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Saturday, February 16

The Dardenelles

10:00AM – 8:00PM

Harry O’Donoghue

Sunday, February 17

The Atlanta Junior Ceili Band Savannah Ceili Band Batt Burns, Storyteller Irish Dancers of Savannah Glor na Daire Dancers

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this week | compiled by robin wright gunn | happenings@connectsavannah.com

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. to the Spanish Empire and Victorian England. Part of the 8th Savannah Symposium.

When: Thu. Feb. 07, 5:30 p.m.

Where: SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu/

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Wednesday Storytelling: Lillian Grant-Baptiste

What: Folk stories about slavery and freedom. Tues.

Feb. 5, 10:30 a.m. at Port City Library, 3501 Houlihan Ave. Wed. Feb. 6. 10:30 a.m. at West Broad Library, 1110 May Street (inside the YMCA), and at 4:30 p.m.at Rincon Library, 17th Street & Hwy. 21.

When: Wed. Feb. 06 Where: Various Branches Cost: Free & open to public Info: www.liveoakpl.org/

Lecture: Healing Oppression’s Wounds

What: Interactive lecture is first event of Armstrong’s Black History Month Series, The Crossroads of Freedom and Equality, a month-long series of lectures, panel discussions and performances in celebration of Black History Month.

When: Wed. Feb. 6, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong’s Student Union, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: armstrong.edu/

Film: Mystery Screening honoring Magician/Author Ricky Jay

What: Psychotronic Film Society salutes the life and career of the sleight-of-hand illusionist who has appeared in House of Games, Boogie Nights and other films. A screening of a filmed live performance.

When: Wed. Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5 Info: sentientbean.com/

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Theater: Flight

What: A play by Charlayne Woodard based on slave narratives, Africanand African-American folktales.

Presented by Savannah State’s Players by the Sea. Feb. 6 show is free as part of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival; reservations required.

When: Feb. 6-9, 8 p.m., Feb. 10, 3 p.m.

Where: Kennedy Fine Arts Auditorium on SSU Campus

Lecture: The Conservation of Old Master Paintings

What: Claire Barry, Director of Conservation, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Affiliated with Telfair Museums’ Offering of the Angels.

When: Thu. Feb. 7, 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Cost: Admission $12. Free members.

Info: telfair.org/

Rebecca Lang Cooking Class

Dancing (evil) Queen: Columbia City Ballet’s Snow White, Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Cost: $10, $5/SSU. Free Feb. 6.

Info: 912-358-3190.

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Thursday 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time and Space

What: Scholars from over a dozen countries present papers on the significance of the split-level house, post-colonial reinterpretations of world architecture, and other topics.

Hosted by SCAD’s Architectural History Department.

When: Thu. Feb. 7-Sat. Feb. 9 Where: SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: $10-$130. Registration required.

Info: scad.edu/architectural-history/ symposium

What a Girl Wants

What: One stop shopping open house for Valentine’s Day. Hors d’oeuvres from many Savannah restaurants.

When: Thu. Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m.

Where: Steal Magnolias, 800 Habersham Street (at Gwinnett) Cost: Free to attend.

Lecture: Corridic Modernity

What: Mark Jarzombek, associate dean of the MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, traces the corridor’s history from the present back

What: Southern celebrity chef Lang is author of Southern Living: Around the Southern Table and four other cookbooks.

When: Thu. Feb. 7, 6:30.-9 p.m.

Where: Kitchenware Outfitters, 5500 Abercorn St. (Twelve Oaks) Cost: Call for information Info: 912-356-1117.

Crank it Up: Savannah Music Festival Announcement Party

What: Music by City Hotel and The Train Wrecks. Access to newly announced 2013 concert tickets.

When: Thu. Feb. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: Tubby’s Tankhouse Thunderbolt, 2909 River Dr., Thunderbolt Cost: $20/advance, $25/door Info: savannahmusicfestival.org/

Lecture and Film: The March to the Sea and Savannah

What: Documentary maker Michael Jordan screens and discusses his film at the Richmond Hill Historical Society.

When: Thu. Feb. 07, 7 p.m.

Where: Richmond Hill Historical Society & Museum, Highway 144 at the corner of Ford Avenue and Timber Trail Road, Richmond Hill

Georgia History Festival: Shuman Cup Cricket Tournament What: Savannah-Chatham County

elementary school cricket teams compete in “the Georgia colony’s favorite sport.”

When: Thu. Feb. 7, 9:30 a.m.

Where: Shuman Elementary School, 415 Goebel Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public

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Friday Theater: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

What: The musical based on the ’coat of many colors’, story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis.

When: Feb. 8-12 Where: Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Cost: $35 adult, $16 child Info: 912-233-7764. www.savannahtheatre.com/

Boca Video-Making Workshop and Contest

What: Learn to make videos using the Boca Video iPhone app. Free lunch.

Please RSVP. When: Fri. Feb. 8, 12 p.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Creative Coast, 15 W. York St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: www.getboca.com/

Lecture: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): The Soaring Epidemic

What: Robert Loyd of Armstrong’s Childhood and Exceptional Students Education describes the history of ASD and suspected causes, plus intervention practices.

When: Fri. Feb. 08, 12 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Student Union Ogeechee Thtr, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: armstrong.edu/

Potable Gold: Savannah’s Madeira Tradition

What: Tour/performance describes Madeira’s long tradition in Savannah’s history. Tour includes a Madeira party. February 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23 at 5:30 p.m.

Where: Isaiah Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State Street, Cost: $20. Reservations recommended.

Info: 912-236-8097. www.davenporthousemuseum.org/

Jazz Pianists Bob Seeley and John Cocuzzi

What: Cocuzzi, an American pianist, vibraphone player and drummer, plays blues, jazz, swing and boogie woogie. Seeley is a boogie woogie pianist. Benefitng Park Place Outreach. Includes dinner and silent auction. Music at 8:30.

When: Fri. Feb. 8, 6 p.m.

at The Landings, 1 Cottonwood Lane, Skidaway Cost: $125 Info: 912-598-7358 .

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Saturday Tybee Island Mardi Gras: Re-Do I Dos: Mardi Gras Style

What: Couples renew their marriage vows at a ceremony during the

Tybee Island Mardi Gras Street Party.

1:00pm, couples ride a float in the Mardi Gras Parade (first come/first serve until full.) 3pm/end of parade, renewal ceremony on Main Stage.

When: Sat. Feb. 9 Where: Butler Avenue & Tybrisa Cost: $10 per couple Info: mardigrastybee.com/

ments, community service credit provided. Hosted by Savannah Tree Foundation.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Where: Bazemore Park, Railroad St at Big Hill Rd, Garden City Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.savannahtree.com/

Arbor Day Tree Planting

What: Local and regional produce, meat, and other delights.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park

What: A community event to mulch

trees planted in 2010 and plant new trees. Bring gloves. Tools, refresh-

Forsyth Farmers Market

Georgia History Festival’s Colonial Faire and Muster

What: Living history with colonial reenactors and vendors; cannon and musket firing; blacksmithing, craft, and cooking demonstrations; Native American and slave life interpretations; and period music and dance.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. Feb. 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road, Cost: Free and open to public

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Workshop: Mastering Roses What: The basics of rose culture

and the seasonal rose maintenance calendar.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens (formerly Bamboo Farm), 2 Canebrake Rd Cost: $13 Info: 912-921-5460. bamboo.caes. uga.edu/

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Grand Festival Day What: Sankofa African-American

Museum on Wheels; Documentary Mini-Theater with continuous showings; Local Authors Corner: Living and Learning Crafts Village, Youth Talent Extravaganza, Health Fair.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

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

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com

Tybee Island Mardi Gras Street Party

What: Music by The Fabulous Clams at 12pm. Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe at 3pm. Angela Beasley’s Puppet People, SCAD Circus, tarot card readings, hoopers, and musicians.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 12 p.m.-6 p.m.

Where: South End of Tybee Island Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: mardigrastybee.com/

Mardi Gras Tybee Parade

What: Floats, beads, and marching bands--oh my! Parade begins at Memorial Park and heads south on Butler Ave. to Tybrisa.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 2 p.m.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Clan Donald Jamboree

What: Cannon firing, presentation of the Haggis by former Clan Donald USA High Commissioner Al Manning.

Scottish wares, crafts, weapons and food. Sponsored by the Garrison of Fort King George and Clan Donald Southeast.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m.

Where: Fort King George Historic Site, 302 McIntosh Rd. SE, Darien Cost: $15 Info: gastateparks.org/FortKingGeorge

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Concert by Q Parker, The Manhattans, Dru Hill What: Part of the festival’s Grand

Festival Day. When: Sat. Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglthorpe Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com/

Ballet: Snow White

What: South Carolina’s Columbia City Ballet brings fairy tale to life in ballet.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre - Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $13- $35 Info: savannahcivic.com/

Grand Opening: Scribble Art Studio

What: A grand opening party and Valentine’s themed art show for this studio teaching art and creativity to children and adults.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 6.-8 p.m.

Where: Scribble Art Studio, 115 Canal St., Pooler Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: thescribbleartstudio.com/

Film: When Harry Met Sally (1989, USA)

What: A pre-Valentine’s Day date movie starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Date night package available until 2/8: $15 for 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Cost: $8, $5/Student/Senior Info: lucastheatre.com/

Contra Dance

What: Monthly folk dance sponsored by the Savannah Folk Music Society.

All skill levels welcome, no partner needed. Lesson at 7:15pm.

When: Sat. Feb. 9, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Where: Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull Street, Cost: $8/Gen. $6/students.

Info: savannahfolk.org/

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Sunday Georgia History Festival’s Super Museum Sunday

What: Free admission to over 40 historic house museums, historic sites, and art museums. See map page 31.

When: Sun. Feb. 10, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Various sites, Darien to Statesboro, including Savannah Cost: Free and open to the public.

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Gospel Concert with Dottie Peoples

What: Chorus back-up by the Savannah State University Wesleyan Choir and the Armstrong Atlantic State University Gospel Choir.

When: Sun. Feb. 10, 5 p.m.

Where: Temple of Glory Community Church, 1105 Stiles Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com/

Monday Black History Month: Celebrating the Connections of Cultures

What: A panel on how the Latino and African-American communities have been interconnected and where they can connect in the future.

When: Mon. Feb. 11, 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Armstrong’s Student Union Ballroom, 11935 Abercorn St., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: armstrong.edu/

Windsor Forest Public Safety Meeting

What: Sponsored by the WF Neighborhood Association in conjunction with the City of Savannah. City and Police officials will answer questions and address concerns.

When: Mon. Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Windsor Hall, 302 Briarcliff Cir Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Tuesday Georgia History Festival’s Georgia Day Parade

What: Thousands of costumed local elementary school children march through downtown.

When: Tue. Feb. 12, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: Bull St. Forsyth to City Hall Cost: Free Info: georgiahistory.org/

Archeology Lecture: ...How we Found the Lost Spanish Mission on St. Catherine’s Island

What: Illustrated talk on archeological evidence from the barrier island

by American Museum of Natural History’s David Hurst Thomas, who discovered and excavated the 16thand 17th-Franciscan mission there.

When: Tue. Feb. 12, 6 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.

Ogeechee Theatre, 11935 Abercorn Cost: Free and open to the public.

Lecture: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter

What: Georgia Southern’s Leadership

Lecture Series brings the former First Couple to GSU for their first speaking engagement on campus together.

When: Tue. Feb. 12, 7 p.m.

Where: Georgia Southern University, Hanner Field House, 590 Herty Drive, Statesboro Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: news.georgiasouthern.edu

@ Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Through Feb. 16. @ SSU Players: Flight. March 6-10. @ Snow White. Columbia City Ballet. Feb. 9.

Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Film: When Harry Met Sally. Feb. 9. Lucas Theatre. @ SCAD theater: Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen. Feb. 14–17. Mondanaro Theatre. @ Book Festival Kickoff: Dave Barry. Feb. 14.

Trustees Theater. @ Savannah Book Festival. Feb. 14–17. @ Savannah Irish Festival. Feb. 15–17. @ Jonathan Richman. Feb. 14. Wormhole. @ A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer.

Bay Street Theatre. Feb. 15–17. @ SCAD theater: The Three Musketeers. Feb. 28–March 3. Lucas Theatre. @ Film: His Girl Friday. Feb. 23. Trustees Theater. @ Elvis: Down at the End of Lonely Street. Feb. 26. Trustees Theater. @ A–Town Get Down w/Loudon Wainwright III. March 2. Trustees Garden. @ Savannah Blues Festival. March 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Jerry Seinfeld. March 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Bob James. March 7. Morris Center. @ Savannah Stopover. March 7–9. @ Tybee Mardi Gras. March 9. @ Tara Feis. March 9. Emmett Park. @ Three Days Grace/Shinedown. March 12.

MLK Arena. @ Matchbox Twenty. March 12. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Collective Face: Shadowlands. March 8–23. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ of Montreal. March 8. Forsyth Park. @ Lord of the Dance. March 13. Mercer Theatre. @ Harlem Globetrotters. March 14. MLK Arena. @ Savannah Music Festival (SMF). March 21–April 6. @ Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires.

March 21. Trustees Theater (SMF). @ Ahmad Jamal. March 23. Trustees Theater (SMF). @ Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. March 23.

Lucas Theatre (SMF). @ Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell, with Richard Thompson. April 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre (SMF). @ Tybee Wine Festival. April 10-14. @ Bill Maher. April 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Spring Awakening. AASU Masquers. April 11–21. CS @ Reefer Madness. Bay Street. April 19–28. @ Celtic Woman. May 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Collective Face: Pride & Prejudice. May 10–25. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Blue Man Group. May 13 and 14. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ SCAD theater: Urinetown The Musical. May 23–26. Lucas Theatre. CS

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The City of Savannah and Savannah State University present

24th Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival Feb 1-23, 2013

LIVING THE LEGACY:

Celebrating the Life of Westley W. Law

Q Parker

Grand Festival Day @ the Savannah Civic Center Feb 9 from 11am-9pm

• Annual Health Fair

• Crafts Village

• Youth Exercise Session

• Youth Talent

• Museum On Wheels

• Vendors

• Documentaries

• More

Dru Hill

• Local Authors

Live concert featuring Q Parker, Dru Hill and The Manhattans

The Manhattans

EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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For its relatively small size, Savannah surely has one of the most vibrant and dedicated nonprofit communities you’re likely to find.

Sometimes I’m amazed by just how many people in the nonprofit sector I know.

They’re everywhere, it seems, and always, always so busy.

As befits our strong cultural fabric here, so many of these nonprofits deal with the arts. At Connect Savannah, we’re always interested in exploring the nexus between community and the arts, and these nonprofits are definitely where the rubber meets the road.

Some of Savannah’s arts nonprofits are truly complex entities with large staffs to manage and buildings to caretake, such as the Telfair Museums.

Some are annual festivals, such as the Savannah Music Festival. Festivals can be huge undertakings with plenty to keep staffers busy planning and preparing and fundraising, but they’re still focused on a specific time segment at specific times of year.

The vast majority of local arts nonprofits, however, are neither large nor festivalfocused. Most are small groups with a full schedule of events, classes, workshops and the like pretty much spread out throughout the year.

It’s a lot for anyone, both to do and to raise money for. It’s especially a lot for groups which are either volunteer-run or which maybe have only one or two paid staffers — in other words, the majority of nonprofits.

There are plenty of these small local organizations working hard to combine community development and the arts. AWOL (All Walks Of Life) is one, for example. Another one is the Savannah Children’s Choir, which I focus on here.

Like so many of these smaller nonprofits, there’s something of a branding issue with the Savannah Children’s Choir, as many of its supporters plainly admit.

The point of the Savannah Children’s Choir (SCC) is to maintain a performing

choral group for local children in grades 2–8. It’s not just a performance group, however; all choir members are expected to maintain a B or better average in their schoolwork. In order to help their members adhere to that standard, the SCC provides free tutors.

So, wonder no more what the SCC does: They teach children the joy, expression, and discipline of music, while encouraging them to be good students.What’s not to like?

In addition, the Savannah Children’s Choir adds another level of community involvement with their annual “One Small Voice” award. Local singer and music teacher extraordinaire Roger Moss — also the driving force behind the new Savannah Classical Academy charter school — explains: “The name of the award came from one of the first songs the choir performed in 2006,” says Moss, SCC’s artistic director. “It talks about the difference that can be made in the world around us with just one small voice.”

The winners don’t have to be in the arts; in fact they rarely are. For example, a previous winner was Felix Maher, a local dentist who helped address what I was amazed to find out is one of the leading reasons kids drop out of school: Advanced gum disease and the resulting feelings of shame and introversion. Who knew?

So I write this to let you know that Connect Savannah is partnering with Savannah Children’s Choir to help them take the “One Small Voice” concept to the next level.

Simply put, they’ve changed the format of nominations so that you, the community, can be the ones who nominate candidates to win the award. By using social media, the SCC website, and partners like Connect, SCC hopes to have a broad base from which to choose the five semi–finalists and two winners of “One Small Voice.”

You can go to their website at

savannahchoir.org to nominate.

Connect will be helping solicit nominations via social media until nominations close Feb. 15.

“We want to know not the obvious people, but the little projects, the individuals or groups who are really making a difference,” says Cuffy Sullivan, SCC executive director.

“We want to sing the praises of people doing great things in our community.

Opening up the nomination process is going to give us a spectacular inventory of what those projects are.”

Anyone in the nonprofit world quickly becomes a realist about things like funding and publicity, and Sullivan is no different.

She’s plain in saying that SCC is not only hoping to expand on the success of “One Small Voice,” but to expand the organization’s reach in the community as well.

“We’ve been doing some planning and taking a hard look at our menu of events throughout the year — who they’re currently attracting and who we’d like to get more involved,” she says.

Long story short, SCC is moving the “One Small Voice” award party downtown.

In years past SCC has held the awards party at JCB in Pooler, a major sponsor.

While JCB is still onboard as a valued sponsor of the Savannah Children’s Choir, the actual March 8 awards event will move downtown to the American Legion ballroom in “So-Fo.” (I’ve so far resisted using that nickname for South of Forsyth, but it really is fun to say.)

“Bringing it downtown makes it a little more central,” says Sullivan. “There’s a hip factor there, but it’s really also just an awesome space, and a real accessible space for us.”

After you’ve gone online and made your “One Small Voice” nominations, consider attending the March 8 awards event. Tickets are $50 until March 1 and get you a Savannah Children’s Choir performance, an open bar, and a show by The Train Wrecks.

“It’s a good value supporting something bigger and broader,” says Sullivan. “And you get the Train Wrecks! Hello!” cs

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Pedaling by example Bicycling advocates have been a little wistful recently, processing the news that United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is leaving his post.

Cyclists’ affection for LaHood, a Republican who represented the 18th District of Illinois in the House of Representatives from 1995–2009, is understandable. He’s the first secretary of transportation to emphatically proclaim that cycling is indeed a form of transportation.

Cyclists were thrilled when LaHood climbed atop a table during the 2010 National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. to deliver an extemporaneous speech praising their efforts and affirming federal support for bicycling. Soon after he announced new recommendations for state departments of transportation and communities.

“People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning.

This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non– motorized,” he said.

“We are integrating the needs of bicyclists in federally–funded road projects. We are discouraging transportation investments that negatively affect cyclists and pedestrians. And we are encouraging investments that go beyond the minimum requirements and provide facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.”

LaHood’s endorsement of bicycling drew scorn from lawmakers including Rep. Steve LaTourette (R–Ohio) who wondered aloud if LaHood was on drugs. Cycling advocates rode to LaHood’s defense and launched a social media, email and phone campaign.

LaTourette quickly backpedalled.

“Nothing has changed my ardent support of bike trails, bike lanes and the right of cyclists to share the road,” he said. “This has been a lesson on the power of the Internet, and it sure

has given me a new respect for the fierce advocacy from the cycling community.”

Now, as LaHood prepares to step down, LaTourette is among those being talked about as a potential successor, along with other notable figures including former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer and New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik–Khan.

It’s safe to say cyclists would be very happy with Blumenauer, known for his ever–present day–glow bicycle lapel pin, and Sadik–Khan, the driving force behind New York City’s bicycle infrastructure expansion.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is also on the list and last month was topic of a Los Angeles Times story, “L.A. becoming more bike friendly, thanks partly to the mayor’s elbow.” It recounts how Villaraigosa, out for a bike ride with a police officer in July 2010, was cut off by a taxi and crashed to the pavement, shattering his elbow.

which cyclists were targeted.

Villaraigosa’s transformation into a cycling advocate is encouraging and can be instructive to other leaders. Yet, they need not suffer serious injuries to recognize that we must do more to improve safety and access for pedestrians and cyclists.

Simply spending some time walking and pedaling in their shoes can do the trick.

I’ve heard people talk about the eye–opening experience of Step Up Savannah’s poverty simulation and similar programs, which acquaint participants with the realities that many of our fellow citizens confront on a daily basis. That might be a good model to use.

In a transportation simulation, folks who normally drive everywhere they go would try getting to work, the store, the doctor, and other destinations by walking, riding bikes or taking Chatham Area Transit.

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People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning.

This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non–motorized,” LaHood said.

It was a turning point. Roy M. Wallack, who wrote the Times story, catalogs the initiatives undertaken since the crash: 1,680 miles of bikeways to be installed over 30 years, a new bike sharing program and “CicLAvia,” a popular event that closes city streets to cars.

(Savannah will stage its own version of this event on April 28 as part of the city’s Play Streets series).

He contrasts this with a picture of the city in the B.C. (Before Crash) era describing city officials as uninterested in promoting cycling as a means to reduce air pollution and congestion, while other cities were making substantial progress in these areas.

Instead, Los Angeles was notable as a locale for road rage, thanks to several widely publicized episodes in

viewed from behind a windshield.

The number of people who are non–drivers is growing, as more Americans age out of being able to safely operate cars and younger people opt out of car ownership.

That’s why it’s critical for our leaders to understand the challenges faced by people who don’t drive in a world configured mostly for those who do.

The good news is they will also discover that through determined leadership, solutions are within reach as some of the visionaries mentioned here have shown. cs John Bennett is vice chairman of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.

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by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Poetry in football’s shadow In my house, we dig art in any form, especially when we make it ourselves.

Whether it involves painting on the walls, frontal nudity, earsplitting chants in minor keys, Ziploc bags full of pinecones taped to a headless Barbie or all of the above, we support each other’s creative expression.

So when I announced that I would be performing poetry, my family was all ears. They pulled up chairs to the kitchen counter where I was stirring spaghetti sauce and waited expectantly, upturned faces in hands.

“No, no, not right NOW. On Sunday night. In public.”

I explained that I had been invited to close out the PULSE Art + Technology Festival at the Jepson with a group of other writers and artists. My kids were deeply impressed, mostly because I told them there would be a room–sized Ms. PacMan game across the hall.

My husband, normally my most enthusiastic poetry groupie, gave me a pained look.

“You know that’s the Super Bowl, right?”

I did, but did he know that this was no ordinary poetry reading? This

was Blank Page Poetry: Words & Shadows, which projects performers’ silhouettes onto a screen 20 feet tall! There isn’t a TV that big at any sports bar! And unlike some football game, there would be no commercial interruptions!

My dear husband sighed and continued to help our daughter duct tape a pyramid of carefully–arranged toilet paper rolls.

A concept developed by artist and Indigo Sky Community Gallery founder Jerome Meadows, Blank Page plumbs new depths of word– and shadowplay, switching up what you thought you knew about poetry.

Playing on PULSE’s techy theme, Jerome asked an eclectic amalgam of literary locals to explore “the interface between the onslaught of ever–evolving technological advancements and the human condition.”

Y’know, easy stuff.

But that’s what’s so cool about poetry. When it doesn’t get too lost in its own navel-gazing, it’s a transdimensional shortcut to Big Ideas, no peyote necessary.

The invitees took the assigned topic and ran like the quarterback just handed them the ball: Catherine Killingsworth, executive director of the afterschool writing program

Pay attention to the woman behind the curtain...

DEEP, pierced the cold space of where the deceased live on through Facebook. Savannah Stage Company actor Brian Pridgen spoke from the “always connected purgatory” where we enjoy little of the intimacy and none of the privacy of the past. His theater colleague Liz Whittemore

longed for the long–gone days of party lines and pen pals.

Along with an ode to the “boot black” telephones of yore and poignant fist–shaking at Big Brother, Jane Fishman succinctly captured the assigned topic with an oblique reference to the universal terror of dropping one’s iPhone in the potty.

Fans of the Artist Normally Known as KidSyc should know that his rhymes need no beat to pack punch: Lloyd Harold continued the existential explorations with the hollowness of birthday wishes posted on a non–existent wall along with the ultimate question for our times: “Seriously, Siri?”

And then there was our esteemed ringleader and benevolent puppetmaster Jerome, who addressed the indignity of seeking true connection in 140 characters while singing “just Tweet it” à la Michael Jackson.

I unearthed a poem I wrote a very long time ago, when the Internet was still a series of tubes. The only cellular telephone I had even seen was a heavy brick that my gadget–crazy dad hauled around in its own purse. As a college student, I had heard rumors of the flood of information to come, and I remember believing it would level the socioeconomic stratosphere,

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But most people I told about it leveled that same arched eyebrow.

“You know it’s the Super Bowl, right?”

Still, on Sunday at 6 p.m., a good half of the house was filled with loved ones and friends, notably loyal local art supporter Bobbi Perry and yes, my uncomplaining family, elated from a long PacMan session.

As I stood in the wings of the Jepson auditorium waiting for production assistant Kayla Cloonan to give me the “you’re on” signal, it occurred to me that part of what makes something art is a concept’s ability to create an authentic collective experience essential to the human condition.

Art and poetry are always attempting to foster these real connections and shared experiences, but is it possible that a football game can create the same satisfaction as viewing an odd sculpture of materials reclaimed from the recycling bin or a poetry reading in shadow?

I continued to ponder this as we headed home after the show, seeing cars lining our block for our neighbors’ multiple Super Bowl parties. We hit the couch just in time for the halftime show, and roaring in unison over that pass interference penalty that should have been called on Baltimore, I figured all connections are good connections.

I’m OK that poetry will never be as popular as football or as crazysexy as Beyonce.

Then again, it will never blow a fuse and leave everyone in the dark. cs

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Of course, that was before I understood that “everything” included amateur porn and eleven million pictures of cats with moustaches.

As his vision collated, Jerome arranged the line–up along with Indigo Sky gallery manager Lauren Flotte, who also handled the technical details by projecting certain phrases on the screen as each of us recited behind the “blank page.” There were several rehearsals involved, and in spite of disparate personalities and writing styles, there was a marked absence of any diva weirdness that sometimes accompanies group projects. (Well, I will admit to making inappropriate shadow puppets and having to be gently talked down from wearing a shamanic headdress so my shadow would look like a goat.)

Threaded together with skillful staging by Savannah Stage Company’s Jayme Tinti and musician Daniel Hosher’s ambient tones, our words and shadows became more than the sum of their parts. In addressing the unsatisfying nature of digital connectivity and the plea to be valued as more than our status updates, we had transcended that modern illness by participating together in something that required our physical presence.

For a few short weeks, we exchanged the tap–tap–tapping of our thumbs for our breath.

It felt valuable and meaningful. I couldn’t wait for everyone to come see the performance.

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Locally-created app allows simple, personalized video for everyone

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video says volumes.

In the age of RedBullTV and other corporate YouTube channels, more companies are using videos to promote their wares and services. But what about small businesses with neither the time, budget nor access to produce professional videos to keep up with and expand their customer base?

That’s the niche Boca Video, a new iPhone app developed in Savannah, is aiming to fill.

Developed by Savannah-based company Evoca, Boca Video simplifies the video process by employing technology most people are already comfortable with: Users download the app to their phone, choose a few photos from their camera roll, add a recording in their own voice, and boom — there’s a 30–second curated video that can be emailed or uploaded to Twitter, Facebook or any other site instantly, no editing necessary.

Through market research, Evoca found that most people are “video– challenged,” frustrating themselves with wobbly, grainy footage and soundtrack syncing. Hiring someone to do the job is not always feasible for small businesses, and the company set out to create a simple alternative anyone with a smartphone could figure out.

The Evoca staff will host a “Launch and Learn” lunchtime event at the Creative Coast on Friday, Feb. 8.

Attendees can enjoy demonstrations as well as a contest for the best video made on the spot.

“Our breakthrough was really in deeply understanding how people like or don’t like to create digital content,” says Evoca CEO Murem Sharpe.

“We know people want it but it’s hard to make decent video. We want to become the go–to, easy–breezy video production app.”

Boca was under development for most of 2012, and ease of use was the number one goal. The app was well–received by tech bloggers when it launched in December, hailed as a “pocket video studio” with “virtually no learning curve.” AddictiveTips. com rated it one of the top 100 apps of 2012. It’s currently available exclusively through iTunes, with Android and web–based versions on the way.

Already embraced by real estate agents and local restaurateurs like Zunzi’s Johnny DeBeer who uses it to show the daily specials, the Boca Video app taps into the less–than– technologically–advanced population.

Ebay vendors, artists and anyone with just about anything to sell can showcase multiple items with a minimum

of time and effort, and advertise current projects.

Sharpe touts the potential People can connect with it for educators and students as and feel a little closer to the unlimited. process,” says Miller. “You “We’re aiming for the avercan say as much or as little Zunzi’s Johnny De- as you want and still get age user. It’s ideal for non– Beer uses Boca to technical people,” she says. show daily specials. your message across. The “But we’ve also found that fact that it also can be easily techies in a hurry like it, too. It really uploaded to all social media sites is brings authenticity and personalizagreat for endless publicity.” tion to online video.”

Sharpe pledges that Boca Video’s The slideshow format also helps free version will be upgraded from businesses break down their processes 30 seconds to one minute of space in for their clients and create easy–to– the next few months. Also coming follow web–based tutorials. are additional transition features and “The standard ‘non–designer’ the ability to import other video clips will appreciate the videos we make from FaceBook or Flickr. because it will visually guide them Though Sharpe has been on the through how to prepare their work west coast as of late wooing major for our printers,” says Travis Sawyer of tech companies into Boca Video Creative Approach. partnerships, she sees Savannah as The complexities of readying mateground zero for Evoca’s groundbreakrials for print can be a challenge for ing video app. the layperson, from choosing the cor“We’ve had so much fun working rect color mode or exporting the files with users here, we want to invite the with crop marks and bleed. The simSavannah community to our handsple tutorials will help clients receive on event where people are going to their orders faster and save the commake their own videos on the spot,” pany valuable time. she says.

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Archaeology’s not all Indiana Jones — until it is.

Case in point is the groundbreaking work done on St. Catherine’s Island south of Savannah. David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York spearheaded a project in the late 1970s which uncovered an enormous slice of previously unknown history.

He and his team found and researched the fabled Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale. That Franciscan mission on St. Catherine’s, begun in the 1590s and intended to Christianize local Native Americans, was not only in operation much longer than the better–known California missions, it’s a lot older too.

Thomas and his crew even found the site of the old chapel. The wood– and–thatch structure is gone, but the foundation remains, its former walls indicated by an outline of palm trees.

Mass is still occasionally held there, making it technically the oldest active Christian church in North America.

A talk by Thomas himself is the highlight of “Digging Savannah,” a new program made possible by a grant received by Armstrong Atlantic State University.

“The grant was to get students more involved in solving the huge problem of archaeological site loss, especially along the coast where we have so much development,” explains Laura Seifert, an AASU social

sciences adjunct professor helping to lead the project, along with fellow prof Barbara Bruno.

The Feb. 12 talk by Thomas is followed by a March lecture on Georgia’s underwater archaeology and an April talk on the Civil War site Camp Lawton. Now on the grounds of Magnolia State Park near Millen, Camp Lawton was actually bigger than the much more well–known Andersonville POW camp.

Seifert says that contrary to popular opinion, there are very few protections for archaeological treasures.

“The only protection is on public land, and that’s only sometimes.

If federal money or permits are involved, then there are some archaeological protections, but otherwise nothing. And certainly nothing on local level,” Seifert says.

“We do such a good job in Savannah with preserving our buildings, but people tend to forget about the archaeological sites which are attached to pretty much every one of those buildings.”

She says even in a case like the “Big Dig” — the Ellis Square redesign and construction of an underground parking garage which must have uncovered plenty of artifacts — there was no opportunity for research.

“You get that chance with a private company only in a really rare case.

Construction companies and developers have to complete their projects in a timely manner and run their businesses.”

Two other components are involved with “Digging Savannah”: An archaeological walking tour app and some visits by the “ArchaeoBus.” “The app will take you through different sites to tell about the different archaeology that’s gone on there,” Seifert says. “It will be map–based, and probably will start at Battlefield Park — so much interesting archaeology has been done there.”

The app — scheduled for rollout by the end of this semester and so far only for Android — will also feature the slave quarters and basement of the Owens–Thomas House. Seifert says there are also plenty of sites in downtown public spaces, such as Madison and Lafayette squares.

The “ArchaeoBus” — a repurposed bookmobile used for school visits to spread awareness of archaeology — will hit the Armstrong campus in the spring in visits open to the public. cs Digging Savannah All lectures begin at 6 p.m. in Armstrong’s Ogeechee Theatre, 11935 Abercorn St., and are free and open to the public.

Tue., Feb. 12, the American Museum of Natural History’s David Hurst Thomas lectures on St. Catherines Island: “Romance and Reality in Georgia’s Mythical Mission Past.”

Wed., March 27, Chris McCabe, Georgia’s Deputy State Archaeologist–Underwater, lectures on “Georgia’s Archaeology Underwater: A Coastal Perspective.”

Tue., April 16 will feature Georgia Southern University (GSU) archaeologist Lance Greene and his talk, “Life in the Prison Pen: Archaeology at Camp Lawton.”

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Blotter All cases from recent Savannah/ Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

Home invasion Two of the four men being questioned about a home invasion robbery have been charged after an investigation by detectives.

Antione Williams Jr., 20, and Darryl Lamont Stafford, 28, were charged with armed robbery after the noon robbery at the Jasmine Apartments on Downing Avenue near East Victory Drive.

Two brothers who live in the apartment told Islands Precinct patrol officers that two men, one with a rifle, kicked in the door and took items from their apartment. A 21–year–old woman who was in the parking lot also was robbed of her cell phone.

Officers soon located a car seen leaving the robbery location at a house in the 1600 block of East 37th St.

* A 26-year-old man was taken into custody after he and his 2-yearold daughter were shot during a domestic dispute in a west Savannah apartment.

Dominique Ford of Garden City was treated at Memorial University Medical Center along with De’Kiiyah Roper after officers found him walking away from the scene with the child. Neither wound was life-threatening.

Police were called to the Westlake Apartments about 11:45 a.m. to reports of a shooting of a man and a child. They found that Ford had climbed out of a window with the child and was walking through a wooded area with the child. He was charged with aggravated assault Determine Ford had entered the residence to retrieve the gun and a struggle ensued between him and Dennaysha Roper, 21, the child’s mother and resident of the apartment.

She was able to get the gun away from him and fired once, striking him, but he then picked up the child before she fired again.

• Police are investigating the shooting of a Savannah woman in front of her apartment house.

Crystal Williams, 31, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center for treatment of injuries considered not to be life threatening.

Downtown Precinct patrol officers were in the neighborhood on another call when they heard the shots and found the victim with wounds on the 400 block of West Park Avenue. They were told a man exited a car, fired at a small group talking in front of the apartment and re–entered the car that drove away about 8:55 p.m.

• Police are investigating the death of a Savannah man during a domestic dispute at his residence. Willie Floyd Kelly, 67, was found unresponsive when Islands Precinct patrol officers arrived at his house in the 4000 block of Skidaway Road about 8:40 p.m. He was transported to Memorial

University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

• A Savannah woman was killed when she lost control of the pickup truck she was driving at a high rate of speed and crashed at Fort Argyle and John Carter roads.

Joanne Marguerite Usher, 39, of an Armstrong Drive address died at the scene of the 6:22 p.m. crash in the western edge of Chatham County.

She lost control of the black Dodge pickup she was driving west on Fort Argyle Road when it entered a curve, sending it into a ditch where it hit an embankment and flipped end over end onto the shoulder of the road. cs

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How would I gain access to the deep Web (dark Web)? Supposedly it’s a site that promotes illegal activities. I understand you can hire serial killers, assassins, and things of that sort. It’s said you have to go through a series of proxies to gain access. —Donta This is a confused individual, I said to my assistant Una. Not many people are looking to hire serial killers.

Confused individuals are the best job security we have, Una replied. And to be fair, this is a subject that would confuse anyone. First of all, from personal experience I can tell you: the deep Web and the dark Web are two different things.

The meanings have evolved, but basically the deep Web is anything theoretically accessible via the Internet whose existence can’t be detected by search engines. In the old days, that meant anything in a database. Nowadays Google spiders crawling the Web for searchable content dig pretty deep, including into databases, but for one reason or another there are limits to how far they can go.

Beyond this frontier lies the deep Web. Many believe it accounts for the vast majority of what’s out there. Google for example knows of more than a trillion Web addresses but has only indexed about 40 billion of them. As of 2011 Google researchers estimated there were more than a billion data repositories on the internet, ranging from simple HTML tables to giant corporate servers like Amazon.com. Early speculation was that 400 to 550 times the amount of “surface data” existed in the deep Web, and nowadays that may be an underestimate.

Most of what we’re talking about is corporate data archives and whatnot and is excruciatingly boring. But not all.

There are also some fascinating if decidedly unsavory bits. That’s the dark Web. The dark Web is a collection of sites and technologies that don’t just hide

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data but conceal attempts to access it.

For example, if I were operating a website for assassins, I’d want not merely to keep my roster of contract killers safe from accidental discovery, I’d also want it to be possible for potential clients to reach me and my site without their efforts being detectable. That’s what the dark Web lets them do.

Accessing the dark Web requires special software, special passwords, or both. The worst-kept secret of the dark Web is Tor, originally an acronym for “The Onion Router.” Building on research originally carried out by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the Tor Project became a community effort to design a way for anyone to communicate online without their location or identity being traceable. Most agree the Tor Project was originally created to ensure free expression without fear of government snooping and interference.

The reality is when you get a bunch of people together (not all of them notably mature) and give them complete anonymity and freedom from accountability, often it’s the worst impulses that dominate, not the best.

Thus on the dark Web you find the doings of the anarchist hacktivists of Anonymous and the folks behind Wikileaks; Islamic jihadist message boards; stolen credit card numbers, for sale singly and by the thousands; drugs of every description; child pornography; prostitute directories; contact info for purported assassins; and mundane wares such as pirated music and movies.

One of the biggest retail commerce sites on the dark Web, Silk Road, is estimated to move $22 million in drugs annually. AK-47s, C4 explosives, fake driver’s licenses, gold bars—if you can imagine it, someone is probably selling it. Fulfillment can be a pain, and the authorities have started watching these sites and intercepting drug shipments— after all, the anonymity of the dark Web means you can’t tell if the party looking for frozen human pineal glands is a mere ghoul or a state DEA agent.

The currency of choice on the Tor network is the bitcoin, a virtual monetary unit with no central bank behind it. As of last week it had a market capitalization of more than $220 million.

Anyone can access Tor by downloading the software for free, although once you get set up there’s still a learning curve, and finding the most reptilian pleasures frequently requires some investigation or word passed through the grapevine. CS

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news of the weird One for the Road Cliche Come to Life: The Kerry, Ireland county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county’s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home.

The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the councillors, the area is so sparsely populated that such drivers never encounter anyone else on the road at night. (The councillors’ beneficence might also have been influenced, reported BBC News, by the fact that “several” of the five voting “yea” own pubs.)

Can’t Possibly Be True • Spare the Waterboard, Spoil the Child: William Province, 42, was arrested in Jefferson County, Mont., in December and charged with waterboarding four boys, two of whom were his own sons, at his home in December.

(Also in January, Kirill Bartashevitch, 52, was charged with making “terroristic” threats to his high-school-age daughter after he allegedly pointed his new AK-47 at her because her report card showed 2 B’s instead of all A’s. He said he had recently purchased the gun because he feared that President Obama intended to ban them.)

• Emma Whittington, of Hutchinson, Kan., rushed her daughter to the ER in December when the girl, 7 months old, developed a golf-ball-sized lump

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Officials said the man simply got in the Sounds Like a Joke wrong line and followed jurors into Twin brothers Aric Hale and Sean a room while the real sixth juror had Hale, 28, were both arrested on New mistakenly gone to another room. The Year’s Eve in Manchester, Conn., after jury, including the accidental juror,

fighting each other at a hotel and later at a residence. Police said a 27-year-old woman was openly dating the two men, and that Sean thought it was his turn and asked Aric for privacy. Aric begged to differ about whose turn it was.

Unclear on the Concept • Voted in December as vice presidents of the U.N. Human Rights Council for 2013 were the nations of Mauritania and the Maldives, both of which permit the death penalty for renouncing Islam. In Mauritania, a person so charged has three days to repent for a lesser sentence. An August 2012 dispatch in London’s The Guardian reported widespread acceptance of slavery conditions in Mauritania, affecting as many as 800,000 of the 3.5 million population.

• Non-medical employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have been campaigning for union representation, suggesting that their current wages leave many workers dangerously close to poverty. Though raises have not materialized, UPMC (according to a November Pittsburgh City Paper report) has now shown sympathy for its employees’ sad plight.

In a November UPMC newsletter, it announced that it was setting up “UPMC Cares” food banks. Employees (presumably the better-paid ones) are urged to “donate nonperishable food items to stock employee food pantries that will established on both (UPMC campuses).” One astonished worker’s response: “I started to cry.”

Perspective First-World Problems: Before “cellulite” appeared in popular culture around 1972, almost no one believed the condition especially remarkable, wrote London’s The Guardian in December. Similarly, the new concern about “wobbly” arms - flesh dangling loosely when a woman’s arm is raised horizontally - seems entirely madeup. However, Marks & Spencer and other upscale British retailers now sell

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Always, a lot of the attention was focused on guitarist Brock Butler, whose fleet fingers and arsenal of trippy electronic effects kept the groove in the proverbial pocket.

“Perpetual,” however, it was not.

The band has announced, on its website, an “indefinite hiatus” starting April 6. No more shows, no more festivals, no more albums.

It appears that Butler himself — now living in Atlanta — was at the center of this move.

“I want to apologize to the fans I’ve let down, to my friends and loved ones I’ve put through worry, and to everyone in Perpetual Groove’s organization,” the guitarist wrote on pgroove.com. “This apology is for the state I’ve allowed myself to be in at shows, which have compromised performances, as well as my personal life.

I’m very aware and sorry to everyone I’ve let down through my actions and lack of actions.”

Take from this what you will. I tried to reach Brock on the phone this week, but he didn’t return the call.

“Perpetual Groove has been my life for a long, long time,” his letter continues. “In some ways it has defined me. I’m at a point where I truly need a break. This is the hardest decision of my life but my happiness and well–being must be my first priority. Trying to find balance, break bad habits and develop good ones while

“I’m at a point,” Brock Butler says, “where I truly need a break.”

continuing a life on the road is something I haven’t been able to do.”

The band will honor its remaining dates, including next week’s AURA Festival in Florida, and the Statesboro Music Festival on March 9.

Afterwards Adam Perry, Albert Suttle and Matthew McDonald will continue to tour under the name Ghost Owl. The band also released a collective statement, which includes this somewhat cryptic paragraph: “We have to admit, not everything has gone to plan on this journey. We have seen highs and lows, just like the rest of the country in the past few years. And now we turn to a new chapter. While it’s difficult to do, we support Brock Butler in his work to

create a healthier, happier life and career for himself. That work needs to take place in a new and different context and we wish him luck.”

SMF announcement

Big news from the Savannah Music Festival: On Thursday, Feb. 7, the brass will announce their hipster shows for 2013. The “announcement party,” called Crank it Up!, gets rolling at 6:30 p.m. at Tubby’s in Thunderbolt. City Hotel and the Train Wrecks will perform, and for your $20 ticket ($25 at the door) you also get Lowcountry boil, beer and wine, and early access to tickets for the shows. We can’t tell you who’s coming — yet — but in years past it’s been the likes of Band of Horses and the Avetts.

Jazz piano legend Bob James will play a rare solo show March 7 at the Charles Morris Center. A benefit for the Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center, this 100 Club–sponsored event has a $100 ticket. There’ll be a cash bar at 5:30 p.m., with the performance starting at 6. Call (912) 598–7216 for reservations.

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Quick hits on a couple of keen gigs this week from returning rock ‘n’ roll heroes and new–to–town acts.

• Paleface at the Wormhole. A lit– pop superstar in the 1990s, Paleface is buddies with Beck and the Avett Brothers. He’ll be painting the Wormhole walls red Feb. 7, with drummer Mo Samalot, and electric guitar player Soren Mattson.

• Scott H. Biram at the Jinx. The spellbinding solo spinner of gutbucket blues — whose music was recently heard on F/X’s Sons of Anarchy — returns Friday, Feb. 8.

• Also on the 8th, the amazing and

freaky/funky Super Bob is back at the Rock House on Tybee Island.

• Atlanta’s Featureless Ghost has a date at the Sparetime Feb. 8. Matt Weiner and Elise Tippins are touring behind FG’s debut album, Personality Matrix. It’s multi–colored industrial synth–rock with duet vocals, giving it a ghostly sheen. Recons opens at 9 p.m., with DJ sets from Cc and Len Bias fleshing out the evening.

• For a taste of Stopover–to–come, check out the instrumental band PAN Feb. 8 at the Wormhole. This is an innovative pop/rock ensemble, and before the guys head out to SXSW they’re booked for the Stopover March 7 (at Club One with Delicate Steve and others). More on PAN as we get closer to Stopover.

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Go–Go Amy is disinclined to reveal her last name. Of course, with a bit of light–fingered Googling and/or journalistic sleuthing, the elusive surname could be easily discovered. But let’s let it go, because mystery is a big part of Go–Go Amy’s allure.

She’s a burlesque dancer with the Pretty Things peepshow; in fact, she’s the brains behind the whole operation. To quote the Traveling Wilburys, she’s got a body for business and a head for sin.

A burlesque dancer is not the same thing as a stripper. Although Amy’s ... assets are front and center during a Pretty Things performance, they’re covered by tassels and barely–there bits of fabric, which do not come off despite the performer’s piecemeal removal of everything else.

Then there are the hand–fans. And the long satin gloves. And, sometimes, the balloons, popped seductively one–by–one with a strategically–held straight pin.

Burlesque dancing is all tease and titillation.

And, particularly in the context of the Pretty Things, it’s part of a much larger performance.

Amy, who’d danced in New York nightclubs and at national

Go-Go Amy is the founder and bosswoman of Pretty Things Peepshow, and its central performer.

burlesque festivals, was part of the groundbreaking Brothers Grimm Sideshow, a favorite on numerous Ozzfest tours. A Wisconsin–based touring revue that combined classic burlesque with fire– eating, sword–swallowing and “freak acts” like the Mexican Werewolf Boy, the Tattooed Enigma and guys who drove nails into their foreheads, Grimm was a runaway hit.

“It kind of opened my eyes to the sideshow aspect of it,” Amy says.

“I had seen variety performers before, but I’d never really experienced being in a real sideshow.

I really felt like the audiences were so much more exciting with Brothers Grimm, because in a burlesque show it’s kind of like the same act, over and over again. Another lady. Another dress hits the floor. By the third girl, you know what’s coming. Not that it’s not fun and nice, but you know, the audience gets kinda excited when a new person comes out.

“Whereas, with the Brothers Grimm, when each new performer came out, you didn’t know: Are they gonna take their clothes off? Are they gonna set something on fire? Is there gonna be a sword involved? Are they gonna die?”

Nobody dies on the Pretty Things stage, although ringleader Donny Vomit does some awesomely dangerous stuff with knives and hammers.

On the tour bringing the ensemble to the Jinx Thursday, Feb. 7, the “cast” will also include the 27–inch tall Lil Miss Firefly (“The Midget of Mischief ”) and Michigan’s hula–hooping burlesque queen Vivacious Miss Audacious.

Amy’s background and college degree are in theater design — she started dancing to pay the bills — and

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“And if there is a heckler or whatever, I’m thinking ‘Your ticket money has already gone into my gas tank.’ It’s easy for me to turn it off.”

Go–Go Amy, Donny Vomit and an earlier edition of the Pretty Things Peepshow appeared at the Wormhole in 2009. Because of the club’s low ceiling, she had to leave one of her mile– high feathered headdresses in the backstage dressing room.

The Jinx has a bit more headroom, anyway.

“We were just joking, thank God we have a midget on this tour,” Amy laughs. “We don’t have to worry about low ceilings.” cs Pretty Things Peepshow Where: The Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. When: At 11 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 Admission: $7 Online: prettythingsproductions.com

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somebody’s on there,” she says. “I’m taking your money, and I should earn it. You should want to look at me the whole time.

Even if I have a sword and you’re afraid I might hurt myself, you should still want to see it.”

Naturally, with so much flesh on parade, audiences — fueled by alcohol — sometimes expect more va–va with their voom.

“We don’t really get those crowds often, to be completely honest,” says Amy. “Dudes like that don’t even know what a burlesque show means. They see they word ‘peepshow’ and they think it’s something else. Every once in a while, there’ll be one guy in the crowd who gets annoying, but the rest of the crowd will shut him up before I ever will.

They’re trying to enjoy a show.

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since the debut of Pretty Things, she’s designed and made all of her costumes. “That’s one of the super–fun parts of this show,” she gushes, “getting to make anything I want to wear onstage.” She also teaches classes in pin–up modeling and photography.

Unlike Grimm and the other “potentially fatal” sideshows on the road, Pretty Things is, in Amy’s words, “lighthearted” and “girly.”

She explains: “The thing that I wasn’t so into with the sideshow was that it was very in–your–face, very out and dangerous. And I think, for me personally, over the top.

“So when I put this show together, I wanted the sparkly, pretty, beautiful costumes of a burlesque show, but with the excitement and the danger of a sideshow.”

God forbid there should be blood.

And Amy and company don’t care for the acts that are so gross, you have to turn away.

“I feel like if you spent money on a ticket, you should want to look at the stage every second that

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Sometimes it seems like Huxsie Scott has been an integral part of Savannah’s music community since General Oglethorpe threw his first dress parade.

Truth is, she’s been the city’s premier jazz vocalist for about 40 years; it’s just hard to imagine our rich culture without her.

Huxsie Scott is a Savannah institution; her next performance is Feb. 12 at the JEA

A charter member of the Coastal Jazz Association (from its earliest days as the Telfair Jazz Society), Scott, 58, puts an indelibly personal stamp on jazz, R&B, gospel and those timeless standards of the Great American Songbook. She’s equal parts Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin and CeCe Winans.

Still, Scott hesitates to describe herself as a jazz singer. “Not in the sense of being a straight Ella or a Sarah,” she says. “I have always been one to take the music and to interpret it based on my feelings, and my ideas on the meaning.”

As part of the 2013 Savannah Black Heritage Festival, Scott will

sing Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Jewish Educational Alliance on Abercorn. The “Future of Jazz” concert will also feature her granddaughters Markeya Relaford and Eyana Thomas, along with other young vocalists and musicians.

A Savannah native, Scott grew up in the house of her preacher grandfather. “Our family was a singing family,” she explains.

“When we started singing, we had no choice: It was in the choir.

And when we had our family get– togethers, everybody sang.

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“I had never met Ben Tucker, but he had heard of me through word of mouth. When they started the Telfair Jazz Society, they decided that I would be the first singer for it.” She was also the first singer in the Savannah Jazz Orchestra.

Because of a heart condition, she doesn’t work full–time any more, but continues to put in hours as a chorus teacher at Oglethorpe Charter School.

With 11 grandchildren and one great–grandchild, she’s got a full plate.

In recent years, Scott’s become a show–stopper at the Savannah Theatre, in such shows as The Great American Songbook, Jukebox Journey, Civil War Voices and Grease, and she lights up the stage whenever she sings with the Equinox Jazz Orchestra.

Given the hypothetical choice, Scott says, she’d rather have to quit talking than stop singing.

“For me, it’s more important than just being able to sing a song in tune, and sing it well,” she insists. “I communicate. My goal is to touch.

Because if you don’t, what’s the sense in singing a song?” CS Future of Jazz Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. When: At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 Admission: Free Online: huxsiescott.com

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big deal after dinner. We have a lot of musicians in our family, they’re all self–taught musicians, and they bring their instruments to whoever’s house we’re meeting at. We get together and we sing.”

Little Huxsie always wanted to be a singer; she rarely thought about anything else. “If I got sent to my room, that was no big deal,” she chuckles.

“Because I would simply just give a concert to those thousands of people that I saw on the other side of my mirror. And that was fun for me.”

Growing up in the 1960s, she had a record player and a stack of well– worn 45s. And although she was fond of the R&B of the day (just like everybody else), she also kept up with crooners like Perry Como.

“I was actually into songs a lot more than artists,” Scott explains. “I can remember using a tape recorder and making my own arrangements to songs — recording over several times and doing a background for it myself.”

At 16, however, she gave birth to twin girls, and reality could not be denied: As a single mother, she had to get a real job. So Huxsie Scott went to college and earned a teaching degree.

In her early 20s, she began teaching social studies education in area schools, and before her 2001 retirement, she’d taught at Savannah High, Beach High, Coastal Middle School and a half–dozen others. She was part of the inaugural faculty at Savannah Arts Academy.

In the ‘70s, she began to make her name as a distinctive, don’t–miss– her vocalist during a lengthy stint with a three–piece band called Flat Baroque. The group was a big draw at the White Heart Inn, which is now known as 17hundred90.

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‘I don’t see any limits’

T. C. Boyle on identity and the art of the novel

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

By combining an old–school dedication to craft with a certain hipster/counter-culture feel — both in content and in personal appearance — T. Coraghessan or “T.C.” Boyle has built a passionately devoted following for his novels and short stories.

His most popular works, such as Tortilla Curtain and Road to Wellville, generally combine themes of immigrant or outsider identity with concerns about environmental sustainability, most of them leavened with his trademark ironic humor.

Boyle’s latest book, San Miguel, breaks new ground for him and

harkens back to the age of the classic historical novel. Telling the story of a consumptive woman, her driven rancher husband, and their family on a windswept island off the California coast with more sheep than people, San Miguel is a hauntingly written tale of human aspiration and limitation, in a style at once spare and evocative.

Boyle appears Saturday, Feb. 16 in Telfair Square as part of the Savannah Book Festival. We spoke to him last week.

You’re one of the few novelists left who really seems to care about the art of crafting a sentence. So many so–called novels today read more like auditions for a screenplay.

T. C. Boyle: I’m just doing what comes naturally. If certain visual devices and methods end up stealing some of the market, that’s the way the world goes. There’s nothing I can do about it. I’m an artist, just like someone who’s a painter or a musician.

You write a lot about American identity and what it means. Your most popular work, Tortilla Curtain, deals with Latino immigration. At the time that was released in the mid–‘90s there was so much media hype about Latino culture, with Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez, etc. Fast forward and we’re in much worse shape with regards to tolerance of other cultures. You were prescient then; are we ever going to deal with this?

T. C. Boyle: We have and we do. And we always do. There’s a novel where the immigrants who are at the time considered ignorant and funny–looking are all Swedes! So it all comes around.

The subtext of Tortilla Curtain — and really my obsession, which I write about it every book — is humans as an animal species and our impact on the planet.

Animals move where the resources are. People from third world countries who immigrate here are coming to where the resources are. Unfortunately, there are seven billion people and a finite planet. I don’t have any answers!

For so long Americans could always just go west. My novel Drop City is about a hippie commune that moves to our last frontier, Alaska.

Well, that’s all over, too.

Even the new book, San Miguel, deals with that issue, with regards to the importance of shearing the sheep, the poaching of the shellfish, etc.

T. C. Boyle: San Miguel Island is as far as you can go off our continent and still be part of North America.

In our time people are feeling so crowded, and they hear nothing but bad news about the environment. We all want to go back to a simpler time, go back to being king and queen of our own island. Of course the island throughout literary history has stood as a metaphor for self–containment.

You’ve flirted with the idea of female points of view in other books, but San Miguel is the first time you’ve really written through the eyes of a female protagonist, isn’t it?

T. C. Boyle: Very definitely. I thought at first I’d be writing the book through both female and male points of view.

It’s an experiment for me — I’ve never written a novel without irony like this, and one that’s straight historical novel. I did it as an experiment.

I’m always trying to do something different. I’ve written about historical figures before, but I never tried a long narrative without irony or humor, just a straightforward realistic, historic novel.

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I’m going to keep doing what I do whether or not anybody cares.

There’s a story by Franz Kafka called “A Hunger Artist.” The protagonist systematically starves himself and sets a world record for the longest time going without eating. No one knows and no one cares. We literary writers are sort of in that position. I’m not complaining!

And you can never tell when things will come around again.

With the advent of the telephone and television and things like that, people pooh– poohed it, saying the tradition of letter writing has gone away.

Well, now people don’t write letters, but they do text each other all the time. So in a way, writing has come back.

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Like many successful ideas, it came all at once, as an epiphany. Paula McLain decided she would tell the story of Ernest Hemingway through the eyes of one of his wives.

His wife during his time in Paris, actually: Hadley Richardson, a Missouri native and Bryn Mawr grad married to the great (and chronically unfaithful) writer from 1921–1926.

The resulting novel — McLain’s second — was suitably titled The Paris Wife and went on to spend months on the New York Times bestseller list.

McLain appears Sat. Feb. 16 at the Savannah Book Festival. We spoke to her a couple of weeks ago.

Having an epiphany is one thing, writing a novel is quite another. How did you make the transition?

Paula McLain: Yes, we always have big ideas, then we have to back it up with actual work! The next step for

me came in layers, sort of like a big idea speech bubble over my head.

It was a ‘shazam’ kind of moment. I didn’t know what it meant. I didn’t know if there were any books on Hadley, or how to take the next step. I had to entirely invent her.

I went to the library, and there were a few biographies. I followed that bread crumb trail and found immediately that I liked her. I got to know her voice by her letters. There’s a great sense of humor and an effervescence.

Then I learned there was a whole cache of love letters in Boston, just thousands of pages.

Then it occurred to me that I didn’t have to know everything about her, but I did need to know her voice so

I could put her in some situations.

There’s no one still alive from that party in 1920 where she met Hemingway, know what I mean? So to say something new I had to make it up. I had to put her in a room in Chicago in 1920. That was just super–fun, that part of it.

Every woman that reads your book HATES Hemingway after reading it.

Paula McLain: I really fell for him, though. I had to if the book was going to work, if it was going to read like her memoir. I didn’t realize I would like him so much at the beginning.

For me I thought I was going to write this feminist book.

And how much fun would that be to whittle him away down to size? I try to explain that to readers, who love to tell me how much they hated him. All I do is laugh, and think, oh good, I did my job.

Paula McLain: The dialogue was tough and came in layers. I go back and look at my first drafts and I’m horrified. I had my first interview with my editor and she was saying, “oh, and by the way all of this will need some work.” She was so right.

To get to the sweet spot I had to make shit up! (laughs) I had to put them in a cafe and get them drunk on absinthe and just let them talk. Then they became incredibly fun. Like, cackling fun!

My favorite part is when Hadley says “I want to eat the waiter’s mustache.” That’s one of my favorite scenes. Someone told me, “People are going to think you’re stoned!” (laughs)

Paula McLain: We do have a tendency to resist, to say “they must have been wrong.” The things we know about Hemingway are not misguided. He did all those things and said all that crappy stuff, called his mother “that bitch” in public.

It’s hard to like that person. But you have to understand that under the surface of all that ego and pomp and bluff was insecurity and rampant self-doubt.

Anytime we take a big public figure like Ernest Hemingway we buy the easiest story. It’s so interesting to me how we can look at a weird uncle and say “oh, don’t mind him, he’s just a wreck. He’s not really that guy so I’ll have some compassion.” But we love to take down the person who’s as big as the moon.

How did you manage the period dialogue without being too cheesy or cliche?

Did you quarantine yourself from reading Hemingway so you wouldn’t be overly influenced?

The Paris Wife was McLain’s second novel

Paula McLain: I couldn’t help myself. He’s the master. All biographers say you need to read everything. He’s such an autobiographical writer. I wanted to have the little gleamings that come through in his alter egos. I always tell people, love

or hate the man, but read the work.

I loved learning stuff about Hemingway’s mother. There were great alignments between his mother and Hadley’s. So they both understood something pretty profound about each other when they met.

And then Paris is sort of its own character.

Paula McLain: Paris in the ‘20s! How delicious is that? All readers fully cop to that. Immediately people were ready to swim with that.

Some of that is mythology. But some of that really was true of that time. I have to believe something was in the water. I honestly believe when that happens, that overlapping of geniuses, they all get to a brighter, more extraordinary place. cs Paula McLain appears 11:30 a.m., Feb. 16, in Neises Auditorium in the Jepson Center as part of the Savannah Book Festival. It’s free and open to the public.

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Savannah native John C. Fremont is the honored Georgia history figure this year

An exploring spirit Georgia History Festival honors Fremont, brings Super Museum Sunday

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

One of Savannah’s longest–running celebrations — literally — the Georgia History Festival marks the 280th anniversary of the colony’s founding.

As every local schoolchild and even most casual visitors surely must know by now, on Feb. 12, 1733, Gen. James Oglethorpe and the ship Ann pulled up to the Savannah River bluffs and began his long friendship with the local Yamacraw chief Tomochichi

— and also signaled the founding of America’s 13th colony and fourth state.

“February 12 is definitely the day we build the whole Festival around,” says Christy Crisp, director of programs for the Georgia Historical

Society, which organized the festivities. “That’s the day that drives everything.”

“Everything” in this case means the gamut of regular events in the Festival, including the recent kickoff lecture (this year by Forrest Gump author Winston Groom), the Colonial Faire & Muster at Wormsloe, the Trustees Gala, and of course the annual Feb. 12 Georgia Day Parade, featuring schoolchildren dressed up as colonists and Native Americans.

Each annual celebration focuses on a single important figure from Georgia’s history and this year it’s a native Savannahian of great repute, albeit one alien to most Savannahians: John C. Fremont.

“Most people have never heard of him, but literally when you look at a map of the U.S. you’re looking at much of what Fremont did in his life,” says Stan Deaton, Georgia Historical Society senior historian.

Born 200 years ago this year out of wedlock on West Bay Street — the Society recently erected a marker near Yamacraw Village — Fremont went on to marry a senator’s daughter, become a key figure in the settlement of the American West, and was the very first presidential nominee of the then–new Republican Party.

(Nope, Abraham Lincoln wasn’t the first.)

“Most people have no idea the first Republican candidate was from Georgia,” Deaton says. “Obviously in 1856 that would have meant being anti– slavery or at least Free Soil — and there was almost nobody like that in Georgia at the time.”

Fremont was tapped by the nascent Republican party chiefly due to his national celebrity.

“A relentless self–promoter,” as Deaton refers to him, Fremont attained fame by writing about his numerous adventures out west.

“He was working for the Army Corps of Engineers, mapping territory between the upper Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. He made four treks over the Oregon Traill, mapped the Salt Lake basin, and crossed the Sierra Nevada in the winter,” Deaton says.

“He embodied that exploring spirit, and did things most people simply didn’t have the opportunity to do.”

But for many local residents and visitors the highlight of the Georgia History Festival is Super Museum

Sunday, when dozens of local sites of cultural and historic interest open their doors for free.

This year’s Super Museum Sunday, on Feb. 10, features a new high of 48 participating sites.

“This is a number that continues to grow every year,” says Crisp. “That number reflects new sites, like the Savannah Childrens Museum, but also reflects how Savannah’s community of cultural sites is really phenomenal.”

Crisp says every year the Georgia Historical Society is contacted by new names who want to be added to the list — with not all of them being so obvious.

“We continue to have places contact us that are a little bit off the beaten path. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, for example, they’re on the map this year.”

While the Society is in charge of coordinating Super Museum Sunday, Crisp says “it’s not like there’s a really strict vetting process.”

Instead, the Society prefers to stay as inclusive as possible in an attempt to recognize what the idea of history means to different people.

“Savannah’s a town with a pretty dramatic sense of history. Many places see their place in larger picture here perhaps to greater degree than in other cities,” Crisp says.

“It’s really no surprise that some places would see themselves as a historic site in addition to their other roles in the community.”

Another new site on the list — indeed it is open for the first time this week — is the new museum at the Bethesda orphanage, oldest in America.

“That’s one of the most historic sites in the area, and Super Museum Sunday will be one of its first introductions to Savannah,” Crisp says. cs Georgia History Festival: Colonial Faire & Muster: Feb. 9 & 10, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. at Wormsloe State Historic Site Super Museum Sunday: Feb. 10, noon–4 p.m.

Georgia Day Parade: Feb. 12, 10:30 a.m. from Forsyth Park to City Hall Trustees Gala: Feb. 16, 7 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Info: www.georgiahistory.com

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A. Andrew Low House Museum 329 Abercorn Street, Savannah 912-233-1828

I. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Foundation, Inc. 207 East Charlton Street, Richmond Hill 912-233-6014

Q. Georgia Salzburger Society 2980 Ebenezer Road, Rincon 912-754-7001

B. Battlefield Memorial Park 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah 912-651-6825

J. Fort King George 302 MacIntosh Road SE, Darien 912-437-4770

R. Georgia State Railroad Museum 655 Louisville Road, Savannah 912.651.6823

C. Beach Institute African American Cultural Center 502 East Harris Street, Savannah 912-234-8000 **Alternate hours: 1:00-3:00 p.m.

K. Fort McAllister Historic Park 3894 Fort McAllister Road, Richmond Hill 912-727-2339

S. Georgia Southern University Museum 2142 Southern Drive, Statesboro 912-478-5444

L. Fort Morris Historic Site 2559 Fort Morris Road, Midway 912-884-5999

T. Girl Scout First Headquarters Museum and Program Center 330 Drayton Street, Behind the Andrew Low House, Savannah 912-232-8200

D. Bonaventure Historical Society 330 Bonaventure Road, Thunderbolt 912-927-6417 E. Congregation Mickve Israel Gordon at Bull Street, Monterey Square, Savannah 912-233-1547 **Alternate hours: 1:00-4:00 p.m.

F. Historic Dorchester Academy 8787 Oglethrope Highway, Midway 912-884-2347 G. Historic Effingham Society Museum and Living History Site 1002 Pine Street, Springfield 912-754-2170 H. First African Baptist Church 23 Montgomery Street, Savannah 912-233-6597 **Alternate hours: 12:00-2:00 p.m.

M. Fort Pulaski National Monument US Highway 80 E, Entrance on Queen’s Island, Savannah 912-786-5787 N. Fort Stewart Museum 2022 Frank Cochran Drive, Bldg. T904, Fort Stewart 912-767-7885 O. Geechee Kunda Ways Temple Road, Riceboro Take Hwy. 17 through Riceboro. Travel approximately 4.6 miles and turn left onto Ways Temple Road, Geechee Kunda is on the right 0.2 miles.

912-884-4440 P. Georgia Historical Society 501 Whitaker Street, Savannah 912-651-2125

Y. King-Tisdell Cottage 514 E. Huntingdon Street, Savannah 912-236-5161 **Alternate hours: 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Z. Massie Heritage Center 207 E. Gordon Street, Savannah 912-201-5070 AA. Midway Museum 491 N. Coastal Highway, Midway 912-884-5837 **Alternate hours: 1:00-4:00 p.m.

BB. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler 912-748-8888 **Alternate hours: 9:00-5:00 p.m.

U. Harper Fowlkes House 230 Barnard Street, Savannah 912-234-2180 **Alternate hours: 1:00-4:00 p.m.

CC. Oatland Island Wildlife Center 711 Sandtown Road, Savannah 912-395-1500

V. Isaiah Davenport House Museum 324 East State Street, Savannah 912-236-8097

DD. Old Fort Jackson 1 Fort Jackson Road, Savannah 912-232-3945

W. Telfair’s Jepson Center 207 W. York Street, Savannah 912-790-8800 **Exhibits from the Uffizi Gallery not included

EE. Telfair’s Owens-Thomas House 124 Abercorn Street, Savannah 912-790-8800

X. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, National Historic Landmark 10 E. Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah 912-233-4501

FF. Pin Point Heritage Museum 9924 Pin Point Avenue, Savannah 912-667-9176

GG. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum 460 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah 912-231-8900 HH. Richmond Hill Historical Society 11460 Ford Avenue, Richmond Hill 912-756-3697 II. Savannah Area Council of Garden Clubs Botanical Gardens 1388 Eisenhower Drive, Savannah 912-352-1552 JJ. Savannah History Museum 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah 912-651-6840 KK. Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum 681 Fort Argyle Road (SR 204, 2.3 miles past I-95), Savannah 912-748-8068 LL. SCAD Museum of Art 601 Turner Blvd., Savannah 912-525-7191 MM. Ships of the Sea Museum 41 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Savannah 912-232-1511 NN. St. Pauls Episcopal 1802 Abercorn at 34th Street, Savannah 615-364-1571 **Alternate hours: 1:30-4:00 p.m.

OO. Telfair Academy

121 Barnard Street, Telfair Square, Savannah 912-790-8800 PP. Thunderbolt Historical Society Mechanics Avenue at Victory Drive, Savannah 912-354-8913 QQ. Tybee Island Light Station and Museum 30 Meddin Drive, Tybee Island 912-786-5801 RR. Tybee Island Marine Science Center 1509 Strand Avenue, Tybee Island 912-786-5917 SS. UGA Marine Education Center & Aquarium 30 Ocean Science Circle, Savannah 912-598-2496 TT. Wormsloe Historic Site 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah 912-353-3023 UU. The Ford Museum at Bethesda Academy 9250 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah bethesdaacademy.org VV. Savannah Children’s Museum at Georgia State Railroad Museum info@savannahchildrensmuseum.org **Alternate hours: free admission 9:00am-5:00pm

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The Asian themes of Debi Prasetio won ‘Best in Show’

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With celebrity judges in attendance such as J. “Miss J” Alexander from America’s Next Top Model and April Johnston and Mitchell Hall from Project Runway, there’s no doubt the hottest ticket in town this past weekend was the final awards performance of the annual “Junk 2 Funk” fashion show at Savannah Arts Academy.

However, “it’s more than just a fashion show,” says SAA Visual Arts Dept. Chair Trellis Payne. “It’s a real show. It’s one thing to see pictures or video, but actually seeing it and being here is a whole other level of experience.”

Junk 2 Funk involves virtually every department at the high school, from the various majors who design the outfits — all from repurposed/recycled material — to dance majors who choreograph and perform the extravagant numbers which link the show’s theme (this year: “The Seven Seas”), to communication arts majors who shoot and edit the trailer, to other students who participate in backstage technical jobs.

Indeed, planning for each winter’s Junk 2 Funk begins in the spring of the previous academic year and includes work over the summer — making it a literal year-round effort.

The resulting mind-blowing show — complete with pyrotechnics, bubbles, and fake snow, in addition to strikingly creative designs on beautiful student models — is not only a crowd-pleaser, but a big fundraiser for SAA visual arts.

The sheer resourcefulness and creativity involved in the designs themselves — intended to match each year’s theme — go beyond even what the audience sees.

“You might never know a dress is backless because of the vertebrae of a certain crustacean it’s designed to represent,”

This dress has live fish in small tanks lining the skirt

says Payne. “A lot of research goes into the creatures and countries in the show’s theme.”

The surprise entrance of J. Alexander into the SAA Auditorium minutes before the show started brought shrieks and squeals of delight from the audience.

“His first time with us was last year. There were rumors he was going to come again this year, since he’s usually in town for the SCAD gala the same weekend. The fact that he came to our show once was amazing. The fact that he came back again shows me how much he enjoys what we’re doing,” says Payne.

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Every so often in the rough and tumble restaurant business there is that magical moment when an eatery is the right thing, at the right time and in the right place. That lightning has struck for The 5 Spot in Habersham Village.

The all–day kitchen is the fifth location for Gaslight Group, Brian and Jennifer Huskey’s parent company that also owns B. Matthew’s Eatery, Blowin’ Smoke BBQ, Blue Turtle Bistro and Abe’s on Lincoln.

If you’re a regular at any one of those restaurants, you’ll find some comfort in The 5 Spot menu — it’s partially a collection of the “best of ” from the other kitchens — with some spins of its own.

For example, devout followers of the “clean diet” will currently find daily specials that comply with the eating plan’s strategy. What is clean eating? Tosca Reno, the author of 13 clean eating books, advocates her “Eat Clean Diet,” which encourages drinking plenty of water and eating six small meals daily, including a combination of lean protein and complex carbohydrates.

That means no processed foods and cooking from scratch, the mantra at The 5 Spot. A recent clean special, at a bargain price of $8, was grilled chicken over mixed greens with

almonds, blueberries, cucumbers and red onions with cumin-lime vinaigrette. That’s fresh cooking — and a departure from other choices in Habersham Village.

The menu isn’t the only dramatic change in the former Clary’s location.

The remodel has created a comfortable pair of dining rooms and a lively bar with just a hint of urban chic.

On a recent dinner visit, I sampled the grilled salmon. The filet was glazed with sweet and spicy ingredients and served over a bed of sauteed spinach with grilled onions and roasted potatoes. It presented nicely and was constructed with flavors and textures in mind. At $13, the plate fell into the mid–range of entrees.

On a budget? Appetizers cap out at $6.50 and sandwiches (served with chips and a pickle, top out at $7.50 for the Burger and Five Toppings (pepperjack cheese, lettuce, tomato, grilled onions and bacon). It’s well worth the money: This is a big, grass–fed Angus beef patty on a Kaiser roll.

All of this scratch cooking has its risks. Several guests had reported to me that The 5 Spot biscuit was hard and overly crumbly. I checked in with Brian and learned this is the same scratch biscuit recipe used at B. Matthew’s.

I stopped in at lunch one day and had biscuits and gravy (breakfast

Gerald’s Pig and Shrimp on Tybee Island now has a beer and wine license. Gerald’s big covered outdoor seating area just became even more inviting on those summer beach days when cold beer and barbecue are just the thing!

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Joel Caplan, proprietor of Gelatohhh! in City Market, has changed his sandwich menu to include some hearty choices. New sandwiches include a Cuban pork sandwich, a grass–fed organic burger on local organic brioche and a Chicago-style roast beef and gravy sandwich with provolone and giardiniera. The gelato flavors change frequently. I’m always on the lookout for banana pudding gelato, which also makes an impressive milkshake!

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On all of my visits, service has been prompt, friendly and the servers very knowledgeable about the menu. The space is inviting.

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Shannon Schaefer chronicles downtown’s Drayton Tower at the building’s gallery; reception is Sat. Feb. 9, 7-9 p.m.

Openings & Receptions Joel Cothran — Small and large airbrush paintings on paper and panel by the South Carolina artist. The Sparetime, 36 MLK Blvd.

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Hurricane Echoes: Sequential illustrations by Justine Ives, aka Og. Opening Reception Fri. Feb. 8, 6-10 p.m. featuring DJ Basik Lee and KidSyc@Brandywine.

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Drayton Tower Gallery, 102 E. Liberty St. Feb. 9, 5- 8pm Savannah Black Heritage Festival: New Beginnings — 12th annual show of work by local middle and high school students. Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. Reception Feb. 6, 6:30pm.

SweetArt — Just in time for Valentine’s Day, new work by Savannah artists. Thursday, February 7th, 5-8pm. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St. Underground Comix Show — Experimental and indie comics by over 20 sequential artists. Posters and minicomics on exhibit and for sale. Ashmore Gallery, 412 MLK Blvd. Show runs Feb. 8-12. Reception: Fri. Feb. 8, 6-9pm.

An Artistic Discovery 2013 — Annual High School Juried Art Exhibition for

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Antonio Lopez and the World of Fashion Art — Curated by Andre Leon Talley. An overview of the work of fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez (1943-87) that appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily and Interview. Feb. 12-May 4., SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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Blick Employee Art Show — This exhibition represents a piece of artwork from each of the Blick Savannah staff in the Blick Gallery at 318 E. Broughton St. Deborah Auleatha Mueller — Stoneware and raku clay works. Gallery 209, 209 East River Street.

Erasures — Paintings and works on paper by Jack Whitten. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Othoniel — Large-scale steel and glass sculptures, and Precious Stonewall, by contemporary French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel. Feb. 12-May 4, SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.Part of 2013 deFINE ART.

Everyday Sightings — Photographer Michael W. Ellison and painter Mary Ellen McLaughlin exhibit their interpretation of commonplace experiences.

Hospice Savannah Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

A Creature Fix — Original works and prints by Blake Bradley. Feb. 8, 7:30pm 10pm at Le Snoot Gallery, 6 E. State St.

Georgia Kyle Shiver: One Nation Under God — Starland Cafe & Gallery,11 East 41st Street, presents exhibit

by Savannah folk artist and musician. Through February.

Material Discovery: Angel Otero — New paintings and sculpture plus recent works.

Part of 2013 deFINE ART. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd., Feb. 8-May 5.

Closing Working South: Watercolor Portraits by Mary Whyte — Watercolorist Mary Whyte captures the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from ten states in the American South. Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St. Closes Feb. 10.

Continuing Belo Horizonte Project — Multimedia artist Damian Ortega’s exhibition on this Brazilian city. SCAD Museum

Heaven’s Gate: Exhibition by Odili Donald Odita — Odita’s installation celebrates color and light within the museum through site-specific wall paintings. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Ingrid Calame: Pit 4, Pit 7, Pit 9, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 2006 — Installation translates tracings from speedway pits into one-toone scale onto the museum wall. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Marcus Kenney: Fallen Animals — Kenney, renowned as a mixed media artist, returns to his photographic origins with black-and-white images, his first photo show since 1998. Pinnacle Gallery, 320 Liberty St. Part of deFINE Art. Reception Feb. 19, 6:30pm.

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Mary Telfair and the Grand Tour — Rarely exhibited works from Mary Telfair’s collection, acquired primarily in Italy during her travels abroad. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Through Sept. 1.

Offering of the Angels: Masterworks from the Uffizi Gallery — Italian Renaissance Masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Through March 30.

Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, 207 W. York Street.

Unfamiliar Behavior: Works by Hye Yeon Nam — Digital media artist working in performance video, experimental interaction design and games, and robotic installations. Jepson Center, 207 W. York Street.

Rosemarie Fiore: Firework Drawings — Large-scale works on paper created using live fireworks and their pigments. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Classes Setting Up Your Clay Studio — A what, when, why and how session. Includes studio tour. $10 Saturday, Feb. 23,10:00a.m. to 12:00noon. Offered by City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. www.savannahga.gov/arts Raku Firing — The ancient Japanese ceramic firing technique. Personal bisque fired works can be glazed and fired. $10 per firing. Friday, Feb. 15, 1:00pm to 4:00pm. www.savannahga.gov/arts. City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry Street.

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The Studio School,1319 Bull St. thestudioschoolsavannah.com 912.484.6415 Affirmation Art & Manifesting — Hourlong workshop includes positive thoughts to achieve goals while creating art. Mon., Feb. 11, 7:30-8:30pm. $10-$15. Anahata Healing Arts, 2424 Drayton St, Suite B. City of Savannah Arts Classes and Workshops Now Registering — Day and evening classes and workshops for children, teens, and adults in all skill levels. Sessions began February 18 and run through March 29 and are held at the Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 W. Henry Street. Schedule. fees and registration forms at www.savannahga.gov/arts or 912-651-6783.

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The next time anyone blathers about “liberal Hollywood,” remind them that in 2012 alone, the film factory released one movie that paid tribute to the greatest Republican president and another that made a mockery of the greatest Democratic president. In Lincoln, the climax appears several sequences before the actual ending, with Abraham Lincoln’s successful navigation of the 13th Amendment through the House of Representatives.

In Hyde Park on Hudson, a different sort of climax occurs early in the film, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a hand job from his cousin Daisy.

The latter is the sort of baffling and awkwardly staged scene that’s found throughout this frivolous yarn about the weekend in 1939 when FDR (played by Bill Murray) welcomes Britain’s royal couple, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Samuel West and Olivia Colman), to his majestic New York property.

While Roosevelt has his hands full entertaining the Brits, Daisy (Laura Linney) has her hands full with the president’s manhood; meanwhile, Franklin’s mom (Elizabeth Wilson) frets over her son’s drinking while various underlings whisper about how his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) likes the ladies.

As with the equally ludicrous Hitchcock, Hyde Park on Hudson is a character assassination posing as a movie, with its central figure only displaying any real leadership or assertiveness during a lovely scene in which he has a friendly late–night chat with George. Indeed, the picture works best when the British royals are

involved, and West and Colman acquit themselves well in historical roles previously owned by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech.

But because this is loosely based on Daisy’s secret diaries (discovered after her death in 1991), the main thrust is the relationship between the president and his cousin, and how she loves him even after she learns that he’s fooling around with other women. Murray’s surprisingly engaging performance is far better than Linney’s atypically dreary one, but neither is able to survive a misguided screenplay that most recalls a tattered dime–store novel – lurid, superficial and hardly worth the ink or paper.

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One of the producers behind Movie 43 publicly stated that he hoped the film would become this generation’s Kentucky Fried Movie, a declaration that felt like a swift kick to the raunchy area of my soul. Along with Mel Brooks’ 1981 History of the World: Part I, John Landis’ 1977 sketch–comedy film (penned by the guys who would later make Airplane!) earns my vote as the best of the vulgar comedies Hollywood has consistently produced ever since the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code came crashing down in 1968. A riotous spoof of commercials, television shows and Hollywood films with names like That’s Armageddon! and Catholic High School Girls in Trouble, KFM was unapologetic as it laid waste to all sorts of societal norms.

Movie 43, on the other hand, should be nothing but

apologetic, as it strands an incredible cast in unwatchable shorts and then expects people to actually pay to witness this train wreck.

The jaw–dropping line–up includes three current Oscar nominees (Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane), two previous winners (Kate Winslet, Halle Berry), several seasoned vets (among them Richard Gere and Uma Thurman), a few red–hot actresses (such as Emma Stone and Chloe Grace Moretz) and approximately two dozen more celebrities with varying degrees of name recognition (including Greg Kinnear, Dennis Quaid, Terrence Howard and ...

Snooki). Add a dozen directors and nine writers to the mix, and the result is a malodorous stew of filmmakers trying to one–up each other in terms of who can produce the most shocking segment. Alas, “shocking” went out years ago — these days, scatological gags are more likely to bore than offend — and without that edge of comic danger, there’s nothing here except 95 minutes of utter embarrassment for all involved. Make that 90 minutes: The interlude titled “Super Hero Speed Dating,” featuring Jason Sudeikis as Batman and Justin Long as Robin, has its moments.

There’s no point in rattling off synopses for all the segments, but here are a few to set the proper mood for curious moviegoers. One sequence finds a woman (Winslet) excited about her blind date with New York’s most eligible bachelor (Jackman) until she sees that he has two testicles permanently hanging from his neck; she wonders why no else seems to notice his deformity and gags every time the ball

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The natural inclination is to compare Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — similar titles, similar punctuation, similar lunge for fan–boy dollars — but that wouldn’t exactly be correct.

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m fairly certain the real–life Honest Abe never had to fight bloodsucking fiends — if he did, then Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner did an especially sloppy job researching Lincoln.

On the other hand, the little tykes Hansel and Gretel did indeed slay a witch in the classic fairy tale, so a movie that suggests they elected to continue down this career path makes sense. And while the title may sound silly, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters still looks better as a marquee filler than if someone had decided to make,

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This is meant to be as much a comedy as a fantasy flick, and there are some humorous bits up front.

But the laughs dry up quickly, and all that’s left is a hyperactive action film featuring yet another humorless performance by Jeremy Renner (as Hansel), a village that looks about as authentic as the one created for the equally ill–advised Red Riding Hood, both human and CGI witches who prove to be about as menacing as a sleeping hamster, and anachronistic touches more idiotic than inspired (at one point, our heroes pack a modified machine gun).

As Gretel, Gemma Arterton tries to make up for Renner’s somnambulism with a peppy turn (she only half– succeeds). Writer–director Tommy Wirkola’s previous credits include the Norwegian Nazi–zombie flick Dead Snow.

The bloodletting at least breaks up the monotony of the fight sequences, which are not only repetitive but frequently shot in a jolting manner that suggests cinematographer Michael Bonvillain was experiencing whiplash.

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Another episode centers on a teenage girl (Moretz) who’s experiencing her first period while all the boys and men around her (including her father) react with panic and disgust.

Yet another set–piece involves a woman (Elizabeth Banks) competing for the attention of her boyfriend (Josh Duhamel) with Beezel, an animated cat that masturbates over photos of his owner. And another sketch focuses on a sweet couple (real–life spouses Anna Faris and Chris Pratt) and the discomfort he feels after she begs him to “poop” on her.

That last bit is the most relevant one here, since Movie 43 is an excremental exercise that should be flushed as soon as possible. If approached by friends to see this disaster, feel free to repeat what a wise George Clooney reportedly said when asked by its producers to take part: “No fucking way.”

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If anything, her performance in this unexceptional horror fare will probably only endear her further to voters, since it presents this chameleonic actress in yet another light: Rather than a flighty Southern belle (The Help), a soft–spoken Texas housewife (The Tree of Life) or a driven CIA agent (Zero Dark Thirty), she’s now playing a goth chick, complete with jet–black cropped hair hugging her noggin and a position in a local punk band.

Mama begins with a crazed father failing in his attempt to murder his two children before turning the gun on himself (an homage to the opening of Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout?).

Instead, the two girls (Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse) spend the next five years living in a cabin in the woods, with only a spectral mother figure to protect them. Once the kids are located, they’re placed in the care of the deceased dad’s brother (Nikolaj Coster–Waldau) and his girlfriend (Chastain).

But as the children begin warming up to their surrogate parents, the malevolent Mama responds in a jealous rage, physically assaulting various adults, violently inhabiting their bodies and – better clutch your seat for this one – unleashing an army of fluttering, sputtering moths.

Guillermo del Toro has a fairly impressive resume as a director (Pan’s Labyrinth, Cronos, etc.), but as an executive producer, he’ll seemingly slap his name on anything short of an Adam Sander comedy.

And while the child actresses are quite good, only Chastain makes an impression among the grownups, and that’s more for our willingness to chart her career trajectory than for anything connected to her underdeveloped role.

When the most memorable aspect of a movie character is her choice of T–shirts — for the record, she likes wearing one that plugs The Misfits — it’s proof that everything else, from the psychology to the scares, will similarly remain on the surface.

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Bold, provocative and challenging in ways not even attempted by other current award contenders like Lincoln and my 2012 fave Argo, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty recalls what President Woodrow Wilson reportedly said after screening D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: “It’s like history written with lightning.”

Like that silent classic, this galvanizing picture is a work that’s steeped in controversy, yet unlike that hearty shout–out to the glories of the Ku Klux Klan, the uproar here isn’t nearly as clear–cut as it was when confronted with Griffith’s racist ideologies.

Bigelow reteams with scripter Mark Boal – both won Oscars for 2008’s The Hurt Locker – for a movie that relates in painstaking detail the CIA’s decade–long search for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Delivering a sublime performance of ferocious intensity, Jessica Chastain headlines as Maya, an agency operative who makes it her personal mission to ferret out the murderous al Qaeda head.

Stumbling across helpful clues is, as someone notes, like trying to locate that proverbial needle in a haystack, but while other figures come and go over the years for various reasons (Jason Clarke and Jennifer Ehle play the most prominent of these co–workers), Maya is determined to see this through to the end, no matter how much resistance she meets from her superiors in this patriarchal organization.

Zero Dark Thirty is such a potent work that it’s unfortunate it’s become embroiled in a scandal which, frankly, it doesn’t deserve. Erroneously denounced as taking a pro–torture stance by politicians trying to cover their own asses as well as by well– meaning but misunderstanding activists, the film actually does nothing of the sort. It instead acknowledges the very real presence of torture on the post–9/11 landscape.

But in a break from traditional Tinseltown thinking, Bigelow and Boal insist on treating viewers like intelligent, discerning adults, able to absorb complexities and weigh knotty material. It’s a risky gamble on their part, but without it, we wouldn’t have a movie as important – and gratifying – as this one. CS

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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]

City of Savannah offers Citizens’ Academy

Registration is now open for the next semester of the City of Savannah Citizens’ Academy –an eight-session program intended to immerse residents into the workings of their City Government. The Academy includes on-site visits, presentations by key City officials, and other hands-on activities. Interested citizens must be willing to commit to attend all of the once-a-week classes, which generally run 6-8 p.m. beginning on February 12 through April 2. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted for the 2013 Academy, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. A $5 nonrefundable entrance fee is required. For more information contact the City of Savannah Public Information Office at 651-6410.

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 Satisfied, 301 W. Broughton St., upstairs. Come join us! DrinkingLiberally.org [113012]

Public School System Seeks Input in Math Instructional Materials

The Savannah Chatham County School System is reviewing mathematics instructional materials to make recommendations for the upcoming adoption cycle. They are soliciting input from community members, who may review the materials in the first floor hallway of the SCCPSS Administration Building, 208 Bull Street, Savannah, through February 4. Review forms are available. Information: 912-395-1043.

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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Savannah Tea Party Monthly Meetings

First Monday of each month at B&D Burgers, 11108 Abercorn St. Social at 5:30pm. Business Meeting 6:00pm. January meeting is February 4, 2013. All are welcome, please join us to discuss our agenda for the year 2013. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-5987358 or Jeanne Seaver at 912-663-8728 for

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Veterans for Peace Monthly Meeting

The Savannah chapter of Veterans for Peace meets upstairs at Satisfied, (formerly Loco’s Deli and Grill), 301 Broughton St. at 7p.m. on the last Monday of each month. VFP is a national organization of men and women of all eras, branches of service, and duty stations that works to expose the true costs of war and to support veterans and civilian victims. 303550-1158 for more info. [121612]

Young Democrats

Young Democrats meets every Sunday, 3:304:00pm at The Sentient Bean, 13. East Park Avenue.

For more info: visit the Facebook page: Chatham Co. Young Democrats. or call 423-6197712. [010613]

Benefits A Taste of Hope, Chefs and Chocolates

Urban Hope 2013 fundraiser, March 1, 7:00pm.

Tickets: $30.00. Supports inner city youth with our after school and eight week summer program. urbanhopesavannah.org, or call 912349-54750 E. Broad Street.

Art & Oysters, A Benefit for Pin Point Heritage Museum

Saturday, February 2,4:30-6:30 pm. An Oyster Roast, Beer & Wine, Live Music. In attendance will be artist Mary Whyte and Algie Varn, former owner of the Varn & Son oyster and crab factory, now the Pin Point Heritage Museum.

Tickets are $100 per person. At the Pin Point Heritage Museum, 9924 Pin Point Ave. Reservations: 912-312-4155. www.chsgeorgia.com.

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]

Guatemala Connection Latin Evening

February 1, 6:30 - 9:00pm. Reception, dinner and Latin entertainment to raise funds for Faith in Practice Medical Mission Team and The Christ Child’s Nest Orphanage in Guatemela.

For further information and tickets: 912-3558527 $15 adults, $7 children. Isle of Hope United Methodist Church Social Hall, 412 Parkersburg Road.

Jazz Showdown Benefit for Park Place Outreach

Jazz Pianists Bob Seeley (a boogie woogie pianist) and John Cocuzzi (pianist, vibraphone player and drummer, specializes in blues, jazz, swing and boogie woogie) perform February 8 at the Plantation Club at The Landings on Skidaway Island, 1 Cottonwood Lane. 6:00pm: Cash/member bar. 7:00pm dinner. 8:30pm: Piano showdown. Silent auction from 6:00-8:15 p.m. Tickets $125. Information/tickets/donations: Marolyn Overton, 912-598-7358 or Dick Miller, 912-598-5049. www.parkplaceyes.org

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]

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

Savannah Children’s Choir Spaghetti Supper

Monday, February 11, 4 - 7pm, a preValentine’s Day Spaghetti Supper benefiting Savannah Children’s Choir. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn Street (at 34th Street). $7. Dinner includes pasta, choice of sauce, bread and salad. Drinks and home-made desserts additional charge. Information: 912-2284758 or www.savannahchoir.org.

Savannah Philharmonic Afternoon Adagio

An afternoon of high tea, hat fashions, silent auction and light classical music performed by harpist Kristin King and violinist Jadde Nolty, benefiting the Savannah Philharmonic.

Saturday, February 9, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the ballroom at The Olde Pink House, 23 Abercorn St. Tickets: $50 for Savannah Philharmonic members; $60 for non-members. Patron tickets available at $150. www.savannahphilharmonic.org or call 912-232-6002. ,

SCAD 14th Annual Scholarship Gala

Saturday, Feb. 2, at Poetter Hall, 342 Bull St. 6:30pm for Preview Party. 7:30pm Gala. The black-tie optional event features a silent auction of more than 100 pieces of original artwork donated by SCAD students, faculty and friends, on display in Poetter Hall. Artwork not sold during the gala will be available for sale online at scad.edu/gala. Tickets: $150 or $250 for the gala and access to the Preview Party, which includes an exclusive buy-it-now option on auction artwork and a catered cocktail reception. To purchase tickets, make a donation or preview auction items, visit scad.edu/gala or call the Gala Hotline at 912-525-5821.

Call for Entries Call for Artists to Contribute Artwork

Submit your artwork and benefit Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG), a local nonprofit, at the “Expressions for Hope,” art show and auction February 28 at LSG’s office, 6555 Abercorn St. Ste. 200, to help support children in foster care and families in need. Join us for the auction and also contribute your artwork for the show. We welcome unframed submissions of any medium, judging reserved for 5 x 7 submissions. Please send your artwork to LSG’s office by February 14. Call or e-mail Katherine McKenzie at 912-704-4829 or kmckenzie@lsga. org with any questions.

Fast Pitch 2013 Submissions Sought

The Creative Coast Alliance seeks budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to potential investors. See fastpitchcompetition.com for details. Deadline February 18, 5:00pm. Information: 912-447-8457.

Historic Savannah Foundation Preservation Awards Nominations

Historic Savannah Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2013 HSF Preservation Awards, recognizing individuals and organizations demonstrating excellence in

historic preservation. Deadline: Friday, February 15. Winners announced Thursday, May 9.

Nomination form and full details on eligibility, submission criteria and key dates available at www.myhsf.org. Information: 912-233-7787 or dmeunier@myHSF.org.

Participants Sought for National Cancer Research Effort

The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS-3) seeks participants in Savannah to be part of a nationwide cancer research effort surveying up to 500,000 people across the U.S. The survey will occur in the final week of February 2013. Men and women, ages 30-65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed. The two-part study consists of a 30-minute in-person waist measurement and blood test, and an at-home questionnaire. Follow-up surveys will be sent to participants every few years to track changes in health, lifestyle, and other situations. CPS-3 is the third major initiative of this study that began in the 1950s (CPS-I) and began a new phase in 1982 (CPS-II). For more information, visit cps3savannah.com, email kitty.karr@ cancer.org, or call 912-355-5196.

Savannah Residents Invited to apply for Boards, Commissions, Authorities

Citizens interested in playing an active role in their local government are encouraged to apply for current openings on several Savannah City Council boards, commissions and authorities.

The Clerk of Council accepts applications from Thursday, Jan. 3 until noon on Thursday, Jan. 31. These groups work on behalf of Council on various topics of interest to the community, providing guidance or assisting in making decisions that impact daily life in Savannah.

Citizens with a wide range of backgrounds and experience are needed to fill these important roles. Applications can be found on the City’s website, www.savannahga.gov/boards. For more information, contact the Clerk of Council at (912) 651-6442 or email clerkofcouncil@ savannahga.gov.

Third Thursdays on Tybee Submissions Now Being Accepted

The Tybee Island Better Hometown Program hosts outdoor musical entertainment in the Main Corridor each year from March through May and from September through November.

Submissions are now being accepted from musicians interested in performing. Concerts are held the third Thursdays of the month at from 5:30 - 7:00pm and feature single musicians, duos or trios with minimal technical requirements. Musicians of all ages are invited to submit a sample of their music and a brief bio. Submission deadline: February 6, 5:00pm.

All music genres are allowed. Material must be family-friendly. Review the “Information for Performers” info at www.cityoftybee.org/ BetterHometownProgram. A panel of expert judges will review submissions and begin scheduling the second week of February. Information: 912-472-5071

Classes, Camps & Workshops Clay Classes: Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu

Handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles.

Basic glazing and firing techniques. Contact Anita at 912-351-4578 email: sav.claystudio@ gmail.com. [120212]

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Photography Classes

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

“Orchid Growing Made So Easy” Offered Feb. 16 at the Bamboo Farm

Instructor Jim Keplinger offers basic orchid information followed by a question-and-answer session and a tour of a greenhouse on the campus of the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens.

Learn which light conditions, potting media and fertilizing programs are best for orchids.

Saturday, February 16, 10:00am to 12:00 noon.

Offered by the Deep South Orchid Society and the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens. Location: the Conference Center at the Bamboo Farm, 2 Canebrake Road. Fee: $12. Prepayment required.

Pre-register: 912-921-5460. Call for payment instructions.

Acting Workshops for Youth & Adults, and Headshot Days

First City Films hosts the following acting workshops. Locations will be emailed to class members after registration. Young Actors (Ages 7-14) Saturday, Feb. 2, 1-4pm. Repeats Sunday, March 10, 3-6pm. $75. Early registration $65.

Background Actors (Ages 15 & up). Extras: How to be a Repeat, not a Delete. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6-9pm. Repeats Saturday, March 2, 10am1pm. $65. Early registration $50. Beginner Actors: Extras Level 2 (Ages 15 & up). The Acting Business. (Must have taken Background Actors Workshop.) Saturday, March 2, 2-6pm, $75.

Early registration $65. Headshot Day. One-look headshot session for beginners, or if you have a new look. Saturday, Jan. 26, 11am-4pm or Sunday, Feb. 17, 11am-4pm. $125. Register at www.firstcityfilms.com.

Art Classes and Lessons

Drawing and painting classes and private lessons offered by artist Karen Bradley. Call or email for details. 912-507-7138 or kbillustration@mac.com. [112512]

Art Classes at the Studio School.

Ongoing weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. Learn more at thestudioschoolsavannah.com or contact Melinda: melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. 912-484-6415.

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Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

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

Basic Storm Spotter Workshop

A two-hour interactive workshop, preparing individuals to report severe weather including funnel clouds, tornadoes, hail, damaging wind and flooding rainfall. Weather spotters have served as the “eyes” of The National Weather Service for more than 60 years. Wed. Feb. 13 at 2:30pm or 6:00pm, at Bloomingdale Police Department, 6 Adams Street, Bloomingdale.

Call Chatham Emergency Management Agency to register: 912-201-4500. Free to attend.

Be a Master Gardener

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Master Gardener Class, to be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00AM-12:30PM from January 22nd thru April 4th, 2013 at the Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens, and at the Lake Mayer Community Room. The cost is $145.00.

For more information call 912-652-7981.

UGA’s College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences/Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. website: bamboo.caes.uga.edu

Beading Classes

Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check the website calendar

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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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Beekeeping Workshop

The Coastal Empire Beekeepers Association hosts a day-long institute, The FUNdamentals of Beekeeping, on honey bees and the art of hobbyist beekeeping. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Saturday, February 23, 9:00am - 4:00pm. On-site registration begins at 8 a.m. Information call 912-395-1509 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance at Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. All skill levels and styles welcome. Sundays 3:30-4:30p.m. $15/class. Private instruction available. Carrie Newton 912-704-2940 or happenstancebellydance@gmail.com happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com anahatahealingarts.com

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]

Classical Drawing and Painting Workshop

A Classical Approach to Drawing and Painting the Figurem with James Langley. Feb 14-16 at The Studio School, 1319-B Bull Street. For more information visit: thestudioschoolsavannah.com, email: melindaborysevicz@gmail. com, or call: 912-484-6415.

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]

Continuing Education Courses at Coastal Georgia Center

January courses offered by Georgia Southern’s Division of Continuing Education are: Digital Imaging Basics, Introduction to Computers, Creative Writing 1, Drawing 1, and Photoshop Basics, Math Prep for the SAT, Critical Reading Prep for the SAT, Navigating Windows 8, and iPhone Essentials, Tips and Tricks.

All courses are open for registration. Held at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, Savannah. Fees, information and registration: ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html, call the Coastal Georgia Center 644-5967; or email jfogarty@georgiasouthern. edu.

Creative Writing I

An 8-week introductory course to the fundamental techniques of writing fiction and nonfiction forms. Instruction includes research and interviewing techniques, narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, rhythm, pacing and the business of writing. The techniques learned in this class apply to both fiction and nonfiction, and are designed to lead into a more

advanced Creative Writing 2 course. Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, January 14 through March 4.

Fee: $200.

Free Fitness Boot Camp

A four-week volunteer docent/tour guide training is offered in February by the Isaiah Davenport House Museum,324 E. State Street. Dates and times will be determined by participants.

Docents lead tours in the museum and assist with programming for house visitors from around the world. Call Dottie Kraft at 912-2368097 weekdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. or email info@ davenporthousemuseum.org

Genealogy Course

Davenport House: House Museum Docent Training Class

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 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]

Family Law Workshop

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

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

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

February through June Continuing Ed. Courses in Savannah

Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program in Savannah offers new courses from February through June:Social Media for Small Business; Facebook for Beginners; five Microsoft Office Courses (Word 1 & 2, Excel 1 & 2, and PowerPoint); Beginning and Advanced Project Management; Drawing 2, Drawing Studio, Creative Writing 2, Short Story Writing, Beginning Sign Language, and five other Photography Courses (Point and Shoot, Creative Photography, Advanced Creative Photography, Portrait Photography, and Advanced Photoshop), and Essay Writing for the SAT. For more information, including dates, times, and prices, visit ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/ conted/cesavannahmenu.html, call the Coastal Georgia Center 912-644-5967; or email jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays 10:00am at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 per class, mats provided.

Dress for moving comfortably on the floor.

Elaine Alexander, GCFP. 912-223-7049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com, www.feldenkrais. com. [010613]

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays 10:00am at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 per class, mats provided.

Dress for moving comfortably on the floor.

Elaine Alexander, GCFP. 912-223-7049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com, www.feldenkrais. com. [010613]

Mondays & Wednesdays starting Jan. 21st, 6pm at Tribble Park (Largo & Windsor Road).

Children welcome. For more info call Robin, 912-921-0667.

Live Oak Public Libraries offers a free 8-week course: “Getting Started on Genealogy” with Charles Bourland, beginning Thursday, January 17, 10:00 a.m. at the Southwest Chatham Branch Library next to the Savannah Mall.

Information: 912-925-8305, www.liveoakpl.org.

Group Guitar Lessons

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

Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons

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

Studio located 2 blocks from Daffin Park.

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Guitar, Mandolin or bass guitar Lessons

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

Homeschool Music Classes

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

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

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

Knitting and Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 West State Street. Find the calendar of events and classes offered by the yarn shop at thefrayedknotsav. com or call 912-233-1240.

Knitting and Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 West State Street. Find the calendar of events and classes offered by the yarn shop at thefrayedknotsav. com or call 912-233-1240.

Knitting Class--Socks

Taste of Knitting: Socks. Learn the basics.

Bring one skein of sock-weight yarn, #2 double pointed needles. Offered by Fiber Guild of the Savannahs. Location: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Sat. Feb. 16, 1-4pm. $25 non-member, $20 member. Info/registration: 518-265-0514.

Knitting Workshop

A Taste of Knitting is an introduction to cast-on, bind-off, and basic knit and purl stitches. Saturday, Feb. 16, 10am - noon. Offered by the Fiber Guild of the Savannahs. $20/nonmembers, $15/members. Held at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Register/information: 518-265-0514

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.

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

Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

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

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New Horizons Adult Band Program

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

Novel Writing

Beginner in Sewing? Starting your Clothing Business? Starting your Clothing Line? Learn to sew. Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry.

Open schedule is available. Skirts,pants, jackets, dresses, blouses, vest, alteration classes. www. savsew.com Savannah Sewing Academy, 1917 Bull Street , Savannah http://www.savsew.com/ Beginner in Sewing? Starting your Clothing Business? Starting your Clothing Line? Industry Standard Sewing Courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry. Open schedule is available. Skirts,Pants Jackets, Dresses, Blouses, Vest, Alteration Classes. Held at Savannah Sewing Academy, 1917 Bull Street. Information: www.savsew.com or 912-290-0072. [121312]

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

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]

Spanish Classes

Prayer of Jabez Bible Study

Course studies a workbook by Dr. Bruce Wilkenson, describing how each component of Jabez’ cry to God in 1 Chronicles 4:10 is supported throughout scripture. Registration : $45 by February 18. Location: 334 Stephenson Ave., Savannah. Dates: February 21-March 14. Thursdays 6:30pm-8:00pm. Contact: Lydia Stone, rosesonthemove@gmail.com or 912-656-6383.

Professional Development Courses in February

“Beginning Project Management,” “Social Media for Small Business,” and “Microsoft Word 1” These February courses are offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education. Fees and Information: Judy Fogarty, 912-644-5967, or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-713-2718 for more information. [062812]

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.

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Sewing Classes

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Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publishing your work. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-on-one or small group classes and mentoring, as well as manuscript critique, ebook formatting and more.

Send an email to pmasoninsavannah@gmail. com for pricing and scheduling information.

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Open Pottery Studio at Savannah’s Clay Spot

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Music Lessons for All Instruments

Sewing Classes

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] 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.

Winter Term Classes for Professional and Personal Development

Beginning Sign Language, Photoshop, Facebook for Beginners, Advanced Project Management, Short Story Writing, Creative Writing, Drawing, and Photography. All courses offered Winter Term in Savannah by Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education. Fees and Information: Judy Fogarty, 912-644-5967, or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Yoga for Couples: Toolbox for Labor & Delivery

A two hour class for prospective moms and the person who will be with her during labor and delivery. Learn the stages of labor and delivery and a “toolbox” of hands-on comfort measures from a labor doula, including breathing, massage, positioning, and pressure points. Bring an exercise ball. 1 - 3PM quarterly, on Saturdays at Savannah Yoga Center. First class, Jan 19.

Course fee: $100 per couple. Contact: www. douladeliveries.com or call Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 or ann@douladeliveries.com. [121312]

You Can Heal Your Life

The life changing program authored by Louise L Hay. This is an intense look into our thoughts and patterns of behavior which create in us stress and dis-ease. Mondays, February 18 through March 25. 6:30pm to 8:00pm. 334 Stephenson Avenue, Savannah. Lydia Stone, Dream Builder Coach at 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.con Registration: $45 per person.

Book Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, HayHouse.com.

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1 That is, to Nero 6 “All-American Girl” Margaret 9 Elite U.S. Navy squad 14 It’s struck from a book 15 “Whadja say?”

16 2005 “Survivor” locale 17 Big book of stories 19 Sean of the “Lord of the Rings” series 20 He’s always dropping dishes?

22 Peppermint Pattie brand 23 Gargantuan Brit. lexicon 24 Uneventful 26 Nick at ___ 29 “Sands of ___ Jima” 32 Komodo dragon or Tasmanian devil 36 Ore-___ (tater tots brand) 37 Bedroom area that’s useful to have around?

39 ___ Wafers 41 Constrictive critter 42 Sci-fi author Asimov 43 He has a corny sense of humor?

46 Deadlock 47 Dutch beer 48 ID-assigning org.

49 Chip’s pal 50 “The Kids in the Hall” bit 52 Blue ball on the table 54 Fashion legend Christian 57 Guy who trimmed Dad’s beard?

63 Texas A&M athlete 65 Doesn’t lose it 66 Crosses (a river) 67 One of seven: abbr.

68 A few extra pounds 69 Pecan and walnut 70 Torn of “Men in Black” 71 It follows either word in the four long answers

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1 Apple on a desk

2 Short name for Boone or Webster 3 Query to Brutus 4 Average fool 5 Things out of reach?

6 Neapolitan layer, for short 7 Laurie on “House” 8 “I just remembered...”

9 Detoxifying place 10 Top vs. bottom-seed shutouts, for instance 11 Low choral part 12 Grizzly’s hangout 13 Destroyed a destroyer 18 Actress/model/socialite ___ Hearst-Shaw 21 Griff and D’s Public Enemy cohort 25 Recording studio sign 26 Silent killer?

27 Turn of phrase 28 Peace conference events 30 Liberty’s org.

31 Reasons for insoles 33 Mazda model 34 “Garfield: ___ of Two Kitties” 35 School for French students 37 She portrayed Kahlo 38 Thanksgiving items 40 Biker’s exit line 44 Go berserk 45 Date on some food packaging 49 The back, in medical textbooks 51 Weapon often seen on “24” 53 Nest residents 54 Nutty 55 Composer Stravinsky 56 Shrek, e.g.

58 Spittoon noise 59 Org. for seniors 60 “On & On” singer Erykah 61 MIT grad, maybe 62 Hazard for a hull 64 Ending for heir or host

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

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

region.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

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]

Book Lady Bookstore’s Book Club

The Book Lady Book Club’s next meeting is on Wednesday, January 30,7:00pm. This month’s selections: The Devil’s Highway, and Into the Beautiful North. Both written by Louis Alberto Urrea.

Call The Book Lady for location information.

912-233-3628.

Buccaneer Region SCCA

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

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://buccaneer-

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

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

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina.

Join us every Tuesday evening 5pm-8pm for crafting. Located at 6 West State Street (behind the CVS off of Wright Square in the historic district.) Enjoy the sharing of creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers. All levels of experience welcome. Come and be inspired! For more info please call 912-233-1240 or 912-441-2656.

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Energy Healers

Energy Healers Meets every Monday at 6pm.

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

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

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

Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meet twice a month on Thursdays at 5:45pm at the Southwest Public Library, 14097 Abercorn Street.

Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. Free to attend. www.facebook.com/groups/savinkslingers [012013]

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]

Low Country Turners

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

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

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7:30pm-9pm at various locations each Monday.

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

Queen of Spades Card Playing Club

A new club formed to bring lovers of card games together to play games such as Spades, Hearts, Rummy, etc. We will meet every other Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13. E. Park Ave. Next meeting is July 19.

Children are welcome. No fee. Information: 912-660-8585. [071512]

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

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

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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

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Safe Kids Savannah

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

Savannah Art Association

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

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

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets the first and third 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: Charles Brown Antiques & Fine Silver,14 W. Jones Street.

All are welcome, including beginners and nonpublished writers, fiction and non-fiction.

No charge. Contact: Alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live.com) or 912-308-3208. [010613]

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets the first and third 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: Charles Brown Antiques & Fine Silver,14 W. Jones Street.

All are welcome, including beginners and nonpublished writers, fiction and non-fiction.

No charge. Contact: Alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live.com) or 912-308-3208. [010613]

Savannah Brewers’ League

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

Meet at Moon River Brewing Company, 21 W. Bay St. [062912]

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

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Savannah Fencing Club

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

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

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and

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

135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. [063012]

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

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

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

Savannah Jaycees

Savannah Kennel Club

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

Savannah Newcomers Club

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

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

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail: savannahphc@ yahoo.com [112512]

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

Savannah Toastmasters

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

Savannah Writers Group

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

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Seersucker Live’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, non-conformists, anarcho-libertarians, social misfits, voluntarists, conspiracy theorists, “permanent tourists” etc. Savannah meetings/ discussions twice monthly on Thursdays at 8.30 pm. Discussion subjects and meeting locations will vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. For next meeting details email: onebornfree@yahoo.com. [072212]

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

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

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

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Conferences Innovative Ideas in Literacy Conference

For administrators, teachers, literacy coaches, future educators, parents and anyone who wants to help k-12 students to become better readers and writers in all content areas.

Keynote speaker: Barry Lane, education writer, on “Rigor Without Mortis: Teaching Informative Writing with a Passion.” Breakout sessions follow on varied topics related to teaching writing.

Saturday, Feb. 2, from 8:30a.m.-1:00p.m. at the Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. Presented by Armstrong’s Coastal Savannah Writing Project (CSWP), the College of Education’s professional development program for primary, middle and secondary school teachers. Advanced registration required. See schedules and registration forms www.cswp.armstrong. edu and on the CSWP Facebook page. www. facebook.com/coastalsavwp. Information: 91234402702 or writingproject@armstrong.edu.

Dance

Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tue: 8-9/9-10pm, Thur: 8-9/9-10pm, Sun 5-6/6-7pm. Lessons at Salon de Baile, 7048 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Savannah, GA 31406.

Visit us at www.salsasavannah.com for more information. [111112]

Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

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

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

Adult Ballet Class

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

Adult Dance and Fitness Classes

Beginner & Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, BarreCore Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch & Tone. No experience necessary for beginner ballet, barre, or stretch/ tone. The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/information: 912-925-0903. Or www.theballetschoolsav.com [062812]

Adult Intermediate Ballet

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

Argentine Tango

Effective December 2012, the time for Argentine Tango lessons is Sundays, 1:30 - 3:30pm.

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. [120912]

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

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

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

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

C.C. Express Dance Team

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

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Home Cookin’ Cloggers

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

Irish Dance Classes

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

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

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

Modern Dance Class

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels.

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

Pole Dancing Classes

Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www.fitnessbodybalance. com or 912-398-4776. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. [062812]

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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.

Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street, on this 20-30 minute tour, its restoration, architectural notes and touch on the history of theatre and early cinema. $4 per person, cash or check only. Group rates for 10 or more. School trips available. Times: No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2:30pm daily. Reservations available for other times. Information: 912-525-5023 or emuller@lucastheatre.com. [062412]

Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Saturday at Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. If you’re interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance, come join us! South end of Forsyth Park, just past the Farmer’s Market. Free. www.savannahsca.org [072212]

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Adult Playground

Savannah Dance Club

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

music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. [062812]

Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

Learn how to swing dance - for free! Half hour lesson and then open dancing. No partner or experience necessary. Savannah Swing Cats, Thursdays, 7:30 - 10:30p.m. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. http://facebook.com/SavannahSwingCats

Zumba & Zumba Toning with Anne

Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7-8pm.

Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 Montgomery Cross Roads. $5 per class, discounts available with punch card purchase. All levels welcome. Call: 912-596-1952

Events 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.

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films to Savannah including critically acclaimed foreign films and documentaries, among others.

To subscribe to information about the series, including screening dates and times, email: cinesavannah@att.net [072812]

ARIES

(March 21–April 19) “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I’m not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected beauty. But if you want to, you can play those roles for the next few weeks. How many exotic explorations and unlikely discoveries can you cram into your life between now and March 1? How many unimaginable transformations can you imagine?

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) North America’s most powerful and iconic waterfall is Niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada.

In 1969, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed to shut down the American side of this elemental surge for a few months.

They performed their monumental magic by building a dam made with 27,800 tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the stony foundation that lies beneath the water.

I’m thinking that you Tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) *National Geographic* reports that dung beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with the stars. Scientists in South Africa found that the bugs use the Milky Way Galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky serves as a navigational aid. I nominate the dung beetle to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you, too, to align your movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher power. (Read about the research here: http://tinyurl. com/GalacticBeetles.)

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) You should go right ahead and

compare oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian.

Honey and butter, too: It’s fine to compare and contrast them.

Science and religion. Bulldogs and Siamese cats. Dew and thunderclaps. Your assignment is to create connections that no one else would be able to make . . . to seek out seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners . . . to dream up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas.

Your soul needs the delight and challenge of unexpected blending.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) The collection called *Grimm’s Fairy Tales* includes the story “The Devil and His Grandmother.”

In one scene, the devil’s grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson’s head. Or at least that’s what the English translations say.

But the authors wrote in German, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact plucking lice from the devil’s hair. Your job in the coming week, Leo, is to ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that. Be vigilant for subtle censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. You need the raw feed that comes straight from the source.

VIRGO

Aug. 23–Sept. 22) In her book *Jung and Tarot,* Sallie Nichols notes that the sixteenth card in most Tarot decks portrays lightning as a hostile force: “jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry teeth.” But there’s one deck, the Marseilles Tarot, that suggests a kinder, gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and clean rather than burn. I suspect you’ll be visited by a metaphorical version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo.

Prepare to be tickled and cleaned!

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Years ago, “bastard” was a derisive term for a child born to unmarried parents. It reflected the conventional moral code, which regarded a “birth out of wedlock” as scandalous. But I think we can safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. According to recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the U.S. are to unmarried mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain forbidden forever.

What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed at one time may evolve into what’s normal. I bring this up, Libra, because it’s an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that’s no longer necessary or meaningful.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) While trekking up Mount Katahdin in Maine, naturalist Henry David Thoreau had a “mountain–top experience” that moved him to observe, “I stand in awe of my body.”

You’re due for a similar splash of illumination, Scorpio. The time is right for you to arrive at a reverent new appreciation for the prodigious feats that your physical organism endlessly performs for you. What could you do to encourage such a breakthrough? How can you elevate your love for the flesh and blood that houses your divine spark?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

How do you like your caviar? Do you prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of strong, fishy taste? If it’s the first option, beluga caviar is your best option. If the second, sevruga should be your favorite.

What? You say you never eat caviar? Well, even if you don’t, you should regard the choice between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. You can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both. Which will it be? Set your intention.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

“Dear Astrology Guy: I have been reading your horoscopes since I was 19. For a while, I liked them.

They were fun riddles that made me think. But now I’ve soured on them. I’m sick and tired of you asking me to transform myself.

You just keep pushing and pushing, never satisfied, always saying it’s time to improve myself or get smarter or fix one of my bad habits. It’s too much! I can’t take it any more! Sometimes I just want to be idle and lazy. Your horoscopes piss me off! – Crabby Capricorn.”

Dear Crabby: I’ve got some good news. In the coming week, you are completely excused from having to

change anything about yourself or your life. Stay exactly the same! Be frozen in time. Resist the urge to tinker. Take a vacation from life’s relentless command to evolve.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan sneaked into Poland’s National Museum with a painting he had done himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. “I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this,” he said. “I want to benefit from them in the here and now.”

This is the kind of aggressive self–expression I’d like to see you summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don’t wait for the world to come and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. P.S. The English translation of Sobiepan’s Polish last name means “his own master.” What can you do to be more of your own master?

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) Before any system can leap to a higher level of organization, says poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo dissolution.

“Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making room for the new,” she declares. Guess what time it is for the system we all know and love as YOU, Pisces?

That’s right: It’s a perfect moment to undo, dismantle, and disperse . . . as well as to unscramble, disentangle, and disencumber. Be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. “To change from one reality to another,” writes Wooldridge, “a thing first must turn into nothing.”

(Her book is *Poemcrazy.*)

Psychotronic Film Society

Hosts weekly screenings every Wednesday, 8pm, at the Sentient Bean. Offering up a selection of films so bad they are good, cult classics and other rarities. Upcoming schedule: www. sentientbean.com and on weekends at The Muse Arts Warehouse www.musesavannah.org [062812]

Fitness AHA in the AM

“Aha in the AM” from 7:30-9am, Mondays and Fridays. The Anahata Healing Arts (AHA) Sanctuary is open to free form yoga/movement with guided mediation. Great way to start and end your work week. AHA offers a sacred, creative environment for the community to co-create and channel positive energy which supports emotions, strengthens bodies, and sustains spirits.

Location: Anahata Healing Arts, 2424 Drayton St., Unit B. Email for weekly theme, trickydame@gmail.com. Fee: donations. Information: trickydame.com/anahata-healing-arts. [120212]

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year-round fitness opportunities. Walkers and runners can choose from the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible), additional 1 mile Avian Loop Trail or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and Street Strider rental available. Guided hikes scheduled regularly. $5 parking. Open daily 7 a.m. – 10 p.m.

(912) 598-2300 www.GaStateParks.org/SkidawayIsland [100712]

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays from 9-10am. $10 per session. North End of Forsyth Park. Contact relaxsavannah@ gmail.com with questions.

Basic Zumba & Zumba Toning Classes with Mai

Mondays, Lake Mayer in the Community Center from 8:30am - 9:30am. Zumba Toning at the JEA (Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St) Mondays @ 6 pm. Free for members, $5.00 for nonmembers. Basic Zumba Tues & Thurs 1010:45am, Curves in Sav’h Mall, $3/members, $5/ Gen. Adm. Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm, St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class. Weds 9:30-10:15am, Frank Murray Community Center, Wilmington Island, $3. Bring water, proper shoes and attire. Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890.

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Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Train with the elite Beastmode Fitness team. We have a total body program that ​trims, tones and gets results. Personal Training options also available. beastmodefitnessga.com/chooseyour-package.

Hours: 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM. West Broad St. YMCA, 1110 May St. [010613]

Bellydance Fusion Classes

Fusion bellydance mixes ballet, jazz and hip hop into a unique, high energy style of dance.

Classes include drills and choreographies for all levels. Small classes held several days a week in downtown Savannah, and upon request. $10 per person. Contact Christa at bohemianbeats. com [012713]

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation based classes held at the Talahi Island Community Center. Tue. & Thur. 5:45 -7:00 Fri. 9:30-10:30a For info email egs5719@aol.com or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. [063012]

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times. 355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St., http:// www.savj.org. [063012]

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them. Call Sifu Michael Sampson to learn about free trial classes 912-429-9241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop ins welcome. [063012]

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays at the Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Call for times and fees. 912-232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. [063012]

Pilates Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and Semi-Private classes by appointment. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Suite-A Ferguson Ave. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. 912.238-0018. http:// savannahpilates.com. [063012]

Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week sessions. Thursdays 6- 7:15pm at Savannah Yoga Center, 1319 Bull Street. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Course fee: $100.

Contact Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 or ann@ aikyayoga.com. [121312]

Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

Every Wednesday women climb for half price from 6pm - 10pm. $5. 302 W Victory Drive, Suite D. savannahclimbingcoop.com [091012]

Savannah Disc Golf Club

Weekly events (Entry $5): Friday 5 pm - Friday Night Flights. Sat. 10am-Luck of the draw Doubles. Sat. 1pm-Handicapped League. Tom Triplett Park, Hwy 80 W, Pooler. Sun. 10 amSingles at the Sarge in Hardeeville, SC. Info: savannahdiscgolf.com or savannahdiscgolf@ gmail.com All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. [063012]

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

Get in shape for 2013. Join the Savannah Striders Running Club for only $10. This is a one-year fully activated membership open to new members only. We will inspire you and help you reach your fitness goals for 2013. Free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes. Fun runs with diverse and health-minded people. Advice from mentors. Access to a quality website with beneficial information. Monthly meetings with relevant and exciting speakers. Frequent social events (let’s just say this group knows how to have a good time.) Sign up at www.savystrider. com. Click on “member signup” or find us on www.facebook.com/savystrider12

She “OMS” It: Teen Girls’ Yoga

An opportunity for teen girls to try yoga, to develop strength, balance and capacity for compassionate relationships, positive body image, selfconfidence, tools for stress management mood balancing. Six classes for $90. Mondays, 3:305:00pm or Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30pm. Please pre-register: date of first class will only be scheduled after at least five people register. Erica Odom RYT, CPT & Kate Jacobson RYT, MSW. Ganesha’s Place, 2323 Barnard St. Information and pre-registration: 912-665-4199 or www.ganeshasplace.com. [010613]

Stand-Up Paddleboarding

Stand-up paddleboarding lessons and tours. A great way get out on the water and to stay fit.

East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. Eastcoastpaddleboarding.com or 912484-3200. [093012]

The Yoga Room

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr. [063012]

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:45 p.m.,

Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031. [072912]

Zumba Classes with Mai and Anne

Ditch the Workout, Join the Party, Monday nights 7-8pm. Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 East Montgomery Crossroads. All levels.

Fee: $5. Information: 912-596-1952, or 912604-9890. [101512]

Zumba Fitness (R) Classes with April

Mondays @ 5:30 and Thursdays @ 6:30. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. Just $5 for nonmembers. Call 912-349-4902 for more info. [063012]

Zumba Fitness and Toning Classes with Anne

Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E Montgomery Crossroads. Toning class is Tuesdays, 7-8 pm. Bring 1 or 2 lb. weights. Standard Zumba is Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. Both classes are $5 per session, Free if you bring a friend.

(912) 596-1952. [8-3-12]

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. [0622812]

Gay AA Meeting

True Colors AA Group, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E Harris St, 2nd floor. Note: this is a new location effective 11/2012. [111912]

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-547-6263.

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. SPs mission of unity through diversity, and social awareness has helped promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South, and organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival. Call 912-288-7863 or email heather@savpride.com. [062812]

Stand Out Youth

A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@ standoutyouth.org or visit www.standoutyouth. org. [062812]

What Makes A Family

in the body; slowing down thinking to improve concentration and focus; calming emotional reactions in stressful times. If you are in less than great physical condition, nervous, but curious about yoga this could be YOUR class. $10 Wednesdays 9:30 -10:45am Ganesha’s Place 2323 Barnard St.912-655-4192 www.ganeshasplace.com. [011313]

Alcoholics Anonymous

If you want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Check www.SavannahAA.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-3563688 for information. [062812]

Armstrong Participates in Prescription Drug Drop-off Program

Armstrong Atlantic State University now hosts a permanent drop box for accepting unused prescription drugs, as Savannah’s location for the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) drug drop-off program. The drop box is located in the lobby of the university police building on campus, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah. Open 24 hours a day, year-round. Open to the public.

All drop-offs are confidential. information: Armstrong Police Department at 912-344-3333.

All items will be collected and destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Department

Free, Walk-in HIV testing is available at the Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive, from 8am-4pm Monday through Friday. No appointment needed. Test results are available in 20 minutes. A follow up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Information: 912-644-5217 [111112]

Health Care for Uninsured People

St. Mary’s Health Center is open for primary health for the uninsured of Chatham County.

The center, located at 1302 Drayton, is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. For information or to make an appointment, call 912-443-9409. [062812]

Hypnobirthing

Teaches the mom and her birth partner to use her natural instincts, trust her body, release emotions and facilitate relaxation during labor and delivery. The series of five classes are held on Monday evenings starting at 6 PM at 100 Riverview Drive. Reservations are required.

Private classes available. $300 for group sessions, $600 for private sessions. Call Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 to verify dates and space availability or e-mail her at carroll3620@ bellsouth.net. [121612]

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611. [062812]

Held the first Wednesday of each month at 6pm in Mercer Auditorium in the Hoskins Center, Memorial University Medical Center.

Provides information about bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics.

Learn about the surgical procedures offered, support and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can change your life. For more information, call 912-350-DIET (3438) or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. There is no charge to attend. [120912]

Free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech & Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. www.savannahspeechandhearing. org [062812]

Welcome to Yoga - Or What’s In It For Me?

Curious about yoga? This class is a chance to explore some of yoga’s many potential benefits including: easing tension, discomfort & pain

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Thursday of every month at 10am. La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers.

897-9544, www.lllusa.org/web/SavannahGA. html. [062812]

Living Smart Fitness Club

An exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes offered by St. Joseph’s/ Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John. S. Delaware Center from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM. On Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, the classes are held at the center on 1910 Abercorn Street. Zumba (Tuesdays). Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises. (Mondays & Wednesdays). Information: 912-447-6605.

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Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services. Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-264-7154.

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Yoga on the Beach at Tybee

Held on Wednesdays and Fridays, at Tybee’s North End, weather permitting, from 7am-8am.

Come to the North Beach Public Parking area, Gulick Street walkover (next to lifeguard stand #2). Drop-ins encouraged! The class is by donation and is a multi-level class, Hatha I & II, IntegralÃ’ Yoga style. Instructor: Ann Carroll, RYT, 500 hour level. Bring yoga mat or beach towel. Call or e-mail Ann for more information at (912) 704~7650 or ann@aikyayoga.com.

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Nature and Environment Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportunity Authority

Programs of EOA have been earning free financial support by participating in the FundingFactory Recycling Program. Bring empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops to EOA for recycling through FundingFactory, in exchange for their choice of technology recreation products, or even cash. Business Support Program of Funding Factory will give benefit to EOA for materials recycled through them by business registered with them. Drop off recyclables at 618 West Anderson Street, Rm. 202, Savannah, GA 31415 To learn more about supporting EOA, including the Business Support Program (recycling) call Debbie Walker at 238-2960 ext.126, or dwproperty@aol.com or at www.FundingFactory.com. [053112]

The Dolphin Project

Health Bariatric Surgery Information Session

La Leche League of Savannah

Crossword Answers

The Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at your school, club or organization. We offer a fascinating powerpoint with sound and video about our estuarine dolphins and their environment. Ageappropriate programs and related handouts. www.thedolphinproject.org [062712]

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Offering a variety of fun educational programs including Beach Discovery Walks, Marsh Treks, Turtle Talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. Open daily, 10am-5pm. For more info, call 912-786-5917 or visit www.tybeemarinescience.org. [062712]

Walk on the Wild Side

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Wilderness Southeast

Offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. Their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or www.wildernesssoutheast.org. [062712]

Pets & Animals Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. Vaccinations: $12.00, with $2.00 per vaccination donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies.

Habersham Village Shopping Center. www. tailsspin.com [062712]

St. Almo’s

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912-2343336. [062712]

Readings & Signings

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A New Church in the City, For the City.

We gather on Sunday mornings at Bryson Hall (5 East Perry St.) on Chippewa Square at 10:30 am. Like us on Facebook: Savannah Church Plant. [062712]

Guided Silent Prayer

A couple of songs done acoustically, about 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and a few minutes to receive prayer if you want (or remain in silence). A mid-week rest and re-focus. 6:458pm on Wednesdays at the Vineyard Church.

615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org [062712]

Meditation Classes in January and February

Meets the last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605. [062712]

Tea Time at Ola’s (Book Club)

A book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Bring a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it. Treats to share are always welcomed. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660. [062712]

Religious & Spiritual All women are invited every second Thursday of the month, 7:30 - 8:30am. Location: Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Road, Savannah.

Contact: Ron Bigalke at 912-659-4212 or ron. bigalke@capitolcom.org or Jeanne Seaver at 912-663-8728 or jeanneseaver@aol.com. www. capitolcom.org/georgia “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD”

Service of Compline

The Service of Compline at Christ Church has moved: same music, same service, same choir, same preacher--different location. Service of chanted Compline by candlelight will be held at historic Independent Presbyterian Church (corner of Bull Street and Oglethorpe) every Sunday night at 9:00p.m. “Come, say good night to God.” [062712]

Theology on Tap

Meets at The Distillery every month on the third Monday night from 8:30 - 10:30pm. Like us on Facebook: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. [062712]

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church

January 23 - February 13. Email gandencenter@gmail.com for more information.

Services begin Sunday at 11 a.m. at 1001 E. Gwinnett St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. Religious education for grades 1-8 is offered. For information, call 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com. Celebrating diversity. Working for justice. [062712]

Recover Your Muse through the Arts. Monday evenings : 6pm - 7:30 pm at Ganesha’s Place, 2323 Barnard Street (at 40th Street). Taught by Elizabeth Massey, MA, Expressive Arts. www. ganeshasplace.com [010613]

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

234-0980, admin@uusavannah.org or www. uusavannah.org. [062712]

Held at Unity of Savannah, on Wednesday nights from 7pm- 8:15pm. Remaining dates of the series are:

Open Studio/Creative Recovery for NonArtists.

Read the Bible in One Year

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Band Of Sisters Prayer Group

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Holy Spirit Lutheran Church is starting a Bible Book Club for those who wish to read the Bible in one year. Open to anyone. Book club format.

This is not a traditional church bible study. All are welcome regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or religion. Thursdays, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 East 37th Street. Information: 912-233-5354.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Unprogrammed worship, 11:00am Sundays on the third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church, Telfair Square (use 225 W. President St. entrance and follow signs). For further information, contact the Meeting Clerk at (912)308-8286 or savbranart@gmail.com. All are welcome. [011313]

Savannah Zen Center

Buddhist study classes, yoga workshops, retreats, Reiki sessions and attunements, meditation, classes & events are held at 111 E. 34th St., Savannah, Ga 31401. For schedule: savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook.

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Unity Church of Savannah

Two Sunday morning Celebration Services - 9:15 and 11:00. (Children’s Church and childcare at 11:00.)

Noon prayer service every Thurs. To find out about classes, workshops and more visit, www. unityofsavannah.org or call 912-355-4704. 2320 Sunset Blvd. [062712]

Sports & Games

Adult Coed Flag Football League

8v8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsor bar provided for discount food & drinks.

Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club.

Wed nights/Sun mornings, held at locations around Savannah. $450/team. Minimum 8 games. For ages 18+. Coed teams. Information: www.SavAdultRec.com (912) 220-3474 [101512]

Adult Coed Ultimate Frisbee League

8v8 Coed Ultimate League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsor bar provided for discount food & drinks. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Matches are Thurs

nights/Sun afternoons. Held in Daffin Park/ Forsyth Park. Registration fees: $350/team.

Minimum 8 games. For ages 18+. Information: www.SavAdultRec.com (912) 220-3474.

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Savannah Bike Polo

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. Check out www. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information. [062712]

Support Groups Bariatric Surgery Support Group Meeting

First Wednesday of each month at 7pm, and third Saturday of each month at 10am, in Mercer Auditorium in the Hoskins Center, Memorial University Medical Center.Open to anybody who has had, or is considering having, bariatric surgery. Each monthly meeting is a different topic, with different guest speakers.

There is no charge to attend. For more information call 912-350-DIET (3438) or visit bariatrics. memorialhealth.com. [120912]

Free Caregiver Support Group

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction. Meetings are the second Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 11:00am, at Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Drive. Refreshments and conversation after each meeting.

Participation is free and open to anyone with a need of support for the care giving they provide. www.savannahcommons.com [082612]

ACOA-Al-Anon

The “From Survival to Recovery” Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon Group is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Meets Thursdays at 5:45 PM at the 24-Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Drive. For call-back information, phone 912-598-9860. [101512]

Al-Anon Family Groups

An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. The message of the AlAnon Family Groups is one of strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers.

Al-Anon is for adults, and Alateen is for young people ages 13-19. Meetings daily throughout Savannah and the surrounding area. Check www.savannahalanon.com for meeting information and times, or call 912-598-9860.

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Yard SaleS 204 March 8&9. Now accepting vendors for Peaches To The Beaches community yard sale in Downtown Brunswick at Mary Ross Waterfront Park. It’s the biggest yard sale in Georgia! Arts,crafts, antiques, furniture,everyday household items and new merchandise is welcomed. Got stuff? Bring it! www.greatgoldenislesyardsale.com

ads received by 5pm friday will appear in the Wednesday issue of the next week Items for sale 300

want to buy 390

BROKEN WASHER OR DRYER IN YOUR WAY??

Call Eddie for fast, friendly pickup at your home.

912-429-2248 Diabetic Test Strips Wanted Most types, Most brands. Will pay up to $10/box. Call Clifton 912-596-2275.

EmploymEnt 600

General 630

WANTED: Mature, Responsible, Independent Individual for Housekeeping position.

Must have own vehicle, mileGEMI TRUCKING NOW HIRING age paid. Call 356-3369 beFlatbed & Container Drivers. Home tween 10am and 4pm,M-F Drivers WanteD 625

every weekend. Top pay and benefits. 401K, holidays, vacation.

Medical, Dental, Vision and Life.

Call 912-748-2800.

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HOmes fOr sale 815 2346 RANCHLAND DRIVE: 3BR/1BA, central heat & air, equipped kitchen, washer/dryer, den. $69,500 OBO. 912-234-6150 commercial property for sale 845

CAMP at Shellman Bluff for sale.

Call 912-536-0549 for more info. for rent 855 1111 EAST 57TH STREET: 2BR/1BA Apartment, newly painted, kitchen, dining area, washer/dryer connections.

Available NOW. $625/month. Call 912-655-4303 1/2-OFF 1ST MONTH’S RENT! Rent A Manufactured home,14x70,on high/wooded lot. 3BR/2BA,save $$$, Gas, heat and stove, central air, refrigerator,full mini-blinds, carpeting and draperies, washer/dryer hookups, 48sqft. deck w/hand rails and steps, double-car cement parking pad. Swimming pool, recreational areas, on-site garbage service(twice weekly) and fire protection included, cable TV available, guest parking. Starting at $500/month,including lot rent.

800 Quacco Road. 925-9673.

1412 E 56th St. 3BR/1BA, Hardwood floors, LR, Kitchen/Dining w/Fridge & Gas Stove, W/D connections, CH&A, Fenced backyard, Carport & Extra Storage $895/rent, $850/deposit.

Section 8 Accepted

898-4135

2012 EAST 50TH

3BR/2 full baths, LR, DR, kitchen, laundry room, front & backyard. $950/month plus deposit. Call 912-658-7499 or 912-484-0462 •2140 ALASKA: 3BR/1BA $825 •2608 MISSISSIPPI: 3BR/2BA, new kitchen $850 •1905 E.57TH: 4BR/1.5BA, very nice house $925 Section-8 Accepted.

912-257-6181 2 & 3BR APARTMENTS WON’T LAST LONG! Westlake Avenue: Starting at $500 & up. Heat/air, washer/dryer connections. Call 912-656-5004 2 BEDROOM, 1 Bath house for rent, kitchen, dining area, large LR, fenced backyard. Call 236-6259 or 351-9001 2BR DUPLEX FOR RENT: 405 W.62nd, off Montgomery St. by fairgrounds. Total electric, no stove or refrigerator,no CH&A,no pets.$600/month. 912-507-8127 302 TREAT AVE.-East Savannah.

3BR/1BA, CH&A, total electric $725/month, $725/deposit.

513 WEST 63RD: 4BR/1BA $725/month, $725/deposit. Section 8 Accepted. 912-844-2344

for rent 855

for rent 855

303 WEST WALDBURG ST. 2-Story Apt. 2 blocks from Forsyth Park.

3BR/2BA, LR/DR, furnished kitchen. No pets. No Section 8. $800/month. Call 912-667-1242 3BR, 1BA, LR/DR combo, den, kitchen and washroom. 16 Silverstone Circle. $800/month, $800/deposit. Section 8 Welcome.

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4 COLUMBUS DRIVE: Ardsley Park area.2BR, bath, dining area, LR, kitchen w/all new appliances, CH&A, all utilities included. Students Welcome. $750/month, $400/deposit. 912-234-0702

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703 WEST 51ST STREET

1BR Efficiency Apt. All utilities included. $600 per month.

912-844-0694 or 912-508-2397 *730 E.34th: 3BR/1BA $625 *410 E.50th: 1BR/1BA, water & garbage included $675 *1504 E.33rd: 3BR/1BA $700 Several Rental & Rent-to-Own Properties Guaranteed Financing.

STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829 820 TIBET: 3BR, 2½BA townhome.

Separate LR, laundry room, central heat/air, private patio & utility room. $950/per month. Call 912-596-7551

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OAK FOREST APARTMENT 2BR/1BA Downstairs unit, total electric.

GEORGETOWN CONDO Hunter’s Pointe, 2BR/2BA, All appliances including washer & dryer.

CONTACT 927-4383 CARVER HEIGHTS: For Rent/OptionElliott Street off Gwinnett. Newly renovated 3BR/2BA, small den. LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, larger rooms, total electric, heat/air, laminate throughout, laundry room, fenced backyard. $650. Call 912-224-4167 Eastside: 2118 New Mexico Off Pennsylvania, 3BR/1BA, LR, eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors, fully furnished, laundry room, carport, fenced yard. Outside pet ok w/deposit. $775/mo. if paid by 1st, $750/dep. Available Now. Call 912-352-8251

for rent 855 SPECIAL! 1812 N. Avalon Dr. 2BR/1.5BA $675/mo, $500/dep.

FOR RENT

•109 West 41st: Lower 1BR Apt., 1.5BA, CH&A$450 + security •227 Glass St. 2BR house, gas heat $450 + security.

•1202 McCarthy Ave: 2BR apt. window AC, gas heat $450 + sec.

•1021 West 41st: 3BR house, LR, DR, CH&A $770 + security •728 West 39th: Large 4BR house, CH&A $700 + security deposit.

Call Lester, 313-8261 or 234-5650

FOR SALE

•825 Jamestown Rd: Nice 3BR/2BA home located in quiet Jamestown Subd. featuring family room w/fireplace & large backyard.

•Investor’s Special! 1815 Mills B Lane:2BR/1BA home, Liberty City area. A little TLC is all you need to make this an excellent investment property.

Call Lester @ 912-313-8261 or Deloris 912-272-3926 FOR RENT-OAKLANE TOWNHOUSES Off Wild Heron Road 110 Trellis Way 2-story townhouse w/rear lane entry garage, 3BR, LR, 2-1/2 BA, Kitchen w/stove, dishwasher and garbage disposal, (Senior Discount). Call Charles Bell, 234-0611, between 9-5PM, Monday thru Friday.

FULL APTS. (1BR, LR, kitchen, bath) Paid Weekly, Furnished, Quiet area, on busline. Utilities included. $150-$200/week. $100/deposit. 821 Amaranth.

1715 DUNN ST. 3BR/2BA, CH/A, total electric $800/month. 912-441-5468 FURNISHED EFFICIENCY: 1510 Lincoln Street. $165/week plus deposit. Includes microwave, refrigerator, central heat & air & utilities! Call 912.231.0240

HIGHLAND WOODS 800 QUACCO ROAD 925-9673

SPECIAL! 1303 E.66th: 2BR/2 Bath, W/D connection, near Memorial Hosp. $725/month, $500/dep 11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection $595/month 3213 Woodlawn St., Thunderbolt. 3BR/2BA, all electric, kitchen equipped, W/D connection $950/mo, $700/dep.

DAVIS RENTALS 310 E. MONTGOMERY XROADS 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

WATERFRONT CONDO Fabulous Thunderbolt Harbour Condo. 2 or 3BR, all electric, bookcases, fireplace,pool, boat slip, intercoastal waterway, kitchen furnished, 2-car garage. Reduced $1600. 912-661-4814

WILMINGTON ISLAND

2BR Duplex near May Howard School. Most pets OK. $725 per month. Call 912-663-9941 or 828-733-9668 WILMINGTON ISLAND: Johnny Mercer duplex, 2BR/1BA, LR, dining area, kitchen, newly renovated $825/month. 912-897-6789 or 912-344-4164

WILSHIRE ESTATES

Available Now! Large 3BR/1BA, large kitchen, LR, DR/family room combo, CH/A, Window World energy efficient windows throughout. Quiet area, minutes to HAAF, schools, shopping, restaurants.

No smoking. No Section 8. Police discounts available. 1yr. lease. $939/rent, $979/security deposit.

912-920-1936

Mobile Home lots for rent.

First month rent free! Wooden deck, curbside garbage collection twice weekly, swimming pool and playground included. Cable TV available.

LARGO TIBET AREA

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QUAIL RUN CONDO 2BR/2BA w/loft, $750 + deposit.

JASMINE AVE. 2BR, fenced yard. No pets. $550 + deposit.

No Section 8. 912-234-0548 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

EAST SAVANNAH ROOMMATES WANTED VERY CLEAN. Stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer included. On bus line. Starting at $125/week.

Call 912-961-2842

EAST & WEST SAVANNAH

$100 & Up Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Ceramic tile in kitchen. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. Call 912-210-0144.

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.

CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Furnished, Ready to move-in.

BEAUTY SHOP FOR LEASE No utilities.

Call 912-313-4083 or 912-313-4082 rooms for rent 895

AVAILABLE ROOMS:

CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, ceiling fans. $115-$145 weekly. No deposit.

Call Ike @ 844-7065

transportation 900

cars 910

CHEVROLET S-10 Pickup, 1999- Low miles, stick shift, short bed, very clean. $2,950. 441-2150

FENDER BENDER ??

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2000 FORD F-150, All new tires, new battery, new spark plugs, Call $3,950.00 912-4413860

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

FORD F-150 Pickup, 1996 Supercab, 2WD, XLT package.

265,000 miles. white, good work truck. $1800 OBO. 912-650-1850 HONDA Pilot XL, 2003- White, 234,000 miles, one owner, new tires. Excellent condition $6000 OBO. 912-650-1850 or 912-224-1841

TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT: 2 Bedrooms, 1-1/2 Baths. Midtown area. Washer/dryer connections.

No pets. $650/monthly plus deposit. Call 912-355-1966

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

*2BR/2 Bath Apt. $665/month, $600/deposit. *Require 1yr. lease. No pets.

Call 912-704-3662

rooms for rent 895

happenings

800

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.

LOOK THIS WAY FOR A PLACE TO STAY

Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, 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, central heat/air. No deposit.

Call 912-398-7507.

NICE ROOM FOR RENT. NO DRUGS! 912-844-8716 Happenings: All the info about clubs, groups and events. Only at www.connectsavannah.com

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.

ROOM FOR RENT Washer & Dryer, CH/A great location, $140-$150 weekly Please Call Jason 912-401-8899

130 ALPINE DRIVE: Roommate Wanted. $600/month, NO deposit or $150/week. All utilities included.

Near Hunter AAF. 912-272-8020 ROOMMATE WANTED: Clean house in Rincon, GA. $100/weekly, all included. Call for more info, 912-658-0053 ROOMMATE WANTED to share 3BR/2BA house in Paradise Park. $475/month, split utilizes. Call Robert, 912-631-1650

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LEXUS ES 300, 2000

Black with real tan leather interior, cold A/C, engine runs good. Needs transmission work. $4,500 OBO. Call 912-898-8133 MITSUBISHI GALANT, 2012- $ 22,000 12k miles, perfect conditior, Black interior, Black exterior. 1 Owner. 912-220-1244/ 231-0520 PONTIAC Grand Am, 1995Automatic, cold A/C, low miles. $2,650. 441-2150 TOYOTA Avalon, 2004-Excellent condition. Loaded, new tires, sunroof, CD player, power seats, dual AC/heat, cruise control,side airbags, 92,800 miles,light beige, leather interior. $9500. 912-355-8962 SUVS 930 HONDA CRV , 1999- SUV, automatic, cold A/C, very clean $3,250. 441-2150 Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 HARLEY DAVIDSON, Dyna Low Rider, 2009, used. Orange/Blk. Exhaust, Grips, A/C, Engine Guard, etc.

25K miles. $11,000. 912-925-0005, Savannah Harley-Davidson.

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