Connect Savannah October 26, 2016

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and you know it... Beloved artist “Porkchop” Zimmerman is the subject of Happy: A Small Film With a Big Smile

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COMING SOON: MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD & EVIL Saturday, November 5th at 8pm

The Lucas Theatre is presenting this film to honor the memory of the Grand Empress of Savannah, Lady Chablis. A memorial service will be held from 4-6pm at the theatre the same day, followed by a brief reception at Club One downtown.

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Don’t forget. Arrive from 7:00 - 7:30 on movie nights to enjoy Happy Half Hour!

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33rd Annual Oktoberfest

FRI 10.28 - SUN 10.30

The Pop-Up Shop FRI 10.28 - SAT 10.29

Scary in the Dairy Sun 10.30

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Enjoy a haunted hayride, horse rides, pumpkin carving, a cake walk, bubble factory, games, a chili cook-off, and live music by the Spirit I Am Band. All proceeds benefit the Pegasus Riding Academy. 4 p.m. The Dairy Farm 2500 Tennessee Ave. $5 for family of 3, $10 for family of 4, $2 for each additional guest

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It’s a wiener dog racing, bratwurst tasting, oompah dancing celebration at the 33rd Annual Oktoberfest on River Street. Enjoy a bit of Germany, Savannah style with a beer garden Fri 4-10pm, Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 10am-5pm Rousakis Plaza, River St. Free and Open to the Public 912-234-0295 info@riverstreetsavannah.com riverstreetsavannah.com

Featuring Savannah and New York City designers and artists, including Scarabee Jewelry, Mamie Ruth, Brooke Atwood, and many more. Oct. 21-29 Trustees Garden 10 E Broad St. shoptrustees.com

Wednesday 10.26 2016 Savannah Film Festival Continues

The eight-day festival is filled with cinematic creativity from both awardwinning professionals and emerging filmmakers. See coverage this issue.. Oct. 22-29 filmfest.scad.edu/

Film: The Blood on Satan’s Claw

Set in 17th century England, this concerns the children of a village who converting into a coven of devil worshipers. 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $7

Thursday 10.27 The Rocky Horror Show Live!

Join Brad, Janet, and all of the unconventional conventionalists in this live cult classic musical. Oct. 27-31 at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 midnight show also Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St.

The Roving Listener with DeAmon Harges

Halloween Hayride THURS 10.27

This year, a family friendly trick or treat hayride suitable for all ages. Enjoy a hayride around our historic and beautiful campus while the kiddos trick or treat. Light refreshments for sale. Tickets online only for $7 each; no tickets at the event. 6 p.m. Bethesda Academy 9250 Ferguson Ave. $7 912.351.2061 lisa.wilkes@bethesdaacademy.org https://eventbrite.com/e/halloween-hayride-tickets-27636988978

DeAmon’s mission as the Roving Listener is to listen and discover the gifts and dreams of citizens in his community and find ways to utilize them. He and several other Listeners will hold walks with residents in Twickenham, Live Oak, on Waters, Gordonston, Avondale, and Pennsylvania Avenue. Oct. 27-29 The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Friday 10.28 Dead Comedy

Local comedians do their impersonations of their favorite dead comics. 8 p.m. The Wormhole, 2307 Bull St. $5-$15

Halloween Film Fest: Hocus Pocus Join the Tybee Island Broom Club for that 1990s witch flick . 7-9 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $7 adults, $5 children

Haunted Authors Book Signing

Ryan Dunn, James Caskey and Michael Karpovage will sign haunted books. 3 p.m. E Shaver Booksellers, 326 Bull St. continues on p. 6

Propel Your Business Join area executives and thought leaders to explore topical issues and ideas to grow your business strategies

Internet of Things:

What It Is, Why You Should Care and How It Can Boost Your Business Connected devices, vehicles, buildings, appliances and wearables are becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of life. Called the Internet of Things (IoT), this network of physical objects is discussed constantly in the technical community; however, most business leaders know little about it – in many cases, not even its name. During this breakfast session, presenters Russ Clark, co-director of the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center, and Bill Eason, research scientist at Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology, will demystify IoT for you. They’ll describe the incredibly rich, real-time customer and business operations data you can gather by using it. They also will highlight fundamentals of IoT that organizations must think through, such as: • security and privacy; • interfaces; • standards; and • employee skillsets. Don’t miss your chance to hear about this new reality that organizations must understand – the tremendous competitive advantages it presents and the risk of being left behind if you don’t start to capitalize on it.

Nov. 10, 2016 Breakfast & Networking: 7:30 a.m. Program runs: 8:00-9:30 a.m. Cost: $15/person 210 Technology Circle Savannah, GA 31407 Sign up at: pe.gatech.edu/Sav-Learners or email for details: savinfo@pe.gatech.edu

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Masquerade in the Mansion

Halloween Film Fest: The Exorcist

Don your masks for an unforgettable night of merriment, enchantment, and gothic allure at the William Jay Society’s second annual Masquerade in the Mansion, in the possibly haunted Telfair Academy 9pm to midnight. 9 p.m. Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St. $65-100 912-790-8880

Acoustic Sunday Brunch featuring Gino Fanelli

Tybee Island Pirate Fest

Join thousands of fellow pirates for a swashbuckling festival with live music by Delbert McClinton, a pub crawl, a parade. All tickets purchased prior to the hurricane will be honored. Oct. 28-30 South Beach, Tybee Island. $12-$50 visittybee.com

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In August of 2015, Detroit-based jazz musician, Gino Fanelli, relocated to Lookout Mountain, Georgia in pursuit of something new. Having played every genre from rockabilly to western swing and jazz, Fanelli eventually forged his signature style with 1930s N’awlins party jazz, which he has spent the last 15 years honing. Foxy Loxy Cafe 1919 Bull St 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. foxyloxycafe.com

Yellow Fever in Savannah 1820

See a newly imagined recreation of Savannah’s Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1820 with emphasis on Georgia’s first female physician, Mary Lavinder. Fri/Sat 7:30 p.m. Davenport House, 324 East State St. $22 advance, $25 at door davenporthousemuseum.org

Saturday 10.29 Halloween Concert

The Debut Strings, Serenade Strings & Lyric Youth Orchestra will present their annual spooktacular Halloween concert. 1 p.m. Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St.

Blues & Brews

Enjoy live music by Broken Glow, Jubal Kane and Hitman. Ticket prices include beer samples and a souvenir. 7-10 p.m. Southbound Brewing, 107 East Lathrop Ave. $25 advance, $30 day of

Food Day Festival

Largest in the nation and celebrates sustainable, accessible and healthy foods. The free event includes a farmers market, educational workshops, top local bands, art activities, food vendors and more. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave.

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Forsyth Park forsythfarmersmarket.com

Halloween Film Fest: Ghostbusters Answer the Call

Two showings of the new Ghostbusters starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $7 adults, $5 children

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas

Performed by Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio’s finest amateur and professional dancers. 1-3 p.m. Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $25-30

A Nightmare on Congress Street Halloween Bar Crawl

Costumed crawlers will quench their thirst on drink specials at each participating bar as they creep down chilling Congress Street. $2,500 will be given away at the costume contest. 4-11 p.m. The Rail Pub, 405 W. Congress St. $15 adv/$20 day-of Brian@StaffordPromotions.com

Trunk or Treat

Fun begins at 5:30 p.m. with games and activities for the whole family. Costume contest parade at 7 p.m. led by the Grand Marshal. Be sure to stop by the information booth to register your child. Awards presented for best costume in each age category after the parade. Don’t forget to register for the Trunk Decorating Costume and an opportunity to win the grand prize ($100 value). 5:30-7:30 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Free 912-925-4839. khanovich@hotmail.com. trinitylutheransavannah.org

It’s a Halloween Film Fest for the entire family. We bring you the scariest movie of all time. Yes, it’s subjective, but .... who really wants to argue with William Friedkin’s 1973 demonic possession film “The Exorcist” being the most frightening thing on film. 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $7 adults, $5 children

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

The American Cancer Society hosts this walk to support and raise funds for breast cancer survivors. 2 p.m. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave.

Shalom, Y’all! Jewish Food Festival

The festival draws about 10,000 attendees annually. Participants of all ages will enjoy a taste of ethnic Jewish cuisine as well as family entertainment including music and dance. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave.

Theatre: Peter Pan

Part of Asbury’s God on Broadway series, a worship service that combines sermons with Broadway musical themes featuring songs from the musicals in celebration of God’s Word. 11:15 a.m. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Free and open to the public

monday 10. 31 Halloween Scavenger Hunt Pub Crawl

Sunday 10.30

From 8-11 p.m. bars include McDonough’s, The Original, Hitch, Mellow Mushroom. You must come in costume! Extra points for creativity, cash prizes for costume contest winners. Starts at McDonough’s Register at McDonough’s from 5:30-8 p.m. $10

Concert: John Burke

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Non-Fiction Gallery is pleased to be hosting as a highlight of the month a musical performance by pianist and composer John Burke. 7:30 p.m. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St.

Concert: The Principal Winds

The Savannah Philharmonic’s principal woodwinds come together to present an evening of colorful music for a unique and elegant ensemble: the woodwind sextet. 5 p.m. Lutheran Church of Ascension, 120 Bull St .

Day of the Dead

Di­a de los Muertos finds joy and a reconnection with lost family members, informed by the belief that death is a natural part of the life cycle. Armstrong’s celebration will feature bright colors, dazzling designs, an arts and crafts station, flowers and special Latin American cuisine. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St.

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Amendment One, ESPLOST, & the education status quo by Jim Morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

DURING my terms on the City of Savannah Cultural Affairs Commission, I learned some valuable lessons. That all-volunteer board, which works and votes to prioritize the awarding of Savannah’s nearly million-dollar arts and cultural budget, is one of the few actual working boards in the City. The things you do on the Cultural Affairs Commission have real, measurable positive impact on the community, and I strongly recommend it to anyone inter-

do much, if anything, to appease them? If we’re honest, most of us know the correct answer is the latter. That’s the status quo in action, that’s how it works. No one is immune. As those of you who early-voted already have seen, there are other things on the ballot this year as well. There are four proposed amendments to the Georgia Constitution. (Jessica Leigh Lebos goes over this in greater detail in this issue.) The most controversial is Amendment One, the proposal to allow a new office answering to the governor to take control over public schools which are deemed to be “failing” by certain metrics.

Deal’s Amendment One would likely open the door to more charter schools. The catch is the kind of charter schools. Despite the propaganda against charter schools here, mostly from the school district itself, public charter schools — as opposed to privately-run ones—have proven to be an effective model for increasing education outcomes across racial and socioeconomic lines. Which is supposedly the goal we are all working for, right? Or so I’m assured. You won’t be surprised to learn that Deal’s idea of charter schools seems to favor the private sector. Given his track record, it’s hard to argue with those

A bad-faith negotiator like Gov. Deal is able to credibly sell himself as a change agent for public schools because the education status quo always seems to oppose any change . ested in playing a key civic role here that doesn’t involve running for office. While my experience on the Commission was 99.99 percent positive, I did learn first-hand, however, the importance of not just casting a vote, but owning your vote. Whether you’re voting on an arts budget or for president, there is a great temptation to jump on a bandwagon. Few of us really want to be that one “No” vote against something that is inevitable. But the tradeoff is, once you make that get-along-to-go-along vote in the interest of seeking consensus, you forfeit the right to claim you opposed the measure. And whatever debate you might have had goes down the memory hole, as all anyone remembers is the final vote count, and that you supported whatever happened afterward, for better or worse. That, my friends, is how the status quo is maintained. And that is why the status quo is so hard to beat. For example, at the presidential level, we now see Bernie Sanders supporters—who by definition wanted a major change from the status quo—eagerly supporting Hillary Clinton, who is by definition perhaps the single most establishment, status quo politician in the United States. So do you think Clinton will see her election as a mandate to incorporate some of Sanders’s policies in her agenda? Or will she view the support of Sanders supporters as proof that she doesn’t have

Almost every reasonable person I know opposes this amendment, though perhaps for various reasons. Personally, I view with skepticism any attempt by this particular governor to subsume yet more power to his personal appointees. In his years in office, Nathan Deal has repeatedly shown a tendency to replace one form of cronyism with his own cronies, and sell it as “reform.” Amendment One seems to follow this timeworn but effective tactic. Every educator I know opposes Amendment One because it will take away local control of public schools. I respectfully suggest, however, that one reason many people will likely vote for Amendment One is precisely because it will take away local control of public schools. And that’s the rub. An essentially badfaith negotiator like Governor Deal is able to credibly sell himself as a change agent for public education precisely because the people inside the public education status quo always seem to oppose any change that has the potential to improve our schools. This has the tendency to bury all productive debate over how to actually, you know…. improve our schools. And it also has the tendency to make someone like Governor Deal appear to be the good guy riding in to save the day. Because no one else seems to want to do it.

who distrust Gov. Deal and consider his attempts at reform as little more than a Trojan Horse for privatizing schools. Also on the ballot this year is the local vote to extend the Education-Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or ESPLOST. If approved, this will be the third round of ESPLOST, which raises money to build new schools and physical facilities— and only new schools and physical facilities, since by law the money can only be spent on capital projects. As I’ve written before, Chatham County’s reliance and emphasis on ESPLOST is at the very core of the local public school bureaucracy’s obsession with keeping the status quo intact. The local school district is absolutely awash in money due to this extra tax we regularly impose on ourselves. But none of that money can go to recruit or pay teachers, or to decrease class size— again, supposedly the very things we’re always told are most needed to increase education outcomes. Simply put, voters in Chatham County have been told for so long that ESPLOST is “for the children” that they would rather vote for the tax than ask why all that money never seems to improve outcomes here in a serious manner. But this is what they voted for. This is what they get. Everybody owns their vote. cs

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News & Opinion The (Civil) Society Column

Hail the Hurricane Heroes (that’s you!) By Jessica Leigh Lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

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All right, kids, roll call: Who’s back to normal? It’s coming up on three weeks since that jerk Matthew blew through town like a drunken frat bro, peeing in the houseplants and wrecking the place before stumbling off to sucker punch North Carolina. Even if we ducked Matt’s wildly swinging arms with minimal damage, it’s been a challenge to get back to the old routines. Most everybody has their electricity humming again thanks to the Georgia Power linemen who rolled in like the Allies liberating Germany, but swathes of homes are still without cable or internet. Our firefighters and first responders are operating at burnout levels, and service folk are struggling to make up income from missed work shifts. And just when we thought we’d seen the back end of this mess, say hello to monster mosquitos and mold. Whatever normal used to be, most of us aren’t quite there yet. For some, like the 19 families flooded out of the Westlake Apartments, life will never be the same. The silver lining may be faint, but it’s there. The elevated sense of community and caring that emerged in the days after the storm continues to reverberate as the weeks go by, and this bastard of a hurricane has created thousands of heroes who have given freely of their time, money and shoulders to cry on, no FEMA paperwork necessary.

Some ought to be sprinkled with a little extra lovedust: The Facebook page Riding out Hurricane Matthew in the SAV began as a check-in point for the steadfast and has ballooned to more than 6500 members, evolving into a clearinghouse of good works with cheerful encouragement from founder Meg Gorski Pace. The big hearts behind Loop it Up Savannah, Blessings in a Bookbag, Be The Good Savannah and the local Salvation Army have tirelessly distributed essentials like bedding, diapers and baby formula. Performance Initiatives, Inc. and the Savannah Realtors Association have held box lunch bonanzas for all. Savannah Feed the Hungry opened its Garden City warehouse for citizens to restock their refrigerators and pantries early on, then joined forces with a veritable army of do-gooders for Operation Feed Savannah. Great Dane Trailers offered up a refrigerated container for the perishables, and 24E’s Ruel Joyner cleared out a large corner to store almost a half a million cans of donated food. State representative and SFTH founder Carl Gilliard and his sister, storyteller Patt Gunn, teamed up with Savannah First Lady Cynthia DeLoach and Mike Vaquer of the Georgia Restaurant Association to coordinate more than 15,000 hot meals in five locations in the last few weeks, served by legions of volunteers. “I knew Carl had the template already for feeding people, and we were able to quickly build on it,” says organizer Ms. Deloach. “All I can say is the goodness of people has really come together.” While the priority of full bellies is tended to, we’re all still dodging piles of browning leafy debris. Party boy Matt left a lotta broken trees in his wake, and removing them continues to be a tremendous task for county crews working their way to our neighborhoods. Let’s be patient with them, since their torpid pace is allowing for a different set of saviors and their power tools. The enterprising and eco-minded have been scavenging the curbs, trying to save all that fine wood from being shredded to mulch or ending up in the landfills. Team Rubicon has hit the streets with chainsaws and charm for Operation Spanish Moss,

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Operation Feed Savannah brought thousands to the table these last few weeks.

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so people feel more relaxed, which we thought would be useful right now.” SCA keeps costs down by practicing in a group setting, which Schifanelli says is part of the healing: “What we’ve found is that it has an aggregate benefit of creating community. People want to feel more connected.” That seems to be truer than ever, and it’s undeniable that tremendous positive connections have sprung out of Mad Matt’s rampage. This space can’t even begin to cover all the cooperation and generosity, so please share your Hurricane Heroes in the comments section or on the Connect Savannah Facebook page. It’s likely that the most valiant stories are the ones we’ll never know about, the anonymous bag of new sheets and towels left on a porch, money moved into GoFundMe accounts, quiet evenings consoling neighbors we never knew until now. If we can make that kind of tenderness the new normal, perhaps that would be the most heroic act of all.. cs

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giving veterans an opportunity to use their recovery skills and serve local communities. The group behind SAVe the Historic Trees is removing fallen oaks, hickory, cedar and other hardwoods and turning them into useful lumber at Slovannah Farms on the outskirts of town. “We have a sawmill, we have the tractor, and we’re trying to stay ahead of the county,” says DIYer Sarah Ward, whose husband, Charley, has been rounding up logs six feet or longer with woodworker and furniture maker Bart Haigh. “It’s been such a great collaboration. We’ve helped people, and they’re helping us.” Some of the salvaged wood will go to sustainable design group Emergent Structures to become end tables and cutting boards as part of its new Phoenix Project, and Ramsey Khalidi of Southern Pine Co. is already making commemorative benches out of our downed giants. The canopy has some big gaps to fill, and perhaps the best way to honor our lost leafy friends is to replant them. The Savannah Tree Foundation will be giving away free three-gallon saplings of various species this Saturday at Food Day (see story on page 16.) All those broken branches are a telling reflection of how rattled some of us still feel on the inside. To help folks cope with posthurricane stress, Jeffrey Schifanelli and Jen Marks of Savannah Community Acupuncture hosted two days of free treatments last weekend, setting up triage at the One Body Holistic Center. “Acupuncture works on the nervous system, which goes into overdrive during times of trauma,” explains Schifanelli, who has practiced for six years and is president of SCA, a licensed non-profit that aims to make acupuncture accessible and affordable for all with a sliding scale of $15-$35 per session. “It’s also shown to increase serotonin,

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News & Opinion election 2016

To amend, or not to amend? A short guide to the other stuff on the ballot by jessica leigh lebos

jll@connctsavannah.com

The 2016 Election may be remembered as the wackiest pitting of political personalities since Julius Caesar and Brutus played out their drama in ancient Rome. But not all votes cast will be for parties or people this time around. Four proposed constitutional amendments are on the ballot with various degrees of consequences for Georgia voters. Since they don’t give their own stump speeches, we’ve compiled a short guide to what they are, what they mean and why you might lean one way or the other.

Amendment 1: Georgia Authorization of the State Government to Intervene in Failing Local Schools

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This amendment would allow the state to take over public schools deemed chronically failing by the Georgia Dept. of Education via results of standardized testing and other metrics. A state agency called the Opportunity School District would directly manage and oversee budgets and hiring and firing of teachers in these local communities, many of which are populated by minorities and those living under the poverty line. Why vote YES? You agree with Gov. Nathan Deal that this would help address inept bureaucracy by appointing a state superintendent, who would choose which schools would be shut down, run from a centralized location or converted into charter schools, bringing in private companies to run them. Why vote NO? You want locally-elected school boards to maintain autonomy over public schools and believe that giving control to the state will make a bad situation even worse, siding with the Georgia Federation of Teachers, the Georgia PTA and Civil Rights leader Andrew Young. Similar programs in Louisiana and Tennessee haven’t worked, showing lower test scores and creating further distance between public education and communities.

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Amendment 2: Georgia Additional Penalties for Sex Crimes to Fund Services for Sexually Exploited Children

This would establish the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund, a dedicated source of state money to pay for medical care, counseling and other services

for underage victims of human trafficking. The money would come from increased penalties on those convicted of sex crimes and a new tax on X-rated businesses. Why vote YES? You know that Georgia has some of the highest rates of child prostitution in the country and want resources to go directly to the victims. Also, you understand that this is a “once in a lifetime” opportunity since any amendment needs a two-thirds Senate majority to get on the ballot and it’s unlikely The Safe Harbor Act will ever come up again. Why vote NO? You believe trafficking victims should be cared for through private means, you own a strip club or other adultthemed business and don’t want to pay the $5000 annual fee, or you’re a sex offender.

Amendment 3: Georgia Replacement of the Judicial Qualifications Commission

At stake here is whether the state’s existing Judicial Qualifications Commission—the watchdog entity that investigates ethical misconduct by state and local judges—should be abolished and replaced.

The seven-member Commission currently has three members appointed by the nonpolitical State Bar of Georgia; Amendment 3 would take those appointments and give them to members of the General Assembly. Why vote YES? Supporters believe that the JQC needs better oversight, and some of the six dozen judges who have been removed by the commission or resigned during their investigations say that they didn’t receive due process. The current make-up is completely dysfunctional, operating without a director and plagued by in-fighting. Why vote NO? Critics say that it is imperative that the JQC maintain at least some degree of independence from politics in order to do its job. Most agree that reform of the JQC is needed but say that giving complete power over to the General Assembly presents a clear conflict of interest. On a related note, former Superior Court judge and current House representative Johnnie Caldwell who was forced from the bench in 2010 after a JQC sexual harassment investigation is a co-sponsor of the amendment.

Amendment 4: Georgia Uses of Revenue from Taxes on Fireworks

Since 2015, Georgians no longer have to cross state lines to buy firecrackers, bottle rockets and other celebratory incendiaries, and sales are booming, as they say. Amendment 4 would dedicate 5 percent of an already-existing sales tax to the state’s trauma network, firefighter training programs and local public safety agencies. Why vote YES? You want to see money that’s already going into the General Fund doled out specifically to the entities that fix things when they blow up, break down or fall apart. Here’s the breakdown: 55 percent for Georgia Trauma Care Network, 40 percent to the Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council and 5 percent to local governments. Why vote NO? We didn’t find any official opposition to this one, though five senators voted against it during its final state assembly reading. Maybe you have your own reasons for voting against what seems like a real no-brainer, though you might regret it when you shoot your eye out with a Roman candle. cs

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news & Opinion The News Cycle

The Bay Street experiment is over. Now what? by John Bennett

john@bicyclecampaign.org

NOW THAT the pedestrian safety demonstration project has concluded, it’s safe to say it was a resounding success. Wait. Did you think I was talking about Bay Street? The annual Picnic in the Park concert on Oct. 4 seems like a lifetime ago to me. Everything before Hurricane Matthew does. Still, it’s worth remembering that the temporary closure of Drayton Street during the event yields excellent results year after year, if we imagine it as a temporary pedestrian safety demonstration project. After barricades were erected at the corner of Park Avenue and Drayton Street, people with picnic baskets, coolers, and kids in tow weren’t forced to scramble across two lanes of fast moving traffic. It was especially beneficial for people who use wheelchairs or other assistive devices. The other temporary demonstration project — the one on Bay Street — has also ended. Did deploying “certain measures in an effort to improve traffic flow and increase pedestrian safety” deliver the desired outcomes? If “improving traffic flow” is regarded as synonymous with increasing vehicle speeds, which seems to have been the case, yes. However, increased vehicle speeds and improved pedestrian safety are mutually exclusive. When cars and trucks go faster, the risk to people who walk (and people who drive) becomes greater. And that’s what happened on Bay Street, though city officials say the increases in motor vehicle speeds were modest.

glad Mayor Eddie DeLoach and the Savannah City Council were willing to undertake this sort of experiment. Temporary demonstration projects allow cities to try before they buy. This approach can be used on a single street, or scaled up to allow communities to imagine truly transformative changes. For instance, last month the largest network of temporary bike lanes in the world was installed in Macon. Yes, you read that right. Largest in the world. In Macon. Temporary projects can also dispel myths. They can prove narrowing or even removing a car traffic lane to make room for a bike lane or wider sidewalk won’t usher in a carpocalypse. Even if such a project added a minute When cars and trucks go faster, the risk to people who walk (and people who drive) becomes or two to the average driver’s commute, greater. And that’s what happened on Bay Street, though city officials say the increases in might that be a fair exchange for a safer motor vehicle speeds were modest. Photo by caila brown street, better quality of life for residents, more welcoming places for visitors, and increased economic activity? Is it realistic to expect Bay Street to things in common, including the term The answer to questions like this will function as a public space, used by mil“flyover” for what’s called an “overpass” reveal a lot about our future. lions every year, and an expressway? Other other places. In the article, Madhav Pai Now that the orange barrels have been municipalities have concluded city streets and Binoy Mascarenhas describe Mumbai, removed and Bay Street returned to its cannot do both and have acted accordingly. as “a city that walks, but privileges cars.” previous configuration, what’s next? How Last month the Seattle City Council Sounds like Savannah to me. will City officials determine if the experidecided to reduce speed limits from 30 to Changing that dynamic, they write, ment was successful? 25 mph on arterials and from 25 to 20 on requires understanding that, “street Will other configurations be tested — non-arterial streets. In Boston, 25 mph design has changed as a science, from such Brown’s — which restores on-street will become the default speed limit. highway-centric designing to building for parking, removes one travel lane in each Critics have noted, and I agree, simpeople.” direction, widens sidewalks on the south ply lowering speed limits does not make Or as local architect Eric Brown writes side of the street, and adds street streets. streets safer. Human brains have evolved in his “counter proposal” for Bay Street, I hope the City will try additional to add 10 or more to the number they see “The current scheme is a traffic engineerapproaches on Bay Street and elsewhere, on a speed limit sign. Physical changes are ing solution, but what Bay Street needs is a and establish comprehensive and clearly necessary for safety improvements. Civic Design solution.” defined criteria for evaluating future demThis topic is also on people’s minds in Despite my deep concerns about the con- onstration projects. cs And I hope we have the wisdom to make Mumbai, according to a recent story in The cept tested on Bay Street and the uncerthoughtful decisions when presented with Hindu newspaper. It turns out India’s most tainty over the metrics used to determine the results. cs populous city and Savannah have some if the demonstration was successful, I’m

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Food Day: ‘Alive with diversity and a sense of community’ Billed as nation’s largest such event, it happens this Saturday in Daffin Park By Jason Kendall

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FOR A GUY with almost 10 million bees, Chapin Burgess gets around. Between bouts of tending wheatgrass at his Eden Farmacy in Bluffton and advocating for food as medicine, the beevangelist shares a “pretty serious” message. “If we lose the bees, we’re going to lose our produce,” he says soberly. “Take corn, for example, which a lot of people don’t know bees pollinate. Over the past two years it’s been affected pretty bad. That means food, fuel, sugar, a lot of different products that suddenly are not being pollinated. Within four years after the last bee dies, we lose 80 percent of our food sources.” If you’re looking for evidence of a scary decline, there’s this: On Halloween, for the first time ever, seven bee species will come under the protection of the United States’ Endangered Species Act. Loss of habitat, a lack of genetic diversity, wildfires and—especially—widespread use of pesticides are decimating bee populations across the country, with more than 40 percent of U.S. honeybee colonies lost last year, according to a recent study conducted by the Department of Agriculture. Eric Lee-Mader, a bee expert involved in making the case for the new protections, pointed out the bees provide “essential pollination services to agriculture which are valued at more than $9 billion annually.” “As bees become endangered, we become endangered, too,” says Burgess, arguing the federal government’s protective umbrella should extend over more species, including the honey bee, which he has made his life’s work. In the meantime, he’s sharing his knowledge with communities across the South, hoping to staunch the wound. One key part of the solution: you. “Just learning about backyard beekeeping,” he says, can have a powerful ability to rebuild bees’ habitat and author a comeback. “People setting up their own hives, understanding the issues.” You can join Burgess on Saturday in Daffin Park, where he will be one of many sustainability teachers participating in the 6th Annual Savannah Food Day, which organizers bill as the nation’s largest Food Day celebration. Other free classes will cover composting, food allergies, mushroom cultivation, backyard chickens, fermentation and food preservation. Just like beekeeping, the festival is 16 about building bridges “as people bring

their connections and collective knowledge and skills to improve the community,” says organizer Joanne Morton. “Connections are the glue that holds communities together,” she argues. In addition to the area’s largest farmers market, the Food Day celebration will include live music, puppet shows for kids, a free bike valet run by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, and 150 trees given away by the Savannah Tree Foundation. And as a thanks to area first responders, who recently showed Savannah they are the glue that holds us together during and after a hurricane, sponsor Enmarket will offer them free lunches at its booth--just show your badge. It all makes for a day that’s “alive with diversity and a sense of community,” says Enmarket’s Matt Clements. “It’s a great way to spend a Saturday in Savannah, whether you make it a family day or just come alone.” On the subject of hurricanes, bees may have something to teach us, too, Burgess notes. “They just go inside and stay put when the weather gets bad,” he observes. “Their honey is their food, they’ve got shelter.” They’ve got each other. And with a bee hive weighing 600 to 700 pounds, they’re probably not blowing away. “Just tie them all down together and you’ve got several thousand pounds,” Burgess quips. “With about 60,000 bees per hive, and I’ve got 160 hives,” he adds, that’s a lot of bees. At least for now. cs

6th Annual Savannah Food Day When: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Where: Daffin Park Cost: Free For more info, visit fooddaysavannah.org.

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The hardwon

Happy-ness of Porkchop

Zimmerman

Beloved artist is the subject of ‘Happy: A Small Film With a Big Smile’

jim@connectsavannah.com

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA’s Leonard “Porkchop” Zimmerman is an accomplished artist, graphic designer, and SCAD graduate. He is also one of the most effervescent and buoyantly uplifting people you could ever know. But his is an optimism born partially out of hardship. In a now-legendary TED Talk from 2014, Zimmerman says of his viral Happy Robot character, “I designed a yellow poster with a little robot head with a lightbulb on top and the word ‘happy.’ And people seemed to connect to that.” Directed by first-time filmmaker Michael McKinley, Happy: A Small Film With a Big Smile tells the story not only of Zimmerman’s Happy Robots, but more importantly the story of how he overcame the tragedy of losing his longtime partner Brian to meningitis While most of the film takes place amid the perhaps surprisingly strong arts community in Augusta, there is a Savannah connection as well. It was here while attending SCAD in 1998 that Zimmerman met and fell in love with Brian.

One of Savannah’s favorite local musicians and longtime Zimmerman confidante, Jon Waits, is featured in the film. His band Waits & Co. will play a special meet-and-greet for Happy at El-Rocko Lounge this Wednesday night at 7 pm. We talked to the also quite uplifting director Michael McKinley last week. He will attend the Thursday screening. This film is so professionally made, and the vibrant, up-tempo pace is such a perfect analogy of Porkchop’s own personality and art. Are you sure this is your first film? Hard to believe. I’ve never made a film before! This is my first film. All of my conversations with people about making this, I always said, “This is a film about an artist who makes very vibrant work. It has to be as vibrant as his work.” I wanted it to have a pace reflective of Leonard himself. I’m proud of the film. The cliché would be if Leonard’s religious, Southern family rejected him because he’s gay. But in the film they are obviously quite supportive.

They obviously love and support him very much. You do get a feeling of family. The real thing is that the whole community just adores him. I put out a call for extras for that parade sequence. We got 200 people to show up on a Sunday afternoon in Augusta, Ga. If it’s for Porkchop, people will show up! They don’t have a lot going on there. Savannah’s different because of the history and restaurants and SCAD. But in Augusta there’s not a lot of culture outside of the visual arts. So everybody turns out! If some artist opens a gallery, 200 people show up. There’s a reverence and support for artists in Augusta that I find very admirable. I get the same feeling about Savannah. How did you meet Leonard, and how did the film come to be? Leonard and I started following each other on Instagram, then he friended me on Facebook. Through that connection I checked out his website. I was very intrigued by that point. Then I saw a link to his TED Talk, which was fresh at that time. I was so incredibly moved.

The talk is 12 minutes long, and I cried most of the way through it. It has just stuck with me like oatmeal on your ribs in winter! The real epiphany came when I was in Las Vegas working a trade show. At 6:15 in the morning, I suddenly woke up with the thought, “someone should make a film about this man’s story.” Every hair on my body stood on end. I put on some jeans, went down to the lobby and got a big coffee, and I knew exactly what I heard in my head. I knew instantly the only thing that could get in the way was if Leonard said no. I messaged him that afternoon. I said, “I have an idea about how we can get Happy in front of more people. Can I call you?” I was asking him to trust his life’s story with a relative stranger, so I knew I had to have a plan. What was his reaction? He was maybe a little shocked. Maybe he never considered it. I said I’m in no hurry, I understand it’s a big consideration. I followed up with an email with an overview of my idea. He didn’t open the email

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for a whole month. It freaked him out a little bit. But he was like, “Yeah, let’s do it. I have a good feeling about this.” Now that the movie’s finished, I made good friends with lots of people I came in contact with and interviewed for the film. They weren’t sure how it would turn out. Here’s this guy from the North who had never made a movie before asking people to put on a parade! You made this film with great speed, didn’t you? We started filming last September. It took eight months from the start of the project to the premiere. I was on a mission. I had a real sense of urgency. In order to finish raising money for the film, we had to arrange a world premiere screening in Augusta. I used the ticket sales to finish paying the editor. It was the most thrilling evening of my whole life. I enjoy that Leonard acknowledges Shepard Fairey’s own viral graffiti/ street art, which clearly influenced him a great deal. Yet, Leonard’s work has no hint of hipster irony. Yes, “Andre The Giant has a Posse!” Leonard’s work is a very simple statement of positivity. Its entire purpose in existing is when you stumble upon it, no matter where you are, it puts a smile on your face. Not just a smile when you might be having a bad day. It’s also about when you smile it’s contagious and the world’s a better place. To me that’s what that little smiling robot is all about. Leonard didn’t have a smile for himself for a long time. It was years. Years.

The film contains a scene where hundreds of Augustans come out to parade in celebration of Zimmerman and his Happy Robots.

Tell us about the strong Savannah connection to the movie. Leonard came of age in Savannah. He went right out of high school to SCAD on scholarship, he met the love of his life there. There was that connection to Savannah. It seemed impossible we could make this movie without filming on location. We ended up only doing the one scene there with Jon Waits and with Leonard. There was some SCAD B-roll. We were literally in Savannah for only 24 hours. We were on such a tight schedule.

Its seems that you deliberately avoided overt political statements about LGBT rights and issues in this film. That was absolutely a decision we made. I don’t feel like this is an “LGBT film.” There are access points for so many people. At its core it’s a love story. Now, there was some very political stuff going on regarding insurance and health care. Brian not having access to proper health care ultimately led to his demise. But we cut that part out. We decided that’s not what this story is about. It’s a love story.

So is this just a special one-time deal, or will you make more films? You bet. I’ve got the bug bad! With the epiphany about making this film, I just thought I’d been given very clear directives about what needed to be done. But the end result for me is I want to tell more stories. I specifically want to tell uplifting, inspiring, positive stories. There is plenty of politics out there already. There’s enough out there about what’s not right. cs Happy screens 11 a.m Thursday Oct. 27 at Lucas Theatre. Michael McKinley will be in attendance for the Q&A.

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Behind the scenes on Po. Photo by Pete Young

Po chronicles autism, grief, and love by Anna Chandler

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“For me, I made the movie so people have a better understanding of what families with autism are going through. At the end of the day, it’s really about love.” assigned him a number of documentaries to watch, like How To Dance in Ohio. For hours, the duo would play board games; for each round, Leder had to stay in character. “Once he had the dialogue nailed, we would work on the physicality of autism, whether it be any kind of hand motions or rocking back and forth pulling his hair. Anything he would do with his emotions, we had to create a hidden language that

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only he and I understood, and I wanted the audience to see it was my interpretation of what was going on.” Po thrives from a cast and crew of people whose lives have been impacted by autism. Several individuals, including scriptwriter Colin Goldman and Christopher Gorham, who plays Po’s father, are fathers to autistic children.

“We were all striving to make the same thing,” Asher says. The director/producer is particularly excited for Savannah audiences to be introduced to Po’s Land of Color. Creating a fantasy world on a small budget was no easy task and required the Po team to get creative.

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In a sea of narrative features, shorts, and documentaries, Savannah Film Festival audiences can discover Po, a touching feature-length narrative inspired by a true story. Created on a budget of less than half a million dollars, Po telss the story of a young autistic boy, Patrick (he prefers the name Po), and his father, David, as they navigate life after the death of Po’s mother. The story is close to John Asher’s heart; the Po director/producer’s own son was diagnosed with autism when he was two and a half years old. After going through a divorce (a staggering 85 percent of marriages that have children end in divorce) did, he was handed the script to Po. “I couldn’t stop crying when I read it,” Asher shares. “I knew I had to make it.” Po is more than a glimpse into raising a child with autism; it’s a very real depiction of raising a special needs child during life’s hardest times. In the wake of grief and adjusting to a “new normal,” David (Christopher Gorham of Covert Affairs and Justice League: War) might lose his job. Po is being bullied in school and retreats into The Land of Color, a magical world that exists in his head. “There was a great sense of responsibility making this movie,” says Asher. “I feel like a lot of films that portray autism focus on one particular aspect of autism and don’t focus on everything that’s going on. There’s a lot of layers, and I wanted to make sure it was an accurate portrayal. I wanted it to be educational. I wanted people to learn what families with autism are going through on a daily basis.” Young talent Julian Leder plays Po. “He was so very much a young adult when I first met him, so well-rounded and worldly,” Asher admires. In his first audition, Leder did a spoton impression of Dustin Hoffman as Rain Man. It impressed Asher, but it wasn’t quite the approach he sought for Po’s character. Asher took Leder to meet and observe autistic children at school and

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“One of the tricks was that we shot all the stuff that takes place in the real world on long lenses so it gave it a claustrophobic feel,” explains Asher. “Then, when I went to the Land of Color, I shot that with all wide angle lenses to make it feel big. I think it had a good impact; once the father connects with the son, I kept the last half of the film shot with all wide angle lenses to see the world come together.” Asher hopes, above all, that Po is an opportunity for people to learn more about the lives of children with special needs and feel the real, human connection that radiates from the screen. “If anything, I just want to open their eyes,” he states.

“I made the movie so people have a better understanding of what families with autism are going through. At the end of the day, it’s really about love, and, for me, it was a love letter to my son to let him know that I know what he’s going through. That was a real important experience for me to go through, and was very cathartic.” CS

Savannah Film Festival: Po Wednesday, October 26, 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater Saturday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., Trustees Theater

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Jackie is a movie about grief. It’s not about politics, nor about feminism, nor about style or fashion, nor is it particularly about the assassination of John F. Kennedy himself. Indeed we literally barely see JFK at all, the president having just a few lines in flashback scenes, nearly a cameo role. It’s one of the many wise decisions by director Pablo Larrain and writer Noah Oppenheim which lift this film above the sentimental schlock it easily could have been in lesser hands. Natalie Portman portrays the widowed First Lady and obviously spent a lot of time learning Jackie Kennedy’s quietly sardonic speaking style and patrician cadence. It is not direct mimicry, however. Jackie’s deep sense of reserve—often shorthanded to “dignity” by the media—is not just an introvert’s personality trait but part and parcel of how she deals with the loss of both her husband and of her own identity as First Lady, and what she thinks an also-grieving nation expects of her. The timeframe involves just a few days, from Air Force One’s landing in Dallas through a short while after the funeral and burial of the president. As a framing/bookend device, the movie uses Jackie’s later conversation with Life magazine reporter Theodore H. White (finely played by Billy Crudup) who will write the first nationally published interview with the former First Lady after the assassination. Their interlocution is by turns wryly funny and tense, but serves chiefly to show another window into how Jackie copes with the loss, and with what she has learned about herself while doing so. As I said, the movie’s about grief, and it moves with the sure slowness of a funeral dirge. The tempo won’t be to everyone’s

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liking, but this is a character study, not a history/period piece, so the slow pace is intentional and essential. Our society is extremely uncomfortable with grief. Actors are usually pretty bad at conveying it, and even real people aren’t always convincing at it, as we often see when victims of true-life tragedies seem oddly unaffected and tearless in front of the news cameras. Portman, however, expertly conveys how people truly mourn immediately after a loss, a mix of comatose shock, real flowing tears, and deep sobbing. Some will say this star turn is just Oscar bait, but this is a legitimately Oscar-worthy performance, precisely because it is so free of actorly mannerism. The film is full of striking scenes, both visually and emotionally. We see the moment when Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office on board Air Force One, with Jackie forced to stand and say nothing as she realizes in that instant she is no longer First Lady. We see the sad reality of her having to almost immediately pack her things, since the White House must be vacated for its new occupants. (“A First Lady must be ready to pack her bags on a moment’s notice,” she says to the reporter. “It’s inevitable.”) We see Jackie break the news to her two young, now fatherless children – another fine scene which eschews rote cliché. The closest thing to a subplot involves the complicated relationship between Jackie and her brother in law Bobby Kennedy (magnificently underplayed by Peter Sarsgaard). Sarsgaard’s decision to focus on Bobby’s personality traits rather than physical traits is simply brilliant— as opposed to using an over-the-top Bah-ston accent, as almost every other actor who takes on the role of the former Attorney General has done. And here again we see wise storytelling. Though the audience knows Bobby will himself be killed by an assassin’s bullet just a few years later, the film avoids clumsy foreshadowing, keeping the focus always on Jackie herself. One minor shortfall of the movie is its fleeting, almost perfunctory way of addressing the uncomfortable reality of the numerous and legendary infidelities of President Kennedy. Don’t get me wrong—I’m glad the movie isn’t a soap opera, with people yelling and throwing things. But the deep emotional trauma his constant, callous betrayal must surely have caused her—she admits to her priest (John Hurt) that theirs was essentially a sexless marriage—is wrapped up a wee bit too quickly. —Jim Morekis

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Happy: A Small Film with a Big Smile

Before you go to see Happy: A Small Film with a Big Smile, stuff some tissues in your pocket. Don’t expect the annoying strains of Pharrell’s song of the same name, don’t expect a cakewalk. Expect the compassionate and riveting story of an inspiring Georgian and SCAD alum: of family, true love, community, and artistic discovery. Happy reveals that daily bliss is a choice, something you have to fight for. When audiences first meet Leonard “Porkchop” Zimmerman, with his 100-watt smile, kid-like enthusiasm, and explosive laugh, he may not come across as someone who’s suffered through the eviscerating pain of grief and ultimate loss. Over an hour and seventeen minutes, first-time director Michael Patrick McKinley peels away the graphic designer and visual artist’s layers with impeccable timing, taking us through Zimmerman’s creative childhood, his memorable time as a student at SCAD, life in Atlanta, and return home to Augusta. McKinley is a natural storyteller, and Happy is a stunning debut. Zimmerman’s life story is beautifully woven in with the big themes: How one can attain and maintain a positive mentality, even in the most desolate of times; how art can save lives; and how a small and simple but

intrinsically powerful idea can spread across the whole world. —Anna Chandler

La La Land

Unapologetic romantics and committed cynics rarely sing the same tune, but almost everyone is belting the praises of La La Land. An original musical ought to be a hard sell to modern audiences, but awardwinning writer/director Damian Chazelle (Whiplash) is charming the starry-eyed and naysayers alike with this tap-dancing rom-com starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as a couple of crazy kids chasing down their outsized dreams. From its sweeping opening ensemble number on a L.A. freeway to Gosling’s cheeky swing ‘round a lamppost, La La Land is a Technicolor-saturated homage to Hollywood’s Golden Age, with generous fedora tips to Singin’ in the Rain and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The superstar re-pairing of Stone and Gosling (Crazy Stupid Love and Gangster Squad) bursts with affable sexiness, echoing the Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall power duos of yore. She’s an espresso-slinging actress; he’s a frustrated jazz man—together they make music about the artistic struggle, occasionally breaking into a softshoe. Audiences adore this unlikely formula, celebrating a

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the visages of the freckle-faced Stone and smoldering Gosling, but the script lacked character development and the crackling dialogue that gave Bogie and Bacall their on-screen charge. The fade-to-spotlight transitions to the musical numbers seemed clumsy compared to the seamless enchantment of the old masters, and interminably long montages of characters walking down dimlylit streets make the film at least a half hour longer than necessary. While it certainly requires a healthy suspension of disbelief to enjoy a film where the main characters are accompanied by the sounds of a 90-piece orchestra, musicals still need a certain amount of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land depth and context to hook into the heart. La La Land doesn’t dig past the “lost in LA” clichés, glancing over the challenges reclamation of wonder in an era that seems of holding on to innocence in these wild to “worship everything and value nothing,” times. Fans of the CW show Crazy Exto paraphrase one of the film’s best lines. Girlfriend already know that song and “It’s about how you find balance between dance can be done with a wide-eyed clevbig dreams and live in a grounded reality,” erness that doesn’t require checking one’s said Chazelle at the Q&A after Sunday eve- worldview at the door. ning screening at the Savannah Film FestiBut it’s far more fun to be a romantic val, which received a standing ovation. than a cynic, and hopefully La La Land To this lifelong fan of Hollywood musiwill usher in a revival of Hollywood musicals, La La Land didn’t quite evoke the cals. Its sparkling success clearly shows same hand-clapping delight. It’s always that 2016 audiences appreciate the value a joy to watch the emotions pass through of a good tap dance. —Jessica Leigh Lebos

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Wednesday 10.26 Film: Arrival — When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team led by expert linguist Louise Banks is brought together to investigate. Q&A with writer Eric Heisserer. 7 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Happily Ever After — Seemingly different from each other, Hugo and Eva have more in common than one could imagine. 3 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Home — As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday. 12:30 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Indivisible — Love knows no borders: a film about the fight to reunite families separated by deportation. 12:30 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Manchester by the Sea — After the death of his older brother, Lee Chandler is made sole guardian of his teenage nephew, Patrick. 9:45 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Me Before You — Young and quirky Louisa moves from job to job to help her family make ends meet. When she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker paralyzed in an accident two years earlier, her cheerful attitude is put to the test. Q&A with director Thea Sharrock, producer Alison Owen and actor Sam Claflin. $5 2 p.m.. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

Film: Po — Based on a true story, Po explores the tested bonds of love between a grieving father and son. 9:30 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Refugio — A romantic dreamer’s lifelong quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where he unexpectedly falls for a beautiful exotic dancer. Q&A with director and actor Demian Bichir. 4:30 p.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Swing Away — Suspended professional golfer Zoe Papadopoulos escapes to her grandparents’ village in Greece. She meets and mentors a 10-year-old girl who is determined to become the next golf sensation. 3 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Boy Who Cried Fish! — Miranda’s life falls into pieces when her son, Adam, won’t stop wearing her blue bra. 9:30 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Eyes of My Mother — A lonely young woman is consumed by her deepest, darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life. 9:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Global Shorts Forum: Current Events, Block B — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 9 a.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: LGBTQ — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 1:30 p.m..

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SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Wartime Witness, Block A — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 11 a.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Super Shorts — Watch this collection of super-short films--none exceed 7 minutes. 9 a.m.. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

Thursday 10.27

Film: A Beautiful Day — Gene gets up day after day and follows the same monotonous routine that he has lived since the death of his wife 10 years earlier. 9:45 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Happy: A Small Film with a Big Smile — Based on the life of visual artist Leonard “Porkchop” Zimmerman and his HAPPY campaign. 11 a.m.. Trustees Theater,

216 East Broughton St. Film: Lion — A 5-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. 7 p.m..Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Love is a Sting — At his lowest point, struggling children’s author Harold Finch gains an unexpected house guest in Anabel Shine: a 20-year-old, hyperintelligent mosquito. Anabel has been the fly on the wall throughout history, but never managed to communicate with a human being. 11:30 a.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. continues on p. 24

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Film: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice — In 1936, 18 African-American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games. History forgot all except one. 17. 2:30 p.m..Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Rated — Maggie, a wife and mother, must find the courage to own up to her own behavior when she wakes up to a world where every adult has received a Yelp-like rating floating above their head. 4:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Shame — Jennifer Hudson stars as backup singer to her philandering, tyrannical husband whose shame infuses his music with passion. 2:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Eagle Huntress — The film follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. 9 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Revival: Women and the Word — Five gifted queer black women hit the road for a seven-date tour. 2 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Space Between — A new father discovers his child is not his own and sets out on a journey to find answers. 4:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Sweet Life — The love story of Kenny Parker and Lolita Nowicki, who form a pact to travel cross-country to the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide together. 11:30 a.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Tribe — Three young sisters live out their days after a pandemic consumes most of the known world. Q&A with director and producer Roxy Shih, producer Brandon Tansley, and actor Michael Nardelli following

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screening. $5 9 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Things to Come — What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build falls apart all at once? 2:30 p.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Trespass Against Us — The heir apparent to the patriarch has been groomed to spend his life hunting, thieving and tormenting the police. 9:45 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Wannabe — New York City, 1991: In order to win over his crush, a neurotic Jewish boy must first impress her Jamaican family. 2 p.m.. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Global Shorts Forum: Immigration, Block B — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 12:30 p.m..SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Poverty, Race and Prejudice, Block B — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 9 a.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: The Refugee Reality — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to public. Tickets required. 5 p.m.. SCAD MOA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Friday 10.28

Film: — The film follows Dorothea Fields, a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie 9:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre 32 Abercorn St. Film: American Fable — When 11-yearold Gitty discovers her father is hiding a wealthy man in the family’s silo to save their farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man’s life or protecting her family. 10 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton Film: Bon Voyage — A couple’s compassion is put to the test when the two come across a sinking ship of refugees. 10 a.m..

Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton Film: Curmudgeons — A pair of senior citizens have a relationship that shocks both their families 4 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing — The film features surveillance footage, news clips, home movies and interviews with survivors. 4 p.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Moonlight — The life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. Q&A with actor Mahershala Ali following screening. $10 7 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: She Started It — This documentary provides a rare look into the lives of five ambitious women entrepreneurs. noon. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Soy Cubana — Winners of the 2016 CUBADISCO Award for best vocal group, the Vocal Vidas are a female a cappella quartet from the cradle of Afro-Cuban music. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Freedom to Marry — Pulls back the curtain to reveal the masterminds of one of the greatest civil rights movements of our time. 4 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Global Shorts Forum: Current Events, Block C — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 9 a.m.. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Wartime Witness, Block B — Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. 9 a.m..SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Student Shorts, Block A — Watch student-produced shorts. 1 p.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.

Saturday 10.29 Animation Shorts — Watch a variety of animated short films. 9:30 a.m.. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Happily Ever After — Seemingly different from each other, Hugo and Eva have more in common than one could imagine. 9:30 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton Film: Home — As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday. 3 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: I, Daniel Blake — Gruff but goodhearted, Daniel Blake is a man out of time: 12:30 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Indivisible — The fight to reunite families separated by deportation. 3 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Po — Based on a true story, Po explores the tested bonds of love between a grieving father and son. 12:30 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton Film: Swing Away — Suspended pro golfer Zoe escapes to her grandparents’ village and mentors a 10-year-old girl determined to become the next golf sensation. 9:30 a.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Boy Who Cried Fish! — Miranda’s life falls into pieces when her son, Adam, won’t stop wearing her blue bra. 12:30 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Toni Erdmann — Enjoy a twist on the screwball comedy in which the twosome is an aging hippie prankster father and his corporate-ladder-climbing daughter. 3:30 p.m.. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Loving — Plaintiffs in the 1967 civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, Richard and Mildred Loving fight to live as an interracial married couple. 7 p.m.. Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton

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Are there better ways out of a burning building than the stairs?

We’re told not to use the elevators if there’s a fire. But how are people expected to evacuate from skyscrapers? I’m disabled, and I wouldn’t want someone risking their life carrying me down so many flights. Couldn’t they connect the tall buildings like hospitals do, so you could evacuate horizontally? —Preston ONE World Trade Center, nicknamed the Freedom Tower, reaches 94 stories into the sky. That’s 16 floors fewer than the illfated skyscrapers that once occupied the same site, but still, clambering down its 2,226 steps from top to bottom would be a schlep under ordinary circumstances, let alone with lives at stake. You’re not the first to suspect there must be a better way to clear tall buildings during a calamity than trooping every occupant down the staircases. In the 15 years since the towers fell, engineers have hunkered down to rethink building-safety design and emergency evacuation procedures. Conducting folks out of fiery high-rises through enclosed overhead walkways doesn’t seem to have come up, though. Many of us have been wheeled or gurneyed through the hospital skybridges you mention, of course, and some cities, including Minneapolis, Des Moines, and Calgary, have run with this idea, refashioning their downtowns into human-size Habitrails by linking buildings into a miles-long skyway network. These passages weren’t built as safety features, but rather for the convenience and comfort of shoppers and office workers in wintertime, and they’re typically only a couple stories above street level—not much help if you’re fleeing the 40th floor. Skyways aren’t cheap—connecting a new football stadium to the existing Minneapolis system recently cost more than $10 million—and they’re out of favor with urbanists, who fret about foot traffic being diverted indoors, thus robbing city streets of their vibrancy. More to our point, they also might not be the safest structures in an emergency: as Minneapolis discovered during a 1982 department-store fire, they channel smoke from a burning building to its neighbors all too effectively.

What, then, might replace a long trek downstairs? Canny entrepreneurs are now marketing individual emergencyresponse gear to potential evacuees. Reps for the SkySaver, an automatic rappelling backpack originally intended for urbancombat use, insist it could double as a “personal rescue device.” You clip your cable to something solid and climb out the window, and it lowers you to the ground—as long as the ground isn’t more than 260 feet away, ’cause that’s how much cable you’ve got. The people selling the S.O.S. Parachute claim their product is safe from just 11 stories up, barely a hundred feet. That’s close to the ground for even an experienced BASE jumper, and far lower than most paratroopers would be happy with. Then again, you might instead consider the counterintuitive notion of heading up the stairs, at least if you work in certain cities: Los Angeles, say, where for decades all new skyscrapers had to be topped with helipads. (The requirement was scrapped two years ago.) Safety experts in less copter-forward cities than L.A. advise against the roof option—heat rises, after all, and the top of a structure being consumed by flames is hardly a hospitable place to wait around on the off chance a helicopter might happen along. But what if, despite all we’ve been told, elevators turn out to be the best way out of a burning building after all? That’s the theory behind occupant-evacuation elevators, designed to address the safety concerns that once made elevators the A-number-one way <ital>not<> to leave a building during a fire. In skyscrapers built on this principle, you’d evacuate by first taking the stairs to one of several skylobby floors—the ones where under nonemergency conditions passengers transfer from express to local elevators. (You might also get to the sky lobby via special shuttle elevators from designated “refuge floors” throughout the building.) The express car you eventually board contains drainage systems to prevent flooding and is protected from smoke by the pressurized shaft it travels through. The days of elevators returning to the ground floor and remaining disabled throughout a disaster may be numbered. So let’s forget parachutes and copters and futuristic passageways zig-zagging across the skyline—building safety is one field where disruption, to use the loathsome tech jargon, matters less than incremental improvement. Engineers seem to have chosen to fine-tune older concepts rather than chase eye-popping new ones, and that makes sense: in case of fire, you want your evacuation to be as dull and uneventful as possible. By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com

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of an apartment building. The teen was transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center for treatment. “Circumstances of this shooting remain under investigation. Detectives do not believe this to be a random shooting,” reports the Public Affairs Office.

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Man shot in bar, uncooperative with police

Detectives are investigating a shooting that injured a man just before midnight, Oct. 20. Metro responded to the area of Laroche Avenue and Skidaway Road finding Shakeem Douse, 22, suffering from a non-lifethreatening gunshot wound. “Reportedly, Douse was inside a sports bar in the area where two groups of unknown people were fighting inside. Douse and the two groups exited the bar at the same time and gunfire erupted outside shortly after. Initially, Douse gave police a different name,” police say. “When detectives discovered Douse’s true identity, it was found that he had outstanding warrants from another agency and is currently on probation. Douse was transported to Memorial University

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Medical Center and treated for his wounds then transported to the Chatham County Detention Center,” police say.

Police investigate shooting of 14-year-old

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a shooting on the 600 block of Cape Street, that left a 14-year-old male in critical condition on Sunday, Oct. 23. At about 10:30 a.m., Metro responded to the scene, locating the injured teen outside

Detectives are investigating an attempted armed robbery and shooting that occurred near the intersection of North Fernwood and Skidaway Roads, Oct. 20. Metro responded to Memorial University Medical Center at approximately 6:15 p.m. after Keith Wright, 33, arrived by a personally owned vehicle seeking care of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. “Reportedly, Wright was traveling on his scooter when an unknown armed suspect approached him attempting to take his scooter. Wright was able to get away, however, not before the suspect was able to fire shots that wounded Wright,” police say. The suspect is described as a slim black male of a light complexion in his late teens to early twenties. He is approximately 5 feet 8 inches to and 5 feet 10 inches tall. The suspect wore a T-shirt and black jeans during the incident.

Teen burglary suspect shot by homeowner

Police are investigating an attempted burglary and shooting on the 2100 block of Mosley Street, that left a 13-year-old male in serious, but stable condition on Tuesday, Oct. 18. “At about 4:20 p.m., Metro responded to the 2100 block of Hanson Street, where the injured teen was located after reportedly being shot at a residence one block away, on Mosley Street,” police say. Detectives believe the 13-year-old and another unidentified male suspect unlawfully entered a house on Mosley Street, that was occupied by its owner. “The homeowner reportedly opened fire, injuring one suspect. Both suspects fled on foot toward Hanson Street. The second suspect remains at large,” police say. “One person of interest is being questioned by investigators and is being fully cooperative. Currently, no arrests have been made,” police say. All cases from recent local law enforcement incident reports. Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 912/234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) using keyword CSTOP2020.

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news & Opinion News of the weird Latest Religious Messages Cakiroglu, 35, in September because, as Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared he told police, he had become “aroused” Oct. 13 Oilfield Prayer Day to cap a by her wearing shorts. (Initially, he was statewide initiative of mass wishing for not arrested, but after a protest on social media, police came to get him—though for improved performance of the state’s energy industry, which has been in the “inciting,” not assault.) He told police, “I doldrums recently with lost myself” because the the worldwide drop in oil woman had “disregarded prices. Though the initiathe values of our country,” tive’s founders, and the and “my spiritual side took associated Oil Patch Chapover, and I kicked her in the lains, were largely Baptist face.” TWO MORE church leaders, the govWEEKS AND Government in Action ernor emphasized that all IT’S OVER Kevin and Tammy Jones religions should be prayopened their guns-anding for a more prosperous coffee store in an old bank industry. building in Hamilton, Cultural Diversity Compelling Explanations Virginia, in August, but • In September, a court • In September, Charles Lawrence III, despite the controverin Paris upheld France’s 60, was sentenced to eight years in prison sies about the ease of gun government ban on people for attempted sexual assault despite his acquisition in America, smiling for their passport claim that it was just bad eyesight that their Bullets and Beans and identity photos. One caused the problem. He had arrived at a shop has had a harder official had challenged the house in Fairfield, Connecticut, to have time pleasing government required straightforward sex with a male he had met online, but regulators over the coffee pose (“neutral,” “mouth the event turned out to be a “To Catch a than over the firearms. closed”), lamenting that the Predator” sting. Lawrence, an accountant, Kevin told Washingtonian French should be encouraged to smile to claimed that, in text messages with the magazine that there were no problems in “boy,” he had seen “18” as his age, when, getting gun-shop and firearms-instruction overcome the perpetual “national depression” that supposedly permeates the counaccording to police evidence, the text read permits from state and federal agencies, try’s psyche. “13.” (Bonus: Lawrence knew “Predator” but several local-government roadblocks • The baseball-like “pesapallo” might newsman Chris Hansen socially and com- delayed the coffee-sales permit: the propbe Finland’s national game, reported The muted daily on the train with him, accord- erty being zoned for “retail” but not food ing to Lawrence’s lawyer.) or drinks; permission to open certain busi- New York Times in September, despite its • A 23-year-old woman on a bus in Istan- nesses near residences; and a coffee shop’s differences from the American pastime. The ball is pitched to the batter—but verbul, Turkey, was attacked by Abdullah need to have “parking.” tically, by a pitcher standing next to the batter—and the batter runs the bases after hitting it, though not counterclockwise but zigzag style, to a base on the left, then one on the right, then back to the left. The game was invented in Finland in 1920 and Register at CONNECTSAVANNAH.COM/FREESTUFF has achieved minor notoriety, with teams from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia vying for a “world cup” that so far none has been able to wrest from Finland. (Reassuringly, however, “three strikes” is an out in Finland, too.) Pot for Pets

As nine states next month ask voters to approve some form of legalization of marijuana, a “new customer base” for the product—pets—was highlighted in an October New York Times report. Dogs and cats are struck with maladies similar to those that humans report in cannabis success stories: seizures, inflammation, anxiety, arthritis and other pain and subsequent social withdrawals. The “high”-producing THC element cannot be used because it is notoriously toxic to dogs, but other elements in the drug seem to work well not only for dogs and cats but, by anecdotal evidence, pigs, horses and domesticated wild animals.

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New World Order

• Too Much Time on Their Hands: In an October profile of tech developer and startup savant Sam Altman, The New Yorker disclosed that “many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis”—that “what we experience as reality” is just some dark force’s computer simulation (as in the movie “The Matrix”). “Two tech billionaires,” the magazine reported, are “secretly engag(ing) scientists” to break us out of this alternative universe we might be trapped in. (One prominent member of the tech elite remarked at a Vox Media conference in June on how the “simulation hypothesis” seems to dominate all conversation whenever the elites gather.)

• Scientists from England’s Bath University, publishing in a September issue of Nature Communications, report success in creating enduring live mice without use of a fertilized egg. The researchers showed it possible that a sperm cell can “trick” an egg into becoming a full-featured embryo without a “fertilization” process (in which distinct genomes from sperm and egg were thought to be required, at least in mammals). The scientists were thus able to “challenge nearly two centuries of conventional wisdom.”

Police Report

• The War on Drugs: (1) In September, police in Thurmont, Maryland, announced the culmination of a twomonth-long undercover drug operation at the Burger King with two arrests and a total seizure of 5 grams of marijuana and two morphine pills. (2) On Sept. 21, as part of a six-target raid using “military-type” helicopters by the Massachusetts State Police and the National Guard, drug warriors halted the criminal enterprise of Margaret Holcomb, 81, of Amherst, seizing the one and only marijuana plant in her yard that she had planned to harvest soon for relief of her arthritis and glaucoma. -- Couldn’t Stop Myself: (1) Joshua Hunt, 31, was arrested in October inside St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had gone to check on his 9-month-old son, who was being treated for an injury. Police said that while in the ward, he snatched another visitor’s purse and took a cellphone and credit cards. (2) Brittany Carulli, 25, was arrested in Harrison Township, New Jersey, in October, charged with stealing a medic’s wallet from inside an ambulance. The medic had allowed Carulli in the ambulance to grieve over her boyfriend’s body after he was struck and killed by a car.

The Passing Parade

(1) Jeffrey Osella, 50, was arrested in August in Westerly, Rhode Island, after allegedly firing corncobs at his neighbor’s house, using a PVC “potato gun,” as part of their long-running feud. When Osella answered the door, officers said he was shirtless, with corn kernels stuck to his chest. (2) On Oct. 1, Michael Daum, 55, began his year in residence as the town hermit of Solothurn, Switzerland, having been chosen from among 22 self-entertaining applicants. The hermit will be required to maintain the town’s isolated hermitage, but also, paradoxically, be called on at times to engage with arriving tourists.

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computer and he started making really hip-hop oriented beats, we would put on the speakers at home and just jam and play and the concept kind of developed from there. He started stuff more in a song format with different sections.” Live, Salken mans his full kit while Lalli is surrounded by a keyboard, his sax, and a laptop. “He can trigger different sessions of songs, play sax over it, and I’ll play drums on the whole thing,” says Salken. “We come from an improv background, where it’s all about having open sections where we can build, or Dom takes a solo, or we’ll solo together or build together and keep the music flowing so it’s not the same thing

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Thirteen years ago, Dominic Lalli could feel the electronic dance music craze rising around him, but the saxophonist with traditional jazz training was far away from that world, taking standard wedding and bar mitzvah gigs around New York. When he joined funk/jazz band Motet in 2003, jamming out the band’s unique fusion of funk, afrobeat, and jazz, Lalli met drummer Jeremy Salken. Before they knew it, the new friends were roommates. Before they knew it, Lalli was creating digital tracks for fun, playing sax riffs over his creations and calling Salken to get in on

the jam session. Today, they’re using the same setup. But they’re not in the basement: they’re performing to sold-out arenas filled with thousands upon thousands of fans. Big Gigantic is one of the most innovative groups working today. By mixing dance music with live instrumentation, Lalli and Salken found a brilliant niche, elevating the live DJ experience with a boisterous show and incredible musical chops. For Salken, who learned drums by playing along to CDs and tapes, performing with tracks was a strangely familiar process. “I did that forever when I was little, and so that just kind of trained me to be able to play along,” he says. “Once Dom got a

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every time.” With the duo’s seasoned chops, playing to pre-produced tracks is never boring. “It’s fun because we interact a lot with the music, so it always feels like you’re doing the songs differently every time,” Salken says. “Even though it’s the same song, it’s those little nuances that are different each night, depending on the mood or ideas. We’re coming up with the best of both worlds, where there’s two of us, so we have that DJ kind of setup, but we also have a live band element to keep it natural.” With electronic beats and improvisational prowess, Big Gigantic maintains a brilliant kind of flexible appeal. Whether it’s a glowstick-fueled EDM festival in the woods, an iconic rock fest like Lollapalooza, or a jam-band oriented weekender, Salken and Lalli are right at home. “It’s just cool how the scene has changed,” Salken observes. “It’s kids that really want to have fun and just get down.” The duo’s touring in support of their latest album, Brighter Future. It’s 12 tracks of classic Big Gigantic sound, filled with innovative transitions, killer sax riffs, and radical collaborations. “We had more vocalists on the tracks this time—that was something we wanted to try out, as opposed to other albums that had been more instrumental,” Salken says. “We took a lot of time to make sure the album was everything we wanted. It takes forever to do that. We’re super-proud of it and we’ll be playing all the songs off it. Kids already seem to know the songs.” Dreamy single “All of Me,” featuring the vocal contributions of rapper Logic and alt-pop songstress Rozes, flits from thick ambience to gauzy beats interlaced with buoyant synths. “No Apologies,”

featuring Natalie Cressman, has a soulful disco throwback feel to it, while “The Little Things” oozes Motown soul cool and vintage fizz thanks to Angela McCluskey of Scottish band Wild Colonials. “It’s people we’ve wanted to work with for a minute, or others we’ve discovered, or friends of friends,” says Salken of Brighter Future’s special guests. “Our manager has been really good at finding people—we have a whole list of people we’d like to work with.” “Highly Possible,” featuring Atlanta’s own Waka Flocka Flame, was a favorite for Salken. “It came out of nowhere!” he says. “We’d had the beat for a while and were looking and talking to different rappers about doing it. We were getting kind of bummed… we weren’t finding the right person. Then, literally, Waka. We saw him somewhere, and Dom was chatting with him and said, ‘I think I have a beat for you if you’re into it.’ Within a few days, he’d already sent back stuff and we were like, ‘Holy crap, this is perfect.’” Salken looks forward to returning to Savannah; back in the day, he played with Lowcountry hero Zach Deputy and could often be found on the J J Cagney’s and Livewire stage. “We raged that bar—well, every venue,” he says with a grin. “Tell everybody to come down, take the night off from work, homework if you’re at SCAD or just kicking it in town. Come party!” CS

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Planes Mistaken For Stars: ready for takeoff Influential band headlines Coastal Rock Productions’ Halloween bash by anna Chandler

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After breaking up six years ago, posthardcore innovators Planes Mistaken for Stars are back—with a vengeance. In their heyday, the Illinois/Coloradobased band garnered a cult following for a bristly, furious blend of punk rock, emo, and hardcore. After calling it quits, members Gared O’Donnell, Chuck French, Neil Keener, and Mike Ricketts have continued playing music in various projects, but the close friends couldn’t resist reuniting after Deathwish reissued their signature album, Mercy, last year. Prey, their first album in a decade, was produced by renown metal producer Sanford Parker, who’s had a hand in the production of albums from Buzzov•en, Eyehategod, and many more. Coastal Rock Productions brings PMFS to town for a Halloween bash with support from Drug Church, Ghouls, and Savannah’s own Sins of Godless Men. We chatted with PMFS guitarist/vocalist O’Donnell about finding inspiration in the shadows of his Midwest homeland, his best vocal takes yet, and getting the gang back together. The new album comes out tomorrow. How are you feeling? Honestly, I forgot! It’s so old to me already...I’ve been sitting on it since last December. What’s it feel like playing together again? How’s the new material fit in with the old? It always feels natural to play together. Half of us live in Denver, half in Illinois, and the few times we have played the new songs, they seem to blend in very seamlessly with our older stuff, so it feels really organic. I think we’ll be playing a lot of the new stuff on the upcoming tour, but we like to balance it.

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I understand you did a lot of driving and exploring while writing this record. Yeah...it was inspirational. I was able to get the rest of the lyrics done. I already had what I was looking for; I just had to be reminded.

What did you see in your travels that 32 inspired you?

Kick your Halloween weekend off with a Planes Mistaken For Stars reunion. Photo by angela owens

The uglier aspects of the Midwest rearing its head, taking snaps at me, trying to bite my ass as I bobbed and weaved. I got to a dark place and spent the rest of the time trying to come back.

Thank you; I guess that’s sort of what we aim for. It’s our experiences we’re trying to convey, and that is a lot of my experience: in particular, dirge-y, Midwest melancholy things. I’m glad that we achieved that goal. It’s all supposed to be about honesty and being honest about every situation, ugly or not, and learning something from it.

[Producer Samford Parker] was a lot of fun to work with, and adventurous in all the right ways. I wouldn’t change it for anything. He pushed me a lot vocally, which is nice. A lot of times, people don’t really understand vocals or understand how to get in your head. He really understood where I was. I think a lot of people don’t catch what’s going on—they think I’m using a bunch of effects. I’m not. I’m using three different octaves and just mixing it right. And I spent more time on vocals than I have in the past, and it’s a lot of fun for me. It’s fucking nerve-racking—and I don’t use auto tune. If I can’t do it, I’ll change it. We’re not in a fucking karaoke band.

Did you ever think you’d revisit this project?

Do you find yourself singing differently live?

I know that we’ve always all loved each other—that never went away. We’ve always kept in contact. We’ve always been family. It wasn’t like we split up and never talked to each other again; our kids call us all Uncle Chuck, Uncle Gared, Uncle Mike. Chuck married me and my wife—he was the guy who officiated. I knew we’d play shows because it’s a lot of fun and I hoped we’d get a chance to write, and I hoped it’d still be organic. I always wondered if it’d work out.

I notice myself having a little bit better mic technique and not being afraid to sing more controlled and lower. Coming from a punk rock background, you have to play through shitty PAs and you have to yell the whole time, and it does something to your style. So now I’m trying to unlearn that, and now we’re playing places with nice monitors that are set up to your advantage. I love working with monitors because you can hear how I actually sing instead of straining.

You explore a real range with your vocals on this new album.

I know it might be way too soon to even consider, but what’s the future

The material’s always seemed to embody that Midwest melancholy.

hold? Do you think you’ll make another record as a band? I’ve been writing lyrics here and there—I think we’re waiting for the dust to settle and see how this goes. I would be down to write another record, it would be a lot of fun. Our schedules are so pinned down with other shit. Mikey’s a scientist—that’s legitimately what he does, he’s always going to the lab to get core samples of soil to see how he can correct what we’ve done to this planet and have a sustainable life. Chuck’s on the road all the time, and I do whatever the hell I do...take care of my kids, try to stay out of trouble, which is a full-time job! I hope to get on the road more, but I don’t see us touring at the capacity of what we did ten years ago. I think we just want to have fun and be strategic about what we do. I’m sure we’ll write more music together, and what doesn’t fly with Planes, I’ll use for another Hawks and Doves record. Right now, Planes is my baby and always will be. I’m just really stoked to be back in the saddle with my best friends. CS

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Music to move mountains Pianist John Burke finds inspiration in the natural sciences on new album by anna chandler

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With radiant charisma and a rivetingly engaging performance, pianist John Burke is smashing expectations with each strike of an ivory key. The Atlanta native has spent his life exploring different arenas of piano music—classical, ragtime, rock ‘n’ roll, and more—in order to craft a truly unique style of his own. Burke’s original compositions possess an inherent grace and magnetic knack for melody; live, the songs come to life with Burke’s fiery passion for playing. We spoke with Burke about his new album, Orogen, merging his varied influences, and finding musical inspiration in the wonders of nature. Growing up, was your household a very musical one? My dad was a musician. I was surrounded by music—he played piano—but a lot of it was ‘60s and ‘70s music. My dad grew my sister and I up on the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Crosby, Stills and Nash, a whole list. I grew up with a lot of emphasis on melody. My dad really liked jingles, so I guess that crafted my love for a good melody in a song.

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My dad started me on chords and scales. I took a few lessons and learned classical music, but as I got older, I played in a blues and Southern Rock band. I learned blues licks and chords and got into ragtime a little bit—I love high entertainment music. As I’ve gotten older, I fell in love with George Winston, who plays folk piano on the opposite spectrum, and I fell in love with The Doors, keyboard music and organ, fusing those together. Now, my music is a mix of ambient, new age music that’s active, energetic, and kind of funky! What was it like going from playing in a band to performing solo?

“Musically, I wanted to have songs that were strong, difficult, and in-your-face. I don’t like writing background music. Piano music is often conceived as background stuff, and that’s great, but I wanted to write music that requires active listening.” I was in [John King Band] and loved it so much. It was so fun to play with guys and we all got along, played all over the place. Going solo was a lot different from a marketing perspective. I had to learn how to show the world that me—and just me—is important. It’s difficult as a solo artist. You get a lot of freedom, because you don’t have to run it by anyone else, and in that regard I liked going solo. Musically, though, you’re the only instrument. I have this notion where I need to fill in gaps and make a very full sound. When I play alone, I like the challenge of what I can do to manipulate my hands to add a full sound. You’re coming to town with a new album. Can you tell us a little about it? This album was a new progression in my sound. It did this play on melody. Melody

is really important to me, and I have an underlying melody that grows throughout the album under main themes of the album—you have to listen hard to find it. That took a lot of work, molding that melody and introducing it into each different song and trying to not make it sound out of place. The research took much longer than writing the music itself. What kind of research do you do to prepare to write an album? I like looking at the natural sciences for inspiration. This last album’s about orogeny, the birth of mountains. I make sure to steer clear of phony articles—I look at science reports, I look at journals, I’m very careful where I look at my sources. And also if I have someone who is somewhat familiar with this field, I go to them.

The name of the album is Orogen, which is the region of the earth’s crust where mountains are formed. There’s tectonic plates pushing, shoving, causing deformations and forming what we know as mountains. I liked the idea of making each song represent a tectonic force—big one, small one, one within each piece. You hear this kind of out-of-place melody that grows bigger and bigger. The first song, you hear a little, whether you catch it or not. You’ll hear it on the next song, but maybe in a different key or rhythm. I take that melody, put it in there, and then, with a third song, you hear more of that and at the end of the album, you hear the entire melody. The album is making a mountain— that’s what each piece is: a tectonic force pushing a melody mountain. Musically, I wanted to have songs that were strong, difficult, and in-your-face. I don’t like writing background music. Piano music is often conceived as background stuff, and that’s great, but I wanted to write music that requires active listening. A lot of the songs are strong and out there, but all have something underneath and brewing, whether that’s a slower moving song, a sweeter song, or a crazy, in-your-face, active, fun song. CS

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this past Friday morning, politicians and music professionals sat side-by-side to discuss a potential new tax incentive to help Georgia grow its music industry. Lt. Governor Casey Cagle announced Senate appointments to the Joint Music Economic Development Study Committee on July 22. With 13 members, the committee features senators like Jeff Mullis (Chickamauga), Sens. Tyler Harper (Ocilla) and Butch Miller (Gainesville) alongside industry pros like Michele Caplinger of The Recording Academy/ GRAMMY Awards, and Brandon Bush, a musician who’s performed in bands like Train and Sugarland and has contributed to over 100 recordings. There’s no denying the impact Georgia’s film production incentive has had since its 2008 creation. As of June, our state is tied for No. 3 in worldwide film production. The film and TV industry is responsible for more than 79,000 jobs and around $4 billion in wages and has helped bring 120 more firms to Georgia in the last seven years. Throughout the three-hour discussion, it was frequently mentioned how film and music go hand-in-hand—original music is needed for everything from ads to apps to Netflix shows—and how this unique tie could be the first stepping stone toward making Georgia the nation’s “Entertainment Production Capital.” Tammy Hurt, a drummer, managing partner of licensing firm Placement Music, and advisor to Girls Rock Camp ATL, offered compelling stats to the panel in her support of the tax incentive. According to Georgia Music Partners’ 2011 study, music has a $3.7 billion impact on our economy— and that excludes festivals. The study counted 20,000 music professionals in our state and 130 recording studios (all small businesses, as Hurt pointed out). Hurt suggested a “holistic approach to the market,” reminding the panel that “arts and music are an economic development tool” to create a vibrant state, create jobs, encourage growth, and boost tourism. A standalone music tax incentive, she suggested, would complement the film industry and would create a pipeline

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By Anna Chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

For their second annual Halloween celebration, Dad Joke has curated a mess of pysch rock and heavy grime for a dark and heavy Thursday night with Reverends, Empty Vessels, Gwynn, Joi Ryder, and Temazcal. Atlanta’s Reverends make a reverb-soaked style of toughed-up vintage psych rock with fresh flair. The band released a dreamy-cool new LP, Derealization Blues, in August via Knoxville’s Fat Elvis Records. Doomy hardcore duo Empty Vessels has made its way through Savannah’s DIY circuit over the years. and their eruptive, no-holdsbarred sound isn’t to be missed. The Connecticut band tours relentlessly and released a full-length, Throw Your Shadow last year; their aggressively sludgy noise is perfect for a Lowcountry Halloween. Newer Savannah band Gwynn, featuring local music alums Hollis Sanders, Jake Schlosser, Joe Kapcin, and Nick Trainer, calls their sound “emotional swamp prog.” Their recently-released demo, recorded and mastered by Broken Glow’s Sara Clash and her band, boasts eerie riffs and raw texture. Savannah’s Joi Ryder and Temazcal round out the musical entertainment, and local artists are also invited to submit Halloween or horror-themed artwork to fill the walls of Dollhouse. Wear your spooky best for the costume contest ($50 cash and two tickets to the next Punk Mess, Dad Joke’s festival for the winner) and get a discount at the door! Thursday, October 27, 6 p.m., $10, $6 with costume

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Charlotte’s finest take over The Wormhole this weekend. Sinners & Saints have earned a loyal following in their give years as a band, opening for the likes of Flogging Molly, Shovels and Rope, and more. Theirs is a whiskeysoaked, high-energy show for those who like their Americana raw and harmonious. Amigo dishes out country rock with rockabilly, honky-tonk, and roots influences. The Mercers is a newer Savannah band featuring Wormhole happy hour crooners Mitchell Miller and Nico Dylan with John Pruitt on percussion. Saturday, October 29, 9 p.m.

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The Jinx’s Halloween weekend is the stuff of legends. With themed décor (this year, it’s Pee-Wee’s Playhouse) and terrifying thrills from Friday to Monday, there will be plenty of opportunities to dress up and get down at The Jinx. Jinx-O-Ween kicks off on Friday with the first installment of the venue’s annual cover band night. split into two nights—Friday and Monday—so a variety of local musicians can pay tribute to their favorite bands. Friday night features True Believers, a Bouncing Souls cover band (members of Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains with The Jinx’s Gil Cruz on vocals); Frances Bean, a Nirvana cover band (members of The Death Hour); Just The Tap, a Spinal Tap tribute (members of Broken Glow); The Human Flies, a Cramps tribute (members of Pussy Launcher/The Wave Slaves, Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains, The Hypnotics); and Billy Joe Armstrong State University, a Green Day tribute (members of The Accomplices, EZ LVR, COEDS). Monday night’s festivities include Brass Monkey Junkies, a Beastie Boys tribute with members of Sins of Godless Men, Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains, Cray Bags, and Basik Lee; Revenge Therapy, a Jawbreaker tribute featuring members of The Wave Slaves/Pussy Launcher, Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains, and A.M. Rodriguez; and The Lonely Boys, a Black Keys tribute featuring Britt Scott, members of COEDS and Velvet Caravan, and Mandy Madson. On Saturday, it’s the annual blood wrestling tournament with musical performances from favorites Creepoid and Darsombra. Cover Band Night #1, Friday, October 28, 10 p.m., $10 Blood Wrestling etc, Sat., Oct. 29, show 10 p.m., $10 Cover Band Night #2, Monday, October 31, 10 p.m., $7

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It’s a free party down at City Market! Groove to Liquid Ginger as they play your favorite hits from across the decades and enjoy drink and food specials all night during Wild Wing’s annual bash. Arrive in costume for a chance to win cold, hard cash, prizes, and more. Saturday, October 29, 10 p.m., 21+

The Aquaducks @Congress Street Social Club

Feel like funkin’ Halloween up? Stroll over to Social Club to get down with The Aquaducks. The Nashville-based band, which features keyboards, drums, guitar, bass, sax, trumpet, and additional percussion, is ready to deliver an unforgettable show for the masses. From their humble beginnings as Belmont University Battle of the Bands champions, The Aquaducks have garnered a following for their high-energy shows that encourage the crowd to cut the rug and stay all night. The band’s on tour in support of their latest album, Live at the Beast, and their Social Club bash is set to be a MarioKart-themed show—if you’re barhopping your way through downtown, hit the star power and high-tail it down East Congress to Social. Friday, October 28, 9 p.m., free, 21+

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Wednesday 10.26 Live Music

Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, Every other Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Thea, piano/vocals, 6 p.m. Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m. Cocktail Co. VuDu Cocktail Acoustic Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Waits & Co., 7-9 p.m., Happy Hour w/ Anders Thomsen, 6 p.m. Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Painter & Poet, 7:30 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Cory Chambers, 7 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Jeremy Riddle, 10 p.m. The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m. SEED Eco Lounge Latin Music Night, 9 p.m. Tree House Wobble Wednesday Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Brandon Reeves, 5 p.m. The Wormhole Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Trivia & Games

The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m. Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo, 10 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Team Trivia, 8:4510:30 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m. World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

Karaoke

FRI. OCT. 28TH 8:00PM

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke hosted by K-Rawk, 8-11 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Comedy

Totally Awesome Bar Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy

DJ

El-Rocko Lounge DJ Doc Ock, 9:30 p.m.3 a.m. Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

Thursday 10.27

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Live Music

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Barrelhouse South Funk You, CBDB Basil’s Pizza and Deli Lauren Lapointe, 6:30 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Club Elan Big Gigantic, 9 p.m. Fannie’s on the Beach Christy and Butch, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jeff Beasley, 7:30 p.m. The Jinx Ambrose, Re2se and the South Indies Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael

Blues & Brews @Southbound Brewing Company

It’s an evening of local blues talent down at the brewery with Broken Glow, Jubal Kane, and Hitman! Broken Glow has been pleasing audiences with their distinct blues-infused hard rock sound since their formation in 2008. TJubal Kane is a downtown favorite known for its members’ raw showmanship and wicked musical chops. Hitman and his blues band have been pleasing crowds for 11 years as a powerful trio. One ticket grants you admission to the concert, beer samples throughout the duration of the event, and a souvenir. Dark Shark Taco Attack will be outside with savory, unique tacos available for purchase. Saturday, October 29, 7 p.m., $25 advance via brownpapertickets.com, $30 day of, 21+ Shaner, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Ambiguously Jay Duo, 10 p.m. Rocks on the Roof Eric Britt Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Acoustic Thursday, 6 p.m.

Trivia & Games

The Britannia British Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m. McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m. Mediterranean Tavern Butt Naked Trivia with Kowboi, 7 p.m. Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m. Totally Awesome Bar 80s and 90s Trivia, 8 p.m. Tybee Island Social Club Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Karaoke

Applebee’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Blueberry Hill Trivia and Karaoke, 7 p.m. The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night, 9 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Doodles Karaoke Thursday & Saturdays, 9 p.m. Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m. Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke, 8 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m. World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

DJ

Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout, 10 p.m. The Jinx Live DJ, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao Mediterranean Tavern DJ Kirby Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

Bar & Club Events

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs: Femme Fatales of Factors Walk, 10 p.m. Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m. SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m.

Friday 10.28 Live Music

Barrelhouse South Naughty Professor, BBXF Basil’s Pizza and Deli Charlie Fog Halloween Show Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton and the Myth, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Congress Street Social Club The Aquaducks, 10:30 p.m. Dollhouse Productions Planes Mistaken for Stars, Drug Church, Ghouls, Sins of Godless Men El-Rocko Lounge Jay Arner, Jay Arner/ the Low Counts, 9:45 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Anne Allman, 6:30 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Bottles & Cans, 9 p.m. The Jinx Halloween Cover Band Night #1 Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Stan Ray, 7 p.m. Mansion on Forsyth Park Tradewinds, 9 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub The

Train Wrecks, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) General Patton and the Heads of State, 9 p.m. Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m. Randy Wood Guitars Sideline, 8 p.m. Rocks on the Roof Hitman Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth & Kim Polote, 8 p.m. Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Live Music, Rock-A-Licious, 8 p.m. Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Wild Wing Cafe Kaleb King, Bill Hodgson, 9 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Clear Daze The Wormhole Lowcountry Oscillations Midnight Dance Party, 11:59 p.m.

Trivia & Games

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

Karaoke

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m. Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m. The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/ DJ, 10:30 p.m.

Comedy The Wormhole Dead Comic Show, 8 p.m.

DJ

Club 309 West DJ Zay Cocktail Co. Cocktails & Beats, 10 p.m. Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge DJ D Frost, 9:30 p.m.3 a.m. Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m. Tree House DJ Phive Star

Bar & Club Events

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m. Carnival Bar Theatre Femme Fatales of Factors Walk, 10 p.m. Club One Drag Show

Saturday 10.29 Live Music

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m. American Legion, Post 135 Halloween Ball, 8 p.m. Barrelhouse South Stop Light Observations, Mo Lowda & The Humble Basil’s Pizza and Deli The Skiples, 7:30 p.m. Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, Magic Rocks, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Blueberry Hill Halloween Costume Contest w/ Mixed Groove Casimir’s Lounge Jackson Evans Trio, 9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club The Train Wrecks, 10:30 p.m.

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Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Coteries, 9 p.m., Folk Rock Band, The Coteries, Plays Jazz’d Tapas, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. The Jinx Blood Wrestling Competition w/ Creepoid and Darsombra Jukebox Bar & Grill Outlaw Gypsy and Halloween Party, Monster Mash Halloween Bash w/ Outlaw Gypsy, 9 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Daniel Marshall, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’sJon Lee’s Apparitions, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s (Pooler) Guns 4 Hire, 9 p.m. The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m. Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Live Music, Rock-ALicious, 8 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company Blues & Brews, 7-10 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Hallowing w/ Liquid Ginger, 8:30 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Hallowing w/ Nickel Bag of Funk The Wormhole Amigo, Sinners and Saints, 9 p.m.

Karaoke

Applebee’s Karaoke, 10 p.m. Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m. Doodles Karaoke Thursday & Saturdays, 9 p.m. The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m. Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Karaoke, 8 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

DJ

Cocktail Co. Cocktails & Beats, 10 p.m. Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m. Tree House DJ Phive Star

Bar & Club Events

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs: Femme Fatales of Factors Walk, 9 & 11 p.m. Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Fright Night, 9 p.m. The Rail Pub A Nightmare on Congress Street Halloween Bar Crawl, 4-11 p.m.

Sunday 10.30 Live Music

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m. Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) Equinox Trio Jazz Brunch, 11:30 a.m. Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner, 7 p.m. Non-Fiction Gallery Concert: John Burke, 7:30 p.m. The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson Ruth’s Chris Steak House Harvest Brunch with Kristin King, Jackson Evans, Mandy Madson, and Hannah Buchman Tybee Island Social Club Bluegrass Brunch, 12:30 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon

Trivia & Games

Lulu’s Chocolate Bar Sunday Afternoon Trivia, 3 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

Karaoke

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

DJ

Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Monday 10.31 Live Music

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic with Craig Tanner and Mr. Williams, 9 p.m. Barrelhouse South Little Bird, See Water Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m. Cocktail Co. Monday Night Live, 8 p.m. The Jinx Halloween Cover Band Night #2 Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Wormhole Halloween Party w/ The Independents, 9 p.m., Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Trivia & Games

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Team Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Britannia British Pub Bingo, 8 p.m. McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo

Karaoke

Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

DJ

The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

Tuesday 11. 1 Live Music

Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Thea, piano/vocals, 6 p.m. The Jinx Hip-Hop Night, 11 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Georgia Kyle, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic, 9 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Open Mic Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay, 5 p.m. The Wormhole Mitchell & Friends Acoustic Happy Hour, 6 p.m.

912-236-7122 17hundred90.com

Abe’s on Lincoln 17 Lincoln St. Savannah-Downtown 912-349-0525 abesonlincoln.com

American Legion, Post 135 1108 Bull St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-9277 www.alpost135.com/

Basil’s Pizza and Deli 216 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Wilmington Island

Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) 1 Resort Dr. Savannah-Downtown

Bay Street Blues 17 E. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown

912-201-2085 aquastarrestaurant.com

Barrelhouse South 125 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-662-5576 barrelhousesouth.com

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Trivia & Games

Applebee’s 1492 E. Oglethorpe Hwy. Hinesville 912-369-4909 applebees.com

FRI. OCT 28 NAUGHTY PROFESSOR BBXF

The Chromatic Dragon Board Game Night, 6 p.m. Coach’s Corner Trivia, 8 p.m. CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia, 7 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Trivia, 10 p.m. Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia, 7:30-10 p.m. Mediterranean Tavern Battle of The Sexes Game, 9-10 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m. Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Trivia, 9 p.m. The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

soundboard dIRECTORY 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant 307 E. President St. Savannah-Downtown

THU. OCT 27 FUNK YOU CBDB

912-897-6400 basilsonline.com

912-236-6655

Bayou Cafe 14 N. Abercorn St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-6411 bayousavannah.com

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s 20 E. Perry St. Savannah-Downtown

912-231-9049 billysplacesavannah.com

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina 1611 Habersham St. Savannah-Midtown 912-231-2385 blowinsmokesavannah.com

Blueberry Hill 546 Dean Forest Rd. Savannah-Westside 964-8401

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Savannah’s Only 8 0’s & 90’s Themed Bar! 107 B Whitaker St • 912.495.5945

Happy Halloween! Daily Happy Hour 5-8pm

$2.50 Wine/$2.50 Dom. Beer/$3 Wells

6 Pool Tables! Arcade Games! Pinball! Skeeball! weird wednesdays open mic comedy 9-11pm

soundboard directory Boomy’s 409 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-436-6660 boomysbar.com

The Britannia British Pub 140 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Wilmington Island 912-898-4257

Carnival Bar Theatre 306 West Factors Walk Savannah-Downtown Casimir’s Lounge 700 Drayton St. Savannah-Midtown

912-721-5002 mansiononforsythpark.com

The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd. Savannah-Downtown 912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

Chuck’s Bar 305 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-1005

Club 309 West 309 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-1901 club309west.com

Club Elan 301 Williamson St. Savannah-Downtown Club One 1 Jefferson St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

Coach’s Corner 3016 E. Victory Dr. Savannah-Eastside 912-352-2933 coachs.net

Cocktail Co. 10 Whitaker St. Savannah-Downtown

912-236-6144 savannahcocktailco.com

CoCo’s Sunset Grille 1 Old U.S. Hwy. 80 Tybee Island

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912-786-7810 cocostybee.com

coffee deli 4517 Habersham St. Savannah-Midtown

912-352-7818 savannahcoffeedeli.com

Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-238-1985 congressstreetsocialclub.com

Dollhouse Productions 980 Industry Dr. Savannah-Westside 917- 582-1903 dollhouse-productions.tumblr. com/

Doodles 586 S. Columbia Ave. Rincon 912-295-2536

Doubles Nightclub 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah-Southside 912-352-7100

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Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown (912) 200-3652 dubspubriverstreet.com

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El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-5808

Fannie’s on the Beach 1613 Strand Ave. Tybee Island 912-786-6109 fanniesonthebeach.com

Fia Rua Irish Pub 10132 Ford Ave. Richmond Hill 912-459-4160 fiaruairishpub.com

Fiore Italian Bar and Grill 7360 Skidaway Rd. Isle of Hope 912-349-2609 fioreitalianbarandgrill.com

Five Oaks Taproom 201 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-4440 fiveoakstaproom.com

Flashback 10010-B Ford Ave. Richmond Hill 912-428-1643

Foxy Loxy Cafe 1919 Bull St. Savannah-Downtown 912-401-0543 foxyloxycafe.com

Hercules Bar & Grill 2500 Dean Forest Rd. Savannah-Westside 912-966-5790

The Islander 301 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Wilmington Island 912-897-6137

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-0705 mellowmushroom.com

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina 2518 Hwy 17 Richmond Hill 912-459-6357 melscoastalcafe.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub 311 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-239-9600 macphersonspub.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) 110 Towne Center Dr. Pooler 912-348-3200 macphersonspub.com

Non-Fiction Gallery 1522 Bull St. Savannah-Downtown 912-376-9953

The Olde Pink House 23 Abercorn St. Savannah-Downtown

912-232-4286 www.plantersinnsavannah.com

Pour Larry’s 206 W. St. Julian St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-5778

Rachael’s 1190 1190 King George Blvd. Savannah-Southside 912-920-7772 rachaels1190.com

Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St. Savannah-Downtown

The Rail Pub 405 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown

The Jinx 127 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant 402 MLK Jr. Blvd. Savannah-Downtown

912-236-7777 www.jazzdsavannah.com

912-236-2281

Jukebox Bar & Grill 3741 US Hwy 17 Ste 500 Richmond Hill 912-756-6997

Little Lucky’s 6 Gateway Blvd. E. Savannah-Southside 912-925-1119

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-341-8897

Lulu’s Chocolate Bar 42 MLK, Jr. Blvd. Savannah-Downtown 912-480-4564 luluschocolatebar.com

Mansion on Forsyth Park 700 Drayton St. Savannah-Downtown

912-238-5158 mansiononforsythpark.com

McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St. Savannah-Downtown

912-233-6136 mcdonoughssavannah.com

Mediterranean Tavern 125 Foxfield Way Pooler 912-988-1052

912-238-1311 therailpub.com/

912-292-1656 ranchoalegrecuban.com

Randy Wood Guitars 1304 East Hwy. 80 Savannah-Westside

912-748-1930 www.randywoodguitars.com

Rocks on the Roof 102 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown

912-721-3901 bohemianhotelsavannah.com

Rusty Rudders Tap House 303 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-944-6302

Ruth’s Chris Steak House 111 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-721-4800 ruthschris.com

The Sandbar 1512 Butler Ave. Tybee Island 912-786-8304

Savannah Taphouse 125 E. Broughton St. Savannah-Downtown 912-201-8277 savannahtaphouse.com

Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill 65 Fairmont Ave. Savannah-Southside

SEED Eco Lounge 39 Montgomery St. Savannah-Downtown

912-349-5100

Southbound Brewing Company 107 East Lathrop Ave. Savannah-Westside Sunny’s Lounge 5630 Ogeechee Rd. Savannah-Southside 912-234-6628

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill 11215 Abercorn St. Savannah-Southside 912-921-2269

Tijuana Flats 1800 E. Victory Dr. Savannah-Midtown 912-344-9111 tijuanaflats.com

Totally Awesome Bar 107 B Whitaker St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-5945

Tree House 309 W. St. Julian St. Savannah-Downtown

912-239-0095 treehousesavannah.com

Tybee Island Social Club 1311 Butler Ave. Tybee Island

912-472-4044 tybeeislandsocialclub.com

Vic’s on The River 26 E. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-721-1000 vicsontheriver.com

The Warehouse 18 E. River St. Savannah-Downtown

912-234-6003 thewarehousebarandgrille.com

Wet Willie’s 101 E. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-5650 wetwillies.com

Wild Wing Cafe 27 Barnard St. Savannah-Downtown 912-790-9464 wildwingcafe.com

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) 417 Pooler Pkwy. Pooler 912-208-3700 wildwingcafe.com

World of Beer 112 W. Broughton St. Savannah-Downtown 912-443-1515 worldofbeer.com

The Wormhole 2307 Bull St. Savannah-Midtown 912-713-2855 wormholebar.com

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Rocky Horror Show:

‘Virgins’ are welcome Bay Street Theatre reprises its annual homage to the kitsch cult classic

the few shows where you can scream the lines along with the actors without fear of rachel@connectsavannah.com being shouted at. “We do encourage anybody who GETTING IN the Halloween spirit is as easy knows the callbacks to chime in, and as a jump to the left. some props, like the newspaper,” says The Rocky Horror Show – the theatrical Lavelle, referring to the scene where Brad adaptation of the cult movie classic -- of and Janet run to the mansion in the rain, course follows Brad and Janet, a young clutching newspaper above their heads. engaged couple who end up at the house of “We just don’t encourage people to Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite who’s throw things at the actors because it can be created a man to keep him company, along hazardous! Sometimes people don’t even with the rest of his funky crew. think about where something was going to While there’s only one midnight showland—it can hit people in the face.” time at the Bay Street Theatre this year, Some of the more popular props include early Halloween morning, the earlier buttered toast and rice to throw at the shows preserve the excitement. actors, so leave those at home. Valerie Lavelle is in her second year If you read that sentence wondering of directing the production, and she’s no where in the movie buttered toast would stranger to the Rocky Horror world. be thrown, you’re a Virgin to the live show“I’ve played the narrator, Janet, Riff ings, and to designate yourself as such, Raff, I’ve been in the ensemble—that might draw a red V on your forehead when you go. be it,” she laughs. Don’t be embarrassed about your inex“My favorite character that I got to play perience—Lavelle shares that some prowas Janet, because I didn’t think I was ductions attract up to 30 virgins who wear going to enjoy it as much, but it was really a the V with pride. lot of fun,” she shares. “You can do a whole “We do encourage people to come range of fun stuff.” dressed up as well, as characters for the Lavelle put out an open casting call for movie or just for Halloween weekend,” she any interested actors and took care to notes, so don’t expect a drab crowd. schedule auditions after SCAD students Though doing the same show every year came back to school, ensuring a diverse seems repetitive, Lavelle reassures that and exciting cast. This year’s cast ranges the production is anything but standard. from rookies to vets of the theatre scene. “Since the Bay Street Theatre does a dif“We only have one person who’s playferent director every year, they each bring ing the same role as they have before,” she in their own ideas of how they want to see notes. the show, how it looks,” she explains. The live showings thrive on campiness “We don’t do the same exact kind of and audience interactivity, so this is one of show every year—there’s always a different

look. The people you cast also bring a different feel. I wanted to see a lot more colors in the show this year. I

laughs. “You can’t think about the plot too much. The music is so much fun, and I think

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wanted Brad and Janet to be more drab and have everybody else come in and bring the color.” Sean Loose, the graphic designer for the Lucas, designed the poster for the show, and Lavelle instantly fell in love. “When I saw it, I was like, ‘That’s it! Somehow that’s our background.’ I said to Travis [Coles, producer], ‘You figure that out,’” she laughs. If there’s any advice Lavelle gives to audience members, new or returning, it’s to enjoy the production at face value. “Just come in with an open mind—don’t overthink it, because there’s no plot,” she

when people got together and started collectively saying, ‘This show is ridiculous, let’s have fun with it,’ it kind of grew and you can’t necessarily put a finger on it.” cs Bay Street Theatre presents The Rocky Horror Show plays at Club One October 27-29 at 7:30 p.m., ages 21 and up; October 30, 7:30 p.m., all ages, and midnight, 21 and up; and October 31, 7:30 p.m., 21 and up. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $25 for a table. For tickets, visit clubone-online.com.

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Left, DeAmon Hodges is the resident ‘Roving Listener’ of Indianapolis

The Roving Listeners are coming! Listening with intention is the goal of neighborhood and community-building effort By Kayla Goggin

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HOW DO you improve your community? Does it start with a complaint? Do you post fliers and corral your neighbors together for a meeting? Do you sit in silent discomfort until somebody else utters the rallying cry? The local activists behind Emergent Savannah and their community partners Step Up Savannah and Chatham Savannah Citizen Advocacy have a different proposal: Start by listening. To help residents learn the art of listening with intention (the intention being to better understand the social and cultural assets around you), Emergent has brought in DeAmon Harges, Indianapolis’s resident “Roving Listener.”

In his community, Harges’ role is to listen to citizens, find out what their passions, dreams and gifts are, and then find ways to utilize them in order to build the community and its economy. Starting on Thursday, October 27 until Saturday, October 29, Harges and two other Roving Listeners from Indianapolis (Wyldstyle and Ag) will join eight Savannah residents in leading six walking tours through six of the city’s eastside neighborhoods. Walks will be held in Twickenham, Live Oak, Gordonston, Avondale, on Waters Avenue and on Pennsylvania Avenue. Here’s how it’s going to work: You show up for a walk; Other people join in; You follow your Roving Listener and resident tour guide down the street; You listen to the activity on the street and watch what’s happening.

If you’re wondering how that experience translates into an understanding of the community’s assets, just cast your mind back to the recent aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Neighbors saw opportunities to help one another, so they did. Local businesses knew others were in need of electricity, so they organized charging stations. People saw needs, so they fulfilled them without expectation of anything in return. “Our goal is to harness that laser focus that people had after the hurricane in making sure that their community’s needs were met, that people were okay and that people were sharing resources” Courtnay Papy, Lead Organizer for Emergent Savannah, says. “Our goal is to always harness that in whatever capacity we can. This walk is a way to do that on a really micro level.” Isn’t that the kind of community we all want to live in all the time? “My whole thing is, I have no mercy for dream-killers and I have no mercy for people who want to tell me what’s wrong with Savannah,” Papy continued. “I think everyone in Savannah is very cognizant of the issues that we face–and we face a whole lot of issues. Savannah is not an easy place to live… I think we think of ourselves as not having a lot or not having enough or not having the things we need, and that’s true but we also have so much within each other and within our communities,” she says. The Roving Listener program aims to put people at the forefront and to shift the way neighbors relate to each other, focusing on the value of connection and the exchanges that happen within relationships as a new kind of social currency. In fact, this strategy has a name: assetbased community development (ABCD). The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (an organization which

Harges actively works under), describes the strategy on its website, explaining, “ABCD builds on the assets that are already found in the community and mobilizes individuals, associations, and institutions to come together to build on their assets–not concentrate on their needs… Identified assets from an individual are matched with people or groups who have an interest or need in that asset. The key is to begin to use what is already in the community.” When implemented, this strategy not only helps people in individual neighborhoods get help where they need it, it turns neighbors into allies. Communities that understand themselves, their needs and their assets have stronger voices in the fight against unwanted change. Raine Blunk, one of the residents leading a Roving Listener walk, emphasized the intense importance of that neighborhood bond. “As neighborhoods East of Bull Street continue to develop around Starland coupled with a revived interest in Waters Avenue and the Victory/Bee area, I hope that these walks will unite neighborhoods on a grassroots level to stand up for their community assets and long-standing culture regardless of pressure to “clean up”, assimilate or gentrify community and business areas,” they said. For others, it’s simply an opportunity to get to know their community better. “I’ve lived in my neighborhood all my life and I only know a few people. That’s a glaring irony to me,” Liz Rhaney, another walk leader, told me. Regardless of individual motivations, the Roving Listener program is a chance to change our local vocabulary. Through the art of listening with care and intention, maybe we can begin to see the things we label “problems” as something different: opportunities to become stronger together. cs

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peaceable kingdom savannah — Savannah’s squares as you’ve never seen them, in work by Chris Roberts. One-day only event Oct. 27 8-10 p.m. at Holmen Hall, 3 W. Liberty St. A Mile in My Shoes — Lisa Rosenmeier paints portraits of runners expressed through their shoes. Nov. 1-29. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Oksana Gruszka Harmouche — Harmouche paints in watercolors and oils. Nov. 1-30. JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Paint Out Savannah Plein Air Competition — The Savannah Art Association hosts this plein air painting competition. Sat., Oct. 29, 7 a.m.-noon. Chippewa Square. Gallery Espresso Pop Up Show— Work by Ronit Holtz from her series “Spiritual Expressionism” featuring select paintings and mixed media. Exhibition runs October 17-31at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Phytophilous: An Exploration of Land Plants Through Line and Value — This exhibit by Nea Hanna will comprise of a collection of illustrations, paintings and drawings in black and white. Oct. 31-Nov. 30. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Scribble Art Studio: Terrariums — Painted, sewn and hand-constructed, this year’s art show celebrates the mini wonders of terrarium art. Opening reception Nov. 4, 6pm. Oct. 31-Nov. 27. com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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Historic Cottons to Modern Polyesters: Quilts from Telfair’s Collection — Made from the rarest silks to the simplest cottons, corduroys, wools and modern polyesters, Telfair Museums’ collection of quilts are presented in Historic Cottons to Modern Polyesters. Through Nov. 6. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

Continuing Exhibits Arimatsu to Africa & Indigo and Beyond — Colorful textiles created with indigo dyes will be explored in two exhibitions. “Arimatsu to Africa: Shibori Trade, Techniques and Patterns” and “Indigo and Beyond” will display works of historical importance, style and trends and show how natural dyes and traditional Japanese dyeing techniques played a role in history and agriculture. Through Oct. 28. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St.

Jennifer Levonian: Shake Out Your Cloth — Jennifer Levonian’s work transforms the fabric of the everyday into the fantastical—or at the very least, the hilarious. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Now —New works by longtime Savannah artist, Julia Christian. Through Nov. 4. Location Gallery, 417 Whitaker St.

Black and White: Printwork by Tori Last chance to see work by Ronit Holtz at Gallery Espresso Point, Strawberry Moth and Paper Revolution to World War II, the paintings in Jam Press — Toni Point is a Mississippi based artist who com- this exhibition demonstrate the broad range of American portraiture found in Telfair’s bines her love of a modern and minimalist aesthetic with interesting patterns and tribal permanent collection. Telfair Academy of influences. Strawberry Moth is the brainchild Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. of Jessica Duthu, an illustrator in Savannah inspiring youth and imagination for kids of all Gestalt: An Installation by Chris Nitsche — Through early January, Ships of ages through hand-printed clothing and acthe Sea Maritime Museum will be presenting cessories. Through Oct. 30. Foxy Loxy Cafe, a large interactive installation by local artist 1919 Bull St. and SCAD professor Chris Nitsche, and a selection of his preliminary sketches will be on Face to Face: American Portraits display in the Museum atrium. Ships of The from the Permanent Collection Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. — Spanning the period from the American

One Hundred Years of Harmony: Paintings by Gari Melchers — Artist Gary Melchers played an invaluable role in shaping the collection Telfair Museums as fine arts advisor from 1906 to 1916. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Robert Moran Isley — Robert Moran Isley is best known for his out-doors (plein-air) pieces, but all his paintings display a similar loose brushstroke. Through Dec. 31. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.Bull St. The Tsars’ Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs — Spanning 200 years of Russian history—from Peter the Great in the early 18th century to Nicholas II in the early 20th century—these objects, used both publicly and privately by the Romanovs, rise above functionality into the realm of art. Through Jan. 6, 2017. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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Pirate Fest: It’s on after all!

Event rescheduled after Hurricane Matthew

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IT’S AN election year, so anything is possible. The usual: Johnnie Depp lookalikes and a goat named Josephine. The unusual: time-traveling Scotsmen and cucumber sake. But don’t expect Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to don an eyepatch and stagger their way down the Strand this weekend. “That would be the thing I’ve never seen at Pirate Fest: politics,” says organizer Jenny Orr, who’s been involved in some fashion with the annual Tybee gathering since its inception 12 years ago. “The thing about pirates: They only care about the beer, the rum, and the show.” There will be plenty of that to go around at the rescheduled Tybee Pirate Fest after the petting zoo packs up. Speaking of the petting zoo: Josephine, Orr’s miniature goat, was actually born there six years ago, the day before the festival opened, and has been participating in the pirate pet costume contest ever since (there’s one Saturday for human kids, too). “Everyone’s got a crazy story about it,” Orr recalls. “I’ve seen pigs, a lady who every year dresses up her big yellow lab.” Hurricane Matthew forced the rescheduling of the Pirate Fest from its previously planned weekend coinciding with the storm’s arrival. Thanks largely to Herculean efforts by local volunteers, the Fest will go on more or less as planned, with a few tweaks. For example, the famous Buccaneer’s Ball survived Matthew, but it has been rescheduled to Sunday night, rather than kicking off the Fest as originally planned. Last year’s Pirate Fest saw a sea change in adding a $5 wristband zone for alcohol consumption (think Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration), and that practice will continue this weekend. ‘ With 1,900 wristbands sold in 2015 versus just one arrest reported by Tybee police in the festival’s four-day period, Orr explains, “The wristband sales did a lot to offset the cleanup and security costs. We do an 80-20 split with the city, so the festival took in well over $7,000 to help out.” Things kick off Thursday at 5 p.m. with “Happy Arrrr!” (get it?) at CoCo’s Sunset Grille, featuring Pyrat Punch.

The Forecast: Jack Sparrows with a 90 percent chance of Bawdy Wenches.

Here’s a new twist for the whole family: Pirate Fest’s usual carnival featuring a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, bounce house and slides is moving just outside of the festival zone this year so parents who want to take their kids to those rides don’t have to Luckily, Grammy-winning blues artist pay full admission to the festival. Delbert McClinton, scheduled to head“We felt like moving it outside the festiline the original date, is able to make the val area would make it more fun and accesrescheduled Festival. sible,” says Orr, noting most rides will run He will be on the stage Saturday night a in the $3 to $5 range. little after 9 p.m., followed by a fireworks “This is my favorite event for the island, show about 11:30 a.m. the best time to come to Tybee,” Orr adds. If you’re looking for more than beer and “No one’s sat on the beach all day and is rum, the Pirate Fest drink menu will be walking around with sand in their pants, or “a little more sophisticated this year,” Orr had too many cold ones in the sun. Everypromises. one’s just so friendly and well-behaved.” Australia-based Yellow Tail will have a That being said: “I don’t think I’ve ever wine tent (we assume the wine will come been shocked by anything I’ve seen,” she from bottles, not barrels), and there will be says. “It’s amazing how many people, a variety of sake cocktails to try: cucumadults, come dressed to the nines as pirates ber and Bloody Mary mix, coconut and for three days straight. I hope we only see pineapple. pirates like Anne Bonny or Johnnie Depp, Pirates, after all, are world travelers, and though. Let’s keep the politics out of it.” some of them have exotic tastes. Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, maybe? cs

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The Pirate Fest was rescheduled due to Hurricane Matthew. This is an updated version of a story which appeared in that week’s print edition. Thu. Oct. 27 5 pm-until: Happy Arrrr! at CoCo’s Sunset Grille Fri. Oct. 28 5-11pm Sat. Oct. 29 11am-11pm, parade 3pm, Delbert McClinton 9:15pm, fireworks 11:30pm Sun. Oct. 30: Buccaneer Ball at Crab Shack 6-10pm $12, Saturday Pass: $15, Weekend Pass: $25 at door, Sunday: Free Kids 12 and under free For more info, visit tybeepiratefest.com. All existing ticket holders will be honored.

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Ina Kuller (l.) shows Tobi Hollenberg her blintzefolding technique as Leslie and Alan Seidman fill the trays. Photo by jon waits/@jwaitsphoto

‘Food is the way we nurture’

Noshes and naches at the Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival by Jessica Leigh Lebos

OCT 26-NOV 1, 2016

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When I was 5, I begged my bubbe to show me how to make blintzes. I loved and looked forward to the pillowy treats stuffed with sweet cheese and smothered with jam and sour cream, but they never seemed to be around very often. While the other neighbor kids went wild for the ice cream man, I went around looking for Jewish grandmothers with extras. My Jewish grandmother always seemed to prefer reading to cooking, but that didn’t stop me from being a noodge. “I don’t know, it’s very difficult,” she said, putting down her book. “And don’t give me that sad punim.” I kept pestering her, and a few mornings later she woke me up before dawn, the kitchen counter piled with ingredients. We spent the next hours measuring and mixing, her calling orders as I fetched cookie sheets and spoons and bowl after bowl that she filled with sugar and cream cheese and lemon zest and vanilla. I tried to imitate the way she folded the thin pancake around the filling, slowing rolling it up into a lopsided package. Finally, as the sun climbed into the sky, she pulled the lumpy cushions from the oven and placed a plate in front of me. They were kind of rubbery, and the only thing we had to top them with was a half empty jar of mint jelly. I ate half the pan anyway.

“Good, I’m glad you like them,” said my bubbe, settling back into her favorite chair. “Because I’m exhausted.” It wasn’t until I was a grown-up that I realized blintzes aren’t necessarily that complicated and don’t need to be made in the middle of the night, it’s just that my bubbe had terrible arthritis and was a raging insomniac. She passed years ago without making them again, and I never got her recipe. Fortunately, there’s a whole mishpocheh of other blintze-making bubbes (and zaydes!) preparing for the Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival, taking place this Sunday, Oct. 30 in Forsyth Park. Organized and produced by Congregation Mickve Israel on Monterey Square, this yearly nosh-fest invites all of Savannah to fress (loosely translated as “stuff yer punim”) on all kinds of traditional Jewish dishes. Volunteers gather in the synagogue kitchen for weeks beforehand, baking loaves of soft challah, stuffing cabbage, packing matzah balls, and assembling trays of hummus and pita. It’s no accident that I showed up the day they were making my favorite comfort food. “Everybody has a blintze story,” agreed Ina Kuller as she dolloped ready-made pancakes with sweet ricotta cream mixture last week. “I remember watching my grandmother make them. Hers were potato, and she used to deep fry them.”

Kuller’s bubbe grew up in Manhattan but likely got the recipe from her granny, who lived in the Pale of Settlement, that war torn strip of Eastern Europe that was sometimes Germany, sometimes Russia, from where millions of persecuted Jews emigrated from in the 19th century. Perennial volunteer and former CMI president Tobi Hollenberg’s story is a little different, but no less cherished. “I grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey, the home of Golden Blintzes,” says Hollenberg, referring to the factory that ships their perfect pillows to grocery store freezer aisles around the nation. “I was always excited to see our town on the box.” Boxed blintzes taste mighty fine, but it’s always a joy to know they’re made by loving hands right here at home, along with the other homemade sweets at the Shalom Y’all Food Fest: Cinnamon-sprinkled rugelach, noodle kugel with plump raisins, honeycakes—there’s enough Jewish grandmothering to go around for everyone. Of course, savories are on the menu, too, including sizzling lamb in pita bread, hot potato latkes made on the spot, chicken liver paté and pastrami sandwiches piled as high as your head. It all pairs tremendously well with a Dr. Brown’s cream soda or a He’Brew beer and is available to take away or enjoyed in the park as the Savannah Philharmonic performs lively selections from the pantheon of Jewish composers. (A little Gershwin, anyone?)

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Established in 1733, Congregation Mickve Israel is as old as the city itself, and the food fest remains a vital link between the historic synagogue and Savannah’s greater good. “Our goal is to collaborate and be part of the community through food,” says Rich, adding that feeding ourselves and others is a practice not limited to the Jewish community. “Food is the way we nurture.” As I remember my bubbe setting aside her aches and pains to indulge my childhood hankering, I feel the truth of those words in my heart. But when I’m fressing over a plate of perfectly folded blintzes piled with sour cream and strawberry jam on Sunday, I’ll be just a teeny bit relieved somebody else made them. cs

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The popularity of the Shalom Y’all food fest brings plenty of naches, which has nothing to do with a Yiddish version of salsa and tortilla chips. To “shep naches” means to take pride, and an expected attendance of more than 10,000—one of Savannah’s largest gatherings—is nothing to sneeze at. Funds raised go directly towards programming, including the Backpack Buddies project that sends more than 100 local kids home with food every weekend as well as interfaith activities like the community Thanksgiving on Nov. 22. Also benefitting is the Second Harvest Food Bank, which will have collection points throughout the festival and will receive a portion of the day’s proceeds. As the festival enters its 28th year, it’s always a challenge to wrangle 300-plus volunteers and tens of thousands of food items as one generation hands off organizational protocol to the next. “We strive to stay consistent, but we’ve also evolved,” says Jennifer Rich, CMI’s executive director. “I think we’ve developed good cooperation between staff and volunteers to continue the festival for many years to come.”

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THE HISTORY of Belgian beer parallels that of its German neighbors. Rich in land that produced the ingredients necessary for brewing, Belgium was home to numerous breweries and preferred the drink to wine. Beer was further ensconced in Belgium with the arrival of Christianity and monks who began brewing to financially support their monasteries. Today these “monk beers” are often strongly associated with Belgian beer though Belgian beer, as in any country, has no limits. First, some terminology connected to many of the Belgian beers you’ll see on local shelves. Trappist beers are often considered to be synonymous with Belgian beer. The title of Trappist beer denotes a place of origin and is reserved for production houses that must meet a strict set of guidelines. Trappists are a branch of the cloistered Catholic Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance. The original home of the Order was La Trappe Abbey located in Normandy, France and yields the Trappist name. The rules the Trappist breweries must follow are three fold. The beer must be produced in a monastery, the monks must play a role in the brewing process and the sales of the beer must support the monastery or its social programs. Only ten breweries meet this set of standards. Six of them are in Belgium. The other four are in the U.S., Austria and two are in the Netherlands. There are no restrictions on what type of beers are produced, though there are some historical considerations we’ll touch on below. Abbey beers are sometimes confused with Trappist beers but are distinctly different. Abbey beers come in two designations, certified Abbey or not. Certified abbey beers can be produced by a non-Trappist monastery or a monastery that licenses to a commercial brewery to produce their beers, though the monks still need to be part of the brewing process. This certification has some the same financial restrictions as the Trappist breweries. Non-certified abbey ales can be everything: monasteries that cannot or don’t want to meet the restrictions of certification or even breweries who have no religious affiliations but market by putting a monk on the label. Trappist and abbey breweries can produce any type of beer but there are three

Beer was ensconced in Belgium with monks who began brewing to support monasteries.

“...the monks must play a role in the brewing process and the sales of the beer must support the monastery or its social programs.”

In fact tripels tend to have balanced palate compared to dubbels though yeast flavors like banana, can be left to shine through. Another distinguishing factor is the carbonation, tripels are often highly carbonated compared to other beers. Quadrupel/Abt: Quads and Abt’s are similar in flavor. The distinguishing characteristic is the color, Abts are darker, quads tend toward the lighter range. Like dubbels, hop presence in both is minimal with malt and dark fruits being the strongest of the flavors. Quads tend to be richer and bolder than dubbels and the alcohol content is greater in ABV (usually over 10%) and is far more prominent in the flavor. styles that they are most often associated Some of Belgium’s best beers and styles with; dubbel, tripel, and quads. Each has deserve their own column so we’ll talk its distinctive qualities to look for. The names imply that these styles grow about lambics and other Belgian style off of each other, and there was once a beer beers later but here are a few of the best dubbels, tripels and quads to tide you over referred to as a single but it is no longer marketed that way, but that is not entirely until then. Orval Dubbel: Orval’s dubbel scores a accurate. The numbering system may refer to how 99 on Rate beer, high praise for any beer. Fresh with a slightly fruity sour taste like much malt was used in brewing but some a good strawberry. This dubbel is a great refute that theory. The answer to where place to start in your journey through Belthese designations came from is probably lost to history but may have to do with the gian beers. Westmalle Tripel: A bright golden overall strength, read ABV, of each of the color, honey and apricot are flavors that styles. will shine in Westmalle’s tripel. Dubbel: Dubbels can be expected to LaTrappe Quadrupel: LaTrappes verhave a strong malt backbone. The malt can express itself in a range of flavors from sion still has a strong malt forward flavor but has a stronger hop profile to make it toast to chocolate or a nutty flavor. Dark fruit; raisin, fig, plum and cherry are com- distinctly different from most of the other mon flavors as is some spice. Hops provide Belgian quads on market. Westvleteren XII is considered by many an overall bitterness but no strong hop flavors. Dubbels tend to be in the amber to to be the best beer in the world. It’s incredbrown color range and often have brown or ibly difficult to obtain as it is released at the brewery in limited quantities just once bruin in the name. Tripel: Tripels tend to be slightly stron- a year but St. Bernardus ABT 12 is supposed to be brewed using the same recipe ger than dubbels, 7-10% ABV to the dubas “Westy 12.” Dark fruits and vanilla will bels 6-7%, and the differences don’t end be the dominant flavors flavors in ABT 12. there. Triples are much lighter in color than dubbels and rely less on malt flavors.

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Tom Cruise doesn’t like being disturbed while on the phone in Jack Reacher Never Go Back.

JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

/ It’s a shame Popstar arrived in theaters first, because a better name for Jack Reacher: Never Go Back would have been Jack Reacher: Never Stop Never Stopping. Here’s Tom Cruise once again showing he has no intention of issuing a cease-anddesist on properties that present him in the absolute best light possible: saintly, heroic, indestructible, and able to leap cavernous plotholes in a single bound. Here’s the thing about 2012’s Jack Reacher, the first picture based on one of Lee Child’s popular novels: While it made “only” $80 million stateside (pocket change for a superstar whose films usually cross the $100 million line), it was actually a good fit for Cruise, allowing him to play his strong and silent routine in the service of a twisty and gripping thriller populated with interesting characters and even more interesting casting choices (Werner Herzog as the villain!). But all such viewing niceties have fallen by the wayside for this dreary sequel, which seems to exist for the sole purpose of serving as a vanity project for its aging star (who also produced). The first film featured the sweet line-up of Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyewolo and Robert Duvall – clearly, that was too much A-list talent taking the spotlight away from Cruise, so this one only offers that actress who pops up in Marvel movies now and then. Said actress, Colbie Smulders, is the one whose character gets the narrative ball rolling for Reacher, as she’s framed

for espionage and wrongly imprisoned. No problem for our hero, who finds that breaking her out of jail is no more difficult than flipping a light switch and proceeds to do so in about the same amount of time it takes the rest of us to comb our hair. Now on the run, the pair are accompanied by a teenage girl (Danika Yarosh) who may or may not be Reacher’s daughter from a long-ago tryst. JR:NGB manages to be both ludicrous and lethargic, always a deadly one-two punch. The principal villains (a government official and a skilled assassin) are both so nondescript that I honestly wouldn’t be able to pick the actors playing them out of a police lineup. Even Cruise seems bored, going through the sort of mechanical, megalomaniacal moves that thankfully haven’t yet crippled the sturdy Mission: Impossible franchise. If he doesn’t care about this project, why should we?

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// So is the new comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses unwatchable because it cruelly wastes the efforts of a solid cast, or is it watchable because a solid cast blessedly saves it from itself? That’s the question du jour when it comes to a picture graced with four bright performances but hampered by a plot that felt recycled even back when Millard Fillmore was president. Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher play the Gaffneys (Jeff and Karen), the sort of suburban caricatures whose lives are so

dull, they decide having sex is too much effort (even when the kids are away at camp) and opt instead to watch TV. Jon Hamm and the Amazonian Gal Gadot play the Joneses (Tim and Natalie), the sort of suave, gorgeous creatures who move into the neighborhood and immediately stick out like a carrot in a bowl of ice cream. Jeff accepts the newcomers at face value, but Karen has her growing suspicions, particularly when she sees the couple surreptitiously sneaking out of the cul-de-sac at odd hours. Eventually, it’s revealed that the Joneses are spies, but are they on the side of right or wrong? As far as viewers are concerned, that’s a no-brainer, and the plot proceeds with the usual boilerplate about someone wanting to stop someone else who’s wanting to acquire something that threatens the country/the world/the stock market/the Applebee’s special/what-have-you. The script by Michael LeSieur (whose previous credit, You, Me and Dupree, earned my vote as the worst picture of 2006) never ventures outside of any known comfort zones, but that’s not to say the actors don’t work wonders within it. Gadot is appropriately silky and sinewy, Fisher again proves her worth as a firstrate (and underrated) comedienne with her contagious effervescence, Galifianakis continues to become less annoying and more likable with each subsequent turn (this might be his best role to date), and Hamm again reveals the prankster’s soul buried underneath the matinee-idol looks.

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As the cherry on top, the villain of the piece is played by a stand-up comic who really should be getting more film work, and he contributes a few expertly executed zingers. Even with that cast, I can’t quite recommend anyone spending movie-theater prices to keep up with these Joneses. But as a Netflix rental down the line? That’s the ticket.

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// Smart movies tend to offer intriguing setups, unique central characters, and tantalizing plot pirouettes. By those standards, The Accountant is a smart movie. But smart movies also tend to avoid offering obvious patterns, imbecilic narrative coincidences, and imploding third acts.

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Unfortunately, The Accountant isn’t that smart. Ben Affleck, the strong and silent type when it comes to performances, scores again in this vein as Chris Wolff, who as a child had a supporting if abusive father (Robert C. Trevelier) who wasn’t about to let his son’s autism stand in the way of a productive life. As an adult, Chris has directed his abilities as a math savant into a career as an accountant, for both ordinary citizens and vast criminal enterprises. Because of his pop’s tough love, Chris is as skilled at combat as he is at the numbers game, proficient with his hands and with all manner of firearms. These qualities come into play once he accepts a seemingly ordinary assignment of looking into the books at a robotics company headed by a

humanistic scientist (John Lithgow) and his sister (Jean Smart). After he uncovers some discrepancies in the ledgers, people start getting bumped off, and it appears that an innocent accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) might be next. Meanwhile, Chris’ criminal activities are being investigated by two Treasury Department agents (J.K. Simmons and Cynthia Addai-Robinson), and just who is the mysterious assassin (Jon Bernthal) who keeps lurking in the shadows? Clearly, The Accountant isn’t lacking for plot, and for a good while, director Gavin O’Connor and writer Bill Dubuque keep the picture percolating with a heady mix of detailed character analysis and swift action sequences. But even at an early point, there are suggestions that the movie will climax in the most daft and predictable manner possible, and our prayers that such a dunderheaded ending be avoided fall on deaf ears, with the denouement every bit as awful as feared. Indeed, the entirety of the concluding chapter is unsatisfactory — jokey, rushed, and tonally wrong. Too bad. After last week’s The Girl on the Train, the multiplexes could have used a sharp and taut thriller that’s consistent from first frame to last. But while The Accountant is certainly preferable to that tepid murdermystery, it jumps the tracks right at the very moment it should be picking up speed.

man seeking to atone for all his past sins. “I forgive you” is the message to the man from Turner. “I forgive myself” is Parker’s message to himself. The Birth of a Nation is problematic in other ways, as well. It tells the story of Turner from his childhood to his execution, and it details how this man (played as an adult by Parker himself) who initially was rented out by his owner (Armie Hammer) to quote from the Scriptures in an effort to assuage unruly slaves later found Biblical words to support his growing belief that the atrocities being committed against blacks needed to be stopped by any means necessary. Historical record asserts that his decision to lead an uprising stemmed wholly from his belief that it was a mandate from God, yet in the movie, it’s turned into a Death Wish scenario, with Turner largely motivated by the rape and beating suffered by his wife Cherry (a fine turn by Aja Naomi King) at the hands of white crackers. Employing a non-documented rape for this purpose is, at best, queasy and tonedeaf and, at worst, heinous and insensitive. And while the picture shows Turner’s army slaughtering scores of white men and even some women, it’s careful not to show any children getting murdered, even though several were. It’s an understandable omission, but also a misleading one. And yet, to deny the power and importance of The Birth of a Nation as its own THE BIRTH OF A NATION entity would be equally misleading. /// While not in the same class as the excelNow as always, it’s important to sepalent, Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, this rate the artist from the art, although in the picture nevertheless has plenty of merit, case of Nate Parker and his motion picture starting with a title that brilliantly recalls The Birth of a Nation, that’s often difficult the one for D.W. Griffith’s 1915 racist opus to do. In 1994’s Bullets Over Broadway, a and throws it back in its face. scandal-plagued Woody Allen has one of It’s a film that’s about as subtle as a his characters declare that “An artist cresledgehammer to the groin area, and yet ates his own moral universe.” its righteous anger helps rather than hinGreat movie, ludicrous and self-serving ders the piece, particularly in the ghastly line. And now, Parker and co-scripter Jean sequences in which Turner stands by helpCelestin, both at the center of controversy lessly as enormous evils are committed for the college rape of a girl who then sufagainst his fellow sufferers (the “dental” fered from depression and committed scene is almost unwatchable). suicide years later (Parker was acquitProduction values are topnotch, with ted while Celestin was initially convicted the camerawork by Elliot Davis particubefore being acquitted as well), has made larly worthy of praise: Displaying remarksure to include the scene where Nat Turner able range, the d.p. traffics in dark, dour offers forgiveness and baptism to a white shots that suit the material but then also tosses in some sequences of notable beauty and grace. Most crucially, though, this is a movie for the here and now, a document that nicely supports the BlackLivesMatter movement. Once the rebellion is quelled Starting at and whites start slaughtering blacks by the dozens (even ones who had nothing to do with the uprising), Cherry cries, “They’re killing people everywhere, for no reason OPEN DAILY 96 Walk-Ins Welcome • Reservations Available but being black” — a chilling line in an era Call Today! 912-247-0047 in which black males are being systematiwww.OldCityHelicopters.com cally gunned down at an alarming rate. 1125 Bob Harmon Rd, Savannah, GA 31408

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Nate Parker may be a vile and unrepentant abuser, but whatever one thinks of the messenger, the delivered movie is worthy of attention. Now, whether you want to support his career through ticket sales is entirely up to you.

are for the most part new characters created for a new film. While it’s admirable that the filmmakers forged their own path, it’s also lamentable in that, overall, these men aren’t nearly as interesting or as memorable as the 1960 models. Hawke’s intensity keeps Goodnight watchable, but Pratt’s patented shenanigans are less entertaining than usual, and while Washington only has to walk in front of the camera lens to project strength and charisma, his Sam Chisolm is on the stiff side, not nearly as engrossing as the taciturn heroes he essayed in, say, The Book of Eli or his last picture, 2014’s The Equalizer (also directed by Fuqua and written by Wenk). As for Sarsgaard, it’s disheartening to see this fine actor saddled with such a ridiculous role, a one-note villain who almost makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mahatma Gandhi.

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// The herrings in The Girl on the Train might be the usual shade of robust red, but the film itself is largely a bloodless affair, not so much a whodunit as a wellobviouslythatpersondunit. Based on the smash bestseller by Paula Hawkins, the film version finds Emily Blunt delivering a strong performance as Rachel, an unrepentant alcoholic who continues to harass her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) and his wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). Tom and Anna live in the same neighborhood as another couple, Megan (Haley Bennett, currently co-starring in The Magnificent Seven) and Scott (Luke Evans) -- Rachel rides the train that passes alongside their property on a daily basis, thus allowing her to catch glimpses of their life as she whizzes by. She imagines Megan and Scott as the perfect happily-ever-after couple, and thus she’s shocked when she spots Megan making out with someone else on the balcony; this event is soon followed by Megan’s disappearance, and Rachel takes it upon herself to find out what’s going on. It’s perhaps an unwise move, since her involvement has the detective (Allison Janney) on the case tagging her as a leading suspect. I haven’t read Hawkins’ novel, although my wife informs me that one of its biggest failings is that the identity of the villain is ridiculously easy to figure out. In that case, the movie is a faithful adaptation, since the celluloid counterpart is head-smackingly obvious from an early point. Honestly, even the culprits in those Encyclopedia Brown children’s books were harder to suss out. Couple this lack of mystery and suspense with a plethora of thinly defined characters and the result is a story that probably should have remained on the printed page.

MASTERMINDS

// Nobody would ever mistake Masterminds for a good movie — it’s sloppy, it’s cartoonish, and it takes an incredible and unbelievable true-life tale and needlessly gilds the lily, piling on extra absurdities to the point that any given film in, say, the Shrek or A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise looks like an exercise in cinema verité by comparison. But Masterminds is a comedy first and foremost, and it would be criminal to deny the huge laughs strewn throughout, sneakily exploding like depth charges at random

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intervals. The movie is based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery that took place here in Charlotte, and scripters Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey refused to change the names to protect the stupid. Zach Galifianakis plays David Ghantt, a Loomis Fargo employee who’s convinced by former co-worker Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and her sleazy associate Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) that it would be a good idea to swipe $17 million from the company vaults. A flight to Mexico, a tenacious cop (Leslie Jones), and a wisecracking hit man (Jason Sudeikis) eventually figure in the proceedings. Three of the four Ghostbusters take part in the film, with Wiig effective as always, Jones doing what she can with a paperthin role, and Leslie McKinnon amusing as Ghantt’s fiancée. Galifianakis and Wilson play more stereotypical hicks, with the former comfortably in his element and the latter trying mighty hard to pretend he’s a Southern fried imbecile and even harder to convince viewers that he’s a ruthless, loathsome guy.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

// The 1960 Western classic The Magnificent Seven (itself an Americanized version of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai) found its septet of gunslingers pooling their resources to protect the residents of a small village against the boastful, greedy and downright evil Mexican bandit Calvera, even going so far as to build a wall around the town perimeters. The new version of The Magnificent

Seven plays out as a straightforward oater with plenty of colorful characters and even more colorful action. We all periodically need a rousing action flick to stir our senses, and this handsomely mounted production offers sporadic thrills. It’s just a shame the overall film isn’t better. In this take, the villain is Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), who wants to take over the town of Rose Creek and has his army of underlings gun down men and women alike to prove he’s serious. Townsperson Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett), whose husband is murdered by Bogue himself, takes it upon herself to search for men who can help them in the battle against Bogue. She first locates Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), a state-sanctioned bounty hunter, and he in turns recruits the other six: Josh Faraday (Chris Pratt), quick with the cards and the wisecracks; Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), a former Confederate officer who has lost his nerve; Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), Goodnight’s companion; Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), an eccentric scout; Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a Mexican outlaw; and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier), a Comanche warrior. Even with the knowledge that it’s basically a suicide mission, they all agree to take part, whether for money, glory or something else entirely. Director Antoine Fuqua and scripters Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolatto don’t just offer carbon copies of the seven from the previous picture — while there are elements of, for example, Yul Brynner’s Chris in Washington’s Chisolm and Steve McQueen’s Vin in Pratt’s Faraday, these

/// It’s no match for 2014’s Citizenfour, the Edward Snowden confessional that nabbed the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but let’s say this about Snowden: It’s the best movie Oliver Stone has helmed since the 20th century. While it lacks the emotional wallop or technical prowess of Stone’s revered projects from the 1980s and ‘90s (Platoon, JFK and many more), it at least finds the controversial filmmaker shakily getting back on his feet following a post-Y2K resume that includes the disastrous likes of Alexander, W., Savages, and that Wall Street sequel with Shia LaBeouf. Snowden, with a script by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald (meshing together a pair of books), even uses as its starting point the meetings between the whistleblower (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Citizenfour director Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) and The Guardian journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson), thereafter employing flashbacks as Snowden explains how he progressed from a blinders-on conservative to a man whose disgust in the government’s illegal surveillance of Americans led to him deciding to leak thousands of NSA files. The film clearly views Snowden as a hero rather than a traitor, and it cuts no slack for anyone on either side of the political aisle, particularly the Bush administration for implementation and the Obama administration for continuation (there are also sound bites of Hillary Clinton stating that Snowden needs to be held accountable and Donald Trump suggesting that he be “executed”). CS

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Animation Shorts Watch a variety of animated short films. Sat., Oct. 29, 9:30 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. The Big Picture: IMAX and the Large-Format Phenomenon Join James Neihouse, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers, as he discusses his experience as director of photography on more than 30 IMAX and other large-format films, as well as the rise of large-format films and how it is changing the art form of filmmaking. Thu., Oct. 27, 2 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. Creating the Sound for Hollywood Movies In this exclusive conversation, sound designer Erik Aadahl will share his experience creating the sounds for such films as Transformers, Godzilla, Argo, Kung Fu Panda and many others. Fri., Oct. 28, 11:30 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: 20th Century Women Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields, a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing: Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields home, and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor. Fri., Oct. 28, 9:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: A Beautiful Day Gene gets up day after day and follows the same monotonous routine that he has lived since the death of his wife 10 years earlier. He is aging fast from illness and loneliness and has given up on the future. Today, however, he awakens with a new determination to end the life he has known. Today, there is a new resolve that will change the course of everything. Thu., Oct. 27, 9:45 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: American Fable When 11-year-old Gitty discovers her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in the family’s silo to save their struggling farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man’s life or protecting her family in this fairy-tale thriller set in the 1980s rural Midwest. Fri., Oct. 28, 10 a.m. filmfest.scad. edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Arrival When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team led by expert linguist Louise Banks is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge 54 of global war, Banks and the team race

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Local jewelry by Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio plus music and the largest inventory of vintage clothing yet. Anyone arriving in a costume gets a free item. Oct. 28-30, noon. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. against time for answers. To find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life and, quite possibly, humanity. Q&A with writer Eric Heisserer following screening. Wed., Oct. 26, 7 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Bon Voyage A couple’s compassion is put to the test when the two come across a sinking ship of refugees while on a pleasure trip across the Mediterranean. Fri., Oct. 28, 10 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Curmudgeons A pair of senior citizens have a relationship that shocks both their families in this potty-

mouthed, but endearing comedy. Fri., Oct. 28, 4 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Happily Ever After Seemingly different from each other, Hugo and Eva have more in common than one could imagine. Even though they cross paths constantly, they never meet. In one of these encounters, an accident changes their destinies. Wed., Oct. 26, 3 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 9:30 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Happy: A Small Film with a Big Smile Based on the life of visual artist Leonard “Porkchop” Zimmerman and his HAPPY

campaign, this is the story of one man’s transformational journey through the storm, and his desire to share the sunshine he found on the other side of it. Thu., Oct. 27, 11 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Home As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday. Wed., Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 3 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: I, Daniel Blake Gruff but goodhearted, Daniel Blake is a man out of time: A widowed woodworker who’s never owned a computer, he lives according to his own commonsense moral code. After a heart attack leaves him unable to work and the state welfare system fails him, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel must stand up and fight for his dignity, leading a one-man crusade for compassion that will transform the lives of a struggling single mother and her two children. Sat., Oct. 29, 12:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Indivisible Love knows no borders: a film about the fight to reunite families separated by deportation. Wed., Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 3 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Lion A 5-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Thu., Oct. 27, 7 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Love is a Sting At his lowest point, struggling children’s author Harold Finch gains an unexpected house guest in Anabel Shine: a 20-yearold, hyperintelligent mosquito. Anabel has been the fly on the wall throughout history, but never managed to communicate with a human being. Thu., Oct. 27, 11:30 a.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Loving Plaintiffs in the 1967 civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, Richard and Mildred Loving fight to live as an interracial married couple in their home state of Virginia. Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Manchester by the Sea After the death of his older brother, Lee Chandler is made sole guardian of his teenage nephew, Patrick. Taking leave of his job as a janitor in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to the fishing village

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where his working-class family has lived for generations. Wed., Oct. 26, 9:45 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing Ranging from the events of the day to the death penalty sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the film features surveillance footage, news clips, home movies and interviews with survivors, their families, first responders, investigators, government officials and reporters. Fri., Oct. 28, 4 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Me Before You Young and quirky Louisa moves from job to job to help her family make ends meet. When she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker paralyzed in an accident two years earlier, her cheerful attitude is put to the test. Q&A with director Thea Sharrock, producer Alison Owen and actor Sam Claflin following screening. $5 Wed., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Moonlight This timeless story of human connection and self-discovery follows the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. Q&A with actor Mahershala Ali following screening. $10 Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice In 1936, 18 African-American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games. History forgot all except one. This is the story of the other 17. Thu., Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Po When David Wilson’s young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth-grade son with autism. Based on a true story, Po explores the tested bonds of love between a grieving father and son. Wed., Oct. 26, 9:30 a.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 12:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Rated Maggie, a wife and mother, must find the courage to own up to her own behavior when she wakes up to a world where every adult has received a Yelp-like rating floating above their head. While most everyone has a shining 4- or 5-star rating, she’s only got 2.5. Thu., Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m. filmfest.scad. edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Refugio A romantic dreamer’s lifelong quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where he unexpectedly falls for a beautiful exotic dancer with a complicated past and a dangerous ex-lover who refuses to let her go. Q&A with director and actor Demian

Bichir following screening. Wed., Oct. 26, 4:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Shame Jennifer Hudson stars as backup singer to her philandering, tyrannical husband whose shame infuses his music with passion. Thu., Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: She Started It This documentary provides a rare look into the lives of five ambitious women entrepreneurs (Thuy Truong, Brienne Ghafourifar, Sheena Allen, Stacey Ferreira and Agathe Molinar) who will stop at nothing to pursue their dreams. Fri., Oct. 28, noon. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Soy Cubana Winners of the 2016 CUBADISCO Award for best vocal group, the Vocal Vidas are a female a cappella quartet from the cradle of Afro-Cuban music, Santiago de Cuba. This documentary tells the story of crafting a musical career in a society in which artistic merit is not measured solely by economic success. Fri., Oct. 28, noon. filmfest.scad. edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Swing Away Suspended professional golfer Zoe Papadopoulos escapes to her grandparents’ village in Greece. Between baking bread and eating baklava, she meets and mentors a 10-year-old girl who is determined to become the next golf sensation. Wed., Oct. 26, 3 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 9:30 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Boy Who Cried Fish! Miranda’s life falls into pieces when her son, Adam, won’t stop wearing her blue bra. Wed., Oct. 26, 9:30 a.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 12:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Eagle Huntress Set against the breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, the film follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. Thu., Oct. 27, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad. edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Eyes of My Mother A lonely young woman is consumed by her deepest, darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life. Wed., Oct. 26, 9:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre. com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Freedom to Marry An intimate film that pulls back the curtain to reveal the masterminds of one of the greatest civil rights movements of our time as they embark on their final, thrilling battle to win same-sex marriage for the U.S. Fri., Oct. 28, 4 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2. scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: The Revival: Women and the Word

Five gifted queer black women hit the road for a seven-date tour as they share their fear, love, loss and vision with audiences across the U.S. Director Sekiya Dorsett lets us be a fly on the wall in this honest and inspirational homage to the socially influential salon gatherings of the Harlem Renaissance. Thu., Oct. 27, 2 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Space Between A new father discovers his child is not his own and sets out on a journey to find answers. Thu., Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Sweet Life This edgy and unconventional dramedy is the love story of Kenny Parker and Lolita Nowicki, each struggling with their own brand of demons. They first meet by chance in Chicago and form a pact to travel crosscountry to the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide together. Thu., Oct. 27, 11:30 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: The Tribe Three young sisters live out their days after a pandemic consumes most of the known world. One day a stranger arrives and their world becomes more dangerous in ways they never could have imagined. Q&A with director and producer Roxy Shih, producer Brandon Tansley, and actor Michael Nardelli following screening. $5 Thu., Oct. 27, 9 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Things to Come What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build falls apart all at once? Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence. Beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of 25 years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie’s life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. Thu., Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Film: Toni Erdmann Enjoy an audacious twist on the screwball comedy in which the twosome is an aging hippie prankster father and his corporateladder-climbing daughter. Sat., Oct. 29, 3:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Film: Trespass Against Us The Cutler family has lived as outlaws for generations. The heir apparent to the patriarch has been groomed to spend his life hunting, thieving and tormenting the police. But with his own son coming of age, he finds himself locked in a battle for the future of his young family. Thu., Oct. 27, 9:45 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/ venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Film: Wannabe New York City, 1991: In order to win over his crush, a neurotic Jewish boy must first impress her skeptical Jamaican family. Thu., Oct. 27, 2 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Global Shorts Forum: Current

Events, Block B Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Wed., Oct. 26, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Current Events, Block C Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Fri., Oct. 28, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Immigration, Block B Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Thu., Oct. 27, 12:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: LGBTQ Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Wed., Oct. 26, 1:30 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Poverty, Race and Prejudice, Block B Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Thu., Oct. 27, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: The Refugee Reality Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Thu., Oct. 27, 5 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Wartime Witness, Block A Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Wed., Oct. 26, 11 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Global Shorts Forum: Wartime Witness, Block B Global Shorts Forum screenings are free and open to the public. Tickets are required. Fri., Oct. 28, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Nickelodeon’s The Loud House: From Concept to Green Light Join creator and executive producer Chris Savino for an in-depth discussion on how an idea for an animated show goes from concept to series. Savino shares the knowledge gained from 23 years in the business as he guides you through his creative process and the experience of developing The Loud House. Fri., Oct. 28, 2 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. Say It With Music: Producing a Live-action VR Short Film From Start to Finish The student and faculty team members from the SCAD VR lab discuss their experience with developing and producing the first VR musical narrative. From script to screen, we will examine each step of reimagining the cinematic storytelling

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fantastical reimagining of colonial America in the season three premiere screening at the Savannah Film Festival. Q&A with actor Shane West, co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga and co-creator and executive producer Adam Simon following screening. Fri., Oct. 28, 2 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Activism & Politics

The Dearly Departed Story Slam

The Story Arts Workshop proudly presents our first story slam at the Foxy Loxy Courtyard! Start with the theme of “The Dearly Departed.” Tell us a story that’s true, happened to you, and tell it live without notes or props in about five minutes. Prizes will be awarded to the Slam Champion, Audience Favorite, and all performing Story Artists. (courtesy purchase) Thu., Oct. 27, 7 p.m. 843-290-9001. plyoung0118@gmail.com. https:// facebook.com/events/687811288043462/. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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process in 360 degrees. Wed., Oct. 26, 11 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. SCAD Alumni Panel Join esteemed SCAD alumni who have embarked on successful careers in film and television. Fri., Oct. 28, 11 a.m. filmfest.scad. edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. Scribble to Screen: In Conversation with Eric Heisserer Join the Writers Guild Foundation for an intimate discussion with Eric Heisserer, a writer and producer who worked on such films as The Thing, Lights Out, the upcoming Arrival, Van Helsing and The Sandman. Wed., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. So You Wanna Write for TV? Look inside the most mysterious of places, the Writers’ Room. Learn the process of staffing a show from start to finish, from the perspective of a network executive, literary manager and showrunner. If you’ve ever wanted to write on a television show, or are just curious how to get a foot in that door, this panel is a must. Thu., Oct. 27, 11 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. Student Shorts, Block A Watch student-produced shorts. Fri., Oct. 28, 1 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Super Shorts Watch this collection of super-short films-none of them exceed 7 minutes. Wed., Oct. 26, 9 a.m. filmfest.scad.edu. lucastheatre. 56 com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32

Abercorn St. Virtual Virtue: Technology and Ethics Converging in VR Stories are always being told, but how they are created and shared is constantly changing as new technologies are developed. This panel examines the ethics of how virtual reality technology influences what stories get told and how they are perceived. Thu., Oct. 27, 4 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. VR Showcase Be immersed in dynamic and awardwinning VR experiences from a variety of platforms and genres, including narrative, experimental, documentary, animated and interactive storytelling. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required to reserve your seat. Wed., Oct. 26, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12, 3, 4 & 5 p.m. and Thu., Oct. 27, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12, 3, 4 & 5 p.m. filmfest. scad.edu. scad.edu/life/libraries/. Jen Library (SCAD), 201 East Broughton St. WGN America’s ‘Outsiders’ WGN America presents an exclusive first look at the second season of its gripping Appalachian drama series. Get an inside look into the creative process and world of the mysterious Farrell clan with a panel discussion and audience Q&A with the cast and creative team. Wed., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. filmfest.scad.edu. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,. WGN America’s ‘Salem’ Join the star-studded cast and producers as they continue their bloody, sexy and

First Tuesday Tour of City Hall The First Tuesday Tour series gives an overview of the history, architecture, and art of historic City Hall. Participants will also hear stories about some of the City’s more fascinating characters and learn about their City government. The tour is free, but space is limited and registration is required, at savannahga.gov/FirstTuesdayTours. first Tuesday of every month, noon. 912651-6411. lspracher@savannahga.gov. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. Green Party of Chatham County People, Planet and Peace over Profit! Meets Saturdays and the first Tuesday of every month. Join the Facebook group, @ChathamGreens, to find out about upcoming local events. ongoing. No physical address given, none. One of the Guys Guys, have you found yourself in a social rut, or just have a need for the art of conversation? Make a change in 2016. The past decade a diverse group of guys have been getting together about every two weeks to share dinner and opinions on just about any topic. No membership requirements or dues. Just an open mind and willingness to expand your friendship base. For more information visit us on Facebook at Savannah Men’s Club, or if you prefer, email details/questions to savannahmensclub@gmail.com. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. The Roving Listener with DeAmon Harges DeAmon’s mission as the Roving Listener is to listen and discover the gifts and dreams of citizens in his community and find ways to utilize them. He and several other Roving Listeners will hold public walks with residents in Twickenham, Live Oak, on Waters, Gordonston, Avondale, and down Pennsylvania Avenue. Oct. 27-29. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Savannah Area Young Republicans Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr. org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. Savannah Libertarians Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook. com/groups/SAVlibertarians. Young Democrats Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free ongoing. 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

Auditions and Calls for Entries

Auditions for Armstrong Youth Orchestra Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo.com. Info is also available at www.savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part by the Savannah Friends of Music, www.savannahfriendsofmusic. com ongoing. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Call for Entries for “Faith” What do you believe? Non-Fiction Gallery wants to know. For $15 (non Art Rise members pay $25), submit 4 images of artwork in any medium for consideration to the exhibition opening on December 16. The first place winner will receive $100. Through Oct. 30. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Call for Entry: Modern Celebrity Sulfur Studios invites artists working in all media to submit portraits of celebrities, rock stars, pop culture icons, and literary characters for the upcoming juried exhibition “Modern Celebrity.” Whether through talent or train wreck, fame or infamy, these personalities have wormed their way into our collective conscious. What makes them so engaging and why do we care? Artists are encouraged to take an expansive view of the medium of portraiture. Three dimensional, abstract and experimental work is welcome. Entries due: November 20th, 2016 by midnight. Exhibition Runs: December 8th – 18th. TO SUBMIT: https://sulfurstudios.org/ modern-celebrity $20, $15 for Sulfur Studios Members for up to 3 works Through Nov. 20, 12-12:15 a.m. 912. 231. 7105. info@ sulfurstudios.org. https://sulfurstudios.org/ modern-celebrity. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. Call for Participants in PTSD Study Are you a recent combat veteran experiencing psychological or emotional stress related to your combat? You may be eligible to receive first-line medication and talk therapy interventions with proven effectiveness. PROGrESS is a study looking to learn more about how to effectively treat recent combat veterans with PTSD. The therapies are not experimental. You will be randomly assigned to receive either psychotherapy, medication, or both. For more information about the PROGrESS study, please call 912-920-0214 ext. 2169. ongoing. Online only, none. Religious Ethnic Artists Needed Religious ethnic (JESUS-YESHUA) artists and musicals needed for upcoming season. A classical accompanist and conductor for sacred music and gospel singers needed. Contact Reverend Brenda Lee (912) 2363154; email: revbrendalee@yahoo.com ongoing. No physical address given, none. Tell Us Your Ghost Story? Organization seeks to document your first hand experiences with psychical phenomenon for analysis and potential investigation. Our investigators have

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reputable credentials and long time investigation training and connections with the top minds and researchers in parapsychology field research and other areas. We are especially interested in Chatham and neighboring counties with special emphasis on Savannah itself and the Historic District. Interviewees should be comfortable with video documentation of themselves and events w/privacy level negotiated beforehand. ongoing. amchclub@yahoo.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Benefits

$5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities Bikram Yoga Savannah offers a weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Thursdays during the 6:30pm class. Pay $5 for class and proceeds are donated to a different charity each month. This is a regular Bikram Yoga class. ongoing. 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com. Peacock Party This event will celebrate the 27th anniversary of the Flannery O’Connor Home Foundation, Inc. and the ongoing effort to preserve this award-winning author’s legacy in her hometown of Savannah. Periodappropriate dress is optional. $100 donation per person requested Fri., Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m. 508 E. Taylor Street, 508 E. Taylor Street. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers Savannah Chatham County Animal Control

seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov. United Way Mid-Campaign Rally Campaign chair Kay Ford will report fundraising progress at the midpoint of the United Way campaign. The goal of this year’s campaign is $8,338,000. $10 Wed., Oct. 26, 11:45 a.m. Monterey Square, Bull and West Wayne Streets.

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Classes, Camps & Workshops

Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times. 912-677-3983. epiphany.indiemade.com. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. Beginning Belly Dance Classes Taught by Happenstance Bellydance. continues on p. 58

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All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. Champions Training Center Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com. Chinese Language Classes The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University offers free Chinese language classes starting January 17. To register, please call 912-358-3160. ongoing. 912-3583160. confuciusinstitute@savannahstate. edu. savannahstate.edu. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Clay Classes Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-351-4578. sav.. claystudio@gmail.com. Boating Classes Classes on boat handling, boating safety and navigation offered by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. See website or call to register. 912897-7656. savannahaux.com. Creativity Coaching Do you have a creative idea but don’t know where to start? Is it time to move forward with your project? Work with your very own creativity coach and learn how to blast through blocks, plan your time, and enjoy the richness of a creative life. See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/creativity_ coaching/ or contact Creativity@LaurenL. com ongoing. Online, ---. DUI Prevention Group Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912-443-0410. Family Law Workshop The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912354-6686. mediationsavannah.com. Fany’s Spanish/English Institute Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912921-4646. Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987. Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. 58 Knitting & Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website. Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com. Life Challenge Coaching In an environment of patience, nonjudgement and compassion, we will explore the source of your challenge, the beliefs that hold your challenge in place, and discover & enact healthy and healing life changes. For appointment, contact Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) to 912-429-7265. ongoing. Online only, none. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments and Styles Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels for Guitar (electric, acoustic, bass, classical, jazz), Piano, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Voice as well as Music Theory/ Composition/ Ear Training. We teach public, private and home school students as well as adults at all experience levels. Located at 15 East Montgomery Crossroads in Office #205 near White Bluff Road, Savannah, GA. ongoing. 912388-1806. smisavannah@gmail.com. savmusiciansinstitute.com. New Horizons Adult Band Program Music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school/college and would like to play again. Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month. All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Novel Writing Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publication. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-onone or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com. Photography Classes Beginner photography to post production. Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list. 410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com. Piano Voice-Coaching Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-9617021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing. R&B Soul Adult Line Dancing The R&B Soul line dance group Savannah Show Stoppers are conducting line dance classes every Monday night at the West Broad St. YMCA and every Tuesday nights at the John Delaware Center. Both classes starts at 6:30. Lamont Hunter, the founder of the Savannah Show Stoppers, is the Instructor. Donations Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-220-7712. hlamont70@yahoo.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Reiki Treatment Reiki relaxes & rejuvenates; promotes emotional & physical healing; reduces neuromuscular & arthritic pain. E-mail request for appointment/ Fee base at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) 912429-7265 ongoing. Online only, none.

A. Roper Studio - Voice Technique and Coaching Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music. Audition and competition preparation. Located 15 minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-4840628. Downtown Savannah, downtown. Russian Language Classes Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718. Youth and Teen Aerial Silk Classes Youth Class ages 8+. Teen Class ages 11+. Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks and Hoop while suspended in the air. Weekly classes held on Fridays through the month of September only. Very limited space available, reserve your spot and register online today. $20/class $75/September package ongoing. 954.682.5694. elyse. thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave.

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1 Million Cups 1 Million Cups (1MC), a program of the Kauffman Foundation, is seeking entrepreneurs to share their new business ideas with a weekly audience. Participants receive feedback and exposure with the opportunity to strengthen their idea and gain connections in the Savannah community. 1MC meets every Wednesday at the Creative Coast 9-10a. Apply to present online: www.1millioncups.com/Savannah Free Wednesdays, 9 a.m. 1millioncups. com/savannah. Creators’ Foundry, 415 W Boundary St. 13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing) “If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-6313452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com. Avegost LARP Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com. Buccaneer Region SCCA Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org. Business Networking on the Islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. Chatham Sailing Club Friday evening social event at the clubhouse. Meet Members and their families who all enjoy water based activities but whose prime interest is sailing. This BYOB event is free and all are welcome, but Membership is encouraged after several visits once interest is gauged!! We look forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Coastal Bead Society Coastal Bead Society monthly meetings, 12 noon on the third Friday of the Month at the Coastal Georgia Center, 303 Fahm Street, near SCAD. All beaders are welcome. ongoing. wyrnut18@gmail.com. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. Faith Based Business Networking Event - Savannah Our mission is to Grow, Encourage, Inspire, Ignite & Equip Christian Business owners on how to do business with a Kingdom mindset. We promote and celebrate excellence in the business arena while developing the future generations of leaders through Christian values, disciplines, honor, integrity and expression of skills. Register early before the event closes out and please share this event by inviting a guest. Free first Tuesday of every month, 7:30-9 a.m. 912-257-6248. info@kbnalliance. com. https://eventbrite.com/e/christianbusiness-networking-event-savannahtickets-17883772846. Calvary Baptist Temple, 4625 Waters Ave. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Georgia Nature Photographers Association-Coastal Chapter Coastal Chapter of the GNPA. The GNPA is 100% focused on nature photography and offers Field Trips, Monthly Speakers, Competitions, Seminars and Workshops and the Annual EXPO with prominent nature photographers and keynote speakers. Photographers of all levels are welcome! $35 per year first Tuesday of every month, 6 p.m. 912-234-2571. alfie.wace@gmail.com. gnpa.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Historic Flight Savannah A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC, to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. ongoing. 912-5961962. honorflightsavannah.org. Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House,

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2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257. Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-308-6768. Low Country Turners A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230. Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. Philo Cafe Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe. Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com. R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912344-5127. Savannah Tree Foundation, 3025 Bull Street. Safe Kids Savannah A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org. Savannah Brewers’ League Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-447-0943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. Savannah Authors Workshop If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about it, Savannah Authors Workshop is looking for you. We exist to encourage good writing. We meet twice a month in the relaxed atmosphere of a private home (Baldwin Park area). Our third annual Anthology has just been published. We are looking for new members. Come as a guest to our next meeting (Wednesday, September 21) and see how you like us (sorry: no poets). Contact Christopher Scott, President: cscott630@yahoo.com for more details and directions. ongoing. No physical address given, none. The Savannah Chinese Corner The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check the Facebook group to see meeting location. ongoing. https://facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown. Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States A dinner meeting every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at local restaurants. 3rd Tuesday in November; none in December. For dinner reservations, please call Sybil Cannon at 912-964-5366. ongoing. 912-

748-7020. savannahnavyleague.us. Savannah Go Club This is a new club for the board game “go” (igo, weiqi, baduk). For places and times, please call John at 734-355-2005. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. Savannah Go Green Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. Savannah Kennel Club Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub.org. Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. Savannah Newcomers Club Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events help you learn about Savannah and make new friends. Ongoing sign-up. savannahnewcomers.com. ongoing. Savannah Parrot Head Club Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. ongoing. savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc. com. Savannah Toastmasters Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Veggies and Vegans Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events. Mondays. Toastmasters Toastmasters International is an organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, seminars, and contests. Regardless of your level of comfort with public speaking, you will find a club that is interested in helping you improve your speaking abilities. Free Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. thincsavannah.com. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

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Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn. com. vvasav.com. Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@ comcast.net.

Concerts

Acoustic Sunday Brunch featuring Gino Fanelli Special Tex-Mex brunch menu plus music from Lookout Mountain based musician that heavily leans on New Orleans party jazz. Free Sun., Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Concert: The Principal Winds The Savannah Philharmonic’s principal woodwinds come together to present an evening of colorful music for a unique and elegant ensemble: the woodwind sextet. Sun., Oct. 30, 5 p.m. elcota.org. Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St . Spitfire Saturdays: The Halloween/Dashiki Edition $7 to spit $10 to sit Sat., Oct. 29, 8-11 p.m. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

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Bonaventure Cemetery After Hours Savannah’s only after-hours cemetery story event! See this great Victorian with Shannon Scott and all of the intrigues from bootleggers to murderers and those loved, lived and are now part of these immortal story grounds. $35.00 Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-319-5600. shannon@shannonscott. com. zerve.com/shannonscott/BonCemAH. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb. nsf/cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. Common Grounds Common Grounds is a collaboration of the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Wesley Fellowship. We meet on Wednesday nights for open theological discussion on hot button issues. All are welcome regardless of faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey. We are open and affirming of the LGBT community. Order for Compline by candlelight is offered on Sunday nights at 8PM. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/ commongroundssavannah. The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. Critical Mass Savannah Join Savannah’s bicycle community for a free ride to raise awareness for bike rights. Last Friday of every month, 6 p.m. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Day of the Dead Día de los Muertos finds joy and a reconnection with lost family members, informed by the belief that death is a natural part of the life cycle. Armstrong’s celebration will feature bright colors, dazzling designs, an arts and crafts station,

flowers and special Latin American cuisine. Tue., Nov. 1, 10 a.m. about.armstrong. edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. The Dearly Departed Story Slam The Story Arts Workshop proudly presents our first story slam at the Foxy Loxy Courtyard! Start with the theme of “The Dearly Departed.” Tell us a story that’s true, happened to you, and tell it live without notes or props in about five minutes. Prizes will be awarded to the Slam Champion, Audience Favorite, and all performing Story Artists. (courtesy purchase) Thu., Oct. 27, 7 p.m. 843-290-9001. plyoung0118@ gmail.com. https://facebook.com/ events/687811288043462/. foxyloxycafe. com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. DJ King J free Thu., Oct. 27, 9:30 p.m.-3 a.m. 912-7131970. elrockolounge@gmail.com. El-Rocko Lounge, 117 Whitaker St. Drinks After Work This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinksafter-work/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail.

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com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. An Evening with Savannah’s Very Own Author Jonathan Rabb Jonathan Rabb will be signing and reading from his new book, Among the Living. Free Thu., Oct. 27, 7 p.m. 912-3558111. programming@savj.org. https:// savannahjea.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. The Exchange Club of Savannah In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912-441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com. Savannahexchange. org. Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Street. Free Monthly Expectant & New Parent Support Group This FREE monthly support group is held on the first Tuesday of each month. No pre-registration is required. Please join us for conversation, support and refreshments. Children are welcome! FREE first Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of

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early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. Tours are Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and must be scheduled. To schedule a tour, contact Megan Chandler at 912-525-5029 or mchandle@lucastheatre.com. ongoing. 912525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Halloween Bash 2016 Dia de Los Muertos-themed celebration with a costume contest, drink and shot specials, and DJ OB-1 Benobi. Costumes encouraged. Sat., Oct. 29. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. Haunted Forest

The ghosts and goblins will be out in full force at the 2016 annual Haunted Forest. The Boys and Girls Club of Bulloch County has been getting ready for one of our community’s all-time favorite events. $10, free for kids 10 and under Wed., Oct. 26, 8 p.m., Thu., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., Sun., Oct. 30, 8 p.m. and Mon., Oct. 31, 8 p.m. 912-764-9696. rwright@ bgcbulloch.org. https://facebook.com/ events/1391551244205960/. The Clubhouse, 2704 Old Register Rd. Masquerade in the Mansion Don your masks for an unforgettable night

of merriment, enchantment, and gothic allure at the William Jay Society’s second annual Masquerade in the Mansion. Held in the beautiful (and possibly haunted) historic Telfair Academy, this event features an array of dazzling décor and wild entertainment, including live music, libations, late-night treats, and lots of surprises. The festivities run from 9pm to midnight, open to anyone 21 years of age or older. Admission includes two drink tickets. Early Bird Tickets by Oct. 27, Museum members $65, non-members $85At the Door Tickets Members $85, nonmembers $100 Fri., Oct. 28, 9 p.m. 912-7908880. telfair.org. Telfair Academy of Arts

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

I invite you to fantasize about what your four greatgrandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

At any one time, over two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America. When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whisky is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve -- that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

To create a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rainmaking. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth. And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel -- but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

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Some Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Colombia’s leaf-cutter ant is *hormiga culona,* translated as “fat-assed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire. Since you’re in a phase when tapping in to your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that

and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. The original Midnight Tour One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866-666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street. PBJ Pantry A free food pantry held every Thursday, 10-11am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 ongoing. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Do you know how to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks. It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In the film *Terminator 2,* Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $30,000 for every word he uttered. I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision! Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

make lemonade.” Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal 2: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie *Cast Away,* and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.) Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

It’s the prosperity-building phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. 2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

In 1938, a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do. During the next ten months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder, and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

I won’t offer you the cliché “When life gives you lemons,

Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do. Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

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The Pop-Up Shop Featuring Savannah and New York City designers and artists, including Scarabee Jewelry, Mamie Ruth, Brooke Atwood, and many more. Through Oct. 29. shoptrustees. com. trusteesgarden.com. Trustees Garden, 10 East Broad Street. Savannah Storytellers Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore. com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Scary in the Dairy Enjoy a haunted hayride, horse rides, pumpkin carving, a cake walk, bubble factory, games, a chili cook-off, and live music by the Spirit I Am Band. All proceeds benefit the Pegasus Riding Academy. $5 for family of 3, $10 for family of 4, $2 for each additional guest Sun., Oct. 30, 4 p.m. The Dairy Farm, 2500 Tennessee Ave. Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org. Southbound Brewery Saturday Tours and Tastes Savannah’s first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday - Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. Hang out, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah’s first craft brewery. Free Saturdays, 2-4 p.m. 912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. A State of Innovation: Sequoyah and the Power of Language Visit the Georgia Historical Society Research Center during regular business hours, November 1 through 30, to see “A State of Innovation: Sequoyah and the Power of Language.” Free and open to the public, this exhibit showcases the breadth of materials available for research at the Georgia Historical Society. The exhibit will also be shared through the Georgia History Festival website and blog. Free and Open to the Public Tue., Nov. 1, 12-5 p.m. 912.651.2128. PMeagher@georgiahistory.com. georgiahistoryfestival.org/. georgiahistory. com/. Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker St. Under The Rainbow On Thursday nights come out to the coolest spot in Pooler for Under The Rainbow. Every week we will host a different event that will cater to those that play over, around and under the rainbow. Thursdays, 8-11 p.m. 912-988-1052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. Urban Gypsy Trunk Show Local jewelry by Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio plus music and the largest inventory of vintage clothing yet. Anyone arriving in a costume gets a free item. Oct. 28-30, noon. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. Watershed: Contemporary

Landscape Photography Opening Lecture Join Erin Dunn, Assistant Curator at Telfair Museums, for a lecture on Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, an exhibition which explores how contemporary photography depicts the often contentious relationship between humans and the environments we inhabit. Members free/ non-members $5 Tue., Nov. 1, 6 p.m. 912-790-8880. telfairnews@telfair. org. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Wormsloe’s Colonial Haunted Trail Tour If you dare, travel down the oak lined avenue to the haunted Colonial trail of Wormsloe State Historic Site. A Ranger will guide you into the past as you walk to site of Colonist Nobel Jones. Keep close together as you walk down the trail and perhaps you will be safe from the zombies, ghosts and ghouls drifting under the looming oak tree and Spanish moss. Regular admission rates apply - Adults (18–61) $10; Seniors (62+) $9; Youth (6–17) $4.50. Not recommended for children under the age of 6 due to the nature of the tour. Sat., Oct. 29, 7:30-9 p.m. 912-353-3023. wormsloe. shs@gadnr.org. https://facebook.com/ events/254080684993809/. gastateparks. org/info/wormsloe/. Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd. Yellow Fever in Savannah 1820 Savannah was the location of tragic yellow fever outbreaks. In 1820 the city’s outbreak was widespread. This October, see a newly imagined historical recreation of Savannah’s dreadful Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1820 with particular emphasis on Georgia’s first female physician, Mary Lavinder, the destination of the soul and images of medical techniques of the period presented in a magic lantern setting. Not suitable for children under 12 years of age. The performance requires that guests be able to walk up and down stairs and maneuver in the candlelit rooms. $22 advance, $25 at door Fri., Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St.

Festivals

2016 Savannah Film Festival The eight-day festival is filled with cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and emerging filmmakers. Each year more than 40,000 people attend one of the few festivals started by an art and design university and take part in a variety of film competitions, special screenings, workshops, panels and lectures. $75-$750 per person Through Oct. 29. 912-525-5051. filmfest@scad.edu. filmfest.scad.edu/. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. 33rd Annual Oktoberfest It’s a wiener dog racing, bratwurst tasting, oompah dancing celebration at the 33rd Annual Oktoberfest on River Street. Enjoy a bit of Germany, Savannah style with a beer garden offering a variety of beers, food booths featuring German cuisine, and of course the famous Wiener Dog Races hosted by Savannah Morning News.

Free and Open to the Public Fri., Oct. 28, 4-10 p.m., Sat., Oct. 29, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-2340295. info@riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com/event/oktoberfest2/?instance_id=1310. Rousakis Plaza, River St. Fall Festival Live music from Fort Stewart’s 3rd Infantry Band, bounce houses, local vendors, games, food and more. Free Sat., Oct. 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 912.368.4100. Doni.bresenski@ ymcaofcoastalga.org. https://facebook. com/events/1628721660771322/?active_ tab=discussion. ymcaofcoastalga.org. Liberty County YMCA, 201 Mary Lou Drive. Food Day Festival The Savannah Food Day Festival is the largest in the nation and celebrates sustainable, accessible and healthy foods. The free event includes a farmers market, educational workshops, top local bands, art activities, food vendors and more. Sat., Oct. 29, 11 a.m. info@massiveexperience. com. foodayfestival.com. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. Shalom, Y’all! Jewish Food Festival The festival draws about 10,000 attendees annually. Participants of all ages will enjoy a taste of ethnic Jewish cuisine as well as family entertainment including music and dance. Sun., Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Tree Giveaway at the Food Day Festival Stop by the Savannah Tree Foundation booth at the Food Day Festival to adopt a new tree! Select from 10+ varieties of 3-gallon trees including many native species which will provide shade, seasonal color and habitat. Each tree will go home with tree planting and care resources from the Savannah Tree Foundation. The Savannah Tree Foundation is a member of the Alliance for Community Trees and this program is made possible by partnership with CSX Transportation Sat., Oct. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-233-8733. info@savannahtree.com. savannahtree.com/event/tree-giveawayat-the-food-day-festival/. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. Trunk or Treat Fun begins at 5:30 p.m. with games and activities for the whole family. Costume contest parade at 7 p.m. led by the Grand Marshal. Be sure to stop by the information

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booth to register your child. Awards presented for best costume in each age category after the parade. Don’t forget to register for the Trunk Decorating Costume and an opportunity to win the grand prize ($100 value). Free Sat., Oct. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 912-925-4839. khanovich@hotmail. com. trinitylutheransavannah.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Tybee Island Pirate Fest Join thousands of fellow pirates for a swashbuckling festival with live music by Delbert McClinton, a pub crawl, a parade, family-friendly activities, and more. All tickets purchased prior to the hurricane will be honored. $12-$50 Oct. 28-30. visittybee. com. South Beach, Tybee Island.

Kid’s Happenings

Halloween Hayride This year, we are having a family friendly trick or treat hayride suitable for all ages. Enjoy a hayride around our historic and beautiful campus while the kiddos trick or treat. We will have light refreshments for sale. Tickets are available online only for $7 each; no tickets are available at the event. $7 Thu., Oct. 27, 6 p.m. 912.351.2061. lisa. wilkes@bethesdaacademy.org. https:// eventbrite.com/e/halloween-hayridetickets-27636988978. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Healthy Kids Club The Healthy Kids Club’s mission is to educate and inspire children to take part in their local farmers market while enjoying nutritious foods and empowering their families to make healthy choices at home. Saturdays, 9:15-9:45 a.m. wifarmersmarket@aol.com. Wilmington Island Farmers Market, 111 Walthour Rd. Savannah Children’s Museum School Year Hours SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum.org ongoing. Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road. Toddler Time Bring your 2-4 year old to enjoy stories, games and learning designed just for them. Each week there will be a different naturebased theme. $5 parking Thursdays, 10 a.m. gastateparks.org/skidawayisland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children. Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Trunk or Treat The trunk of every car on the lot will be open and decorated. There will be Cash-N-Carry staff at every trunk to hand out candy to

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trick-or-treaters. Candy, a costume contest, popcorn, and caramel apples await. Mon., Oct. 31, 5-7 p.m. Cash-N-Carry Car Lot, 500 Staley Ave.

LGBT

First City Network Georgia’s oldest LGBT organization (founded in 1985) is a local non-profit community service organization whose mission is to share resources of health care, counseling, education, advocacy and mutual support in the Coastal Empire. Members and guests enjoy many special events throughout the year, including First Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm. Mondays. 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork. org. Gay AA Meeting True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. ongoing. Savannah Pride, Inc. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBTQI community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. PO Box 6044, Savannah, GA 31414. 501c nonprofit. ongoing. info@savannahpride.com. savannahpride.com. Stand Out Youth A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-288-1034. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth. org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street. What Makes a Family A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing. 912-352-2611.

Pets & Animals

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Howl-o-ween Yappy Hour Bark Park products and special spooky Bryan Fish Tales cocktails will be available for purchase. Attendees will also have the opportunity to sponsor a brick. The proceeds from this event go towards maintaining the park and keeping the facility free and open for all to enjoy. This event is BYOD (Bring Your Own Dog) and will feature Halloween dog costume competitions. Thu., Oct. 27, 6 p.m. bryanbarkpark.com. Fish Tales at Ft. McAllister Marina, 3203 Ft. McAllister Rd. Low Cost Pet Clinic TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin. com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village. Low-Cost Shot Clinic Rabies vaccinations will cost $10 and rabies, kennel cough, and canine and feline 62 distemper vaccinations will cost $15.

This is not a drive-thru clinic; all owners must stand in line to wait for service. Sat., Oct. 29, 10 a.m. 912-354-9515. rbruni@ humanesocietysav.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 307A E. Harris St. Operation New Hope Operation New Hope allows inmates to train unadoptable dogs from the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. The goals of the program are to decrease the recidivism rate among Chatham County inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, and help previously unadoptable dogs find loving homes. The graduated dogs are available for adoption can be viewed at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www. chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope is funded by the Humane Society and community donations. ongoing. chathamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav.org/. Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. St. Almo’s Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-3336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

Religious & Spiritual

Band of Sisters Prayer Group All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ georgia. Buddhist Meditation Everyone is welcome. Experience not necessary. Visit our website for location, meditation periods and classes. savannahzencenter.com. Individual instruction upon request. Email Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none. Catholic Singles A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@ diosav.org. diosav.org/familylife-singles. Gospel Fest A time of worship and praise. Wed., Oct. 26, 6 a.m.-10 p.m., Thu., Oct. 27, 6 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri., Oct. 28, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 29, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. 912-884-5967. Midway First Presbyterian Church, 672 North Coastal Hwy 17. Gratitude Circle in the Squares Gather with others to share gratitude. Everyone welcome. Park next to Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. facebook.com/ savannahgratitude. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. Guided Silent Prayer Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615

Montgomery St. See website for info. ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org. Jesus Yeshua Holidays and plans for 2017 underway for young adults and college Christians. Contact Reverend Brenda Lee @yahoo.com or call (912) 236-3156. ongoing. No physical address given, none. Maritime Bethel “Sundays on Thursdays” worship at the Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220-2976. The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road. A New Church in the City, For the City Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Courses are now being offered at the new Savannah Extension of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Full course loads for both Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees will be offered. Apply now at www.nobts. edu to start classes this winter. ongoing. 912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com. Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton Street. Psychic Medium Your Pal, Erin Ready to reconnect you with your loved ones who’ve passed and your own inner knowing? I’m here to help. Let’s all work together to create the amazing new life you truly desire, releasing old situations that no longer serve you. Readings available in person and by phone. 60 minutes, $65. Group readings of 5 or more, $30 per person for 20 minutes. Get your personalized, 45 minute prerecorded “Tuesday Tune-Up” emailed to your inbox for just $45. Visit www.yourpalerin.com for more information or contact psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com today. ongoing. Online only, none. Read the Bible in One Year A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street. Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. ongoing. 636-2331772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Reiki Share During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street. Service of Compline Enter the stillness of another age. Gregorian

Chant sung by candlelight at 9:00-9:30 p.m. every Sunday night by the Complne Choir of Christ Church Anglican. Come, say good nigh to God. All are welcome. ongoing. Christ Church Anglican, 37th and Bull. South Valley Baptist Church Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” ongoing. Tapestry Church A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here. From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Theatre: Peter Pan Part of Asbury’s God on Broadway series, a worship service that combines sermons with Broadway musical themes featuring songs from the musicals in celebration of God’s Word. Free and open to the public Sun., Oct. 30, 11:15 a.m. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Theology on Tap Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm-10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St.

Special Screenings

Film: Casper Part of the Florence’s Rooftop Reels series. Free Sun., Oct. 30, 5 p.m. theflorencesavannah.com. The Florence, 1 B West Victory Drive. Film: Halloween Part of the Florence’s Rooftop Reels series. Free Sun., Oct. 30, 7 p.m. theflorencesavannah.com. The Florence, 1 B West Victory Drive. Film: The Blood on Satan’s Claw This little-known British chiller Horror thriller is set in 17th century England, and concerns the children of a village who are slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers. Atmospheric, unsettling and very respected by horror film fanatics. $7 Wed., Oct. 26, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Halloween Film Fest: Ghostbusters Answer the Call We have two showings of the new Ghostbusters starring some of the funniest actors around with their take on the supernatural comedy: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. Yep, the women are going to save the world. $7 adults, $5 children Sat., Oct. 29, 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org. https://tybeeposttheater.showare.com/. The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave.

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