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Looking ahead @ The Nutcracker. Columbia City Ballet. Nov. 24. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Savannah Danse Theatre: The Nutcracker in Savannah. Nov. 24.

Lucas Theatre. @ AASU Masquers: Dramarama.

Nov. 23–Dec. 2. @ Chrstine Pedi’s There’s No Bizness Like Snow Bizness. Nov. 29.

Charles Morris Center. @ Disney on Ice: Worlds of Fantasy.

Nov. 29–Dec. 2. MLK Arena. @ The Collective Face: Salome.

Nov. 30–Dec. 9. @ AWOL: A Christmas Carol. Nov. 30–Dec. 9. S.P.A.C.E. Black Box. @ Film screening: In the Family, with writer/director Patrick Wang. Dec. 2. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Chris Young. Dec. 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Film screening: Die Hard. Dec. 7.

Lucas Theatre. @ Film screening. Love Actually.

Dec. 8. Lucas Theatre. @ Holiday Pops: Savannah Philharmonic. Dec. 14 & 15. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. @ Film screening. It’s Wonderful Life. Dec. 15. Lucas Theatre. @ Night After Christmas Comedy Jam. Dec. 28. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Cinderella. State Ballet Theatre of Russia. Jan. 13. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ American Traditions Competition. Jan. 15–19. @ Film screening: Lawrence of Arabia. Jan. 18. Trustees Theater. @ A Night in Vienna. Savannah Philharmonic. Feb. 1. Trustees Theater. @ Snow White. Columbia City Ballet. Feb. 9. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Savannah Book Festival. Feb. 14–17. @ A–Town Get Down w/Loudon Wainwright III. March 2. Trustees Garden. @ Jerry Seinfeld. March 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Collective Face: Shadowlands. March 8–23, Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Matchbox Twenty. March 12.

Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Lord of the Dance. March 13.

Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Harlem Globetrotters. March 14. MLK Arena. @ Savannah Music Festival. March 21–April 6. @ Celtic Woman. May 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Blue Man Group. May 13 and 14.

Johnny Mercer Theatre.

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WEEK AT A GLANCE Week At A Glance is Connect Savannah’s listing of various events over the coming week. If you would like an event listed, please email WAG@connectsavannah.com. Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.

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Wednesday Film: Cage (1989, USA)

What: Psychotronic Film Society presents a Lou Ferrigno 61st birthday tribute. The guy best known as The Incredible Hulk on the 1970s TV show, starring in “a bizarre mash-up of a stereotypical martial arts tournament movie and an emotionally touching buddy picture.”

When: Wed. Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

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

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Thursday Theatre: Johnny Mercer and Me

What: The world premiere of an original musical featuring the music of Savannah’s songwriting legend Johnny Mercer.

Starring Jeff Hall, Sandra Nix and Grace Diaz Tootle. Directed by J. Tom Coleman III. Musical Direction by Chris Chandler.

Written by Miriam Center. Thurs - Sat shows at 8pm. Sunday shows at 3pm.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, Fri. Nov. 16, Sat. Nov. 17, Sun. Nov. 18 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20 Info: 912-247-4644. savannahcommunitytheatre.com/

Bethesda Academy Organic Farm & Gardens Stand

What: Products are grown and stand is managed by Bethesda students and staff. Fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Open Thursdays.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Where: Bethesda Academy, 9520 Ferguson Ave. Info: 912-351-2061. www.bethesdaacademy.org/

God’s Favorite continues

What: Asbury Memorial Theatre Company’s production of the 1974 Neil Simon comedy, set on Long Island and based on the Biblical Book of Job. Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm. Sundays at 3:00pm.

When: Fri. Nov. 16, Sat. Nov. 17, Sun. Nov. 18 Where: Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 East Henry Street , Cost: $10 Info: http://www.asburymemorial.org/theatre

Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah -Preview Party

What: A party and brief film screening to announce the fourth annual environmental film festival, headed to Savannah in January 2013. Wine and hors d’oeuvres.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 5 p.m.-6 p.m.

Where: The Creative Coast, 15 W. York St.,

Third Thursdays on Tybee: Annie Allman and Duane Damiani

What: The final installment of this fall’s monthly outdoor concert series features the legendary Allman The 2012 Fall Series concludes the evening of November 15 at the Tybrisa / Strand Roundabout, in do, blues/jazz/rock guitarist, and vocalist Damiani, sharing their 30 years of collaboration. Bring a chair.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Where: Tybrisa/Strand Roundabout (Rain venue: Fannies on the Beach, 1613 Strand Ave.), Tybee Island Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-786-4573.

Lecture: “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves”

What: Award-winning, author, scholar and historian Henry Wiencek on his latest book, based on new information from archeological work at Monticello and from evidence in Jefferson’s papers.

His many prior books have won National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Where: Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E.

Gordon St.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.georgiahistory.com/

Lecture: The Aging Eye

What: Learn about the leading causes of vision loss as we age, its implications on daily life, and effective support from friends and family. Part of a series of monthly seminars on vision loss.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton Street Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: www.SavannahCBLV.org/

Port Wentworth Chamber: Oyster Roast & BBQ

What: The PW chamber and visitor’s center’s autumn Business After Hours networking event--an outdoor Oyster Roast & BBQ by the fire. Toasty and tasty!

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Port Wentworth Lions Club Ball Park, 6791 GA Hwy 21, Port Wentworth Cost: $15 members. $25 non-members.

Info: www.VisitPortWentworth.com/

Historic Savannah Foundation Annual Meeting

What: The standard-bearer for local historic preservation non-profits in the U.S. takes a look at the past year and at the future, including recognition of retiring

Film: Bag It! (2010, USA)

What: Follow everyman Jeb Barrier (who, we are promised, is NOT a treehugger), as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic-dominated world.

Southern Circuit Film Series.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St., Cost: $8 Info: www.lucastheatre.com/

Lecture: Words + Deeds: What Does Sustainability Mean…to Your Neighbor?

What: SCAD Design Professor Scott Boylston on the triple bottom line of sustainability: people, planet, and profit. Presented by Coastal Group Sierra Club.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Lecture: U.S. Policy in the Middle East

What: The Savannah Council on World Affairs presents Michael Wahid Hanna, a fellow at The Century Foundation who focuses on issues of international security, human rights, post-conflict justice and U.S. foreign policy in the broader Middle East.

When: Thu. Nov. 15, 8 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Cost: $10. Free for SCWA members, students, mil. & educ.

Info: www.savannahcwa.org/

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Friday Christmas Made in the South

What: “The Art of Creating” is the theme at this 24th annual three-day showcase of over 300 artists and master craftspeople from 23 states plus Canada. Hours: Fri. 10-8, Sat. 10-6 & Sun. 11-5. Free parking.

When: Fri. Nov. 16 Where: Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Drive, Hutchinson Island Cost: $7. Admission good for 3 days.

Free under 12.

Info: www.MadeInTheSouthShows. com./

Historic Diesel Locomotive Rides at State Railroad Museum

What: Ride the historic diesel train at “The Roundhouse” while an interpreter tells the story of railroads in Georgia. Friday sand Saturdays, ride times are 11am, 1pm, and 2pm.

Sundays at 1pm and 2pm.

When: Fri. Nov. 16, Sat. Nov. 17, Sun. Nov. 18 Where: Georgia State Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St. Cost: Museum admission: $10 Adults, $4 Children.

Info: www.chsgeorgia.org/

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Saturday Historic Cannon Firings at Old Fort Jackson

What: History comes alive every Saturday and Sunday through March 17 at 11am and 2pm.

When: Sat. Nov. 17 Where: Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Road Cost: $6 fort admission for adults.

Under age 6 free.

Info: www.chsgeorgia.org/

Forsyth Farmers’ Market: Bring It Home Event

What: Celebrate autumn at the farmer’s market! “Bring it Home” includes education and entertainment, including a market scavenger hunt, sack races, and freeze tag. Cafe Florie demo on how to turn market goods into meals. First 25 shoppers to complete the scavenger hunt receive a $5 market token/coupon.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South End of Forsyth Park, Bull Street & Park Ave. Cost: Free to hang out and visit.

Info: www.forsythfarmersmarket.org/

Pet Foster Care Fair

What: Learn about every aspect of fostering the Humane Society’s shelter pets. Hands on training to integrate helping animals in respite care. Sponsored by the Humane Society for Greater Savannah.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Drive Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.humanesocietysav.org/ events

Junk in the Trunk: Desotorow’s Annual Indie Craft Show

What: Funky, creative, interesting, tasty, and sometimes a little out there--artists and crafts people display and sell works of art, crafts, or baked goods-anything handmade.

For info on participating as a vendor, email: info@desotorow.org.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

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When: Thu. Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Where: SCAD’s Poetter Hall, 324 Bull St. Cost: Open to the public. Call for additional info.

Info: 912-233-7787. www.myHSF.org/

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What: Celebrate the first American Grand Prix automobile race, held in Savannah in 1908 (and again in 1910 and 1911). See photos of the winning 1908 Fiat, its driver Louis Wagner, and other racers. New Fiats on display, plus museum tours, cake, champagne and music.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

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Book Signing: Maj. Gen. James Livingston

What: Author and Medal of Honor recipient signs his 2010 autobiography “Noble Warrior: The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC (Ret.), Medal of Honor.” An eyewitness account of the Vietnam War. Sponsored by the Savannah Detachment of the Marine Corps League.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Savannah River Front Marriott Hotel, General MacIntosh Blvd.

Cost: Info: 912-897-5530.

Carmina Burana

What: Selections include Sibelius’s Finlandia, Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Opus 46, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. The Savannah Philharmonic Chorus & Savannah Children’s Choir, plus soloists.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 5 p.m.

Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave., Cost: $16 to $65 Info: www.savannahphilharmonic. org/

Author Talk by Charles Seabrook & Salt Marsh Art Show What: Seabrook lectures and signs

“The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast.” Local artists group show on the Salt Marsh. Some proceeds benefit the Center for a Sustainable Coast.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 E. Liberty St. Cost: Free to attend. Books & art for purchase.

Info: 912-233-3628. www.thebookladybookstore.com/

Dinner Theatre: “Murder Ahoy!”

What: A pirate-themed whodunit set in Olde Savannah. Performed throughout the entire room where you are dining. Solve the mystery and win a prize, or just watch. As interactive as you want it to be! Presented

by Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre.

When: Sat. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

Where: Double Tree by Hilton, 411 W. Bay St. Cost: $44.95 adults, $32.95 children Info: 912-247-4644 . www.savannahcommunitytheater.com/

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Sunday Flannery O’Connor Lecture: The Gravity of Grace: An Interview with Sister Loretta Costa:

What: SCAD Liberal Arts professor Nicol Nixon Auguste explores the concept of grace in Flannery O’Connor’s life through the eyes of Sister Loretta Costa, a close friend and piano teacher of the prolific writer, based on a recently-conducted interview between Auguste’ and Costa. Part of the 2012 Founders Fall Lecture Series.

When: Sun. Nov. 18, 4 p.m.

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

Info: 912-233-6014. www.flanneryoconnorhome.org/

Chamber Concert No. 2: The Baroque Hour

What: Savannah Philharmonic concert of baroque favorites including Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann.

When: Sun. Nov. 18, 5 p.m.

Where: Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St. Cost: Sold out

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Monday Sisters Network

What: Local meeting of this national organization committed to raising awareness about the devastating impact of breast cancer on the African American community.

When: Mon. Nov. 19, 6 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial Univ. Medical Ctr, 2nd Floor Conf. Room, 4700 Waters Ave. Cost: Info: 912- 236-7405.

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Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16 for Jerry Seinfeld’s March 7 appearance in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Tickets will be available online at savannahcivic.com or etix.com, the Civic Center box office or by phone at (800) 351-7469.

Odd Lot Improv Comedy Troupe What: Yet another Monday night of

impromptu theatre. Watch or participate.

When: Mon. Nov. 19, 8 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $5 or what you can pay.

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When: Tue. Nov. 20, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Southwest Chatham Public

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Wednesday Film: Altin Cocuk (aka Golden Boy) (1966, Turkey)

Tuesday 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.

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What: Psychotronic Film Society presents a turkey of a film from Turkey-just in time for Turkey Day! When: Wed. Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

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The real election numbers: 47 & 1

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

“Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better, or is this real?”

— Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly to Karl Rove, election night Math and science are making a comeback, folks, and a big storyline of this election is Newton’s Third Law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Looking back, it all seems so obvious.

Of course African–American voters came out for Barack Obama in even greater numbers last week than in 2008. Who could blame them, after four years of seeing the first black president so absurdly disrespected (“You lie!”) and accused of being a socialist secret Muslim who faked his birth certificate and “pals around with terrorists?”

Of course Latino voters awarded Obama over 70 percent of their vote. Who could blame them, after four years of being demonized by the right wing as illegal parasites and targeted by state immigration laws on the basis of their ethnicity, with generations of Latinos who’ve been in North America since the conquistadores being told they didn’t belong here?

Of course voters under 30 supported Obama in huge numbers just as in 2008.

Who could blame them, after four years of the right wing’s increasing obsession with gay–bashing — a position that makes as much sense to young people today as saying the moon is made of green cheese?

Of course single women gave Obama 68 percent of their vote. Who could blame them, after four years of being accused by the right wing of being irresponsible sluts?

Of course Mitt Romney was the worst possible candidate to run against Obama.

The personification of plutocracy, Romney’s also literally the only person out of seven billion people on the planet without the moral authority to campaign against Obamacare, because he basically invented it.

It’s all so clear now, this reaping of the whirlwind, this stunning comeuppance.

With the benefit of hindsight, you can almost conclude that only an idiot wouldn’t have seen the result coming.

What kind of idiot is a more interesting question: A total idiot, or what’s more likely, a useful idiot?

The first kind of useful idiot is the one who lives in the media bubble that encourages people to think the birth certificate is fake, the polls are skewed, the jobs numbers are rigged, young women actually enjoy getting abortions, gay people cause straight marriages to break up, evolution is a liberal plot, and climate change is a hoax.

Those are the people still in a profound state of shock from the election. P.T. Barnum once famously referred to them. They now get to decide whether to burrow deeper into the bubble or join the real world. If history is any guide, the former is more likely.

Making a fat profit off the first kind of useful idiot is the second kind, the useful idiots of the media. The Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision allowing unlimited donations has proven to be an absolute gold mine for the advertising industry and the broadcast media, a bailout on par with the government buying General Motors.

The mainstream media’s vested interest in milking the system and rich donors for as much advertising money as possible by pretending this race — the first post–Citizens United presidential contest — was truly competitive is nothing short of scandalous.

Political junkies are focusing on the demographic breakdown of the vote. Demographics are interesting, but hardly inevitable. New Chatham County District Attorney Meg Daly Heap — my own nominee for Smartest Republican in America — defied racial demographics and Obama’s own sizeable coattails in Chatham County to defeat an incumbent African American decisively.

No, the most important percentages to study are these: 47 and one.

Forty–seven being the now infamous percentage ascribed by Mitt Romney to the amount of Americans he believes are

nonproductive moochers, the people he vowed as president to do nothing to help.

In a delicious irony, 47 is also the same percentage of the popular vote Romney actually received.

The one percent of course is the stated target of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Though constantly ridiculed by the useful idiots detailed above, in the final analysis the Occupy movement had the most profound impact of any outside group on this election.

Laugh all you want. But the Occupiers were the first people to effectively break the media embargo on the one subject American democracy is ill–equipped to confront: Wealth disparity.

They’ll get virtually no credit for it, but Occupy’s actions laid the groundwork for Romney’s own “47 percent” response, and the nation’s counter-offer to him last week.

By wealth disparity I don’t refer to the simple and obvious fact that some people make and/or have more money than others, that some people work harder than others and are better at certain things than others.

That’s called capitalism. It’s also called life.

I’m talking about the systemic imbalances which result in an uneven, unfair playing field, with some people having a free shot at the American dream while others are left only to... well, to dream.

If you accuse people like me of “class warfare,” ask yourself who’s actually fighting hardest against those outside their class: People who use their individual votes to try and make the system a little more equitable; or the billionaires who this year spent (and mostly wasted) incomprehensibly huge chunks of their own money to influence the race for the White House.

Some of those billionaires are now threatening to lay off workers just out of spite — which only seems to validate the Occupy movement’s original choice of targets.

And if you accuse me of being a socialist who doesn’t believe in the free market — the same accusation usually leveled against Obama — guess what?

The free marketplace of ideas certainly spoke loud and clear last week, didn’t it? cs

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What we talk about when we talk about crime It’s dark as the inside of a sock out there and hella creepy. I half expect zombies to come lumbering out of the vast green fields on those misty mornings.

Not that some skanky undead corpse could be a match for our boisterous posse, elbows swinging wide as we powertrot around the park.

Armed with a can of pepper spray, a Swiss Army knife and three Krav Maga sessions between us, we feel pretty much invincible.

Of course, zombies aren’t what we’re up against. Unless we’ve extended the definition of “zombie” to include violent, drug–addled sociopaths carrying guns.

My ladies and I, we walk together because we like each other and we need the exercise, but also because there is safety in numbers: Sticking together is a way to deter the rapists and robbers and other Bad People.

Many crimes are of opportunity in Savannah, and there are other strategies to avoid becoming a victim, including locking doors and windows, not buying cocaine ever and erupting into loud hippopotamus noises when approached by a suspicious stranger.

But still, still, the Bad People find us. They shove guns in our faces

and take our wallets, they rip off our bikes, they attack us when we’re taking out the garbage. They bring guns to public places and shoot innocent bystanders. They murder our loved ones, our neighbors, our friends.

Savannah’s reputation as a dangerous city with a lot of Bad People on the loose has waned since Ricky Jivens and his thugs terrorized the streets back in the 80s. Who could imagine back then that SCAD would raise the city’s profile to the world and that Travel + Leisure magazine would repeatedly applaud it as a favorite des-

lazy neighbor who’s let his lawn get out of control. Nevermind that one county over, it’s white methheads doing the stealing and killing.

My reaction to them, often accompanied by the hippopotamus sounds, is: So @#$ what? Who cares who’s black and who’s white? What are we going to do about the Bad People?

Crime here will never be tempered as long as it’s viewed through the lens of race. Yes, the socioeconomic ills of drug abuse, multi–generational poverty, gang culture, an overburdened court system and flailing public

Many folks who would never consider themselves racist are rebuking “the black community” to address crime in Savannah as if it’s a lazy neighbor who’s let his lawn get out of control. Nevermind that one county over, it’s white methheads doing the stealing and killing. tination? The violence has simmered down to a dull roar these last decades, the constant crime politely ignored as an unpleasant but accepted part of life here, a diseased old relative we do our best to hide from the party guests.

Last week’s shooting of seven people at the Coastal Empire Fair has ratcheted up the cocktail conversation. The shootings—assumed to be committed by a gang–steeped teenager though we still have no arrest—brought out the ire of the usually calm and collected Mayor Edna Jackson. She seemed steaming mad at the press conference, calling out the

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provocative, the phrase was used this week as fuel by others who still see crime in black and white.

I get so irate when people continue to reduce Savannah’s crime issues to race. They point to statistics that show higher incidences of assault and theft in black neighborhoods, to a preponderance of African–American men in jail, to the scumbags arrested in the recent murders of Michael Biancosino, Emily Pickels and Amber DeLoach. Many folks who would never consider themselves racist are rebuking “the black community” to address crime in Savannah as if it’s a

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parents of juvenile offenders for not paying attention to their kids’ whereabouts and to what they’re hiding in their closets. To those career criminals who bounce between prison and parole and recidivism, the mayor also warned that the police are coming after them, “like white on rice.”

I found this to be a bizarre—and surely unintentional—choice of words. Maybe because I’d never heard this expression before or maybe because we’re partial to brown rice in our house, it stuck out for me. While I don’t think the mayor meant anything

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Most importantly, we must not let our fears and our prejudices get the best of us—or keep us from riding the Ferris wheel on a beautiful autumn evening. Or from being too afraid to go out at all.

In the meantime, on those dark early mornings in Daffin, my homegirls and I see plenty of others who won’t let the zombies scare them into staying inside. Some carry baseball bats and golf clubs. We are of all colors and age and genders, some in groups, others brave enough to stride through the shadows alone.

And when the sun rises above the trees, every single one of us stops to turn our faces to the light. cs

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out for them.

But we must also remember that every criminal is not a Bad Person.

Sometimes people commit crimes because they haven’t been shown a better way to behave. We citizens must insist on programs like Don’t Shoot, a multi–pronged approach that has empowered the citizens of Boston and other cities to take back their cities from gangs and reduce violence. We also need to keep supporting youth programs that encourage expression and communication like AWOL, Loop it Up Savannah at the West Broad YMCA, the Deep Kids writing program and Spitfire Poetry Group.

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It’s a sight that has arrested many a soul around these parts: The sun setting on the marsh, the sky impossibly large, the light otherworldly. Wrens flit between their hidden nests in clusters of Spartina grass that form walls along the waterways.

Stepping further into the waist–high grass, one can almost hear nature’s slow clock that governs the breathing of the tides.

It is with this great reverence that Charles Seabrook writes about the salt marshes that cushion Savannah and her surrounding islands and stretch up to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and down to Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A native of John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina, Seabrook spent 35 years traveling the world and seeing its many wonders as a science reporter for the Atlanta Journal–Constitution. Yet in his new book, The World of the Salt Marsh, he extols his childhood stomping grounds as “the most wondrous, magical place of all.”

“Driving over the bridge to Tybee Island or speeding down I–95, you don’t get to see how much life is living in there just off the highway,” sighed Seabrook in a phone interview last week. “Too many people think of the marsh as this great wasteland.”

Inspired by Sidney Lanier’s famous poem The Marshes of Glynn, Seabrook describes the “cathedral–like canopies” of Spanish moss–draped live oaks, the bounty of mullet and oysters in the sticky mud flats and the twinkle–eyed wisdom of his Gullah neighbors with a lyrical nostalgia. But his tone turns serious when depicting what has happened to the marsh since

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work of Betsy Cain, Harry DeLorme, Melinda Borysevicz, Marcus Kenney, Christine Sajecki and many more local artists who have been inspired by the marsh.

“We’re showcasing work that artists do in relationship to the salt marsh, but the work is incredibly varied,” muses Cain, who put out the call to her fellow artists for the show. She adds with a laugh, “It’s completely undercurated.”

Indeed, Borysevicz’s rainy–day island vista juxtaposes with DeLorme’s captivating collage created from pieces of found plastic, yet the majestic theme of the marsh circulates throughout the show.

Cain has hung a painting in the benefit show as well as a large photograph. Taken from the west side of Ossabaw Island facing back towards great ecosystem and Skidaway Island, she feels this view understand what will be of the marsh and sky “really distills it lost if we destroy it, we down to the essence.” must also understand its Cain has lived on the marsh on the crucial role as a cleanser backside of Wilmington Island for 20 of precious water, a recyyears.

“I call it living on the edge of cler of nutrients, a prothe continent,” she says. “We could tector of the shore when fall off into the mud at any moment.” fierce storms blow in As for Seabrook’s new book, the from the sea,” he writes. longtime Savannah artist “swallowed Seabrook will be in it in one gulp.”

Savannah to discuss and “Everyone who lives here should sign copies The World read it,” suggests Cain. “It gives a deep of the Salt Marsh this understanding of where we live.”

Saturday, Nov. 17 at The Book Lady.

While there have been political Part of the proceeds from the sale of victories in the fight to save the tidal the book will benefit Center for A marshes of the South Atlantic coast Sustainable Coast, an organization such as the Coastal Marshlands Prothat has been working to “improve tection Act, pernicious budget cuts the responsible use, protection, and continue to strangle their enforceconservation of coastal Georgia’s ment by state agencies up against the resources” for over 15 years. deep pockets of development and The booksigning also kicks off the industry.

Salt Marsh Art Show that will also Seabrook remains one of the land’s raise funds for CASC and features the most vocal lovers and fighters.

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he was a boy: The developmental destruction.

The toxic Superfund sites.

The decreasing wildlife.

“I wanted to tell the stories of the marsh, but I knew I needed to bring in the science, too,” he said.

“I wrote this for the layperson, so that everyone could understand what a resource this is.”

The World of the Salt Marsh isn’t just a longing for the good ol’ days; it’s a call to action.

As Seabrook carefully spells out, the loss of the marshes poses frightening practical losses for all who live on the coast. The tidal marshes are not only some of the most self–sustaining food sources on the planet; they keep back hurricane surges and provide filtration for water and air.

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Painter Melinda Borysevicz depicts a rainy day on the marsh.

“The problem is the laws are already there,” he exclaimed on the phone. “There are just so many trying to thwart those laws and no one there to carry them out.”

Yet he remains hopeful that those who live along the coast can and will overcome the evils of unchecked enterprise.

“In many places the ecologist, the poet, the conservationist, the politician and the lawyer have risen up

together to save and protect the marsh from destruction,” he reminds us in his book.

“But the battles continue; we must be vigilant.” cs Salt Marsh Art Show and Charles Seabrook Book Signing When: Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

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K-9 kudos Five officers of the Savannah– Chatham Metropolitan Police Canine Unit have been recognized for the best performance of the second quarter of 2012 in the nation.

The United States Police Canine Association (USPCA) cited the Savannah–Chatham unit for the best performance nationally for its action in securing both suspects in a kidnapping scheme that locked down Downtown Savannah and a west Savannah neighborhood on May 17.

USPCA already had cited the unit with the District 2 award for securing one suspect who had hidden in the Old Pink House Restaurant and then running down a second who had been holding a 12–year–old boy hostage a house on Milton Street.

The national award qualifies the K–9 officers for the best canine patrol

case nationally for the year. The team was recognized for its performance in the many difficult situations it faced that day, the manner in which each member supplemented and complimented co–workers and the endurance that led them to continue until both suspects were arrested.

“These awards are a testament to the intensive training and outstanding performance of our K9 Unit,” said SCMPD Chief Willie Lovett. “These officers and their canine partners are called upon daily to help perform searches and keep our citizens and our officers safe. I am thrilled that they have received this recognition.”

• The driver of a pickup truck that crashed while speeding from a crime scene with a dying accomplice in it Sept. 27 has been charged with felony murder.

Detectives served Anthony Threatt Robinson, 38, with the warrant for his part in the incident in the Chatham County Detention Center where he was being held on other charges.

He had been taken into custody

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Has anybody tried to assign a monetary value to the moon? If so, did they only take the mineral value into account, or did they include the many services the moon provides, such as the tides and enough light not to walk into signposts at night? —Matt Wheeler, Salt Lake City Give me a break, Matt. The moon isn’t just some rock sitting out there, it’s metaphysical. It’s what watches over your first kiss on a spring night, the guide to every seafarer drifting on the lonely ocean who was too cheap to buy a GPS, and the thing that gives werewolves their special joie de vivre once a month. You can’t assign it a monetary value.

You say: Spare me. It’s 2012 and you can assign a value to anything. Somewhere out there a 19-year-old YouTuber has just signed a Hollywood development deal based on raw footage of her fish tank. Who says you can’t monetize the moon?

I acknowledge the truth of this. Let’s see. A company called Lunar Embassy, using the Brooklyn Bridge method of real estate valuation, has sold more than 2.5 million one-acre moon plots, currently priced at $19.99 each plus $1.51 “lunar tax” and $12.50 “shipping and handling” for your “deed.”

Given a lunar surface area of 9.37 billion acres, and assuming a profit of $21.50 per acre, we’re looking at just over $200 billion in value. No wonder the company’s founder has warned world governments not to trespass on “his” moon and is fighting the International Monetary Fund to get a phony moon currency recognized.

Let’s look at a few other schemes: Mining. The draw is the same thing that attracts asteroid prospectors, discussed previously in this space — platinum group metals plus gold. Due to eons of asteroid impacts, the moon’s surface contains appreciable amounts of these elements, which go for upwards of $1,000 per ounce.

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The prospect of lunar mining is compelling enough that Google is funding a $30 million Lunar X-Prize for the first private group to land a robot on the moon, explore the surface, and send back high-res images. However, you’ve got all the problems of mining asteroids plus the fact that the moon isn’t nearly as rich in valuable metals—we’re talking parts per billion. You’d need to mine about 1,300 tons of rock to collect one troy ounce. Prices would have to rise to, well, astronomical levels for such a venture to be profitable.

Energy. A possibly more useful lunar resource is helium-3, an isotope rare on Earth but relatively abundant on the moon. Helium-3 is part of the solar wind that has buffeted the solar system for billions of years. Since the moon has no magnetic field or atmosphere to speak of, helium-3 atoms aplenty have become embedded in its surface.

What makes helium-3 potentially important is that it’s an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion, which some believe could generate enormous amounts of clean, cheap energy. Just 40 metric tons of helium-3—about what would have fit in the cargo bays of two of our now-defunct space shuttles—could supply the world’s electrical needs for three months, giving helium-3 a value of about $14 billion per ton. A millionplus tons of helium-3 are thought to litter the lunar surface—about $13.6 quadrillion worth.

Except for the usual problems. One, we have no idea when fusion will become a viable energy technology. Two, we lack a cost-effective way to collect lunar helium-3 and get it back to Earth.

Moonlight. My assistant Una devised a spreadsheet purporting to show that the replacement value of moonlight, understood as the cost of the energy needed to generate equivalent illumination, was $33 billion per year.

I acknowledged her ingenuity but pointed out that, inasmuch as moonlight performed no measurable work, its replacement value was nil.

I didn’t buy it. I conceded that from a real estate standpoint the moon was an amenity hypothetically adding to the earth’s resale value, but maintained that absent any competing habitable planets this had no practical effect. Monetary value: $0.

To sadly summarize: while the theoretical value of the moon may be countless zillions, today it’s not worth jack. CS

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news of the weird Fine points of Florida gambling law In October, state alcohol agents, assisted by local police in full riot gear, pointing their weapons, raided a bar in Largo, Fla., to shut down the latest gathering of the venerable Nutz Poker League, even though its players do not wager. (They meet at bars and restaurants, where management gives winners token gifts in exchange for the increased business.) A prosecutor told the Tampa Bay Times that Florida law defines illegal “gambling” as any game that permits players to win something — even if they don’t have to “ante up.”

The raid (during which players were ordered to keep their hands where the officers could see them) came after a months-long undercover investigation.

Recurring Themes • Among the most creative illegal behaviors are those of clever smugglers — or immigrants trying to enter a country illegally. In September, two Moroccans tried to smuggle a Guinean man into Spain at the Melilla border in north Morocco by disguising him as a Renault car seat. One Moroccan drove, with the passenger perched on a seat in which the foam had been removed to make room for the Guinean. A police spokesman called the attempt “novel.”

• India’s notorious bureaucracy records deaths particularly ineptly, to the advantage of men seeking an alternative to divorce. They find it easier merely to swear out a death certificate

on one wife so they can marry another, City, was found in October to have but that means the first wife will face swallowed the whistle mechanism of years, and maybe decades, of cama plastic duck, causing him to tweet paigning to convince officials that she when he laughed.) is not dead. BBC News chronicled the • Again this year, a serial drowning plight of Ms. Asharfi Devi, now 64, in made the news (where one jumps in to September as she was finally declared rescue another, and a third is needed “alive” after being deserted by her husto rescue the first two, and a fourth, band at age 23 and ruled dead at age 40. and none survives.) In Ulster, Northern After Devi finally earned Ireland, in September, a hearing and brought rugby player Nevin relatives and evidence to Spence, along with the village council, delibhis brother and father, erations took eight more died in a slurry tank on HAVE YOU months. Notwithstanding the family’s farm, and HEARD ABOUT the ruling, the husband their sister, who also THE NAKED stuck to his story. attempted a rescue, was RAMBLER? • Puzzingly, adults conhospitalized. Officials tinue to accidentally ingest said they could not improbable objects, often determine the order in seemingly unaware of what which the men entered they did. Lee Gardner, the pit until the sister 40, of Barnsley, England, was well enough to talk. swallowed a plastic fork 10 • Darren Hieber, 33, years ago, but said he “forbecame the most recent got” about it until violent person to choose drastic stomach pains forced him means to reconcile with to the hospital in August. an ex. Twice Hieber, of And British student GeorOnawa, Iowa, arranged gie Smith, 19, became the latest person to have himself shot in order to win his to accidentally swallow a regular-sized ex-wife’s sympathy. The first hit man toothbrush (though the first doctor she shot Hieber in the leg, but the wife still consulted told her he couldn’t spot any ignored him, and a second job was “toothbrush” on an X-ray). (With kids, arranged in March, with two different the phenomenon is more understandshooters, but that failed, also. Adding to able. Sinus-suffering Isaak Lasson, 6, his frustration, Hieber was sentenced to of Salt Lake City was finally diagnosed 10 years in prison in August because it in August to have accidentally stuck a is illegal in Iowa to have yourself shot.

Lego piece up his nose three years ago, and Hector Flores Jr., 7, of New York

Updates • Former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, who made the “wide stance” famous when he explained his alleged, notorious restroom encounter with another man in June 2007, has been sued by the Federal Election Commission because he used $217,000 in campaign donations to fund his legal defense to the resulting indecent exposure charges. Craig pointed out that visiting the restroom (irrespective of any alleged activities there) occurred during the ordinary course of Senate travel and thus that he was entitled to spend campaign funds.

• Jonathan Lee Riches, perhaps America’s most prolific quixotic litigator (chronicled in News of the Weird for his lawsuits against, among others, George W. Bush, Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, Steve Jobs and — for luggage theft — Tiger Woods), was likely the person named “Naomi Riches” who filed a $3 billion October lawsuit in Pennsylvania against the acquitted child-murder suspect Casey Anthony, whom Naomi said had conspired with TV personality Nancy Grace to poison Naomi’s water supply. Anthony had also allegedly threatened to stab Naomi in the left eye as a symbol of the Illuminati conspiracy. (Judge David Baker quickly dismissed the lawsuit.)

• Two FBI agents, providing a backstory to “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Christmastime 2009 attempt to bring down an airliner in Detroit, said they believe

People Different From Us Update: Briton Stephen Gough’s rap sheet includes 18 convictions for failure to wear clothes in public. He has spent the last six years almost continuously in prison because, usually, each time he is released, he immediately shucks his clothes as he walks out the gate (and whenever arrested, he strips during court appearances). He was released in

October from his most recent incarceration, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and authorities were puzzled how to proceed since Gough (aka “the naked rambler”) appears maniacally committed to the clothes-free lifestyle. A BBC News profile suggests that Scotland may simply send him back to England and hope he stays.

Least Competent Criminals Recurring Themes: (1) Jamel Wilson, 18, in Knoxville became the most recent hapless carjacker forced to abort his gunpoint heist after discovering the car was a stick shift, which he could not drive. He fled on foot but was arrested minutes later.

(2) David Weber, 53, was arrested in Miami Beach in September, minutes after allegedly stealing items from a locked car, including a credit card.

Police were called when Weber tried to use the card at a nearby bar and learned to his dismay that the card belonged to the bartender.

Readers’ Choice (1) Maria Pestrikoff, whose home is on a 60-foot cliff near Kodiak, Alaska, was rescued in September after she accidentally fell off while text-messaging a friend. (2) The remains of a 70-year-old hog farmer were found on his property near Riverton, Ore., in September, and authorities said, based on the condition of his body, that his hogs had gotten to him before he got to them. CS By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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the man accustomed himself to the tricked-out scivvies beforehand by wearing them full-time for the three weeks leading up to his flight (except for bathing). The agents, speaking to WXYZ-TV in September, suggested that the excessive wearing might have ruined the detonation mechanism.

• Oops, My Bad: Hattiesburg, Miss., dentist Michael West has for years been a well-compensated, prosecution-friendly “expert” witness who claimed he could match bite marks on victims’ bodies to bite patterns of whichever defendant the prosecutor wanted convicted. In “dozens” of cases, according to an Associated Press report, he helped persuade judges and jurors that his analysis was just as solid as fingerprint identification.

(Other forensic experts regularly ridiculed West’s “science.”) In August, the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., uncovered a 2011 deposition in which West finally admitted that his bite-mark analysis should not have been used in court cases. It is not yet known how many defendants’ trials were tainted by West’s testimony.

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Guitarist Stephane Wrembel: Everybody say oui by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

LET’S STATE the obvious and go from there: Stephane Wrembel is a monster guitarist, one of France’s proudest musical exports, and a one–man distillery of exotic global styles and shadings. “My music doesn’t fall into a genre,” Wrembel, now Brooklyn–based, tells me in heavily–accented English. “It’s a state of mind, so it embraces everything and goes through all kinds of colors. Everyone has to use the music to trigger their own imaginations, to have their own experience.”

In 2010, he was commissioned

by Woody Allen to write and perform “Bistro Fada,” the haunting theme from Midnight in Paris.

Although Wrembel is best known as a first–class player of gypsy jazz, the poly–fingered Stephane Wrembel plays Live Wire Nov. 16 music forever tied to guitarist Django Reinhardt, he considers his and generates images in the mind of the music more of a melting pot — in fact, listener. So I have an arsenal of styles he doesn’t particularly care for all the that I studied when I was a kid. I started Django comparisons he gets. classical piano at age 4. When I was a “When I first arrived in the U.S.,” teenager, I started learning ‘70s rock on Wrembel explains, “I had that specific the guitar, and I played that for years.

Django Reinhardt stuff that I learned “Naturally, I went to Django, because from the gypsies, and that helped me to he was from Fontainebleau, and that’s get immediate gigs and make a living. the music I was familiar with.”

So I started doing that to make a living.

As an eager–to–learn teen, Wrembel But the music I compose, and the music was welcomed at the gypsy camps and I play, is not at all a copy of Django, or played around the fires until the wee a derived product. It doesn’t have anyhours. thing to do with Django.”

“Then I started studying Parisian He hails from Fountainebleau, just music, then I started studying jazz and outside Paris, where the great forest was composition. At Berklee, in Boston, I a favorite subject of the great impresstudied contemporary American jazz, sionists: Monet, Manet, Van Gogh. It Indian music — the drone language and has always been a visual destination for ragas — and North African styles, West plein–air painters.

African styles, and Japanese music. All “Basically the state of mind behind that comes together into that impresmy music is impressionism,” Wremsionist state of mind.” bel declares. “It’s a state of mind that Said author Michael Dregni (Django: embraces all genres. With this state of The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend): mind, I compose music that triggers “Stephane is one of the rare gypsy jazz

musicians who is daring enough to step outside of the shadow of Django.

Stephane is brave enough to compose his own music, inspired by the spirit of Django but capturing his own sound.”

Wrembel and his band perform Friday, Nov. 16 at Live Wire Music Hall.

“The venue doesn’t matter,” he says.

“We can play a jazz venue, a rock venue, a classical venue. We’re going to play a classical festival next year. It doesn’t matter, because we are beyond genre. That word is a marketing tool, so that when you say jazz, you don’t think of Pink Floyd. When you say classical, you don’t think of the Clash.

“But in 2012, I believe, it’s a birth again of impressionism. There is no genre any more. With the death of the labels, and the record stores, we don’t have to be clustered in those concepts.”

The biggest band At the Copa ... Copacabana ... the hottest spot in North Savannah ...

With apologies to Mr. Manilow, there’s a new Copa in town. Mad Monday, in the upstairs Grand Ballroom of the Westin Harbor Hotel, features a swingin’ layout cribbed from the actual design of the legendary Vegas nightclub. It’s an eating, drinking (and soon to be dancing) affair, with a fab floor show of American Songbook tunes from our city’s own Jeremy Davis and the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra, featuring crooning vocalist Clay Johnson.

Mad Mondays has become the worst–kept secret in town. Since the monthly series began, every show has been completely sold out, and tickets are going fast for the next one, Nov. 19.

“It was quite unexpected,” beams the affable Davis, sax player, arranger and bandleader for the 20–piece outfit.

“Monday’s one of those nights where

nobody plans to go out and have a good time like they would on the weekend, but on the other hand, you don’t compete with anything.”

From Porter to Sinatra, Basie to Buble, Equinox’s show is high–octane, tuxedo’d retro. The band tours frequently, and has played at the Grove in Los Angeles, the legendary Dunes Club in Rhode Island and other hot spots.

For Davis, however, there’s no business like home business.

“All this cool stuff happens, but we never get a chance to play at home,” he says. “And if we do, it’s some big swanky affair at the Landings that costs $180 to get in. The question that people ask me when I’m walking around, or sitting in Gallery Expresso, or if I’m at church, is ‘When are we going to see you?’ And I usually say, heck if I know. We’re always gone.

“So this gives us a chance to play to that hometown audience, our friends families who know who we are ... it’s just special to be able to play at home.”

For the musicians, too, Mad Mondays are a gas. “I have a fantastic 20– piece Big Band, and wherever I go in the country I’m going to play the same set of music,” Davis explains. “I got 30 charts that kill, and they’re great, and I’m gonna play ‘em everywhere.

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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, who have been close friends and musical co–conspirators since the mid 1970s, are releasing their first–ever album as a duo, Old Yellow Moon. “For me,” says Crowell, “the record’s overall tone calls to mind that southern California blend of country music and rock ‘n’ roll pioneered

by Linda Ronstadt, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and, of course, Emmylou and the Hot Band.

Keep an eye out.”

The festival brings Harris and Crowell to the Johnny Mercer Theatre on April 3.

Even better: The opening act will be British guitar legend Richard Thompson and his band.

Diverse as ever, the 2013 Savannah Music Festival will feature exemplary artists from a wide cross–section of artists. In fact, this is probably the most vibrant SMF lineup of the decade thus far.

On the Americana/acoustic front, mandolin great David Grisman plays the Trustees Theater April 5; his Folk Jazz Trio is sharing the bill with violin prodigy Sarah Jarosz.

And Jerry Douglas, the acknowledged master of the Dobro who

performed here a few months ago as part of Alison Krauss & Union Station, brings his band to the Charles Morris Center for two shows April 2.

Douglas and company share the bill with the Old–Time Kozmik Trio, which includes string players Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky and Rushad Eggleston.

Darol Anger, in fact, ret–teams with his longtime running buddy Mike Marshall (mandolin) at the Morris Center April 3.

Also on the schedule: Keller Williams & the Travelin McCourys (March 30), a paiting of one of America’s most innovative acoustic guitarisets with a world–class bluegrass trio; Fiddler Casey Driessen, a member of Abigal Washburn’s Sparrow

Jazz and blues

First on the list – and drawfing all those who come after — is piano legend Ahmad Jamal, a “Zen master” of the keyboard who’s been making musical magic since 1948. His trio will play the Trustees Theater March 23.

“Jazz Meets Cabaret” combines the seductive vocal talents of Jane Monheit with American Songbook star Jennifer Sheehan; the pair will share a Morris Center bill for multiple performances, March 24–26.

Also on the schedule: Rene Marie Quartet/Houston Pearson Quartet (March 28). Vocalist Marie fronts a top–drawer trio featuring bassist Elias Bailey, drummer Quentin Baxter and pianist Kevin

from the 2011 SMF appearance of the high–octane Sharon Jones & the Dap–Kings are drooling to see Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, a James Brown/ Famous Flames funk band that’s become the top act on Jones’ Daptone Records label,. March 21, Trustees Theater. We spoke with the dynamic Mr. Bradley for this story — see Page 22.

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Bales; Charles McPherson Quartet/Walter Blanding Septet, two ensembles led by two distinctive saxophone voices (March 27); Tab Benoit/Otis Taylor (April 6). Louisiana’s top blues guitarist and performer paired with a multi– dimensional singer, guitarist, banjo player and social commentator.

Classical

SMF associate artistic director Daniel Hope returns with an all–new series of intimate recitals featuring some of the world’s top musicians.

This year, the shows are all over town, from the Charles Morris Center to Trinity United Methodist Chuch.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s keynote concert (April 6, Johnny Mercer Theatre) will debut

a brand–new, commissioned piano concerto for jazz trio by keyboard wizard Marcus Roberts. The program also includes Christopher Theofanidis’ commissioned work Rainbow Body, and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances From West Side Story.

The Miami String Quartet makes it local debut April 2.

Dance

New York’s Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company makes its Savannah debut March 23, in the Lucas Theatre, with the program Play & Play: An Evening of Movement and Music. The inspirational Jones was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Award from President Obama in 2010.

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Portguese fado music returns in the form of seductive vocalist Ana Moura, who appeared at the 2007 SMF. This concert features the world premiere of Patrick Messina’s Songs of the Night, commissioned for Savannah.

The piece, according the SMF, “will weave together the ancestral connection of classical music, world music and jazz, including original repertoire inspired by Sicilian folk music, North African rhythms, Italian opera melodies and Medieval chant.”

And there’s more: Expect the always-fun zydeco dance parties, another all-star saxophone summit, a Latin Dance Party with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and more jazz, blues and classical shows, all in various citywide venues and at various times of day.

The pop and/or rock shows, as always, won’t be announced for a month or two yet. But there’s usually some great stuff there, too.

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Quartet, he also sat in with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones in 2011 (April 1); Masters of Bluegrass (March 28). J.D. Crowe, Del McCoury, Bobby Hicks, Bobby Osborne and Jerry McCoury. Need we say more?; The Wood Brothers. Soulful singing, acoustic guitar and upright bass. A Savannah favorite. With Merlefest Songwriting Competition winner Lera Lynn (March 23); Joy Kills Sorrow (April 4): Progressive bluegrass/jazz band from Boston featuring the lovely Emma Beaton on vocals; Della Mae/Steep Canyon Rangers. The former is an all– female bluegrass group; the latter is the bluegrass ensemble that plays with Steve Martin (no, he isn’t scheduled to be here).

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Savannah Music Festival headliner Charles Bradley is a flagship artist on Daptone Records, the label that gave us Sharon Jones & the Dap–Kings and other artists who re–kindle the funk, soul, sweat and excitement of classic rhythm ‘n’ blues music from the 1960s and ‘70s.

He has been nicknamed “The Screaming Eagle of Soul.”

Born in Florida in 1948, Bradley had a rough life full of hardship, and was literally saved by music. He first saw James Brown at New York’s Apollo Theatre in 1962, and then and there dedicated himself to perfecting the godfather of soul’s moves and demeanor. But it was many years later before anyone began to take notice — in the mid 1990s, Bradley worked as Black Velvet, a JB impersonator.

He was signed with Daptone just a year or two ago, and the label paired him with a crackerjack band called the Extraordinaires. “These guys are my sons,” he tells us. “I call them my sons, especially the youngest. The Extraodinaries. They’re just the sweetest guys that can be.”

His first album, No Time For Dreaming, was released in 2011.

Because I’ve always been that way.

My mama always said to me “Charles, you’re too sensitive. I’m afraid that somebody’s gonna use you up because you’re so sensitive.” When I try to change, I don’t feel right. I feel completely lost. But when I start being my true self, I feel humble. I feel good.

A little boy just came alive in me. It’s beautiful.

You struggled for a long time. Are you making money off this yet?

Charles Bradley: I like to be comfortable. I’m not trying to take everything from the world. If I do make a lot of money, yes I’m going to keep something for myself. But when I see people going through hardships like I am, I’ll do good deeds and help them.

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Charles Bradley: I always wanted to be an artist. I love oil painting, and that’s what I wanted to be. I always liked to grab sticks as micophones and play with ‘em, until I saw James

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Mackey’s back in town.

After a year living and working in Jacksonville, Kedrick Mack —co– founder of Savannah’s frontier–busting hip hop ensemble Dope Sandwich — has returned with a vengeance.

You might know him by his stage name, Knife.

This week, he drops a new solo album, Blackmale, and sends it up the flagpole with a release party at Elev8ted, and a full–on performance at Screamin’ Mimi’s.

Both events are Friday, Nov. 16.

The 12–track album includes collaborations with T–Money, Miggs, D.C.B., Red Lab, Black Caesar, Smash Adams and other names from our city’s vibrant hip hop community.

Mack, 28, has been writing, creating beats and rapping for 10 years.

Blackmale, he says, gestated for a long time while he crafted it to fit his ever– maturing vision.

“This album,” he explains, “was much more me trying to present you ‘All right, I am Knife.’ This is me trying to make a piece of art. Although there’s personal things in it, it’s very much to be taken in the context of what it is, an ode to hip hop.”

His last album, 2000 Yard Stare, was another thing entirely. “I was in a completely different place when I

wrote it,” Mack says. “Musically, it’s very technical. Because I was trying to be like ‘Yo – I’m so f---kin’ good at rapping. Check out what I can do.’”

Baltimore–born, Mack is the son of a Department of State embassy employee who moved the family all over the world. He grew up in Liberia, Senegal, Canada, Cameroon, Singapore and other places, but always spent the summer in America.

A lifelong obsession with comic book art brought him to SCAD, where he studied sequential design.

With Basik Lee and several others, Mack began Dope Sandwich, which tapped a nerve and filled a void in Savannah — live hip hop, performed by talented and creative people. They began the Tuesday Hip Hop Night at the Jinx, which, seven years later, is still a major weeknight draw.

“It went from being five emcees, four B–Boys and a couple of people drinking to being jam–packed, wall to wall,” Mack says proudly. “I have pictures from Hip Hop Night in 2006 where it’s just like a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ of everybody who was in town back then. For us, it felt like a big deal.”

Dope Sandwich mix tapes, and subsequently CDs, were a hot commodity. The group ultimately came to include seven people and successfully toured the Southeast.

Life intervened, the way it does,

and these days Dope Sandwich — while still very much a brotherly collective — is inactive.

But hip hop can’t be stopped, and the bloodlines flow from person to person.

In 2006, Miggs Son had just moved here, from Tarrytown, N.Y. Walking the downtown sidewalks one night, he recalls, “I hear live hip hop blaring from Hang Fire. So I just kind of follow my nose, and I walk in to see nothing less than the dopest hip hop show that I could ask for at the time.

It was packed. It was a DJ up there, cutting away, two emcees rhyming, everything was dope.

“I was like ‘Yo. What is this?’”

It was Dope Sandwich.

Miggs, who’s a key ingredient in Word of Mouth’s bubbling musical stew, has become a fixture on the Savannah hip hop scene. He’s preparing his own solo album, and he and Knife are in the early stages of creating Hangman, a 175–page graphic novel with an accompanying hip hop soundtrack album. The plan is to form a Hangman band, with Knife and Miggs and emcees, with a turntable, a live drummer and other purely musical elements.

Art, says Mack, is art. “For me, the writing is like when I’m penciling a page. And then the recording is when

I’m inking it. Mixing is putting the color on it.”

He’s re–mounting a solo career.

“When I got back from Florida,” Mack explains, “KidSyc@Brandywine were on the scene and they had kind of overtaken that spot. They were doing it on the hip hop end. Because they are a band, they have a different kind of reach than we as Dope Sandwich could’ve had, just being emcees.

“I’m two turntables and a microphone. That’s my show. That’s what I have to offer as an act. What I have to say with the music behind it.”

Kedrick Mack is an artist. “I don’t just sit there and think up words that rhyme,” he says. “I sit down with a piece of music, and I listen to it for days to figure out how it makes me feel. I have a book where I write rhymes. I piece them together, I try to make context out of them, I get personal. I try to make stories out of it.

“It’s a process to build it, to craft something that’s no different than what any other musician does.” CS Blackmale pre–release party Where: Elev8ted, 404 W. Broughton St. When: 6–9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 CD Release Show With Knife, Miggs, RedLab Where: Screamin’ Mimi’s, 10 Whitaker St. When: At 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16

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German composer Carl Orff considered the cantata Carmina Burana his magnum opus. According to legend, soon after it premiered in 1937 he told his publisher to destroy everything he had written before.

“It’s one of the most incredible pieces of classical music,” enthuses violinist Sinisa Ciric, concertmaster for the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra. “And it’s equally recognized as almost a pop culture piece.

Because you hear it everywhere in movies and in commercials. As a classical piece, it’s absolutely a masterpiece.”

The Philharmonic, with full chorus and three operatic soloists, will perform Carmina Burana in its entirety Nov. 17 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

The singers are tenor Cooper Nolan, bass Keith Harris and soprano Rebecca Flaherty.

“It’s not an opera because there’s not really a story,” explains Flaherty, a co–founder of the Savannah–based Voice Co–op and a charter member of the nationally–renowned V.O.I.C.Experience Foundation. “It’s more like a whole bunch of bawdy poetry that has been collected, and we’re doing a musical reading of it. It’s more like a collection of really bombastic songs.”

Orff drew his text from the Latin verse collection Carmina Burana, dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. Its libretto is, essentially, a study of various aspects of daily human

Soprano Rebecca Flaherty is part of the V.O.I.C.Experience Foundation.

existence, what in medieval times was called the Rota Fortunae (“wheel of fortune”).

“I think the biggest difference is that an opera is more literal,” Flaherty says. “You’re actually singing lines, like from a play. Whereas a thing like Carmina Burana is more poetic, and figurative, with lots of imagery.”

Carmina Burana shares the program with Finlandia by Sibilius, and Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Suite 1, Opus 46.

It’s the young orchestra’s first–ever production in the Civic Center, after four ever–more–successful years performing in the boxy Lucas Theatre, and the breathtaking Cathedral of John the Baptist.

Both venues will host the Phil again, but Carmina Burana is a big, production that requires a big hall.

The move up is also testament to

the community’s all–inclusive embrace of conductor and artistic director Peter Shannon, and the combined talents of his musicians.

Ciric, who lives in Atlanta, serves as concertmaster for several Georgia orchestras. “I’ve played a lot in the southeast region in the past 10 years, ” he explains, “and I’ve never had any close experience to what the Savannah Philharmonic has now, the support from all the people that are coming to the concerts, that are coming to the chamber series, and all the functions and events that are organized by the Philharmonic.”

Particularly encouraging, Ciric says, is the increase, year after year, in donations. “That’s the first sign something good is happening. Nobody would write a check by default — there has to be a reason.

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always a lot of energy behind what he’s doing. So the concert is done before you know it, because he just pulls you right through.

“And it’s a blast.”

Although Flaherty had performed with the Savannah Phil previously — for the Brahms Requiem in October 2011 — Nolan and Harris were recruited, by Shannon himself, from V.O.I.C.Experience headquarters in Florida.

“I think Peter really likes the quality of singers that V.E. uses,” adds Flaherty. “There’s a nice partnership developing between those two organizations, which I hoped would happen when I started the conversation. I didn’t know if it would lead to anything, but it has, and I’m super pleased and thrilled by that.” CS

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“And the first reason is that they come and enjoy the concert. What they see on the stage, they just feel that they are supporting something that’s very important for the community, and for the overall culture.”

He joined the Savannah Philharmonic in 2010. The city, Ciric says, “is an absolutely special place for me.

It’s one of the most enjoyable professional experiences in an orchestra I’ve had in my whole career.

“It’s a combination of a good, positive energy in the orchestra, and especially Peter as a leader and a conductor, and the relationship that we’ve built through these two years. And of course, the setting. The city is just unbelievable.”

There is an upswell of interest in classical music, as new talents arrive in the area, and word gets out.

And that’s the way it’s supposed to happen.

“I love that orchestra,” Flaherty says. “Peter is a fun conductor to work with, because everything is really visceral. There’s nothing that’s ever kind of limp and lazy — everything is very passionate, and there’s

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Bay Street Blues The Hitman (Live Music) Blue Turtle Bistro Jackson Evans (Live Music) Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley (Live Music) Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Live Wire Music Hall Word of Mouth (Live Music) Mansion on Forsyth Eric Britt (Live Music) Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Joe Cat (Live Music) Rocks on the Roof Jeff Beasley (Live Music) Ruth’s Chris Steak House Eddie Wilson (Live Music) Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) Screamin’ Mimi’s Brian Bazemore (Live Music) Sparetime Simon Joyner (Live Music) Trader Louie’s Jude Michaels (Live Music) Warehouse Matt Eckstine (Live Music) Wild Wing Cafe The Resuscitators (Live Music) World of Beer Jamie DiCiur-

Word of Mouth is at Live Wire Music Hall Nov. 15 (photo: Geoff L. Johnson)

cio (Live Music) Wormhole Irata (Live Music) DJ Club 51 Degrees Live DJ Congress St. Social Club DJ Blackout Crypt Pub Live DJ Jinx Resurrection of The Dance Party (DJ) Pour Larry’s Live DJ Seed Eco-Lounge Live DJ SubZero Bar Salsa (DJ) KARAOKE Hang Fire Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke Lucky’s Tavern Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Rail Pub Karaoke

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17 Hundred 90 Gail Thurmond (Live Music) 69 East Tapas Bar Jason Lamson (Live Music) Blowin’ Smoke Annie Allman (Live Music) Congress St. Social Club Niche (Live Music) Drift Away Cafe Jeff Beasley (Live Music) Flip Flop Tiki Bar Erica & Wade (Live Music) Huc-a-Poos Andrew Gill Band (Live Music) Jazz’d Tapas Bar Shrimp City Slim (Live Music) Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Live Wire Music Hall Ike Stubblefield (Live Music) The return of one of the world’s funkiest B3 organists.

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Bay Street Blues Open Mic Night w/Brian Bazemore (Live Music) Jinx Lucky Bastard (DJ) Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Live Wire Music Hall Acoustic Jam (Live Music) McDonough’s Karaoke Seed Eco-Lounge Live DJ Tailgate Open Mic Night (Live Music) Trader Louie’s Jude Michaels (Live Music) Wormhole Late Night Open Mic (Live Music)

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Andre Leon Talley’s “Little Black Dress” exhibit at the SCAD Museum of Art follows the form from classic to modern.

by Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

As the holidays descend upon us, black thoughts arise.

No, not a negative reaction to rabid Black Friday shoppers or an aversion to fruitcake, but rather a delighted rejoinder to the question that piques every fashion–minded woman regardless of age or budget: What to wear to the party—or if she’s very lucky—parties?

The answer, always and forever, is: A little black dress.

Coco Chanel first apotheosized this basic garment in the 1920s, lauding it as a blank canvas on which a woman’s personality could emanate unimpeded. It’s been a staple of the fashion zeitgeist ever since, reimagined by each generation’s style icons, from

Audrey Hepburn to Edith Piaf to Sarah Jessica Parker. Pulitzer Prize– winning fashion critic Robin Givhan calls it “the perfect fashion cocktail.”

More than just for special occasions, it has become ubiquitous, what Chanel called a “sort of uniform for all modern women of taste.” Famed designer Norma Kamali wrote that LBDs take us not only to parties, but also “to job interviews, weddings and funerals. We experience all of life’s big events in the little black dress.”

It is fitting that this sartorial symbol of refinement has been escalated to high art by one of the greatest stylemakers of modern times. Vogue

contributing editor André Leon Talley has curated an astonishing exhibit at the SCAD Museum of Art of nothing but LBDs, illustrating the versatility and eternal relevance of the form.

At first, the SCAD trustee meant to fill his gallery space with a historical retrospective of 30 or so dresses.

But his figurative closet filled far too quickly with offerings from the current seasons of the world’s most esteemed fashion houses.

“Every time I went to another collection or pre–resort collection of Lanvin or Balenciaga, I kept on adding dresses,” he told international art journal ArtInfo earlier this month.

At one point Talley had over 150 dresses to consider, an overwhelming number that he was finally able pare

down to a modest 73. Many were lent by famous friends, like the embroidered Stella McCartney gown worn

by Rhianna and Lady Gaga’s floor– length Chantilly lace by Tom Ford.

Talley also found himself fascinated with SCAD graduate Alexis Asplundh’s zip–front neoprene frock.

Constructed with a “rule–breaking” fabric, it once would have been more appropriate on a surfboard than the red carpet. But no more.

Thus Talley’s exhibit evolved into a statement about the collapsed boundaries of fashion and the freedom that has poured forth: Asplundh’s rubber dress stands a few mannequins down from the buttery leather Prabal Gurung number that Sarah Jessica Parker rocked at the 2011 Fashion’s

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to be their own stylists.”

“You can dress it up or dress it down, make it yours,” counsels the Mississippi native whose rocker chic aesthetic is attracting attention in style circles far and wide.

“The best thing a woman can wear is confidence.”

Atwood made waves with her 2010 SCAD thesis collection and has a new collection this fall. Her own contribution to the LBD canon combines über–femininity with vicious badassery: A zippered leather vest meets a tiered chiffon skirt in one provocative statement. It’s an unexpected take that handily represents the complex realities—and wardrobe choices—of the modern woman. “Fierce on top, sweetness on the bottom,” she winks.

Not to saddle fashion with too heavy a social interpretation. After all, we’re all just trying to look good for the party. Whether decked with edgy flourishes or holding clean, classic lines, the LBD in its endless permutations will forever remain in style, assures Atwood.

“If you’re in a little black dress, you’re always doing it right.” cs

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Night Out festivities with —*gasp*— white pumps after Labor Day. No longer is the LBD bound by “one–strand of pearls, church–going correctness,” announced Talley to ArtInfo. “Now it represents freedom, liberation and individuality.”

Also included in the exhibit is the lacy Comme des Garçons shirtdress worn by Marc Jacobs at this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala—and if an LBD worn by a man doesn’t redefine couture, nothing can.

That’s not to say the classic profiles are eclipsed here: Vintage Chanel, Madame Grès and Pierre Cardin stand proud among vintage–influenced Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera. A trio of art deco–inspired Ralph Lauren gowns cluster together as if sharing a secret. Diane Von Furstenberg’s celebrated wrap dresses pose near Prada’s long, lean sheath and a full Oscar de la Renta ballgown.

Perhaps the simplest design of all is the 2006 wool Karl Lagerfeld donated by that indubitable style authority, Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Underscoring the “little” in LBD, the black dress worn by the famously petite

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the years I got to know the historians and archaeologists very well. When I began work on the book I went over the mountain several times with the archaeologists and I describe one of those journeys in the book. I also spent a lot of time digging through the plantation papers, trying to get a sense of how things worked on a day– to–day basis.

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You don’t shy away from a certain amount of opinion. It seems like you really don’t like Thomas Jefferson at all.

Is that an unfair characterization?

Author takes revealing new look at the founding father

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Henry Wiencek has written several books about race in America, most recently a study of George Washington’s relationship with slavery. Wiencek now turns his intense — some would say almost incendiary — attention to another founding father, Thomas Jefferson.

Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves goes well beyond the usual tropes about our third president — that he was a reluctant slaveowner, that his intimate relationship with his enslaved mistress Sally Heming proves his essential humanity, etc. — to show a plantation owner with a calculating, almost cold attitude toward exploiting the numerous slaves at Monticello, his estate in Charlottesville, Virginia.

As a longtime Charlottesville resident, Wiencek has a unique view into

the workings at Monticello today, and his book benefits from extensive and unprecedented onsite research. He speaks at a Georgia Historical Society event this Thursday night. We spoke to him last week.

How did you get so much access at Monticello, and how do they feel about you now that they’ve seen the book?

Henry Wiencek: (laughs) I’ve lived in Charlottesville since 1992, and I’ve visited Monticello many, many times. It’s a fascinating place. Over

Henry Wiencek: Yes. I wouldn’t call it opinion, I’d call it interpretation.

I’ve been accused of loathing Jefferson. That was never the case and still isn’t. I started out believing all I had learned from the people at Monticello that Jefferson was a conflicted slaveowner who tried to run a benevolent system on a rational humane basis.

Then what I found in the records was like getting one hammer blow after another. The children whipped at his nail factory to get them to work.

He was literally counting the babies and figured out that if he got a four percent increase every year in the birth rate that was part of his profit.

When he advised neighbors to “invest in Negroes.” Those things had not gotten into print!

It completely shattered my view of what was going on. I never did form a loathing for him, but at one point when I came across the four percent formula, I remember thinking of him, “The SOB is counting the babies.”

This sort of study is going on about slavery broadly. It has never really reached Jefferson until my book. That really makes them uncomfortable at Monticello. The Jeffersonians around here don’t like what I’m doing at all.

They want that four percent formula to disappear.

People say, well, Jefferson was just a man of his times. You bet he was!

So what do we do with this knowledge?

Jefferson was a founding father who wrote the nation’s archetypical document, one which two centuries later paved the way for a black president.

Henry Wiencek: Something Jefferson in his lifetime would never have wanted to see! He wanted to deport all the black people. He was creating propaganda for years, while at the same time he was doing everything he could to modernize slavery and

bring it into the country as a respectable institution because it was so immensely profitable.

Again, what should our response be?

Henry Wiencek: That’s a judgment the reader has to make. A number of people have said, well should we knock him down from Mount Rushmore? I say no, he’s part of our history, we have to deal with it. I don’t make any conclusions about that in the book. I don’t say we have to knock him off his pedestal or tear up the two dollar bill. Readers have to make their own choices. My focus was on what he did. I just lay it all out and the reader can decide.

I’m certainly not comparing capitalism to slavery, but isn’t it true that this kind of calculating exploitation of human labor is part of the capitalist system whether or not there’s slavery involved?

I’m thinking of the Victorian era and the industrial revolution, for example.

Henry Wiencek: That argument fails on one point: we fought a revolution to recognize universal human rights.

And I do believe in the notion of American exceptionalism. After the war a lot of our foreign allies, especially the French, were saying “why did we fight a war for you guys if you still have slavery?” Jefferson himself said the Revolution was a turning point, a new order of the ages. All of that slowly burned out as men such as Jefferson decided that hey, this is really profitable and we’re going to hang on to it despite all our ideals.

But we’ll still speak publicly that we’re an idealistic nation that believes in universal human rights.

Is this part of America’s constant evolution to live up to our own rhetoric?

Henry Wiencek: Again, that’s a question for the reader. I try to keep the focus on that era. Once you begin making analogies to later eras and different countries, everything falls into confusion. We have to view Jefferson as a man of his time and place.

He would be appalled to wake up and find Barack Obama in the White House. cs GHS presents Henry Wiencek When: 6 p.m. Thu. Nov. 15 Where: Congregation Mickve Israel, Monterey Square Cost: Free & open to public Info: georgiahistory.com

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THREE YEARS AGO this week, in these very pages, we reported on what seemed to be the death knell for community theater in Savannah. The story, The Final Curtain?, chronicled the last gasps of City Lights, Cardinal Rep and the Little Theatre of Savannah, all of which crashed and burned from financial troubles, internal squabbling and — most importantly — too few butts in the seats.

Theater folk, however, have a passion that burns brighter than such things. Three years later, there are several groups that have sprung, phoenix–like, from those ashes.

The theater community is bigger and better than it’s ever been.

Without question, one of the most successful has been the Bay Street Theatre, which produces plays and musicals on the cabaret stage upstairs at Club One. The 2009 Connect story, says Bay Street’s Travis Coles, “was a turning point, because it lit a fire under people’s asses that they needed to get something done. And they have.”

Coles, Club One’s manager, formed the Bay Street executive board along with Valerie Macaluso and Chris Stanley.

“That was the point where we were like, ‘OK, let’s go with this. Let’s make it happen,’” he says. “Chris and Val have really pushed that, and we’ve been able to cement it and create a real theater space and a real theater feeling.”

Bay Street’s greatest successes have been with mainstream — well, maybe a little left–of–mainstream — musicals like Rent, Cabaret, Avenue Q and that reliable annual outrage–a–thon, The Rocky Horror Show.

“It’s the bigger shows that allow us to have smaller, more serious shows,”

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explains Coles. “I think our musicals are our strong points, as far as funding for the rest of the season.”

All of this speaks directly to Bay Street’s manifesto — which, in Coles’ words, goes something like this: “To produce edgy theater that sometimes can’t exist in other spaces.”

In July, Club One celebrates its 25th anniversary as Savannah’s premiere gay nightspot and drag queen cabaret bar. “It has notoriety,” Coles explains. “People know the space for the various things that we have there, so there’s an expectation to be a little bit outside of the traditional.”

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Part of Bay Street’s triumph has been to entice audiences of all demographics into a space that some consider a bastion of the bizarre.

Last month, Coles and his board held an open “interest meeting” to discuss possibilities for the 2013 season. More than 50 people showed up and spoke up.

The shows have been selected, the directors tapped, and it’s the biggest Season thus far.

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues.

Just added as a sort of holiday bonus, Jeff Goode’s comical tale of sexual shenanigans, Santa–style, goes up

Dec. 20–23, with Coles directing.

Shel’s Shorts (Jan. 24–27). The 2011 production of Shel Silverstein vignettes was so successful, they’ve tapped the great poet and pundit for another comic collection. Directed by Chris Stanley.

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer (Feb. 15–17). Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues gets a rest this year, in favor of an Ensler–edited collection of shorts focusing on violence against women. This benefit for the Rape Crisis Center will (tentatively) feature direction from Val Macaluso, JinHi Soucy Rand and Sheila Bolda.

Reefer Madness (April 19–28). Yes, kids, it’s now a wacky, weedy musical, directed by Tim Reynolds.

Speech & Debate (June 27–30).

Macaluso directs Stephen Karam’s deeply dark comedy about a sex scandal in Oregon. This one’s been on Bay Street’s radar for a couple of years.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Aug. 9–25). Jeff DeVincent has rightfully earned a reputation as Savannah’s premier director of big, loud and kinda strange musicals. Here, he’s painting with Sondheim’s boldest strokes.

The Rocky Horror Show (Oct. 18–31). If Bay Street has a cash cow, this is it — garish and grotesque, and way too much fun, it’s the Halloween musical for all time. DeVincent directs.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Nov. 21–24). A brief run of John Cameron Mitchell’s brilliant transgendered rock ‘n’ roll opera, directed by Stanley.

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The Santaland Diaries/Season’s Greetings (Dec. 19–22). Humorous — well, outrageously funny — Christmas parables from the pen of David Sedaris. Coles directs. CS

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Soup’s on at Kayak and Maxwell’s It is maligned and revered. It is complex and absurdly simple. It is as old as cooking itself, yet rediscovered in a myriad of ways.

Go Brown for winter

It’s soup.

From iconic condensed Campbell’s soups to dehydrated versions awaiting a sip of hot water, soup is filling, satisfying, comforting — and the new darling of inventive chefs around the globe.

I went on my own soup hunt last week, motivated by the need for a warm rib–sticker.

I wanted chili, but half a dozen phone calls to downtown eateries turned up tomato bisque, she–crab stew, and an unnerving number of offers for Italian Wedding soup.

Hmmm, could be the hot new soup from a big can this season.

I did find two that brought me hiking. At Kayak Kafe, I was intrigued by a daily special called Dill Pickle Chowder. Admittedly, I’m not much of a dill pickle fan —I lean heavily toward sweet little gherkins—but took one for the team. I was pleased with the results.

Dill Pickle Chowder is a foundation of potato soup—warm, creamy and laced with chunks of potato (how could you go wrong?), to which pieces of dill pickle and some dill, the herb, is added. The flavor is present, for sure, but blends nicely with the potato taste.

I got a cup, and chose the West Indian Trader salad to accompany. This beautiful plate of curried chicken salad, walnuts, mixed fresh fruit, Roma tomatoes, cucumbers & a banana bread mini–muffin on organic greens is a grazer’s dream. I treated it like finger food, picking through, dipping into dressing and savoring each little morsel.

I realize that love for curry is a personal thing, but my only thought would be to back off the curry in the chicken salad. Its intensity over–powered the other bits of the salad. As always, service was prompt, polite and precise. It’s a bustling Broughton

Above, the hearty white bean & Applewood bacon soup at Maxwell’s; left, the West Indian Trader salad at Kayak Kafe

Street café that can fill quickly at peak times so plan ahead.

A day later, I went for the big bowl at Maxwell’s, tucked away on Jefferson Street just a stone’s throw south of Broughton Street.

There, I found a rich mèlange of white beans, Applewood bacon and greens stewed together into a soup that was hearty, filling and delicious.

A nice hunk of crusty bread accompanied the soup—and the whole thing was presented very elegantly and in the midst of Maxwell’s stunning little dining room. Each element presented its own calling card of flavor, texture and depth—and came together for a soup that I hope will continue to pop up on the little eatery’s menu throughout the winter.

Kayak Cafe, 1 E. Broughton St. (912) 236–6044 Maxwell’s, 109 Jefferson St. (912) 349–5878

BROWN ALES count among some of my favorite year–round beer styles and especially when winter comes a–knocking.

My current favorite, Anchor’s Brekle’s Brown, has roots in the very birth of the American craft beer movement. Anchor Brewing had built a cult following in its hometown of San Francisco and in the mid–1960s found itself the high altar of craft brewer wannabes who sought out the advice of a young Stanford grad who would become Anchor’s modern day savior. Fritz Maytag breathed new life into the brewery and in doing so became the acknowledged pioneer of modern–day craft brewing.

But Anchor’s history reaches back to 1871, when brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco from Germany. Anchor’s Brekle’s Brown pays homage to Gottlieb and resuscitates an early recipe for a classic all–malt, single hop brown ale.

In the glass expect a coppery brown color and unusual depth of flavor with hints of citrus. It’s a rich beer, but without heaviness often associated with malt–driven brews. Very good as a sipper; pairs with spicy foods, hard cheeses and yes, even a bowl of chili.

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Above, examples of Savannah artist Ellen Susan’s work with wet collodion photography, on display in an open house at Oglethorpe Gallery, 406 E. Oglethorpe Ave. this Sunday. This form of antique photography dates to the mid-1800’s and the beginning of photography itself. Susan’s process will offer abbreviated portrait sessions for Tinstamatic, providing subjects with the opportunity to be photographed with a lens dating from circa 1870 and to take home their tintype portrait the same day.

Right, ‘Turning Points in Portraiture’ continues at The Beach Institute at Harris and Price Streets in conjunction with The Hurn Museum, a look at the history of portraiture’s relationship to the history of art.

Affecting the Effect — Heather MacRae-Trulson’s M.F.A Painting Candidate Thesis Show. Ashmore Gallery, 412 MLK Jr Blvd, http:// www.hfinearts.com/

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Brad Hook — Brad D. Hook, watercolorist, will be displaying his works at the JEA from November 1-30. Brad is a self taught watercolor artist who has been painting and drawing for over 35 years.

Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Ikeda Feingold — Large works show at The Sparetime, second floor, 36 MLK Jr Blvd. Small works exhibition at Local 11Ten, 1110 Bull St. Karen Abato and Lily Harms — New work featured at reception Dec. 7 from 6-9 PM, continuing for a week. DesotoRow Gallery, 2427 DeSoto Ave. Little Black Dress — Curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor Andre Leon Talley, this exhibit opens Sept. 28 and charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon. Featuring approximately 80 garments from a canon of modern fashion designers, the exhibition includes contributions from veteran designers and those of the International Best-Dressed List such as Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada and Renee Zellwegger. Through

January 27, 2013 in Savannah at the SCAD Museum of Art. 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. October 5–December 6. Lowcountry Gourmet Foods, 10 W. Broughton St. Ornaments of Spirit — Recent paintings by Melinda Borysevicz, November 5- December 3. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Passing Lane/Hidden River — Paintings from town and country

by Jeffrey Markowsky. Nov. 2-30, Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. 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. The Butcher, 19 E. Bay St. Tinstamatic Portrait Studio — Fine art photographer Ellen Susan demonstrates the 19th century wet collodion photographic process at at Oglethorpe Gallery on Sunday, November 18. This occasion presents an

opportunity for registered guests to experience a portrait sitting using Civil War era technology. It will also serve as an open house, allowing for the public to stop by the Oglethorpe Gallery to see the space and get information about exhibiting at the gallery.

The public is invited to visit the gallery throughout the day to see the space and observe Susan at work. Oglethorpe Gallery, 406 E. Oglethorpe Ave. Turning Points in Portraiture — The Beach Institute in conjunction with The Hurn Museum presents this look at the history of portraiture’s relationship to the history of art. During its long historical course, the portrait continues to reflect each era’s social temperament. Through January 31.

Hours: Tue-Sat 12-5 pm, www. hurnmuseum.org Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Turntable Show — Maldoror’s Frame Shop presents its collection of custom crafted turntables, built from reclaimed lumber salvaged from both local antebellum homes and North Carolina mountain barns. Maldoror’s Frame Shop, 2418 Desoto Ave.

TWIGS — Artwork created by Scribble Art Studio students in collaboration with Live Oak Public Libraries. Free coloring books available. Blick Art Materials, 318 E. Broughton St. Vietnam Visions — Images of war are explored with sculptures and paintings by artist Karl Michel in his upcoming exhibition at the City of Savannah’s Gallery S.P.A.C.E. Nov. 9-30. He currently teaches art education and drawing at Armstrong Atlantic State University. His sculptures and paintings all relate to what he encountered during his time spent in Vietnam. Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St.

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In the Craig canon, Casino Royale still ranks as the best, although Skyfall proves to be superior to 2008’s Quantum of Solace (itself better than the mostly blistering reviews would suggest). This new entry is a 007 saga certain to leave viewers both shaken and stirred, and not only by the exciting set–pieces. That’s because this film, like the two before it, occasionally allows Bond to wear his heart on his tailored sleeve, with Craig revealing flashes of empathy more frequently than did his predecessors in the role. It also takes the character of M (Judi Dench), who dating back to the Pierce Brosnan flicks has been a rigid, humorless leader, and humanizes her.

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by Ralph Fiennes), reconfigures familiar roles from the past (e.g. Q, the aged weapons specialist played by Desmond Llewelyn in 17 films from 1963 until his death in 1999, is now a young computer geek played by Ben Whishaw), provides in–jokes for series fans (a beloved car makes an appearance) and, most intriguingly, offers a bit of back story for Agent 007.

Oscar–winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty), aided by the Coen brothers’ regular cinematographer Roger Deakins, provides all these proceedings with a grittier texture than often seen in this franchise, and while none of the set pieces here can match that incredible parkour opening in Casino Royale, most – a battle atop a moving train, a shadowy skirmish in a skyscraper, a roughhouse session involving an amusing appearance by a Komodo dragon – do not disappoint.

If there’s a criticism to be leveled against Skyfall, it’s that Bardem doesn’t receive nearly enough screen time. He’s one of the franchise’s more interesting villains–– playful, talkative, flirtatious, philosophical, fey (what other bad guy has ever caused Bond to teasingly suggest that 007 might swing both ways?) and, above

all, always a menacing presence. The movie could have used more scenes of him; instead, he doesn’t appear until well into the second act and is often forgotten for stretches thereafter.

Thankfully, other performers are around to pick up the acting (if not villainous) void, including the great Albert Finney in a key role and, of course, Dench. Mainly, though, there’s Craig, who has clearly established himself as the best Bond since Sean Connery first filled the role in 1962’s Dr. No. Tough and taciturn, he has reenergized the franchise after the shaky Brosnan years, definitely demonstrating that the series has once again earned its license to thrill.

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Dealing with themes of reincarnation, oppression and interconnectedness, the half–dozen stories would probably feel fairly conventional on their own. “Half–Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery,” for example, feels like a dinner theater production of The China Syndrome, while “An Orison of Sonmi–451” borrows from V for Vendetta, Soylent Green and just about every other dystopian sci–fi flick this side of The Hunger Games. Yet with Mitchell’s book as the blueprint, the writer–director team of Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) somewhat streamline – yet still retain – a multi–webbed narrative structure that allows all the individual episodes to cumulatively pack a soulful punch.

Cloud Atlas is unique in that all six stories are accorded equal weight and manage to maintain interest, so that when we suddenly switch to another chapter, we’re not disappointed in leaving one behind but instead look forward to the one resting ahead. Chronologically, the tales take us from the mid–19th century to an unspecified time in the distant future, from “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” (Jim Sturgess as an idealist and Tom Hanks as a cheerful doctor) to “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After” (Hanks as a post– apocalyptic primitive and Halle Berry

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it nicely fits into the retro world of Wreck–It Ralph. In this new animated film, Ralph himself defines the word “retro” as meaning “old but cool,” a winning combo sure to make this Disney effort as much of a hit with adults as with kids.

The title character (voiced by John C. Reilly) has spent the past three decades as the bad guy in Fix–It Felix, Jr., a video game in which the hammer–fisted Ralph smashes an apartment building, only to watch as the perpetually chipper Felix (30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer) repairs all the damage and curbs Ralph’s destructive rage.

An outcast among the other game characters, Ralph longs to be the good guy for once, but to do so, he must leave his game (through the electrical cord that connects with all the other games’ cords via a surge protector) and prove his valor elsewhere.

He briefly ends up in Hero’s Duty (which incorporates elements from Aliens and The Matrix trilogy), but most of his time is spent inside Sugar Rush, a racing game set in a garish candyland. There, he meets Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), a little girl whose status as a “glitch” makes her as much of an outsider as Ralph.

Directed by Rich Moore from a script by Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee, Wreck–It Ralph is consistently inventive, displaying a sturdy story structure that makes it more than just a simplistic romp for the Gen–X crowd. The rules of this gaming universe are clearly defined, and enough character exposition is provided to allow for some modest surprises toward the end.

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as the stranger in a strange land). In between, there are episodes involving a gay musician (Ben Whishaw) hoping to make a name for himself, a journalist (Berry) seeking to expose corruption at a nuclear power plant, and an avaricious publisher (Jim Broadbent) who gets his comeuppance in hilarious fashion.

Who can resist the prospect of Hugh Grant in tribal makeup as a cannibalistic warrior? Or Hugo Weaving as the Lucky Charms leprechaun gone rogue? Or, perhaps most amusingly, Hanks as a Cockney brute who’s so incensed by a literary critic’s pan of his novel) that he dispatches his detractor with the same lan exhibited

by Theatre of Blood’s Vincent Price when he silenced his critics?

Having the same actors turn up over and over, particular in minor roles that rest outside the main action (Hanks as a hotel clerk, Broadbent as a Korean musician, etc.), seems like stunt casting – and perhaps it is, to a degree.

But the decision is ultimately a sound one, with the perpetual presence of the familiar faces working

toward the idea that all of humanity is inexorably tied together, and that our stories – whether conveyed through writings, music, media or plain old campfire chats (all evidenced here) – serve as essential ripples shimmering over the ocean of time.

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The devastating crash happens within the first 15 minutes of Flight; it’s staged for maximum scare, and anyone who’s already a little nervous about flying might want to take a pass on this movie, or risk a lifelong commitment to Amtrak. It’s that gut–wrenching.

No spoilers here; Captain Whitaker is among the survivors, and as the crash is investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, exactly what happened in those tense final moments is explored again and again.

Washington, who could play this kind of mixed–up badass in his sleep by now, gives the beleaguered pilot a deep sense of vulnerability masked by bravado and denial. An understated Don Cheadle plays Whitaker’s lawyer, and Bruce Greenwood is the only one from the pilots’ union who doesn’t seem to want him hung out to dry.

But Whitaker’s an alcoholic. He lets them both down.

British actress Kelly Riley appears as a junkie who becomes Whitaker’s unlikely lifeline as he comes under increasingly intense scrutiny; it’s a variation of the “hooker with a heart of gold,” and as their scenes together unfold, we’re meant to wonder if these two abusers are meant to go down in flames together.

The brilliant Zemeckis does serviceable work – it’s hard to make a

bad film with the dogged, durable Washington in the lead – but Flight isn’t going to be the one to bring him back to his Back to the Future and Forrest Gump heyday.

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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.

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. 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

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Veterans for Peace Monthly Meeting

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Benefits Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School PTO Fall Festival

A fall festival at the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens, 2 Canebrake Road (off Highway 17).

Saturday, Nov. 17, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (rain or shine) Carnival-type games, face painting, a karate demonstration by Pooler Karate, live music by the Savannah Arts Academy jazz band, bounce houses, Zumba dancing, Animal Aide pet adoptions, concession stands. Admission: $2 per person plus $1 game tickets, or $10 wristbands in advance to access all games.

Tickets required for concessions. Learn about Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School and the Montessori curriculum. Proceeds benefit the school’s PTO, which provides financial assistance for curriculum support, enrichment programs, campus beautification, and future community outreach projects. Information: cemcspto@gmail.com or on Facebook.

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 find a location near you, visit www.samaritanspurse.org.

PurpleStride Savannah

A 5K timed walk/run on the beach at Tybee Pier on the south end of Tybee Island to benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

PurpleLight vigil to follow for those fighting or lost to this disease. Saturday, Nov. 17 from 3:00-6:00pm. Information: www.purplestride. org/savannah

11th Annual Waiting on a Cure Luncheon

Friday, November 16, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 General MacIntosh Blvd. Raises funds for the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial University Medical Center. This year’s theme is “I Spy a Cure.” Table hosts will be dressed in costumes to match the theme and will serve their guests in exchange for generous tips for the Anderson Cancer Institute. Live and silent auctions. Information: Lauren Grant at 912-350-1524 or at grantla1@memorialhealth.com.

Armstrong Coat Drive benefits Union Mission

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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.

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Individuals and businesses can also “adopt” a child or family as part of Union Mission’s Angel Tree program. Donors will be matched with a child or a family and provided with a wish list detailing specific items and sizes. Participants are encouraged to make donations of new and unwrapped gifts including toys, clothing, games, school supplies, gift cards and monetary donations. All donated items can be dropped off at Union Mission, 120 Fahm Street in downtown Savannah, during normal business hours. Information: 912-236-7423.

Flying Fortress 5k to benefit the Restoration of the B-17 Airplane “The City of Savannah”

Help support students and families in need.

Through November 17, 2012, new and clean, gently used coats and blanket donations will be accepted. A.E. Beach High School will host two “drop off” locations on-site at 3001 Hopkins Street. Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7:30am and 3:30pm, donors can drop off coats and blankets with Kristen Swanson in the Guidance Office or with Monica Daughtry in the Media Center. On Saturday, November 17, 2012, A.E. Beach High School will also host a “drop off location” at Cann Park during the Beach Fall Community Event scheduled from 12:00pm until 4:00pm. Information: Kristen Swanson, 912-395-5330 extension: 706212 Email: Kristen.Swanson@sccpss.com.

The 3rd annual Flying Fortress 5K Saturday, November 17, 8:30am. Benefits the restoration of the Mighty Eighth Airforce Museum’s B-17, the “City of Savannah”. Course starts and finishes at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum (175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler) and winds through the JCB campus. Registration: $30 until November 15, $35 on November 16 and 17. mightyeighth.org for more information.

Donations will help fulfill holiday wishes of children and families in need this holiday season. Gifts for children, teens, adults and vet-

Jingle Bell Run/Walk Savannah

Donations Requested for Union Mission’s Holiday Hope and Happiness Campaign

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] Benefiting the Arthritis Foundation. Wear a holiday-themed costume. Run or walk a 5K.

Saturday, Nov. 17, 8am - 12 noon. YMCA Islands Branch. Registration: $25. Information: jbrwsavannah.kintera.org Phone: 404-2378771.

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]

Photo Exhibit Benefits Skateistan International Non-profit

Skateistan, founded in Kabul, Afghanistan, provides skateboarding and educational programming for boys and girls in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Pakistan. Morgan Dewey’s exhibit “In-Between: Photography Exhibit and Installation” plus silent auction and limited edition Skatestan book sale benefit this charity.

Thursday, Nov. 15, 7-10 pm at Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull Street. Information: 561-2340112. Show runs through Nov. 20.

Pickle Run 2012 Benefiting Ronald McDonald House

The fourth annual 5K beach and road run on Tybee Island. Saturday, November 24. 8:00am registration. 9:15am race start. Fee: $25. Dayof-event registration is $30. Starts and ends at Huc-a-poo’s, 1213 E. Highway 80, Tybee Island.

Held each year to celebrate the birthday of Dylan “Dyl Pickle” Hall, who turns 4 on November 25. Organized by his family in gratitude for the help provided by Ronald McDonald House to out-of-town families with sick children. Information: www.active.com/running/tybee-islandga/the-pickle-run-2012.

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

We are

taking care of ourselves

St. Jude Give Thanks Walk

Birth Control: so I can plan for today and for a family tomorrow.

Protecting Future Fertility: STD testing and treatment can protect my ability to have a baby someday.

Second annual walk is a fun family-friendly event that takes place in Daffin Park. The 5k walk benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and encourages walkers to “give to help them live.” 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov 17, Daffiin Park. Free registration. www.givethankswalk.org Information: 770-906-3438.

Superstorm Sandy Benefit and Wine Tasting

Savannah Center 44-B Lee Blvd 912-351-0116

Planned Parenthood© We’re here for you with high quality, affordable health care.

For annual checkups, birth control, emergency contraception, STD tests and pregnancy testing.

We accept most insurance.

plannedparenthood.org/ppse

Savannah Wine Cellar and locally-owned Seamus Wines are hosting a benefit wine tasting of current releases as well as some special selections. Suggested donation is $10.00.10% of all sales will also be donated to storm relief.

Thursday Nov 15th 5:30-7:30pm at Savannah Wine Cellar, 12 Oaks Shopping Center 5500 Abercorn Street, Store telephone: 912-355-9463.

For information, call 912-441-7422 or email jameslfoley@seamuswines.com.

Volleyball Tournament to Benefit “Movember & Sons”

A 4v4 Coed Volleyball Tournament at Forsyth Park to benefit this moustache-growing charity that raises awareness and funds for mens’ health issues, especially prostate/testicular cancer. Registration starts at 10:30am and can be done in person or online at www.SavAdultRec.com. $10/pp to participate. Prizes and raffles. Learn about it at www.Movember.com.

Hosted by The Savannah Adult Recreation Club.

Info: Andrew Jones at (912) 220 3474 or SavAdultRec@aol.com.

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.

Casting Call for Film Extras and StandIns

’Killing Winston Jones’, a feature film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny Glover and directed by Joel David Moore (Dodgeball, Avatar) will be filming in Savannah, November 26th until December 21st. First City Films has been hired as extras casting. The film is in need of stand ins for Mr. Dreyfuss, Mr. Glover, John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Danny Masterson (’That ’70s Show), and Aly Michalka (Easy A, The Roomate). The film will also be needing adults, as well as, many 7th, 8th and 9th grade children (ALL ETHNICITIES) as extras. Please forward all headshots or photographs with dates of availability and contact information to FCFEXTRAS@gmail.com Stand Ins for the cast should attach a well-lit photograph and an email that includes ALL contact information, height, weight and age. In the subject line, please include which cast member (ie. Danny Glover) you are submitting. Stand ins should be available for most or all of the shoot. Payment is available on a daily rate.

Critz Tybee Run Fest 2013 Tee Shirt Design Contest

Critz Tybee Run Fest 2013 seeks submissions for its Tee Shirt Design Contest. Winning entry will serve as the design on the event T-shirt worn by approximately 5,000 participants in the February 2013 running event. Winner receives a Tybee Island weekend prize package, provided by Tybee Vacation Rentals, and dinner at the Sundae Café on Tybee Island.

Contest deadline: November 23, 2012. See online instructions and entry information: www. critztybeerun.com/t-shirt-contest.

Junior League of Savannah Accepting “Done in a Day” Project and Assistance Applications

The Junior League of Savannah is accepting applications for “Done in a Day”, Community Projects and Community Assistance Funds in Savannah, Golden Isles and Hilton Head Island.

Grants will be awarded to projects that the Junior League of Savannah will assist by providing volunteers and funding of up to $1500. Typical projects include assistance with painting, gardening, special events or physical improvements. The projects are generally scheduled over a time span of a one-day period on a Saturday or Sunday, with a need of ten to fifteen volunteers. Community Assistance Funds are awarded once a year and represent an additional financial commitment to the community.

Partnerships and funding are available to all local 501(c)3 organizations that are within the program focus area of Women and Children’s Advocacy. To apply, visit the Junior League of Savannah’s website at www.jrleaguesav.org or call 912-790-1002. Application deadline is November 15, 2012.

Classes, Camps & Workshops 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@chrismorris-

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Learn to frame your special art, photography and memorabilia creatively and inexpensively, and create one-of-a-kind wall decor items.

Trends and Traditions, 5401 Waters Avenue (corner of 68th and Waters) in Midtown, Savannah. Saturday, November 17 (1:00 & 3:00 PM sessions available). Class is FREE. Holiday refreshments will be served. Information/Registration call 354-5012 or www.trendsinframing. com.

Family Law Workshop

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]

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]

Art Classes at the Studio School.

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.

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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 With a PhD in Music

Savannah Classical Guitar Studio offers lessons for all levels of guitar student. Instructor is Dr.Brian Luckett, DMA classical guitar performance (www.brianluckett.com). Individual lessons in a private, quiet studio in the Starland area. All levels of lessons cover guitar technique, music theory (reading, rhythm etc.) and musicianship. General (folk/rock based) acoustic lessons also available but please, no electric instruments. Rates: $25.00 per half hour lesson; $45.00 per hour. Contact: brian@brianluckett. com [102812]

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]

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

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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]

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]

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Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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). 912-897-9559. $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: 912-232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com [062812]

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,

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1 Mensa members’ stats 4 Passages ___ (treatment facility frequented by celebrities) 10 Be civilly disobedient 14 Trophy 15 In ___ (all together) 16 Caucus state 17 Tunnel effect created by blowing air through a line of empty-headed participants?

19 Gave prompts to 20 Prime minister between Major and Brown 21 Supreme Court garb 23 Idi with an evil history 24 “2 Broke Girls” network 27 Gaucho’s rope 30 Channel that reruns “Family Feud” 31 Solo’s attempt at an orchard?

34 Artificial, like body parts 35 One who’s doomed 36 “Get outta here!”

39 Ltd., in the States 40 Civil War side 41 Moon status 42 Oil from orange blossoms 44 Guy who complains there are too many trees in the woods?

46 Guitarist Scaggs 49 ___ New Guinea 50 Part of a line: abbr.

51 “Vertigo” singer 52 Grand Ole ___ 54 Like days of yore 55 Singer Mitchell 58 Idiot who drove his car into two feet of mud?

62 Farm beasts 63 Run-DMC’s sneaker of choice 64 Actor Hakeem ___-Kazim of “24” 65 No, to Nijinsky 66 Woke up after passing out 67 Slip up

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1 3-down remedy 2 Feelings that something’s not right 3 Injury helped by a 1-down 4 Sierra Club founder 5 Wilson of Heart 6 It may be flipped 7 Tel Aviv’s country: abbr.

8 Rude person 9 Like many a Christmas sweater gift 10 Food associated with cable cars 11 Payback without the payback 12 Come up short 13 Skosh 18 Take first place 22 7-Eleven drink 24 Comedian Margaret 25 Annette of “The Kids Are All Right” 26 Barroom brawl souvenirs 28 “Mickey” singer Basil 29 Chevy model 31 Comment after the bell 32 Rack up 33 Directional suffix 34 Type of pricing 36 Letters on a sunscreen bottle 37 Karate move 38 ___ avis 43 TLA texted by teens 45 Landing spot 46 He rode in the General Lee 47 Like some garages, size-wise 48 “Doonesbury” pot smoker 51 Basic sandwich 53 Sage voiced by Frank Oz 54 ___ buco 55 “The Daily Show” name 56 Acne-fighting brand 57 Word in wedding notices 59 Crater’s edge 60 Honorific poem 61 DC player, for short

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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. Award-

get on to get off

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 winning 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]

Photoshop Basics

Introduces the different tools for editing photographs, using layers and basic editing to improve photographic images. You’ll need a basic understanding of computers, digital imaging, and photo editing. Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11/27/2012 to 12/6/2012 Time: 6:30-8:30pm. Registration: 912-478-5551.

Information: 912-651-0942 or christinataylor@ georgiasouthern.edu Fee: $85. Offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education program, at The Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/digital.html

Russian Language Classes

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

912.544.0026 More local numbers: 1.800.777.8000 / 18+ Ahora en Español / www.interactivemale.com

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]

Sewing Classes

Classes and individualized sewing instruction from Laurie, 912-358-8989. Email: lr_bryant@ yahoo.com [111112]

Sewing Lessons

Personalized sewing lessons for your individual goals/needs. Any age or ability. Lessons given in my home. 912-358-8989 or lr_bryant@yahoo. com. E-mail preferred. [110312]

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.

Yoga for Couples: Toolbox for Labor & Delivery

MON NIGHT FOOTBALL 2 for 1 appetizers; 5 for 15 Bud/Bud Light buckets TUES NIGHT: 2 for 1 VIPs; 5 for $15 Miller Light buckets WED NIGHT $8 top shelf margaritas THURS NIGHT 5 for $15 Bud/Bud Light buckets FRI NIGHT $8 Jager bombs

$6.95

LUNCH SPECIAL

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) 3086768 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]

Participants will learn a “toolbox” full of 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]

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

Clubs & Organizations

Energy Healers

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

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 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]

SATURDAY 10 wings & a pitcher $12 SAT NIGHT 5 for $15 Miller Light buckets SUNDAY NIGHT 10 wings & a pitcher $15

12 N. LATHROP AVE. | 233-6930 | NOW HIRING CLASSY ENTERTAINERS Turn right @ the Great Dane statue on Bay St.

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Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal. RSVP to 660-8257. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr., Thunderbolt. [062912]

Honor Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending our area Korean War and World War II veterans to Washington DC to visit the new WWII Memorial. All expenses are paid by Honor Flight Savannah, which is not a government-supported program. They depend on donations from the community to fund their efforts. Honor Flight is seeking veterans interested in making a trip to Washington. For more info: (912) 596-1962 or www.honorflightsavannah.org [062912]

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]

Islands MOPS

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.

Website/information: https://sites.google.com/ site/islandsmops/ [062912]

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.

the new

King’s inn

Wild Fibre, 6 East Liberty Street (near Bull St.) Call for info: 912-238-0514 [063012]

Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 5965965. [062912]

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A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Contact Steve Cook, 912-313-2230. [062912]

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

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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]

Low Country Turners

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. [062912]

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]

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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

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. [071512]

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]

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy

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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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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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.

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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.

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) In old Christian and Islamic lore, the dove was a symbol of the holy spirit. The bird was considered so pure and sacred that the devil, who was an expert shapeshifter, could not take on its form. The dove had a different meaning in other traditions, however. Among the ancient Greeks, it had a special relationship with Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In Rome, its eggs were regarded as aphrodisiacs.

Drawing on all these meanings, I’m nominating the dove to be your power animal in the coming week.

You will have an excellent chance to intensify your connection with divine truths through the power of love and eros –– and vice versa.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) Your next assignment is to deepen and refine your relationship with your temptations. That doesn’t mean you should shed all caution and simply give in to them. Rather, I’m suggesting you escape the bind that makes you feel like you have to either ruthlessly repress your complicated longings or else thoroughly express them. Is there an in–between position you can find? A way you can appreciate the mysterious gift that the temptations confer and not be miserably obsessed by them? A perspective in which you’re neither tormented by guilt nor driven to compromise your integrity?

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) You’re a bit like a professional jet pilot who is operating the pirate ship ride at an amusement park.

You have resemblances to a top chef who’s shopping for gourmet ingredients in a seedy convenience store. In other words, Gemini, you may feel slightly off–kilter or dispossessed, even though you have a lot going for you. Here’s the best possible thing you could do while you wait for the fates to show you how to make a correction: Make it your intention to feel centered, poised, and at peace exactly as you are right now.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is currently enough food available to feed everyone on the planet. The problem is, it’s not distributed efficiently. Some people get far more food than they need,

and even waste a lot of it, while less fortunate folks go hungry. I invite you to think about whether you might have a metaphorically comparable situation in your own life, Cancerian. Is there a part of your psyche that’s well–nurtured but a different part that receives meager shares of love and support? Are you overstuffed in one way but starved in another?

The coming weeks would be an excellent time to correct such an imbalance. (More on food: tinyurl. com/HungryWorld.)

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) This horoscope is not an advertisement for ceremonial shovels.

I am receiving no payment from a ceremonial shovel company for suggesting that you procure a customized engraved gold digging tool for your own personal use.

And I will feel fine if you don’t actually get a real one, but instead merely imagine yourself wielding a pretend version. The fact is, Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do a groundbreaking ritual: to dig up the first scoop of metaphorical dirt in the place where you will build your future dream house, masterpiece, or labor of love.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) I don’t think you’re fully aware of the game you’ve been immersed in. You may even be in denial that you’re playing it. If I’m right about this, please make it a priority to acknowledge what’s going on and identify the exact nature of the game. You can’t afford to be innocent about the subterranean forces that are in motion. It’s especially important not to be too nice and polite to see the complicated truth. Please note: There’s no need to be a cynical shark –– that would be as inappropriate a response as being a sweet little lamb. But you should definitely activate your jungle senses.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) On Reddit.com, someone asked members of the community the following: What is your best unanswerable question? Among the more serious offerings were “What is love?”, “What is magic?”, “Why is there something as opposed to nothing?”, and “What is the meaning of life?” Then there were more avant–garde possibilities: “Where do squirrels go

during hurricanes?”, “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?”, and “If I asked you to sleep with me, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?” After evaluating the current astrological omens, Libra, I urge you to pose your own best riddle –– a query that will provide maximum stimulation as you meditate on it during the next four months.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) An environmental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul. In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught. For example, New Zealand companies throw away most of the liver, roe, and heads of the fish, while Iceland has come up with ways to take advantage of all that stuff. Judging from your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I conclude that it’s crucial for you to take your cue from Iceland rather than New Zealand in the coming weeks. Be inventive, efficient, and thorough in harnessing the power of all your raw materials.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

“They will say you are on the wrong road,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “if it is your own.” I suspect you may have to deal with wrong–headed badgering like that in the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

In fact, you could experience a surge of discouraging words and bad advice that tries to shoo you away from the path with heart.

Some of the push may come from enemies, some from friends or loved ones, and some from deluded little voices in your own head. I hope you won’t be demoralized by the onslaught, but will instead respond like a brave hero who uses adversity as a motivating force.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

I’m sure you’ve got thousands of practical details to attend to. Your schedule may be as busy as it has been in months. But I hope you will find time to do what I consider essential to your well–being, and that is to wander and wonder. In fact, let’s make that your motto: *to wander and wonder.* Even if it’s just for a few stolen moments between your serious appointments, allow yourself to meander

off into the unknown and marvel at all the curious things you find. Be on the lookout for high strangeness that thrills your imagination, for exotic pleasures that titillate your lust for novelty, and for fertile chaos that blows your mind in all the right ways.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) James Joyce was a great novelist but not much of a fighter. He picked a more imposing and athletic buddy to go drinking with, though: Ernest Hemingway. If the two men encountered any alcohol–induced trouble, Joyce would slink behind his friend and yell, “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!” I don’t anticipate that you’ll be in the vicinity of any bar scuffles in the coming week, Aquarius. But I do think you would benefit from having a potent and persuasive ally on your side. It’s time to add some heft and clout to your arsenal of resources.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) Is it possible that you have been *too* receptive and empathetic for your own good lately? I mean, I love how attuned you are to the ebb and flow of subtle energies –– it’s one of your most winsome and powerful qualities –– but I fear you may be going too far. As heroic as it might seem to be the most sensitive and responsive person in a ten–mile radius, I’d rather see you work on being more self–contained right now. That’s why, for a limited time only, I’m recommending that you turn the full force of your touchy–feely solicitude on yourself.

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 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.

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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. [082612].

Seersucker Live’s 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, nonconformists, 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 912-232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information. [063012]

Dance Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tue: 8-9/9-10pm, Thur: 8-9/9-10pm, Sun 5-6/67pm. Lessons at Salon de Baile, 7048 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Savannah, GA 31406. Visit us at

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

7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912-354-5586. [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]

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]

Savannah Dance Club

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

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Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round. (912) 921-2190. The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads. [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. 912-5960889 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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Savannah Dance Club. Shag, Swing, Cha-Cha and Line dancing. Everyone invited. Call for details on location, days and times. 912-3988784. [082912]

Savannah Shag Club

Events 2012 Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run

Saturday, December 1, 2012. The Bridge Run gives participants the chance to conquer Savannah’s Talmadge Bridge, a 1.4-mile span at a 5.5% grade, 196 feet above the Savannah River, on foot. You can register online at www. active.com, in person at Savannah’s Fleet Feet Sports location or even download a printable registration form and mail it in. For more information, please visit www.SavannahRiverBridgeRun.com.

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. CS

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,

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MIDTOWN AREA, Very nice furnished efficiency apartment, suitable for one person, utilities included, $200 week plus dep. No smoking. No pets. 912-236-1952

1, 2, and 3 BR $650-$1050/month Ask about our move in specials

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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

VERY NICE 4BR/2BA, central heat/air, all electric, and more. 304 STACIE COURT. $1025/month.

2BR/1BA, 60 ALTMAN CIRCLE: $675.

912-507-7934 or 912-927-2853

RIDGELAND ROAD

3BR/1.5BA mobile home on private lot. No pets. $550 + deposit.

No Section 8. 912-234-0548 SECTION 8 WELCOME

*24A Mastick: 3BR $565 *2122 Alaska: 3BR, washer/dryer included $825 *2147 Tennessee: 3BR/1.5BA $850. Call 912-257-6181

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 SOUTHSIDE: 1BR Apt. Quiet, very private location. Central heat & air, Utilities, WiFi, cable included. $850/month plus deposit. Call 912-695-2215

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 *Southside 3 BR, 2 BA, Updated Kitchen / Appliances, Single Garage, Screened Porch. $925 Month. * Near Isle Of Hope 2 BR,1 BA, LR/ DR combo, Appliances, Washer/Dryer hook-ups, off street parking,fenced yard,cul-de-sac.$ 750 Call Mitchell & Associates Realtors. 912-232-0030 SPECIAL! 1812 N. Avalon Dr. 2BR/1.5BA $675/mo, $400/dep.

SPECIAL! 1301 E.66th: 2BR/2 Bath, W/D connection, near Memorial Hosp. $725/month, $400/dep Southside: 127 Edgewater Rd. 2BR/2BA, washer/dryer connection, near Oglethorpe Mall $775/month, $400/deposit.

11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection $595/month DAVIS RENTALS 310 E. MONTGOMERY XROADS 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

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

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

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LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

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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 EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week.

Call 912-844-5995.

A NEWLY Renovated home.

Washer/dryer, cable, all utilities included. $140/week, no deposit.

Please call 912-484-6565

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

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

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.

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.

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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$75 Move-In Special Today!!

Clean, furnished, large. Busline, central heat/air, utilities. $100-$130 weekly.

Rooms w/bathroom $145.

Call 912-289-0410.

CHEVROLET Silverado, 2002- Extended cab, long bed, gray color.

Very good condition. $6,700. Call 912-713-3618

AVAILABLE ROOMS: CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065

Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

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

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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MECHANIC SPECIAL

‘97 T-Bird, new brake system and stereo. Reduced $995 Call 912-358-6326.

WE PAY CASH for junk cars & trucks! Call 964-0515 Boats & accessories 950 FISHING BOAT, 17ft. motor and trailer included. Reasonable price.

Good condition. 912-925-6894 Campers/rVs 960

Must Sell RV Class C, 2000- 30’ Winnebago , Great Cond, Sleeps 7, Mileage 38,150K, Only Asking Payoff $21,000 912-665-1339

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