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Week At A Glance

compiled by robin wright gunn | happenings@connectsavannah.com Week At A Glance is Connect Savannah’s listing of events in the coming week. If you want an event listed, email WAG@connectsavannah.com. Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.

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Thursday / 26

Bryan County Bark Park Hawaiian Luau Yappy Hour

Artists & Artisan Tour

June's monthly BYOD (Bring Your Own Dog) Yappy Hour is all about the tropics, with a fancy dress competition and doggie smoothies in tropical honey and peanut butter blueberry flavors for $3 or $4.

Proceeds raise funds to build a dog park at Henderson Park in Bryan County.

6-8 p.m Fish Tales at Ft. McAllister Marina, 3203 Ft. McAllister Rd. Free and open to the public.

Lesley@francis.com. bryancountybarkpark.com

Circus King Show

Sean Driscoll presents a live action show that combines puppets, animation, magic and music in one hilarious production.

A young boy is lost at sea and raised by a circus of misfits--a baboon, an allergic elephant and a lazy lion. Ages 3 and older.

Pooler Library, Wednesday, June 25, 10:30 a.m.

Rincon Library,Wednesday, June 25, 4:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Film: Sidney Lumet Birthday Tribute.

Psychotronic Film Society presents a screening in honor of the late American film director Sidney Lumet. The film title will be announced at the screening. For mature viewers.

8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. $7 sentientbean.com

Public Hearing on Millage Rate Increase by Savannah Chatham County Board of Education

One of three public hearings required to gather input from the community regarding the school board's intention to increase the property taxes it will levy this year by 1.13 percentage over the rollback millage rate.

6:30 p.m Whitney Administrative Complex (School Board), 2 Laura Avenue.

Free and open to the public. internet.savannah.chatham.k12.ga.us/

Bethesda Farm Stand

The Savannah Downtown Neighborhood Association hosts this progressive art exhibition and wine/hors d'oeuvres party, moving from historic home to home to enjoy wine, appetizers and art.

6-8:30 p.m Savannah Law School, 516 Drayton Street. $60 communications@SavannahDNA.org savannahdna.org/artists

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed at Parent University Graduation

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed offers the keynote address at a graduation event for 185 local parents who have completed this groundbreaking program to encourage life-long learning and promote parent involvement in the development and education of Savannah's children.

6:30 p.m Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Free and open to the public. parentuniversitysav.org

This organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs.

3-5:30 p.m.

Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org

Buy Local Savannah Luncheon

A stress-free lucheon: Speaker is Zelda Tenenbaum.

How to alleviate some of that unnecessary stress and start a balanced and peaceful life. Includes lunch buffet.

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m The Pirate's House, 20 East Broad St. $30 for nonmembers and $20 for members. buylocalsavannah.com

Mel Brooks Cabaret

Part of the Lucas Theatre's Summer Cabaret Series and part of the Mel Brooks summer offerings. Only 125 seats available.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $30 lucastheatre.com

Theatre: And Then There Were None

Armstrong Masquers presents the murder mystery by Agatha Christie.

June 26-28, 7:30 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $10. Discounts available.

912-344-2801. armstrong.edu

Friday / 27 Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats Facebook Friday

The first half season division champion Sand Gnats take on the Rome Braves.

Visit Facebook.com/sandgnats for a link to tonight's special offer.

7:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8 sandgnats.com

Film: Ida (Poland/Denmark, 2013)

CinemaSavannah prsents the regional premiere of the critically acclaimed fim by Polish-British director Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love, Last Resort).

Anna,an eighteen-year-old novitiate nun, discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Set in 1962 Poland. In Polish with English subtitles.

5 & 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $8 musesavannah.org

Film: The Producers (1968, USA)

This satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks. A theatrical producer and an accountant want to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop, to take more money from investors than they can repay, only to see the plan go awry when the show turns out to be a hit. Sponsored by Connect Savannah.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $8 general admission or $5 student/senior/military. lucastheatre.com

Science Fun with SSU

SCAD Gallery Hop

Travel by free shuttle for an evening of art receptions at the SCAD Museum of Art and two other SCAD galleries.

6-8 p.m Free and open to the public. scad.edu

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A sustainable energy demo for kids age 6-10, by Bryan Knakiewicz and the SSU Tigers Science Club.

2:30 p.m Thunderbolt Library, 2708 Mechanics Avenue.

Free and open to the public. liveoakpl.org/events/science_fun_with_ssu.php

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Theatre: Spine Tingling Tales

Sip, Shop, Socialize

A late night ghost show that's appropriate for most ages...but a little bit scary....

11 p.m.

The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $25 soucyman@gmail.com. spinetinglingtales.com

This neighborhood boutique reveals their summer collection and offers goodie bags to the first 25 customers. Plus today-only sale.

12-4 p.m One Eleven Boutique, 3305 Waters Ave (@ 49th St).

Free and open to the public.

Theatre: And Then There Were None

Theatre: Spine Tingling Tales

Armstrong Masquers presents the murder mystery by Agatha Christie.

June 26-28, 7:30 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $10. Discounts available.

912-344-2801. armstrong.edu

A late night ghost show that's appropriate for most ages...but a little bit scary....

11 p.m.

The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $25 soucyman@gmail.com. spinetinglingtales.com

SpitFire Saturday Open Mic & Showcase

Saturday / 28 14th Annual Southern Isles Bodybuilding, Figure, Physique and Wheelchair

Athletes compete in Bodybuilding, Figure, Wheelchair and Physique competitions.

Categories include Teen, Novice Men, Masters Men, Figure, Men's & Women's Physique and Wheelchair.

10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Pre-Judging: $15.00, Finals: $25.00 912-897-1263. southernislesbb@comcast.net

Baseball and Fireworks: Savannah Sand Gnats

It's the Sand Gnats vs. Rome Braves, followed by post-game fireworks.

6:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8 Gen. Adm. sandgnats.com

Black-n-Blue Ball

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Coastal Health District Home Run Trot 5k begins at 8 a.m. with registration starting at 7 a.m. Rookie Run at 7:45 a.m.

Each runner receives a free ticket to that evening's Sand Gnats game.

Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $25 Pre-Registration. $30 Race Day Registration. 1 mile Rookie Run $12. fleetfeetsavannah.com/home-run-5k

Film: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, USA)

Five lucky children win golden tickets, giving them entry to Willie Wonka's candy factory, a lifetime supply of chocolate, and more surprises than one can imagine.

Gene Wilder stars. Sponsored by Connect Savannah.

3 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $8 general, $5 discount. lucastheatre.com

Tux and gown, or blue jeans and leather.

Music by 8 Mile Bend Band. The twentieth annual dance party put on by Savannah Harley Owners Group (HOGs) benefiting the Coastal Empire Muscular Dystrophy Association.

7-11:59 p.m Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. Ida (Poland/Denmark, 2013) $25 for admission and Fri / 27 @ muse hors d'oeuvres. Cash Bar 912-354-9576. savannahhog.com

Call of the Wild at Skidaway

A nighttime walk of Skidaway State Park trails, listening for the calls of nocturnal animals.

8:30 p.m Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. $5 parking fee. Annual passes available.

912-598-2300. gastateparks.org

The monthly open-mic showcase that incorporates music, poetry, visual art, and many other artistic forms of expression.

Sign up begins at 7:30 pm.

8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $3 Spitters. $5 Sitters. musesavannah.org

Film: Thelma and Louise (USA, 1991)

An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.

Starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.

Presented by SCAD Cinema Circle.

7 p.m Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.

$8. $5 for seniors/military/non-SCAD students. Free with valid SCAD ID. scad.edu

Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine.

9 a.m.-1 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Free to attend. Items for sale. forsythfarmersmarket.com

Healthy Garden: Call for Garden Volunteers

Learn to garden and help tend the Canyon Ranch Institute's Healthy Garden.

8:30 a.m Trustees Garden, 88 Randolph St. Free and open to the public.

912-443-3264

Hemmings Motor News Great Race

A classic car rally, travelling 2,000 miles across the U.S., makes a Savannah stop.

Over 100 pre-1972 cars and trucks, including a 1915 Hudson, the “General Lee†and a recreation of “Doc Hudson†from the Pixar movie, “Cars."

11:15 a.m Rousakis Plaza, River St. Free and open to the public. greatrace.com

Lauren's Legacy Fundraiser

Story Trunk

An interactive storytelling show for children.

Appropriate for all ages.

1 & 3 p.m.

Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street. $5 Adults, $10 Children 12 and younger Justin@oddlot.org. oddlotimprov.com

Theatre: And Then There Were None

Armstrong Masquers presents the murder mystery by Agatha Christie.

June 26-28, 7:30 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $10. Discounts available.

912-344-2801. armstrong.edu

Theatre: Iced at the Coffee Shop

An interactive murder mystery show presented by the Odd Lot acting troupe.

7:30 p.m.

Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street. $20 adults. $15 children 15 and younger Justin@oddlot.org. savannahmurdermystery.com

Wilmington Island Farmers' Market

Vendors offering produce, prepared foods, crafts, plus storytime, musical performances, and community information. Every Saturday.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

Free and open to the public wifarmersmarket@aol.com. wifarmersmarket.org/

A benefit for the children of Lauren Brown Smart. Silent auction, food vendors, activities for kids. To donate or volunteer, contact via email.

10 a.m.-1 p.m Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

Free and open to the public.

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Sunday / 29 Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats presents TailsSpin Bark in the Park & Kids Eat Free

Bring your dog to the game to watch Sand Gnats vs. Rome Braves. Dogs must have papers. Kids 12 and under receive a free hot dog, chips and one small soda. Kids run the bases after the game.

2:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8 Gen. Adm. sandgnats.com

Concert: Celebration of Independence

The Savannah Winds, community wind symphony in residence at Armstrong, gives its Annual Patriotic Concert featuring John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and Lee Greenwood with senior U.S. military narration and Chatham County Veteran of the Year honors. Special guest celebrity appearance closes the show.

3 p.m Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. $12-20. armstrong.edu

Jazz Just Across the Park: Lenore Raphael

Bird Hike at Skidaway Island State Park Coastal Jazz Association presents "one An informative morning bird hike. Bring binoculars or borrow limited pairs from the museum.

9 a.m Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. $5 parking fee. Annual passes available.

(912)598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

of the most swinging mainstream jazz pianists" whose accolades include Grammy nominations.

5 p.m Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. $20. Free to CJA members and students. savannahjazzfestival.org

Dinner and Bikes, presented by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign

Theatre: The Job Experience: My Life is Not Over

A traveling road show of vegan food and bicycle inspiration from three national bike and food advocates. Joshua Ploeg will prepare a vegan and gluten free buffet dinner, Elly Blue will make a presentation based on her book Bikenomics and the economic case for bicycling, and Joe Biel will show either a program of short films or his new feature-length documentary, Aftermass, about the history of bicycle activism in Portland. The event is followed with a book signing and time for questions, discussion of local issues, and perusing the traveling bookstore.Presented by (and benefiting) the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.

Ticket includes dinner.

8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. $10 in advance online or $15 at the door. sentientbean.com

A Christian stage play written and directed

by Herbert Goodwin Jr., as a contemporary version of the biblical story of Job. 7-10 p.m Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $25 912-651-6556. thejobplay.com

Reading: Mary Alice Monroe

"Beach read" best-selling writer Mary Alice Monroe reads and signs Summer Wind, her latest book.

5 p.m Barnes & Noble, 7804 Abercorn St. Free to attend. Books $27.

(912) 353-7757

Story Trunk

An interactive storytelling show for children. Appropriate for all ages.

1 & 3 p.m.

Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street. $5 Adults, $10 Children 12 and younger Justin@oddlot.org. oddlotimprov.com

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Theatre: And Then There Were None

Armstrong Masquers presents the murder mystery by Agatha Christie.

3 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $10. Discounts available.

912-344-2801. armstrong.edu

Tommy Strong Music Festival

A benefit for former special forces soldier Tommy Kim who was diagnosed with brain cancer in January. Food vendors bands: 2 Tone Fish, 3rd Class Citizens, Andrew Gill Band, The Blurry Aftermath, The Immaculate Fix, Jon Lee and the Apparitions, Outlaw Gypsy, Rye House, Wassaw Sound, Waits & Co., Zan. 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Free and open to the public. Donations encouraged. https://facebook.com/events/1439931849590142/

Monday / 30 Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats Dollar Monday Sand Gnats continue their stand against the Rome Braves. Hot dogs, chips, small sodas & Pabst Blue Ribbon are $1 each.

7:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $1 with coupon. $8 Gen.Adm. sandgnats.com

Canticum: A Swedish Youth Gospel Choir

This choir's US tour brings them to Springfield. Sponsored by the Maritime Bethel at Savannah.

7 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street.

Free, suggested donations are $6.75-$25.00 912-826-0206. maritimebethelatsavannah.org

Comedy: Odd Lot Improv

Savannah's weekly wacky improv comedy show; appropriate for all ages.

8 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $5 Justin@oddlot.org. oddlot.org

Tuesday / 1 Author Appearance: A Conversation with Patti Callahan Henry and Mary Kay Andrews

Two New York Times bestselling authors discuss their recently released Savannahset books. There will be a reading, Q&A with Beth E. Concepcion, Chair of the SCAD Writing Department, and booksigning. Books available for sale, or audience may bring their own books.

7 p.m SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Free and open to the public.

(912) 525-6029.

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Watch the Gnats play Charleston River Dogs, and get Buy-One Get-One freee Miller Lite and Coors Light.

7:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8 general admission. sandgnats.com

Summer Family Game Night

An evening for families to spend time together and play board games provided by the library. All ages.

6 p.m Tybee Island Library, 405 Butler Ave. Free and open to the public.

912-786-7733

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Author Appearance: Mystery & Thriller Writers Jenny Milchman & Tina Whittle

Jenny Milchman, winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award for best suspense novel of 2013, presents her new psychological thriller Run Falls. Tina Whittle's Atlantabased mystery/thriller series features gun shop owner Tai Randolph and corporate security agent Trey Seaver.

6:30 p.m The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Free to attend. Books available for purchase. thebookladybookstore.com

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U.S. Army Soldier Show

Family-friendly, high-energy, live Army musical production with a Stand Strong theme. Showcases talents of active duty, Army Reserve and Army National Guard soldiers from throughout the Army.

7 p.m Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leonard Neat St. Free and open to the public.

Savannah's minor league team plays the Charleston River Dogs. Sales of special tickets benefit a different charity each Wednesday. Send email for info on tonight's charity.

7:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8 info@sandgnats.com. sandgnats.com

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City of Savannah District 4 Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague will host a Community Meeting for 4th District residents to discuss this facility.

6 p.m Speedwell United Methodist Church, 7259 Skidaway Road.

Free and open to the public.

912.351.6527

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editor’s note

Cheney’s ghost

by Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

You do remember Dick Cheney shot a dude in the face, right?

—Someone, this weekend I SWORE I WOULDN’T write about Iraq again. Not local enough.

Not enough Savannah in it.

But then again… Iraq and what’s going on there now is in many ways a very local story, given the number of local servicemen and women who were shipped over there, how many local families were impacted forever by the war, and now the possibility that it all could be starting over again.

Strangely enough, until someone reminded me, I’d completely forgotten about the bizarre episode in which the former vice president—now all over the airwaves, again—shot his friend in the face on a hunting trip, after which the friend apologized to him for getting shot.

But Dick Cheney’s lapse in firearm safety is a perfect microcosm of how the Bush administration’s arrogance and recklessness affected so many lives, and how the rest of the world is expected to be humbly grateful for the experience, even today.

In its oddity, the shotgun incident was also of a piece with the frankly hallucinatory statements by the Bush/Cheney administration about Iraq: “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.”

“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”

“Mission Accomplished.”

“We also know there are known unknowns.”

“We’re gonna smoke ‘em out.”

“Bring ‘em on.”

And the one statement that made sense,

by Colin Powell: “You break it, you own it.”

Looking back, the mass delusion is painfully obvious, as if you’re listening to people under the influence of hardcore drugs.

But at the time, Bush, Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Powell, et al, were considered the most serious and reflective people in America. In the world, even.

Can you imagine? That’s how sick it all was.

And that’s how sick it makes me feel today, seeing the catastrophic mess now blowing up in Iraq, an unholy conflagration that only every single opponent of the war warned in graphic detail was almost certain to happen if the U.S. invaded.

9/11 was obviously a severely traumatic event, but also had the effect of uniting Americans in tragedy and in resilience. Iraq, by contrast, wasn’t about America vs. the enemy, but American vs. American.

In late 2002-early 2003, the question wasn’t so much “do you support America?” as “do you support the president?”

It seems so strange now, in the waning days of Barack Obama’s second term, but in 2003, if you were against George W. Bush you were said to be against America itself.

At no other point, not even with Obamacare, can I remember such a far-reaching American policy decision being based explicitly on your degree of loyalty not to the nation, but to a particular person.

I don’t claim to have suffered even a hundredth of one percent as much as those who made actual, real sacrifices to serve this country’s misguided invasion of Iraq. But the run-up to the war was a trying time to be in the truth-telling business.

Journalists rarely suffer even a thousandth as much as those actually fighting, but there were casualties, both professional and literal.

They’re all case studies: Peter Arnett, fired for daring to say Iraqi resistance was “effective”; Phil Donahue, his show cancelled because he had the temerity to book effective and articulate anti-war guests while the administration was pushing the case for war; Ashleigh Banfield, blackballed from her career because she questioned the official policy of “embedding” reporters; And of course, journalists like David Bloom and Mazen Dana, who gave their lives covering the carnage (the latter shot dead by a U.S. soldier who mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher).

I say this not to make you feel sorry for journalists, but to point out the repressive climate of censorship that existed not only because of the war, but which also enabled the war to happen.

It’s a lesson to remember for the future.

As is usually the case, no good deed goes unpunished, and being right will have to be its own reward. Being 100 percent correct about Iraq in 2003 along with three bucks will get you a tasty iced cold-brew coffee at Foxy Loxy.

In the news business, what’s important is right now. And right now, seeing Dick Cheney’s smug mug on TV, still sure he was right all along, still implying that his critics support terrorism, still blaming the inheritor of his mess, Obama, for said mess, is nothing short of enraging.

Seeing Cheney and his vampirish coterie of true believers saturating the media landscape, as they did in 2003, brings back the dread I felt a decade ago as their vision inexorably became reality, step by step, from conservative think-tank to the floor of the UN to the wrecked neighborhoods of Baghdad to the despairing hallways of U.S. military hospitals and VA clinics.

It brings back the sense of horror and yes, shame, the night of March 19, 2003, when CNN’s “embedded” reporters breathlessly hyped the phenomenon of “Shock and Awe.” America’s opening attack was, we were assured, spearheaded by “smart bombs,” which in their laser-guided wisdom knew the difference between an Iraqi soldier and a four-year-old child.

Having studied a bit of military history, I knew well what was really meant by Shock and Awe. In previous wars it was more accurately called “carpet bombing.”

Shock and Awe was just another euphemism for killing civilians, for blowing up entire city blocks full of sleeping men, women and children. Same as it ever was.

Seeing Cheney on the news shows brought back other memories, of later in the war, of waking up to the news of yet more U.S. soldiers killed or injured by an “IED,” Improvised Explosive Device.

Another euphemism, that one for a bomb that blows your legs off and burns away all your skin. Same as it ever was.

But as disturbing as it is to see him haunt us again, by reappearing Dick Cheney is probably doing us all a favor.

He’s reminding us that... well, let’s just say, reminding us that he once shot his friend in the face. cs

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I get it. We don’t mind nakedness (or nekkidness, you naughty thing) contrived for marketing and entertainment. Yet we Gonzo novelgasp like asthmatic Calvinists at the mere ist Tom Robbins thought of real bare boobs and butts and notes in his book Villa bushes and weenies.

Incognito that “just This righteous outrage and huffy “this is because you’re naked, a family beach for Chrissakes” hyperbole doesn’t mean you’re strikes as painfully hilarious—especially sexy.”

He also writes in when it’s the same folks shouting themselves Skinny Legs and All, another philosophical hoarse about the government limiting their opus cloaked as fiction, that the difference rights. You want to bring your guns to Tarbetween “naked” and “nekkid” is that the get but lose your marbles at just the thought former means that you just don’t have any of someone else’s uncovered hiney? Please. clothes on, while the latter implies “you don’t Mostly, the main complaint is not moral have any clothes on but you’re fixing to get but aesthetic, usually expressed as a pursedinto trouble.” lipped “ain’t no one want to see that.”

Both adages seem rather relevant to a cerBelieve me, I’ve done enough rubbernecktain online petition that’s had Savannahians ing at Tybee’s shoreline parade to admit that tittering like a bunch of church ladies at a perhaps certain bodies in bathing suits are Chippendales conference. eye-searing enough.

Like anything that challenges our notions But to believe that the nudie patootie about sexuality, Isle of Hope resident petition is about our own judgments relative Shawn William’s request to designate a to other people’s parts is to miss the point. quarter-mile stretch of beach on Tybee Williams is quite earnest in his attempt Island as “clothing-optional” has been met to educate how nudism might be the antiwith mostly adodote for our wacked lescent guffaws and prude/pervy parajokes about sand in dox, a way to resolve unreachable places. negative body image The Change.org issues and a disconpetition has been a nection with the hot topic in every natural world. It’s media outlet all not about being on weekend, because display for others, he let’s face it, nudity is writes on The Nudesimply shocking! ment Tybee Chapter Well, maybe anyFacebook page, but where but your own accepting “our own bathroom. We’re also beauty and realizing fairly desensitized to that our bodies have the airbrushed senmore value than simsuality of magazine ply sexual objects.” ads, not to mention In a messaged conthe sexual violence versation—Williams in practically every is ironically shy about movie that doesn’t in-person interviews star characters made since WTOC’s Don out of animated Logana broke the Legos. story—he also disAnd, um, there’s cussed that appreciall that porn that ating life with all skin people are apparently in is not only delightwatching all day long ful, it’s the epitome of on their computers personal liberty. and iPads (a third Stop freaking out, this is beautiful. If you “We don’t need of total internet got it—and we all do—you might as well government telling traffic, according to flaunt it. Photo by tterrier us what we can do

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with our bodies,” he writes. “This has been a growing issue as more and more state and local governments enact laws restricting our freedom.”

Williams believes that nudity is a basic human right, and points to the longtime laissez-faire towards bare beach bums in Europe and South America. He also cites the success of Miami’s Haulover Beach, a citymanaged, clothing-optional half-mile that’s the jewel of the local recreation department.

(It’s even got its own concession stand!)

He also reiterates that nudism—also known as naturism—is purposefully not sexual. Rather. it’s a reclamation of the innocence lost since Adam and Eve panicked after eating that sinful apple and started dressing themselves in leaves. (Good thing the Garden of Eden didn’t have any of Tybee’s poison ivy.)

In other words, it’s about being naked, not nekkid.

Williams envisions a family-friendly refuge that’s a tourist attraction with a clear etiquette as defined by the Beach Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment & Safety (BEACHES) Foundation Institute. He’s already drawn up a concept plan for the peninsula at the end of North Beach to show Mayor Jason Buelterman once the petition has reached 1000 signatures, which will likely happen faster than you can unzip your pants.

It kicked off the weekend at around 300; it hit 715 as we went to press on Monday.

You can bet I signed it, and not just because I would like to fill in the unfortunate tan lines created by the bondagestrap tankini top from the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.

My first week in California way back in

the ‘90s, a group of new friends trucked me out to the “other side” of Muir Beach north of San Francisco. While they flung aside their shorts and whooped their way into the ocean for a swim, I sat on the pebbled sand, still dressed. A lifetime of self-consciousness about my physical imperfections surfaced, and I pinched my knee in frustration.

Then I took a look around at the saggy bellies and hairy backs, gloriously and happily uninhibited, and I realized this was an opportunity to indeed claim my body as my own, not in comparison to others, not sexual in the eyes of society, just a simple celebration of the skin with which I was graced.

So I shrugged, took off my tank top and ran towards the freezing water. I regret nothing, though it was slightly uncomfortable to walk around with a pair of red headlights for the next several days.

I know this isn’t Miami or San Francisco or Rio. It’s Tybee, where it’s against the local law to flaunt a cheeky Brazilian-cut bikini, let alone a full moon.

And in spite of years of petitioning, you still can’t bring your dog down to the beach, no matter how well it’s dressed.

Yet if Savannah wants to market itself as a cosmopolitan city that attracts international visitors, it ought to try and unbutton the uptight ideals and immature attitudes.

Personally, I’ve been sunburnt enough in this lifetime not to risk melanoma on my netherbits anymore.

But refusing to consider Williams’ nude beach proposal seriously reveals we might be as pasty and unexposed on the inside as we are on the outside. cs To sign the petition, go to change.org and search “Tybee.”

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No one was particularly surprised when Jen Colestock was the first to appear at the intersection of Bay and Bull streets on the morning of June 19.

Just like last year, she was the winner of the annual Dump the Pump commuting challenge, having made the trip from 12 Oaks Shopping Center to City Hall on her bicycle in about 20 minutes.

What is surprising is that after six years of bikes dominating the competition, some folks still question the efficiency and legitimacy of bicycles as a transit mode.

Some assume she must have cheated by running stop signs (she didn’t) or suspect the other competitors purposely let her win (they didn’t) or doubt she was wearing professional attire (she was).

It is true that our local observance of National Dump the Pump Day, an event established by the American Public Transit Association to “encourage people to ride public transportation and save money,” doesn’t exactly replicate real world conditions.

For instance, while many of us race out the door to make it to work on time, we aren’t actually racing against other commuters. Colestock might have ridden at a slightly more leisurely pace had she not been trying to arrive before Chatham Area Transit Chief Development Officer Ramond Robinson, who was a passenger on a CAT bus then switched to a CAT Bike for the final part of his commute, or City of Savannah Public Information Office Director Bret Bell, who drove a car.

But she likely would have won anyway since she arrived with time to spare. Robinson finished second and Bell third.

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An analysis of census data conducted last year by the League of American Bicyclists ranked Savannah No. 12 on its “Top 20 Bike Cities” in the South and No. 31 on its “Top Commute Share” list among cities with populations of 100,000-200,000.

A report released last month by the Census Bureau finds, “Nationwide, the number of people who traveled to work by bike increased roughly 60 percent over the last decade.”

People who commute by bike in Savannah do so for economic, health or other reasons, but across the country employers are offering additional incentives. Simply setting aside space for secure bike storage at work is often a good first step, but that’s only the beginning. Companies can provide access to showers (particularly useful this time of year), allow flexible work schedules, and guarantee a ride home in case of illness or emergency. If offering benefits to employees who bike to work seems unorthodox,

it’s only because we largely ignore another nearly ubiquitous incentive offered by employers.

“Free parking is the most common fringe benefit offered to workers in the U.S., and 95 percent of American automobile commuters park free at work,” according to UCLA urban planning professor Donald Shoup. “Free parking thus helps explain why 91 percent of commuters drive to work and why 93 percent of their vehicles have only one occupant.”

Even in downtown Savannah, where parking is competitive, many employees enjoy subsidized parking, which Shoup describes as a “matching grant for commuting by car.”

Offering incentives to those who bike to work is an equitable means to provide them benefits commensurate with those given to workers who drive. Fairness aside, a growing inventory of research reveals companies have much to gain by encouraging bicycling in the form of happier, healthier and more productive employees.

While businesses can use a variety of methods to encourage workers to ride to work, even the largest employers cannot remove the most difficult barrier to bicycle commuting: Streets that are unfriendly and unsafe for people who ride bikes. An oft-cited study from the Oregon Department of Transportation identified four distinct attitudes toward cycling for transportation. Colestock would likely fall into the “enthused and confident” classification. The good news is 60 percent of people are “interested” in transportational bicycling. The bad news comes in the full name of this cohort: “interested, but concerned.” They are worried about being able to get where they need to go safely.

For many people, this concern keeps them off their bicycles.

This presents an opportunity for the employers, employees and governments to work together in an effort to make streets safe and welcoming to all users, whether they drive, ride bikes, walk or take transit. cs John Bennett is executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.

Connect Savannah is a fully-engaged partner in the Canyon Ranch Institute Savannah Partnership (CRISP) along with Charles H. and Rosalie Morris. We are proud to be committed to helping this effort to make Savannah healthier, and we urge all our readers, advertisers, and partners to join the CRISP effort. We will dedicate this space each week to reporting not only the activities the CRISP effort is undertaking here in Savannah but also the larger ideas about health and well-being that build the foundation for that effort in our community. We thank you for your continued readership of Connect Savannah and for your support of the CRISP effort.

Summer favorites with a healthy twist

By Kim Floyd, M.Ed., R.D., L.D. Joycelyn Cornthwaite, M.S., R.D., L.D., CDE Kelly Shannon

Fruits and vegetables never taste better than fresh from a summer garden. Photo courtesy Pearson Farm, Fort Valley, GA.

GEORGIA PEACH COBBLER Servings: 12

Kim Floyd, M.Ed., R.D., L.D., and Joycelyn Cornthwaite, M.S., R.D., L.D., CDE, are nutritionists on the Core Team of the Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program with CRI partner Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, Inc. Kim and Joy present cooking demonstrations and nutrition information that help participants make healthy choices. Kelly Shannon (not pictured) specializes in culinary nutrition.

HOMESTYLE BBQ SAUCE

Use this tangy BBQ sauce on chicken without the skin, your favorite steamed fish, tofu, or lean pork tenderloin.

Servings: 16 (2 tablespoons each) Nutrition Information (per serving): Calories...................50 Sodium....................49 mg Fat...........................Trace Cholesterol..............0 mg Protein.....................Trace Carbohydrates.........13 grams Fiber........................Trace Ingredients: ½ cup diced onions 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 ½ teaspoons chili powder ½ cup brewed coffee ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce ½ cup beer 1 ½ tablespoons molasses 1 ½ cups low-sodium ketchup 3 tablespoons cider vinegar 1/3 cup packed brown sugar ½ teaspoon liquid smoke Instructions: 1. Lightly coat a small sauté pan with canola oil.

Sauté onion and garlic over medium heat until soft and slightly browned, about 3 to 5 minutes.

2. Add remaining ingredients and simmer until sauce begins to thicken, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Potato & Lemon Dill Potato Salad lets the fresh and flavorful taste of all the ingredients come through for a satisfying summer side dish.

POTATO & LEMON DILL POTATO SALAD Servings: 16 (1/2 cup each)

Nutrition Information (per serving): Calories...................110 Sodium....................133 mg.

Fat...........................4 grams Cholesterol .............8 mg.

Protein ....................2 grams Carbohydrates.........16 grams Fiber........................1 gram Ingredients: 3 pounds red bliss potatoes 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions* 3/4 cup low-fat sour cream 1/4 cup canola oil mayonnaise 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons freshly chopped dill 3/4 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper *Substitute Vidalia onion chopped small if you prefer a more “onion-ey” taste.

Instructions: 1. Quarter the red bliss potatoes and place in a steamer basket in a large saucepan. Steam over boiling water for 10 to 20 minutes or until cooked through. Cool completely.

2. In a large bowl, mix the sour cream, mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, dill, salt and pepper.

Add the potatoes and scallions and toss until potatoes are well coated.

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Nutrition Information (per serving): Calories...................170 Sodium....................266 mg Fat...........................8 grams Cholesterol..............21 mg Protein.....................3 grams Carbohydrates.........23 grams Fiber........................1 gram Ingredients: Biscuits: 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup whole-wheat flour 1 ¼ teaspoons sea salt 4 teaspoons aluminum free baking powder 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed 1/3 cup low-fat cream cheese ¾ cup buttermilk 2 tablespoons heavy cream 3 tablespoons cane sugar 1½ pounds fresh peaches, peeled and sliced 1 teaspoon orange peel ½ cup heavy cream Instructions: 1. Lightly coat a baking sheet with canola oil spray. In a large mixing bowl, sift together dry ingredients.

2. Cut butter and cream cheese into dry ingredients with a pastry cutter. Add buttermilk and mix with a fork until just combined.

3. Transfer dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently just until dough forms. Roll out dough to ¾-inch thick. Using a 2 1/2-inch round cutter, form 12 biscuits and arrange about 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheet. Place biscuits in refrigerator until completely chilled.

4. Preheat oven to 400F. 5. Remove biscuits from refrigerator and lightly brush tops with heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar.

6. In a large bowl, toss together peaches and orange peel. Evenly divide peaches between 12 8-ounce ramekins. Place 1 biscuit on top of peaches.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until biscuit is golden brown.

7. Pour heavy cream into a small bowl and whip with electric mixer on high until stiff peaks form.

8. Garnish each cobbler with 1 tablespoon whipped cream.

Note: Using ramekins is a great way to develop a sense of the amount of the dessert in a single serving.

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Summer in Savannah means sometimes-annoying heat and humidity, but it also brings the fun of picnics, backyard parties, and family BBQs. Like all Southern traditions, food is front and center – and plentiful. Food is love, friends and family are love, so more food for friends and family is often deemed better.

Unfortunately, many of our favorite Southern foods contain a lot of unhealthy, saturated “bad” fat that contributes to Chatham County’s collective weight being far greater than what is healthy for all of us.

Small steps are the key to making healthy changes over time. Here are a few small steps you can take: • Eat fruits and vegetables every day.

They taste extra good when they’re fresh.

• Take time to plan meals. That reduces the temptation to grab unhealthy food when you’re hungry.

• Add whole grain breads and cereals to your meals. For example, try sprinkling rolled oats on yogurt or add rolled oats to ground turkey when making meatballs.

• Watch how much you eat. At restaurants, you might be served an unhealthy amount of food. That doesn’t mean you have to eat all that food, right then! Share your order with a friend or take the extra home.

• Drink more water. Try adding some lemon, lime, cucumber, or mint to flavor your water – and if you want to try sparkling water, go for it. Make it fun!

• Choose lower fat proteins, such as chicken without skin, and limit fried foods by enjoying baked potatoes with salsa rather than French fries.

• Think moderation, not deprivation.

When the potluck picnic table offers your VFF (Very Favorite Food), help yourself to a reasonable serving and savor the taste.

The Canyon Ranch Institute Savannah Partnership (CRISP) is dedicated to helping everyone in our community live a healthier life. You can join us by choosing one of these healthy recipes for your next summer party or family meal.

The following recipes were prepared by the Canyon Ranch Culinary Team and are used with permission.

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Part Two: The politics of pet rescue Animal advocates join forces groups met earlier this month with the intention of forming a formal alliance that would collate information about dogs and cats at shelters and allow groups to reach When it comes to the assiduous and larger numbers of people to take them in. often heart-breaking world of animal and Members of GRRR (Georgia Rescue, pet rescue, a one-eyed boxer named Tess Rehabilitation and Relocation), One Love might just be the perfect poster dog.

Animal Rescue, Save-A-Life and Coastal In March 2006, a human named Allison Pet Rescue as well as breed-specific GrateConnor learned about a puppy mill bust in ful Goldens, DREAM Dachshund Rescue, Clay County, FL, that left dozens of boxers, Retired Retrievers and BARC held their Great Danes, German shepherds and other initial gathering on June 3 and plan to meet breeds without homes. Connor immediately monthly. took to Tess, three-and-half and pregnant, The Savannah Rescue Coalition is still in and brought her home to treat her malnutriits nascent stages (even its name is unoffition and constant eye irritations. cial), but organizer Karrie Bulski says it’s an When they were old enough, the puppies were adopted out, and eventually Tess lost Allison and Jerry Connor have rescued and fostered dozens of dogs, including one- idea that been a long time coming.

“It’s been an idea that been going around her left eye to ocular cancer. But she had eyed Tess (far right). Photo by Becky Smith/Photos by Becky for years. We would see dogs in the shelter found her forever family in Connor and her that would fit with specific rescue groups, permanent home can be found.

Those involved in pet rescue, foster care husband, Jerry, and now spends her days “There’s just so many sad stories,” she and adoption already know that there are far and no one was contacted,” recalls Bulski. tugging at stray socks and loping around the “I saw that we could be much more effeclaments, adding that 25 percent of reported more dogs and cats than there are homes for yard. dogs in shelters are pure-bred. them. Efforts to pull from local shelters and tive if we were all the same team.”

“She’s just the goofiest,” reports Connor.

Last year, Bulski helped found One Love Connor has also volunteered at Savansave as many healthy pets as possible come Tess inspired her owner to become a Animal Rescue along with fellow shelter nah Chatham Animal Control, establishing from a variety of different groups, several certified volunteer with the Boxer Aid & a working relationship with Officer Jodi who have had clashes with Animal Control volunteers Dana Bertagnolli and Vanessa Rescue Coalition, Inc. (BARC), a JacksonLewallen, acquiring the necessary license Lewis to keep track of any boxers that come in recent years. The inefficacy of the previville-based organization that searches shelthrough the local shelter. But like many vol- ous incarnation of the volunteer program (it to pull dogs and cats directly from Animal ters all over Florida and Georgia for boxers Control. With their own growing pack of unteers, she wishes she could find safe refuge was rebooted in May) and not having time and finds them homes. Connor will often volunteers and foster families, they have for all the dogs, including the mixed breed and space to interact with the animals have leave at a moment’s notice to drive as far as saved an estimated 500 dogs and cats since mutts who tend to be passed over for adop- been among the complaints.

Orlando to pick up a dog in time to save tion and rescue.

Rather than focus on the negativity of the last September. it from being put down. Sometimes she’ll “We have a soft spot for special needs,” “I had no idea about the pet overpopula- past, however, those groups are channeling bring it home to meet Tess (and her passays Bulski, referring to broken bones and tion in Savannah before I got involved,” says their energy into cooperation. Representasel of yard mates, including several rescued other injuries that can categorize an animal tives from at least nine local animal rescue pugs and a French bulldog) to foster until a Connor. “It’s just endless.”

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is still forced to euthaas “unadoptable.” nize animals that are not One Love also takes adopted back out to other in dogs with Demohomes. But by carefully dex mange, a mite that staggering intakes, the leaves a dog’s skin raw managed admission sheland sick-looking. “It’s ter has not euthanized easy to treat, but treatany animals due to lack of ment doesn’t always space since March 2013. take in the shelter While HSGS doesn’t because the animal is operate on the premise stressed,” says Bulski. that every single animal is “We pull them and adoptable, Gensamer supfocus on healing them.” ports the coalition’s longA marine biologist term goals of community and geologist at the education and animal UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Coalition organizer Karrie Bulski training within the shelters. Volunteers willing to Bulski researches black cuddles with Maxie, who was rescued and adopted to a forever work in the shelters, foster gill disease of shrimp. and train pets at home and But outside the lab, it’s home this spring. Photo by James help with social media are the furry creatures that Williams/One Love Animal Rescue always needed. have her heart.

“With enough help, many more animals “I never thought I would have my own can become adoptable,” she says. rescue, but it’s amazing to take these little Gensamer, Bulski and Connor all reiterguys in,” she says, adding that she is curate that the best way to reduce the number rently fostering seven dogs, including three of euthanized animals is to prevent them 8-week old puppies that are “healthy, vacfrom going to the shelter in the first place. cinated, bouncing around and looking for “We need tougher spay and neuter laws, their forever homes.” and we need to enforce them,” says Bulski.

With a mission of saving as many lives “Savannah is a very loving community, and if as possible, Bulski says the first goal of the people knew how many animals are euthacoalition is to compile a database of all the nized daily, they might take stronger roles.” groups, what kinds of animals they take The first official event for the Savanas well as the requirements of local and nah Rescue Coalition will be to take part regional shelters and their accompanyin International Homeless Animals Day ing pull fees. Paramount is the creation of on Aug. 16. It will be the 23rd year that the a common Facebook page and/or website International Society for Animal Rights where everyone can share photos of avail(ISAR) has sponsored candlelight vigils and able pets. community events to “enlighten the public, Once information about all of the possible venues of rescue within the coalition has elected officials and the media to the tragedy been gathered in a spreadsheet, Bulski plans of pet overpopulation.”

While details about the local gatherto pass it out not only to local Animal Coning have yet to be determined, members trol but shelters in Bryan, Effingham and are already brainstorming ideas to make it Liberty counties and well as the Palmetto fun as well as educational, including dog Animal League in South Carolina.

“Anyone who is willing to help, we’re will- handling workshops, pet portraits and dog yoga. Bulski encourages interested people to ing to work with them,” she assures.

Also part of the coalition is the Humane check the One Love website as plans unfold.

Society of Greater Savannah, different from (oneloveanimalrescue.com) Even though it’s just the beginning of the the other organizations in that it has its own collaboration, Connor has high hopes that holding facility that adopts out more animore animals might be as lucky as one-eyed mals than the rest combined.

Tess. After 18 years in Savannah and dozens “We’re very supportive of this collaboraof dogs rescued, she calls the coalition “praction,” says HSGS Executive Director Lynn tically a requirement at this point to move Gensamer. forward as a community for best practices of “In the non-profit world, resources are finite, and this will hopefully prevent dupli- animal welfare.”

“If we keep our eyes on its goals, we are cating efforts and reduce competition for going to making a big difference.” cs donations and volunteers.”

HSGS accepts only surrendered pets (as Next week, Part 3: Can Savannah become a No-Kill opposed to strays that are under the auspices of Animal Control) but sometimes Community?

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Guns and drugs seized on Waters Avenue after chase

Three men were arrested and “an assortment of drugs, drug paraphernalia and weapons were seized after Islands Precinct officers stopped a vehicle moving through an intensive patrol operation Wednesday afternoon,” a police spokesperson says.

John James Monahan Jr., 20, of Dallas, GA, was charged with possession of drugrelated objects for use and having illegally tinted windows on his car. Kenneth Michael Robinson, 23, of the 1100 block of East 53rd Street, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Both of them and Napoleon Ramon Graham, 24, of an Eagle Street address, were charged with obstruction. Graham was transported to Memorial University Medical Center for a bite from a police canine officer “stemming from his resistance.”

The three men and a female were in a car “with illegal degrees of window tinting driving slowly through a heavy patrol of the Edgemore-Sackville neighborhoods about 4 p.m. Crime Suppression Unit officers on bicycles and in cars pursued it to Waters and

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Each of the men initially refused to cooperate with police officers. The investigation into the assortment of drugs and weapons found in the vehicle is continuing.

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Residents in the area should not handle or feed stray or unknown animals or wildlife.

• Animal Control officers have secured And anyone who has come five cats and are looking for more and addi- into contact with the cats tional victims after a kitten from a neighbor- and/or wildlife in the area should contact us.” hood colony tested positive for rabies last Anyone with concerns week. that they may have been Nine potential victims have been identified as having contact with the infected kit- exposed or who sees one of the homeless cats should call Animal ten or other cats in the small feral colony Control at 912-351-6750 or Chatham that frequented yards near the 200 block County Environmental Health Division of Winchester Drive on east Wilmington Island.

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The cats were fed by neighbors but they • Police are investigating a shooting in were not provided medical treatment or Daffin Park Monday night, June 16, that vaccinations. left a Savannah man with non-life threatFour additional cats were recovered by ening injuries.

Animal Control this morning but others were seen in the neighborhood. Traps have Dion Lamont Folston Sr., 38, was been set for other cats and a raccoon that transported to Memorial University Medmay have had exposure to the infected kitical Center after the 8 p.m. shooting that followed a confrontation with other males. ten last week.

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• Michael Adrian, 26, was However, according to arrested in Lakeville, MinWeinstock’s supervisor, nesota, in June for frightening Judge Murphy immediTie thjs, officials at Lakeville North ately grabbed Weinstock portugal!

High School by skateboardand began punching him. ing in front of the school, in Weinstock was not serimilitary dress, face covered ously hurt, but vowed to by a bandana, with an arrow report the incident to the strapped to his arm, and conFlorida Bar. cealing knives, a box-cutter, • Robert Wallace, 32, a a slingshot and pepper spray.

Houston software develCompelling Explanations Adrian told police he was oper, filed a lawsuit in May • U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of merely “testing” the school’s to get back some items Omaha, Nebraska, trying to be helpful, he security system by “looking after a failed romance. said, advised female lawyers appearing in like an a**hole.” (A judge According to Wallace, he his courtroom to lower their hemlines and ordered a mental evaluation.) had loaned a laptop comcover their cleavage because males, includputer, $2,000 cash and ing Judge Kopf himself, are “pigs.” Writing his Harry Potter DVDs to his sweetheart, in his personal blog in March, he said, “I Karma Ms. Nomi Mims, a local stripper. Walhave been a dirty old man ever since I was • At an April press conference on a train a very young man” and that the women in station platform in Milford, Connecticut, to lace said the loans were made only because his office are similarly contemptuous of critique the allegedly shoddy safety record of he thought she was in love with him and daringly dressed female lawyers. The lifethe Metro-North rail line, U.S. Sen. Richard that they were “building a future together,” but now realizes he was wrong. Mims calls time-tenured judge later said he regretted Blumenthal of Connecticut set up a chart the items “gifts” and noted, “I’ve given him any harm to the judiciary that his remarks on an easel to illustrate the problem. Sudmight have caused. denly, a train roared through the station and, gifts, too. You know, how do I get my booty back?”

• Almond Upton, 60, charged with mur- according to news reports, “nearly” clipped der for “intentionally” striking a New York Sen. Blumenthal, who was standing on the state trooper in May with his pickup truck, yellow platform line that passengers are Things America Somehow Still Can’t Figure Out (Even Though We’re Smart denied everything. He told reporters foladmonished to stand behind.

Enough to Send a Robot to Mars) lowing his first court appearance that he is • In June, a jury in Fresno, California, bewildered by the accusation: “I was (close decided that Bobby Lee Pearson, 37, was • (1) Authorities somehow could not preto) the Connecticut border, and all of a sud- guilty of burglary -- but they accidentally vent an inmate serving life at a North Caroden, I’m in Binghamton, New York (about signed the “not-guilty” form, instead, and lina prison from arranging, via a contraband 140 miles from Connecticut), and this cop by the time Judge W. Kent Hamlin caught cellphone, to have the 63-year-old father got killed, I don’t know how it happened. It the error, he could not change it (because of his prosecutor kidnapped and tortured. had to be a time warp.” of “double jeopardy”). Pearson walked out a (The FBI managed to rescue the man five • The National Security Agency admitted free man, went to his sister’s home, got into days after his abduction.) (2) The U.S. State in a June court filing that it had disobeyed a fight hours later, and was stabbed to death Department somehow cannot arrange safe two judicial orders to stop deleting accusaby the sister’s boyfriend. haven for Afghan interpreters who risked tory evidence in its databases (which judges their lives daily serving U.S. combat troops had ordered preserved to help determine News That Sounds Like A Joke: and who face almost certain retaliation by if the NSA was illegally violating privacy • The animosity between Brevard County militants once Americans have departed. laws). The NSA’s reasoning for its chutz(Florida) judge John Murphy and public Even the coordinator of the interpreter pah: Its data-gathering systems, it claims, defender Andrew Weinstock festered over program, who applied for a U.S. visa in Scott Fistler, twice a loser for electoral office in Phoenix, Arizona, as a Republican, decided in November 2013 that his luck might improve as a Democrat with a name change, and legally became “Cesar Chavez,” expecting to poll better in a heavily Hispanic, Democratic congressional district. (“Cesar Chavez” is of course the name of the legendary labor organizer.) Furthermore, according to a June report in the Arizona Capitol Times, “Chavez’s” campaign website features photographs of frenzied supporters holding “Chavez” signs, but which are obviously scenes from the streets of Venezuela at rallies for its late president Hugo Chavez.

(At press time for News of the Weird, a judge had removed “Chavez” from the ballot, but only because some qualifying signatures were invalid. “Chavez” promised to appeal.)

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• The sailing events at the 2016 Summer Olympics will be held on Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, but dire warnings have been issued about the filthy, squalid condition of the bay and the near impossibility of a timely cleanup. A New York Times reporter, in a May dispatch, cited car tires, floating mattresses, dog carcasses, a partly submerged sofa and free-flowing untreated raw sewage. A Brazilian competitive sailor admitted that he had personally seen four human corpses in the bay. (By comparison, for the Beijing Olympics, 1,000 cleanup boats were dispatched just to remove algae from the sailing venue, but only three cleanup boats are operating on Guanabara now, with merely several dozen planned.)

• Arachnophobes (and their snake-fearing cousins, the ophidiophobes) may be in for an interesting 2016 Summer Olympics, in that Brazil seems to be one giant incubator of the scariest insects and vipers on the planet. Chief among them, reported the Wall Street Journal in June, are the Brazilian wandering spider -- the world’s most poisonous and, in addition, the size of a dinner plate -- whose venom at least owns the “redeeming” value of momentarily giving bitten men erections. Off the coast of Sao Paulo is the uninhabited (and barred to visitors) Ilha de Queimada Grande, overrun by the super-deadly golden lancehead pit viper (whose population may be as many as five snakes per square meter of land area).

Recurring Themes

• (1) A British National Health Service hospital in Stockton, England, apparently failed to learn from a 2012 tragedy at Scarborough Hospital when, in May, a patient caught fire during surgery. (Tip for Next Time: Either no alcohol sterilizers or no electricity-made incisions.) (2) In the latest creative image-enhancer by a municipal sewage plant, Seattle’s Brightwater Treatment facility is offering to rent its indoor rooms ($2,000 for eight hours) as a wedding venue.

According to an official, there is space for 260 guests, including full kitchen -- and the plant is reputed to be a “zero odor” facility.

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In the midst of a below-zero cold spell, my significant other and I were discussing the sources of humidity that resulted in frost on the windows. He said breath. I said farts were also a factor. He said I was crazy. I’m not saying the two contribute equally, but come on.

How much moisture is in each of these forms of bodily exhalation? —Barbara Becker SO MAYBE I should have held this question till January rather than answering it in June. But some things just can’t wait. The answer proved more challenging than you might think.

Human flatus is made up of carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, methane, and hydrogen, with small but often pungent quantities of hydrogen sulfide and other organic compounds in addition. The volume varies widely based on diet, how much air you swallow, and how efficiently your gut bacteria digest what you eat and produce gas.

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She gave me the look she always gives me. I said what I always say: “It’s for science.” How she does that thing with her eyebrows only she and Jack Black know. Nonetheless, she bent to her spreadsheets and prepared the following analysis: 1. The amount of flatus produced daily can be more than four liters, but typically it’s around 0.4 liters per day.

2. We’ll assume that, given how moist we are inside (more on this below), any expelled gases contain water vapor at close to 100 percent relative humidity. Calculating the water fraction, and multiplying the result times two people, we arrive at a total moisture output of about .04 milliliters per day.

3. That’s not much. Assuming an averagesize dwelling, sealed off from the winter air and heated to 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a starting relative humidity of 35 percent, a day’s total flatus from two people will raise that humidity to 35.001 percent.

4. But flatulence accounts for only part of the human contribution to ambient water vapor. Our bodies are made up of 50 to 70 percent water, of which 5 to 10 percent is cycled through us every day. A significant amount of water is lost through breathing and “insensible sweating”—that is, the constant low-level perspiration you don’t notice.

A typical sedentary adult loses about 300 milliliters of water per day through breath and 1,175 milliliters per day via insensible sweating, or close to a liter and a half all told.

5. Exhaling only through your nose reduces moisture loss by more than 40 percent, but let’s assume our two test subjects are mouth-breathing adults who spend the entire day in their house. The total daily

water contribution from their breath and sweat will be about three liters per day— about 75,000 times that produced by flatulence. Assuming the house is completely sealed, this will increase the relative humidity from 35 percent to almost 70 percent. So it’s fair to say that, while flatulence makes no appreciable difference, breath plus sweat contributes significantly to the frost on your windows.

6. Pets also contribute to humidity. Cats and dogs don’t sweat as much as we do; most of their water loss other than through excretion comes from breathing and (in dogs) panting. A typical indoor cat might lose 45 milliliters of water per day through respiration and minor sweating, whereas a Labrador retriever might lose 360 milliliters.

7. Therefore, a cat will raise the average home’s humidity to 35.4 percent—one cat going about its business is a far bigger factor than two people farting. A large dog in that same situation will increase the relative humidity of the house to over 39 percent.

8. If we assume a household consisting of two people, a dog, and a cat in a sealed home, then the inhabitants’ total contribution to indoor humidity is about 3.4 liters (close to a gallon, for you rustics). This would increase the relative humidity of the house from the baseline 35 percent to more than 75 percent. The contribution of flatus is negligible. With respect to farts being a factor in winter frost accumulation, you’re indisputably wrong.

Keep in mind that, in reality, houses leak moisture, and every time you open the door results in an exchange of air, so the practical impact of all that exhaled water is much reduced. Remember also that I don’t know your partner. If he’s a member of the fourliter club, flatuswise, all bets are off. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com

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What is this, Savannah Stopover?

Nope, that happens in March. The thing is, there are so many bands in town this week—mostly visitors from the proverbial elsewhere—that it might as well be a mini-Stopover.

But these shows are entirely unrelated.

You can’t buy a wristband and check ‘em all out for one low, low price. There’s something in the air (and you know that it’s right).

Here are our recommendations (check the regular Soundboard listings for a full accounting of who and what’s onstage everywhere). See you ‘round the clubs.

Thursday, June 26

Agalloch, with Vex and Blackrune, at the Jinx. For 18 years now, the Portland, Oregon band Agalloch—subgenre metal from the Pacific Northwest is known as “Cascadian”—has been virtually without peer when it comes to a stirred elixir of brooding black metal, doom and neo-folk.

The band makes sure the gig-air is permeated by the smell of burning wood-smoke, and the performance is broad, theatrical. In reviewing The Serpent and the Sphere, Agalloch’s brand-new, ambitious album, Spin said this: “Agalloch is one of the best bands in modern metal. This isn’t a question; it’s a fact, one corroborated by a world-class discography that stretches back nearly 20 years.” Vocalist John Haughm explained to a recent interviewer “We felt that it was a good moment for us to step away from earthly themes and dive into something greater. Greater than mankind and his gods.

Greater than the ego. Greater than everything in this speck of dust we call existence.”

With our own mystic noisemakers Blackrune and the Austin metal quartet Vex. 10 p.m.

Silver Screen Orchestra, Sunglow, Culture Vulture, Shapes & Their Names at the Wormhole. Remember the remarkable Pan, from the 2013 Stopover? That band’s Nathan Stewart and Kayla Breitwieser are now known as Silver Screen Orchestra, guitar and violin, and they perform against a backdrop of public domain film footage.

Sunglow is the electronic side project of

Sharkmuffin: At Hang Fire June 26. Only a tad sweeter than the Coathangers.

Crazy Bag Lady drummer Daniel Lynch, Culture Vulture (Nick, Matthew and James) is a progressive instrumental trio, and Tyler, Lee and Zachary are the “indie pop” trio Shapes & Their Names. Culture Vulture plays Graveface Records the next night, with Time Hitler & the Assholes From Space.

Sharkmuffin, Dead Stars, Crazy Bag Lady and Beneath Trees at Hang Fire.

Brooklyn’s Sharkmuffin is a jagged-edge punk trio, all girls, but the comparisons to The Coathangers end there. Although they rock hard, Sharkmuffin is poppier, with more attention paid to melody, song structure and deeply-ingrained influences like girl-groups and surfy ‘60s garage rock.

Favorite song: “Mermaid Sex Slave.” The band’s hometown homies Dead Stars play chunky, fuzzy rock, rich with ‘60s-flavored hooks. A potentially great show with local firepower as support.10 p.m.

Friday, June 27

Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Omingnome at Barrelhouse South. From Asheville, the acknowledged funk capital of the South, comes Yo Mama’s guys and a gal, and hot damn it’s always sweatbox central when Mary “Mama Funk” Francis (vocals and keys), JP “Smoke Machine” Miller and

the rest of the posse roll into town. Yet somehow this night belongs to Omingnome, the sweet, pseudo-psychedelic hippie band that’s releasing an original EP at this show.

The one out front, on vocals and theremin, is the delightful Melissa Hagerty (ex-Word of Mouth); her partner in creativity here is singer/guitarist Tyler Cutitta. Eric Braun and Tony Bravaro round things out on drums and bass, respectively.

Triathalon, Little Tybee and Giant Giants at Hang Fire. Despite naming the band after a touchstone of our local geography, the members of jazzy folk-rocking Little Tybee have been based in Atlanta for a few years now (after coming together as SCAD students here in the SAV). Now a six-piece, LT has evolved into a shining star on the ATL indie scene, mostly because of the creative alchemy between Brock Scott (vocals, piano, guitar) and Josh Martin (8-string guitar). Call it orchestral acoustipop, call it Fleet Foxes South, call it wholly original—hey, it all fits. I actually wrote this five years ago: “Little Tybee is like a pleasant chemical drive down a rabbit hole into the unknown, a place where Jerry Garcia meets Sufjan Stevens for tea and biscuits.” Our local surf-rockers Triathalon have a cool new 7-inch out on Soft Science (“Swells/

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• Well, it’s official. Guitarist Johan Harvey has announced that he has left The Royal Noise, the amazing jazz fusion band he cofounded here in Savannah. Since Johan lives Monday, June 30 David Dondero and Nightingale News in Pennsylvania now, I can’t imagine we’ll be at Ampersand. No less a barometer of cool seeing as much of him after this split.

• Speaking of Savannah Stopover, the than National Public Radio named David folks in the office are selling tickets to a Dondero one of the planet’s “Best Living chartered bus trip to Bragg Jam in Macon, Songwriters,” along with Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Tom Waits (and Aimee Mann!) July 26. It’s 57 bands on 14 stages. Check out savannahstopover.com for the details. in 2006. Tall order, that, considering that • Georgia native Phillip Phillips, who Townes Van Zandt was still alive at the took First Place on Season 11 of TV’s time.. At any rate, the Minnesota singer/ American Idol, has been announced as the guitarist is an acquired taste—much like musical headliner for Savannah’s third Rock Waits, if we’re honest with ourselves—and ‘n’ Roll Marathon, Nov. 8. Phillips, who last has released seven acclaimed albums since performed in Savannah in April 2013, is a 1999. Savannah singer, songwriter, guitarnative of Albany, Ga. He’s known for the ist and part-time classical double bassist hit 2012 singles “Home” and “Gone Gone Coy Campbell opens this show, under his nom de stage Nightingale News. Campbell’s Gone.” CS

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The Coathangers, with the Sawyer Family and COEDS, at the Jinx. What can we tell you that you don’t already know?

There’s a Coathangers interview elsewhere in this issue. COEDS is a local pop/rock band; the Sawyer Family is a heavy-duty “stoner-billy” trio from the great state of Oregon.

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Voice: “The thing that makes them really worth listening to is the fact that, despite being tagged as garage/post-punk/grrrlExplosive, sloppy and sassy somethings, they aren’t reviving anything. as a hopped-up feral cat, the Coathangers They are a nothing-fancy good-time band— have been an integral part of Atlanta’s punk you know, like some local living-room-only scene for seven years now. The all-girl band, geniuses whose ‘Louie Louie’ variations feel reduced to a trio when their co-founding like God’s true pleasure message when you keyboard player took a walk last fall, are just drunk enough.” recently released full-length number four.

The Coathangers’ June 28 show is a Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze Records) Savannah Stopover/MusicFile production. is raw, and loud, and funny—see the video According to bassist Meredith Franco, for “Follow Me,” in which the hirsute, tatthe band was literally formed on a lark. “I’d tooed members of heavy metal powerhouse never even played bass before,” she says. “In Mastodon lip-synch, wearing Coathangers middle school, I played clarinet, but that’s wigs and dresses. like completely different!

Right away, you know the Coathangers “Stephanie (Luke) had never played are all about having fun. (Or is it the song drums. We had a drum set, so she just sort titles: “Don’t Touch My Shit,” “Shut the of fooled around. Julia (Kugel) played acoustic guitar, but never electric guitar. We had Fuck Up” or “Nestle in My Boobies”?) no idea. Literally no idea.”

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The Coathangers’ now-departed keyboard operator was Candice Jones. “Candice and Julia lived together, and Candice had a keyboard,” Franco explains. “We were just hanging out, and just started practicing. It was like an idea that came up, ‘We should start a band.’ And we actually did. I was hanging out with them and they needed a bass player. I said ‘OK, I guess I’ll try.’

“I was excited. I was nervous, because I’d never played anything like that before.”

A rigorous touring schedule meant Jones’ abrupt departure in 2013 had to be dealt with—and fast. “It was a mutual thing,” Franco says. “We both kind of knew it was happening.

“But it was right before Europe, and we didn’t really get to practice. Because we went -to South By, then we went to Europe—I think we had maybe like a week to practice without her. So that was kind of stressful! We’re like ‘Uhhhh … we’re gonna go to Europe, and we’ve never played as a threepiece before.’ And nobody really knew. But everything worked out perfect. Everything happens for a reason.”

Recording Suck My Shirt, she explains, “was different, because we didn’t want to sound empty without the keyboards. So I think we all felt like we had to kind of step

up our game. Which was kind of a natural progression anyway. So we would all add more vocals, or I would try to make my parts not more complicated, but maybe bigger.”

The band members live in Little Five Points, East Atlanta’s bohemian district.

“Me and Julia,” says Franco, “used to work at a dress store together, wedding and prom dresses, stuff like that. Pageants. Since we got back from tour, I worked there for a few days, but now I work at this vintage store that’s right by my house. And Stephanie works at a bar right up the street.”

They’ve just reunited after a month off, and will tour aggressively through the rest of the year. And in early 2015, they’ll visit Australia for the first time.

Their day jobs will be waiting.

“The dress store is run by Julia’s family,” Franco explains, “so they’re like ‘Yeah, go live your dream and come back. You have a job.’

“And we always play at the Star Bar, where Stephanie works. So they’re totally fine with it. Which is pretty awesome.” CS

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One year of the blues Missionary Blues celebrates, with a little help from Roots Up Gallery by bill deyoung bill@connectsavannah.com

Once a musician, always a musician.

It’s kind of like the Mafia—you signed up for life, my friend. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

Case in point: Mike English. An accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter, the South Georgia native nevertheless pursued a career in economics—aka a real job, complete with suit, tie and shiny shoes. Today, he’s Senior Vice President of Queensborough National Bank & Trust Co. here in Savannah.

Mike English may have left music, but music never left Mike English.

“I’d pretty much stopped playing electric for a number of years, and was just doing the occasional acoustic gig,” he says. “But at a jam session last year, I met some folks and I remembered how much I enjoyed plugging Missionary Blues is Rigel Crockett, left, Micah Goodwin and Mike English. Harmonin my Les Paul and making real noise.” ica player Rae Abney (not pictured) plays most gigs with the band.

In particular, he hit it off with bassist Rigel Crockett, who shared English’s love Missionary Blues celebrates its first anni- joint.”

Art Rise Savannah is sponsoring a chilof gutbucket blues. One Sunday afternoon, versary with a free show Saturday, June 28 with drummer Micah Goodwin, they at Bub-Ba-Q, from 6 to 10 p.m. It was Eng- dren’s art area starting at 6 p.m.; the band knocked out a few 12-bar tunes to see what lish’s idea to make it a joint event with Roots begins to wail at 6:30.

It’s good old hardscrabble electric Souththey sounded like together. “It gave us an Up, the Liberty Street folk art gallery. excuse to drink a few beers and jam a little He and Roots Up co-owner Francis Allen ern blues, y’all. No more and no less that. bit, with no aspirations,” English laughs. are deeply involved with, and committed to, “This is the first band I’ve been in that has The chemistry was strong. English and the Ogeechee Riverkeeper organization, and been purely dedicated to the blues,” English says. “It’s the first band I’ve played in that I his friends were indeed making serious blue they share a profound love of music. can play a three-hour set of music and not noise. “So a year later, we’re gigging every The gallery will display works by Tex play one song that I’m not 100 percent comother weekend, we played Savannah StopCrawford, Linette Dubois, Leonard Jones, mitted to.” over and we’ve done a lot of neat things,” he Georgia Kyle Shiver, Panhandle Slim and marvels. “It came together pretty nice. We’re Miz Thang, and several of the artists themOh, one more thing. How’s this for irony? really in synch.” selves will be in attendance.

“We actually played our first gig there, The band is called Missionary Blues.

“I love folk art,” English says. “I’ve always between when it was Blowin’ Smoke and More often than not, the trio is joined by said, Southern folk art and the blues all Bub-Ba-Q,” English explains. “When it was Rae Abney, an inspired blues harmonica drink from the same well dipper. They’re called the Brick House for a short time. player originally from the Macon area. typically self-taught art forms that are usuThat stage is where Missionary Blues played Onstage, the fedora-sporting “Sista Rae” is ally on the outside of the mainstream. It its first gig. It’s our first anniversary, on that inhabited by the ghost of Paul Butterfield usually comes from a rural area. same stage.” CS —pretty amazing when you consider she’s a “Southern folk art and the blues go hand grandmother. She do got the fever, however. in hand. So I thought it would be fun to Missionary Blues/Roots Up Gallery “Rae’s really our secret sauce,” English have Roots Up come out, bring some artWhere: Bub-Ba-Q, 514 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. says. “She’s just a phenomenal harmonica ists, put some artwork up, and we’ll turn When: 6-10 p.m. Saturday, June 28 player.”

Bub-Ba-Q into an old school Southern juke Admission: Free

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Making music for Tommy Andrew Gill and others join together for a righteous cause by bill deyoung bill@connectsavannah.com

A founding member of the late, great band Wormsloew, Andrew Gill has been playing music professionally since the age of 15.

And that’s why the organizers—Kim’s Savannah pals —are calling it the Tommy Strong Festival.

Because he is.

Andrew Gill, meanwhile, has never met Tommy Kim – but like most of the musicians who’ll be performing on the bandshell stage, as soon as he heard the man’s story, he signed on the dotted line. And he’s not getting paid on what would otherwise be a rare A former Army Special Forces soldier, day off.

Tommy Kim attended South University Gill was a and worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital founding member here in Savannah.

of Wormsloew, an Americana-fused rock ‘n’ roll band that burned brightly in the mid to late 2000s, around the time Tommy Kim was studying anesthesiology at South U. Those were the days, my friend. Wormsloew had a lot of fans.

“It was a cool thing, but seven years later I guess it just kinda fell apart,” explains Gill. “Music tastes change just like your taste buds do.”

The Andrew Gill Band includes Wormsloew bassist Kevin Arpin. The rest of the old band has scattered to the wind …

although they still reunite for one of two events every year.

In 2010, as Wormsloew was falling apart, Gill was asked to fill in with Junkyard Angel, whose lead guitarist Scotty Rahn was on medical leave. He played with the band — which includes brothers Stewart and Jim Marshall—for about a year.

“Out of that, we formed the Marshall Brothers Band, because it was so fun doing three-part harmonies,” he recalls. “I guess I’m an honorary Marshall at this point.”

Area vendors will have food and drink for sale at Sunday’s event.

For more on the incredible Tommy Kim, see a feature story at www.thechive.com.

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Andrew Gill is a member of one of our area’s most exclusive clubs: Musicians who don’t have to work day jobs. The 27-year-old native Savannahian has been gigging since he was 15, and his agreeable way with a guitar, his rich vocals and his charismatic stage presence add up to a guy people would pay to see. And they do.

Just last week, he was onstage six nights out of seven. “I’m not complaining at all,” Gill says with a smile. “It sure as hell beats making half the money and working 40 hours.”

On June 29, Sunday, he’ll be onstage at Forsyth Park, part of an all-day, 11-band benefit concert called the Tommy Strong Music Festival For Brain Cancer Awareness.

The Andrew Gill Band will share the spotlight with Waits & Co., Outlaw Gypsy, 2 Tone Fish, 3rd Class Citizen, Jon Lee & the Apparitions, Wassaw Sound, the Blurry Aftermath, the Immaculate Fix, Rye House and Zan. The event starts at 11 a.m. and will wind down around 12 hours later.

It’s free, but donations will be appreciated.

It’s being organized by friends of Tommy Kim, a former Army Special Forces soldier who attended South University here in Savannah, and worked for several years at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Which is where he made lots and lots of friends.

Kim moved to Austin in 2013, and this past January was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer. The tumor was completely removed in February, followed by stretches of intense chemotherapy. At the moment, he is cancer-free.

This is a guy who served two tours of duty in Iraq, who plunged down a rocky, 30-foot cliff and was subsequently told he would never walk again.

A fitness nut and an eternal optimist, he defied the odds. Eleven months and a lot of hard work later, he was back on his feet.

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Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None gets the AASU Masquers treatment by bill deyoung bill@connectsavannah.com

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Also known as Ten Little Indians, Dame Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is the archetypical murder mystery: Ten disparate people accept a dinner invitation to a large, mysterious house on a remote island, and over the course of the evening, they die off, one by one. Accusations fly.

Who’s behind these dastardly, albeit ingenious, crimes? That’s for the audience to decipher in the Armstrong Atlantic State University Masquers production of And Then There Were None, on the Jenkins Hall stage June 26-29.

“As you’re watching, you’re trying to figure out who did it,” says director Peter Mellen.

“And all the clues are there. That’s one of the things that we’re being very scrupulous about. We know that when it comes to people who like murder mysteries, you can’t cheat. If something happens, you’ve got to do it in front of them.”

And Then There Were None is the bestselling mystery novel of all time (Christie wrote the book and the play). Christie also wrote The Mousetrap, which became the longest-running play in the history of London’s West End. Mellen believes it’s the plays’ interactive nature that makes them so bloody appealing.

“Most of the fun of going to an Agatha Christie murder mystery is trying to figure out who did it,” he explains. “Particularly in this one, because the killer actually kills people in front of you! And you don’t know he’s doing it. I think that’s the great joy of the thing.”

A few years ago, Mellen directed The Mousetrap for the Masquers. “During intermission,” he remembers, “I heard the same two things constantly: ‘You know, I saw this 20 years ago, but I can’t remember who did it.’ And then he’d get into an argument with somebody else who saw it 20 years ago, only this guy is sure it’s this person, and the other one says ‘No, it’s that person,’ and there’s perfectly good reasons why your favorite suspect is your suspect.

“And as the play progresses, you realize, ‘OK, that guy didn’t do it, because he’s 28 dead.’”

His young cast is having a ball with Christie’s vintage 1939 plot (that’s when the novel was published; the stage adaptation premiered in ’43). “They are just having fun coming up with these characters,” says Mellen. “Of course, they’ve read the entire play.

They know who it is, and they know how it was done. But of course their characters don’t, at any particular moment in time.

“So that’s one of the things that we’re

working on—that’s their challenge. They all want to be the best suspect possible. That’s the other thing—everybody who’s stuck on this island has got a dirty little secret.”

Every actor—victims, suspects, killer (hey, don’t look to us to let the secret out) —is always thinking about the audience.

“You have to follow the rules of a murder mystery,” Mellen offers. “If you do that, and you treat the material with respect, they will

have a delightful time and be very enthusiastic.” CS And Then There Were None Where: AASU Jenkins Hall, 11939 Abercorn St. When: At 7:30 p.m. June 26-28 (Thursday-Saturday); 3 p.m. June 29 (Sunday) Tickets: $10 Reservations: (912) 344-2801

Who done it, in Armstrong’s And Then There Were None? Wouldn’t you like to know? Photo by AASU

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Britain meets Brazil on Bay Street

Churchill’s Pub is a go-to spot for World Cup watching

By Rachael Flora

French Cuisine

Come for the soccer, stay for the food.

Photos by Rachael Flora almost like an enlarged potpie. It’s filled with chunks of steak and potatoes and smothered in a tangy brown ale sauce with onion and mushroom. The sautéed vegetables that come with the pie are wonderfully done, and the baked potato was perfectly starchy. A doily was tucked under the pie’s saucer, giving the whole plate an adorable upgrade.

Another highly recommended entrée was the braised pork shank, marinated in apple and fennel. Host Kyle Goodloe didn’t hesitate to suggest it, saying, “It’s the best thing on the menu, for sure.” The mac and cheese But by far, the biggest selling point is that is another favorite, as is the smoked brie the bar food is actually good. Forget the days appetizer. of greasy fries and half-assed salads.

Even the salads are carefully arranged to At Churchill’s, you can order a charcuterie look as great as they taste. The Churchill’s board with your bourbon and Coke. After house salad has strawberries, candied all, head chef Mike DeMarco didn’t appear almonds, and sharp red onions, and the on TV show “Hell’s Kitchen” for nothing. addition of grilled chicken makes the flavors As far as the food goes, Churchill’s is stand out. more than just a gimmicky England-themed When the U.S. plays their next World tourist trap. Yes, the most popular food on Cup game on Thursday, June 26, you can the menu is a toss-up between fish n’ chips count on Churchill’s for all your game day and bangers n’ mash, and the menu does needs. From delicious cocktails to interhave an entire section dedicated to British national cuisine to a friendly wait staff, food, but the chefs clearly endeavor to move Churchill’s has you covered. cs past the typical fare.

The menu is diverse, offering everything Churchill’s Pub & Restaurant, 13-17 W. Bay St. from shrimp and grits to red pepper humwww.thebritishpub.com mus to BBQ pork ribs. It’s an easy way to introduce Savannah to the outside world.

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Eating at Churchill’s has a way of making you feel a bit more worldly. How appropriate, then, for the British pub to go all out for the 2014 World Cup. “We open early for the U.S. and England games,” says Sarah, a server. “It gets really crowded in here, really busy.”

For Sunday’s big U.S. vs. Portugal game, Churchill’s began drawing a sizeable crowd early in the evening and was packed by the time the game started. Two flat-screen TVs and a projector at the far end of the bar broadcast the game.

Portugal ended up tying the U.S. 2-2, but in any case the food didn’t disappoint.

Opened in 1996, Churchill’s Pub has become a Bay Street mainstay for locals and a must-see for tourists. The atmosphere alone is enough to keep people coming back.

It’s decked out in plenty of Union Jack flags and string lights, and by the entrance hangs a portrait of the pub’s namesake, Winston Churchill.

In honor of the World Cup, FIFA banners sponsored by Bud Light are hung all around the bar area. Inside the restaurant, the tables have placemats depicting doubledecker buses and bright red telephone booths, enhancing the London mood. The rooftop bar overlooking the downtown skyline is perfect for breezy summer nights.

Downstairs, Winston’s Wine Bar has a milelong listing of sophisticated wines.

Behind the main bar sits all the alcohol you could dream of, from Malibu to Smirnoff to Jagermeister, but the bartenders note that most people just order beer. And rest assured that the beer list doesn’t just contain Miller and Coors. They carry Weihenstephaner from Germany and Hobgoblin from England, as well as Savannah’s own Southbound.

Like a Southern styling of Cheers, Churchill’s has plenty of devoted regulars who frequent the place on weeknights. But there are also visitors looking to blend in with the locals.

Unlike some bars in Savannah, there are guests of all ages, from people who barely look 21 to fifty- or sixty-somethings. The music accommodates all of their tastes, playing the Arctic Monkeys and the White Stripes right after Tom Petty and Aerosmith. There’s even a digital jukebox at the end of the bar.

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Fish Camp finesse dishes were caught that morning, often sourced from neighboring Bowie Seafood, Russo’s and directly from the Agnes Marie, Look, there’s not a thing wrong a legacy shrimp boat docked at with a basket of grouper fingers and fries Lazaretto Creek that also trawls after a long day at the beach. for flounder. Mountain trout fresh But sometimes, all that salt air and sand from the creeks of North Caroinspires an appetite for more: Complex flalina and lobster sailed down the vors and thoughtfully-sourced ingredients, prepared with creative finesse and presented East Coast round out a menu full of just-caught delicacies that will by a staff knowledgeable in the art of service. And maybe a craft cocktail or two, not never know the indignity of a plastic basket. guzzled out of a Solo cup.

Deadpans Kurtis: “We do not Fine dining hasn’t been Tybee Island’s have a fryer here.” strong suit in the past few years. Though A modern Renaissance man Sundae Café continues to serve up its herwho can wield saw, guitar and paintbrush alded fare, locals reminisce about the days of yore when upscale restaurants like Tango, with equal skill, Kurtis built the cedar awnings and added the deck himself to the Hunter House and George’s brought a cersecluded 1950’s bungalow that most recently tain culinary panache to the island. housed Jitterbug Café. The original plan was Beach bon vivants can rejoice again with for him to bring his formidable chef talents the advent of Fish Camp, open this month to the Fish Camp kitchen as well, though and already captivating palates. Brought the logistics of running both restaurants to us by Tybee Island Social Club owners Kurtis Schumm and Sarah Lanier Schumm, proved tricky. (He still lends his kitchen chops at both places often enough.)

Fish Camp fills a niche that’s been begging Fortunately, the Schumms found a chef for a more polished presentation of our local who could execute their vision in Cameron fruits of the sea.

Cheney, who wowed Midtown at B. Till“We asked ourselves what Savannah man when it first debuted last year. While needs, and we came up with an idea for fresh-off-the-boat, properly-plated seafood,” he has happily ditched the formal white chef jacket for a T-shirt and backwards ball says Sarah.

Chances are that those lovingly-arranged cap, Chef Cheney remains committed to

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Tybee Island Social Club owners Sarah and Kurtis Schumm go for cozy sophistication at Fish Camp. Photo by LeeAnn Ritch

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his “Southern-infused French thing” that earned him a loyal, if disappointingly small, cadre of followers at B. Tillman.

“I’ve made a deliberate effort not to replicate the menu,” he promises, though at least one Fish Camp offering reflects his soft spot for spaetzle as a side.

No matter, Cheney clearly has culinary creativity to spare: The aforementioned trout arrived perfectly baked and stuffed with crunchy red pepper slaw atop a thick square of jalapeño corn bread, a generous dollop of tangy roasted pepper sauce underneath. Ahi tuna—so often egregiously

overcooked—came with a perfect sear and a thick, pink middle, accompanied by orange-glazed carrots and butterbean purée, each flavor made even more heavenly by a creamy wasabi sauce.

As for the nightly special, Cheney’s preparation of cobia, its buttery texture enhanced by a beurre blanc and served on a bed of leeks, literally brought tears of joy to a grown man’s eyes.

Appetizer must-haves are the lobster tail—packed with a Bienville assortment of goodies—and the baked oysters, a bright take on the Rockefeller that features kale (so much more robust than spinach!) and bacon from Midwestern legend Nueske’s.

The standout soups (lobster bisque with truffle cream, anyone?) and salads will also be included in the forthcoming lunch menu.

Don’t overlook Fish Camp’s land-based delights, such as the sweet slow burn of the Andouille sausage-apple-stuffed pierogi and a nice, fat ribeye from Hunter Cattle.

Catering to the expectation of fine service that comes with fine food is a well-trained team that includes couple Laura O’LearyMeyers and Taylor Robertson, both veterans of the Athens foodie scene who respectively serve as bartender and sous chef. O’LearyMeyers presides over a cocktail list that

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reads like a grown-up candy store, combining classics like an absinthe-laced Sazerac with the proprietary creations of the New Fashioned (maraschino cherries never tasted so good) and the Spicy Schummy Mary (bound to become a Sunday lunchtime legend.) The wine list is purposefully provincial, showcasing mostly domestic, free-spirited labels, including out-of-the-box whites like Monterey’s Ken Volk Malvasia and super-grapey Chronic Purple Paradise out of Paso Robles.

Set back behind the post office on North Campbell Avenue under the pines, Fish Camp’s aesthetic is a far tack from Social’s easy, breezy elegance. Inspired by the remote shacks of her youth where menfolk would escape for a week’s fishing, Sarah has designed a seductive space that’s part lodge, part lounge.

“Social is our raison d’être; we want it to feel like everyone’s beach house,” she explains, sipping ice water on one of the linen-covered bar stools.

“At Fish Camp, we wanted to do something higher end, something more intimate.

We’ve kind of ended up creating an environment where we want to hang out.”

The mix of the modern and rustic certainly appears to be an extension of Sarah’s

acclaimed personal style: Lotus leaf placemats are set with simple black and white napkins. A few of Kurtis’ sensuous paintings hang on the walls. Her aunt’s old piano— serendipitously rediscovered on Craigslist— is played by local musicians most evenings.

It’s unpretentious and uncluttered, though everywhere are the interior designer’s signature glamorous touches, from the vintage green high ball glasses to old books that serve as check presenters.

With five years as restaurateurs under their belts and an inherent savoir faire, the Schumms appear to have brought fine dining back to Tybee—and possibly taken it to a whole new level. The couple celebrated their second wedding anniversary in between closing on the building and opening Fish Camp’s doors in less than three months, a dizzying turnaround that barely fazed them.

“We love art, we love music, we love to bring people together,” says Sarah, squeezing Kurtis’ elbow as he walks back to the kitchen.

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exhibition/juried show featuring works by 63 SCAD artists--students, alumni, faculty and staff--that suggest a sense of place. All art available for purchase. Free and open to the public. Reception Fri. 6/27, 6-8pm.

Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St.

Lowlife — At this joint exhibit, Alessandra Hoshor presents her multimedia art, and Jane Winfield shows her abstract paintings.

Reception June 27 from 7-10 p.m. June 25-July 1. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. SCAD Gallery Hop — Travel by free shuttle for

an evening of art receptions at the SCAD Museum of Art and two other SCAD galleries. SCAD Museum celebrates artists Orly Genger, Carrie Moyer, Stephen Burrows, Li Hui, Simon Bilodeau and SCAD foundation studies professor Maggie Evans (M.F.A., painting, 2008). Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. — “tahoe hybrids” by katherine sandoz Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. — “Immediate Surroundings” summer sales exhibition. Free and open to the public. Fri., June 27, 6-8 p.m. scad.edu.

Continuing Exhibits Celebrate Art, Tybee Style — Tybee artists will present a range of products, from handmade jewelry to oil paintings. Part of the sale benefits the Tybee Arts Association.

Reception July 4, 6-9 p.m. June 27-July 6.

June 27-July 6 Old Tybee School (Cafeteria), 204 Fifth Street.

Shaved — Works by artists (and Blick em-

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Agents of Change, by Kenneth Martin — Portrait artist Martin presents a collection of oil paintings of African American historical figures (1700s and 1800s) Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. Airport Art Gallery Spring Exhibition — The Savannah Art Association exhibits over thirty works of oil, acrylic, mixed media and three dimensional art. Art may be purchased through the Savannah Art Association. Free and open to the public. Savannah Hilton Head International Airport, 400 Airways Ave. Alfredo Jaar: Shadows — SCAD deFINE ART 2014 honoree Alfredo Jaar presents the world premier of a site specific installation, Shadows, at the SCAD Museum of ART, 601 Turner Blvd.

Art in City Hall: Peter Halpern — Peter J. Halpern exhibition, Savannah Scenes, features paintings in acrylic that capture the unique beauty of everyday Savannah scenes.

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watercolor illustrations, hand-inked comics and photographs in her work, that revisits Coastal Georgia as a space in between Africa and America, water and land, reality and imagination. Through June 27 Alexander Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St.

Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique

landscape of the South is Summer sales exhibit/juried show by over 60 SCAD the subject of this exhibition of work by a wide range artists at Gutstein Gallery on Broughton, with reception of artists, media, and styles. this Friday. This is work by Cole Whitworth Jepson Center for the Arts, New York Accents — An exhibition of visual 207 West York St. art, decorative and fine art objects from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection Helen Levitt: In the Street — The exhibit, a dating from the early 19th century to the collaboration with the High Museum of present, exploring the rich influence of New Art in Atlanta, displays the work of one of York on Savannah. Museum admission.

America’s ground-breaking photographers.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 The photographs are drawn from the perBarnard St. manent collections of both the Telfair and the High. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 Oksana Gruszka Harmouche Exhibit — Original oil West York St. and watercolor paintings by Ukrainian artist/architect. Free and open to the public.

Jason Middlebrook: Submerged — MiddleThrough June 30 Alix Baptiste’s Art Gallery brook transformed logs once submerged (City Market), 307 W. St. Julian Street. in the Savannah River and that provided infrastructure for over 200 years. SCAD Paintings by Johanna Hopkinson — Savannah Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. mixed media artist and painter whose work reflects the natural world. Jewish EducaMarilyn: Celebrating an American Icon — An tional Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. internationally traveling exhibition, featuring more than 100 works of American film icon Marilyn Monroe. Presented in a variety Paintings by Sharon Saseen & Jewelry by Randee of media including photographs, paintings, Powell — In June, Gallery 209 presents and videos. Jepson Center, 207 W York St. Sharon Saseen’s iconic paintings of Savannah and the South, and Randee Powell’s linen macrame jewelry incorporating semiThe Meantime — An exhibition of recent illustrations and paintings by Simon Cooper. precious gemstones, seashells and crystals.

Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Through June 30 Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Photographs of Fort Pulaski — The Muse is an exhibition of photographs by Shannon Moving off the Grid: Acrylic Abstractions in Color Christopher, shot on Cockspur Island and at and Line — Paintings by Stephen Darr. GeoFort Pulaski. Through July 27 Fort Pulaski metric abstractions, influenced by circuit National Monument, Cockspur Island. boards and underground subway maps, including vivid pairings that match up on Sea and Mythical Creatures — Samone Norall four sides and can be rearranged to sworthy’s first public exhibition includes create multiple compositions. A portion of childlike depictions of sea animals in proceeds benefits Hospice Savannah, Inc. Through June 30 Hospice Savannah, 1352 watercolor, pen, acrylics, and mixed media.

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Look, we all know that Guy Pearce can act; we’ve been privy to that fact for years, thanks to his work in such pictures as Memento and L.A. Confidential. No, the wild card in The Rover is Robert Pattinson, reviled in many circles -- but adored in just as many -- for portraying sparkly vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise. Whether he was actually any good in that series was incidental, something never discussed by either his cheerleaders or detractors. So it’s no surprise that, like Daniel Radcliffe from the far more beloved Harry Potter films, he’s been largely accepting unconventional parts in smaller movies, working hard lest he forever be associated with only one project.

In The Rover, Pattinson acquits himself well enough as he plays second banana to Pearce, who has the central role in what’s yet another bleak, post-apocalyptic saga set in a futuristic wasteland. Pearce’s man of few words is upset when three criminals (Scoot McNairy, David Field and Tawanda Manyimo) abscond with his automobile, so after he’s fortunate enough to run across the fourth member (Pattinson) of that gang, a mentally slow kid who was injured and left behind, he sets out in hot pursuit, using his hostage-cum-ally to lead the way.

Australian writer-director David Michod made his directorial debut with 2010’s acclaimed Animal Kingdom, starring Pearce,

Joel Edgerton and Oscar-nominated Jacki Weaver. The Rover, which Michod penned with Edgerton, proves to be a disappointing follow-up, retaining that previous picture’s sense of danger but jettisoning everything else that was interesting and unpredictable.

With its unforgiving terrain and pungent nihilism, the film also can’t help but stir memories of fellow Aussie John Hillcoat’s excellent 2006 endeavor The Proposition (also, incidentally, starring Pearce), yet in this new picture, the existential angst feels tapped out, with Michod unable to do anything but push his pawns through a series of incidents that shed little light on the characters or the hellish world in which they live.

The performances help, but everything else about The Rover turns out to be as barren and arid as the movie’s backdrop.

How To Train Your Dragon 2

OOO The inevitable sequel to the 2010 smash, How to Train Your Dragon 2 might be a bright and cheerful toon flick for the whole family, but it also isn’t afraid to occasionally saunter over to the dark side. How dark?

Let’s just say that there’s a late-breaking development here that will result in some moviegoers tagging it as this film’s Vaderflavored “I am your father” moment.

I’m not referring to the more obvious parallel that the mother of our young

protagonist Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) is still alive; while that might qualify as a spoiler of sorts, it’s already been widely reported in print and online, so hopefully I’m not ruining anything for anyone. No, I’m referring to a grim twist that just might lead to ample weeping from audience members who didn’t completely empty their tear ducts during The Fault in Our Stars. It’s a powerful moment, and it’s a reminder that the best animated features have the ability to fully engage our senses as well as any liveaction endeavor.

The original film centered on the sensitive viking Hiccup and the dragon Toothless, and how their relationship eventually put an end to the long-running feud between man and beast. As this new picture opens, we see that everyone in the village of Berk has at least one dragon as a pet. But while life in Berk is idyllic, there’s trouble brewing in the surrounding area, as a brute named Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou) has been ordering his minions to round up as many dragons as possible. Hiccup figures that he should attempt to reason with Drago, but Stoick (Gerard Butler), Hiccup’s father and the viking chief, knows that there’s no use in talking to such a madman. Nevertheless, Hiccup decides he’ll give it the old viking try, although his plan gets sidetracked once he unexpectedly reunites with the long-gone mom (Cate Blanchett) he never knew.

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of the movie; it’s also the new address that serves as the headquarters for the unit operating under the grouchy Captain Dickson (Ice Cube, the first picture’s stealth weapon of wit, is just as hilarious here). “Good thing there’s an abandoned Vietnamese church just across the street,” notes Dickson as they pass by the abandoned Korean church - now sold - that they previously had used as HQ. The campus setting also lends itself to some inspired bits. The Lucas Brothers, aka stand-up comedians Kenny and Keith, quietly steal scenes as pothead siblings who finish each other’s sentences, while former Saturday Night Live scribe Jillian Bell is drolly amusing as a huffy student constantly ragging on the fact that Schmidt is clearly older than the average college kid. As Maya, a classmate who catches Schmidt’s eye, Amber Stevens has to play it straighter than 22 JUMP STREET OOO her co-stars, but her participation in the proceedings eventually leads directly to a There really wasn’t any reason to expect couple of the film’s largest laughs. good things from 2012’s 21 Jump Street, The merriment and goodwill manage to since such TV-to-film adaptations as Starsky & Hutch, I Spy and Dark Shadows had sug- extend all the way to the epilogue; I won’t spoil the surprise since it’s best to view this gested that this wholesale mining of boobtube nostalgia clearly had its limitations. Yet sustained stretch of comic brilliance with virgin eyes, so let’s just say that the prospect the big-screen takeoff of the TV show that had placed Johnny Depp on the map proved of a 23 Jump Street seems more like a favor than a threat. to be a resounding success, self-aware in its humor yet never smug or suffocating in its execution.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS OOOP Similarly, there really wasn’t any reason to expect good things from 22 Jump Street, While theaters have been providing 3-D since any sequel would doubtless just be a glasses as moviegoers amble into enhanced repeat of what had gone on before. Well, showings of such hi-tech flicks as Godzilla yes and no. 22 Jump Street does follow the and Edge of Tomorrow, they’re offering no pattern of its predecessor, but the film’s four handouts at venues screening The Fault in writers (including co-star Jonah Hill) work Our Stars. That’s a blown opportunity for overtime to ensure that the majority of the the chains to make an extra buck, because gags are fresh and that the recycled ones are if the steady sniffling of the audience surgiven enough of an extra spin to make audi- rounding me at the film’s advance screening ences laugh all over again. And, boy, do they is any indication, then legions of viewers will laugh ... long and loud. be requiring a stack of Kleenex long before Hill and Channing Tatum return as the end credits roll. undercover cops Schmidt and Jenko, only Heck, I could have benefited from a counow they’re too old to successfully pass ple myself, if only to blot eyes that watered themselves off as high school students as up on more than one occasion. Movies they search for the makers of a deadly drug about sickly young people tend to strand that’s causing kids to OD. The solution? discerning film fans far from the intended They must successfully pass themselves effect, since dry eyes or involuntary chuckles off as college students as they search for the are more likely to greet the melodramatic makers of a deadly drug that’s causing kids claptrap foisted upon the screen. But The to OD. Fault in Our Stars, based on John Green’s It sounds like Lazy Screenwriting 101, acclaimed 2012 bestseller, is different: It and the potential for the self-referential treats its characters as recognizably human humor to fall drastically flat is huge (see individuals rather than symbolic pawn Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in pieces, and it hooks us with its mix of strong the West as proof positive). dialogue, restrained direction and powerYet from the start, with a “Previously on house performances.

21 Jump Street” tease, Hill and his co-writers Shailene Woodley, matching her specfind ways to perk up the predictable. For tacular turn in last summer’s The Spectacular Now, stars as Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 34 instance, 22 Jump Street isn’t just the name JUN 25-JUL 1, 2014

How to Train Your Dragon 2 really pops in 3-D, yet the animation is so stunning that those hoping to save some cash won’t be cheated if they opt to check it out in one less dimension. Of course, we all knew the animation would be up to snuff; what’s more unexpected is the strength of the script by director Dean DeBlois (working from the book series by Cressida Cowell). The character dynamics prove to be as maturely handled as the themes of responsibility and sacrifice, and the film is sometimes so serious that, while Stoick’s right-hand man Gobber (Craig Ferguson) continues to provide amusement, the juvenile antics of Hiccup’s friends actually manage to interrupt the narrative flow that DeBlois carefully established.

16-year-old whose cancer has left her unable to properly breath without her portable oxygen tank in tow. A smart and strong-willed teen, the last thing she wants to do is spend potentially limited time attending support group meetings, but at the insistence of her mother (Laura Dern), she finally acquiesces.

And a good thing, too, since it’s at one of these meetings that she encounters Augustus “Gus” Waters (Ansel Elgort), a self-assured boy who lost a leg to cancer and now sports a prosthetic one. Gus and Hazel both benefit from loving and supportive parents, yet what they really require is one another, someone who can understand firsthand the fears and difficulties that they each face daily. For her part, though, Hazel wants to keep some distance, as she doesn’t desire to see anyone else hurt by her tragic life circumstances. Gus naturally balks at her decision, and they eventually make the transition from best buddies to consummate soulmates.

Naturally, cancer will again rear its hideous head at some point over the course of the film, but the script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber is too intelligent to telegraph its moves or allow the drama to fall into predetermined place. One of the highlights of the picture is when Hazel and Gus travel to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten (Willem Dafoe), the author of Hazel’s favorite book, and their meeting isn’t quite what one might expect. Instead, the emotions that are unleashed are raw, startling and even terrifying, and they provide an unease not even attempted in other films of this nature (certainly not junk like Sweet November or Autumn in New York).

Even with its blanket richness, The Fault in Our Stars won’t draw viewers who dismiss out of hand anything dealing with palpable emotions. But admittedly, one person’s soul-rattling catharsis might be another’s Hallmark greeting card, meaning even openminded viewers might not catch its wavelength. Fair enough.

2014 has already seen enough high-caliber releases that if the rest of the summer follows suit, I might have enough for a 10 Best list by Labor Day and can take off the remainder of the year.

I jest, of course. Still, Edge of Tomorrow is excellent enough that it will certainly be remembered at year’s close. Endlessly entertaining and ceaselessly innovative, this futuristic saga, an adaptation of a Japanese novel with the groovy name All You Need Is Kill, finds Tom Cruise once again working his movie-star mojo in the role of Major William Cage, the military’s leading p.r. flack and a wiz at selling the ongoing war against invading alien forces nicknamed “Mimics.”

But when a no-nonsense general (Brendan Gleeson) orders him to accompany the first wave of troops set to fight the e.t.s along the French coast, he refuses, forcing the general to have him arrested as a deserter and shipping him to the front as an ordinary soldier.

Once on the battlefield, Cage proves to be utterly worthless - he’s a far cry from Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a kick-ass combatant who has become the face of humanity’s stand against its evil attackers. Cage is so incompetent, in fact, that he’s quickly killed ... only to then find himself waking up back at the barracks on the day before the beachfront battle commences. To reveal more would be to spoil the picture’s numerous surprises; suffice it to say that Cage dies repeatedly, but rather than forge a rapport with Punxsutawney Phil, he becomes acquainted with Rita, the one person who understands why he seems stuck in an endless loop.

With Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) as director and an angel-kissed script

by Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie and the team of Jez Butterworth and JohnHenry Butterworth it’s clear that complexity and ingenuity won’t be in short supply. But what’s unexpected is the high level of humor coursing through the film.

As for the effects work, it’s nothing short of superb, with the Mimics proving to be EDGE OF TOMORROW expertly designed - and genuinely frightOOOO ening - creatures. Yet all the fancy CGI Ever since the first trailer broke for Edge wouldn’t amount to anything if we weren’t of Tomorrow, the movie hasn’t been able to actively involved in the characters’ fates, shake the label that it’s basically Groundhog and the take-no-prisoners performance by Day dripped through a sci-fi filter. While Blunt and especially the multifaceted work there’s some truth to that - and also truth in by Cruise ensure that our emotions are as that it’s similar to Source Code, a comparison actively engaged as our imagination. that curiously isn’t being made much - such If Edge of Tomorrow unfortunately turns a a designation proves to be woefully limiting bit conventional as it enters its final stretch, for a film as exhilarating as this one. It’s only that’s a small price to pay for what’s overall been a couple of weeks since X-Men: Days of a socko motion picture that demands to be Future Past laid an early claim for the title of seen today. cs the summer’s best blockbuster, and already we have another potent contender. In fact,

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Community Meeting Discussing the Bacon Park Reuse Reclamation Facility

City of Savannah District 4 Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague will host a Community Meeting for 4th District residents to discuss this facility. Free and open to the public. Mon., June 30, 6 p.m. 912.351.6527.

Mon., June 30, 6 p.m Speedwell United Methodist Church, 7259 Skidaway Road.

Dinner and Bikes, presented by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign

A traveling road show of vegan food and bicycle inspiration from three national bike and food advocates. Joshua Ploeg will prepare a vegan and gluten free buffet dinner, Elly Blue will make a presentation based on her book Bikenomics and the economic case for bicycling, and Joe Biel will show either a program of short films or his new feature-length documentary, Aftermass, about the history of bicycle activism in Portland. The event is followed with a book signing and time for questions, discussion of local issues, and perusing the traveling bookstore.Presented by (and benefiting) the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. Ticket includes dinner. $10 in advance online or $15 at the door. Sun., June 29, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. sentientbean.com. Sun., June 29, 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Drinking Liberally

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. Tondee’s Tavern, 7 E. Bay Street (912) 341-7427 Free , 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/ drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. , 7 p.m Muffins with Mary Ellen

Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague hosts a weekly gathering for District 4 constituents every Wednesday morning. Residents and business owners of District 4 are invited to drop-in to ask questions and discuss local issues. Free and open to the public.

Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m. 912-659-0103. ogeecheecoffee.com/. Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St. Saturdays with Alderwoman Shabazz

Residents in Savannah’s 5th District are invited to meet with their Alderwoman every 4th Saturday of the month. Residents may come with specific issues and concerns, or just to meet their representative on Savannah City Council. District 5 runs roughly west of Bull Street and north of 36th Street, and also includes newly developing areas of the City in the southwest quadrant of Chatham County. Free and open to the public. fourth Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m. 912-651-6410. fourth Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m Shabazz Seafood Restaurant, 502 W. Victory Dr. Savannah Area Young Republicans

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African American Theatre

Revitalize African-American theatre in Savannah. Staging and premiering of new, dynamic plays with memorable characters and storylines. Contact playwright Ben Harris for information. Every 3 days.

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Call for Applications: Savannah Voice Festival’s Teen Voice Workshop

Young singers (ages 15-19) are invited to spend August 8-10 singing and learning with Savannah Voice Festival’s Artistic Director, Sherrill Milnes, Jorge Parodi, vocal coach and Director of College Preparatory Division of the Juilliard School and other esteemed faculty. Students will train, look at college preparation and perform in a special presentation on Aug. 10 for musical lovers, family and friends. Deadline for Applications are July 15, 2014. Space is limited. $350. See website to apply and for details. Every 3 days. Savannahvoicefestival.org. Every 3 days Call for Auditions: Stepping Out, by Tybee Arts Performing Society

Tybee Arts Performing Society is holding auditions July 1, 6pm, for “Stepping Out,” written by Richard Harris and directed by Dr. Ronnie Spilton. Cast: one male and eleven women ages 20 to 50 with one being an older cranky woman who plays the Art Rise Savannah Seeks Artists for Fresh piano. Auditions at Jim Ingham Black Box Exhibition Fellowship Program Theater, Tybee Island. Call backs are July Apply for Fresh’s Exhibition Fellowship, The 2nd. Performance dates are in August.

Fellowship is a submission-based process Tue., July 1, 6 p.m. tybeearts@gmail.com. in which recipients receive a three week Tue., July 1, 6 p.m Jim Ingham Black Box exhibition in the Fresh Exhibition gallery.

Theater, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Tybee Island, GA Application deadline: July 25. $40 applica- 31328.

Call for entries: Faux Real show at Non-Fiction tion fee. See website for details. A project Gallery of Art Rise Savannah. Through July 25. info@freshexhibitions.org. freshexhibitions. Non-Fiction Gallery is looking for works that explore the many facets of the concept org/fellowship/. Through July 25 Performing Arts Instructors Sought of reality. The gallery invites artists from all Department of Cultural Affairs Accepting media to apply to this national juried show.

Proposals for Neighborhood Arts Program- Please see the prospectus at nonfictionming Instructors City seeks applications gallery.com. Show dates: August 1-12, for Weave A Dream Initiative instructors for 2014 Submission deadline: Friday, July 11, Fall 2014 programming. Proposals are due 2014 Entry fee: $20 for up to three works,

by August 29, 2014 and should be submit$5 per every entry thereafter. Every 3 days. ted by email to cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov 912-662-5152. nonfictiongallery.com. Every or mailed to 9 West Henry Street, Savan3 days Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. nah, GA 31401. To download the application Canyon Ranch Institute Healthy World Scholarships and see criteria, go to the Cultural Affairs Canyon Ranch has generously donated website www.savannahga.gov/arts. For 25 stays at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ, more information please contact Crystal Northcutt at (912) 644-7927. Through Aug. as scholarships for people who work or volunteer in low-income and medi29. Through Aug. 29 Call for Artists cally underserved communities helping The Sentient Bean is seeking experienced to enhance the health and well-being of artists interested in showing their work their local populations. What’s Included: for the duration of one month at the Bean.

A complimentary five-day, four-night stay Artists must have a website with current at Canyon Ranch in Tucson in 2015. Apply images representing a sample of the work by October 1. Details and requirements to be shown in order to be considered. online. Wednesdays.. canyonranchinTo apply, please send an email to senstitute.org/storage/FINAL_Call_for_ tientbooking@gmail.com with the subject CRI_Healthy_World_Scholarship_Apps_ line “art show” and include the following REV__6_17_2014.pdf. Wednesdays.

City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries information: 1. Artist name and phone number 2. Link to website that has current The City of Savannah’s TV station, SGTV is seeking insightful and well-crafted proand relevant images of work for proposed show 3. Link to artist resume (preferred) or files, documentaries, animations, original music videos, histories or other original artist resume attached as a PDF file ONLY

works by or about the citizens of Savannah to run on “Engage”, a television show produced by the city. Interested in collaborating with filmmakers, artists, musicians and others in producing original content for the program. While the City does not offer compensation for such programs, SGTV does offer an opportunity to expose local works to a wide audience. More than 55,000 households in Chatham County have access to SGTV. Submit proposals via website. The City reserves the right to reject any programming that does not meet content standards. . savannahga.gov/ engagesgtv.

City’s Cultural Arts Gallery Seeks Artists for 2015 Exhibitions

Artists sought to exhibit at the Cultural Arts Gallery in 2015. Contemporary art, design and fine crafts by local and regional artists. Exhibiting artists are required to develop and present a learning opportunity to the public such as a workshop, lecture or demonstration. All mediums considered for a non-degree seeking solo or group exhibition, including video and installation pieces. Deadline: September 5, 2014, 4 p.m. Submit to Debra Zumstein, Arts Programs Coordinator, City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 W. Henry St., Savannah, GA 31401. Proposal guidelines online or by phone. Through Sep. 5. (912) 651-6783. savannahga.gov/ arts. Through Sep. 5 Gallery 209 Call for Artist

Gallery 209, 209 East River Street, seeks a 3D artist to join its cooperative gallery.

Interested artist should call the gallery at 236-4583 between the hours of 10:30 and 1:30 pm and ask for Pat or email Bill Rousseau at bmrousseau@aol.com. Every other day. gallery209.com/. Every other day Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Gallery Seeks Local Artists

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, in downtown Savannah seeks 2-D and 3-D artists to join its cooperative gallery. Must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. If interested please submit 5-10 images of your work, plus resume/CV and biography to info@kobogallery.com. . Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,.

Homeschool Music Classes

Music classes for homeschool students ages 8 - 18, and their parents. Offered in Guyton and Savannah. See website for details. . CoastalEmpireMusic.com.

Kids Photo Contest Sponsored by Sand Gnats and Telfair Museums

A photo contest for children ages 8-12.

Submission deadline: 5:00 p.m. on June 30. Sponsors are Telfair Museums and the Savannah Sand Gnats. The Sand Gnats will feature the winning photograph on the front cover of their game program, Gnats Illustrated, from mid-July through the end of the season. Sand Gnats players will serve as contest judges, selecting the winning photograph. Photographs must be

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compiled by robin wright gunn | happenings@connectsavannah.com Happenings is Connect Savannah’s listing of community gatherings, events, classes and groups. If you want an event listed, email happenings@connectsavannah.com. Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.

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baseball themed. Digital, Polaroid, or even cell phone photos are acceptable in either color or in black and white. Information / questions--Kayla Medina at Telfair Museums, 912.790.8837 or medinak@telfair.org.

Submit entries to telfaircontest@sandgnats.com with photographer name, age and contact information. The winner will be contacted by July 7. Every 3 days. telfair. org. Every 3 days Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollections for 40th Anniversary

Oatland Island Education Center is looking for memories of Oatland Island, in honor of their 40th anniversary. People who were you part of the Youth Conservation Corp that helped to build Oatland Island Education Center in the 1970’s. Great memories from Oatland field trips. Special family memories of Oatland Island. Send your photos and stories to memories@oatland40th.org. Deadline is August 31. Every 3 days. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org.

Every 3 days Theatre Auditions for Tybee Arts Association Play

Tybee Arts Association is casting “Stepping Out,” a comedy with music featuring nine (9) females and one (1) male. Middle aged people take tap dancing lessons with an ex-pro dancer as a way to deal with their life issues. Eight performances: Aug 15-18, 22-25. Tue., July 1, 6 p.m. rspilton@ gmail.com. Tue., July 1, 6 p.m Jim Ingham Black Box Theater, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Tybee Island, GA 31328.

Weave-A-Dream Grant Applications Sought

Call for proposals for its 2014 Weave-ADream—Cultural & Arts Projects initiative.

Applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available.

Programs are to be completed prior to December 31, 2014 and the application must be submitted at least eight weeks prior to the start date of the project. Project funding is available up to $2,500 per program/ project. Emphasis on proposals that actively involve youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts based programs in Savannah. Applicants must be a non-profit, 501c3, head-quartered in Savannah’s corporate limits. Proposed programs must also be produced within the City’s corporate limits. No individual artist applications will be accepted. Applications are available on the Department of Cultural Affairs website. Mondays.. 912651-6417. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. (savannahga.gov\arts. Mondays.

Benefits

JUN 25-JUL 1, 2014

Black-n-Blue Ball

Tux and gown, or blue jeans and leather.

Music by 8 Mile Bend Band. The twentieth annual dance party put on by Savannah Harley Owners Group (HOGs)benefiting the Coastal Empire Muscular Dystrophy Association. $25 for admission and hors d’oeuvres. Cash Bar Sat., June 28, 7-11:59 p.m. 912-354-9576. savannahhog.com. mightyeighth.org/. Sat., June 28, 7-11:59 p.m Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. Bryan County Bark Park Hawaiian Luau Yappy Hour

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Dog) Yappy Hour is all about the tropics, with a fancy dress competition and doggie smoothies in tropical honey and peanut butter blueberry flavors for $3 or $4.

Southern Eagle beer tasting. 8pm--Best doggie Hawaiian costume competition.

Proceeds raise funds to build a dog park at Henderson Park in Bryan County. Free and open to the public. Wed., June 25, 6-8 p.m. 912-429-3950. Lesley@francis.com. bryancountybarkpark.com. Wed., June 25, 6-8 p.m Fish Tales at Ft. McAllister Marina, 3203 Ft. McAllister Rd. Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control is in need of items for pets in the facility. Seeking donations of canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, and towels. Open daily from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. . 912-351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr.

Karma class to raise money for local charities. Thursdays during the 6:30pm class.

Pay $5 for class and proceeds are donated to a different charity each month. This is a regular Bikram Yoga class. . 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com.

Lauren’s Legacy Fundraiser

A benefit for the children of Lauren Brown Smart. Silent auction, food vendors, activities for kids To donate or volunteer, contact via email. Free and open to the public.

Sat., June 28, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. wifarmersmarketpr@aol.com. https://facebook.com/ events/1522118731345071/. Sat., June 28, 10 a.m.-1 p.m Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers

Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve as greeters, office assistants, animal photographers,event coordinators, groomers, property maintenance workers, kennel assistants, dog walkers, cat socializers, play area monitors, off-site adoption Chief Jimmy Crosby’s Food For Thought: Barbe- managers, veterinary service supporters, cue Fundraiser and foster coordinators. No prior animal A BBQ benefit for Fire Chief Jimmy Crosby, shelter experience is necessary. Newly 47 year member of the Garden City Fire trained volunteers will be authorized to Department, whose wife’s serious illness serve immediately after orientation. Potenis creating financial hardship. BBQ lunch tial volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis plates w/ 2 sides for sale. Pre-orders by prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are July 18. Pick up Friday, July 25, 11am-2pm welcome. Volunteers must be at least at Garden City Fire Department – Sta17-years-old. . (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@ tion One. 160 Main Street, Garden City. $8 savannahga.gov.

Tommy Strong Music Festival per plate. Must present ticket at pick up.

A benefit for former special forces soldier Through July 18. 912-966-7780. Through Tommy Kim who was diagnosed with brain July 18 Citywide Cell Phone Drive for Safe Shelter cancer in January. Food vendors and 11 loA donation drive through June 30, for old cal bands: 2 Tone Fish, 3rd Class Citizens, cell phones to be recycled. Proceeds from Andrew Gill Band, The Blurry Aftermath, the phone recycling go to Safe Shelter to The Immaculate Fix, Jon Lee and the provide services for victims of domestic Apparitions, Outlaw Gypsy, Rye House, violence. The Eichholz Law Firm, P.C. is Wassaw Sound, Waits & Co., Zan. Free and sponsoring. Call for drop off locations. Any open to the public. Donations encouraged. items that one feels would assist a victim Sun., June 29, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. https:// or their children will be welcomed, but the facebook.com/events/1439931849590142/. focus is on the cell phones and donations Sun., June 29, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m Forsyth of non-perishable food. Through June 30.

Park, 501 Whitaker St. (912) 232-2791. www.thejusticelawyer.com.

Through June 30 Classes, Camps & Workshops Fit 4 Life: Six-Week Fitness Challenge and Benefit

Linda Socks & Sam Carter conduct a 6-Week Fitness Challenge, June 21-July 26. Part of their fundraising effort for the Rape Crisis Center in the 2014 Chatham Orthopaedic Ballroom Extravaganza. Register via phone or email through the Rape Crisis Center. Please do not call the gym facilities. $150 benefiting Rape Crisis Center. Saturdays, 8 a.m.. 233-3000. director@ rccsav.org. Saturdays, 8 a.m. The Fitness Club, 2164 E Victory Drive.

Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. . kristen@forsythfarmersmarket. com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. Forsyth Farmers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park.

$5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities

Bikram Yoga Savannah offers a weekly

200 - Hour Intensive Yoga Teacher Training

Savannah Yoga Center sponsors this course, held July 25 – August 17, 2014.

Application Deadline is July 15. Three week yoga teacher training led by Kelley J. Boyd, 500-ERYT & Director of Savannah Yoga Center, accompanied by the East Coast’s best yoga teachers. Yoga / Satsang.

Registration and more info at www.savannahyoga.com or call (912) 232-2994. Every 3 days. Every 3 days Art Classes at The Studio School

weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. See website, send email or call for details. 912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com.

Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching

Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only.

912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056.

Artist Sacred Circle

Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Art-

ist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@ gmail.com. . 912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

Beading Classes

Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912-441-2656. perlinabeadshop.com.

Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio

Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times.

912-920-6659. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 407 East Montgomery Xrds.

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance. All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Boot Camp

Get fit and lose weight with our Boot Camp instructor Tim Smith. Start your morning off with these heart-pumping routines sure to help you with your fitness goals! $15 for drop in, 8/$100 (must use in 30 days) or 12/$125 (must use in 30 days) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 6:30-7:30 a.m. 912-257-5901. info@firstcityfitness. com. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 6:30-7:30 a.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Camp: Summer Sailing Camp at Lake Mayer

Kids! Learn to sail on Lake Mayer. Savannah Sailing Center presents its Summer Sailing Camp for children ages 5 and up.

Weekly sessions for “Catch the Wind” (Children 8 and up) are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Weekly sessions for “Guppies” (children 5 through 7) are 9:00 a.m.12:00 p.m. Camp dates: June 1-August 2. $150-$275 per week depending on age. Discounts for SSC members, multiple students per family, and multiple weeks. Every 7 days. 912-352-9996. savsailing@yahoo.com. savannahsailingcenter.org. Every 7 days Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Camp: Telfair Art Camps (for kids)

Telfair Museums offers several weeklong art camps for children and teens during the summer. Different focus for each camp. Space for each camp is limited and advance registration is required. The registration fee includes all materials and each child is required to bring their own lunch bag. For more information and to register online please visit www.telfair.org/learn/summer/.

Every 7 days. telfair.org/jepson/. Every 7 days Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Champions Training Center

Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults.

All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-3494582. ctcsavannah.com.

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876

The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876, is currently accepting applications from young men and women (ages 14-20 years old) who are

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interested in a career in Law Enforcement.

Explorers experience mentoring, motivation, and learn skills which help prepare them for their roles as a productive citizen in the Coastal Empire. Interested parties may visit the Chatham County Sheriff’s web page, click “Community” then Explorers Post 876” for applications, or contact Cpl. R. Bryant-Elleby at (912)651-3743. .

912-651-3743. chathamsheriff.org.

Auxiliary. See website or call to register.

912-897-7656. savannahaux.com.

Conscious Kids Yoga

This class is designed to provide students with experiences which will transfer healthy movement, breathing, consciousness, and positive thinking not only on your mat, but into your daily life. These experiences build skill, confidence, strength, and abilities of your body, mind, and heart.

Ideal for children 4+ $15 per class or $50 for 6 sessions (to be used within 2 months) Wednesdays, 4-4:45 p.m. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Wednesdays, 4-4:45 p.m Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Childbirth Education Class

Join us for this 6-week birthing class series. Cate Glyn-Jones will guide you through the process of birth, simple coping techniques and comfort measures, as well as addressing newborn care basics. Max. 10 families. Also available as a private class - call for details. $250 per individual/ couple Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Classical Guitar Instruction

Dance Conditioning

Professional level classical instruction with a university professor. Lessons available for all levels with Dr. Brian Luckett, DMA. Private studio in Starland District. $25/half hour, $45/hour. brian@brianluckett.com. (brianluckett.com.

Clay Classes

Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-3514578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com.

Boating Classes

Classes on boat handling, boating safety and navigation offered by U.S. Coast Guard

Be prepared to sweat! Bring your towel and your water bottle! This class is designed to enhance your strength, flexibility, balance, and overall body fitness.

With belly dance movements in mind, this is a total body work out! $10 drop in or $80 for 10 classes Wednesdays, 7 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Wednesdays, 7 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912443-0410.

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Learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. All ages. Thursdays, 7:30pm, Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 East. Free. 912-897-3604. islandchristian. org.

Family Law Workshop

The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad.

Register by phone. . 912-921-4646.

Figure Drawing Classes

Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:3012:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 drop-in fee. At the Studio School. . 912484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. Free Fitness Boot Camp

Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm at Tribble Park, Largo & Windsor Rd. Children welcome. Free 912-921-0667.

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. .

912-232-5987.

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am.

Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. . 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Knitting & Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website.

Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com. Mondays Latin Cardio

Latin Cardio is a cardio based workout class that is designed to get your off the couch and sweat while having fun! We dance to all your favorite latin style dances like cha cha, samba, jive, rumba, salsa and more! Don’t worry...you will be sweating off the pounds every time you put your feet into action on the dance floor! No partner necessary. Workout clothes required! $10 drop in or $80 for 10 classes Mondays, 6 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Mondays, 6 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

JUN 25-JUL 1, 2014

Learn to Sew!

Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels.

Private and Group classes. . 912-596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com. Kleo’s Sewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201.

Life Coaching

Group & Individual Life Coaching with a Certified Life Coach. Ready for a career 38 change, new lifestyle, or an opportunity

to pursue creative or business projects?

Step-by-step guidance to fulfill aspirations.

In person or telephone sessions. Contact via email or telephone. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

912-596-1952. info@roiseandassociates. com. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon Downtown Savannah, downtown.

small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. . pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com.

This class offers you the education needed to face the physical, mental, and emotional changes of your body, mind and heart with poise and grace. Lynn will guide you, and your child, through a variety of relaxation techniques leaving you feeling refreshed and reinvigorated to face the day. This class is open to expecting and new moms as well as those with small children (4 and under). $15/class or 6 classes for $50 (to be used within 2 months) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 1011 a.m. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Piano Lessons

Mommy & Me Relaxation Class

Music Instruction

Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruction by professional musicians. Band instruments, violin, piano, drums and guitar. All ages welcome. . 912-358-0054. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Music Lessons: Private or Group

Portman’s Music Academy offers private or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner to advanced level. All instruments. Also, voice lessons, music production technology and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over 20 instructors with professional, well equipped studios and a safe, friendly waiting area for parents and siblings. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic. com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

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

New Horizons Adult Band Program

Music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school/college and would like to play again. Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month.

All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic. com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. New Mamas Club

Fun new class with Ann Carroll and Cate Glyn-Jones (alternating weeks). Time will be spent on a variety of engaging activities for mom and baby including some light yoga or gentle exercise. $20 per mom or 6-sessions for $65 to be used within 2 months of purchase - this option also includes 10% off Erigo services, classes, or products Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-5446387. erigosavannah.com. Fridays, 10 a.m.noon Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Photography Classes

Beginner photography to post production.

Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list.

410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com.

Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience. 912-312-3977. . georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Piano Voice-Coaching

Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. .

Quilting Classes

: Quilting classes for beginners and advanced stitchers. Learn to make your first quilt or learn a new technique. See the website, call, or come by the shop. varies . 912 925 0055. email@colonialquilts.us. colonialquilts.us. Colonial Quilts and Savannah Sewing Center, 11710 Largo Drive.

Reading/Writing Tutoring

Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writing, and composition. Remedial reading skills, help with borderline dyslexia, to grammar, term paper writing, and English as a Second Language. Fun methods for children to help them learn quickly. Contact: cordraywriter@gmail.com or text or call 912-12660-7399. Call for fee information.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. . 912-713-2718.

Salsa Group Classes

Join us for the hottest class around!

Salsa! Learn how to dance with a partner or come solo. The only thing we require is a good attitude and in the mindset to have some fun! $5.00 Sundays, 5:30 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Sundays, 5:30 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Sewing Classes

Beginner in sewing? Starting your clothing business or clothing line? Learn to sew.

Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry. Open schedule. Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. . 912-290-0072. savsew.com.

Short Story Writing

Gives students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling the opportunity to use assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Ann Beattie and others will be studied.

Upon completion, students will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing, and the art of revision.

Novel Writing Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, Education division in Savannah. Call or revise it or pursue publication. Award-win- email for days/times/pricing. . 912-644ning Savannah author offers one-on-one or 5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps.

georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/.

Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Singing Classes

Bel Canto is the name of the style of singing invented by Nicola Vaccai, which helps the voice become flexible and expressive, improves the vocal range and breathing capacity and is the technique Anitra Warren uses to train her students. It carries over well as a foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 Mondays-Sundays, 6 p.m. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo.com. MondaysSundays, 6 p.m Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

Teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for improving vocal range and breathing capacity. A good foundation technique for different styles--opera, pop, rock, cabaret.

Fridays 5:30-8:30pm. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W. State St., 3rd floor. .

786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva.com.

Spanish Classes

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in a series.

Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets in the Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 Commercial Drive. . conquistador-spanish.com.

Stress Reduction: Arising Stillness in Zen

Stress-reducing practices for body, speech and mind. Five Thursday night classes from 6- 7:00pm. $15 drop-in; $70 for series. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, Sensei.

Savannah Zen Center 111 E. 34th St. 31401 revfugon@gmail.com .

Camp: Telfair Museums’ Contemporary Creative Explorer

July 28 to August 1 for ages 8-12. This camp features 3D printing with the MakerBot 3D printer! This summer Art Colony takes students on a journey, exploring Telfair Museums’ three sites and numerous exhibitions. Find inspiration with instruction in drawing, painting and printmaking. Students immerse themselves in innovative art lessons taught by professional artists. The camp culminates with a reception and exhibition of the campers’ work at the Jepson Center. Cancellation less than two weeks prior to the start of your camp incurs an $85 cancellation fee. $175 for Telfair members and $195 for non-members Every 7 days. telfair.org. telfair.org/jepson/. Every 7 days Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Vocal Lessons

The Voice Co-op is a group of voice instructors in Savannah, Georgia who believe in the power of a nurturing community to help voice students blossom into vibrant artists. Each of our instructors have earned the degree of Master of Music in Voice Performance. Group master classes are held once each month for students of the Co-op. In the winter and spring the students will have the opportuinty to present a vocie recital for the community.

Varies . 912-656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org.

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Workshop: Is Starting a Business for You?

How to think through the decision to start a business. Includes: identify frauds and scams billed as business opportunities; consider space and time needs; identify factors that contribute to success. Offered

by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension-Chatham County and Small Business Development Center. Free to attend. Reservations required. Tue., July 1, 6-7:30 p.m. (912) 652-7981. uge3051@uga. edu. Tue., July 1, 6-7:30 p.m Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Yoga on the Beach

Wednesdays & Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day. 7 AM to 8 AM ~ Weather permitting.North Beach Parking Lot, Gulick Street beach walkover. Dropins and beginners welcome & encouraged!

Class is by donation. Multi-level Class, Hatha I & II, Integral® Yoga style. Instructor is Ann Carroll,e-RYT 500 hour level.Bring your Yoga Mat or Beach Towel. For more information contact Ann at (912) 704~7650 or ann@aikyayoga.com By Donation Wed.,

June 25, 7 a.m. and Fri., June 27, 7 a.m.

912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. aikyayoga.com. Wed., June 25, 7 a.m. and Fri., June 27, 7 a.m North Beach, Tybee Island.

Clubs & Organizations

13th Colony Sound Barbershop Chorus

Sing in the harmonious barbershop style with the Savannah Chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society No charge Mondays, 6:30 p.m. 912-344-9768. rfksav@gmail. com. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Mondays, 6:30 p.m Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-6313452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. . abeniculturalarts@gmail.com.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Beginner and Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, Barre Core Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch and Tone. no experience needed for beginner Ballet, barre, or stretch/tone. The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/info online or by phone. . 912925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com.

Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player

character. $35 fee for returning characters. . godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost. com.

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

Workshops on the 3rd Thursday of each month on vision losss, services, and technology available to participate in the community. And, how the community can support individuals with vision loss.

Orientation and Mobility Techniques; Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness; Supporting People with Low Vision to Achieve Maximum Independence; Low Vision Simulator Experiences; Resources. Free and open to the public. . savannahcblv.org. Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton St. Buccaneer Region SCCA

Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate.

See website. . buccaneerregion.org.

Business Networking on the Islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. . 912-308-6768.

Chatham Sailing Club

Meets first Friday of each month, 6:30pm at Young’s Marina. If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday.

No boat? No sailing experience? No problem. . chathamsailing.org. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Creative Magic Mondays

Join us on Mondays as we begin our week on a creative note. Doodling, Planning, Manifesting, Crafting! Just Bring Your Own Art Supplies to get the week started right!

Free with a Love Donation Appreciated Mondays, 11 a.m. relaxsavannah@gmail. com. facebook.com/creativemanifest.

Mondays, 11 a.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Drop N Circle Craft Night

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. Enjoy sharing creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers, etc. All levels of experience welcome. Call for info. . 912233-1240.

Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Mediation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more. Call for info. . 912-695-2305. meetup.com/SavannahEnergyHealers.

Fiber Guild of the Savannahs

Open to all who are interested in the fiber arts: weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, etc. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center the first Saturday of the month September through June 10:15am. See our website for programs continues on p. 40

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Interested in learning how to West Coast Swing? Come learn from the best in Savannah. Rick Cody will take you though the smooth rhythms of beach music to help you get ready for the dance floor. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Wednesdays, 7 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

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and events. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Mondays, 10:30 a.m Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods.

Savannah meetings/discussions twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. Email for next meeting day and location. . onebornfree@yahoo.com.

Georgia Nature Photographers AssociationCoastal Chapter

Coastal Chapter of the GNPA (www.gnpa. org). The GNPA is 100% focused on nature photography and offers Field Trips, Monthly Speakers, Competitions, Seminars and Workshops and the Annual EXPO with prominent nature photographers and keynote speakers. Photographers of all levels are welcome! $35 per year first Tuesday of every month, 6 p.m. 912-234-2571. alfie. wace@gmail.com. oatlandisland.org/. first Tuesday of every month, 6 p.m Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Historic Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. . 912-5961962. honorflightsavannah.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. .

912-660-8257.

Hostess City Toastmasters Club

Improve your public speaking and leadership skills at our professional, friendly, peer-run Toastmasters meetings, every Tuesday 6:00-7:00 PM at 35 Barnard Street - Third Floor at ThincSavannah. Practice your speeches for work and community events. Network and make new friends.

Guests are always welcomed. $10/month Tue., July 1, 6-7 p.m. 912-484-0165. hostesscitytm@gmail.com. facebook.com/ hostesscitytoastmasters. thincsavannah. com. Tue., July 1, 6-7 p.m ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300.

Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. Free to attend. See Facebook page savinkslingers. . Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Island MOMSnext

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For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school. Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays, excluding holidays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. Info by phone 40 or email. . 912-898-4344. kymmccarty@

hotmail.com. mops.org.

Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at First Baptist Church of the Islands, two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am11:30am. . sites.google.com/site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. . 912-447-0943. hdb. org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month.

Prose writing, fiction and non fiction. DisKnitters, Needlepoint and Crochet cussion, constructive criticism, instruction, Meets every Wednesday. Different locations exercises and examples. Location: Charles downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to Brown Antiques/Fine Silver, 14 W. Jones learn? Join us. . 912-308-6768.

St. All are welcome. No charge. Contact Knittin’ Night Alice Vantrease via email or phone. . 912Knit and crochet gathering held each 308-3208. alicevantrease@live.com.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment DiscusTuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels sion Group welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-238Meets Saturdays, 8:30am to discuss 0514. wildfibresavannah.com/. Tuesdays, stocks, bonds and better investing. Contact 5-8 p.m Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Leadership Now July Meeting by email for info. . charlesfund@gmail.

Our speaker will be Tom Kohler with com. panerabread.com/. Panera Bread The Citizen Advocacy. $10 Tue., July 1, (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St. Savannah Council, Navy League of the United 5:30-7 p.m. 912-663-7826. savannahjayStates cees@gmail.com. https://facebook.com/ A dinner meeting the 4th Tuesday of the events/754082177969475/. savannahjaycees.com. Tue., July 1, 5:30-7 p.m The Hut, month at 6:00pm (except December.) Location: Hunter Club. Call John Findeis for 101 Atlas St. Low Country Turners info. . 912-748-7020.

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Savannah Fencing Club Steve Cook for info at number below. . 912- Beginner classes Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment pro313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies vided. After completing the class, you may Auxiliary join the Savannah Fencing Club for $5/ Meets the first Saturday of the month month. Experienced fencers welcome. Call at 1:00pm. Call for info. . 912-786-4508. or email for info. . 912-429-6918. savanAmerican Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland nahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Go Green Ave. Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book Lovers Meets most Saturdays. Green events and A literary society for bibliophiles and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. writers. Writer’s Salon meetings are first Call for info. . 912-308-6768.

Savannah Jaycees Tues. at 7:30pm at the Flannery O’Connor Home. Book club meetings are third Tues., Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday each month at 6pm to discuss upcoming 7:30pm. Location changes each month. events and provide an opportunity for those Call or see Facebook group “Peacock interested in joining Jaycees to learn more.

Guild” for info. . 912-233-6014. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Must be age 21-40. Jaycees Building, 101 Atlas St. . 912-353-7700. savannahjaycees.

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Philo Cafe com.

Discussion group that meets every Monday, Savannah Kennel Club 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Any- Monthly meetings open to the public. Held at Logan’s Roadhouse, the 4th Monday one craving good conversation is invited.

Free to attend. Email for info, or see Face- each month, Sept. through May. Dinner: 6:pm. Speaker: 7:30pm. Guest speakers book.com/SavannahPhiloCafe. Mondays. each meeting. . 912-238-3170. savanathenapluto@yahoo.com. Mondays R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future nahkennelclub.org. Golden Corral, 7822 RUFF meets the last Friday of each month Abercorn St. Savannah Newcomers Club at 10am to protect Social Security, MediOpen to women who have lived in the care, Medicaid and related senior issues.

Savannah area for less than two years.

Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors .

Membership includes monthly luncheon 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, and program. Activities, tours and events 2201 Bull St. Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club to help learn about Savannah and make A local club for fans from all over the new friends. . savannahnewcomersclub. sci-fi /fantasy universe, role-players and com.

Savannah No Kidding! gamers. Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of No Kidding. Join Savannah’s only social each month at Super King Buffet 10201 club for people without children! No Abercorn St., Savannah at 7PM. Contact: membership fees, meet great new friends, kasak@comcast.net. Website: roguephoeenjoy a wide variety of activities and events. nix.org or on Facebook. . 912-308-2094. savannahnokidding.angelfire.com/ or ekasak@comcast.net. roguephoenix.org.

Safe Kids Savannah mail savannahnokidding@gmail.com . The A coalition dedicated to preventing childHistoric District, Downtown Savannah.

Savannah Parrot Head Club hood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or website for events calendar or send an call for info. . 912-353-3148. safekidssaemail for Parrot Head gatherings. . savanvannah.org.

nahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.com.

Savannah Quilt Guild

Meet the second Saturday, September through June, at Woods of Savannah, 1764-C Hodgson Memorial. Social time 9:30am, meetings 10:00am followed by a program. Open to all who are interested in quilting. Membership is $25 per year. . (912) 598-9977. savannahquiltguild@ comcast.net.

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to join Savannah Sacred Harp Singers. All are welcome to participate or listen too one of America’s most revered musical traditions.

Call or email. . 912-655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

Savannah SCA

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 Free , 11 a.m. savannahsca.org. , 11 a.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games

We play games that help us tell improvised stories. Get together over food - roleplayers, storytellers, or the merely curious and help us create an amazing story in just three hours. We’ll use games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts. Weekends, in different locales check savannahstorygames.com for more information. free Fridays-Sundays. info@ savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Fridays-Sundays Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30am-8:30am at the Mulberry Inn. . savannahsunriserotary. org.

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. . 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Veggies and Vegans

Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events.

Mondays. Mondays Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn.

Free and open to the public. See website or call for info. . savannahwritersgroup. blogspot.com.

Tertulia en español at Foxy Loxy

Spanish conversation table. Meets second and fourth Thursday of each month.

7:30pm to 9pm at Foxy Loxy, 1919 Bull street. Come practice your Spanish, have a cafe con leche or Spanish wine, and meet nice people....All levels welcome.

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Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. . foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome. Prior experience/boat ownership not required. Call or see website for info. . 912-598-7387. savannahaux.com.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. . 912-429-0940. rws521@ msn.com. vvasav.com.

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. . 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@comcast. net.

Dance

Adult Ballet Class

Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. . 912-234-8745.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info.

Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. . 912-921-2190.

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. . 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo.com.

Awaken with Chakradance™ - Wednesdays

Join us for a free-flowing, meditative dance and experience the healing power of Chakradance™. With eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery, Chakradance™ will take you on a spiritual journey, free the energy in your body and open you to a deeper experience of life.

Chakradance™ aims to restore health to our chakras – the energy centers that, in Eastern tradition, are the gateways to integrating mind, body and spirit. No dance experience or prior knowledge of the chakras is necessary. Limited to 12 participants – email to reserve a spot today! $20 , 7-8:30 p.m. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@ comcast.net. chakradance.com/. synergisticbodies.com. , 7-8:30 p.m Synergistic Bodies, 7901 Waters Ave. Ballroom Group Dance Class

Weekly ballroom dance classes focus on two types of dance each month. Open to partners/couples or to solos. The $35 for 4 weeks or $10 drop in Mondays, 7 p.m.

912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Mondays, 7 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Ballroom/Latin Group Class

Every Tuesday and Wednesday we will be having group classes at 8pm! Tuesdays classes will focus on FUNdamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday’s classes will be more specific and advanced elements. Each class will have specific

themes, so stay tuned for details. $15/person and $25/couple Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail. com. savannahballroomdancing.com.

Wednesdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

For those with little-to-no dance background. Instructor is formally trained, has performed for over ten years. $15/person.

Tues. 7pm-8pm. Private classes and walk ins available. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. . 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3. com. cybelle3.com.

Bellydance lessons with Happenstance Bellydance

All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes are every Monday from 5:30-6:30pm. $15/lesson. Drop-ins welcome or call Carrie @(912)704-2940 for more info. happenstancebellydance@ gmail.com happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com $15/lesson , 5:30 p.m.

(912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com. , 5:30 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912-748-0731.

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

Dance for Peace

A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m.

912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Sundays, 3 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Dance Lessons (Salsa, Bachata)

Learn to dance Salsa & Bachata. For info, call Austin (912-704-8726) or Omar (Spanish - 787-710-6721). Thursdays. 912-7048726. salsa@salsasavannah.com. salsasavannah.com. Thursdays Great Gatsby, 408 West Broughton Street.

Dance Party

Join us on Thursdays at 8pm for fun, friendship, and dancing! Parties are free for our students and are only $10 for visitors ($15 for couples). free - $15 Thursdays, 8 p.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Thursdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

FUNdamentals Dance Lesson

Every Tuesday and Wednesday we will be having group classes at 8pm! Tuesdays classes will focus on FUNdamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday’s classes will be more specific and advanced elements. Each class will have specific themes, so stay tuned for details. $15/ person $25/couple Tuesdays, 8 p.m. 912335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Tuesdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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25 “Star Wars” droid, familiarly 26 More optimistic 29 Simon Pegg, in recent “Star Trek” movies 30 Approached, as a bar 34 Contented responses 35 Armless seat 37 Switch status 40 Banks offer them 44 Put aside 46 Islas Canarias locale 47 Skin layer 48 “Ew,” in a three-letter acronym 51 E-6 in the U.S. Army: abbr.

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Irish Dance Classes

Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up.

Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps. Certified.

Info via email or phone. . 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com.

Kids/Youth Dance Class

Kids Group class on various Ballroom and Latin dances. Multiple teachers. Ages 4-17 currently enrolled in the program. Prepares youth for social and/or competitive dancing. $15/person Saturdays, 10 a.m.

912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail. com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Saturdays, 10 a.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Line Dancing

Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm8:30pm. . doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty

Dance classes--hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step.

Modeling and acting classes. All ages/all levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. .

912-272-8329.

Modern Dance Class

Beginner and intermediate classes. Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. .

912-354-5586.

Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur.

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm-6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. . salsasavannah.com.

Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. . doublesnightclub.com/.

Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Sizzle: Dance and Cardio

A class designed to maintain that summer body by dancing and having fun. Incorporates dance and cardio to fun, spicy songs. $10 drop in or 10 classes for $80 Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912-312-3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

JUN 25-JUL 1, 2014

Zumba & Zumba Toning with Anne

Ditch the workout and join the party. All levels welcome. Mondays and Wednesdays, 6-7pm. Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 East Montgomery Crossroads. $5 class - discount cards available.

Bring a friend & it’s free for you. . 912-5961952. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Fitness

$6 Community Yoga Classes

Savannah Power Yoga offers a community yoga class nearly every day of the week for just $6. All proceeds support local orga42 nizations. See schedule online for details.

Most classes are heated to 90 degrees.

Bring a yoga mat, towel and some water. $6 $5 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) 349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/. Mondays-Fridays, Sundays Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Al-Anon Family Groups

An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers.

Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. . 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

for the caregiving they provide. . savannahcommons.com.

Dude’s Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m.

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop. com. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes Bariatric Surgery Support Group scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7amFirst Wednesday each month, 7pm, and 10pm. Call or see website. . 912-598-2300. third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateof Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those parks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island who have had or are considering bariatric State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. surgery. Free to attend. Call or see website Insanity Workout Group Class INSANITY turns old-school interval trainfor info. . 912-350-3438. memorialhealth. ing on its head. Work flat out in 3 to 5-min com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial blocks, and take breaks only long enough Health University Medical Center, 4700 to gulp some air and get right back to Waters Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura work. It’s called Max Interval Training, MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer because it keeps your body working at Community Center $5.00 per session Mon- maximum capacity through your entire days, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Mondays, workout. $10 or $80 for 10 fitness classes 6:15 p.m Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Saturdays, 11 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondeCrossroads. baile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedanBeastmode Fitness Group Training cestudio.com. Saturdays, 11 a.m Salon de Train with this elite team. A total body Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memoprogram that trims, tones and gets results. rial Drive.

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes Personal training options available. See A system of self-defense techniques based website for info. Meets at West Broad on several martial arts. The official fighting YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. . beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Custom Fit offers individual and small 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes group training and intensive workshops. .

Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique 912-441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun high energy dance style. Drills and choreVing Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastographies for all levels.Small classes in est growing martial arts style. Uses angles downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 and leverage to tunr an attacker’s strength per person. Email for info. . bohemianagainst him. Call for info on free trial beats.com.

Blue Water Yoga classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Community donation-based classes, Tues. Bluff Rd. . 912-429-9241. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm. Fri., 9:30am- Mommy and Baby Yoga Mondays. Call for times and fees or see 10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water website. . 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.

Yoga on Facebook. . egs5719@aol.com. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Talahi Island Community Club, 532 QuarCenter, 1321 Bull St. terman Dr. Coastal Health District Home Run Trot

5k begins at 8 a.m. with registration starting at 7 a.m. Rookie Run at 7:45 a.m.

Each runner receives a free ticket to that evening’s Sand Gnats game. $25 Pre-Registration. $30 Race Day Registration. 1 mile Rookie Run $12. Sat., June 28. fleetfeetsavannah.com/home-run-5k. sandgnats. com. Sat., June 28 Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. Fitness Classes at the JEA

Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba.

Prices vary. Call for schedule. . 912-3558811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Free Caregiver Support Group

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone i need of support

Pilates Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. . 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pole Fitness Classes

Looking for a fun and flirty way to get into shape? First City Fitness offers pole fitness classes taught by Pole Dance America’s 2014 National Professional Champion and Miss Fitness 2013 & 2014, Sabrina Madsen. Pole fitness concentrates on both fostering upper body strength and overall flexibility as well dance elements. Call or email to reserve your spot today! We offer a Beginning class Tuesdays from 8pm9pm, Advanced class Wednesdays 8pm9pm, and Stiletto Sundays 5pm-6pm with Open Pole from 6pm-7pm. All pole classes

except Stiletto Sundays are $25 for drop in or 5/$100 (must be used in 30 days) Stiletto Sundays are $30 drop in, 4/$100 (must be used in 30 days) Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m., Sundays, 5-7 p.m. and Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. 801-673-6737. info@firstcityfitness. com. Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m., Sundays, 5-7 p.m. and Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Pregnancy Yoga

series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. . 912-704-7650. ann@ aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes

Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 . qigongtim.com/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Renagade Workout

Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only.

Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912376-0219 . Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. .

Ronin Academy Self Defense Classes

This short course in simple self defense techniques for adults uses real life scenarios that are designed to provide greater self confidence and empowerment. Fees vary. See website for registration, class times, fees. Every 3 days. michael@roninacad.com. roninacad.com. aikidosavannah.com/. Every 3 days Aikido Center of Savannah, 102 W. Broughton St. Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. See website for info. . 912-4958010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Disc Golf

Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am. Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm. Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am. All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. . savannahdiscgolf@gmail. com. savannahdiscgolf.com.

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

With a one-year, $10 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes.

Fun runs. Advice from mentors. Monthly meetings with quality speakers. Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. . savystrider.com.

SIZZLE- Dance Cardio

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now and get the first class free. $10.00 or $80 for 10 classes Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Tai Chi Fusion

Tai Chi Fusion is a form of moving meditation combining several forms of Tai Chi as well as Qi Gong. Join us weekly as we tone our muscles and quiet our minds. $12/ class Saturdays, 10 a.m.. relaxsavannah@ gmail.com. facebook.com/relaxsavannah.

Saturdays, 10 a.m. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St.

dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Georgia Beer Tap Takeover

Two weeks of only-from-Georgia brewed beers poured from CBP’s 26 taps in their historic beer parlor. Free to attend. Cash bar. 912-349-1000. crystalbeerparlor.com. crystalbeerparlor.com. Crystal Beer Parlor, 301 West Jones St. Honey Tasting and Body Care Samples + Store Tour

Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

Daily store tour, honey tasting, and body care. FREE Come to the WILMINGTON ISLAND store and see the bees behind our observation hive glass. FREE MondaysFridays, 10 a.m. 912-234-0688. tildsley@ savannahbee.com. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission’s shelters for homeless people. Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. . 912-236-7423.

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. . relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Lose calories while dancing and kick-boxing. No experience or equipment needed.

Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 . 586-822-1021. facebook. com/turbokicksavannah.

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for info. . 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Zumba and Zumba/Toning with Mai

Fall/Winter schedule. Mondays at 8:30AM Zumba/Toning Lake Mayer Community Center 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads $5.00/class Mondays/Wednesdays at 6:00PM Zumba/Toning Windsor Forest Elementary Gym 308 Briarcliff Circle $5.00/class Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:00AM Zumba/Toning Curves @ Savannah Mall (912) 921-1771 14045 Abercorn St #1610 31419 $5.00/class (Non-Members) Tuesdays @ 5:30PM Zumba St. Paul CME Social Hall (912) 233-2849 123 Brady St (at Barnard St) 31401 $3.00/class (NonMembers) Wednesdays @ 9:30AM Zumba/ Toning Frank Murray Community Center (912) 898-3320 160 Wilmington Is Rd 31414 $3.00/class Bring water, proper shoes and attire. . 912-604-9890.

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Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm.

Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. .

912-349-4902.

Food Events

Prepare Sunday Suppers at Union Mission

Southbound Brewing Co. Tours & Tastings

A few tastes of the newest local brews.

Tours are first come, first serve. Live music on Saturdays. $10 for souvenir pint glass and 6 tasting tickets. 21+ only. info@ southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave.

Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat,

website or call for info. . 912-927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. . 912-355-4601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.

An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:30-7:00 Zumba at St. Joseph’s Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) .

912-447-6605.

Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.Fri. No appointment needed. Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive.

Call for info. . 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. Health Care for Uninsured People

Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or appointment. . 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/ Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy

Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching.

Caring, qualified professional help. See

La Leche League of Savannah

A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. . 912-897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

Living Smart Fitness Club

Free HIV Testing for National HIV Testing Day

A chance for people to find out their HIV status without needles. Results come back quickly and remain confidential. testing.

Held at Oglethorpe Mall outside of Belk.

Live music and health information also on site. Free and open to the public. Fri., June 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 912-644-5200. gachd.org. oglethorpemall.com/. Fri., June 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn Ext. Pitta Pacifying Ayurvedic Workshop with Katy Keyes

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Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus. Open to the public 24 hours/day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. .

912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Bariatric Surgery Information Session

Information on bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics.

Learn surgical procedures offered, support

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Bethesda Farm Stand

This organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students are actively involved in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items on-site at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave.

and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can affect patients’ lives.

Call or see website for info. Free to attend.

Hoskins Center at Memorial. . 912-3503438. bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

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Free will astrology ARIES

March 21-April 19

According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil, and the adventurer.

That’s all true; I agree with her. But here’s an important caveat. As you get older, it’s your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the softer, slower, more tender parts of your life. The coming weeks will offer you a great opportunity to work on that challenge. To get started, imagine how you can be a freedom fighter, explorer, daredevil, and adventurer in service to your home, family, and community.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20

After a thorough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the astrological omens, I’m inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days. Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script. Trust your gut. Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along. If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you will know you’re off course. If you are feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you will know you’re right in the groove.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20

The Japanese word *tsundoku* describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in *tsundoku* any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonor them, and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what’s yours.

CANCER

JUN 25-JUL 1, 2014

June 21-July 22

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If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100,000 slices of bread. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you.

I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for long-term use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect “container.”

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22

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“Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused

you.” Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem “Forget,” and now I’m passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured.

Opportunities like this don’t come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty, and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It’s regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby’s laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won’t be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humor will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life’s ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here’s how you should proceed, says American writer Elbert Hubbard: “Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” But I’m afraid I can’t recommend that behavior for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths, and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flack. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony.

SCORPIO

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any,” said Mark Twain. How do you respond to that impish nudge, Scorpio?

Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It’s crucial for you to learn from teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for you to feel waves of admiration

and reverence.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

“Everyone has something to hide,” declared Russian author Anton Chekhov.

Is that true? Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I’m going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don’t want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge.

I’m not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. On the contrary, I say it’s time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance to your life story, and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination.

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

A German chemist named Felix Hoffman had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin.

In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin.

AQUARIUS

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

This is a good time to risk a small leap of faith, but not a sprawling vault over a yawning abyss. Feel free and easy about exploring the outer borders of familiar territory, but be cautious about the prospect of wandering into the deep, dark unknown. Be willing to entertain stimulating new ideas but not cracked notions that have little evidence to back them up. Your task is to shake up the status quo just enough to invigorate everyone’s emotional intelligence, even as you take care not to unleash an upheaval that makes everyone crazy.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20

British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree.

Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be -- an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge’s quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows.

asana and pranayama practices. All levels are welcome. Bring your mat and dress comfortably! $45 / $35 before June 20th Sat., June 28, 1-4 p.m. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com/. Sat., June 28, 1-4 p.m Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services.

Open 7pm-11pm nightly. . 800-264-7154.

Private Exchange Provider Contracting: Unique Issues

Now that the initial enrollment in public exchanges is over, providers are increasingly focusing on private exchange network contracting opportunities. Special Offer: Use code SAVE10 to get 10% discount.

Can’t attend? Request a replay of the audio session or DVD recording. For any queries feel free to contact Adam K at 1-866-4582965 or e-mail Adam at customerservice@ audioeducator.com. $197 Thu., June 26, 1-2 p.m. 866-458-2965. customerservice@ audioeducator.com. audioeducator.com/ hospitals-and-health-systems/privateexchange-provider-contracting.html. Thu., June 26, 1-2 p.m Online, 2222 Sedwick Drive.

Register for Functional and Medical Needs Emergency Registry

The Chatham County Health Department is encouraging residents who may be eligible for the Functional and Medical Needs Registry to apply. The Registry is for people who may need help functioning within a general shelter or the support of medical professionals at a more specialized facility and have no other way to evacuate, in a community emergency such as a hurricane evacuation order.those individuals who may need services to maintain their independence in a shelter.

This includes children and adults with physical, sensory, mental health, and cognitive and/or intellectual disabilities affecting their ability to function independently without assistance. Medical needs registrants/clients are defined as those individuals who require support of trained medical professionals. This includes those individuals who may need assistance with managing unstable, terminal, or contagious conditions that require observation and treatment. To apply, residents should call 912-691-7443. The application and protected health information authorization form can also be downloaded by going to www.gachd.org/chatham Every 3 days.

Every 3 days Savannah CPR Initiative

An initiative by the City of Savannah to train 6,000 Savannahians in CPR by year’s end.

The City will train 1,000 Savannahians in CPR this year. Each of these trainees will in turn pledge to train at least five other individuals, bringing to 6,000 the total number of Savannahians trained in CPR. The hope is that “Savannah’s 6,000” will vastly improve our community’s ability to respond to sudden cardiac emergencies, doubling our survival rate for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Call for info. . 912-651-6410.

Water Awareness Get Together

A weekly seminar on the health of drink-

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ing water. Includes testing of drinking water, plus samples of bottled water.

Tuesdays,7pm RSVP by phone to Ernestine Murray, Hydration Specialist. Tuesdays..

703-989-6995. Tuesdays. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Kid’s Happenings

Camp: Art for Kids

Painting, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media, performing arts. Full-day (9am-5pm) sessions for ages 6-12, begin June 23. $150 per week per child. $10 City Resident Discount Mondays.. 912-651-6783. savannahga.gov/arts. Mondays. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. Camp: Pegasus Riding Academy Summer Adventures

Half day, week-long therapeutic riding camp that’s all about horses. Equestrian instruction, ground lessons with horses, and equestrian themed art projects. Certified therapeutic riding instructors. For special needs children and their siblings.

Sessions begin June 2, June 23, July 7, July 14, July 21. Volunteer assistants needed. $225 per week. Every 3 days. 912547-6482. peggi@prasav.org. prasav.org/.

Every 3 days Wicklow Farm, Wicklow Ave. (behind Johnny Harris Restaurant).

Camp: Science Camp at Benedictine

Four half-days filled with projects and experiments using the following types of lab equipment: dissection trays, forceps, scalpels, electronic balances, pipets, Pyrex glassware, Bunsen burners, probes, crucible tongs and hot hand protectors.

Call for info or to register. $125 Through June 26, 9 a.m.-noon. 912-644-6541. rigel. crockett@bcsav.net. Through June 26, 9 a.m.-noon Benedictine Military School, 6502 Seawright Dr. Circus King Show

Sean Driscoll presents a live action show that combines puppets, animation, magic and music in one hilarious production. A young boy is lost at sea and raised by a circus of misfits--a baboon, an allergic elephant and a lazy lion. Ages 3 and older.

Pooler Library, Wednesday, June 25, 10:30 a.m. Rincon Library,Wednesday, June 25, 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Wed., June 25. liveoakpl.org/events/for_ kids/circus_king_show.php. Wed., June 25 Effingham Camp Buddy

A camp for children of all ages with Down syndrome, sponsored by the Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society. Times: Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm for children ages 3 and over.

Tues-Thurs 8:15-8:45am for children under 3. Held in Effingham County, call for location. $30 per child Wed., June 25, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Thu., June 26, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m. and Fri., June 27, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m.

912-220-6429. pbjhussey@gmail.com. ldssga.org/. Wed., June 25, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Thu., June 26, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m. and Fri., June 27, 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m Irish Dancers of Savannah

Savannah’s first organized Irish dance school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and up.

Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish square) Dancing at a relaxed pace. Convenient mid-town location. Whether just for fun, or for competition, IDS is for everyone. Adult classes available. Call or email for info. .

912-897-5984. irishdancsav@aol.com.

Mommy & Me Yoga

Bring your baby (6 weeks-3 years) to this fun class that is beneficial for both of you!

Meet other moms, exercise, relax and learn ways to release stress. No experience in yoga is needed. Sign up preferred, but not necessary. $10 Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. 912-656-9663. awakeningyogastudio. com. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m Awakening Yoga Studio, 2453A US Highway 17.

Positive Youth Summer Camp

A Saturday afternoon camp for boys and girls ages 5-17. $40 Sat., June 28, 2-4 p.m.

912-604-2900. Sat., June 28, 2-4 p.m Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Savannah Children’s Museum School Year Hours

SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum.org . Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Science Fun with SSU

A sustainable energy demo for kids age 6-10, by Bryan Knakiewicz and the SSU Tigers Science Club. Free and open to the public. Wed., June 25, 2:30 p.m. liveoakpl. org/events/science_fun_with_ssu.php.

Wed., June 25, 2:30 p.m Thunderbolt Library, 2708 Mechanics Avenue.

Story Trunk

An interactive storytelling show for children. Appropriate for all ages. $5 Adults, $10 Children 12 and younger Saturdays, 1 & 3 p.m. and Sundays, 1 & 3 p.m.. Justin@ oddlot.org. oddlotimprov.com. Saturdays, 1 & 3 p.m. and Sundays, 1 & 3 p.m. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

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First City Network Board Meeting

First Monday, 6:30pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St. 2nd floor. Call or see website for info. . 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork.org.

Gay AA Meeting

True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor.

New location effective 11/2012. .

Georgia Equality Savannah

Local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-547-6263. .

Savannah Pride, Inc.

Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South.

Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month, 7pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. .

912-288-7863. heather@savpride.com.

Stand Out Youth

A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets Fridays, 7pm, FCN office, 307 E. Harris St. Call, email or see website for info. .

912-657-1966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.org.

What Makes a Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. . 912-352-2611.

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Art of Peaceful Living

How is it possible to apply the ancient art of Buddhist meditation to today’s hectic and busy modern world? Join us to learn Summer Family Game Night how to solve your problems and develop An evening for families to spend time a peaceful mind by applying Buddha’s together and play board games provided by classic advice to daily life. Everyone is the library. All ages. Free and open to the welcome to attend, no previous experience public. Tue., July 1, 6 p.m. 912-786-7733. necessary. Drop in for any class. $10 or $5 Tue., July 1, 6 p.m Tybee Island Library, 405 seniors/students Wednesdays, 7 p.m. (912) Butler Ave. 358-0228. meditationinsouthcarolina.og.

Savannah Mall Train Retirement Party unityofsavannah.org/. Wednesdays, 7 p.m It’s the last day of the train in Savannah Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Mall. Train rides will be free for all children Blvd. and adults. There will also be face painting Band of Sisters Prayer Group All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, and appearances of characters from Pup7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, pet People. Free and open to the public.

Sun., June 29, 3-6 p.m. savannahmall.com. 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne savannahmall.com/. Sun., June 29, 3-6 p.m Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands Savannah Mall, 14045 Abercorn Street.

Camp: Underwater Robotics of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) . 912-663-8728.

Dive into summer with Georgia Techjeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ Savannah and underwater robotics. For georgia. students in grades rising 6, 7, 8, and 9; held A Buddhist Meditation Center Welcoming all lineages and spiritual tradion the Georgia Tech Savannah campus, scheduled for July 28 - August 1, 2014. Led tions. Newcomers to meditation welcome.

Daily meditation, study groups and classes. by a Georgia Tech professor and doctoral Sunday includes a talk given by resident candidate. Students will understand remote operated vehicle (ROV) principles, use priest on Buddhist philosophy and how it underwater cameras to investigate under- relates to daily life. The center is available for individual and group retreats, weddings water, and test their skills in our open air freshwater pond. Box lunch included daily. and funerals. Visit Savannahzencenter.com for schedule and see us on Facebook. Soto Register via email or phone with Dr. Carolyn Perry, CEISMC- Georgia Tech Savannah Zen lineage, resident Priest Un Shin Cindy Beach Sensei. 912-427-7265 . The Savan$200 Mondays.. 912-966-7952. Carolyn. perry@ceismc.gatech.edu. Mondays. Geor- nah Zen Center, 111 E. 34th St. Catholic Singles gia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service.

Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. . familylife@diosav. org. diosav.org/familylife-singles.

Center for Spiritual Living--Savannah

All are invited to this Science of Mind community. Recognizing the presence and power of God within, and believing that this presence is in everything in the universe, unifying all of life. Welcoming all on their spiritual pathway. Celebration: Sunday mornings. Location: Bonaventure Chapel, 2520 Bonaventure Road. Meditation at 10:30am Service at 11:00am Childcare available in the “Funday School” Sundays. cslsavannah.org. Sundays Christmas Psychic Reading Madness Sale

December Madness Sale!!!!!!! $15 for 20 minute phone readings! payable at PayPal savannahpsychic@gmail.com or go to website and check out Christmas monthly Specials Love and Light Low Country Psychic of Savannah ~Kelly Spurlock 15.00 Mondays-Sundays. 9125592169. savannahpsychic@gmail.com. MondaysSundays Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

Columba House

Columba House is an inclusive, welcoming hospitality space dedicated to building and sustaining a community of faith committed to social justice with the city’s young adults, college students, and creative demographic. Tuesday evenings 6:30-8pm, includes dinner and a program focused on justice. All are welcome. Free and open to the public. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912228-9425. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m Columba House, 34th Street between Abercorn and Lincoln Streets.

Guided Silent Prayer

Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. . vineyardsavannah.org.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. . 912-308-8286. savbranart@gmail. com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

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