, 354-8550.

beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-8784.

Savannah 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

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

Domestic Violence Hotline

First Line

An after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options.

A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800264-7154.

Gambling problem?

12-step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly in Savannah. Leave msg with contact information for Phil @ 912-7484730.

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support Group

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

Grief Support Group

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

Al-Anon Meetings

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

Heartbeats for Life

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

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

Savannah Are you between the ages of 11-18, or a concerned parent of a teen? We are here to help.

Please call Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter 912-2344048 or www.parkplaceyes.org

Hope House

Conference approved literature meeting, 7pm.

An Al-Anon meeting for recovering alcoholics or those who have family or a friend who is an alcoholic. Anyone who is affected by someone else’s alcoholism is welcome to attend. 1501 Eisenhower Dr.

KidsNet Savannah Parent Support Group

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/ 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

Amputee Support Group

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

Bleeding Disorders Support Group

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

Breast Cancer Survivors Group

Meets every Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church on Washington Avenue and Paulsen Street at 5:30 pm. Survivor’s and care providers welcome. We meet in the library, entrance on Washington Ave. Contact Melissa at 912-8444524 or Krista at 912-819-7053 if you have questions.

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

Crossword Answers

Domestic violence support group

Don’t Face Your Problems Alone

Double Winner’s Friday Night Al-Anon Meeting

Early Stage Memory Loss

This 6 week series is designed to serve persons experiencing memory loss and their care partners. currently accepting individuals into the pre-screening process. For more info, call: Jenny House at the Coastal GA Alzheimer’s Association at 912-920-2231. This group will start May 11.

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 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 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 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

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

LD-AD/HD Support Group

Parents of children with learning disorders, attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder are invited to join this professionally lead support group discussion problem solving, medication, alternative treatments and more. Pre-registration req’d. Call Laurel Brady at 912-659-4687.

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845.

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

Living without Violence

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The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship.

Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Memorial Health Focus

Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For info, call Saundra at 350-3396.

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

Multiple Sclerosis support group

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

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narcotics anonymous

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

national alliance on Mental illness

A recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Tuesdays: 6:30-8pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Thursdays: 6:30-8pm, Pine Woods Retreat, 1149 Cornell Ave. Suite 3A. Saturdays: 1:30-3:30pm, Candler Heart & Lung Building (2nd Floor). Call 912-3537143 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/

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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.

s-anon Family group

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

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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 8198032 or 819-3368.

spinal injury support group

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

Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

support group for parents of ill Children

who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity. Meets once a week. Call Donna at 3505616. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth. com/backus

Teens nurturing teens

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

Tourettes Community of savannah (TiCs) Meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

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

Troup square al-anon Family group

VOTE US BEST!

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

wheeze busters

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368.

Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

women who love too much

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

Theatre Brighton Beach Memoirs

The Collective Face will perform its next production, Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical “Brighton Beach Memoirs” Thursday, May 12 - 14; 19 - 21 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, May 14 and 21 at 3 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Tickets will be $10-15. Call Muse box office, 912-713-1137 for info.

There’s a Bomb on Trolley 409

A comedy about the worst tour of Savannah.

This dinner theatre production is presented at The Lady and Sons’ banquet facility Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays spring through fall.

The price for the buffet and show is $55, including gratuity. For reservations, go to hardheartedhannahsplayhouse.com or call 912-659-4383 http://www.hardheartedhannahsplayhouse.com/

Volunteers america’s second harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

To help with various tasks around food bank and warehouse. Apply as soon as possible. 912236-6750 ext 109. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St , Savannah http://www.helpendhunger.org/

First steps

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 8196910. St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

good samaratin Clinic

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The Good Samaritan Clinic serves people without insurance and whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. To volunteer call Greta Tholstrup at 429-1502.

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Savannah Hosea Feed the Hungry is in need of regular volunteers to maintain the food and clothing rooms. One or two regular volunteers are needed as a telephone clerk/receptionist.

We also need several strong arms with vans or trucks to load, deliver, and unload boxes of produce 3x a week. Daytime hours. Visit 141 Telfair Rd. or Call 912-232-3085.

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Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047. Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd , Savannah http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/

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Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/

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Volunteer training will be 4/27 & 4/28 (6pm9pm), 4/30 (8:30am-4pm) & 5/2 through 5/4 (6pm-9pm). You must attend all sessions to become a volunteer. Volunteers answer the center’s 24 hour crisis line and respond to local hospitals to support victims of sexual assault. For more info, call 912-233-3000. All volunteers must be at least 18 years old and submit to a criminal background check.

rebuilding Together savannah

Volunteer organization in partnership with the community that rehabilitates houses of lowincome homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children. Visit www. rebuildingtogethersavannah.org.

retired and senior Volunteer program

The EOA requests help from seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations from 1 to 40 hours per week. Make your choice of where you want to serve from the many local agencies we are affiliated with. call Linda Fields at 238-2960 ext. 123.

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to conduct hearing screenings for adults and children. Nurses and retired nurses are encouraged to apply for eye, ear, and dental exams on pre-school children. Flexible scheduling is available. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call Jane Medoff at 355-4601 Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Telfair Docent program

The Telfair Museum of Art is accepting applications for its volunteer docent program.

After completing training, docents will be responsible for leading tours in the Telfair Academy and Jepson Center. Call Sarah Ward, 790-8827. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard Street , Savannah http://www.tefair.org/

The Dolphin project of georgia

needs boat owners, photographers and other volunteers to help conduct scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along the coast of Georgia. You must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit the Web site at www.TheDolphinProject.org.

The Volunteer Center

is a service of the United Way of the Coastal Empire. Call 2-1-1 or 651-7726, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon-Fri, or send e-mail to volunteer@ uwce.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

The women’s Center

Volunteers are needed to teach Basic Literacy Skills and Basic Computer Skills. Call Rhonda Anderson at 236-4226 or 447-5711. Wesley Community Center, 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www.wesleyctrs-savh.org/

Tutoring Volunteers needed

is looking for volunteers to assist residents in activities or just come and visit. For info, call Rhonda Sheffield, volunteer coordinator, at 354-8225, Ext. 243. Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6711 LaRoche Ave. , Savannah

If you are an education major, retired reading teacher or a community resident who is interested in volunteering your time to a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students, call the African-American Health Information and Resource Center at 447-6605. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/1844.cfm

Help in the “home away from home” for the families of hospitalized children. Volunteers also are needed to provide home-cooked meals for families staying at the house. Volunteer internships also available for college students. Nikole Layton, 356-5520. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue , http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/

After School Ministry that provides inner city children. Urban Hope is looking for adult volunteers to help mentor the children. We are looking specifically for volunteers to help with homework, Bible Study, art classes, or other fun activities. Please visit our website, www.urbanhopesavannah.org, for more info or email us at urbanhopesav@aol.com to start enriching the lives of children. CS

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$125 & $150/week. Corner of 38th and Drayton. Call 234-9779

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No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065 CLEAN ROOM for rent. Cable, CH&A, ceiling fans, $110-$140. No deposit. Call 912-604-4107

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cars 910 1985 Chevrolet Truck 305 engine, longbed $3200 OBO 912-306-7293 1993 Dodge Dakota Sports Black V6 King-Cab $2500 OBO. 912-306-7293 1998 F800 Flatbed dump. Excellent condition body and upholstery. Cummings Diesel. 6SP, Manual trans., Serviced regularly, good-tires. $9500. 912-222-1355

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