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Looking ahead @ Graveface Fest. Oct. 27. Southern Pine Co. @ Savannah Film Festival. Oct. 27–Nov. 3. @ American Songbook Concert with Carlisle Floyd. Oct. 27. Telfair Rotunda. @ Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival. Oct. 28. Forsyth Park. @ Savannah Food Day. Oct. 28.

Daffin Park. @ Vinyl Appreciation: Muse Arts Warehouse. Oct. 28. @ SCAD: 44 Plays For 44 Presidents. Nov. 1–4. @ AASU Masquers: MacBeth. Nov. 1–11. @ Tybee Beach Brew Fest. Nov. 2 and 3. @ Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. Nov. 3. @ Geekend. Nov. 8–10. @ Needtobreathe. Nov. 8. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Asbury Memorial Theatre: God’s Favorite. Nov. 9–18. @ Savannah Community Theatre: Mercer and Me. Nov. 9–18. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Film screening: The Shining.

Nov. 10. Trustees Theater. @ Jake Owen. Nov. 10. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Children’s Book Festival. Nov. 10. Forsyth Park. @ Film screening: Bag It. Lucas Theatre. Nov. 15. @ Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and soloists: Opera: Carmina Burana, Peer Gynt and others. Nov. 17. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Columbia City Ballet: The Nutcracker. Nov. 24. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ AASU Masquers: Dramarama.

Nov. 23–Dec. 2. @ Disney on Ice: Worlds of Fantasy. MLK Arena. Nov. 29–Dec. 2. @ The Collective Face: Salome Parlor Play. Nov. 30–Dec. 9. @ Film screening: In the Family, with writer/director Patrick Wang. Dec. 2. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Chris Young. Dec. 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Cinderella. State Ballet Theatre of Russia. Jan. 13. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Columbia City Ballet: Snow White. Feb. 9. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Harlem Globetrotters. March 14. MLK Arena. @ Blue Man Group. May 13 and 14.

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Wednesday Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show

What: A live musical theater production of the cult classic.

When: Oct. 24-Oct. 31 Where: Bay Street Theatre at Club One, 1 Jefferson Street Cost: $15-$20 Info: 912-232-0200. BayStreetTheatre. org/

Yoga Under the Stars

What: Bring your mat and prepare for an evening of ultimate zen and relaxation.

Start with a nighttime yoga session on the golf course, followed by a social hour.

When: Wed. Oct. 24, 6-9 p.m.

Where: Club at Savannah Harbor, 2 Resort Drive, Hutchinson Island Cost: $5 Info: www.westinsavannah.com/events

Film: Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976, USA) What: Campy, controversial (at that time)

for its not too subtle gay themes, this TV variety special aired exactly one time.

When: Wed. Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

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

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Thursday Coastal Empire Fair opens

What: The traditional harbinger of fall in Savannah is here, with rides, carnival food, the Fearless Flores Thrill Show, educational exhibits and a concert by Passafire on Nov. 4. Organized by the Exchange Club of Savannah.

When: Oct. 25-Oct. 31 Where: Coastal Empire Fairgrounds, 4801 Meding St, Cost: $7. Unlimited ride bracelet $20.

Under 10 free.

Info: coastalempirefair.com/

Halloween Frights and Fun

What: The Alee Temple ‘Terror Plantation’ happens this weekend and Halloween night. See our story on page 40 and check out these listings for more creepy fun

Dixie Highway History Project Open House

What: The Dixie Highway was a highway system from Michigan to Florida, planned in 1914. Georgia Historical Society, Georgia DOT and the Federal Highway Administration are examining the cultural and historical impacts of this early road system. Learn more about the project, and bring related photos and memorabilia.

When: Thu. Oct. 25, 4-7 p.m.

Where: Hodgson Hall, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: georgiahistory.com/

Thinc Thursday

What: View and discuss TED videos on healthy and sustainable food.

When: Thu. Oct. 25, 5:30-7 p.m.

Where: ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard Street, Suite 300 Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: thincsavannah.com/

Art Lecture: Whitfield Lovell

What: The Telfair Museums’ annual Jacob Lawrence Lecture Series features Whitfield Lovell, a contemporary portrait artist and installationist.

When: Thu. Oct. 25, 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St., Cost: Free and open to the public Info: telfair.org/

Film: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011)

What: An award winning documentary exposing the existing global sex trade, with first-hand interviews with real victims and traffickers, plus expert analysis

from international humanitarian leaders.

Presented by Savannah Wor king Against Human Trafficking (SWAHT) & Hispanic Outreach & Leadership at Armstrong (HOLA).

When: Thu. Oct. 25, 7 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, Ogeechee Theater, 11935 Abercorn Street, Cost: Free. Register on eventbrite.

Info: armstrongatlanticstateuniversityiftour.eventbrite.com/

Falloween Festival: Haunted Trail opens

What: Skidaway Island State Park gives you two nights of fright on their trail of spooky horrors!

When: Thu. Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Causeway Cost: $5 per person + $5 park entrance fee per vehicle.

Info: 912-598-2300

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Friday Dreadful Pestilence! Savannah’s Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1820

What: Savannah’s gruesome history comes to life every Friday and Saturday night in October. One-hour performances at 7:30pm and 8:45pm reenact the story of yellow fever’s dreadful consequences. Reservations recommended.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, Sat. Oct. 27 Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State St Cost: $15 in advance for adults, $10 in advance children

Savannah Speed Classic

What: Practice laps Friday, qualifying heats Saturday, and races Sunday.

Part of Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d’Elegance.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Grand Prize of America Track (next to Westin Savannah Harbor Resort), Hutchinson Island Cost: $15 - $100 (daily, weekend, VIP tix available) Info: hhimotoringfestival.com

Author: Helene Sage

What: Signing copies of her book “Clay Pigeon.” Based on her father’s World War II diary as a member of the Mighty 8th Air Force.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Where: Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler Cost: Free admission. Books avail. for purchase.

Info: mightyeighth.org/

National Opera Week: Floyd on Floyd - Composer’s Symposium What: National Opera Week eventl

presents a Q&A with legendary composer and NEA Opera Honors

Awardee Carlisle Floyd. Sponsored

by VOICExperience, Savannah Philharmonic Chorus and Telfair.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York Cost: Free and open to the public Info: voicexperiencefoundation.com/

Silent Film Night—Live!

What: Bob Moore and Tony Steve

create live soundtracks to classic black-and-white silent films of the early 1900s. Ice cream reception by Tradewinds.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Where: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Road, Skidaway Island Cost: Free and open to the public.

Donations accepted.

Theatre: TV or Not TV—A Comedy “Review”

What: Your favorite classic TV sketches from I Love Lucy, the Golden Girls, and the Hollywood Squares.

Presented by Tybee Arts Association.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Sun. Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m.

Where: Jim Ingham Black Box Theater at the Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Lane, Tybee Island Cost: $15, $12 Tybee Arts member Info: tybeearts.org/

Halloween Haunted Forest at the Moose Lodge

What: Scary Savannah tradition benefits Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. (Halloween ticket sales end 10pm.)

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 8 p.m.-midnight, Sat. Oct. 27, 8 p.m.-midnight, Wed. Oct. 31, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Where: Savannah Moose Lodge #1550, 2202 Norwood Ave., Cost: $7 adults. $5 12 and under.

Film: Suspira (1977, Italy)

What: Friday Night Fright Fest Midnight Movie hosted by Psychotronic Film Society and Rock 106.1.

Considered one of the greatest and most unforgettable horror films ever made, by Dario Argento.

When: Fri. Oct. 26, 11:59 p.m.

Where: Muse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $10 Info: musesavannah.org/

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Saturday Savannah Film Festival opens

What: It’s the 15th annual showcase of new films, from Hollywood to student-created, that’s become Sa-

vannah’s signature celebrity-watching event. Sponsored by SCAD. SEE SPECIAL COVERAGE THIS ISSUE. When: Oct. 27-Nov. 3 Where: Downtown Savannah Info: filmfest.scad.edu/

Grass Strip Foundation Annual Fly-In/Open House

What: A festival of vintage airplanes

& cars, plus experimental aircraft, artisans, food, and old time fun.

When: Sat. Oct. 27 Where: Berg Park Aerodrome, 580 Old Gress Island Road, Midway Cost: Free and open to the public.

Donations welcomed.

SCAD Museum of Art First Anniversary

What: Gallery activities, workshops and demonstrations will be offered from 2-5 p.m. Art detective scavenger hunt for kids, 3-D paper sculpture workshop, live model portraiture demonstration, and storytelling.

When: Sat. Oct. 27 Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: SCADMoA.org/

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Rivers Alive! Hayner’s Creek Clean Up

What: City of Savannah, MPC, Ogeechee Riverkeepers and Clean Coast host its annual clean-up. Bring your own kayak or one will be provided. Free t-shirts and lunch.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 8 a.m.

Where: Hayner’s Creek at the River’s End Boat Ramp, Hurst Ave. off Montgomery Crossroad near Waters Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-651-6943.

Forsyth Farmers’ Market

What: Regular Saturday hours and location today. Sunday, the market moves for one day only to Daffin Park to join Savannah Food Day Festival.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South End of Forsyth Park Cost: Free to hang out and visit.

Info: forsythfarmersmarket.org

Pawrade and Fall Festival

What: Third annual pet parade and fall festival midtown. Enter your pet in the costume “pawrade” and enjoy kids carnival games & activities.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Habersham Village, Habersham Street between 61st and 63rd

2012 Graveface Fest

What: Savannah’s newest Halloween

festival, hosted by local record label and vinyl shop, Graveface Records.

Music starts at 2 p.m. Haunted house and music by Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, The Casket Girls, Dreamend, CUSSES, Dosh, Serengeti, Creepoid, Stargazer Lilies, The Winter Sounds, Tobacco, Deep Search and KidSyc@ Brandywine.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 12 p.m.-11:59 p.m.

Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th Cost: $20 Info: www.graveface.com/

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What: Fashion runway show featuring local breast cancer survivors and models in the latest fashions from Oglethorpe Mall retailers. Event begins at noon. Show begins at 2pm.

Choreographed by Halo Models and Talent Group.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Oglethorpe Mall-Macy’s Court, 7804 Abercorn St Cost: Free and open to the public.

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What: Hayrides at Interpretive Center, Games and Crafts at Picnic Pavilion #1, and trick-or-treating through the Campground (starts 4pm). Preregister for trick-or-treating.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Causeway , Cost: $2 per child + $5 per vehicle

Film: Weight of the Nation (USA, 2012)

What: Part of a series of documentaries on the U.S. obesity epidemic, produced by HBO. Part of a national screening and education campaign.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 4 p.m.

Where: Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris

Wrestling: Delusional

What: Wrestling exhibition featuring Taurus (Johnson High School and Savannah Tech graduate Kennjah “Kenny” Harmon), plus Mike Knox, J Biggz, and Robert Gibson.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 5 p.m.

Where: Delaware Center, 1812 Lincoln Street, Cost: $20 Gen. Adm. $10 military.

Free under age 12.

The Fort by Moonlight Canoe and Campout

What: Paddle under a full moon on the Darien River. A one-to-two hour trip leaving at sunset, then camp at the fort.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

Where: Meet at Skipper’s Dock, 85 Scriven St., Darien Cost: $40/person Info: gastateparks.org/fortkinggeorge

National Opera Week: An American Songbook Concert

What: Featuring the music of composer Carlisle Floyd and Savannah Philarmonic Chorus. Sponsored by VOICExperience and Telfair.

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

Where: Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard Cost: $35 Gen. Adm. $20 members. $10 Students.

Info: voicexperiencefoundation.com/

Spitfire Saturday Open Mic & Showcase

What: Spitfire’s once a month open mic that incorporates a mixture of music, poetry, visual art, and many other artistic forms of expression.

When: Sat. Oct. 27, 8 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

Where: Muse, 703 Louisville Rd., Cost: $5 to sit, $7 to spit.

Info: musesavannah.org/

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Sunday Savannah Food Day Festival

What: Food, music, exhibitors, pet friendly fun, kids activities, educational workshops, plus a one-day expansion of the Forsyth Farmers’ Market, all in Daffin Park. Part of a national celebration.

When: Sun. Oct. 28, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where: Daffin Park, Washington Ave. between Waters Ave. and Bee Rd., Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Monday Nat’l Opera Week: Young Artist Master Class w/ Sherrill Milnes

3rd Annual MasquerODD Ball

What: Halloween brought to you by the Odd Lot improv comedy troupe.

Wear a costume, win door prizes, hear ghost stories, and check out all the improv comedy that Odd Lot can throw at you.

When: Mon. Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

Where: Muse, 703 Louisville Rd., Cost: $5 Info: musesavannah.org/

What: A presentation by Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), the only fulltime grassroots organization in North America devoted to North Korean human rights.

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

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.

Student Union, 11935 Abercorn St., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Lecture: Education of the Artist in the Renaissance What: James T. Janson, Ph.D. offers

the first in a series of four art history lectures on Italian Renaissance art, offered prior to the opening of the Uffizi exhibition.

When: Tue. Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W York St, Cost: Free members, $5 non-mems.

Info: telfair.org/

Lecture: The Second War for Independence

What: Hugh Golson discusses Savannah and Georgia in the War of 1812.

Part of the Coastal Heritage Society Annual Lecture Series.

When: Tue. Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah History Museum, 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.chsgeorgia.org/

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Wednesday Film: Shock Waves (USA, 1977)

What: Florida-made thriller stars Peter Cushing and John Carradine.

When a boat full of visitors to a remote island discovers the ruins of a mansion hidden deep within its jungle, they learn that an evil German doctor has been marooned there for decades - along with a long-dead battalion of genetically altered Nazi soldiers.

When: Wed. Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

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What: Grammy Award winning baritone Milnes will instruct six local opera students selected by the Voice Co-Op, an organization of area voice teachers. Presented by VOICExperience, the Savannah Philharmonic Chorus and Telfair Museums.

When: Mon. Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: voicexperience.com/

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What: Spin your own or sit and listen to music recorded on vinyl. How-toDJ demo from 5 to 6 p.m. Records for sale from Graveface Records.

Complimentary treats and PERC coffee from Foxy Loxy.

When: Sun. Oct. 28, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.

Where: Muse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $3 donation at the door Info: vinyl912.tumblr.com/

What: Comedy duo known as Hillers and Creekers screen their skits, including “Poor and Gay” and “The Airmen’s Leave,” in two showings nowhere near the Savannah Film Festival. 8pm and midnight.

When: Tue. Oct. 30 Where: The Sparetime, 36 MLK Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

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What: The author of The Shadow Man (and a local physician) will discuss his new novel and the impact of writing in Savannah. Part of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s Fall Lecture Series.

When: Sun. Oct. 28, 3 p.m.

Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street Cost: Free and open to the public.

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What: Oy vey, you won’t believe the deliciousness at this annual celebration of Savannah-style Jewish cuisine and entertainment, presented by Congregation Mickve Israel.

When: Sun. Oct. 28, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: North End of Forsyth Park, Gaston Street & Bull Street, Cost: Free to attend. Open to public.

Info: www.mickveisrael.org/

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The Savannah Film Festival is back again with an outstanding variety of films and special guests. You’ve heard of ‘Six Degrees of Separation?’ You don’t even need six degrees to make some fun connections this year.

For example: This year’s Film Festival special guest Michelle Monaghan costarred in sometime Lowcountry resident Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, and now Affleck has directed Film Festival special guest John Goodman in Argo, and Goodman is here to promote his new film Flight which also stars Denzel Washington, and both Goodman and Washington were with Film Festival guest James Gandolfini in 1998’s Fallen, and Gandolfini’s final scene in The Sopranos featured Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,’” and filmmaker Ramona Diaz brings her Journey documentary Don’t Stop Believin’ to the Film Festival this

year, and Gandolfini’s co-star in the film he’s in Savannah to promote,Violet & Daisy, Alexis Bledel, had a role in the Savannahfilmed The Conspirator.

(See Bill DeYoung’s enormously entertaining interview with Goodman inside. I interview Diaz inside as well, and you’ll see my talk with Monaghan next week.)

I’m sure the real film geeks among you can do a much better job. In any case, we hope you enjoy our annual special coverage of this very special annual event. We’ll have more blockbuster coverage in the following issue and of course plenty of social media updates as the event goes on.

Of course there’s also a little thing called an election, and this week’s issue has my interview with Steve Oppenheimer, candidate for Georgia Public Service Commission. If you don’t know what the PSC does, you should — they are the ones responsible for approving the huge electricity bills you pay right now, a cost which has gone up about 25 percent over the last five years.

And this week we also continue our annual tradition of highlighting Halloween special events, with ghostly stories from Augusta Statz and Jessica Leigh Lebos (who also interviews filmmaker/supermodel Christy Turlington Burns this week), not to mention Bill’s pieces on the ghastly inaugural Graveface Festival and the muchanticipated GAM show...

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Small-Toney a victim of racism?

Editor, I will not deal with your views on the firing of former City Manager Rochelle Small–Toney in detail except to say that the attacks on her credibility seem to have preceded her actual accession to the post, which creates some awkward presumptions.

She was preceded by a white man who had held the job without criticism for many years.

Who knows how the Purchasing Department was run then?

And could a new City Manager turn it around from “perfect” to “dysfunctional” in six months?

And who decided it was dysfunctional?

We do know that one of Michael Brown’s achievements was to secure an agreement for a

marvelous retirement benefit to be paid to himself whenever he left his job until death. Savannah taxpayers are picking up that tab.

And when Brown did leave for another post in a different city he lasted only long enough to be found out as a maneuvering scamp and then was thrown out.

Unless he had a serious twist of personality and behavior, he had presumably learned his tricks in Savannah – only in Savannah he was allowed to get away with them. Why was that?

Which brings us to the issue of race. The editor is pitifully ill–informed on issues of race in this country, a country in which a racial caste system has figured more prominently than any other factor. The idea that the Civil Rights Movement has answered all questions of race

and that this is now a colorblind society, and that people who “play the race card” are deluded, is dealt with magnificently in Michelle Alexander’s new book The New Jim Crow. The book takes the reader through the crises of black history, pointing out how each time there seems to be a gain, new laws are instituted to ensure blacks could be disbarred from engaging in the society as a whole, and imprisoned if possible, often for slight offenses or none. She deals primarily with the so–called “War on Drugs,” a war on black youth, and its monstrous effect on black communities.

For those of you who have any serious interest in the future of this country, and any decency and humanity left over from the onslaught of daily miserableness,

you may take heart in the fact that there are people who understand the severity of this racial caste system, and don’t believe for a minute that “no mention of race” means that racism has been eradicated in the U.S. Far from it.

Oh yes. And if the new appointed city manager is a white male, I suggest a thrilling march and demonstration outside City Hall to uphold the city representatives who came to Small–Toney’s defense.

Lillian Sanford

Editor’s Note: We actually do have some idea “how the Purchasing Department was run” before Small– Toney became city manager, since there was 100 percent turnover in that department soon after she took control of it.

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The (Civil) Society Column

A night with the haints

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart. You try to scream…

Yes, these may seem to be the lyrics to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, but it’s pretty dang close to how it all went down.

See, when I pulled up to the Olde Pink House late last Monday night to meet Ryan Dunn and Guieneverre Cutlip of the local paranormal investigative team 3–D Ghosthunters, I wasn’t scared at all.

Mostly I was annoyed that this expedition had to take place at an hour when I’d have been horizontal for at least two hours, earplugs snugly in place. Stupid specters. Why can’t ghosts socialize at five in the afternoon like normal people? So inconsiderate, the undead.

Turns out it’s the live folk that are the problem.

“It needs to be as quiet as possible for us to collect data,” explained Dunn as we sat on worn leather couches waiting for the downstairs Tavern bar to clear out. “During the day, there are all kinds of noises that cover up any unusual activity.”

Dunn founded 3–D Ghosthunters two years ago with his wife, Kim, after spending an unusual date night in Colonial Cemetery that yielded a bizarre recording of mysterious voices. They began investigating purported local haunted hotspots like the Savannah Theatre and The Foley

House and they’ve collected a library of enigmatic EVFs (“electronic voice phenomenon”) that reveal whispers and phrases when analyzed with audio software. In this Most Haunted City in America, their hobby is flourishing into a business.

Unfortunately on this night the babysitter cancelled, so Kim was home with the couple’s two little girls, presumably reading them Edgar Allen Poe. Joined by marketing director Cutlip and photographer/resident skeptic Ryan Reese, the small team does an exhaustive historical timeline of each location and is careful not to promise proof of otherworldly entities.

As the barflies toasted another round, Dunn educated me on the two types of ghosts: “Residual” phantoms are imprints repeat the same action over and over, and “intelligent” spirits interact with the living, sometimes dropping things on heads or speaking through television static (Carol Anne…Carol Anne?)

Often when either kind passes through a room, he said, a density in the air can be detected and the temperature drops.

I felt sudden chill and shrieked.

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Finally, the last of the port–soused patrons stumbled into the night and the ghost hunters got to work. Digital recorders received fresh batteries and cameras were set up in the dining rooms of the Olde Pink House, which you may have gleaned is old and pink and incredibly creepy in the wee hours of the morning.

Built in 1789 for Revolutionary patriot James Habersham, Jr., this mansion–turned–restaurant has for decades spawned reports of locked bathrooms, disembodied faces in mirrors and on several occasions, old Mrs. Habersham drifting past to play with patrons’ hair. Dunn chose to begin the investigation in the tavern hallway, where a smoky apparition was captured on a security camera

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“Does it bother you that we’re in your house?” he boomed, recorder held high. I scrunched into a fetal position in the corner. Suddenly I felt a buzz in my back pocket. OH MY GOD it’s touching my butt! I almost screamed, then realized it was just a text from my insomniac son.

After a few more questions, Dunn sighed. “I don’t feel much up here, let’s go back down to the tavern.”

There we sat quietly again in the hallway with Cutlip, Reese and the rest of the gang, watching the EMF sensors light oscillate, a possible indication that ghosts were disrupting the magnetic field. I had just decided that 3am was late enough for a school night when Dunn asked the empty space in front of us “Are you lonely?”

And there it was, a distinct skreeeeek rustle that seemed to come from the chair right next to me. We all jumped and turned wide–eyed to each other.

“Everyone heard that, right?” chirped Dunn.

That was enough paranormal activity for this girl. I don’t care whether you believe in ghosts or not: When the air speaks, it’s time to go home.

The 3–D Ghosthunters stayed until dawn and are still analyzing the recordings from the Pink House to share on their Facebook page, but Dunn sent me the cleaned–up clip of the rustle the very next day.

I’ve listened to the whispered “Help, help” about a hundred times now, and all I can say is I hope the poor soul trapped near one of the finest wine cellars in town with no way to partake finds some solace soon.

As for the happy ghosts, they say Halloween is when they really come out to play—bring your cards, if you dare. cs

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Pink House manager Meghan Littlefield, who spotted the ghost on camera while working in the back storeroom (and can be seen running down the hall at 33 seconds into the video), didn’t seem to mind being charged with staying late. “I get all the ghost stuff now,” she grinned.

Restaurant people are always up late anyway, and sommelier Jason Restivo also stuck around to tell tales of eerie shadows and a stack of bowls that broke themselves. When I asked maitre d’ Sean Dempsey if he’d ever experienced anything supernatural at work, he reluctantly answered, “No. Well, yeaaah…” and shared stories of candles that relit themselves and brought out a framed photo taken by a customer of a strange cloudy figure standing in front of the bar.

At this point, Dunn announced we should split up and beckoned me to follow him to the very dark third floor. He placed playing cards on tables along the way—“trigger objects” that can attract movement from the Other Side.

The hair on my neck did a little dance as we passed by a portrait of Mr. Habersham giving us the Stinkeye from over the hostess station—I swear his eyes followed me as we wound our way up the spiral staircase.

I crept along with my back to the wall in case anything tried to pet my hair.

We had just tiptoed into the low– ceilinged Brown Room when Dunn asked loudly, “Are you here? Can you make a noise to let us know?”

Oh hell no, I thought, he’s talking to the ghosts? I was told we were OBSERVING. I stepped away from my guide, trying to make myself as small as possible. How well can ghosts see anyway?

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In a nutshell, the five elected members of the Public Service Commission are in charge of implementing energy policy and approving or denying proposed rate increases by utilities. The current pro-utility makeup of the PSC — four Republicans and one Democrat-turnedRepublican — means virtually every requested rate increase has passed.

Steve Oppenheimer, a Democrat, is running to be a potential swing vote on the PSC in favor of consumers. He is running against incumbent Chuck Eaton and Libertarian candidate Brad Ploeger. A

former dentist, Oppenheimer has three sons and stays active in energy policy issues.

You’re a successful guy and a happy family man, so why in the world would you run for the relatively thankless task of Public Service Commissioner?

Steve Oppenheimer: Like I told my kids, I’m doing it for them. I’ve been involved for the last eight years locally and nationally in energy policy and energy security issues, and I’m genuinely concerned about the track Georgia is currently on.

In the last five years rates are up 25 percent! And there’s another rate increase coming next year. And all of these increases are occurring during a flat economy.

Additionally, there’s a real problem with unemployment in Georgia,

The PSC has so much real–world power but I get the sense that very few Georgians know it even exists, much less what it does.

Steve Oppenheimer: You’re correct, and that’s what our polling shows.

Before you had commissioners who did serve the public’s interest like Bobby Baker and Angela Speir, the public was more plugged in because they were made more aware of the impact of the commission’s decisions.

In 2008 the governor’s budget cuts removed the professional consumer advocate that served on the council to protect the consumer’s interest and speak on behalf of residential and small business owners.

One of the first things I want to do is see that position restored. Since that position was taken away there’s been more than $4 billion in rate increases on the backs of homeowners and small businesses.

I was also a small businessman as a dentist and a homeowner, so I know what’s happening to my utility bills. I saw then that some of the decisions the PSC was making were unbelievable. I though I’d walked through the looking glass. It made no sense for the well–being of people in the state of Georgia.

What do you think of the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision allowing unlimited corporate donations?

The current PSC has approved Georgia Power’s two proposed new reactors at Plant Vogtle up the Savannah River, committing the public to pay for the reactors before they were built. If elected is there really anything you could do to make that situation more equitable for the ratepayers?

Steve Oppenheimer: At this point in time, a lot of this is toothpaste out of the tube already. The state legislature already has us prepaying interest for a plant that we don’t know how much it’s going to cost and when it’s going to be done. That’s totally unprecedented for a nuclear plant. The last time they built one they exceeded their budget by 1200 percent!

What do you think of nuclear power in general?

Steve Oppenheimer: Nuclear is part of our mix now, and it will be a bigger part of the mix when these two plants are added. But it won’t meet all of our energy needs going forward. We need to continue to expand alternatives, continue to diversify our sources of energy

including renewable energy like solar, and eventually wind. It’s safe, it’s clean, and it doesn’t require water — which for a state that’s in and out of drought should be a real consideration in energy planning.

I’d also emphasize energy efficiency. In states like Arizona and North Carolina they’ve changed planning to include more focus on efficiency and renewables, and their rate increases are less than our annual rate increases. North Carolina’s cost per kilowatt is less than Georgia’s right now.

Let’s rank the realistic renewable options. What’s the low–hanging fruit right now?

Steve Oppenheimer: Energy efficiency. Then would come solar.

That’s economically viable now.

Also smart grid technology, which would include things like time–of– use plans, such as if you use more energy at a low demand time you get a price break.

This is a field that is changing rapidly, but not so much in Georgia.

The only thing changing in Georgia is our prices are increasing. A 25 percent increase in five years is very problematic!

We need to look at the energy sector as an opportunity for America to innovate and meet this need. It’s time we get someone in there willing to do the homework. cs

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Steve Oppenheimer: Citizens United set democracy back a long long way. But it didn’t really change anything at the Public Service Commission, because utilities don’t give directly to the PSC at this point.

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For eight days each autumn, the Savannah Film Festival makes our very special city feel a little bit extra–special.

It’s great for film students, techies and aspiring actors, because they get to interact with people who are really, truly making a living in the movie business. The pros come to Savannah to answer questions and impart hard–earned wisdom.

It’s great for folks who just like to get a gander at celebrities — those who come to plug their latest indie film, and those lured by some sort of achievement award from SCAD and its now five–star festival.

Really, though, the Savannah Film Festival is all about exclusivity. For each of those eight days, we get to see movies that aren’t out yet, anywhere in the world. Some are independent, some are big–budget, and some fall between the cracks of the high–profile and the obscure.

The 2012 Savannah Film Festival, Oct. 27–Nov. 3, is bringing, among others: Director Walter Salles’ hotly–anticipated On the Road; Robert Zemeckis’ Flight; the football drama Silver Linings Playbook; Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut from Oscar–winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher; actor Dustin Hoffman’s first movie as a director, Quartet; The Sapphires, I Do, 28 Hotel Rooms, Rise of the Guardians, Tomorrow You’re Gone and numerous others.

The highlight, for many Savannahians, will be the “Director’s Choice” screening on Oct. 31. This title is never revealed until the opening credits roll. In 2009, it was Up in the Air; the next year, the made–in–Savannah The Conspirator. The 2011 Director’s choice was ... The Muppets.

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Silver Linings Playbook. 7:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything — his house, his job and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet–and to share their family’s obsession with their favorite Philadelphia football team. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated.

Sunday, Oct. 28

Missed Connections. 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. In a city of 19 million people, love at first sight happens every instant. But if you fail to act in the moment, how can you find each other again? Missed Connections is a new independent comedy about the lengths New Yorkers will go to find love.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater.

Filmed over a decade, the film follows internationally renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson’s quest to create his unique, surreal, and incredibly elaborate portraits of suburban life. He sets a house on fire, builds 90– foot sets with crews of 60, shuts down city streets ... all in the service of his haunted image of American life, and his own anxieties, dreams and inner desires.

Hairspray. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre. Followed by a Q&A with director Adam Shankman.

Fort McCoy. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during World War II. It is a coming of age story beset with tragedy, a love story between a Jewish soldier and Catholic girl, and the journey of one man (Eric Stoltz) struggling to find his worth in a war that does not want him.

Flight. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. In Robert Zemeckis’ mystery thriller, Academy Award–winner Denzel

Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid–air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane? Followed by John Goodman award presentation.

Violet & Daisy. 9:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Followed by a Q&A with writer/director Geoffrey Fletcher and James Gandolfini.

Monday, Oct. 29

Wonder Women! 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the birth, evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman and introduces audiences to a dynamic group of fictional and real–life superheroines fighting for positive role models for girls, both on screen and off.

Animated Shorts. 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

No Woman, No Cry. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre. Followed by a Q&A with Christy Turlington–Burns.

Sweet Dreams. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. A group of Rwandan women embark on a journey to heal the wounds of the past and create their own unique path to a future of peace and possibility.

Panel: Avid’s Essential Role in Mission Impossible and Other Blockbuster Films. 11:30 a.m., Gutstein Gallery.

A BIG Love Story. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Seven years ago, Sam was a 260 pound NFL prospect. Now, he’s a lonely 413 pound bowling alley cashier. Realizing that he can’t change his life on his own, the personal trainer he hires makes a bigger impact on him than he’d bargained for.

Student Films. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre.

Panel: Women Behind the Scenes.

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On the Road. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Walter Salles’ highly anticipated adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic “beat” novel, with Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart. continues on p. 16

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But, as their friendship grows, Troy discovers Marcus’ drug addiction and battles to do the right thing.

Panel: A Critical Eye on Film: The Cinema Studies Perspective. 9:30 a.m., Gutstein Gallery.

Switch. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. What will it really take to switch from oil and coal to alternatives? Dr. Scott Tinker explores the world’s leading energy sites, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels, to find out. Along the way, he gets straight answers from energy leaders and lays out a path to our future that is surprising and remarkably pragmatic.

The Last Mimzy. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre. USA, 2007. Two ordinary siblings begin to develop extraordinary talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. The pair is soon learning from a stuffed rabbit named Mimzy who teaches them everything from science to levitation. Soon the kids, their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange and sometimes terrifying world. Followed by a Q&A with producer Bob Shaye.

Panel: Young Directors Forum.

11:30 a.m., Gutstein Gallery.

Chittagong. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre. Set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India, a true story of a 14–year–old boy, Jhunku, and of his journey to find where he belongs.

Nobody Walks. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Martine (Oliva Thirlby), an artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to work on her film. She is staying with friends of a friend, Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt), her husband Peter (John Krasinski), Julie’s teenage daughter Kolt (India Ennenga), and their young son. From the day that Martine walks into the lives of this open–minded, relaxed California family, everything is subtly set off balance.

Panel: Transmedia 2.0: Experience the Story. 2:30 p.m., Gutstein Gallery.

Quartet. 7 p.m.. Trustees Theatre.

Beecham House is abuzz. The rumor circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it’s a star.

For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins) this

sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they’re in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). Directed by Dustin Hoffman. Followed by Stan Lee award presentation.

28 Hotel Rooms. 9:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one–night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life.

Wednesday, Oct. 31

The Amazing Spider–Man (3D). 9 a.m., Trustees Theater. Followed by a Q&A with Stan Lee. Panel: Long Story Short: The Challenges of Short Filmmaking, 9:30 a.m., Gutstein Gallery.

Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater.

A Place at the Table. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity. Followed by a Q&A with director Kristi Jacobson.

Panel: Filmmaking on a Budget, 2:30 p.m., Gutstein Gallery.

The Girl. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Julian Jarrold and Amanda Jenks.

I Do. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre. A romantic drama about a complicated love triangle. To stay in the U.S., gay Brit Jack convinces his lesbian best friend Ali to marry him. Things get messy when he falls for a sexy Spanish architect while his commitment to his brother’s widow complicates his decision either to stay or to follow his lover. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Glenn Gaylord and David Ross.

Director’s Choice. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater.

Dracula. 8 p.m.., Lucas Theatre.

Yes, it’s the 1931 classic, with Bela Lugosi. It’s Halloween, you see.

Thursday, Nov. 1

Missed Connections. 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater.

SCAD Student Showcase. 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

Panel: How to Launch Your Film

Friday, Nov. 2

Animated Short Films. 9:30 a.m., Trustees Theater.

Wonder Women! 9:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

Fort McCoy. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

Student Competition. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater.

Panel: Behind the Slime at Nickelodeon. 11:30 a.m., Gutstein Gallery.

City of Ghosts. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. USA, 2002. Jimmy (Matt Dillon) is a New York con man whose luck runs out and he heads to Cambodia to escape a federal

investigation. He is also in search of his mentor and partner in crime who owes him his share of an insurance scam. Followed by a Q&A with Matt Dillon.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre.

Panel: ADOBE Panel. 2:30 p.m., Gutstein Gallery.

The Sapphires. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Inspired by a true story, it follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group, The Sapphires, entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. Followed by Matt Dillon Tribute.

Saturday, Nov. 3

Amour. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. France, 2012. Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

A BIG Love Story. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

Fat Kid Rules the World. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater.

LUV. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre.

Eleven–year–old Woody Watson is a timid Baltimore orphan who dreams of a better life –– and his absent mother who may or may not be in North Carolina fighting drug addiction. Woody also reveres his uncle Vincent as the father figure he never had. A street hustler and former drug dealer, Vincent’s fresh off an eight– year stint in prison and wants a new direction. A day once bright with optimism quickly spirals downward into a world of violence. Followed by a Q&A with producer Jason Michael Berman.

Rise of the Guardians. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. DreamWorks’ CGI–animated adventure with voices

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A Little Romance. 11:30 a.m., Trustees Theater. USA, 1979. A French boy (Thelonious Bernard) and an American girl (Diane Lane), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. Followed by a Q&A with Diane Lane.

Switch. 11:30 a.m., Lucas Theatre.

Panel: Casting the Net: Agent/ Actor/Casting Director. 2:30 p.m., Gutstein Gallery.

In Our Nature. 2:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. When Brooklynite Seth (Zach Gilford) takes his girlfriend Andie (Jena Malone) to his family’s weekend house in upstate New York for a romantic getaway, they are unexpectedly joined by his estranged father Gil (John Slattery), and his much–younger new girlfriend. Followed by a Q&A with Zach Gilford.

Sweet Dreams. 2:30 p.m., Lucas Theatre.

Rust and Bone. 7 p.m., Trustees Theater. Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident. Followed by Diane Lane Tribute.

Tomorrow You’re Gone. 9:30 p.m., Trustees Theater. Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff), recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jailhouse mentor William “The Buddha” Pettigrew (Willem Dafoe).

Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane (Michelle Monaghan). They embark on an unlikely road trip. Preceded by Michelle Monaghan award presentation and followed by a Q&A with Michelle Monaghan and director David Jacobsen.

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One of the most recognizable character actors working today, John Goodman might also be the busiest — this week, three of his films are in Savannah theaters, including Ben Affleck’s box office smash Argo.

“When I saw it,” Goodman says of Argo, “I was on the edge of my seat.

And I already knew what was gonna happen.”

Goodman will be at the Savannah Film Festival Oct. 28 to attend a screening of the new Denzel Washington thriller Flight, in which he has a pivotal role.

Already in the can for this prodigious talent: The Internship, with Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, and the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

It’ll be the fifth Coen film for Goodman, whose bombastic comic

presence in The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou were instrumental in making those wonderfully quirky movies so ... well, wonderfully quirky.

A native of St. Louis, Goodman first hit the public radar as Pap Finn in the original Broadway production of the Roger Miller musical Big River.

For a lot of people, he’ll always be Dan Conner, Roseanne Barr’s loveable lug of a husband on the long– running TV sitcom Roseanne.

We caught up with him at the end of a long day of interviews (called a “press junket”) for Flight.

Was doing Argo a no–brainer?

John Goodman: He called me in to that office that they had, and we sat down and shot the shit about baseball and stuff for a while. Then we got down to brass tacks. He was extremely prepared. Then Alan Arkin fell into the deal, and that was even better because I’ve really been a longtime fan, ever since I first saw him in The Russians Are Coming.

At what point do you consider a film a success?

John Goodman: You gotta blow off all the Oscar buzz talk and all that shit. Because that’s none of my business. That’s for people on Entertainment Tonight, Extra and all that stuff.

That’s how they make their living, out of doing the red carpet stuff. So you

just discount that stuff.

It’s how it makes me feel. If I get a good time doing it, and by good time I mean was it satisfying? That’s the only criterion I can have.

Do you ever get to the point where you see the finished film and go “This isn’t what we made”?

John Goodman: Uhhh... it’s happened.

In a long career, I guess they can’t all be great. To you, what’s the difference between a “paycheck film” and something you get really excited about? I mean, you work like a son of a bitch.

John Goodman: Well, there’s been times where I didn’t work like a son of a bitch. When I had a lot of down time. At that point you get — well, I did — kind of desperate that maybe

I’ve heard you say you’d like to do another TV series ...

John Goodman: Yeah, you get to stay in one place for a while. You show up and work with people that you get to know. It becomes kind of like a family.

Although in the case of the last experience, it was a highly dysfunctional family ... but we grew to love each other. You show up every day and you see the same people, it gets to be fun.

Didn’t you and Roseanne recently do a series pilot together?

John Goodman: Yeah, we did a pilot for NBC. It was an idea that she had.

But the times aren’t so good right now so she set it in a trailer park with a bunch of down–and–outers in Arizona. Then a family comes along that just lost everything in the stock market crash, or bubble, or whatever the hell it was, and how they adjust. It was great to be back with her. We had a lot of fun. But it wasn’t fun enough for NBC! You’ve got another Coen Brothers movie coming up. Why is your chemistry so good with them?

John Goodman: I don’t know; I don’t know anything about chemistry. I know that I like ‘em, I like what’s on the page, I like the way they write and the way they think. They always make me laugh. To me, they’re terribly entertaining and interesting. You never know quite where things are gonna go with them.

It’s almost like a repertory company with them. Does that feel like a family to you?

I don’t want to whine about shit, but it’s hard work. I mean, you’ve got to throw everything you’ve got physically into these voices to make ‘em live. And then you gotta do it over and over and over again, so that the directors have something to pick and choose from. I always feel like I’m doing it wrong, because they always want it again, three more times.

But when I’m working with Billy, the energy in the room just takes off.

You don’t know where he’s gonna go.

‘Cause he’s so phenomenally clever.

It’s just great to listen to him, and just hang on and see where you can go with it. The energy multiplies by 10.

John Goodman: Yeah, the first night I was on the set for Inside Llewyn Davis, I was gettin’ a makeup test.

And Frannie, Joel’s wife — who won an Oscar for Fargo — showed up with some soup for the boys. I thought that was cool.

What do you get hit up with most in airports?

John Goodman: Lebowski, it’s usually Lebowski. I used to get “Yabba Dabba Do,” but not so much any more, which is a relief.

And it’s always welcome. People yell out “Shomer Shabbos” or “Shut the fuck up, Donny” or something like that.

Of all the Coen films, why do you think Lebowski is the one that’s resonated so much?

John Goodman: I think the fact that the Dude Abides. (laughing). We all have an inner Dude. I don’t know. I think it’s the writing. It’s just a hodge– podge of mystery and goofiness.

Monsters Inc. was huge. Do you get little kids recognizing Sulley’s voice?

You’ve been talking all day. Let me ask you, John — do you hate press junkets?

John Goodman: Not unless their parents shove ‘em at me, and say “This is Sulley.” Then they can hear it in the voice, and that’s pretty cool.

That’s kinda why I got into it in the first place, for my daughter. I used to bring cartoons home — and I’d try to bring good ones, like old Warner Brothers cartoons. And she got hooked on ‘em. Spielberg actually did a cartoon and asked me to be a part of it. Steven read all the lines, and I read the lines back to him. And that was really neat. She got a kick out of it.

John Goodman: Yeah, because I’m no good at ‘em. And I just gotta make up shit to keep tap–dancin.’ People ask you questions, and then they shut off ... it’s like they’re interrogating you.

I’m just no good at it. I’m not clever.

I’m lousy at cocktail parties. I don’t chit–chat well. It’s just uncomfortable, but apparently they can’t make a movie now without having this shit.

You’ve got another Monsters Inc. film for Pixar coming up.

Done any stage work recently?

John Goodman: Yeah! I go back in two weeks and work with Billy (Crystal), which is great because usually they put us in a room by ourselves ...

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Never could understand that play, but God bless you.

John Goodman: Well, yeah, I don’t think you’re supposed to. It has an effect.

Is that something you enjoy too, because you’re in the same place?

John Goodman: It’s not just because of that, there’s an immediate response that you don’t get (with film) ... and the audience becomes part of the performance. I want to get back. I’ve got one artificial knee, and I need to get another one before I can get back up and stand around for a couple hours yelling at people onstage.

Before we got started, you mentioned that you’d been in Savannah once?

John Goodman: I was doing a bus and truck theater show, and we played there. But I don’t remember much of it. I knew it was supposed to be really cool and everything, but we didn’t have time. Back on the bus. Leave.

Anything cool to say about Flight?

John Goodman: I’d never seen a movie like it before. There’s a lot of ambiguous characters in it who think they’re doing the right thing. It makes for fascinating watching. Especially Denzel, he’s really compelling. CS Flight screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Trustees Theater, with John Goodman in attendance.

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Geoffrey Fletcher: With storytelling I think, in the best–case scenario, you’re conducting a dialogue between the audience and the allegory. After that, it’s often great to hear what audiences make of that exchange. No matter how outrageous some of the situations may be in this film, they are working towards something, yet that something is ultimately up to each member of its audience.

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I imagine one’s directorial debut is a big step ... why were you sure that Violet & Daisy was going to be the one?

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Geoffrey Fletcher: I had been thinking about Violet & Daisy for a long time. Of the many things I wanted to do after Precious, it was foremost in my mind. I also think we rarely see films these days where flawed, funny, clever and heroic women are driving the plot. I soon realized how few opportunities there were for all of the talent out there when so many wonderful actresses showed interest in the film. It was humbling and inspiring. I wanted to write additional parts for them but the story had no more room.

Was this an easy write, or was it difficult?

In 2010, Geoffrey Fletcher won a well–deserved Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for his work on Precious, which had begun with a harrowing, non–linear novel (Push) by the writer known as Sapphire.

The adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and the Tisch School of the Arts was subsequently given the green light for his directorial debut, Violet & Daisy, which will screen Oct. 28 at the Trustees Theater. Fletcher directed it from his own screenplay.

Fletcher and James Gandolfini, one of the stars of the new movie, will participate in a Q&A following the screening.

Violet & Daisy is 180 degrees from Precious. It’s a black comedy about two otherwise vapid teenaged girls (Saorise Ronan, Atonement, The Lovely Bones, Hanna) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) who happen to be hired assassins.

Gandolfini is the first target who

actually gives them something to think about.

“Gleefully amoral and esoteric, its destiny as a cult hit is probably already written,” raved Moveable Feast critic Steven Saito after catching Violet & Daisy at the Toronto International Film Festival. “But otherwise it’s a breath of fresh air that defies classification, despite the fact it comes at the expense of someone’s last gasp.”

One of the reviews called Violet & Daisy “gleefully amoral and esoteric.”

That’s enough to make me want to go see it ... What was the impetus for writing A. a dark comedy and B. a story about teenage assassins?

Geoffrey Fletcher: Violet & Daisy came from my desire to explore a number of themes and genres. It also

came from my love for edgy ‘60s and ‘70s foreign and American films, dark humor, spirited female characters, and a few other things. Whatever people might expect from this film based on its premise or my previous work, they should expect something else.

There’s nothing remotely humorous in Precious.

Geoffrey Fletcher: I disagree, and I’ll tell you why. The first time you watch it, perhaps there isn’t anything funny in Precious. Maybe even the second time. But a film like that, what makes it bearable is that there’s humor in it, there’s release in it. When you look at Raging Bull or Glengarry Glenn Ross, no one really thinks of them as funny. I’ve watched both those films many times, and once you get past the initial shock of the most difficult moments, you find that there’s a lot of humor underneath. It really isn’t what you take away from the film on your first viewing.

Geoffrey Fletcher: Well, I do think that all writing is difficult, but when you have something you’re excited about, it makes it feel less so. I think the film, ultimately, has many different tones in it, and I was so excited about the opportunity of exploring different tones while also telling a story with three acts. Underneath, I believe there is that traditional storytelling, but on top there are a number of colors at play. So I feel as if these characters were telling me what to do, and what they wanted to say. I think that’s often a sign that you are really inside of the world you’re trying to create.

What’s it like to watch characters you’ve created come alive before your eyes?

Geoffrey Fletcher: We were so fortunate to land this cast. The leads are all playing against type and magnificently so. Actually, it’s another element of the film that might throw one a little off balance. You’ve probably never seen Saoirse Ronan, James Gandolfini and Alexis Bledel like this.

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Marianne Jean–Baptiste and Danny Trejo are also terrific.

I learned a lot from what Mo’Nique did in Precious. She showed us that she could do anything. All of the actors in this film show us dimensions that you might not have known about. In terms of watching these characters come alive, it was fun to see moments like Saoirse Ronan playing patty cake with James Gandolfini or Alexis Bledel sticking her finger in Danny Trejo’s ear. The ladies do a few things that aren’t so cute as well.

character in search of her voice, I believed that she should be the narrator from the start.

The biggest challenge was saying goodbye to the character after I finished the script. Some things inspire your abilities in such a powerful way.

That’s what Sapphire’s novel did for me. She and I met in an odd way. Just around the time I was finishing the script, she sat next to me on the subway. I recognized her because I had seen her picture on the back of the book for so long.

What was your biggest challenge in translating Push for the screen? I imagine you had to create a narrative out of Precious’ thoughts and inner dialogue. Did you know immediately how you wanted to structure it, or was it a process of trial and error? Was Sapphire part of the process, in an advisory or other capacity?

I interviewed (director) Lee Daniels at length after I first saw the film. What sort of directives, if any, did he give you? Was it just ‘I trust you’?

Geoffrey Fletcher: I was warned that the book was grim, dense and difficult but, for some reason, I saw every page brimming with light and possibilities. I also fell in love with Precious from page one. I always thought that however much people might pity her, they should admire her at least that much. She has more strength than most of us. Since she is at first a lonely

Geoffrey Fletcher: I gave him the first 15 pages “off the meter” so he could get an idea of my take on it.

After every new set of new pages that I turned in, he would simply say “keep going”. I think he saw how inspired I was and he gave me what was probably an unusual amount of freedom. That whole journey was such a wild and wonderful ride. CS Violet & Daisy screens at 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Trustees Theatre, followed by a Q&A with Fletcher & James Gandolfini.

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As a director, Shankman has given us The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember, Bringing Down the House, The Pacifier, Hairspray and Rock of Ages, among others.

He’ll be at the Savannah Film Festival Oct. 28, to conduct a Q&A following a screening of Hairspray.

His credits as a producer are impressive, too — there was the Tybee–filmed The Last Song, 17 Again, both Step Up films, Bedtime Stories, Premonition and nearly all the films he directed.

Shankman began his career as a choreographer — literally stepping in at the last minute on a Paula Abdul video — and has choreographed dozens of movies, from Boogie Nights to Mission to Mars to Catch Me If You Can. And he’s a judge on TV’s So You Think You Can Dance.

Actors always want to direct. Do choreographers always want to direct?

Adam Shankman: Here’s the weird thing: Choreography is directing.

You’re literally telling people what to do, where to go, when to do it. It’s just sort of a subset. And in many cases, like a ballet or whatever, you’re also doing the costume design, and the set design with the key designers, so it really is a perfect schooling. A perfect training.

It actually kind of made everything easier. It wasn’t anything I ached or yearned to do, ever, it was a natural transition. Because an opportunity arose, and I blithely went into it thinking, maybe naively confident, that it was something I could do, and it ended up working out.

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It made me think of someone like David Geffen, starting in the William Morris mailroom: I’ll keep working my way up until somebody tells me I’m no good.

Adam Shankman: For me, it’s always been like “Oh, when will I be unmasked?” Because I’m that guy. But my story was much more in a cliché way. It was more like Peggy Sawyer

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from 42nd Street, where the doors blew open and they said “Where’s the understudy?” And I just happened to be standing there. That’s how I got into choreography.

And then the way I got into direction was really that. I just sort of believed that I could do it, and I did.

I put down all the money I had saved to make a short film, and asked every resource and favor in the world, so it wasn’t like I was walking down the street instead of a piano God dropped a movie on my head.

The L.A. dance community is very tight. Every dance community is pretty tight. When I made my short, I literally turned to my two best friends who were working with me in the choreography world ... I had this Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland thing, “What do you guys think about us just putting on a show right now?”

And they said “We’re in.” But of course, on my dime.

Obviously, though, you were talented and ambitious ...

Adam Shankman: I was just confident, but without having any kind of

brio. I had no entitlement issue, or thoughts that the business owed me anything. The great news was that I’d spent many, many, many years as a crew member, and I’d seen directors’ careers go up and down. I really lived through the grueling hard part of production.

Weirdly, it was always really positive, what I did. Because when singers and dancers and music come into everything, the set really lightens up.

Not to mention that the crew was always happy when cute dancing girls came in. So I was always like the fun part. I worked with so many people and they just all gave me really big boosts of confidence, and were always very supportive. So by the time I got to doing it, it all felt kind of organic. I was just sitting in a different chair on the set, and I wasn’t really considering the pressures that were on me in the same way.

Let’s talk about Hairspray, which they’re screening here. From the moment the musical became such a big hit, it was obvious it would be turned into a film. Was that always on your radar?

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Shankman (center) on the Rock of Ages set, with Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin.

Adam Shankman: I’ve been friends with Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman for almost 25 years now. I was actually around while they were writing it for the stage. So I was highly aware of it, and I was seething with jealousy because, even though I’d started directing films I wanted to choreograph the play. But I lived in L.A., and they were doing it with all these Broadway people. So I just sort of sat around as a fan while it was going on. But I felt incredibly connected to it.

It was the first time I’d ever fought for a piece of material to direct. I had to fight for a year.

You have a long history with musical theater. I’m sure that helped.

Adam Shankman: Absolutely! I can speak to it with great ease. I lived in L.A., but I just went back to New York and saw eight plays in eight days. Half of it was musicals. It was incredible how much more at home I felt, and how easy it was to talk the talk with all of my friends who are true Broadway community people. Even going back to see Betty Buckley’s cabaret act, I knew every word to every song.

It’s the chorus boy part of me.

I was an extra on The Last Song when it was shot here. I think they discovered I was a journalist, and they threw me off the set!

Adam Shankman: Oh no, that’s horrible! I’m so sorry to hear that. You know, especially at that time, Miley was such a lightning rod for press, and so we were trying to keep it on the DL. Disney certainly wanted that.

Rock of Ages. Coming out of musical theater, was it a stretch for you to get behind that kind of music?

Adam Shankman: I have to be honest, it actually was. It was kind of hard for me to imagine doing a jukebox musical at first. And then I got swept up in the joy of doing it. But the truth of the matter was, while we were making it, I had five weeks of preparation. On Hairspray, I had over three months of preparation. The exact same budget, and Rock of Ages was in fact a bigger movie.

So it was really hard to make, but everybody maintained this really upbeat, positive, we are having the time of our lives kind of attitude about it. I worked with such a talented, joyful cast who were all happy to be there in that sweltering heat. We knew that we were making something kind of really outrageous and really out there.

OK, You’ve directed John Travolta and Tom Cruise both. Let me be the gossip columnist here: Anything to say for the folks at home?

Adam Shankman: I have to be honest with you, I never heard the word “Scientology” ever come out of either of their mouths. They were just hardworking, incredibly positive, fun guys to work with.

I honestly wish I had more to say, because it would be fun to have stories. But my stories are really just about hard work. CS Hairspray screens at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Lucas Theatre, followed by a Q&A with Adam Shankman.

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Screening Oct. 31, The Girl is an extraordinary backstage look at legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, and his relationship with actress Tippi Hedren.

Actor Toby Jones impeccably assays Hitchcock’s voice and mannerisms, and radiant Sienna Miller is perfectly cast as Hedren, the struggling model Hitchcock plucked from obscurity to star in his 1963 thriller The Birds.

The Girl, which started with a story Hedren has related for years, is very, very creepy.

Hitch was famously obsessed with his blonde leading ladies, from Grace Kelly to Kim Novak, and director Julian Jarrold’s film — which is currently screening on HBO — explores his particular weakness for, and attempts to control, the inexperienced Hedren.

It was not a pleasant experience for her.

Those who wish to keep the great Hitchcock safely on a pedestal might want to avoid The Girl, but be forewarned the tale it tells has been verified by many who were there, including Hedren herself, who met with screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes, Miller and the film’s producer Amanda Jenks.

Jarrold and Jenks will be in Savannah for a Q&A following the screening.

Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock

Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren

As a director, was it daunting to start a project that in effect deconstructs one of the greatest directors of our time?

Julian Jarrold: Yes, it was. I have got form on this sort of thing — I foolishly made a film about Jane Austen, which dipped into marriage, romance and all the rest of it, and was somewhat controversial here (in England).

But it was also a treat, because it allowed one to really get back into all his films, and read all the biographies, and look into all his techniques and tricks. So in a way, it was a wonderful thing to be able to do. Really, the focus and the point of the piece was to look at the relationship between the two of them. What was fascinating for me was the way that the obsession in that relationship did appear to play out in many of his films. For

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me, it enriched the whole process, really.

Amanda Jenks: I think a lot of great auteurs are very complicated people, and they do ruin themselves and damage the people around them. I’m hoping we give an extraordinary insight into the psychology of the man who created some of the most fantastic and frightening movies of all time.

I hope people don’t say “Oh my God, isn’t he awful?” Some of the private scenes between him and his first assistant director I find incredibly moving.

Hitchcock is so iconic. I wasn’t sure I wanted to see what lay underneath.

Julian Jarrold: If it comes off as prurient, then it’s a failure. But I thought the story was a fascinating little window on that period, in the way Hollywood worked. An insight into that whole sort of dream factory. The Birds, Marnie, Vertigo, always had these strange obsessions in, which I never understood. I never understood Vertigo, and I’m not sure I still do. But you suddenly begin to see where the ideas are coming from. That doesn’t cheapen them at all to me — it shows how extraordinary these personal obsessions were able to be pushed into such a huge, successful Hollywood film.

Obviously, a public figure that’s held in very high esteem — especially in Britain, we want to claim him for ourselves — people don’t always like to hear that. But we’ll see. I certainly didn’t go into it worrying about that.

I’m a big fan of Hitchcock, he was extraordinary. But what’s interesting was to wonder where those extraordinary things come from, and how they connect with his psychology.

Amanda Jenks: I’d be very disappointed if The Girl was misunderstood as a straightforward story of sexual harassment in the days of the casting couch. To me, it’s quite a complicated love story in which Hitch is as much a victim as Tippi, in a way.

We hope that the filmn is portraying a man who is vulnerable and as fearful as he is powerful. And I think Toby Jones displays that with a great subtlety and intelligence. As the story progresses, I think your understanding and sympathy for Hitchcock grows. That’s what we intended.

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Amanda Jenks: Our film asks that question, really. Relationships are complicated things, and I think that they were very much a team, like a lot of marriages. They worked together at every level. But I personally believe that something different happened with Tippi. I think it was possibly as much of a shock to Alma as it was to him and everybody around him.

Julian, obviously you’ve used some of Hitchcock’s techniques. There’s a great feeling of suspense in many of the scenes.

Julian Jarrold: Well, I didn’t want to do a pastiche of Hitchcock, because I think plenty of films have done that and failed very badly. But one wants to just give it the authentic feel of that time, and of his world. And the way he would have approached things. I know there are echoes of certain of his films in there, but I didn’t want to overdo that. They’re echoes and resonances, which I hope are there not just to say “Hey, I’m really clever, I can

put in lots of Hitchcock references,” but because they actually relate to the conflict that’s going on between him and her.

Toby Jones must have done an incredible amount of work, not just the prosthetics and the fat suit. What was he like to work with?

Julian Jarrold: He’s wonderful. I met him a while back, and he doesn’t particularly look or sound like Hitchcock. As he pointed out to me. For both of us, it was very daunting, because people have quite a fair idea of what Hitchcock should look and sound like. That was the first hurdle to get over.

He always performed in front of the camera, Hitchcock, so you never new quite what he was like when the camera was turned off. Because he was a showman.

Toby is unbelievably diligent. He spent a long time going through every interview there is of him. He worked with a voice coach to really analyze his speech patterns. And the way he moved. He really absorbed himself in that world, so when we came to

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For him I think the prosthetics were very important, because it’s almost like a mask, isn’t it? That you wear. You almost feel you actually are that person. On set, he was in character all the time. End of the day, he was back to Toby.

I’ve said it a few times: There were two directors on this set, and one of them was quite a powerful character!

The Anthony Hopkins Hitchcock film is coming out soon. How does it relate to your movie?

Julian Jarrold: I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know. It’s rather peculiar, isn’t it, that nobody makes a film about Hitchcock for however many years, and then two come along at the same time. I guess I shall watch it at some point, but maybe long after our film has gone out. CS The Girl screens at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 at the Trustees Theater, followed by a Q&A with Julian Jarrold and Amanda Jenks.

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Tanzania with the re–election of President Jakaya Kikwete, who has set a shining example for other African countries in his leadership on both maternal and newborn health.

In the U.S., the Affordable Healthcare Act has been implemented, providing guaranteed coverage for preventative care visits, contraception, domestic violence screenings and screenings for gestational diabetes and other services that can reduce the risk of maternal mortality.

Women’s healthcare is a tremendous issue in American politics this election.

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When Christy Turlington Burns began to bleed excessively after giving birth to her first child, her life was saved by her midwives and doctors.

She discovered afterwards that not every woman is so blessed: A thousand women a day die in childbirth worldwide, deaths that can be prevented when those women have access to quality reproductive care.

To raise awareness, the former supermodel–turned–film director traveled around the globe collecting stories of women about to give birth and those who work with them.

Perhaps the most telling footage was taken in the U.S., where one in five pregnant women has no access to prenatal healthcare—resulting in a 50th place ranking in birth mortality rates.

Burns’ documentary, No Woman, No Cry, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. In conjunction with her non–profit Every Mother Counts, she continues to educate audiences around the world about the need for

healthcare access for all women.

Turlington Burns took time to answer questions for Connect from New York City where she lives with her husband, film director Ed Burns, and their two children. She will be in town to discuss her film after it screens at the Savannah Film Festival Monday, Oct. 29.

One of the themes throughout the film is that birth is a universal experience for women no matter where they live.

What are the specific barriers to prenatal care and reproductive education for each of the women you profiled?

Christy Turlington Burns: The five barriers to care that pregnant women commonly face are access to prenatal care, access to emergency obstetric care, the improvement of postpartum care, the strengthening of healthcare

policies and access to family planning education.

How have circumstances changed in the arena of women’s reproductive healthcare since the film premiered?

Christy Turlington Burns: There have been improvements in each of the countries we filmed in—though there is still much to be done.

In Bangladesh, maternal mortality rates have dropped 40 percent since 2000. In Guatemala, there have been policy changes around reproductive rights, most notably the passage of the Healthy Motherhood Law which recognizes the Guatemalan government’s obligation to address the country’s high rate of maternal death. It guarantees universal access to “high quality, culturally appropriate and free” obstetrical care—including emergencies—and requires that the Ministry of Health set aside sufficient funds for it.

Political will remains strong in

Christy Turlington Burns: What is happening here in the U.S. around reproductive rights has certainly made this past year quite interesting.

When I screen No Woman, No Cry around the world, people are most shocked by the U.S. statistics: The fact that [for life expectancy at birth] we are ranked 50th world yet we spend more on healthcare per capita than any other nation just doesn’t add up.

Women and families should not pay the unfair price of risking their lives while to birth in this country.

Every woman is entitled to comprehensive information and services.

Every pregnant woman should have access to quality maternity care.

Do you consider this a feminist issue?

An economic one?

Christy Turlington Burns: This is a complicated global issue that has many layers, some of which will appeal to feminists and economists.

Who it really should appeal to are humanists.

Every Mother Counts stresses that keeping the world’s mothers healthy is an issue that affects us all. Healthy mothers make healthier babies, and when we choose motherhood, our families are more likely to thrive. It’s as simple as that.

What actions can be taken to save women’s lives outside of government?

Christy Turlington Burns: Many reduce these issues to political discourse. Women’s rights are often used to divide people when maternal health should be a unifying topic.

This is so more than just a political issue. This is why Every Mother Counts seeks to engage new audiences and educate as many people as

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Women have begun to eschew the “medicalization” of birth and return to the intrinsic wisdom of doulas, natural childbirth, squatting during labor, etc. How can women all over the world remain empowered during the birth process while holding the possibility that they may need medical intervention?

Christy Turlington Burns: I was lucky to have had so many birth options to choose from, and I would say that the birth center is an ideal option for those of us who believe in physiological birth but understand that complications can present in any one of us at any time. So being close to emergency obstetric care is quite critical.

In the U.S., maternal death rates are on the rise and over–medicalization is one reason for the growing numbers of mortality that we are seeing.

However, Robbie [a widower

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profiled in the film] and his wife, Susan, were in a hospital when she died from an amniotic fluid embolism. AFE is one of the few causes of maternal death that is rarely preventable or survivable, but I wanted to add the voice of someone who had recently lost a loved one who could articulate what that feels like. It’s difficult for me to watch that footage every time, but I am always grateful for his courage to share their story.

How does Every Mother Counts bring education and healthcare to women around the globe?

Christy Turlington Burns: Every Mother Counts is always looking for new opportunities to educate not just women, but everyone around the world, about maternal health. There’s a lot on our website, everymothercounts.org.

“No Woman, No Cry” continues to be screened frequently after two and a half years, which helps to humanize this issue for people. We continue to find ways to invite participation amongst everyday citizens who want to make a difference in the lives of

girls and women.

We have collaborated with a number of likeminded brands to raise awareness and funds that will benefit maternal health programs around the world. Most recently, we launched a partnership with Ergo Baby, where I guest–designed a small collection, from which proceeds will benefit EMC. We are also currently training for the ING New York City Marathon for the second year in a row and have invited others to join us in solidarity on November 4th by walking or running 5K—the minimum distance a woman may have to walk to access basic maternity care.

Any plans for a next film?

Christy Turlington Burns: I have some ideas, but it had taken me this long to muster up the energy to prepare for a next project. Documentaries are like children: It’s a big jump to go from one to two. cs No Woman, No Cry (followed by Director Q&A) screens Monday, Oct. 29 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lucas Theatre.

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Let the song puns begin! Steve Perry is the “Faithfully” recognized voice of the band Journey, but he and the band actually went their “Separate Ways” years ago. Welcomed with “Open Arms” to replace him is young Arnel Pineda, a Filipino who in 2007 was asked to audition after Journey guitarist Neal Schon saw videos of his cover band on YouTube.

The whole thing may smack of a reality TV gimmick, but consider this: Arnel is good. So good that you probably can’t tell the difference between Perry and him from listening. Add in the bonus that Arnel is extremely charismatic and likable, and you have an ’80s band with literally a new lease on life.

“Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” the Arnel–fueled renaissance of Journey is Ramona Diaz, a Filipina documentary filmmaker previously best known for her film about Imelda Marcos.

Her film Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey comes to the Savannah Film Festival (with producer Capella Fahoome Brogden in attendance for the Q&A). We spoke to Diaz a couple of weeks ago.

This doesn’t seem like the most obvious idea for a rock documentary. What attracted you to this story?

Ramona Diaz: I was attracted to the story because Arnel’s quite a personality. The camera loves him. People really root for him — they really want him to succeed. And then you’ve got that great story coupled with the songs of Journey. I knew their songs but I didn’t follow them closely. Journey is one of the bands where people say they don’t know their songs, but when they hear them they do know.

I’d seen a couple of short segments on TV about Arnel but never thought there’d be a film about it.

Ramona Diaz: Well, this is very different. There’s not a lot of narration.

We’re able to make the music work in

our favor — every time you hear it, it’s kind of evergreen, you know?

There are all these “Top 100 Artists of Whatever” lists now, and Journey is never on any of them. But they were incredibly huge back in their day.

Ramona Diaz: They’ve never been loved or appreciated by critics. But as we were making the film we realized how groundbreaking they really were.

They were the first to use big video screens so that people in the nosebleed sections could see the band.

Now everyone does it. They were the first to sign national sponsors onto their big tours. Now everyone does it. Everything they did was ahead of their time in some way.

You guys got some extraordinary access for this film. Did that ever pose problems between the film crew and the band?

Ramona Diaz: It was a lot of fun, but still a difficult process. We were a small crew following a big act. They had their big tour buses, and we were always in one small minivan following them around.

We needed to gain their trust in

order for this to work. We spent so much time with them — it’s not like we were just coming in for two days and going away. We were there for months and months! At one point Neal Schon looked up and said, “You’re still here?”

Is there a risk of being too close and losing objectivity?

Ramona Diaz: You do get close to them. You do form relationships. But at the end of the day it’s you holding the camera.

Because making docs is so demanding and often thankless, I like to ask documentary filmmakers their advice for aspiring directors.

Ramona Diaz: You gotta believe in the story. It’s a long haul, it’s always a marathon. If you don’t love your story you’ll never be as successful as you want to be. You have to believe in it so much that it’s almost a situation where if you don’t tell that story, it will haunt you forever. cs Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey screens Oct. 31 at 11:30 a.m. at the Trustees Theater.

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Wanted by CNT The Chatham–Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) is seeking the public’s assistance in locating several wanted persons.

CNT is seeking 31–year–old Scott Patrick Hoskins of Savannah for Criminal Attempt to Obtain a Controlled Substance (Lorcet) by Fraud and Forgery by Altering a Prescription (Lorcet).

Hoskins is known to frequent the downtown Savannah area and is as a white male, 5ft 11in, 185lbs with brown hair and hazel eyes. Hoskins last known address is on East 42nd Street.

CNT is seeking 33–year–old Michelle Elizabeth Dawson of Hardeeville, SC, for Obtaining a Controlled Substance (Oxycodone) by Fraud and three counts Possession of a Dangerous Drug (Tramadol).

Dawson is a white female, 5ft 4in, 220lbs with black hair and brown eyes.

CNT is seeking 35–year–old Rico Lemonte Edwards of Savannah.

Edwards is currently out on bond for Sale of Controlled Substances (crack and powder cocaine) and is currently wanted for the offense, Probation Violation through the Chatham County Sheriff ’s Office. Edwards last known address is Caithness Street. Edwards is as a black male, 5ft 9in, 260lbs with black hair and brown eyes.

Edwards is believed to be in the company of 26–year–old Joy Elizabeth Swailes of Savannah. Swailes is also wanted for the offense, Probation Violation through the Chatham County Sheriff ’s Office. Swailes is a white female, 5ft 2in, 140lbs with brown hair and hazel eyes. Swailes last known address is Beaufort Road.

Both Edwards and Swailes are known to frequent hotels in the West Chatham County, Pooler and Richmond Hill areas.

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• Several items from the White was arrested local office of the United without incident.

CNT seeks Rico Edwards States Marshals Service: Also, Joel Beal A Savannah man Smith of Bristol, wanted on charges of GA was wanted Armed Robbery and on two counts of Sexual Battery on Armed Kidnapping was arrested by a Child by the Broward County, the United States Marshals Service, Florida, Sheriff ’s Department and was Savannah Office of the Southeast arrested by the United States Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force and Service on October 9. The SavanSCMPD Patrol units on October 17. nah Task Force conducted a 2 week Andrea Octavianus White, 56, is investigation and determined where wanted by the Marion County Sherthey thought Smith was staying in iff ’s Department in Ocala, FL, on Bristol. On October 5 Savannah Task warrants charging him with Armed Force members and Wayne County Robbery and Armed Kidnapping deputies arrested Smith without incifrom an incident that happened dent. Smith was taken to the Wayne in April of 2009 in Ocala. A law County Jail to await extradition proenforcement source provided inforceedings to send him back to south mation to the Marshals Task Force Florida. cs that placed White in the 2000 block of Give anonymous crime tips to East 58th Street, in Savannah.

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Explained Newman about the shows’ success: “It’s just fun to be a horse.”

Cultural Diversity • Official Gaydar: Malaysia’s Education Ministry has held at least 10 seminars recently to teach parents and teachers how to head off the pesky homosexuality that their kids may be in “danger” of developing. According to officials, sure signs are when boys wear “V-neck” or sleeveless shirts or carry big handbags. For girls, the most obvious sign is “having no affection for boys.” Last year, according to a September Reuters report, the government set up camps specifically to teach “masculine behavior” to “effeminate” boys.

• Championship eaters gobble down hot dogs on New York’s Coney Island,

but in August, when a Filipino restauthen must stay away permanently. Most rant in Brooklyn wanted a more ethnic beggars chose to stay since they still contest, it offered plates of “baluts” — earned more in festival cages than they the Philippine delicacy of duck fetuses. would have on the street.

Wayne Algenio won, stuffing 18 down Whale Discharges in the News his throat in five minutes. Typically, the baluts have barely begun to develop, • In August, schoolboy Charlie Naysometimes allowing a “lucky” diner to smith of Christchurch, England, taking sense in his mouth the crackle of a beak a nature walk near Hengistbury Head or the tickle of a feather. beach, came upon a Since baluts are exotic, rocklike substance that they are considered to turned out to be petribe (as is often the case in fied whale vomit — Asia) aphrodisiacs. which, to his surprise, actually i • Surviving a cobra bite proved worth the equivwon all three in Nepal is simple, some alent of from $16,000 to debates natives believe. If the vic$64,000. “Ambergris,” a tim bites the snake right waxy buildup from the back, to its death, the intestines of a sperm venom is rendered harmwhale, produces a foul less. One confident farmer odor but is valuable bitten in August in Biratcommercially for pronagar told BBC News that longing the scent of a he went about his business perfume. (Actually, after normally after fatally biting floating in the sun, on his attacker and survived salt water, for decades, only after his family conthe ambergris on the vinced him that perhaps beach was smooth and the custom was ridiculous sweet-smelling.) and hauled him to a hospital.

• Tucker, an 8-year-old black Labra• A September religious festival in dor mix, is the only dog in the world Nanchang, China, is a favorite of begtrained to detect the faint whiff of the gars, as visitors are in a generous mood, tiniest specks of whale feces in the open but officials expressed concern this year ocean water (and from as far as a mile about the increasing hordes of panaway!). A September New York Times handlers harassing the pilgrims. Thus, dispatch from coastal Washington state town officials ordered all festival begnoted that the 85 or so orcas that popugars to be locked up in small cages (too late the area have been identified and tiny to allow standing) to minimize the tracked for decades, but locating them hustling. Beggars are free to leave, but at any given time was always a problem

until Tucker came along. One of his trainers explained that the dog’s directional signals are accurate but often subtle (such as by a twitch of the ear).

Latest Religious Messages • The CIA and the National Security Agency may play roles, but Kentucky’s homeland security law explicitly acknowledges “God” as the key to the war on terrorism. In August, the Kentucky Supreme Court declined to hear atheists’ challenges to the state’s 2002 “legislative finding” that the state’s “safety and security” cannot be achieved without God’s help. A lower court wrote that since the law did not “advance” religion but merely paid “lip service” to a belief in God, it did not violate the separation of church and state doctrine.

• Seventy people, including 20 children, were discovered in August in an eight-story-high, all-underground bunker in Kazan in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, and authorities said the quasi-religious sect had probably been there for nearly 10 years without heat or forced ventilation — or sunlight.

The group is nominally Islamist, but according to a dispatch by London’s The Guardian, the sect is more likely under the control of 83-year-old, selfdescribed prophet Fayzrahman Satarov.

• The Tax on Worship: When the Roman Catholic Church in Germany warned in September that too many Catholics were opting out of paying the country’s “religious tax,” many Americans got their first-ever notice

Perspective • The Bronx, where nearly onethird of the population lives in poverty, is the poorest of the five New York City boroughs, with per-capita income 70 percent lower than neighboring Manhattan’s. Yet among the city’s most ambitious public works projects under construction is an 18-hole golf course in the Bronx’s Ferry Point Park, estimated to cost the city $97 million, according to a September New York Times report.

Furthermore, golf may be losing popularity. The Times reported that rounds of golf in New York City have dwindled (from 880,000 on 12 municipal courses in 1966 to 561,000 on 13 courses in 2011). From the city’s standpoint, it gets a course to be operated by a Donald Trump

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So yes, at first glance vampirism would appear to be a high-risk lifestyle.

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mythology of vampires (for example, the Anne Rice oeuvre) suggests that, for many, the answer is no—vampires are supernatural creatures and don’t obey the laws of nature.

Instead, let’s be scientific. We’ve known since Bram Stoker’s day that a vampire’s body temperature is much lower than a normal human’s (owing to the body’s being basically dead), and human diseases survive better under normal human conditions. We also know the body isn’t subject to the usual processes of decay and constitutes an effectively sterile environment, inhospitable to germs.

Another point to consider is that since a vampire isn’t technically alive, its cells presumably don’t divide. That means a virus can’t hijack the cell reproduction cycle and spread.

At least one source says vampires can get sick. In Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels, vampires are at risk of contracting “Sino-AIDS,” a fictional malady that can incapacitate or kill them. For the TV adaptation, True Blood, the scriptwriters evidently felt that a Chinese strain of AIDS made a less-than-ideal plot device and replaced it with hepatitis D, an actual virus that for purposes of the show is harmless to its human carriers but lays vampires low. The keen observer will recognize this for what it is: the kryptonite gambit, another shameless borrowing from Superman. I ignored the last one, and I’ll ignore this one too.

Perhaps you don’t care about storybook vampires, though. You want to be a real (that is, fake) vampire, namely one of those ubergoth wannabes haunting high school halls and shopping malls. Practitioners of bloodplay, or drinking blood, can definitely catch diseases, and aficionados advise regular blood testing, monogamy, and avoidance of risky pre-dining activities such as, believe it or not, tooth brushing or flossing, since these may cause abrasions through which a blood-borne pathogen may invade.

So which is it, vampire or pirate?

Tough call. Either way you get to wear flashy clothes, talk with a funny accent, indulge in binge drinking, and make women swoon. My suggestion? Do both—be a bloodsucking pirate. Granted, Johnny Depp has the Hollywood end of this sewn up. But you can always get a job at an investment bank. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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GAM, from left: Ochoa, Kozel, Kersey, Rose and Safer. Photo by Geoff L. Johnson.

For many Savannahians, Halloween just wouldn’t be the same without the annual balls–to–the–wall rock ‘n’ roll performance art of the glamorous GAM guys.

If you’re new to our fair city and its musical rites of All Hallows, get ready for something that’s talked about in

hushed, reverential tones.

GAM returns to the Jinx Saturday, Oct. 27.

GAM was “psychedelic punk” before the term existed. It’s an uninhibited, loud, wild rock ‘n’ roll show, heavily theatrical, playing original music from a progressive catalog that began almost 20 years ago with a science fiction rock opera.

Fame and fortune didn’t beckon, and eventually the players went their separate ways, some morphing into

Superhorse (yet another legendary Savannah band), some following slightly different stars.

Every Halloween, however, the debauchery comes out of the closet.

“I look forward to Halloween, because it’s an interesting, cathartic season for everybody,” says singer Keith Kozel. “They get to dress up and act crazy. But because we don’t really play, it’s an exciting time for me. I get to hang out with my buddies, and play rock ‘n’ roll. Loud. And just cut

loose, you know?”

The members of GAM will, of course, be dressed in appropriate holiday finery (except for the wiry Kozel, who moves around too much to be so encumbered), the lights will be fiery, and as always there will be props both appropriate and not so.

In the old days, Kozel kept a steamer trunk onstage, packed with freaky props.

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“We’re gonna play a crazy rock show,” trumpets Rose. “There’s music, and sweat, everything that a good show should have. That’s part of that connection with the audience, too.”

Everybody’s a little older, and — maybe — a little wiser. At this point, adds Kozel, “We’re not trying to prove anything. We just enjoy playing this music, and playing this music together, and we know that there are people that like hearing it. It’s very appropriate for Halloween because it’s kinda spooky and weird.”

How appropriate? For you newbies, be advised that GAM — fierce, hard, intense — is really just the opening act for the Jinx’s annual blood–wrestling competition.

“We play, and then the blood wrestling happens,” explains Rose. “There’s no cleaning up after the blood wrestling. We tried it one year, and it was a slip–sliding fest.” CS

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props than we used to. Because it’s Halloween, and that’s based in the old Druidic, pagan tradition, I’ll bring some produce, and paints, things like that. The performance art is almost more ritualistic than anything now.”

Guitarist Kevin Rose is proud that GAM is part of the city’s musical fabric. “Savannah’s about tradition, and it doesn’t matter if it’s one sort of tradition or another,” Rose says. “We just try to give it our all, and I think people recognize that.

“Also, it’s entertainment too. It’s not just about us playing music — it’s a show. And on Halloween, people want to be part of something like that.

That’s what we’ve tried to do — since ’93.”

Founding bassist Ronny Kersey is part of the madness, and Bottles & Cans’ Mike Walker — who replaced Kersey in the original lineup — will also be on board for a segment of the set.

The drummer is Josh Safer, and Ricardo Ochoa plays violin and keyboards.

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Dreams wet and dry, nightmares and fantasies and whatever lies between all come together in the music of Pennsylvania’s Black Moth Super Rainbow, which has the headlining slot at Savannah’s first–ever Graveface Fest, Oct. 27 at Southern Pine Co. It’s 11 hours of music and madness.

It’s haunting, foggy pop music — by definition, anyway — based around trance beats, robotic techno and impossibly sublime, trippy hooks.

There is, in effect, no Black Moth Super Rainbow. The “band” is Tom Fec, who goes by the name Tobacco.

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The Graveface Fest is the first show on a tour in support of the new Cobra Juicy album. The “live band” includes, among others, Ryan Graveface himself on guitar.

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As for the rest of Dia de la Graveface: “I’ve been obsessed with Halloween since I was a little kid,” says Ryan Graveface, who owns and operates both the Graveface record label and a “records and curiosities” shop on W. 40th St. “Any excuse to trick people, or force people into expressing themselves in a weird way, I’m into.”

The man himself will play guitar with headliners BMSR, and will be onstage with his own Dreamend and Marshmallow Ghosts.

And ... introducing the Casket Girls, modeled after one of Graveface’s real–world favorites, the Shangri–La’s (“Leader of the Pack”). “They would reference death a lot, and tragedies, and horrible, horrible things,” he explains. “And oftentimes their music was really upbeat.

“So I just always wanted to create a band that had moments of that, but then add kind of what I was writing with Marshmallow Ghosts — the spooky keyboard and really super, super simple arrangements. I wanted it to be a four– or five–girl group, and I would just be a masked figure in the

back playing the music.

“But I found the perfect duo, these local Savannah sisters. And they’re just the coolest and the most talented.

So there was no need to think about adding any others.”

As the festival was germinating, Graveface took on Cusses’ Angel Bond — whose organizational talents are well–known — as a collaborator.

“I live in my own world, which has its pros,” he explains. “But it definitely has its huge, huge cons. One of those cons is a lack of connectivity to the community, outside of literally opening my front door on a day–to–day basis. I work 20 hours a day, so I don’t have a chance to even leave, for the most part.”

“I’m not an idiot, so I understand that having local onboard is a logical thing,” Graveface says. “From a business point of view. I don’t put a lot of thought into things, I just know that exactly what I want. And that’s why I knew I should collaborate with her, because if I was the only one scheduling and booking this thing, it would just be 14 bands that no one’s ever heard of.

“I’m going to have a lot of people from out of town coming in for the festival, so it’s good for them to hear the local acts as well. So it works both ways, obviously.”

Among other things, Bond pulled in several local bands for the event, her own included.

One of Graveface’s latest creations is a lavish, full–color hardcover book of illustrations by Rhode Island artist William Schaff, who designs just about all of the label’s creations.

From Blacksheep Boys to Bill Collectors, in a run limited to 1,000 copies, was funded through a Kickstarter campaign. It comes with a 10” slab of vinyl with music by Jason Molina.

Schaff himself will have a table at the festival. “He’s going to make really cheap masks,” says Graveface, “painting and spray–painting masks for kids and adults in his deeply dark way.”

Add to this David Liebe–Hart’s puppet show, all–day horror movies, food and bev vendors, a costume contest and a “mini” haunted cause.

Cusses are performing, as well as KidSyc@Brandywine, Winter Sounds, Deep Search, Stargazer Lilies, Dosh, Serengeti and others. And Tobacco will spin a late–night DJ set.

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“The first Black Moth album was mainly my actual voice,” he explains.

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The vocoder was my way of getting past all my limitations. I hear things that I just can’t do. ”I’m not the kind of person to hire a singer, or work with a singer. So I’ll figure out a way to do it myself. The vocoder was the only way I could hit certain notes and textures, and really get what I wanted out of it.”

This kind of DIY, experimental psychedelia has a sizeable audience, around the world, via indie labels like Savannah’s own Graveface Records.

Don’t try to explain it to your mom.

She won’t get it.

“One of the things that drives me crazy,” Tobacco says, “is when someone is like ‘You know, I do country, or I do this electronic thing with influences by ....’ Everyone’s so labeled. I do all I’m capable of doing. So I’d rather someone just listen to it.”

The music, he adds, tells him what to do. “I just kind of let it flow without thinking about it. It’s weird.

“It’s almost like possession or something, like these ideas are gonna come out. And if they don’t come out of me, they’re gonna find someone else.

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Organized by the Alee Shrine Temple of Savannah, the Terror Plantation is open for the public to experience every weekend in October. The Savannah chapter is one of 193 chapters of Shriners International, who raise money for the Shriners Hospital for Children.

Last year, the house had 4,000 people pass through its doors, and this year, they have a goal of having 6,000 visitors, according to Patrick Welsh Jr., chair of the Savannah chapter.

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Lauri Taylor (l.) supervises Rabbi Robert Haas as Joan Levy measures.

Forget what you’ve heard about too many cooks in the kitchen.

“No, no, that’s to soak the raisins for the noodle kugel,” explains Sue Ruby, ladling honey out of a massive vat donated by the Savannah Bee Company. “The wine gives them a special sweetness.”

Ruby and Levy have overseen the baking for this annual culinary extravaganza for 24 years, an event that has the entire city lining up for latkes and matzoh ball soup after church. It’s also as unique as Savannah’s Jewish community itself: A combination of Old World ways, rich Southern traditions and a bissel of surprise here and there. (What other Jewish food festival offers the tasty Asian noodle dish Shalomein, available at a booth sponsored by the Southside Mahjongg Group?)

“We’ve really got everything, from all walks of Jewish life,” says festival chair Lauri Taylor, who in spite of procuring a host of sponsorships— including a freezer from Livingood’s to store the bounty—has still managed to find time to don an apron and wield a rolling pin.

“We’ve got brisket, corned beef and the baked goods which come from the Eastern European tradition, then we’ve got Israeli salad, hummus and sizzling Sephardic lamb, which are Middle Eastern.”

Transcending the many contingencies of Jewish geography are kegs of He’brew beer, returning this year along with egg creams, corned beef sandwiches and homemade dog biscuits. Also back by popular demand is entertainment by members of the Savannah Philharmonic and Israeli dancing with Maxine Patterson’s

At Congregation Mickve Israel, a group of women are performing a graceful ballet amongst the double ovens and racks of pots, some of them whisking eggs in huge bowls, others kneading dough at the metal work table, sending up puffs of flour like a gentle storm.

Still others twist and braid four or even a mind–boggling six ropes of dough into pillowy loaves of challah, the traditional Jewish egg bread baked to a crusty golden brown. Occasionally, enticed by the delicious aromas wafting their way out of the social hall into the lobby, a man wanders in and is immediately put to work cutting cookies.

“Just call us the mavens,” jokes native Savannahian Joan Levy as she measures teaspoons of yeast, invoking the Yiddish term for “trusted expert.”

Indeed, the epic feast that is the Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival simply wouldn’t be possible without the skilled hands of these bustling balabustas, another Yiddish term for “women who get stuff done.”

And, ov vey, is there a lot to do: In addition to the 165 loaves of challah being prepared and braided, Levy and this tribe of volunteers will also bake up 60 honeycakes, 1700 blintzes, 70 apple strudels, 450 stuffed cabbage leaves and thousands of cookies to sell at Sunday’s festival. No wonder there’s a giant bottle of Manischewitz sitting on the counter.

School of Dance. The festival is once again raising funds for Second Harvest Food Bank: Those who make donations at the booth will receive a free Coke, courtesy of the local bottling crew.

Back in the kitchen, as the balabustas continue their baking marathon and the smells of cinnamon and warm bread fill the air, the talk inevitably turns to the recipes themselves. Handed down from generations of Jewish women from all over the world, some are from as far away as the long–gone shtetls of the Pale between Poland and Russia, some were developed right here in the South, like the wine–infused kugel inspired by The Matzoh Ball Gumbo Cookbook by Marcie Cohen Ferris.

Some of the women crowding the kitchen counter have lived in Savannah all their lives like Levy, while other have found their way to the third oldest Jewish congregation in America through marriage, job opportunities and quirks of fate. The Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival and the recipes themselves give them all common ground and the opportunity to bake bread — and break bread — together.

“All of these Jewish women come from everywhere and we’re still all cooking the same things,” Kerry Rosen, a recent transplant from South Florida who grew up in Chicago.

“Our culture is built around food.” cs

The Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival When: Sunday, Oct. 28 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

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“i” — Recent mixed media by Xavier Robles de Medina. A series of works that explores the role of circuity at the intersection between human anatomy, electric stream, and repeat pattern. October 1- November 5 Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

Oceana — Newest body of work by Lisa M. Robinson, who previously exhibited her ‘Snowbound’ photography collection at the Jack Leigh Gallery in 2007. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9am5pm. Alexander Hall, 1668 Indian St.

28 Still Lifes — Work by Carol Taylor. Through Nov. 13. Dragonfly Studio, 1204 Highway 80

Passing Lane/Hidden River — Paintings from town and country by Jeffrey Markowsky. Nov. 2-30, opening reception Nov. 2 at 6 p.m.

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Dan Winters’ America: Icons & Ingenuity — Known for his iconic photographs of celebrities, Dan Winters has won more than 100 national and international awards for his work, A fully illustrated hardbound catalogue, sponsored in part by the Telfair Academy Guild, will accompany the exhibition. Jepson Center Diverse Works — Oct. 26 from -9 PM. Featuring sculptures, paintings, and drawings by SCAD professors such as James Langley, Pernell Johnson, Patrick McKinnon, Matthew Toole, Henry Dean, Chris Kienke, Ruben Salinas and SCAD alumni Damian Salinas. DesotoRow Gallery, 2427 DeSoto Ave. Ellen Peckham — Savannah Center for Fine Art exhibits of the graphic art of Ellen Peckham. Opening reception Friday Nov. 2, 6-9 p.m. Savannah Center for Fine Art, 41 Drayton St. First Friday Art Walks — First Friday Art Walks on the North End of Tybee Island continue through November.

Next edition is Nov. 2 from 5-8pm. Ten participating businesses will feature new art, demonstrations, refreshments and entertainment.

Roque — Inspired by the worn, graffiti-laden walls of New York, Sept. 28-Oct. 28 The Butcher, 19 E Bay St.

Kobo Gallery is holding their annual Open House this Friday Isaac McCaslin — Curated

by Casey Roland Belogorska, styled by Arthur Bennett Kouwenhoven, Jr. Show runs month of October. Local 11ten, 1110 Bull St. Jean Claude Roy — Grand Bohemian Gallery at the Mansion on Forsyth Park is hosting an artist reception celebrating 10 years with Jean Claude Roy. Oct. 24, Champagne Reception and Dinner with Jean Claude Roy, $95/person, $180/couple.

Featuring a special gift from the artist. Oct. 25, 6:30pm Artist Reception, 5-8pm Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St. Jerome Lawrence — The artist was diagnosed in 1982 as paranoid schizophrenic, but continued to paint.

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to. His commissioned works are featured in collections around the Southeast, and he has exhibited at the High Museum of Art and the Carter Center. The show will be on display until October 28. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th and Abercorn Kobo Open House — “Kobo Gallery’s Annual Open House” featuring international and national renowned local artists. Artists: Doris Grieder, Tobia Makover, Christi Reiterman, Heather Lindsey Stewart, Dicky Stone, Meredith Anne Sutton, Melinda Borysevicz, Marta McWhorter, Katrina SchmidtRinke, Betsy Cain, David Kaminsky, Jan Clayton Pagratis, Daniel E Smith. Opening Reception: Friday, October 26, 5-8 p.m. Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 11-5 p.m. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St.

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Let There Be Light — Lesley Manning and Melissa Schneider have combined forces to create more than thirty works of art, all celebrating the illumination of flora, fauna and landscape. JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Little Black Dress — Curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor Andre Leon Talley, this exhibit charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon. Through January 27 at the SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Local Flavor — Joanne Morton, artist/curator, hosts her first art show. Artists represented through Dragonfly Studio, Tybee Island make up the seven artists exhibited. .

Artists exhibiting are; Brad Hook, Carol Taylor, Gertrude Palmer, Jonathon Poirer, Linda Erzinger, James Russell May, & Denise Elliot-Vernon. October 5–December 6.

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T minus 10 — Chances are you’ve seen Adolfo’s art bringing to life interior and exterior walls all over Savannah. This experienced muralist is the third artist to work with SeeSAW (see Savannah Art Walls) to complete the mural on 34th and Habersham. “T minus 10” by Adolfo will be up from Nov. 2-Dec. 9. Opening reception on Dia de los Muertos, Friday Nov. 2nd, from 7-10 pm. The Butcher, 19 E. Bay St. The Privileged Series — This series brings to form in words, paint, photo, and ink the unspoken challenge we’d rather not hear - in pictures we’d rather not see. The Privileged Series is a collection of over 100 illustrations in various sizes. Contains illustrations and a series of mannequins that wear Anthony Canney’s clothing designs and Tim Cabell’s hair styles. The gallery space is divided into three sections: the Privileged, the Purifiers and the Other. Reception Nov. 2 6-9 PM. Through Nov. 5. DesotoRow Gallery, 2427 DeSoto Ave., The Silent Voice: Light from the Shadows — A look into the lives of forgotten human-

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ALEX CROSS

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Even with Tyler Perry essaying the title role in Alex Cross, don’t expect to see any Cross cross–dressing in this adaptation of one of the many countless thrillers penned by best–selling author James Patterson. While Perry has made the bulk of his considerable fortune donning a dress to play the larger–than–life character of Madea, the actor plays it straight here. Keeping it so close to the vest, Perry acquits himself well enough, even if his limited turn brings to mind Dorothy Parker’s famous quip about Katharine Hepburn (in a particular stage performance) running “the gamut of emotions from A to B.”

Morgan Freeman played an older Alex Cross in 1997’s fairly decent Kiss the Girls and 2001’s daft Along Came a Spider, so this new film can be viewed as a prequel of sorts – although finding the through–line in these actors’ radically different interpretations of the character can be a daunting task. In this outing, Cross is a Detroit detective–psychologist whose team consists of BFF Tommy Kane (Edward Burns) and Monica Ashe (Rachel Nichols). Their case involves them tracking down a demented killer they dub Picasso (Matthew Fox), a muscle–bound maniac who gets a thrill out of torturing people. Picasso has been hired by an unknown person to assassinate a French titan of industry (Jean Reno) as well as those closest to him, but after Cross and his team temporarily gum up his schedule, he elects to come after them as well.

Alex Cross is for the most part a stridently by–the–numbers thriller, yet its casual cruelty serves to also render it slightly repellent. Because Picasso is never identified as a serial misogynist – he’s supposed to be an equal opportunity provider of pain – the

fact that the most brutal and shocking acts of violence are all committed against women speaks ill of director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) and his scripters. The first victim is injected with a date–rape drug that renders her paralyzed but able to feel everything that happens to her – which, in this case, includes getting all 10 fingers snipped off. Other women meet equally horrific deaths. (Incidentally, the ever–clueless MPAA rated this laughfest PG–13; heck, why not go ahead and rate it G? Bring the kids!)

The performances are solid throughout the supporting ranks, with Fox the notable exception – his camp performance suggests too many screenings of Mommie Dearest prior to filming. Then again, perhaps a little more camp might have helped balance out against the sordidness of the enterprise.

Cicely Tyson appears as Alex’s mother, Nana Mama, and while it’s always nice to see this American icon in a rare screen appearance, it might have been in the film’s best interest if Perry had refashioned the role as Nana Madea and played opposite himself in drag.

The Master

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There’s a great scene in Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar winner Amadeus when Mozart (Tom Hulce) tries to convince Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) to allow him to stage a particular opera. Replies the Emperor, “You are passionate ... but you do not persuade.”

That snatch of dialogue might as well be the slogan for Paul

Thomas Anderson’s The Master, the latest from the writer–director of There Will Be Blood and the instant masterpiece Boogie Nights.

The Master features passionate performances from its stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It’s obviously a work of passion for its creator, who stages it with his typical flair and inventiveness.

And yet it never quite persuades us to believe in its convictions, its viewpoints, even its sense of purpose.

Phoenix essays the role of Freddie Quell, a World War II vet who returns to the world in a shell–shocked condition. An often temperamental man, he soon becomes a disciple of sorts to Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), the founder of a religion known as The Cause. No one, not even Dodd’s wife Peggy (Amy Adams), can understand why such a cultured gentleman like Lancaster would hang around an uncouth thug like Freddie.

But it’s a relationship that works in spurts – and that pretty much describes the film itself.

Although Lancaster Dodd and The Cause are clearly based on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, the film approaches the religion from such a safe, soft distance that it’s hard to get a proper slant on its inner workings and outer appeal.

This problem would perhaps have been alleviated by making Lancaster Dodd, the picture’s most interesting character, the protagonist, but this is clearly Freddie’s story, thereby keeping audiences at an unfortunate distance.

The Master contains some genuinely powerful scenes and

ARGO

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How dedicated is director Ben Affleck to capturing 1979 in his splendid new film, the political thriller Argo? He makes sure that the Warner Bros. studio logo that fills the screen at the beginning isn’t the glossy WB shield that’s instantly recognizable to today’s audiences but is instead the old–school W made up of three parallel lines against an oval backdrop.

It’s a tiny detail – even an irrelevant one— but it demonstrates how thoroughly Affleck has committed himself to his third directorial effort.

Those naysayers who were waiting for the filmmaker to stumble after the one–two punch of Gone Baby Gone and The Town will just have to keep waiting, since Affleck is firing on all cylinders here. Argo is an amazingly proficient film in which great swatches of humor never get in the way of the suspenseful saga at its center. Based on a true story, it relates the smaller drama that was playing off stage next to the main attraction of the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, when militants invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 52 Americans. While this hostage situation was dominating international news, little was known about the plight of six Americans who managed to slip out of the embassy undetected.

As seen in the film, the six find sanctuary in the home of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber).

Knowing that the group will eventually be found and most likely executed, the U.S. government weighs a number of lousy options – for starters, giving the sextet bicycles and asking them to pedal their way out of the country – before reluctantly settling on the one proposed by CIA specialist Tony Mendez (Affleck): Head to Iran under the pretense of making a movie, and then bring the stranded Americans back under the guise of various crew members.

Mendez heads up the operation himself, but in order to be convincing, he first travels to Hollywood to get expert counseling from two boisterous individuals: John Chambers

(John Goodman), an Oscar–winning makeup artist (Planet of the Apes) who also aids the CIA on the side, and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), a producer who agrees to help promote the fake film but only if the fake film can be a hit (while Chambers is a real–life figure, Siegel is not). For their movie, they settle on a screenplay titled Argo, a derivative science fiction flick set in an exotic locale.

Unlike such pandering nonsense as Taken 2, Argo doesn’t traffic in mindless jingoism. While the ingenuity and resourcefulness of America (and Canada, which cosponsored the rescue) takes center stage, the script by Chris Terrio (based on a Wired article

by Joshuah Bearman) also takes time to explain how it was this country’s interference in foreign affairs that directly led to the hostage crisis.

Affleck and Terrio treat the portions involving the stranded embassy workers with the solemnity they deserve, largely leaving the humor for the Hollywood sequences featuring established cutups Arkin and Goodman. Indeed, the only levity to be found in the Tehran–set sequences involves the dopey ‘staches found on the American men – then again, that’s just Affleck engaged in period verisimilitude.

HERE COMES THE BOOM

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There’s a pleasant surprise involving the new comedy Here Comes the Boom. No, it’s not particularly good – that would rank as a miracle more than a surprise – but it does showcase Kevin James in his most appealing turn since 2005’s Hitch. James has been a washout as a big–screen comedian – a plight that affects many performers who tether their careers to Adam Sandler’s – but he exudes a natural sincerity that others in his field cannot, and Here Comes the Boom plays off that as much as it plays off his limited comic range.

James stars as Scott Voss, a biology teacher who’s crushed when he learns that school budget cuts will result in the axing of the music department and the termination of its inspirational head, Marty Streb (Henry Winkler). It will take $48,000 to save the extracurricular activity, but none of the teachers are willing to help out except for Voss and the school nurse, Bella Flores (Salma Hayek). Voss continues on p. 46

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finally comes up with a plan: He’ll raise the dough by becoming a mixed martial arts fighter, since even the bout losers come away with cash in their pockets. You can see where this is headed: Under the tutelage of his muscle–bound friend Niko (a likable turn by real–life MMA champ Bas Rutten), Voss becomes good enough to ascend to a nationally televised match.

There’s also some predictably tired gags involving foreigners attempting to become U.S. citizens, the usual heavily relayed message about chasing dreams, and the typical patriarchal–Hollywood fantasy that allows someone who looks like Kevin James to bag someone who looks like Salma Hayek. But although the movie is produced by Sandler’s company and directed by Sandler flunkie Frank Coraci, it’s refreshingly devoid of the crudity and stupidity that usually run rampant in these films.

As a result, the film’s position on school cutbacks, despite being only surface–deep, seems heartfelt rather than cynical, and James is able to make audiences root for Voss and his mission. Here Comes the Boom never comes close to breaking the grip of mediocrity, but for his part, James at least is able to get off the mat.

TAKEN 2

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Is there a more authoritative presence in movies today than Liam Neeson? The Irish actor has always had stature on screen, but ever since his character laid out the rules to the Albanian dirtbags who kidnapped his daughter toward the beginning of 2009’s Taken (the speech that opens with “I don’t know who you are” and ends with “I will find you, and I will kill you”), he’s subsequently shown that no one or no thing – whether it be humans or wolves – should mess with him. When he speaks, his gruff voice and no–nonsense demeanor mean we should listen – heck, were Neeson to show up at my front door right this minute and calmly tell me that I need to set fire to my own residence, I would start hunting for matches immediately.

A similarly destructive request is forwarded by his character in Taken 2, in which he returns as ex–CIA operative Bryan Mills. As he’s held prisoner by the thugs hoping to avenge those he killed in the first

film, he’s communicating with his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) via cell phone. In order for her to locate his whereabouts, he needs to pinpoint his position, so he orders her to toss grenades(!) over the rooftops of Istanbul so he can listen for the blasts.

Somehow, I doubt Bryan would be so quick to explore this route if he was being held hostage in a California or Pennsylvania suburb, but such is the “us against them” view taken by this cheerfully xenophobic series that, intentionally or not, mainly pushes the notion that Americans should stay home since the rest of the world is a dangerous place populated with nothing but sex traffickers and gun– toting loonies (since, God knows, we don’t have any of these types in the U.S. of A.).

Such a myopic view is easy to ignore because these are disposable popcorn pictures with little political or moral heft – besides, the first Taken was actually an exciting, accomplished movie that expertly mined its premise (cuz, really, who doesn’t want to see Liam Neeson blow away sleazoids who turn teenage girls into drug–addled sex slaves?).

Taken 2, however, is nothing more than a lazy retread, with a director less skilled in the art of action choreography (Olivier Megaton replaces the first film’s Pierre Morel), generic villains rounded up from Central Casting and an endless car chase that somehow manages to run 100 minutes in a 90–minute movie.

Frankenweenie

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The story goes that when Tim Burton presented his 1984 live–action short, Frankenweenie, to his employers at Walt Disney Pictures, they promptly fired him for blowing their money on a weird project that didn’t jibe with the company’s benign, kid– friendly offerings. Needless to say, the dismissal hardly damaged the man’s career: He made his feature– film debut the very next year with Pee–wee’s Big Adventure and went on to helm such hits as Beetlejuice and Batman. Ever the good capitalists, the Disney suits noted this subsequent success and proudly included Frankenweenie (as well as Burton’s 1982 short, Vincent) as an additional selling point for the DVD and Blu–ray releases of the Burton–produced The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Cut to the modern day, and Disney

has handed over the requisite budget and the requisite blessing for Burton to make another Frankenweenie, this one a feature–length remake of his celebrated short. No longer a live– action endeavor, this new version has been filmed employing the stop– motion animation style that Burton previously used in Corpse Bride. The story, however, remains the same: In a staid American suburb, young Victor Frankenstein (voiced by Charlie Tahan) is devastated when his best friend in the world, his faithful dog Sparky, is struck and killed by an automobile. Nothing can lift him out of his gloom until his science teacher shows the class how electricity can temporarily reanimate a dead frog.

Working from this template, Victor successfully manages to revive Sparky, a joyous reunion marred by the fear and stupidity of Victor’s neighbors.

The 1984 Frankenweenie ran just the right length at 30 minutes, so the challenge was in expanding the story to approximately 90 minutes without making the new material feel like extraneous filler. Working from Burton’s original idea, scripter John August largely succeeds. The character of the science teacher, a bit player in the original, is given stature and presence: Looking like Vincent Price (Burton’s horror–film hero) and speaking in a thick European accent provided by Martin Landau (who won a well–deserved Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in Burton’s 1994 Ed Wood), he’s the story’s most entertaining figure, especially when he tells his students’ small–minded, science–fearing parents, “You are all very ignorant. Is that the right word, ’ignorant’?”

Burton has opted to present this story in black and white, not only because the original was filmed that way but also because, like Mel Brooks’ b&w Young Frankenstein, it pays the proper respect to the horror classics of the 1930s and ’40s, specifically Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.

The stop–motion animation looks especially crisp in Frankenweenie’s black–and–white world, and it adds an extra degree of spookiness to the more eccentric supporting characters, among them a creepy kid named Edgar E. Gore, an eerie girl who makes Harry Potter’s Luna Lovegood look grounded by comparison, and an oddball cat whose kitty–litter offerings have prophetic abilities.

But there’s nothing spooky about Sparky, the amiable canine who, even after being brought back from the grave, seeks only to play with– and love on - his owner. Dead or alive, he’s the beating heart at the center of this alternately amusing, alternately poignant but perpetually inventive work.

LOOPER

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The pretzel–twisted thriller Looper may not take us back to the future as satisfyingly as director Robert Zemeckis’ Marty McFly trilogy or James Cameron’s Terminator franchise, but writer–director Rian Johnson does enough right to all but guarantee that he now has a future cult film on the books. Johnson, who made an attention–grabbing debut with 2005’s Brick and followed that with 2008’s pleasant The Brothers Bloom, continues to function as Christopher Nolan’s Mini–Me, coming up with wildly imaginative movies that (unlike Nolan’s) don’t quite muster enough power to truly break through.

In Looper, Joseph Gordon–Levitt stars as Joe, who in the year 2042 serves as one of a select group of “loopers,” paid assassins who eliminate whoever is sent back via time travel from the year 2072 by the ruling mob of that future world. Joe is content and growing ever richer with his blood–splattered career choice, but the day arrives when he finds himself expected to wipe out the 30–years–older version of himself.

Old Joe (Bruce Willis) has other plans than just taking a blast to the chest, though, and he manages to escape from his younger self.

For his part, Joe winds up at a farm house owned by the strong– willed Sara (Emily Blunt), who’s living there with her little boy (Pierce Gagnon). As Joe bides his time until his middle–aged self again shows up on the scene, he comes to care for the woman and child more than he expected. With the aid of prosthetics, Gordon–Levitt is quite good as he mimics Willis in order to maintain characterconsistency. The time– travel aspects of Johnson’s script don’t always flow smoothly, requiring viewers to engage in an even greater suspension of disbelief than normal.

Given the premium rush being delivered on screen, though, I don’t think that will be a problem. CS

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Activism & Politics 13th Colony Patriots

A group of conservative political activists that meets the 13th of each month at Tubby’s restaurant, 2909 River Drive in Thunderbolt, 6:30pm to 8:30pm. We are dedicated to the preservation of the U. S. Constitution and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. See our Facebook page or call Michael or Elizabeth at 912.604.4048. All are welcome. [062712]

Drinking Liberally

An informal, left-leaning group of folks who meet to talk about politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and anything else that pops up. Every first and third Thursday, around 7:30 p.m. at Loco’s, 301 W. Broughton St., upstairs. Come join us! DrinkingLiberally.org [062712]

Public School System Seeks Input on Proposed 2013-2014 Calendar

The Savannah-Chatham County Public School System’s District Calendar Committee has developed a proposed academic calendar for School Year 2013-2014. This proposed calendar would begin the school year on Thursday, August 8, 2013 and end the school year on Friday, May 23, 2014. The proposed calendar is posted for public review and comment prior to a final Committee recommendation being made to the Board of Public Education To comment, fill out a brief survey located on the homepage of the district’s website at www.sccpss.com. Comments will be accepted until 5:00pm on Friday, November 16, 2012.

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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Savannah Tea Party Monthly Meetings

First Monday of each month at B&B Burgers, 11108 Abercorn St. Social at 5:30pm. October meeting, October 1. Business meeting at 6pm.

All are welcome. Please join us to make a difference concerning local, state and federal policies that affect our way of life. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-598-7358 or Jeanne Seaver at 912-663-8728f or additional info.

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Veterans for Peace Monthly Meeting

The Savannah chapter of Veterans for Peace meets upstairs at Loco’s, 301 Broughton St. at 7p.m. on the last Monday of each month. VFP is a national organization of men and women of all eras, branches of service, and duty stations that works to expose the true costs of war and to support veterans and civilian victims. 303550-1158 for more info. [072912]

Benefits Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week

Impact a child’s life-- Fill a shoe box with school supplies, toys, necessity items and a note of encouragement for a child overseas suffering due to disaster, disease, war, terrorism, famine or poverty. This year, Operation Christmas Child expects to reach a milestone with more than 100 million children receiving shoe box gifts since the project began in 1993. National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child is November 12-19. There are collection sites around the Savannah area. To

Saturday, Nov. 10, 6pm at Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 General McIntosh Blvd. Dinner and dancing with live entertainment by the Swingin’ Medallions. Silent & live auction. Mike Manhatton will be the Master of Ceremonies for “A Night of Celebration” honoring 15 years of service and support to families affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Proceeds benefit SMA Angels Charity Inc., a volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a treatment or cure for SMA. Tickets $80.

Sponsorships available. Information: www. smaangels.org, or (912) 727-4762 or smacharity@aol.com.

15th Annual Trick or Trot 5k & 10k Run

Saturday, October 27 at May Howard School on Wilmington Island. Presented by the Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club, proceeds from the event benefit four local charities and the Georgia Rotary Scholarship Program. Participants are encouraged to run in costume. Fees are $30 and $35 with an early registration discount of $5. Register online at www.active.com. Event website is www.TrickorTrot.net.

17th Annual Bear Gala for The Children’s Hospital at MUMC

6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, October 26, Plantation Club at The Landings. Benfiting The Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. Live and silent auctions, dinner, and collectible stuffed bears dressed to match this year’s theme. Information: Lauren Grant at 912-350-1524 or grantla1@memorialhealth. com. Sponsored by The One Hundred.

A Taste of Halloween Masquerade Ball

Benefiting CASA. Tuesday, October 30, 7-10pm at the Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad Street. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, open bar, costume contest, holiday shopping marketplace and live music. Tickets: $69. Available at www. savannahhalloween.com.

Barbells for Boobs

CrossFit SteadFast will be participating in “Barbells For Boobs” – a CrossFit fundraiser that benefits Mammograms in Action (a nonprofit funding mammograms and other screening for low-income and uninsured women.)

We will do the classic CrossFit benchmark WOD “Grace” (30 Clean & Overheads @ 95lbs/135lbs.). Friday October 26th 6pm - 8pm at CrossFit SteadFast (behind EnMark Gas Station), 514 Berrien Street. Information: 912-7133755 or www.cfsteadfast.com. Any donation would be appreciated, and anyone can attend!

Beach High School Benefit for Children Hit by Car

Beach High School’s faculty and students will compete in a charity softball game to benefit Brianna Quarterman and Aaliyah Washington, two elementary school children hit by a car in September in front of the high school. Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at DeRenne Middle School,1009 Clinch Street. Free to attend; donations will be accepted. Concessions will be sold and all the money collected will be donated to a fund set up by the family of Brianna Quarterman and Aaliyah Washington.

Contact Info: Jennifer Britton Beach High School Phone: 912-395-5330 ext. 145 Email: jennifer.britton@sccpss.com.

Boys and Girls Clubs 95th Anniversary Blue Door Celebration

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Empire celebrates its anniversary with an Annual Banquet and Charity Auction, featuring Superbowl great George Atkinson (born in Savannah) as the key-

note speaker. Catered by Outback Steakhouse.

Thurs. Nov. 1. (call for times) Savannah Station, 301 Cohen Street. Tickets: $50. Sponsorships available. Information and tickets: bgcsavannah.org or 912-233-2939 Extension 2.

Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School Fall Celebration

Games, face painting, inflatables, rock climbing, contests, raffle, Karate Demonstration, music, food court and much more, to benefit the school. Sat. Nov 17, 11am to 4pm at the Bamboo Farms on Canebreak Road off Hwy 17 in Savannah. Cost: $10 for wrist band to jump all day, $2 admission for Adults & babies. Additional charges for raffles, food and drinks.

Costume Gala Benefiting CASA

James B. Pennington, owner of Majestic Creations, is throwing a party to benefit CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) a nonprofit organization that promotes the advocacy of neglected and abused children. Celebrity guest appearance by Deevetkeio Griffeth (CEO of ART CEMM). Musical Guests: Nickel Bag of Funk. Silent auction, raffle items, and a party!

Sunday, October 28. 7pm. Bryson Hall, 5 East Perry Street. Tickets: $30. Information: 404428-3376 or info@majesticcreations.org.

Forsyth Farmers’ Market Seeks Sponsors

Forsyth Farmers’ Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities start at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. www.forsythfarmersmarket.com or email Kristin@forsythfarmersmarket.com for information. [091512]

Karma Yoga Class for Local Charities

Bikram Yoga Savannah has added a new weekly Karma Class to raise money for local charities. The Karma Class is held each Monday night during the regular 6:30 p.m. class.

Students pay $5 to participate in the class, and all proceeds are donated to a local charity.

A different charity is selected each month.

Information: bikramyogasavannah.com or 912344-1278/912-356-8280. [072212]

October Food Drive sponsored by Ameris Bank Ameris Bank announces its 3rd Annual Helping Fight Hunger food drive initiative. From October 1 - 31, members of the community are encouraged to drop off non-perishable food items at local Ameris Bank locations and supporting businesses. In Savannah and Pooler, donated items will be delivered to Loaves & Fishes Interfaith Food Ministry, Savannah City Mission, and America’s Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia. Information: amerisbank.com

Pasta on the Park

A pre-Rock ’n Roll Marathon carbo-loading extravaganza benefiting Liam’s Land for Lymphatic Malformation Research. Friday, Nov. 2, 4:00-8:30pm. Location: American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull Street. Sponsored by Rail Pub. Dinner includes salad, pasta, sweet, and nonalcoholic drink. Cash bar available. Dine in or carry out. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 at the door. www.liamsland.org.

Register Now for February’s Seacrest Race for Preservation

The 5K and 10K is a race through many Savannah neighborhoods, finishing with a fun-filled celebration for participants, family, and friends.

Registration savings for early birds, military, first responders, students and children under 12. Race registration is open at Fleet Feet Savannah and Active.com as well the Historic Savannah Foundation website. www.myhsf.

org/special-events/seacrest-race/ Or see the Facebook page. Registration fees: $35-45

Slammin’ Cancer Chili Challenge

Wilmington Island Wishes (a local non-profit) is hosting its annual Chili Challenge in support of Owen Newman – a 4 year old battling NonHodgkin’s Lymphoma. Bring the whole family!

Saturday, November 10, 1pm-until the chili is gone. Britannia British Pub, 140 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Information: Sandi Godfrey 706-207-1870 $5.00 admission per person. Chili Tasting, 50/50 raffle, Silent Auction, live music, and football.

Step Forward: Safe Shelter’s 5K Walk to End Domestic Violence

SAFE Shelter invites individuals who want to honor survivors of domestic violence and anyone who has ever been a victim of domestic violence or pay tribute to those who have lost their life to attend its STEP Forward-Taking Steps to End Domestic Violence 5K Walk scheduled for Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 9AM at Lake Mayer. All funds raised benefit SAFE Shelter. visit www.firstgiving.com/ SAFEshelter/STEP-FORWARD.

Call for Entries St. Thomas Thrift Store Grant Applications

The St. Thomas Thrift Store is accepting applications from area charities for grants to be awarded at the end of December 2012. Applications must be submitted before November 15, 2012 to be considered. The amount of a grant generally ranges from $500 to $1500. Contact Betty Ann Brooks at BettyAnn.Brooks@yahoho. com for an application and instructions. Or pick up an application at the Thrift Store at 1126 E. Montgomery Crossroads on Mon., Tues., Fri. or Sat. between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm.

Artwork Sought for Political Satire Art Show

How do you express your political opinions through your art? We want to know! Submit works of art by Nov 5, 2012. (Small entry fee applies) Visit the Opening Reception on November 9, 2012 Check out more info on the Desotorow Gallery website or www.facebook. com/events/480208102009743/.

Classes, Camps & Workshops Drawing II

Explore the use of props and photographs to achieve strong composition. Discover the elements of design, basics of portraiture and the interaction of color. Drawing experience required. Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm, Nov. 1 - 29, no class on Thanksgiving. $125. Offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern’s Office of Continuing Education at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. Register: 912-478-5551 or ceps. georgiasouthern.edu.

Jewelry Making with Precious Metal Clay

Explore the potential of Hadar’s ™ copper and bronze clays through the art of jewelry making.

Focusing on texturing, building and burnoFee: $200. Mondays, 11/5/2012 to 12/03/2012 Registration fee includes materials. Registration: 912-478-5551. Information: 912-651-0942 or email christinataylor@georgiasouthern.edu ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/artclasses. html Offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern University’s Continuing Education. Location:

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Photography Classes

From beginner photography to advanced post-production classes for all levels, amateur to professional. $20 per person for a two hour session with at least 5 students per class. Contact 410-251-4421 or chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. A complete list of classes and class descriptions are available at http://www. chrismorrisphotography.com/photographyclasses. [082612]

Art Classes at the Studio School.

Learn to draw and paint under the mentorship of a working artist. Learn more at melindaborysevicz.com/the_studio_school or email: melindaborysevicz@gmail.com, 1319-B Bull Street. 912-484-6415 Fall 2012 classes begin mid-September. Youth Oil Painting and Drawing; Adult Oil Painting and Drawing; Painting, A Creative Exploration. [091012]

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

For all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory. Serious inquiries only. 961-7021 or 667-1056. [062812]

Avatar® Info Hour

Are you interested in improving the world?

Do you want to foster community locally and abroad? Join us every 3rd Tuesday of the month to explore the Avatar tools and learn how to live your life deliberately. Call Brie at 912-429-9981 to RSVP and for location details. http://www. theavatarcourse.com. [062812]

Beading Classes at Bead Dreamer Studio Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659.

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Champions Training Center

Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912-349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah. com/ [062812]

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

Professional instruction. Lessons with PHD and Guitar Performance. All levels welcome.

Website: www.brianluckett.com for information and contact. [101512]

Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Classes

Regular classes on boat handling, boating safety & navigation offered by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Learn from the experts. For dates & more information, visit our web site: www.savannahaux.com or telephone Kent Shockey at 912-897-7656. [062812]

Drawing Instruction

Private and group drawing lessons by artist and former SCAD professor Karen Bradley. Call or email for details, (912)507-7138. kbillustration@mac.com [062812]

Drawing the Figure

Beginning Monday, October 1, 3:30-6pm at the Studio School, 1319 Bull Street. Call Melinda at 912-484-6415, or email melindaborysevicz@ gmail.com for more information. facebook. com/savannahstudioschool

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, DWI, offenders, and anyone seeking to gain knowledge about the dangers of driving impaired. A must see for teenage drivers seeking a drivers license or who have already received a license. Group meets monthly. $40/ session. Information: 912-443-0410. [062812]

English for Second Language Classes

Students of all ages are invited to learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. Free. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 E Savannah. 912-897-3604. Contact: James Lavin or Minister John LaMaison www.islandschristian.org. [062812]

Fall Art Classes at S.P.A.C.E. Now

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Day and evening sessions for children, teens, and adults in all skill levels. Sessions begai October 26 and run through December 14. Held at the Department of Cultural Affairs studio S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry Street. Six week classes and weekend workshops including Cartooning, Beginning Lapidary Arts, Holiday Clay Ornament workshop and others. Fees vary, and include instruction, use of studio space, use of equipment and all materials and tools required.

Advance registration is required. Class schedule and registration forms are available online at www.savannahga.gov/arts or by calling (912) 651-6783.

Family Law Workshop

The Mediation Center has three workshops a month to assist citizens who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support and/or visitation and contempt. Schedule: 1st Tuesday, 4:30-7:30pm. 2nd Monday, 2-5pm.

4th Thursday 10am-1pm. Fee:$30 to cover all documents needed to file. Register at mediationsavannah.com or 912-354-6686. [082612]

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register. [062812]

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays 9:30 am and Wednesdays 6:00 pm at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 drop-in, $12 - 6 classes. For more info contact Elaine Alexander, GCFP at 912-223-7049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com. [062812]

Group Guitar Lessons

Join us for a fun time, for group guitar lessons, at the YMCA on Whitemarsh and Tybee Islands (adults and teens only). Hands-on instruction, music theory, ear training, sight reading, ensemble playing, technique, and rhythm drills, by teacher Tim Daniel (BS in Music). 912-8979559. $20/week. [062812]

Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons

Instruction for all ages of beginner/intermediate students. Technique, chords, note reading, and theory. Learn songs and improvisation.

Studio located 2 blocks from Daffin Park.

Housecalls available. Call 401-255-6921 or email a.teixeira472@gmail.com to schedule a 1/2 price first lesson! [062812]

Guitar, Mandolin or bass guitar Lessons

Guitar, mandolin or bass guitar lessons. emphasis on theory, reading music and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. 912-232-5987 [062812]

Homeschool Music Classes

Music classes for homeschool students ages 8 through 18 and their parents. Classes start in August with registration in July. Classes offered in Guyton and Savannah. Go to www.CoastalEmpireMusic.com for more details. [062812]

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912-2324232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com [062812]

Kayak Building Workshop

Build your own “skin” kayak in 7 days. Session I: November 3 - 10. Session II: November 12 18. Savannah Canoe & Kayak, 414 Bonaventure Rd. 912-341-9502. savannahcanoeandkayak. com

Learn to Speak Spanish

Spanish Instruction for Individuals or Groups and Spanish-English Translation and Interpretation. Classes held at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. An eclectic range of tools used

in each session, including: hand-outs, music, visual recognition, conversation, and interactive web media. Instruction tailored to student needs. Flexible scheduling. Information and pricing: 912-541-1337. [062412]

Music Lessons for All Instruments

Rody’s Music is now offering music lessons for all ages on all instruments, beginners through advanced. 7700 Abercorn St. For more information call 912-352-4666 or email kristi@ awsav.com. [051912]

Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, drums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, flute, and woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Info: 912-692-8055 or smisavannah@gmail.com.

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New Horizons Adult Band Program

A music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school or college and would like to have the opportunity to begin playing again. Dust off your instrument every Monday night at Portman’s Music Store (Abercorn) at 6:30p.m. The cost is $30.00 per month. All ages and ability levels are welcome. Contact Pamela Kidd at 912-354-1500 for more info. [062812]

Novel Writing

Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publishing your work. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-on-one or small group classes and mentoring, as well as manuscript critique, ebook formatting and more. Send an email to pmasoninsavannah@ gmail.com for pricing and scheduling information. [062812]

Open Pottery Studio at Savannah’s Clay Spot

For potters with experience who want time in the studio, Choose from 4 hour time slots. Registrations are based on a monthly, bi monthly, and quarterly time commitment. Savannah’s Clay Spot, 1305 Barnard St. Information: 912-509-4647 or www.savannahsclayspot.com [062812]

QuickBooks Seminars

Hancock Askew & Co. LLP is hosting a series of four free half-day QuickBooks Seminars for PC users. Location: Hancock Askew’s offices, 100 Riverview Drive. Seminars: October 23, 9am – 12pm. QuickBooks® 101* Getting started, setting up your first accounts, basic navigation, bank reconciliations and credit card reconciliations. October 30, 9am – 12pm, Intermediate QuickBooks® - Taking it to the Next Level. November 6, 9am – 12pm. Reporting* How to manage your business using QuickBooks®. November 13, 9am – 12pm. Finance for Non-Financial Managers and Internal Controls - Important QuickBooks related questions for your tax advisor for year-end and more.

Information/registration: Barbara Fierstein at 912-527-1337 or bfierstein@hancockaskew. com. Free registration.

Raku Firing Workshop offered by S.P.A.C.E. Friday, October 26.

Experience the Japanese firing technique of Raku. Ceramics specialist Clair Buckner will lead multiple firings throughout the afternoon.

Select a ready-made bisque piece, glaze it, and watch its firing in the Raku tradition. Ceramic artists are invited to bring bisque fired works for glazing and firing during the demo. Firing fee of $10, limited to one large work or two small works. No fee to observe. Friday, October 26, 1 p.m.- 4 p.m. in the ceramics studio parking lot at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry Street. City of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs Dept. Information: 912-651-6417.

This ancient firing technique involves removing glowing 2000 degree ceramic pieces from the kiln and placing them into an airtight container filled with masses of combustible material to provide a reducing atmosphere for the glaze and to stain the exposed body surface with carbon.

For more information, please contact Clair Buckner at 912-651-6783 or cbuckner@savannahga.gov. About S.P.A.C.E.: S.P.A.C.E. is Savannah’s Place for Art, Culture and Education.

Located at 9 W. Henry St., S.P.A.C.E. houses the offices of the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs as well as a public gallery, a 100-seat black box theatre and art and ceramics studios. For more information, visit www. savannahga.gov/arts.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-7132718 for more information. [062812]

SAT Prep Course Series

For high school juniors and seniors. Essay Writing for the SAT/ACT-- 6:00-8:00 p.m., Tuesday evenings, November 6 - November 27, finishing just in time for the December 3rd SAT. Math Prep and Critical Reading Prep courses are scheduled for January and February 2013.

For more information about these and other courses, contact Judy Fogarty at 644-5967 or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

The Savannah Charlesfunders meet every Saturday at 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds, and better investing. Meetings take place at Panera Bread on Bull and Broughton. Contact us at charlesfund@gmail.com for more information.

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Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone that loves to sing is invited to join the Savannah Sacred Harp Singers at Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road in Savannah. All are welcome to participate or listen in on one of America’s most revered musical traditions. For more information call 912-655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp. com. [062812]

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

Anitra is currently teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for those interested in improving their vocal range and breathing capacity.

Bel Canto carries over well as a foundation technique for different styles including opera, pop, rock and cabaret. Fridays 5.30-8-30pm, Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W State St Savannah, 3rd floor. 786-247-9923 www. anitraoperadiva.com [062512]

Spanish Classes

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Spanish courses to professionals in the Savannah area offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in series. “Beginner Spanish for Professionals” course. Introductory price $155 + Textbook ($12.95) Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed & Native Speaker. Registration: www. conquistador-spanish.com Fee: $155.00 Meets in the Keller Williams Realty Meeting Room, 329 Commercial Drive.

The Family Values Workshops ~ Session One

Many of us grew up in a “not so perfect” home.

This has affected the relationships we have or have had in the past. Wonder why we can’t get out of the cycle of poor relationships? I have developed a series of three workshops on Family Values which use the 12 tradition principles of the 12 Step programs, You Can Heal Your Life

by Louise Hay, Be Love Now by Ram Das, The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Luis, and many other current authors of Love Principles. You do not have to be in a relationship now. Families are welcome (special discounts for whole families attending). Date: October 27, 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Location: Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Registration: $20 plus $40 for materials. A love offering will be taken during the workshop. Lydia Rose Stone, certified Dream Builder Life Coach, at 912-656-6383 or email rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

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Clubs & Organizations Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. Generally meets on the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. Email: Kaza Ayersman, godzillaunknown@gmail.com or visit www. avegost.com [062912]

Blindness and Low Vision: A Guide to Working, Living and Supporting Individuals with Vision Loss

On the 3rd Thursday of every month, Savannah Center for Blind and Low Vision will offer workshops to learn more about vision loss, services and technology available to participate more fully in the community and how as a community we can support individuals with vision loss. Orientation and Mobility Techniques utilized by individuals with vision loss to access the community, Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness, Common Types of Vision Loss, How to support individuals who have vision loss to achieve their maximum independence, Low Vision Simulator Experiences, Blindfold Experiences, Resources.

Free and Open to the Public. Information: www.

SavannahCBLV.org. Savannah Center for Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton Street. [101412]

Buccaneer Region SCCA

The 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. Visit http://buccaneerregion. org. [062912]

Business Networking on the Islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group Meets 1st Thursday each month from 9:30-10:30 AM. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Savannah (912) 308-6768 for more info. [062912]

Chatham Sailing Club

Meets the first Friday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd., Savannah (across fom N. Cromwell Rd.) If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday. No boat? No sailing experience? No problem! Information: http://www. chathamsailing.org. [051912]

Drop N Circle Craft Night (formerly Stitch-N Group)

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. Join us every Tuesday evening 5pm-8pm for crafting.

Located at 6 West State Street (behind the CVS off of Wright Square in the historic district.) Enjoy the sharing of creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers. All levels of experience welcome.

Come and be inspired! For more info please call 912-233-1240 or 912-441-2656. [072812]

Energy Healers

Energy Healers Meets every Monday at 6pm.

Meditation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more. Call 912-695-2305 for more info. http://www.meetup. com/SavannahEnergyHealers/ [062912]

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal.

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Honor Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending our area Korean War and World War II veterans

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Islands MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school. Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. Meets first & third Monday of the month, excluding holidays.

Childcare is available upon request. A ministry of MOPS International. Information or registration: call 912-898-4344 or kymmccarty@hotmail.com. http://www.mops.org/ [062912]

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A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at the First Baptist Church of the Islands on two Wednesdays a month from 9:15-11:30am.

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Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Contact (912) 308-6768 for info. No fees. Wanna learn? Come join us! [062912]

Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Wild Fibre, 6 East Liberty Street (near Bull St.) Call for info: 912-238-0514 [063012]

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Michigan State University Football! MSU Coastal Alumni Club

Gather with other MSU alums to watch football at B&D Burgers on Abercorn Street. The MSU Coastal Alumni Club meets four times to watch games during fall 2012: Sept. 15 vs. Notre Dame; Sept. 29 vs Ohio State; Oct. 20 vs. Ann Arbor; Nov. 3 vs. Nebraska. Information: www.msucoastalalumniclub.com or 248-345-4434.

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

American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. Call 786-4508. [062912]

Peacock Guild-For Writers and Book Lovers

A literary society for bibliophiles and writers.

Writer’s Salon meetings held on first Tuesday and third Wednesday. Book Club meets on the third Tuesday. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and meet at Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home (207 E. Charlton St.). Call 233-6014 or visit Facebook group “Peacock Guild” for more info.

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Philo Cafe

A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at various locations each Monday.

Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by. No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook. [063012]

Queen of Spades Card Playing Club

A new club formed to bring lovers of card games together to play games such as Spades, Hearts, Rummy, etc. We will meet every other Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13. E. Park Ave. Next meeting is July 19. Children are welcome. No fee. Information: 912-660-8585.

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Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 5965965. [062912]

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet the first Sunday at 4

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1 Built to ___ 5 President/playwright Havel 11 Breakfast burrito ingredient 14 Frosty the Snowman’s eyes 15 “Foxtrot” pet Quincy, for instance 16 Make a dent in 17 Dancer Ailey, in his upstate New York home (as screamed on “Chipmunk Day Afternoon”)?

19 Arafat’s gp., once 20 Macbeth, for one 21 Goblet part 22 Peace signs 23 “The Jungle Book” boy 25 Squirrel’s stash 27 Rueful word 28 Number of Belgian beers you plan on drinking (as screamed in “A Futbol Named Desire”)?

32 Napoleonic marshal 33 “Hey there, cowboy!”

34 Like Donald Trump’s lips, half the time 35 “Yeah, whatever...”

37 War horse 40 Heart chambers 41 “The Conning Tower” writer and Algonquin Round Table member, for short 44 Genghis’s 100%-wooden cousin (as screamed in “Lumberjack Trek II”)?

46 Former Swedish automaker 47 Relaxation 48 Like scratchy throats 50 Decrease?

51 Bed, in Spanish 55 TV’s Huxtable and Kojak, for two 56 Dir. opposite SSE 57 Time leading up to doing whatever you want (as screamed on “Golf Course Braveheart”)?

59 “Isn’t that somethin’?”

60 ___ del Fuego 61 “Morning Joe” cohost Brzezinski 62 Leb. neighbor 63 Winter Olympics course

64 List-ending abbr.

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1 1990s dance hit with that recurring line “Bada bwi ba ba bada bo” 2 Road danger 3 Erode 4 Decals for car windows 5 By means of 6 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s ___...”

7 The Raelians, for one 8 Cleanse 9 Red-headed drummer on “The Muppets” 10 Scooby-Doo’s ride 11 Notable wearer of new clothes 12 Lead ore samples 13 How some things are overstated 18 Animation collectible 22 Dance popularized by Madonna in the 1990s 24 Avoided serious injury 26 “It’s a Wonderful Life” director 29 Make some changes 30 Archie Bunker’s wife 31 Unitard material 33 Goes out of sight 35 “Rio” singer Simon 36 ___ It Cool News 37 Orchestra section 38 “ER” actress Maura 39 Give more control to 41 Tricked everyone 42 Average klutz 43 Lower than low 45 Firing after-effect 46 Big plan 49 Suffix with Manhattan 52 Geometry calculation 53 Crossword great ___ Reagle 54 Big do 57 Dix and Ticonderoga, e.g.

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hands-on comfort measures including breathing, massage, positioning, pressure points and much more from two labor doulas. For moms and their birth companions, to prepare for labor and delivery. The class is held the last Wednesday of each month at 100 Riverview Drive, 6pm-8pm. $100 per couple. Call Ann Carroll (912) 704-7650 or e-mail her at carroll3620@ bellsouth.net. Reservations are required and space is limited. [070812]

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pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@comcast. net or visit www.roguephoenix.org. [062912]

Safe Kids Savannah

A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, holds a meeting on the second Tuesday of every month from 11:30am-1pm. Visit www.safekidssavannah.org or call 912-3533148 for more info. [062912]

Savannah Art Association

The non-profit art association, the Southeast’s oldest, is taking applications for membership.

Workshops, community programs, exhibition opportunities, and an artistic community of diverse and creative people from all ages, mediums, and skill levels. Information: 912232-7731 [062912]

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, 6-8 p.m. Encourage first-class prose writing, fiction or non-fiction, through discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton St. All are welcome, including beginners. No charge. Contact: Alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live.com) or 912-308-3208. [091512]

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

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Savannah Clemson Club

Savannah Area Clemson alumni and supporters meet at various times and locations throughout the year. Viewing parties for football games held at Satisfied (formerly Loco’s Downtown), 301 W. Broughton Street. Information: Gareth Avant at garethavant@gmail.com or 336-339-3970. [092312]

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

A dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

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Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, you may join the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month.

Experienced fencers welcome. Call 429-6918 or email savannahfencing@aol.com. [062912]

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day! Call (912) 308-6768 to learn more. [062912]

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Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more.

Must be 21-40 years old to join. 101 Atlas St. 912-353-7700 or www.savannahjaycees.com [062912]

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings are open to the public and visitors. Meetings are held at Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant, 11301 Abercorn St. the fourth Monday of each month, September through May. Dinner starts at 6 pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm. Guest Speakers at every meeting. For more info, call 912-238-3170 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org [062912]

Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program.

The club hosts activities, tours and events to assist in learning about Savannah and making new friends. www.savannahnewcomers.com [062912]

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail beachnit13@yahoo. com. [080312]

Savannah Storytellers

Meets 6-7pm every other Wednesday at Tubby’s on River Drive in Thunderbolt. The aim of Savannah Storytellers is to “talk to tell” a story or stories. We will help, encourage and instruct you in audio-recording and/or presenting your own story. Limited seating. Must have reservation. Call 912-349-4059. [091012]

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the Mulberry Inn. http://www.savannahsunriserotary.org. [062912]

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 484-6710. [062912]

Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest speaker authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company in Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn Street. Free and open to the public. Information: www.savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com/group or 912-572-6251.

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Seersucker Live Happy Hour for Writers A no-agenda gathering of the Savannah area

writing community, held on the first Thursday of every month from 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing. 21+ with valid I.D. Usually held at Abe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln Street. For specifics, visit SeersuckerLive.com. [063012]

The Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking practical methods for achieving more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods. For individualists, non-conformists, anarcho-libertarians, social misfits, voluntarists, conspiracy theorists, “permanent tourists” etc. Savannah meetings/ discussions twice monthly on Thursdays at 8.30 pm. Discussion subjects and meeting locations will vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. For next meeting details email: onebornfree@yahoo.com. [072212]

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets the 4th Wednesday every month at 6pm at Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue. All ages welcomed. Prior experience and/or boat ownership not required.

Information: www.savannahaux.com or telephone 912-598-7387. [063012]

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. [063012]

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912-2323549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information. [063012]

Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

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

Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes held in the new Abeni Cultural Arts dance studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. For more information call 912-631-3452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. E-mail: abeniculturalarts@gmail. com [062812]

Adult Ballet Class

Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St., at 39th, is offering an Adult Ballet Class on Thursdays from 6:30-7:30. Cost is $12 per class. Join us for learning and fun. Call 234-8745 for more info. [062812]

Adult Dance and Fitness Classes

Beginner & Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, BarreCore Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch & Tone. No experience

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necessary for beginner ballet, barre, or stretch/ tone. The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/information: 912-925-0903. Or www.theballetschoolsav.com [062812]

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round. (912) 921-2190. The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads. [062812]

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 2:00 - 4:00pm. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. Open to the public. Cost $3.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_ tango@yahoo.com. [100712]

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-596-0889 or www. cairoonthecoast.com [062812]

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. $15/class. Tues: 7-8pm. Visit www. cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091 Private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. [062812]

C.C. Express Dance Team

Meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731.

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Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. [122911]

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@ gmail.com or 912-704-2052. [062812]

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany at 272-8329. [062812]

Modern Dance Class

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels.

Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912354-5586. [062812]

Pole Dancing Classes

Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www.fitnessbodybalance. com or 912-398-4776. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. [062812]

Salsa Savannah Dance & Lessons

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912.544.0026 More local numbers: 1.800.777.8000 / 18+ Ahora en Español / www.interactivemale.com

Lessons Tue. & Thur. at SubZero Lounge, 109 W. Broughton St., from 7-10pm. (Free intro class at 7pm). Dancing 10-close. Drink specials during happy hours. Lessons on Sat at Salon de Baile at Noon. Visit salsasavannah.com / 912704-8726 for info. [062812]

Savannah Dance Club

Savannah Dance Club. Shag, Swing, Cha-Cha and Line dancing. Everyone invited. Call for

Savannah Shag Club

music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. [062812]

Events

Free Event: Trunk-or-Treat

Charles Ellis Montessori Academy Alumni Breakfast

Charles Ellis alumni and former staff/faculty are invited to celebrate Charles Ellis’s 25th year as a public Montessori school. Friday, October 26, 7:30 am in the Ellis Media Center, 220 E. 49th Street. Bring mementos or pictures they may have from your time at Charles Ellis.

Please RSVP to Trent Kissinger at trent.kissinger@sccpss.com. Information: ellissilverjubilee.blogspot.com.

Every Step Counts Survivors Walk

Every Step Counts enthusiastically invites all cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to this free monthly walk. 9 a.m., Saturday, October 27. For location, more information and to register, call DeDe Cargill at 912-398-6554.

Farm a la Carte: A Mobile Farmers Market

Find them at various spots around town including Wednesdays 2:30-6:30pm at Green Truck on Habersham, Thursdays 3-5:30pm at Bethesda Farmers’ Market and Saturdays 9-1 at Forsyth Farmers Market. Sustainable meats, organic produce, local dairy and more. revivalfoods. com. [062812]

Farmer’s Market and Fleatique on Wilmington Island

Local vendors of regionally grown produce,

antiques, flea market finds. Outdoor market or indoor booths. Vendors please contact us to participate! A portion of this month’s booth rental fees will be donated to the Marc Cordray Fund.. Free to attend. Booths available to rent for a fee. Cents and $ensibility, 6703 Johnny Mercer Blvd., Wilmington Island. In the parking lot or indoors. 912-659-2900. Every Saturday, 9am-1pm.

Canaan Community United Methodist Church, 2401 Elgin Street, Savannah, GA, is hosting a free “Trunk-or-Treat” event for the community on Saturday October 27 from 6-8pm. Face printing, free food and plenty of candy. All children are welcome to stop by and get a treat or two and check out the decorated trunks of the cars that will be on display. The Savannah Fire Department will also be there for kids to learn about fire safety. Information: (912) 234-3260.

Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street, on this 20-30 minute tour, its restoration, architectural notes and touch on the history of theatre and early cinema. $4 per person, cash or check only. Group rates for 10 or more. School trips available. Times: No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2:30pm daily. Reservations available for other times. Information: 912-525-5023 or emuller@ lucastheatre.com. [062412]

Islands High School’s “Woof-O-Ween” Fall Arts Festival

Thursday, October 25, 4:30pm to 7:00pm.

Costume contest for dogs, face painting, photo booth, fall themed arts and crafts, and other entertainment. Proceeds benefit the Fine Arts Department at Islands High School. Admission:

$10 Adults, $5 children 10 and under. Location: Islands High School courtyard and bus ramp, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

sentientbean.com and on weekends at The Muse Arts Warehouse www.musesavannah. org [062812]

We are doing 1 1/2 shows for free right now.

If you need an opening musical act, please consider us. We are located on Wilmington Island. www.facebook.com/pages/The-Edgeof-Red/415364065167234?ref=hl

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National Pit Bull Awareness Day Savannah 2012

A day to celebrate and learn all about “America’s Dog”. Free and open to the public. Sunday, Oct. 28, 11am-4pm, Daffin Park, Victory Drive between Waters Ave. and Bee Rd. Information: www.nationalpitbull-savannah.com/

Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Saturday at Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. If you’re interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance, come join us! South end of Forsyth Park, just past the Farmer’s Market. Free. www.savannahsca.org [072212]

Film & Video CinemaSavannah

A film series that seeks to bring new, first-run films to Savannah including critically acclaimed foreign films and documentaries, among others. To subscribe to information about the series, including screening dates and times, email: cinesavannah@att.net [072812]

Psychotronic Film Society

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

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year-round fitness opportunities. Walkers and runners can choose from the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible), additional 1 mile Avian Loop Trail or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and Street Strider rental available. Guided hikes scheduled regularly. $5 parking. Open daily 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. (912) 598-2300 www.GaStateParks.org/SkidawayIsland [100712]

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays from 9-10am. $10 per session. North End of Forsyth Park. Contact relaxsavannah@ gmail.com with questions.

Team In Training Info Meetings in October and November

Meetings in Oct. & Nov. at various fitness stores and gyms around Savannah and Chatham County. Learn how you can participate in one of the following events with Team In Training: Critz Tybee Run Fest (five different distances), Publix Georgia Marathon & Half, Inaugural Nike Women’s Half Marathon in DC, St. Anthony’s Triathlon, Rev3 Knoxville Triathlon, Spartan Adventure Race and America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride. For more info, visit www. teamintraining.org/ga or call 912-484-2582.

Basic Zumba & Zumba Toning Classes with Mai

Mondays, Lake Mayer in the Community Center from 8:30am - 9:30am. Zumba Toning at the JEA (Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111

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Abercorn St) Mondays @ 6 pm. Free for members, $5.00 for nonmembers. Basic Zumba Tues & Thurs 10-10:45am, Curves in Sav’h Mall, $3/ members, $5/Gen. Adm. Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm, St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class. Weds 9:30-10:15am, Frank Murray Community Center, Wilmington Island, $3. Bring water, proper shoes and attire. Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890. [081912]

ARIES

(March 21–April 19) In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. Are you willing to work behind the scenes and beneath the surface? I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difficult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist.

much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head.

ing a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now; not when you have more leisure time; NOW! If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a flood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected, disempowered, or underprivileged part of your life.

LEO

SCORPIO

(July 23–Aug. 22)

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic.

Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing.

Halloween costume suggestion: your father.

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne.

Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible. And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.

GEMINI

VIRGO

I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multi–level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady, and stable.

Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.

Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only ten percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories?

Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X–ray vision, a lab scientist.

CANCER

LIBRA

An avocado tree may produce so

I am officially protesting you, Libra.

I am staging a walkout and mount-

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20)

(May 21–June 20)

(June 21–July 22)

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22)

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

As you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non–Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze, and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

“Does anyone know where I can find dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone

could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you.

You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (tinyurl.com/ FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need ten items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks, and glue.

You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration.

But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise, and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge.

Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman, or other healer.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) It’s not a good time to wear Super– Control Higher–Power Spanx, or any other girdle, corset, or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers, or confines you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive. In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big, and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.

Bellydance Fusion Classes

Fusion bellydance mixes ballet, jazz and hip hop into a unique, high energy style of dance.

Classes include drills and choreographies for all levels. Small classes held several days a week in downtown Savannah, and upon request. $10 per person. Contact Christa at 678-799-4772 or see [063012]

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation based classes held at the Talahi Island Community Center. Tue. & Thur.

5:45 -7:00pm For info email egs5719@aol.com or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. [063012]

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times. 355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St., http:// www.savj.org. [063012]

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them. Call Sifu Michael Sampson to learn about free trial classes 912-429-9241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop ins welcome. [063012]

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays at the Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Call for times and fees. 912-232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. [063012]

Pilates Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and Semi-Private classes by appointment. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Suite-A Ferguson Ave. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. 912.238-0018. http:// savannahpilates.com. [063012]

Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week sessions are held on Thursdays from 6-7:15pm at 100 Riverview Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. Course fee: $100.

Contact Ann Carroll at 912-704-7650 or ann@ aikyayoga.com. [063012]

Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

Every Wednesday women climb for half price from 6pm - 10pm. $5. 302 W Victory Drive, Suite D. savannahclimbingcoop.com [091012]

Savannah Disc Golf Club

Weekly events (Entry $5): Friday 5 pm - Friday Night Flights. Sat. 10am-Luck of the draw Doubles. Sat. 1pm-Handicapped League. Tom Triplett Park, Hwy 80 W, Pooler. Sun. 10 amSingles at the Sarge in Hardeeville, SC. Info: savannahdiscgolf.com or savannahdiscgolf@ gmail.com All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. [063012]

Stand-Up Paddleboarding

Stand-up paddleboarding lessons and tours. A great way get out on the water and to stay fit.

East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. Eastcoastpaddleboarding.com or 912484-3200. [093012]

The Yoga Room

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr. [063012]

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:45 p.m., Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031. [072912]

Ditch the Workout, Join the Party, Monday nights 7-8pm. Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 East Montgomery Crossroads. All levels.

Fee: $5. Information: 912-596-1952, or 912604-9890. [101512]

Zumba Fitness (R) Classes with April

Mondays @ 5:30 and Thursdays @ 6:30. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. Just $5 for nonmembers. Call 912-349-4902 for more info. [063012]

Zumba Fitness and Toning Classes with Anne

Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E Montgomery Crossroads. Toning class is Tuesdays, 7-8 pm. Bring 1 or 2 lb. weights. Standard Zumba is Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. Both classes are $5 per session, Free if you bring a friend.

(912) 596-1952. [8-3-12]

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. [0622812]

Gay AA Meeting

True Colors AA Group, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Sundays at 7:30pm, Wednesdays at 7:30pm and Thursdays at 7:00 pm at 307 E Harris St, top floor. [062812]

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-547-6263.

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. SPs mission of unity through diversity, and social awareness has helped promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South, and organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival. Call 912-288-7863 or email heather@savpride.com. [062812]

Stand Out Youth

A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@ standoutyouth.org or visit www.standoutyouth. org. [062812]

What Makes A Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611. [062812]

Health Breath Empowerment Energy Class

Breath Empowerment is an extremely powerful energy exercise that has had many different health benefits and has been used for years.

People will emerge with a more Universal perspective and greater clarity. It has been described as profound vibration inside their body, and a feeling of bliss afterwards. Preregistration is required Email tim@qigongtim.com with any questions. October 29, 7-8pm, 18.00 www.qigongtim.com. Healing Forehands, 7505 Waters Avenue Suite B-8

Free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech & Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. www.savannahspeechandhearing. org [062812]

Alcoholics Anonymous

If you want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Check www.SavannahAA.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-3563688 for information. [062812]

Energy Medicine Basics & Inner Journeys Workshop

Clean house at the cellular level With Ellen

Farrell, MA, NCC, LPC, EEM-­‐AP. Sat. Nov. 3. Part 1, 9-10am. Practice energy testing, Chakra clearing, & other EM basics. Part 2, 10am-12:30pm –Practice energy fusion mindful movement. Clear past emotional pain, trauma, fear; small group sharing, Q & A, and a beautiful Spirit/Chakra/Core Star Guided Imagery Meditation. Where: Park South Office complex, Ste. B-8 7505 Waters Ave. Contact to register and for fee information: www.ellenfarrell.com or 912-247-4263.

Flu Shots Now Available from Chatham County Health Department

Flu vaccinations (nasal spray and injectable shot) are available at the Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

No appointment is necessary. $25 for injectable shot and nasal spray. The shot is approved for use in healthy people 6 months of age and older, people with chronic medical conditions, and pregnant women. The nasal spray is approved for use in healthy people 2 to 49 years of age who are not pregnant. $40 for “High Dose” vaccine recommended or people aged 65 and older. Neither the flu shot nor the nasal spray can cause the flu. Information: 912-356-2441.

Health Care for Uninsured People

St. Mary’s Health Center is open for primary health for the uninsured of Chatham County.

The center, located at 1302 Drayton, is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. For information or to make an appointment, call 912-443-9409. [062812]

Hypnobirthing

Teaches the mom and her birth partner to use her natural instincts, trust her body, release emotions and facilitate relaxation during labor and delivery. The series of five classes are held on Monday evenings starting at 6 PM at 100 Riverview Drive. Reservations are required.

Private classesavailable. Call Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 to verify dates and space availability or e-mail her at carroll3620@bellsouth. net. [070812]

La Leche League of Savannah

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Thursday of every month at 10am. La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers.

897-9544, www.lllusa.org/web/SavannahGA. html. [062812]

Living Smart Fitness Club

An exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes offered by St. Joseph’s/ Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John. S. Delaware Center from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM. On Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, the classes are held at the center on 1910 Abercorn Street. Zumba (Tuesdays). Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises. (Mondays & Wednesdays). Information: 912-447-6605.

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Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Meeting

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network raises awareness about pancreatic cancer and provides support for families coping with this illness. October meeting, 6 p.m., Tuesday, October 30, Panera restaurant off of White Bluff and Abercorn. For more information, include November meeting date, please call Jennifer Currin-McCulloch at 912-350-7845.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services. Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-264-7154.

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Yoga on the Beach at Tybee

Held on Wednesdays and Fridays, at Tybee’s North End, weather permitting, from 7am-8am.

Come to the North Beach Public Parking area, Gulick Street walkover (next to lifeguard stand

#2). Drop-ins encouraged! The class is by donation and is a multi-level class, Hatha I & II, IntegralÃ’ Yoga style. Instructor: Ann Carroll, RYT, 500 hour level. Bring yoga mat or beach towel. Call or e-mail Ann for more information at (912) 704~7650 or ann@aikyayoga.com.

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Nature and Environment Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportunity Authority

Programs of EOA have been earning free financial support by participating in the FundingFactory Recycling Program. Bring empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops to EOA for recycling through FundingFactory, in exchange for their choice of technology recreation products, or even cash. Business Support Program of Funding Factory will give benefit to EOA for materials recycled through them by business registered with them. Drop off recyclables at 618 West Anderson Street, Rm. 202, Savannah, GA 31415 To learn more about supporting EOA, including the Business Support Program (recycling) call Debbie Walker at 238-2960 ext.126, or dwproperty@aol.com or at www.FundingFactory.com. [053112]

The Dolphin Project

The Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at your school, club or organization. We offer a fascinating powerpoint with sound and video about our estuarine dolphins and their environment. Ageappropriate programs and related handouts. www.thedolphinproject.org [062712]

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Offering a variety of fun educational programs including Beach Discovery Walks, Marsh Treks, Turtle Talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. Open daily, 10am-5pm. For more info, call 912-786-5917 or visit www.tybeemarinescience.org. [062712]

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Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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Readings & Signings Meets the last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605. [062712] A book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Bring a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it. Treats to share are always welcomed. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660. [062712]

Religious & Spiritual “God on Broadway” Worship Series at Asbury Methodist

Blue Man Group, Sister Act, and The Civil War are some of the Broadway shows featured in Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church’s 2012 “God on Broadway” Worship Series. Every Sunday in October at 11:15a.m. 1008 East Henry Street (at Waters Ave.) All are welcome. www.AsburyMemorial.org

A New Church in the City, For the City.

We gather on Sunday mornings at Bryson Hall (5 East Perry St.) on Chippewa Square at 10:30 am. Like us on Facebook: Savannah Church Plant. [062712]

Guided Silent Prayer

A couple of songs done acoustically, about 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and a few minutes to receive prayer if you want (or remain in silence). A mid-week rest and re-focus. 6:458pm on Wednesdays at the Vineyard Church.

615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org [062712]

Savannah Zen Center

Walk on the Wild Side

Meditation, Classes & Events are held at 111 E. 34th St., Savannah, Ga 31401. For schedule: savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook. {062712]

Wilderness Southeast

The Service of Compline at Christ Church has moved: same music, same service, same choir, same preacher--different location. Service of chanted Compline by candlelight will be held at historic Independent Presbyterian Church (corner of Bull Street and Oglethorpe) every Sunday night at 9:00p.m. “Come, say good night to God.” [062712]

The Oatland Island Wildlife Center , 711 Sandtown Rd., offers a 2-mile Native Animal Nature Trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats, and features live native animal exhibits. Open daily from 10-4 except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. 898-3980, www.oatlandisland. org. [062712] Offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. Their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or www.wildernesssoutheast.org. [062712]

Service of Compline

Theology on Tap

Meets at The Distillery every month on the third Monday night from 8:30 - 10:30pm. Like us on Facebook: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. [062712] CS

Pets & Animals Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. Vaccinations: $12.00, with $2.00 per vaccination donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies.

Habersham Village Shopping Center. www. tailsspin.com [062712]

Pet Adoption Event November 3

Visit Save-A-Life Animal Welfare Agency at the PetSmart Charities National Adoption Event.

Saturday November 3, 10am to 6pm. In the Parking Lot Tent. Location: PetSmart, 1132 Abercorn Street. Information: www.savealifepets.org

St. Almo’s

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912-234-

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2 Bedroom Condo 35 Vernon River $995 Military Special APARTMENTS 3 Bedrooms 123 Harmon Creek $925 2 Bedrooms 733-1/2 E.53rd St. $625 1107 E.57th St. $600 Downtown Loft 321 Broughton St. $1500 One Bedroom 315-B East 57th St. $625 Efficiency 543-1/2 E.60th St. $600 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038 MIDTOWN AREA, Very nice furnished efficiency apartment, suitable for one person, utilities included, $200 week plus dep. No smoking. No pets. 912-236-1952

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Lovely renovated 2BR brick Apt. Kitchen furnished, washer/dryer connections. Central heat/air, custom blinds, no pets. $575/month. 912-661-4814

for rent 855

for rent 855

rooms for rent 895

rooms for rent 895

POOLER: Brick 3BR/2BA, CH&A, very nice neighborhood. LR/DR combo, eat in kitchen, fenced backyard, covered patio, storage bldg. No pets, No smoking. No Section 8. $950/month + $950/deposit.

912-844-1825 or 912-844-1812

Upscale Personal Care Home holds 6 people, 3800 sq ft, fully furnished, State Approved.

912-349-0843

AVAILABLE ROOMS: CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065

ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment. Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $450-$550 monthly, $125/security deposit, No lease.

Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown:912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

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RIDGELAND ROAD

3BR/1.5BA mobile home on private lot. No pets. $550 + deposit.

No Section 8. 912-234-0548 SECTION 8 WELCOME

ONE, TWO & THREE BR Apts. & Houses for rent. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer. 1/2 month OffGood for this month only.

912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820

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SOUTHSIDE

•1BR Apts, washer/dryer included. $25 for water, trash included, $625/month.

•2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer $675.

912-927-3278 or 912-356-5656 Good Music Is Food For The Soul.

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SPRINGFIELD, Forrest Hills/Sub Div , 3 BR, 2BA, LR, DR, Appliances Included, CH/A, Fireplace, Washer /Dryer Connections, Front Porch, NO PETS, $750/mo $750/ Dep. 912-657-4583

VERY NICE 3 OR 4BR, 2BA, central heat/air, all electric, and more.

2114 East 60th Street. $865/month. 912-507-7934 or 912-927-2853

WILSHIRE ESTATES

Available soon! Large 3BR/1BA, large kitchen, LR, DR/family room combo, CH/A, Window World energy efficient windows throughout. Quiet area, minutes to HAAF, schools, shopping, restaurants.

No smoking. No Section 8. Police discounts available. 1yr. lease. $939/rent, $979/security deposit.

912-920-1936 WINDSOR FOREST: 3BR/1.5BA, family room has been used as 4th BR, new CH&A, new interior paint, new windows and sliding doors. Conveniently located. No smoking. No Section 8 accepted. $949/month, $989/security deposit. Military or Police Discount. 912-920-1936

WINDSOR FOREST

Really nice inside & out! Available now! 3BR/1.5BA, LR, DR, new wood floors, new paint interior & exterior, new vinyl floors in baths, new ceiling fans, new high-efficiency windows & sliding glass door, utility room, carport. $939/rent, $979/security deposit.

912-920-1936 rooms for rent 895

ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995.

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week w/No deposit.

844-5995

*TEMPLE STREET, off Staley Avenue,

by Fairgrounds,all brick on 3 lots.

3BR/1BA, LR, kitchen, heat/air, laminate throughout, laundry room $600. *800 Block of WEST 44th, near Beach High. Kitchen, DR, fenced backyard. 912-224-4167

FURNISHED APTS. $165/WK.

Private bath and kitchen, cable, utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely safe, manager on property. Contact Cody, 695-7889 or Jack, 342-3840.

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CADILLAC El Dorado, 1995

LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

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Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, cable,refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140/weekly, no deposit.Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, cable w/HBO, central heat/air.

No deposit.

Call 912-398-7507.

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Happenings

$130 to $150 WEEKLY

Benefits

A NEWLY Renovated home.

Washer/dryer, cable, all utilities included. $135/week, no deposit.

Please call 912-484-6565

1BR & 2BR/1BA Apartments, LV Room, Dining, Kitchen w/appliances, washer/dryer hookup.

UTILITIES INCLUDED! NO CREDIT REQUIRED! $225 & Up weekly, $895/monthly, Call 912-319-4182, M-Sat 9AM-6PM

ROOMS FOR RENT

Cadillac chrome grille, 123,000 miles, All-Power, Sunroof, Canvas top, New AC, Major tune-up, New valves, Plum color, Viper alarm system. XM satellite radio. Have all maintenance records. Mint condition. $4,400.

912-441-2193 CHEVROLET Box Van, 1984- 14’ Body, 350 Chevy engine. Low miles. Asking $2,000 OBO. Call 912-232-1786

FENDER BENDER?

Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

WE PAY CASH for junk cars & trucks! Call 964-0515 Motorcycles/ AtVs 940

2011 VESPA - Just 4 miles, never on road, powder blue, front/back racks, $3500 obo. 937-675-4143 Boats & accessories 950

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$75 Move-In Special Today!!

Clean, furnished, large. Busline, central heat/air, utilities. $100-$130 weekly.

Rooms w/bathroom $145.

Call 912-289-0410.

THUNDERBOLT LOCATION: Room available, across from SSU. Shower, toilet, sink included in room, washer/dryer available. $125/week. $100/deposit.

912-844-3990 or 912-655-9121 900

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Central heat & air. Clean, appliances included. Must be employed full-time. 912-659-1276

ROOMMATES WANTED East Savannah: Very clean. Stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer included. On bus line. Starting at $125/week. Call 912-961-2842

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EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week.

Call 912-844-5995.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

SUNRISE VILLAS - Eastside A place that you can call home!

Large eat-in kitchen, central heat/air, W/D connections, carpet, mini blinds, total electric. $650/Rent, $300/Deposit. Call 912-234-3043

CLEAN, QUIET, Room & Efficiencies for Rent.On Busline, Stove, Refrigerator, Washer/Dryer. Rates from $85-$165/week. Call 912-272-4378 or 912-631-2909

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2005 18.5’ Key Largo, Center Console, 90Hp Yamaha, Marine Radio, Depth Sounder. Great fishing boat! Excellent condition. Trailer Included.Boat & trailer purchased new, by owner,in 2005. $10,500. 912-604-2404

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3BR/2BA SOUTHSIDE: Convenient to everything. Fenced yard, newly painted, new floors, total electric, carport. $975/month, $900 cash deposit. Small pets under 20 lbs.

OK. No calls after 8pm please, 912-308-0206

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