Connect Savannah December 10, 2014

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Living History Civil War December 12, 13, & 14, 6pm & 7pm Telfair Museums present a living history program interpreting the Union occupation of Savannah from the perspective of the Telfair family.

From the beginning of the Civil War, Savannahians had viewed the conflict and its horrifying consequences as distant spectacles. On December 10, 1864, everything changed.

60,000 Union Troops maneuvered on the outskirts of the city.

Confederates, numbering only 10,000 successfully retreated to Hardeeville. Lacking military defense, on December 21st, Mayor Richard Arnold made a plea for peaceful surrender of the city.

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Film Screening:

Savannah in the Civil War December 11, 6 pm

Filmmaker Michael Jordan will scree his award-winning

documentary, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the taking of Savannah by Union troops. From Secession to Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” Savannah was the setting of countless scenes in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.

The stories told in the film involve new types of warships, battles on land and sea, black Savannahians fighting for their freedom, Union prisoners attempting to escape, and white Southerners mourning the loss of six Sunday school classmates in the first battle of the war.

DEC 10-16, 2014

After the screening, Michael Jordan will participate in Q&A discussion.

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LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS

Enjoy great food with good friends.

Comfortably suited for a casual lunch or dinner,

HOME ALONE (1990)

DECEMBER 12TH 7PM

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)

DECEMBER 13TH 3PM

CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) DECEMBER 13TH 7PM

Liberty Street Grill serves up creative locallyinspired food in a relaxed atmosphere. Sip a wine or craft beer on our outdoor patio or relax with a group in our 42 person dining area as you enjoy

All December movies are free screenings to benefit the America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, and the Humane Society of Greater Georgia. Admission is free, but we ask that you donate non-perishable items to the Second Harvest, and pet supplies to the Humane Society. Please visit their sites to learn more about these wonderful organizations:

house made small bites and seasonal entrees made using the freshest local ingredients. Owners John and Amber Roelle. Conveniently located at 529

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COOL YULE CHRISTMAS CABARET DECEMBER 18TH - 20TH 8PM

Our Christmas Cabaret is back in full “swing” and sure to please this holiday season!

Enjoy an evening of all of your favorite carols as well as some holiday jazz of the Mercer variety. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, only at the Lucas Theatre.

529 E. Liberty Street - (912) 235-2907 libertystreetgrill.com

FOR TICKETS TO ANY EVENT CONTACT: LUCASTHEATRE.COM 912.525.5050

DEC 10-16, 2014

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Week At A Glance

compiled by Rachael Flora | 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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Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. $10 912-398-2640. shoestringcompany@gmail.com. https://facebook.com/events/315358638653752/

Festival of Lights

This year's festival includes a drive-through holiday light show, a "Frozen" Princess Parade, and plenty more for kids to do. The Westin will also offer seasonal specials.

Events continue through December 27.

Nov. 29-Dec. 27 Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

912-596-2525. savannahharborfoundation.com

Savannah Philharmonic: Holiday Pops Featuring some of the most entertaining and well-loved holiday music, the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus brings the magic, joy, and cheer of the holiday season to Savannah.

-13, 7:30 p.m Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. East Harris St. $18 to $100 (all reserved seating except balcony) savannahphilharmonic.org

Film: Poor Devil

The Psychotronic Film Society's birthday tribute to Sammy Davis Jr., Poor Devil is the pilot episode for a TV show that never got the green light.

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

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The Journey

A living theatre illustration of the night Christmas began, in an outdoor walkthrough production; the ancient town of Bethlehem comes to life with shops and an inn that’s full to capacity.

5-8 p.m Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd. $7 - $10 (Children aged 5 and under are free) 912-925-9657. info@savannahchristian.com.

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Wednesday Night Supper Club

A new Savannah tradition. Gather at Pacci's community table to make new friends and share in a night of food, wine and Southern hospitality. With seasonally inspired dishes from Executive Chef, Roberto Leoci.

7-9:30 p.m.

Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. Call for pricing. Reservations required.

912-233-6002. jackie.blackwelder@paccisavannah.com

5 p.m Massie School Museum, 207 East Gordon St. $15

Lecture: Opher Aviran

Israeli Consulate Ambassador Opher Aviran will speak about the economic ties between Savannah and Israel.

7 p.m Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public 912-355-8111

ThincSMALL Opening Reception

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Featuring artwork priced under $250, a gift basket from Starland Businesses, a holiday gift exchange, and wine and hors d'ouevres.

6 p.m Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Film: Big Hero 6

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An action-packed Disney film about the bond between inflatable robot Baymax and young robotics student Hiro Hamada.

7 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $6

Film: Savannah in the Civil War

DEC 10-16, 2014

SAV in the civil war

Telfair Museums presents a screening of filmmaker Michael Jordan's award winnning film, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. 6 p.m Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Museum admission applies. Free for members. telfair.org

Guided Civil War Tours

The Eve of Occupation: Living History Program

Telfair Museums present a living history program interpreting the Union occupation of Savannah from the perspective of the Telfair family. 6-6:30 p.m Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Tickets are $20 per adult and $5 per child

skatefest begins!

A beloved yearly holiday tradition kicks off.

Public ice skating through Jan. 3.

MLK Arena, Savannah Civic Center $7 per session savannahcivic.com

Deen Family Book Signing

Learn about Savannah's experience before, Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign their during, and after the war with these guided various books. 350 wristbands will be 4 tours. Advance payment required. distributed at 9 am.

10 a.m.-noon The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St. Free to attend. Books available for purchase.

912-232-1579. mandy@pauladeen.com. pauladeen.com

Film: Big Hero 6

An action-packed Disney film about the bond between inflatable robot Baymax and young robotics student Hiro Hamada.

6 & 8:30 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $6

Film: Home Alone

Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas family classic starring Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Free to public emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/ schedule/2014-12/

Kids Night Out

Lynn Geddes hosts this kid's yoga night, along with snacks and a performance of Johnny Appleseed.

6-9 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. $40 912-308-3410. yogamelynn@gmail.com. anahatahealingarts.com

Live Christmas Book Reading

The Shoestring Theatre Co. presents an unforgettable Christmas story unlike any you've heard before. The name is a surprise, but this is the year to forget about Dickens, the Grinch, and Red Rider BB guns; prepare instead for angry dead Santa Claus leading a horde of brain-hungry zombies. Not suitable for children.

7-9:30 p.m

Whether you’re a pro or a beginner, the Civic Center is open for you to hone your ice-skating skills.

-Jan. 3 Martin Luther King Jr Arena, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7-$35

Theatre: The Little Prince

The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents this play adapted from the novella by Antoine de Saint Exupery. A pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert meets an enigmatic, charismatic young prince fallen from the sky who regales him with tales of life among the stars.

-21 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 student/senior/military 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/

Yuletide Jam

Enjoy local music from the likes of Bottles & Cans and The Andrew Gill Band at this holiday celebration. Food donations encouraged. Bring 5 cans and receive $5 off your entrance donation on event night.

6 p.m Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. $20 yuletidejam.com

Saturday / 13 150th Anniversary of the Siege of Fort McAllister and Winter Muster

Fort McAllister troops will reenact the siege by General Sherman on its 150th anniversary. Skirmishes and historical activities will occur throughout the day, culminating in the final battle at 5 p.m.

9 a.m.-4 p.m Fort McAllister Historic Park, 3894 Fort McAllister Rd. $7.50 adults, $4.50 kids

Armstrong Graduation

734 graduates will be honored in this twopart commencement ceremony.

10 a.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

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Sammy Davis tribute

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

8:30 a.m.-noon Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org

Film: Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a 1989 Christmas comedy film detailing the Griswold’s family plans derailing into disaster.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Free to public emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/ schedule/2014-12/

Concert: A Magical Grassical Christmas w/ the Depue Brothers

A non-stop celebration for audiences of all ages of fresh arrangements of holiday favorites performed by elite musicians who seamlessly blend Bluegrass, Americana & Classical Music.

8 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $30

Concert: Celtic Christmas Guitar Show with Robin Bullock and Steve Baughman

Two of North America's leading Celtic guitarists join forces to create a uniquely beautiful sonic experience.

7:30 p.m Randy Wood Guitars (Bloomingdale), 1304 East Hwy. 80. $23 plus tax 912-748-1930

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 I 7:30PM CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST I $18 -100 SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS Haydn’s masterpiece oratorio The Creation depicts and celebrates, in evocative musical language, the creation of the world as described in the biblical Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost.

SOLOISTS: Tina Zenker Williams (soprano), Stephen Dobson (tenor), Kyle Hancock (bass)

Concert: Victor Wainwright

Victor Wainwright returns to his hometown for the 20th anniversary of Savannah Harley-Davidson.

4-7 p.m Savannah Harley Davidson, 6 Gateway Blvd West.

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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.

912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com

Holiday Boat Parade

Enjoy this nautical display of holiday spirit at the bluff. Food and drinks will be served, and the best boats will receive prizes or trophies.

6 p.m Thunderbolt Marine, 3124 River Dr. 843-441-8247. alton.aimar63@gmail.com

Live Christmas Book Reading

The Shoestring Theatre Co. presents an unforgettable Christmas story. The name is a surprise, but this is the year to forget about Dickens, the Grinch, and Red Rider BB guns; prepare instead for angry dead Santa Claus leading a horde of brain-hungry zombies. Not suitable for children.

7-9:30 p.m Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. $10 912-398-2640. shoestringcompany@gmail.com.

Luminary Night with Santa

Celebrate the holidays with family activities, like photos with Santa and hay rides, and a walk in the maritime forest.

6-8 p.m Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. $5 parking pass 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland continues on p. 6

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The Merry Makers Market

This market features over 40 local artisans who don't have a storefront to showcase their handmade gifts for the holiday season. There will also be live music and hot chocolate.

10 a.m.-5 p.m American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. 773-574-4851. craftscoutsavannah.com

Film: Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 Christmas film written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies.

3 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Free to public emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/ schedule/2014-12/

Tacky Christmas Party

Guests with the tackiest attire will be awarded a prize, so get creative. All of the proceeds raised will go to the Kicklighter Resource Center, a nonprofit which helps improve lives for the differently abled.

5:30 p.m Jaycee Building, 101 Atlas St. Free, but $20 donation suggested

Theatre: The Little Prince

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Join us for Happy Hour and experience the sights, sounds and latest exhibitions the Jepson Center has to offer. The Jepson Café will be on hand to answer questions about the beers and wines. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members; pricing includes one drink ticket, light appetizers and museum admission. A wine and beer cash bar will be available and the Jepson Café is open for dinner. Purchase tickets online at telfair.org/artontap

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The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents this play adapted from the novella by Antoine de Saint Exupery. A pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert meets an enigmatic, charismatic young prince fallen from the sky who regales him with tales of life among the stars.

8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 student/senior/military 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/

Wilmington Island Farmers' Market

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

111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

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

Sunday / 14 Annual Reading of Capote's "A Christmas Memory"

Retired Armstrong professor Bob Strozier will read Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home for the 25th year.

3 p.m Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Free and open to the public

Arts and Crafts Fair

Check out local artwork at the yacht club.

12-4 p.m Bonna Bella Waterfront Grille, 2740 Livingston Avenue.

Monday / 15 Film: Mystery Joan Fontaine Film

The Psychotronic Film Society presents a memorial tribute to Joan Fontaine with a screening of a little-known thriller. The exact title of the film will be revealed at showtime.

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

Odd Lot Improv

In the tradition of The Groundlings, Second City, and Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Odd Lot Comedy Troupe presents live, in the moment, hilarity with a showcase of improvisational comedy. There’s no telling where the evening will take you! Appropriate comedy for a PG crowd.

8 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

Tuesday / 16 Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

3-5:30 p.m.

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

Tongue: Open Mouth & Music Show hosted by Calvin Thomas

Music, poetry and spoken word on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. third Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

Free and open to the public.

912-238-2426. lori@savannahroasters.com. savannahcoffee.com

Wednesday / 17 Civil War Medicine in Savannah

This program is devoted toward medical procedures and practices of the Antebellum Era. The guest presenter will be Talley Kirkland, Interpretive Ranger at Fort McAllister State Historic Park. Mr. Kirkland’s hour long presentation will be a living history demonstration including the theories, treatments, tools, and utensils of a typical Union army doctor in the war.

6 p.m Massie School Museum, 207 East Gordon St. Free 912-395-5070

Film: Mystery Kiefer Sutherland Movie In honor of Kiefer Sutherland's birthday and the first night of Hanukkah, the Psychotronic Film Society is showing a little-known and underrated film starring Sutherland that won't be announced until showtime. Note that it's for mature viewers.

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

editor’s note

Consulting on crime are already using some of these techniques.

While the recent Michael Brown/Eric Garner tragedies will make crimefighting everywhere even more sensitive, Kennedy SAVANNAH’S advocates a softer form of police presence WORLD-FAMOUS and control, which is certainly welcome and hospitality certainly timely. extends to consultants.

I’m just saying I could have told you the We’ve never met a consulsame thing for, oh, say half that price? A tant we didn’t like. tenth?

Whether it’s a How ‘bout you buy me a drink and we proposal for a call it even? new cruise ship terminal or a new baseball Savannah has known literally for decades stadium or a new sales tax, our government that the most immediate cause of gun viois fast on the draw and quick on the trigger when it comes to ponying up your money to lence here—in addition to larger sociocultural issues—is a relatively small group of outside interests for a “feasibility study” on chronic violent offenders who are not adethe proposal du jour. quately prosecuted and/or incarcerated and Usually the outside consultants end up —purely coincidentally, I’m sure—confirm- who hang out near open air drug markets.

That’s hardly breaking news; the entire ing whatever scenario will result in the most Chatham County DA race in 2012, for construction contracts and real estate payments to the most politically well-connected example, hinged on it.

As did the entire mayoral race back in people in town, and the highest possible 1991 when longtime Mayor John Rousakis local tax burden to pay for them. lost his job to Susan Weiner over the single That said: City Council doesn’t always issue of… wait for it… a relatively small do what the consultants tell them to do group of chronic violent offenders who weren’t —for example with the study-approved, adequately prosecuted and/or incarcerated and Council-nixed idea to build a new ballpark hung out near open air drug markets. on the river—and for that they’re to be And we’ve also known for decades that commended.

Savannah, regardless of race, is deeply influSo I suppose it was just a matter of time enced by the religious community and that before City leadership used their signature go-to move on the most pressing local issue young people who regularly attend church are much less likely to be gang members. of our time: Crime.

Most of us would say $240,000 is chump You will be paying $240,000 to David change if it will help make a serious dent in Kennedy and the National Network for Safe Communities in order to implement an violent crime. And since most of Mr. Kennedy’s ideas are essentially what your dear idea called “Operation Ceasefire,” colloquially also called the Boston Gun Project, after grandmother would tell us to do, all the the first metro area in which it was success- more reason it’s worth the money!

My concern is: What happens if, for fully implemented.

The idea is to identify and target the rela- whatever reason, this consultant’s ideas don’t tively small group of chronic violent offend- make much of a dent?

Or if, as is much more likely, they become ers (usually less than half of one percent of too politically unpalatable—especially when a city’s population) and the open air drug markets and hot spots they typically gather it comes to closing down open air drug markets in minority neighborhoods? near; to cut down illegal gun trafficking; Do we then draw the completely inaccuand to exercise “informal social control” by rate conclusion that we should not focus on getting community opinion leaders such as the relatively small group of chronic violent clergy more involved in addressing crime. offenders who cause most of the problems In other words, “police work.” here, that we should not involve the churches Don’t get me wrong: Mr. Kennedy is an more? acknowledged expert in the field with an That’s the problem with Government acclaimed track record and he comes highly

By Consultant: The more you lean on that recommended. Savannah/Chatham Police

by Jim Morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

crutch and the more you pass the buck—literally—to outside interests, the more control and governance of your own community you give up.

Again, I’m not bashing Mr. Kennedy. If he can make a living and do people some good by talking basic common sense to municipal governments around the country grown ineffectual due to corruption, bureaucracy, and political correctness, God bless him.

And God bless us.

For years I’ve been kicking around the idea of what I call the “Savannah Tax.” That’s the extra, unlisted price we all willingly pay, the bonus contract we sign in our heads, in order to live in one of the most beautiful, friendly, and unique cities in the world.

The “Savannah Tax” includes putting up with a grotesquely bloated and largely ineffective school system; ... electing people who gleefully turn government into a three-ring circus; ... tolerating high levels of incompetence and corruption; ... living in a constant state of racial tension and conflict; ... and coexisting with the daily and hourly threat of your house or garage getting burglarized, your bikes and cars stolen, getting mugged, and frequent shootings and homicides all over town.

For years, local leadership, both in politics and in the business community, has taken advantage of our willingness to pay the “Savannah Tax.” Simply put, they know people will put up with an extraordinary amount of crap in order to move to Savannah and live in this otherwise amazing and enriching city.

Another quarter million dollars of your money to another outside consultant is just more of the same game plan, just another payment of “Savannah Tax.” Operation Ceasefire deserves a full and fair chance. I hope Mr. Kennedy is successful.

If it works, $240,000 is cheap.

But don’t make the mistake of thinking you and I aren’t still the ones ultimately responsible for deciding just how much crap we’ll put up with, and how much is too much.

That decision won’t cost you a penny. cs

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Taking the temperature on American healthcare than ever have access to basic emergency and wellness care that won’t cut into the mortgage payment, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. No, the marketplace is nowhere I’LL NEVER forget Super near as perfect as Ariana Grande’s nose job, Bowl Sunday, 2011. but it’s been a plod in the right direction.

It’s not so much the Also promising is that America may Packers’ ultimate domifinally have a new Surgeon General: After nation over the Steelmore than a year of rudderless public health ers or the nasal-searing policy during Ebola, antibiotic-resistant spice of the chicken monster bacteria and whatever STD R. wings that I remember. It was more spendKelly is spreading these days, word on Capiing the second half in the emergency room with my daughter, who had cartwheeled off tol Hill is that approval for the brilliant Dr. Vivek Murthy might come this month— some nearby monkey bars and turned the right before the new Congress kicks in and bones in her left arm into a jigsaw puzzle. starts playing Jenga with the ACA. We could have spent a couple of months The Senate had contracted a terrible case flushing Benjamins down the toilet in Fiji for the same price as the surgery and result- of hem-and-haw over Dr. Murthy’s 2013 nomination, questioning the experience ing titanium rods in our 6-year-old’s ulna.

Instead, we got to spend one luxurious night of the 38 year-old Yale- and Harvardat Memorial Hospital (the food’s not great, trained physician with extensive public heath credentials. But the but there’s free cable and ice chips.) We’ve real hold-up appears to be the been writing a monthly check ever since. galling suggestion made by But send up hosannas and break out the Dr. Murthy that guns bubbly, ‘cause this month—after faithful installments for almost five years—we have are a public health concern. finally paid off the bill.

“Tired of Am I bitter? No way. At least hospital politicians billing departments don’t charge interplaying est. And I remain eternally grateful for polithe expertise and bedside manners of the tics nurses, anesthesiologists and especially pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Chetan Deshpande for putting our little Humpty Dumpty back together again. (Although w/ I think Dr. Deshpande may have put guns, putsomething bionic in there. Trust me, ting lives at risk b/c you do not want to play Punch they’re scared of NRA,” Buggy with this girl.) he tweeted in October 2012.

Maybe it’s the cham“Guns are a health care issue.” pagne talking, but I Look, no matter how you feel about the might be even a Second Amendment, the fact remains that smidgen optibullets kill or maim more than a 100,000 mistic about the people a year and cost more than $2 billion state of Ameriin hospital charges. There’s no place for polican healthcare. tics in the emergency room, and this country Sure, we still die younger than and spend needs a Surgeon General who isn’t afraid to more on over-prescribed phar- confront the partisan lobbying clogging up the bedpans rather than some quack waltzmaceuticals than almost every ing around in scrubs waving a box of Bandother developed country. Our infant Aids and some fake diet pills. (You seemed mortality rate remains tragically high, and like such a nice man, Dr. Oz!) there’s still an alarming one in 68 children This sentiment is echoed by my brother, on the autism spectrum and rising.

But new research suggests our eating and Dr. Ara Feinstein, who also happens to be a Yale-trained trauma surgeon with an exercise habits are improving (though not extra degree in Public Health (maybe his 8 necessarily among the poor.) More of us

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Such impressive efforts allowed me to overlook the irony of serving delicious but cholesterol-laden fried chicken at a healthcare banquet. Maybe we’ll work on some quinoa and kale for next year.

A more enlightened overall healthcare climate was certainly foreshadowed by keynote speaker Dr. T. Philip Malan, the dean of Mercer University School of Medicine.

“We’re getting away from the illness model of disease,” said Dr. Malan, underscoring more focus on prevention as well as a “practice what you preach” program of self-care for doctors and docnurses. (How about a ‘scrip for pharmaceutitors, nurses, cal reps to bring healthy snacks instead of hospice work- barbecue when they come to shill?) ers and health Dr. Malan also acknowledged the incorproviders received poration of systems theory and information honors, including my science that helps practitioners track medifather-in-law, Dr. Harvey cine contraindications and may soon allow Lebos, who has spent the last patients to access their own electronic medifour decades treating cancer patients, cal records, a revolutionary and empowering many of them indigent, as a hematolodevelopment for anyone who’s ever had to gist/oncologist for Summit Cancer Care. wait for biopsy results over a weekend.

(He was out of town, so we did our best By far the most radical trend in healthto accept his award without our signature care lies at the level of medical education. family awkwardness. Does wresting the America is facing a major doctor deficit, and microphone away from emcee Sonny Dixon Dr. Malan proudly explained that our local count as embarrassing?) medical school is above the curve in recruitThe Georgia Medical Society is the olding homegrown students and keeping them est chartered medical society in the U.S., in Georgia. and I admit I kind of expected a whole lot of Our future doctors still get trained in dusty rhetoric about the death of the profit- the essentials, but there’s more emphasis able medical practice. I couldn’t have been on social science and human ethics as well more wrong, though I did overhear someone as cross-cultural sensitivity. For all of our drop a reference to the “War of Northern robotic surgeries and colonoscopy cameras, Aggression” with a straight face. it turns out a good bedside manner may be The Society’s actually been riding the one of the most valuable medical tools of all. edge of community medicine for over 200 So as we dial down another open enrollyears, offering organized and progressive ment process, it seems to me that America responses to public health crises from yelcould be loosening itself ever so slightly low fever to AIDS. Its doctors continue to from the muscular tetanic grip of the serve rural communities and the poor, and pharma-insurance-government complex. many are advocating to expand Medicaid in If we need any more help, I know a little Georgia as dictated by the ACA, thus far girl who’s ready to arm wrestle. cs asphyxiated by Gov. Nathan Deal. presidential nomination got lost in the mail?) My bro has sutured up more than his share of gore, and his favorite droll advice to impart to his niece and nephew since they were knee-high to a sharp-cornered coffee table has been this: “The best way to avoid the ER is to stay away from guns, motorcycles and trampolines. And alcohol.”

Perhaps the biggest boost to my ameliorated attitude about the state of American medicine came a few weeks ago at the Georgia Medical Society’s annual Health Care Heroes Awards.

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The unbearable costs of mass incarceration WHAT COUNTRY in the world has the most people in prison? (a) China (b) Russia (c) Iran (d) None of the above This is something of a trick question, since the answer is “None of the above.” Instead, the nation with the most people in prison is the United States.

The Economist, citing statistics for the “latest available year,” shows a U.S. prison population of 2,239,751, by far the largest in the world, tripling Russia’s at 695,500.

China has 1,640,000 in prison, and Iran has 217,000 (The Economist Pocket World in Figures, 2014 Ed., p. 101).

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics confirms the U.S. figures: In 2012 the U.S. had 2,228,400 total inmates in federal prisons, state prisons, and local jails, with 6,937,000 adult offenders under correctional supervision (jail, prison, parole, probation) or about “1 in every 35 adult residents in the United States.”

These figures represent an awful cost to our country’s image as the “land of the free,” “leader of the Free World,” and even raises suspicions about individual law-abiding citizens.

Are we Americans more prone to criminality than the rest of the world? I don’t think so. Instead I think we have been using our criminal justice system to cover up underlying social problems like poor education, joblessness, and poverty.

The states that lead the nation in

incarceration generally have lower educational levels and more poverty, especially a tier of southern states that includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

These states are in a Catch-22: Money that should be used to improve education goes to operate a vast, expensive State Prison U. In 2012 the corrections system cost Georgia taxpayers $1,132,665,955 (Georgia Department of Corrections website).

To fathom this billionplus annual drain on Georgia, just compare the estimated $706 million cost for deepening the port of Savannah, a project considered vital to Georgia’s economy and in the planning for over fifteen years.

In 2010 former Georgia Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich coauthored an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article stating that “Georgia simply can’t afford for the corrections system to maintain the status quo.”

In a 2011 press conference Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal said much the same: “We now spend $3,800 a year for a K-12 student, $6,300 a year per university system college student and an overwhelming $18,000 a year to house an inmate in our state prisons. That math does not work for Georgia.”

Yet, while some states like Texas and Mississippi have recently cut their prison populations with reforms in sentencing, parole (nonviolent and geriatric prisoners), and treatment (drug offenders), Georgia

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The biggest costs of mass incarceration, however, are not in money but in human terms. These costs are borne mainly by poor people and children, especially from inner-city neighborhoods and racial minorities.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Overall, black males were six times and Hispanic males 2.5 times more likely to be imprisoned than white males in 2012,” with young black males (ages 18-19) almost 9.5 times more likely than their white counterparts.

In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010, rev. ed. 2012), Michelle Alexander maintains that such disparities in incarceration are evidence of a return to a silent, insidious form of racist society.

The details she gives—of decimated families and communities living in poverty and fear, of people treated as if they have no civil rights—show enough suffering, hardness, and instability to in themselves breed criminality.

Then there are the returning graduates of State Prison U., who often cannot find jobs or housing, qualify for welfare, or even vote. (In Georgia convicted felons cannot vote while incarcerated, on parole, or on probation.)

Alexander argues that the War on Drugs—with lawmakers mandating harsh sentences and police raiding poor communities like invading armies, sometimes similarly equipped—has been the excuse for this

incarceration overkill.

She has an unlikely ally in Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, who, citing the ACLU and Sentencing Project websites, wrote the following in USA Today ( July 11, 2014): “The war on drugs has disproportionately affected men and women of color; minorities are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for certain nonviolent drug offenses, like drug possession, even though surveys show that white Americans use drugs at the similar rate. This is a travesty.”

Senator Rand has introduced bipartisan legislation, some with New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker, for criminal justice reform, especially involving nonviolent criminals.

“I think,” he writes, “non-violent criminals should be treated differently than violent criminals. Long sentences for non-violent crimes should be shortened and efforts should be made to reintegrate these folk into the workforce.”

Other steps lawmakers might take to reduce mass incarceration include legalizing marijuana, decriminalizing some minor offenses, leaving sentencing to judges, setting up treatments for drug addiction, and supporting education, job creation, and poverty relief.

For more information on mass incarceration, go to the American Friends Service Committee website, www.afsc.org, and click on “key issues.”

Dr. Harold Branam is a former Marshall Scholar and professor of English. Now retired from Savannah State University, he serves on the Corporation of American Friends Service Committee and writes from his home in Thunderbolt, GA.

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Talking about… William Tecumseh Sherman

General’s March to the Sea came to a conclusion 150 years ago this month

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I HEAR a lot about historic preservation here. But rarely do I hear about our original historic preservationist.

Yes, I’m calling him that.

This month marks 150 years since Union Gen. William T. Sherman kept Savannah from becoming another Atlanta or Columbia—burnt shells rebuilt from ashes.

This week in 1864, the Civil War was raging all around our city and Sherman was a-knockin’.

“There was certainly a sense of dread,” says Todd Groce of the Georgia Historical Society. “They knew what was going on.”

Sherman had burned Atlanta to the ground the month before. Tales of his destruction were filtering in from places like Millen and Statesboro. And on December 13th, just 15 miles to our south, Sherman’s army smashed through the Rebel stronghold of Ft. McAllister.

“He was waging war against the minds of the Confederate civilians in order to get them to give up,” Groce says. “So when the army arrives here there is considerable fear.”

The events of that month easily could have turned out differently. The Confederates here led by Gen. William Hardee realized their outnumbered forces had no chance of defending the city. So, on December 19th, they fled.

Savannah Mayor Richard Arnold watched as his city’s Southern protectors took off across a hastily-made pontoon bridge into South Carolina. And so Arnold and the aldermen did the only thing they could.

At four o’clock in the morning on December 21st, they rode out to a place now near Dollhouse Studios in West Savannah, and surrendered the city under a flag of truce.

Sherman rewarded capitulation with quiet.

“If you showed that you were defeated and that you were going to be peaceful and abide by the laws and the Constitution, there was no reason for any destruction,” Groce says.

Sherman’s five weeks here passed rela10 tively uneventfully, a fact that we and an

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And thanks again to Mayor Arnold’s leadership, Savannah became the first Southern city to rejoin the Union on December 29th.

Arnold urged residents to let “bygones be bygones” and move forward with the city’s business, which is exactly what happened.

“There were a number of very hardcore Confederates who were very resentful,” Groce says. “Of course, the AfricanAmericans citizens saw this as an army of liberation.”

Twenty black leaders met with Sherman at his Madison Square headquarters on January 12th to discuss what to do with thousands of freed slaves. It might have been the first time the U.S. government ever asked African-American people what they wanted.

Sherman responded on January 16th with a directive, later reversed, that gave newly freed slave families each 40 acres of land to call their own—“40 Acres and a Mule.”

I expect some historically-minded people here to mark some of these dates.

Ft. McAllister State Historic Park, Telfair Museums and the Massie Heritage Center all have programs. And GHS will dedicate two historic markers.

“This is really an exciting time to be studying this conflict,” Groce says. “We

can talk about the war in a way that we couldn’t during the centennial.”

But I doubt many of them will repeat my phrase about Sherman – our original historic preservationist. After all, the general’s motives were military, not aesthetic.

And other people—including those mentioned here—also deserve recognition for what didn’t happen that month.

Still I believe the events of December 1864 left us a historic city that citizens a century later could save again.

Just look around. Much of our modern prosperity flows from history left standing by a man with plenty of matches to light.

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UNDER LAST month’s executive action

by President Obama, millions of previously unauthorized immigrants can now apply for work permits and prevent deportation.

The order also expands the benefits for recipients of 2012’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects young people from deportation so they can focus on education and employment opportunities.

That’s all good news for 19 year-old Elly Marisol Estrada, whose “DACA-mented” status gives her lawful presence, a Social Security number and a drivers’ license.

It also allows her to work legally, vital for a young person putting herself through college.

The presidential order does not, however, grant her the ability to attend the state’s top universities—in spite of her stellar academic record. Nor does it afford the longtime Georgia resident in-state tuition rates at her current school, Armstrong University.

While more than 21 states have passed legislation granting in-state tuition and access to public universities for qualified DACA students, a ban passed by the Board of Regents in October 2010 forbids their admission to Georgia’s most competitive universities, including University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Medical College of Georgia, and Georgia College & State University.

Buoyed by support from local business and community leaders, Estrada and a core group of DACA youth have joined the statewide movement to remove these limitations on their educational opportunities as the Savannah Undocumented Youth Alliance (SUYA).

“Our overarching goal is two-fold. First, we want to reverse the Board of Regents college ban because education doors should be open to everyone,” explains Estrada, a sophomore working towards a double major in Political Science and Spanish.

“The second part is to get rid of out-ofstate tuition rates for DACA students.”

Estrada appears to be exactly the kind of student the president’s executive order aims to support: She arrived in the U.S. at the age of 8 with her mother from Jalisco, Mexico and endured abuse, hunger and other hardships as they bounced from Illinois to

faced similar protests.

Also in 2014, while addressing a forum on integration on the UGA campus, Gov. Nathan Deal made national news for his unfortunate presumption that a Latina student activist was undocumented.

Estrada works as an on-campus peer advisor and on the weekends as a cashier at Keller’s Flea Market, yet still finds time to cultivate a passion for social justice. She not only serves as SUYA’s director but is active in other policy-oriented groups as well.

“I’m interested in justice not only for myself but for everyone,” she says, agreeing that she has a “fire in the belly” for activism and equality.

Last summer she interned at Georgia Legal Services, and when asked if she plans to go on to law school, she replies definitively, “I’m going to law school, yes.”

“I plan to work for social justice in general, not only in the U.S., not only in Georgia or Savannah.”

Elly Marisol Estrada wants to help other Rather than stage more protests, however, DACA students through the Savannah Estrada and other SUYA members want to Undocumented Youth Alliance (SUYA). educate the local community to help influence policymakers and the Board of Regents Indiana before finally settling in Savannah, to reverse the ban. where her mother found undocumented “When I started school that fall, I started work in a wood shop. to hear a lot of negative connotations about A driven student, Estrada graduated in speaking up for deferred action and in-state 2013 from Johnson High’s International tuition, so my immediate response was ‘eduBaccalaureate program with full honors, cation,’” says Estrada. earning 25 Advanced Placement credits to “If we’re going to protest and speak up, we apply to her college education. need to let people know why.”

She was accepted to several colleges Their cause has been helped by sevincluding Wesleyan University in Connecti- eral civil rights organizations, including cut, where she was offered scholarships that Freedom University, an Atlanta-based would have covered the bulk of her tuition school that specializes in free education and expenses. She chose to stay in Savannah for undocumented youth. The non-profit to help her mother raise her three younger helped SUYA organize an informational siblings, but that admirable decision didn’t forum on the Armstrong campus last spring, come with the same financial rewards and while progress remains slow, the tactic granted to other top students who stay in caught the attention of administrators.

Georgia: For a full-time course load, in-state “We are sensitive to these issues and tuition for 2014 was $3005 per semester. encourage Armstrong students to be critical Out-of-state fees were $9106. thinkers and to question the process,” says In April 2013, three local Latino students Georj Lewis, Armstrong’s vice president of were arrested while peacefully protesting student affairs. the ban at a Board of Regents meeting here.

“We welcome DACA students at ArmThis year, a Regents meeting in Atlanta strong and recently hosted a DACA Forum

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on campus, which was quite well-attended. We offer a variety of scholarships for Latino students and are currently expanding our efforts to make education even more accessible for DACA students.”

Estrada is also working with the Highlander Center in Tennessee, the grassroots social justice school attended by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s.

Locally, SUYA has enlisted the help of Johnson High School IB (L) Estrada (r.) organized a DACA forum last spring with the help of Freedom University. (R) SUYA members come from all corners of the Savannah director and Tybee Island community and meet every other Monday to strategize on short- and long-term goals. mayor Jason Buelterman, SUYA will continue to meet every other African-American student, Johnson had him, we became much more organized.” who has guided them towards a commuSince then, SUYA has widened its circle Monday to plan short term and long term valuable wisdom to impart. nications and media strategy. Other comgoals—with the ultimate intent of affecting to the entire community. Members are “I sat down with the former mayor munity leaders have offered resources and recruiting high school students and reaching legislation at the state level. and shared with him some of the probadvice.

Though Estrada knows there’s more orgaout to DACA students at Savannah State Perhaps the biggest boost in morale came lems going on, and the advice he gave was nizing and work to be done, the future lawand Savannah Tech, advocating for those to start a movement, get a solid group of when SUYA members met with former Savannah mayor Otis Johnson last year. As people together and keep working,” recounts students to be able to attend Georgia’s top yer has no plans to back down.

“I’m in Savannah because I want to make engineering and medical schools.

Estrada. a prominent presence in Savannah’s Civil The semester may be winding down, but a change.” cs “I was very inspired. After we met with Rights movement and Armstrong’s first

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Keeping the Faith

Make no u-turns when you’re headed in a new direction

By Reginald Franklin

DEC 10-16, 2014

Making a fundamental change in your lifestyle – one that’s going to stick – is not always easy. Even when you are strongly motivated and committed to the challenge, you may experience periods of doubt. I have found that the key to handling those down moments is what I have made my new mantra: Keep the Faith.

My journey to a healthier lifestyle has had its share of ups and downs. I started as a member of the original group of participants in the Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program presented with Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, Inc. Over the 12 weeks of the free program sponsored by Charles H. and Rosalie Morris, I learned many things about healthier living, including perhaps the most valuable information: My life is all in my hands!

My goals were to lose weight, manage stress, and prevent the possibility of chronic disease – so I can be a good father to my children and enjoy my life to the fullest. Not everyone needs to lose weight. A health care professional can help you make that decision, as my doctor did.

During the CRI Life Enhancement Program, I lost 20 pounds. In the four months following my graduation, I lost an additional 50 pounds – a total of 70 pounds in about seven months! How does that feel?

It feels great. I have more energy. I move more easily. I sleep better. My health has improved.

People ask me how I accomplished such a dramatic change in such a relatively short time. I tell them I just took small steps that led to big changes. Here are some examples: I stopped putting salt on my food. Too much sodium causes you to retain water and gives you that bloated feeling. Interestingly enough, I have not missed the taste of salt on my food.

I control my portion size. This one is all psychological. I don’t have to give up food I like if I eat less of it.

I work out at least 30 minutes a day to maintain my weight, and at least an hour a day to lose weight. This, as I discovered, is how MY body works. It will be different for 14 everyone, but the knowledge I gained about

The “new” Reginald Franklin is a happy, healthy dad and community leader. how my body responds to food and exercise was the second most important thing I learned through my CRI Life Enhancement Program experience.

I started doing yoga. Yoga helps me manage my stress. The psychological and physical benefits have made a tremendous difference for me.

The phenomenal support I have received from OTHERS may come last in this list, yet it’s perhaps the most important factor in my transformation. Facebook friends have cheered me on. A former student invited me to join her running club. I was asked to share my experience with the second group of CRI Life Enhancement Program participants. Those events touched my soul and gave me encouragement to continue.

In my state of joy for what the CRI Life Enhancement Program has done for me and others, I wrote this creed that I hope will inspire you on your journey: I am Powerful because I have Knowledge.

I KNOW that my life rests in my own hands.

I KNOW that my health is my own responsibility.

I KNOW that my body is the temple of

Reginald Franklin’s children Joshua and Ryanne joined their father at the August reunion of the first group of participants in the Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program. When participants share what they learn about making healthy choices with family and friends, the positive impact of the program is amplified. Photo by Jim Byous. © Canyon Ranch Institute. my spirit.

I KNOW that my mind is the key to my wellness.

I KNOW that I must keep moving to give my body strength.

I KNOW that I must think before I eat, remembering that food is fuel.

I KNOW that my stress is manageable -- there are techniques I can use.

I KNOW how to enhance my life, and to take full advantage.

I KNOW that the key to my success is taking small steps that lead to big changes.

I KNOW that if I can conceive it, I will achieve it.

Yoga headstands are not for everyone and should be performed with the guidance of a certified yoga instruction. For Reginald Franklin, the headstand and other yoga postures improve strength, confidence, and balance.

Because I do believe it.

And that Knowledge makes me POWERFUL! Keep the faith … and no U-turns!

Reginald Franklin is Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Savannah State University.

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increasing—one Connecticut study found an incidence rate for men 18 times higher in the mid-2000s than in the early ’50s.

Another fun fact: about 86 percent of melanomas can be attributed to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Why, then, didn’t the ancient plebeians toiling in the fields all drop dead from malignant skin tumors? Mostly because they dropped dead from a lot of other things first. So yes, cancer was actually very uncommon for the Egyptians, but not because solar UV is no big deal. Life expectancy for the pharaohs When I was a kid, I spent every summer at only reached 40 to 50 years, and they mostly the local pool. I was very tanned because there stayed inside and got fanned with palm was no such thing as sunblock. I suspect things fronds. Laborers tended to live maybe 25 were pretty much the same throughout the to 30 years, so while they likely did receive entire history of mankind. Yet modern medical serious sun exposure, they generally didn’t research tells us almost any exposure to the sun get old enough for the melanoma to show up. Other reasons for the apparent rarity without protection could lead to skin cancer.

Did societies such as the ancient Egyptians suf- of skin cancer (and of cancers generally) in antiquity could be the difficulty of detecting fer from high rates of skin cancer, or are these tumors in ancient remains, or the increasing alarms being sounded to help manufacturers carcinogenic factors in our modern environsell more sunscreen? ment: pollution, industrialization, depletion —Chris Rozek of the ozone layer, etc.

There is evidence of bone-penetrating YOU SEEM to have been fortunate enough to avoid any experience with “black herpetic skin cancer from as far back as 2,400 years type lesions,” as Hippocrates described skin ago in Incan mummies in Peru, and mentions of skin cancer in the medical litcancer circa the fifth century BC. Good for erature have increased over the years as you and your leathery skin. But before you both life expectancy and diagnostic skills start slathering on the baby oil, consider this: the median age of onset for melanoma improved. But what accounts for the fantastically higher incidence rates in the last (the most deadly type of skin cancer) is 55, with the highest incidence rates found in the half-century? The short answer is that the pastiest-skinned among us are baring our 65-plus demographic. I’d keep a closer eye bodies at unprecedented levels, and in areas on those irregularly-shaped moles if I were of the world that white skin is ill-equipped you. to handle.

There’s definitely cause for general conPeople with paler skin are 20 times more cern: in the last 20 years, overall skin cancer incidence in the United States has increased likely to develop skin cancer than those with darker skin. Additionally, melanoma devel300 percent. While non-melanoma skin ops most frequently in those with excessive cancers are the most common, we’ll focus sun exposure early in life. This explains why specifically on melanoma because it’s the scariest—according to the American Cancer the incidence of melanoma in Australians Society, one person dies of melanoma every and New Zealanders—whose populations hour. Of the seven most common cancers in consist largely of transplanted (very pale) the U.S., it’s the only one whose incidence is northern Europeans—is two to three times

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higher than in the U.S., where the population is less white and the UV rays less strong.

In other areas of the world, the way we spend leisure time has had a big impact.

First of all, we have more of it. The workweek has shortened by a third since 1880, resulting in numerous surplus hours to spend on newly popular outdoor activities.

Around 1900 sun exposure was prescribed as a cure for tuberculosis and other illnesses, and tanned skin began to be viewed as healthy, rather than as suggestive of an impoverished lifestyle. Fashion also changed, encouraging people to expose more skin to the sun. Beach holidays boomed in the ’50s, and bikinis took off (and were taken off, in France) in the ’60s. The last straw was the proliferation of indoor tanning centers, which increase your cancer risk even more than the sun. The first one opened in the U.S. in 1978; ten years later there were 18,000 of them.

Analysis of current data suggests that the incidence rate of melanoma is likely to keep increasing for the next two decades at the very least. Attempts to raise sun-exposure awareness haven’t done much, although there’s some sign that in Australia, where one might reasonably be freaked out by the cancer stats, behavior and incidence may have responded slightly to years of highprofile campaigns (Slip! Slop! Slap! Seek!

Slide!).

Is skin cancer real? Yes. Can we do anything about it? Doubtful. As any parent of a teenager knows, trying to get people to cover up who don’t want to is pretty pointless.

So, barring some global reversal in fashion, skin cancer is just one of those problems the modern world is going to have to learn to deal with. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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

#BlackLivesMatter protest was ‘unruly,’ police say

ory Drive A shot from last week’s protest on Vict

• Detectives are investigating the shooting of a Savannah man at his Southfavor of quickly dissipating the traffic disturbances,» the spokesman says, «but Police side residence Sunday night.

Brandon Bostic, 30, was transported to Chief Joseph H. Lumpkin Sr. said future Memorial University Medical Center for disruptions may be handled differently. treatment after the 10:28 p.m. shooting “We cannot allow citizens to violate the on the 100 block of North Leeds Gate law and disrupt traffic and endanger themRoad. Bostic was not cooperating with the selves as well as the motoring public,” said investigation.

Lumpkin. “We clearly support the public’s Two women and four children ages right to assemble and voice their opinions, 6-13 who were home at the time were but this must be done peacefully and in an not injured in the shootings inside and in organized manner. We all are disappointed front of the house. that was not done today.”

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Members of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department met last week “to determine actions to be taken in the future after what was organized as a peaceful protest turned unruly Thursday afternoon,” a department spokesperson says.

The protest started on the Savannah State University campus, moved north on Skidaway Road to Victory Drive, west to Bee Road and back to the campus.

Organizers had agreed to abide by laws and ordinances in absence of a permit, police say, “but a number of protesters quickly violated that agreement and laid down in the street.”

Organizers of the march met with SSU and Metro Police before the 4 p.m. protest and agreed to remain on sidewalks and avoid interfering with traffic.

«But the numbers swelled quickly to around 70 and filled both lanes of Skidaway to Victory Drive where some members blocked traffic by laying down on the highway,» police say.

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the door of the residence, became involved in a discussion with the victim and were seen running away after the shooting. One was wearing a red beanie cap and a brown jacket.

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• Those Frightening Alabama Schools: • In some developing countries, a sex (1) In October, a mother charged that offi“strike” organized by women is often the cials at E.R. Dickson School in Mobile, only hopeful tactic for convincing husbands Alabama, first detained her daughter, 5, for and lovers to take grievances seriously. Howpointing a crayon at another student as if it ever, in November, Mr. Nderitu Njoka, head were a gun, and then pressured the girl to of a Global Men Empowerment Network in sign a paper promising not to kill anyone Nairobi, Kenya, announced that his organior commit suicide. zation would commence a “What is suicide, “sex boycott” for five days, Mommy?” the girl denying men’s “services” asked when her to their wives — to proparents arrived. (2) test “tyrannical” female In a 2010 incident domination. According at Sparkman Midto Njoka, hundreds of Problems in the dle School near Kenyan men are physically city? Let’s have Huntsville, Alaassaulted by females every a meeting about bama, an adminyear (including at least 100 it! istrator coaxed a whose wives vengefully casspecial-needs girl, trate them). (Referring to 14, into a boys’ a notorious U.S. incident, bathroom to “bait” Njoka offered support to a 16-year-old boy the singer Jay Z after he who had previous was punched by his sisterNames in the News sexual misconduct in-law Solange Knowles.)

Arrested in October for burglary of a • First, Do Harm: In Kohl’s department store in Alhambra, Cali- issues into committing a prosecutNovember, according to fornia: Ms. Josephine Crook, 49. Passed able offense — and the deputy police commisaway on Oct. 15 in Marietta, Georgia: Ms. then failed to prosioner in Calcutta, India, a Ida Gbye, 81. Arrested in October and tect the girl. (The group of student doctors charged with stabbing two men in Regina, girl’s family sued at Nilratan Sarkar MediSaskatchewan: Ms. Danielle Knife, 24. and won a sumcal College cornered, beat, Charged in Mississauga, Ontario, in Octomary judgment, maimed and eventually ber with sexually assaulting three male killed a man they suspatients: psychologist Dr. Vincent Hung Lo. but the school board appealed, and in September 2014 the pected of rummaging through their belongArrested in November in Gainesville, Florida, on sexual assault charges but then exon- U.S. Justice Department formally endorsed ings and stealing their mobile phones. The incident followed a series of phone and laperated three days later when accuser Jeremy the family’s lawsuit.)

• The West Briton newspaper reported top thefts, and some of the enraged medical Foster was caught lying: Mr. Phuc Kieu, 58. in October that a darts team composed of students slashed the man’s genitals before blind men was ready for its inaugural match leaving him to die.

The Continuing Crisis at an inn in Grampound, England, spon• The Creative Class: To spark interest sored by the St. Austell Bay Rotary Club. in the new leisure center opening spring Perspective 2015 in Selby in North Yorkshire, England, The inn’s landlord acknowledged that the Despite a 70-year-old U.S. Supreme game-room door would be closed “just in management company WLCT sponsored Court decision to the contrary, six states still case” a dart strays off course. (The blind a contest to name the center, with the prize have laws exempting parents from homicide darters would be aided by string attached a year’s free membership. On Nov. 5, Mancharges when they deny a child life-saving ager Paul Hirst announced that Steve Wad- to the bull’s eye that they could feel for medical care because they trust no remedy guidance.) sworth was the winner, proclaiming, “Well except prayer. Even among those states, all done to Steve on winning the competition.” of the deaths since 1994 under those cirWinning entry: “Selby Leisure Centre.”

Police Report cumstances have occurred in Idaho, where • A German woman who identifies herTwice in September, police in North (according to a November report by Vocativ. self only as “Anna Konda” described to Vice Kingstown, Rhode Island, reported that com) no prosecutor seems willing to put a Media in October her Female Fight Club in women had complained of a motorist who trust-in-God parent before a jury. Children Berlin, now three years old, for women to would stop female strangers on the street in Idaho have died when simple medical test themselves in all-out wrestling matches. to tell them jokes about blond women. The treatments were available (e.g., insulin and While some are fetish-motivated dominants, jokes were not sexual, but still made the fluids for Type I diabetes). Neighboring others display no particular sexuality — like women “uncomfortable.” A high school girl Oregon, by contrast, now vigorously prosAnna herself, who, she admits, simply likes told her mother of a similar episode. Based ecutes parents who let their children die, to “crush” men’s and women’s skulls between on a license plate number, police visited the including a 13-year-old girl’s parents conher massive thighs. Anna says she is a prod- man at home, and he agreed to stop. victed in November in Albany, Oregon. uct of East Germany’s cliched development 18 of tough, muscular female athletes.

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Kansas lawyer Dennis Hawver was disbarred in November for his comically bad (24 separate deficiencies) defense of doublemurder suspect Phillip Cheatham in 2005 (which led to a new trial for Cheatham).

Hawver had admitted to the jury that his client was a “shooter of people” (a previous manslaughter conviction) who, as an “experience(d)” criminal would never have left that third victim alive with multiple gunshot wounds. A confident Hawver had virtually invited the jury to execute “whoever” the killer was. (At a September hearing to keep his license, he dressed as Thomas Jefferson, banging the lectern and shouting, as reverse psychology, “I am incompetent!”

— leading the blog Lowering the Bar to muse that by then, the argument was wholly unnecessary.) Cheatham told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Hawver is “a good dude (but) just in over his head.”

Least Competent Criminals

Police in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, announced in November that they had intercepted a shipment of 30 pounds of marijuana that had been loosely packaged and shipped from California by U.S. Mail, and an investigation was underway with arrests expected. Police Chief Darrell Rowe told WTKR-TV that the scent of the packages was so vivid that, even though he had summoned the department’s K-9 unit, “the dog kind of looked at us (as if to say), ‘Do you really need me for this?’”

Recurring Themes

(1) Most recent drunk driver to hit a pedestrian with the victim’s body then lodging in the windshield — and the driver’s traveling on, seemingly oblivious: Marcos Ortega, 33, in Ocean Township, New Jersey, in November (whose 66-year-old victim did not survive). (2) Most recent report of birds in the wild consuming fermenting berries — and then comically crashing into trees and making goofy-looking landings: Bohemian waxwings in Canada’s Yukon, in November (where the Environment Yukon organization set up an “avian drunk tank”).

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Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Jason Wayne Autry, Holladay, Tennessee (April); Dennis Wayne Brooks, Robertsville, Missouri (November); Jimmy Wayne Estes, Charlotte, North Carolina ( June); Jestin Wayne Hooker, Lubbock, Texas ( July); Walter Wayne Howard, Portland, Oregon (November, for 1988 cold case); John Wayne Mackay, James City County, Virginia (indicted January); Thomas Wayne Martin, Huntsville, Alabama (indicted November). Convicted of murder: Allen Wayne Densen Morgan, Munford, Alabama ( June); Darrell Wayne Frederick, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (November). Sentenced for murder: Gregory Wayne Hill, Sydney, Australia ( June); Stephen Wayne Jamieson, Sydney, Australia (November); Christopher Wayne Robin, Beaumont, Texas (March). Execution for murder imminent, pending clemency hearing: Robert Wayne Holsey, Baldwin County, Georgia (November).

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By Anna Chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

Local musician and promoter Jeff Zagers has been bringing underground and high-caliber indie talent to Savannah for years now—you just may not have heard about it.

While Zagers used to primarily book small, intimate shows in his home, he’s eagerly branching out to a larger space at City of Savannah’s Black Box at Cultural Affairs to showcase master improvisationist Tatsuya Nakatani.

Nakatani builds percussive soundscapes that blur the line of rhythmic musical performance and engrossing experience of heightened senses and awareness.

There’s something laborious in how the 44-year-old pulls a hardwood bow across a gong or Chinese cymbal, drawing tremoring tones from Japanese Buddhist bowls and integrating both manufactured and handmade instruments in his work.

As Nakatani slowly builds his textures onstage—something that, to be watched, has such a human touch about it—the notes and tones swell into something distinctly mechanical.

They’re strange sounds to hear in a concert hall, a kind that push the listener to note the skill in evoking such grinding, buzzing sounds from ancient instruments.

If the sawmill in Twin Peaks had its own theme, Nakatani would be an apt composer (take note, David Season-Three-Is-Coming Lynch).

“There’s patience involved with listening,” Zagers explains. “It starts with patience, and you get broadened to the world of it. So time is passing, but you don’t notice because there’s total focus on something that’s very subtle and acoustic and not something pounding at you.”

Listening to Nakatani in a still room, audience members develop a new kind of sensitivity to the tones and subtle beats.

Ears prick as he gently pulls his bow, right before the sounds are built into terse, resonant rhythms.

Zagers explains a rising of the senses while listening to the acoustic sound artist, and an experience completely unlike most acts you’ll catch downtown on a weekend night.

“I think there are a lot of people who are craving it, and there’s a lot of people who would cringe at it,” Zagers states.

This will be the third time Zagers has booked Nakatani. In February 2012, Nakatani played a house show at Zagers’ place, and Zagers set him up at Non-Fiction Gallery in 2013.

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There’s patience involved with listening...It starts with patience, and you get broadened to the world of it. So time is passing, but you don’t notice because there’s total focus on something that’s very subtle and acoustic and not something pounding at you.

“He played for a good 40 minutes, then there was just a roar of applause,” Zagers remembers.

Each time Nakatani’s come through, Zagers has strived to put him in a larger venue.

While shopping around for an alternative venue in the past months, he found an ideal spot in the Black Box Theatre.

“I feel like the space is perfect,” he says.

“It’s a place you go to sit and see something.”

In the Theatre, the artist performs on the floor, while the audience is seated in risers.

This way, the crowd can witness Nakatani’s every move instead of craning over one another’s heads for a view.

Zagers presents the show in collaboration with Dollhouse Productions, a pairing that allows him to cast a wider net beyond his usual audiences.

“It’s a hard time if you’re just one person promoting a show if don’t have a lot of experience, but you have the burning that you want people to hear this sort of thing,” says Zagers, who had been dying to get Nakatani back to Savannah.

He also sees it as a chance to bridge the Savannah generation gap. With The Black Box Theatre being an all-ages space and the show starting so early in the evening, it’s the best of both worlds—for those who don’t want to wait until 11 p.m. for a show to start, and for those who wouldn’t be allowed into a bar gig.

“I know there’s people out there who aren’t young and hip to what’s going on, and they need to be informed,” explains Zagers.

“I’m starting with this now to make slow steps and get people here to hear him and get to know him,” Zagers says. “Because I think he could come back on other levels, even being involved with the [Savannah] Music Festival. It’s of that caliber.”

Indeed, Nakatani’s penchant for performing in homes, DIY spaces, and even New Orleans alleyways is really a small glimpse in his breadth and demand as a performer; he arrived to Zagers’ house in 2012 fresh off

a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In 2013, he provided a live soundtrack to 2011 Japanese vampire film Sanguivorous at the Smithsonian Institute. Despite highprofile gigs, though, he remains fiercely independent, and often relies on the community within his tour stops.

“He tours by himself,” Zagers admires.

“He has a kitchen in his van, very self-sufficient. It’s pretty incredible and inspiring for anyone on the road.”

Often, while planning out a tour, Nakatani will invite local musicians to join him in a gong orchestra. While his previous Savannah performances have been strictly solo affairs, he’s working with Zagers to assemble a team of 10 locals for a one-ofa-kind Savannah gong orchestra. Thus far, locals Louis Clausi, Cara Griffin, Sam Kim, Andrew Olsen, Jose Ray, Robyn Reeder, Luis Salazar, John Swisher, and Zagers are slated to perform.

Zagers has handpicked musicians of all backgrounds, striving to find folks who may not have worked together before.

“It’s kind of on the fly and spontaneous,” says Zagers.

Peter Mavrogeorgis, who helms Dollhouse’s studio side, will be on site recording the performance.

With only 100 seats, attendees are encouraged to get their tickets in advance so as to not miss out on a truly one-of-a-kind evening.

“Something my friend Mike Williams said is, ‘He has scored our lives,’” says Zagers. “And it’s pretty incredible to hear in a musical setting.” CS Jeff Zagers and Dollhouse Productions present Tatsuya Nakatani Black Box Theatre (Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs) Saturday, December 13 Doors 6:30 p.m. performance 8 p.m.

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By Anna Chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

DEC 10-16, 2014

IN THE season of giving, what’s better than giving back while enjoying the comforts of community, live music, and good food?

If you’ve never made it out to the annual Yuletide Jam, cut out some time between shopping and trimming the tree to take the whole family out to Tubby’s Thunderbolt on Friday. The Seventh Annual Yuletide Jam Fundraiser, benefiting Second Harvest, has grown each year, and 2014 may be the best yet.

Stewart Marshall of the group Stewart & Winfield has been with the event since early on.

“It happened that Mary Jane Crouch, Executive Director of Second Harvest, came to me back in 2008 about getting Stewart & Winfield to come play a fundraiser,” explains Marshall. “We’re from here, but we’ve been based out of Athens since ’89. It was sort of a homecoming to come back and play. Now, we’ve asked friends to join in, and it’s grown from there.”

While in the past, the celebration has been an all-day, all-night type of thing, Marshall says they’ve scaled back this year so that the crowd doesn’t get worn out and can appreciate all of the evening’s talent, which includes local faves Soap, Bottles & Cans, The Veraflames, Junkyard Angel, and more.

Attendees can check bands out on an indoor and outdoor stage.

“It’s a cast of those who have supported us in the past and get into the spirit,” says Marshall. “I know most everybody in these groups that are playing. It’s a friendship type of thing.”

In addition to old pals, Marshall is particularly excited about newcomers Willie and the Giant. “They’re an Al Green type of soul band, a standout type of sound for this year,” he excitedly shares.

The Yuletide Jam marks the Nashville band’s first time in Savannah; with an emphasis on warm, saturated vintage sound dipped in Southern soul, they’ll certainly be welcomed on the diverse bill of funky blues and rock n’ roll.

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community of musicians and friends join together to support an organization that creates dynamic change right here in the Lowcountry, acting as a food safety net for low-income families, seniors, people with disabilities, and children. In 2013, Second Harvest provided more than 8.1 million meals (that’s more than 9.6 million pounds of food) to locals in need.

The entirety of the cover charge will go toward the cause. Guests are strongly encouraged to bring canned goods to donate. CS 7th Annual Yuletide Jam Fundraiser Tubby’s Thunderbolt Friday, December 12, 6 P.M. $20 donation ($15 advance) $15 with 5 donated cans of food

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Inside Stage 9:45pm - 10:30pm: Soap 10:45pm - 11:30pm: Willie & The Giant 11:45pm - 12:45am: Junkyard Angel 12:45am - 2:am: The Andrew Gill Band and Jam Sessions

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Is all you want for Christmas a little less Mariah Carey blasting out of every speaker? Are you gonna WHAM the next person who cranks up “Last Christmas” in the office?

A Magical Grassical Christmas may be just the thing to get you back in the spirit of things. No, no, not that kind of grassical—the sibs DePue merge classical and bluegrass to make their own unique genre, using their incredible violin skills to delve into old-time, Texas Swing, folk, American country, and jazz genres.

Named “American Musical Family of the Year” in 1989 by presidential decree awarded by President George H. Bush Sr. and the subject of PBS doc The DePue Family Musicians: Music for Every Occasion, Saturday is an opportunity to witness world-glass players meld traditional genres in the spirit of the season.

Wallace, Alex, and Jason DePue will be joined by Don Liuzzi, principal timpanist/percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mark Cosgrove, 1995 national flat-picking guitar champion. Mike Munford and Kevin MacConnell join in on banjo and bass, respectively. Munford was named Banjo Musician of the Year by International Bluegrass Association in 2013.

The brothers released When It’s Christmas Time in 2013, hitting timeless favorites like “Sleigh Ride” all the way back to “Ding Dong Merrily on High.” In addition to Christmas standards, the DePues contributed two original holiday tracks to the LP. They may perform with the esteemed Philadelphia Orchestra, but the DePue’s excel in merging their classical skills with a goodnatured sense of fun and Christmas cheer—the drive to Springfield to catch the show is well worth it.

Saturday, 7 P.M., $25, $15 for children under 18

Jim D’Ville Ukulele Workshop @Savannah Coffee Roasters

Jim D’Ville may be a leader in the world of ukulele music, but it didn’t always seem that way. The renowned instructor of earbased learning first took up the 5-string banjo as an instrument, laboring over banjo tab for ten years in attempt to master it. It wasn’t until his wife’s grandmother gifted him a 70-year-old Columbia Hawaiian soprano ukulele that D’Ville developed a personal, emotional connection with music, realizing that, by focusing on the sounds he was making instead of feverishly studying book notation, he could successfully, and joyfully, play.

Though his workshops and website, Play Ukulele By Ear, D’Ville has developed an incredibly down-to-earth, understandable, and fun style of teaching.

For instance, on learning the Solfège syllables (a method of attributing a syllable to each tone in a scale), D’Ville asks his pupils: “Can you recognize the familiar voice of a friend or loved one when they call on the phone? Of course you can. And with a little Solfège training, when the C tone rings (or any other note in the scale), you will immediately recognize it like the voice of an old friend.”

It’s a distinctly human and accessible way of teaching, and Savannahnians can give the uke a shot at D’Ville’s Thursday workshop.

The 6:45 p.m. 60-minute lesson will focus on learning how to listen, the first step in learning to play by ear. After, “Uke Jam By Ear” will teach pupils how to play without paper.

It’s a BYOU (bring your own ukulele) affair. Who knows—maybe you’ll walk away ready to throw some uke action down on your caroling rounds? CS

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It’s a homecoming for Savannah native Victor Wainwright.

A graduate of Benedictine, Wainwright cut his teeth gigging with Eric Culberson in his high school days. The 2000s saw his career grow, as opportunities arose to tour the world, andWainwright currently plays with bands Southern Hospitality and Victor Wainwright and the Wild Roots. His award-winning blues piano has earned him stage shares and collaborations with the likes of B.B. King and Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, but he’s never made it home for a show—until now.

Wainwright is back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Savannah Harley-Davidson with a free concert for all. Though we haven’t seen him in a bit down here, the local boy still reps us hard, peddling “Piana from Savannah by Way of Memphis” worldwide.

In 2013 and 2014, Wainwright was honored as ‘Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year’ at the Blues Music Award Ceremonies. Often likened to Dr. John to Jerry Lee Lewis with a huge, soulful voice thrown with old-school country flair, Wainwright provides a swinging good time for the whole family. With a strong honky-tonk backbone, a fun sense of the blues, and wild piano chops, he’s guaranteed to thrill the crowd.

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By Sarah McCammon GPB Savannah

THE SOUTH is a place rich with musical traditions.

As Savannah Music Festival Executive Director Rob Gibson is fond of saying, “The most important American musical styles that have emerged in the last 150 years all came from the Southern United States.”

Now, a new program developed by Carnegie Hall in New York City and made possible by the Savannah Music Festival is helping local public school students learn the essentials of music through the styles around them.

Gibson says he approached some of his contacts at Carnegie Hall and encouraged them to pilot the program here.

“These styles of music are the ones that can be then taught to the kids who are growing up in the South, that they can feel proud being not just southern, but being American,” Gibson says.

Case in point: For generations along the Georgia and South Carolina coast, enslaved Africans, and later their descendants, have performed a style of music called Ring Shout.

With a mix of singing, tapping a beat, and stomping in a circle, Ring Shout traces its roots back to Africa. Gullah-Geechee slave communities along the coast adapted older musical traditions to tell the stories of their lives on plantations.

Perhaps the leading voices in the field belong to the McIntosh County Shouters, who performed recently at a cultural festival on Sapelo Island.

Shouter Brenton Jordan is in his late 20s and the youngest member of the group.

He says he’s especially excited to share this music, handed down in his family, with African American kids in the Savannah area.

“Their ancestors did this,” he says. “A lot of the kids along the coast, their ancestors shout.”

Ring Shout—along with bluegrass, gospel, and other music with ties to the Lowcountry— is part of a music education

At Spencer Elementary School in Savannah, students in music teacher Tony Jackson’s classroom have been practicing the ‘Musical Explorers’ theme. curriculum called “Musical Explorers.” It was developed by the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. It began by introducing students in New York City to Haitian, Yiddish, and Argentinian artists living in the city’s five boroughs.

Shanna Lesniak is a teaching artist with Carnegie, which is partnering with the Savannah Musical Festival to bring the program here.

“It’s six artists and it’s a three-year program, so essentially we need 18 different artists and genres,” she says. “And a lot of areas don’t have that in their community. So Savannah and the Lowcountry was perfect because you guys are so rich in history and culture.”

Lesniak visited Savannah earlier this semester to train music teachers, as well as regular classroom teachers, how to use the program to explain basic concepts like rhythm and pitch. They also get a workbook and CDs to help them learn the program’s theme song.

At Savannah’s Spencer Elementary, music teacher Tony Jackson works with a group of active first-graders dressed in their uniform khakis and white and yellow shirts.

“With Musical Explorers, we’re looking at diverse cultures, styles of music, right in their own back yard. So they don’t have to travel across the world to see a GullahGeechee performance which derives from West Africa,” says Jackson.

Ring Shouter Brenton Jordan says he hopes that learning music from the region will prompt some students to ask questions about their own family histories.

“Connecting to who they were, connecting to themselves,” Jordan muses. “Remembering the past. Even though the past has happened, it’s always good to acknowledge and remember so that we do not make the same mistakes.”

In addition to Savannah, Carnegie Hall is also piloting a similar Musical Explorers program in Santa Monica California, with the hope of expanding it further in the coming years. cs Musical Explorers concerts take place all this week.

Learn more at www.savannahmusicfestival.org Sarah McCammon is Bureau Chief of GPB Savannah.

To hear her full report for Georgia Public Broadcasting, visit www.gpb.org/news/2014/12/08/teaching-kidsmusic-through-the-songs-around-them

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Culture

Craft Fair

Craft mavens Gianina Gabriel (l.) and Jessica Duthu have combined forces as Craft Scout, the creative collective hosting Saturday’s Merry Maker Market.

Handmade for the holidays Local crafters have the cure for the big box blues

By Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

DEC 10-16, 2014

SANTA AND his elves may have outsourced their operations ages ago, but there are still plenty of local artisans creating beautiful gifts right here at home.

Savannah hosts a dazzling array of toymakers, clothing designers, jewelers, silkscreeners, soapmakers and all manner of creative crafters, each busily churning out unique items in her or his respective magic workshops. Many sell their wares online via websites and Etsy shops, but few have the resources to showcase their brands where 26 the public can peruse in person.

But wishes come true this holiday season, when 40 of the city’s most innovative imps convene for the Merry Maker Market at the American Legion this Saturday, Dec. 13.

Presented by collaborative duo Gianina Gabriel and Jessica Duthu, the market marks the first event for Craft Scout, their recently-founded artists’ collective.

“We want to provide opportunities for people to sell their items without having a storefront,” explains Gabriel, a seamstress and leatherworker who fashions pattern-cut purses under the brand Well-Loved.

A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago in fashion design and shoemaking, Gabriel moved to Savannah with her soldier

husband and began making bags while he was deployed in Afghanistan. She met Duthu last February when she hosted a Valentine’s craft fair, and the pair forged a bond.

“We both had the same mindset about keeping creative people in Savannah,” says Gabriel.

“There’s just so much talent here.”

While many SCAD grads indeed head for more lucrative hills, Cincinnati native Duthu stuck around after earning her degree in Production Design in 2007. She’s built a tidy business illustrating and screenprinting fanciful clothing and décor for children as Strawberry Moth, though she craves a community where artisans can gather and

meet their customers face-to-face.

“I sell plenty through on my website, but I miss having that one-on-one interaction,” admits Duthu.

“Markets are a great way to get feedback, and it’s a valuable relationship that can’t happen online.”

Both women are veterans of the indie handmade scene, particularly the Renegade Craft Fair that began in Chicago in 2003 and has blossomed into 14 annual events held in seven cities, from London to Los Angeles. What sets Renegade apart from other craft fairs is a celebration of independently-produced, imaginative items showcased in a highly stylized atmosphere.

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The women of Craft Scout have patterned their event the same focus on beautiful presentation, enlisting Audrey King of French Knot Designs to help transform the Legion foyer into a festive winter wonderland. Shoppers will also be treated to hot cocoa and a sweet serenade courtesy of the ladies of Lovely Locks.

The emphasis on ambience also reflects the curatorial aspect of the crafts themselves.

“It’s got to be handmade, but there’s a lot of variety,” assures Gabriel of the juried lineup of vendors.

“It’s the best of the best.”

In other words, no knitted toaster cozies or flip-flops decorated with hot-glued flowers. Indie shoppers will find something for everybody on their list: No kid needs another plastic toy from China when there’s charming playwear made by LoveLane Designs, and butch types who make a mess will appreciate a handsome denim work apron from Magic Stag.

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Left: Duthu creates Strawberry Moth’s delighful adornments in her Savannah studio. Right: Gabriel’s Well Loved line includes wallets, bags and purses.

Clothing and Lauren Winter’s artfullydraped garment cover bodies of all sizes, and natural body products from Sunshine Scrubs and Kleo’s Handcrafted Soaps pamper what’s underneath.

Colorful hats and bags from West Broad YMCA’s Handmade Neighborhood LLC make perfect small gifts for teachers and co-workers, along with baubles from Epiphany Bead and Jewelry Studio, K.

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Courage Jewelry and Metal Pressions.

There are plenty more treasures to make your loved ones genuinely gasp with delight when they pull off the wrapping paper (as opposed to smiling wanly then asking politely if you kept the receipt.)

The all-day affair is just the first bullet point of Craft Scout’s plan to help galvanize Savannah’s crafting community. The partners have a spring market in the works

as well as classes that include Intro to Sewing and Creative Business 101.

“We want to help people who are making this a business, turning their passion into a livelihood,” says Duthu, adding that each stocking stuffer also provides a small boost towards the much-discussed goal of keeping creative entrepreneurs in Savannah.

Gabriel also posits that seasonal markets give artisans another outlet for their tremendous imaginations: “It’s going to be gorgeous. There are great things that happen when people strive to put time and energy in their displays.” cs Merry Maker Holiday Market When: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m, Saturday, Dec. 13 Where: American Legion Post #135, 1108 Bull St. Info: craftscoutsavannah.com

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Have a (Cultural) Affair with art

By Lauren Flotte artrisesavannah.org

DEC 10-16, 2014

“COME PLAY with us!”

Clair Buckner says with a laugh. “Come get dirty!”

Her frank yet playful attitude is enticing, but her passion is downright catching. Buckner spreads her passion— clay—to her students as one of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ visual art instructors.

Throughout the year, Buckner and other locally based artists lead students of all ages through a variety of fine arts and crafts classes. Registration for the first session of classes, which run from Jan. 12-Feb. 20, is currently open, making it the perfect holiday gift for creatives of any age.

“We specialize in fine craft,” says Debra Zumstein, the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Art Programs Coordinator. The Cultural Affairs facilities boast a ceramics studio, as well as, a metalsmithing, fused glass, and stained glass studio.

“It makes perfect sense to have that kind of studio set up for the public to have access to,” Zumstein says, “We do also offer some fibers, painting, and drawing, as well.”

Their diverse class offerings attract a wide range of students. From the ‘Morning Mud for Toddlers’ class that joins 3-5 year olds and their parents in messy clay delight, to ‘Children’s Painting’ and ‘Teen Jewelry’ classes that engage kids from 8 years old into their teens, to the large variety of classes for adults 17 and up, Cultural Affairs has a class for everyone.

“It’s not that there is one class I’m really excited about. I’m excited about all of it because we get people from all walks of life, all ages, all everything,” Buckner says.

In addition to 14 three to six weeklong classes, the first 2015 session features numerous workshops.

“These are one or two day workshops that give you opportunity to try something new.

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The “2nd Annual Student, Instructor, and Staff Exhibition and Art Sale,” currently on view at the Cultural Affairs Gallery till the end of December, showcases over 100 works from more than 20 artists.

The range of work demonstrates the wide assortment of classes and people that make up the program.

“All of our teachers are artists themselves, so they bring to each class their own unique style, and the opportunity to push students to develop their styles,” Zumstein says.

The exhibition also displays the spirit of what Buckner is inviting others to join in on.

“It lets people kind of be a kid again. It’s a chance to just explore and be free and to not be judged. It’s not a grade. You come if you want to. If you come with a buddy, it’s even more fun. If you don’t then you’ll have one before you leave.”

Buckner discovered the Cultural Affairs Clockwise from top left: Cultural Affairs offers painting and drawing classes to classes as an instructor. “It’s one of the best both children and adults, as the “The Line-Up” by Crisley McCarson, demonstrates; kept secrets. I never knew it was here. We Tana Felicca-Flagg and Nancy Boyd work on their projects during an Open Studio got to get the word out.”

Metals class, a self-directed class; and an example of work created in the CeramThis is why she and Zumstein think a ics Tile Making class. visual arts class is a great holiday present. It’s that rare type of gift that allows someone to experience themselves and the world difwe have a 6-week class that will allow you “We have people that come and take ferently, flex some muscles they may have the time and immersion to really develop classes constantly. You think if you came and forgotten that they have, and get their hands those skills,” Zumstein says. took the same class 4 times in a row, you’d a little dirty, all with a group of friendly new Best of all, the classes and workshops are be done, but they’re never done,” Bucker faces. very reasonably priced and as Zumstein says.

As Zumstein says, “Why would you buy explains, “it’s an all-inclusive price. So, all of Zumstein recounts the story of one stua class? Because you’re going to get here and the supplies that you’re going to need for dent turned instructor, Tana Felicca-Flagg. love it.” cs each class is in the one fee.”

“She started in our ceramics program. She Classes at Cultural Affairs are about as moved over to metalsmithing and has fallen Department of Cultural Affairs approachable as art gets, thanks in large part in love with it. Now she teaches a Kumi9 W Henry Street to the attitude of instructors like Buckner himo workshop where you learn Japanese 2nd Annual Student, Instructor, and Staff Exhibition who professes, “There’s no failure with it. We braid making.” and Art Sale can try anything once; just don’t burn the From this dedication and passion a com- December 5-31 building down.” munity of artists made of both instructors To learn more or register for classes visit Perhaps because of this inclusive, experi- and students has grown. Every December savannahga.gov/arts, mentation-friendly philosophy, the program the Department of Cultural Affairs shares email amadson@savannahga.gov, has gained a devoted following of students. the fruits of this community’s labor with the or call 912-651-6783

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Continuing Exhibits

EVERY DAY 5PM-9PM

Alaine Daniel and Angela Erdy — December’s

featured artists. Daniel presents her watercolors and Erdy shows her jewelry pieces.

Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Armstrong’s Art Education Majors’ Exhibition —

The Armstrong State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre presents an exhibition showcasing Art Education majors’ capstone work. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. A gallery reception for this event will be held Friday, December 12. Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong University), 11935 Abercorn St., Fine Arts Hall.

Arthur Bennett Kouwenhoven — Savannah

resident shows his sculpture and works on paper. Reception Dec. 15, 5-7pm. TLocal 11 Ten, 1110 Bull St. Barbara Davis — Barbara Davis displays

her oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings through the month of December. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Between Realism and Abstractionism — Three

artists using different styles, reflect their personal message about the human condition – the forlorn silence of the modern world, reality as seen by the mind’s eye and the introspective search for personal meaning. Giuliano Corsi, Michael Banks and Larry Beaver carry on the visual dialogue.

Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

SCAD students used recycled materials to create ‘One Man’s Trash is a Fiber Student’s Treasure.’

Doctuh Buzzard’s Hoodoo Awakening — This

exhibit celebrates Gullah Geechee spiritual heritage and looks closely at hoodoo artifacts. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

Holiday Open House — Check out the Forsyth

Park Inn’s decorated parlor and enjoy freshly-baked goodies and hot chocolate.

Forsyth Park Inn, 102 W. Hall St. One man’s trash is a fiber student’s treasure —

Fiber students at SCAD were challenged to utilize recycled materials by experimenting with pattern & structure in order to suggest possible applications for these discarded objects. The goal was to transform the material and propose continued use as a textile for sculpture, fine-craft, interiors, home goods, and fashion. Gallery F.A.R., 1321 Eisenhower Drive.

Ornaments and Keepsakes: Memories in Adornment, 1780-1885 — From now through December,

the Georgia Historical Society is offering an exhibit on 18th and 19th century jewelry.

Features several pieces from the GHS Con-tex-ture — Renée Malloy Ludlam juxtacollection including brooches, mourning poses disparate imagery through digital, pendants, and pocket watches dating from hand-rendered and photographic creation 1780-1885. In the Georgia Historical to reveal stories formed by these incongruSociety Research Center located in Hodgent elements. Art Rise Savannah, 2427 son Hall and is open to the public during Desoto Ave. regular hours. The Research Center is open on the first and third Saturday each month Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Frilandscape of the South is the subject of days, 12-5 p.m. Georgia Historical Society, this exhibition of work by a wide range of 501 Whitaker St. artists, media, and styles. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Port City: The Savannah Riverfront through Artist’s Eyes — Drawn from local collections, the The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Library of Congress, and Telfair Museums’ Revisted by Contemporary African Artists — This collection, Port City tells the story of the exhibit explores the sequences of Dante’s Savannah riverfront as depicted by artists poem through new works by 40 contemin prints, drawings, paintings, and phoporary artists from 19 African countries. tographs from the 1730s to the present.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Artists have captured the vibrancy of life on this working river, from important historical events to daily life in Georgia’s port city.

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for the Arts, 207 West York St. Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection — Exhibit examines

the romantic movement in the American South. Through Feb. 15, 2015. telfair.org.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

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tribute to the lives of anonymous African Americans and explores passage, memory, and the search for freedom. Through Feb. 1, 2015. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Works by W. Gerome Temple — Using both

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Review: The Little Prince @Muse It’s my understanding that this was one of Blair’s first experiences with puppetry, and his Aviator’s endearing connection with I checked out Antoine De Saintthe Little Prince broke the barrier and truly Exupery’s timeless novella from my school brought the puppet to life. library in 5th grade. It was a middle school The chorus, Stipkovitz, and the two addilevel book, and I scored some major Acceler- tional puppeteers tending to the Prince, ated Reader points upon completing it. draped and masked in shining, flowing I remember telling my mother that it was costumes, added a new kind of grace and a surprisingly easy read, and her explaining elegance to the stage, ushering in planets to me that perhaps it was the message, not for the Prince to perch upon, steering stars necessarily the reading level, that was meant through the night sky, and more. to challenge.

I was surprised, at first, by Stipkovitz’s When I spoke with Director David I.L. voicing of the Prince; with Saint-Exupery’s Poole about The Little Prince a few weeks writing—deep lessons on loss of innocence ago, he explained The Little Prince’s like this: wrapped in simple delivery—I expected “Children see it at one level—they undera meek, gentle, yet childlike timbre. Stipstand it on some levels better than adults— kovitz’s Prince is sharp and childlike in its but adults understand from a different persistence. perspective, because they’ve had lessons that When the Aviator first meets the Prince, children have not.” the Prince is a little demanding, admitNo kidding. tedly odd, and annoys the Aviator with his It seems there were some complexities insistence; as the Prince perched on Blair’s in the narrative that went entirely over my shoulders, I couldn’t help but think of Yoda ten-year-old head, because I simply was not on the shoulders of Luke Skywalker, speakready for the scope of emotions that a small ing large, cryptic lessons to an impatient and puppet, voiced by Vanessa Stipkovits, and distracted Skywalker.

Christopher Blair were about to pull from I—and the audience—quickly fell in love me last Friday night. with the delightful Prince and his insight.

Honestly, puppetry can give me the heeWith its close attention to fantasy-fueled bie-jeebies, but by the end of a devastating landscapes, wonderful puppets, and cleverand downright lovely performance, I had ness, The Little Prince is sure to be a hit tears in my eyes. with kids. With its call for humility, vulnerBlair is, unsurprisingly, incredible as The ability, and wonderment, it’s sure to make Aviator. His character’s transformation the adults in the audience feel a certain kind from guarded, bitter adult into vulnerable of necessary ache. CS human is both captivating and tender. Most impressive, however, is his ability to carry The Little Prince continues the next two weekends such meaningful dialogue with the Prince; it at Muse Arts Warehouse. For reservations call sells their bond and acts as the heart of the 912.232.0018 performance.

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Drayton Street locale features lively bar scene in addition to great menu

SAVANNAH NATIVE Aurash Kheradmandi (“A.K.”) knows what he likes: spare, uncluttered space with no visual distractions, elegant but comfortable, a well-stocked bar you can hit for beer, wine or special cocktails, and an interesting, eclectic menu.

Looking around the city he found very few of the kind of establishments he wanted.

So he decided to put one together on his own terms.

“There’s plenty of fine dining in Savannah, and a lot of great bars, but I wanted one place that covered both bases well. I didn’t want typical ‘bar food,’” he says.

“I’ve had this menu worked out for a while, and Chef Amie Linton—formerly of Cha Bella—has been phenomenal in the realization and structuring of the food: it’s skillfully prepared, beautifully presented, clean and easy to share, and of course it tastes wonderful.”

Indeed, Granite’s menu covers Persian lamb kabobs, and Asian-inspired choices as well as Amie’s funky take on a well-loved German dish, Pork Schnitzel kabobs rolled in a delightfully crunchy panko crumb coating and a delicious mustard dipping sauce.

“All of our sauces are house-made, except for the Vidalia Onion. I like the kabobs because they are recognizable, neat and clean to share. The Peruvian Pork Lollipops are especially popular,” he says.

I can attest to that! Succulent shanks with a tangy glaze accompanied by delicately fried shredded sweet potato—excellent!

The grey interior is accented only by glowing blue or red lights behind the two bars, granite-look table tops and black chairs, with a single, pure white orchid greeting visitors upon their arrival. The black clad servers move efficiently through the wide spaces with artfully presented plates, and the whole look is cool, laid-back and open.

“So many places here have just too much going on. I want to keep things simple so that diners can concentrate on their drinks, food and companions without being distracted.” Aurash says.

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The visual appeal of colorful, grilled vegetable skewers is undeniable, as well as the Brazilian Churrasco marinated in lime and cilantro—the beauty of the fare draws the eye and whets the appetite. You can have the vegetable plate simple with one or two vegies, or, I recommend going all out to order all of them together—this tasty dish certainly beats out a salad on a cold autumn evening.

Build your meal just the way you want it, with separate Starters, Grains, Pastas, Salads, Vegetable and Protein dishes. The Ginger-Cilantro rice balances well with the Japanese Matsuri: seared Tuna, coated in black and white sesame seeds, and grilled Shrimp, in a ginger-honey dressing. The Peruvian Pork Pops can tastefully accompany the Granite Bolognese, or have the Russian Chicken Shashlick with Persian rice.

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Fans of Chef Amie Linton have found their way here, and love to see what she has in store for desserts.

Check out the richly decadent Triple Chocolate Cake-- three chocolate layers, filled with chocolate ganache and frosted with chocolate—not for the faint of heart, or the current favorite: Jameson-laced cheesecake.

Aurash says, “We’ll have a different flavor each month for the cheesecakes, or, if you prefer something lighter, try Amie’s beautiful grilled pineapple & pound cake with caramel sauce.”

Each time I’ve dined there I hear exclamations over the Funnel Cake Fries, a fun take of a favorite treat at festivals and fairs, and someone always seems to order multiples on the Low Country Boil Fritters--the mix of international flavors and familiar tastes is the order of the day here.

Precision in cooking is important: “We

take great care with the marinades and bring out our food at just the right temperature— nobody else in Savannah—that I’ve seen— keeps the food at such a perfect temp. It’s that little attention to details that makes our cuisine special,” Aurash says.

The liquor license arrived just last week, so the long list of specialty cocktails is still in preparation. In the meantime, try the muchrequested Grey Goose Vodka Martini with bleu-cheese-stuffed olives.

“We use the proper glasses for each drink—you want brandy warmed and swirling in a snifter, we have that. Stemless martini glasses. Elegant beer pints imprinted with colorful company logos,” says Aurash.

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The Theory Of Everything OOO

The Theory of Everything presents a look at the life of celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking, best known for his chart-topping book A Brief History of Time. The film of course explores Hawking’s professional achievements but spends even more time examining his marriage to Jane (the movie is based on her book Travelling to Infinity — My Life with Stephen). It’s an affecting love story, so potent that a third-act wrinkle arrives out of the blue and is played out in the blink of an eye, as if director James Marsh and scripter Anthony McCarten were afraid to allow reality to step on the fairytale romance they had so carefully nurtured. Despite the clumsiness, it’s hard to blame them: Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are perfect as Stephen and Jane, providing the humor, strength and emotion required in any marriage, whether it’s a real one or a reel one.

ever arises for a fourth Hangover movie, Sean’s clearly the go-to guy.

Until the storytelling got sloppy during its final third, the original Horrible Bosses yielded a hearty number of laughs in its tale of hapless working grunts Nick ( Jason Bateman), Kurt ( Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) and their efforts to exact revenge on their psychotic bosses Dave (Kevin Spacey), Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Julia ( Jennifer Aniston).

In this new picture, the lads have decided to go into business for themselves, but their naivety puts them at the mercy of sharklike businessman Bert Hanson (Christophe Waltz) and his son Rex (Chris Pine). With their backs against that proverbial wall, the trio once again turn to ex-con Motherfucker Jones ( Jamie Foxx) for advice and, after some deliberation, they decide that a kidnapping might provide the solution to their problems.

HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 There are a few genuine laughs to be OP found in Horrible Bosses 2, although viewers Arriving just in time to soil the holiday will probably have more luck locating gold season, Horrible Bosses 2 feels less like a doubloons in the Myrtle Beach sands. Othsequel to the fairly engaging 2011 original erwise, the humor is strictly of the sort that and more like a companion piece to the cur- will leave 14-year-old boys gasping for air rent Dumb and Dumber To. through their explosive bouts of diarrhetic It’s no surprise, then, to learn that director laughing but find everyone else rolling their Sean Anders had a hand in the scripts for eyes. both sorry sequels, and also helmed Adam There are gags involving rape, pedophilia, Sandler’s That’s My Boy to boot. If the need gay panic, racism – they’re all meant to

shock audience members into laughing in spite of themselves, but they’re ultimately as daring – and as clueless – as a Republican politician name-dropping Ronald Reagan during a campaign speech.

The three writers of the original came up with great characters in the horrible bosses played by Spacey and Farrell but floundered when it came to creating a worthy equal for Aniston, whose sex-addicted dentist repeatedly tried to score with Dale. The four scripters for this sequel (two returning from the first flick) don’t solve the problem here, believing that hilarity ensues just from the mere notion of a woman having a strong sex drive (see, that’s funny because ladies aren’t supposed to like sex; that’s the guy’s job!).

At least the character of Rex Hanson proves to be a worthy antagonist for our heroes – sharply played by Pine, he provides the only comic bite to a toothless endeavor that’s otherwise as amusing as a root canal.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 OOO

So do we blame the existence of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 on Han Solo or Harry Potter?

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wrap up their exploits before the final credits and were prepared to tackle new adventures in subsequent sequels, The Empire Strikes Back did no such thing.

Ending with Han in captivity, the Empire in control, and Luke Skywalker grappling with daddy issues, there wasn’t really an ending to Empire, just a promise of more to come.

The Jedi tale was created for the screen; not so the Harry Potter pictures, which were born on the pages of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling books.

And after six successful films, the producers got either ambitious or greedy (take your pick) and opted to split the final novel into two separate flicks —maximizing profits, yes, but also allowing the story to breathe a bit more and not be heavily trimmed to fit into one comfortable run time. The downside, though, was that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, while nevertheless enjoyable, still felt like a case of too much narrative padding, with most of the highlights reserved for Part 2. That, in a nutshell, is also what happens with Mockingjay — Part 1, an adaptation of the first half of the final book in author Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series. The film is certainly a success, and no fan would dream of missing it.

But there’s an unavoidable sensation of treading water, of biding time until the main attraction, Mockingjay — Part 2, hits theaters this time next year (Nov. 20, 2015, to be exact).

Mockingjay 1 ends so abruptly – and without much dramatic charge that the overall feeling isn’t excitement or anticipation; it’s entitlement, a sense that the filmmakers owe it to the audience to wrap up this story in damn fine fashion.

I expect they shall, if this picture is any indication. Because for all its stop-and-start pacing, there’s still plenty worth catching, beginning with the lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence.

She once again excels as Katniss Everdeen, who, as we saw at the end of Catching Fire, has been plucked by members of the rebellion to lead their uprising against President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and his fascistic government. Not so fast, sez she.

Angered that Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson) was left in the hands of the ruling class, she’s not really in the mood to accept the mantle of symbol of the revolution, a decision that worries resistance leader Alma Coin ( Julianne Moore) and right-hand man Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman).

It’s up to Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), of all people, to help get Katniss back in 34 the saddle, to where she’ll want to visit

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 oppressed citizens, film propaganda pieces for public broadcast (shades of Edge of Tomorrow) and generally make life miserable for Snow.

As for that sudden-death overtime of an ending, it’s sure to leave many patrons grumbling. But look at the bright side: Whereas we had to wait three whole years to witness how Han would get rescued, we’ll only have to wait one to see if this franchise rescues itself from overhyped expectations and wraps up in high-flying fashion.

BIRDMAN

OOOO Where to begin in tackling the numerous excellent qualities that make up the moviegoing experience known as Birdman?

The logical starting point would be Michael Keaton, whose superstar status really didn’t extend much past the 1980s.

In that respect, he has much in common with Riggan Thomson, the character he plays in Birdman. Riggan was once an A-list movie star, having starred in three successful films as the superhero Birdman. But those days are long gone, and in an effort to not only revitalize his career but also to make Art-with-a-capital-A, Riggan has opted to write, direct and star in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

His best friend Jake (Zach Galifianakis) is producing the show, his ex-addict daughter Sam (Emma Stone) is serving as his assistant, his girlfriend Laura (Andrea Riseborough) is part of the four-character ensemble, and leading lady Lesley (Naomi Watts) is throwing herself into her work.

Even his ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan) occasionally drops by to offer support.

Yet mounting this play is hardly smooth sailing, not only due to Riggan’s personal

demons — his Birdman alter ego is always cluttering his mind, telling him he’s going to fail — but also because of the arrival of Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), a popular Method actor who appears as a last-minute replacement to tackle the production’s other male role. Keaton’s been receiving all of the awards buzz — and he deserves it (he’s terrific) — but Norton proves to be his match step by step.

In one respect, Birdman is a movie about a turf war, specifically the one that exists between Hollywood and Broadway. New Yorkers like Mike and the Times theater critic Tabitha Dickinson (Lindsay Duncan) resent the fact that a shallow, callow celebrity would dare come to their neck of the woods and pollute the hallowed stage with an amateur production; Tabitha even goes so far as to tell Riggan that she plans to destroy his play in print, regardless of whether or not it’s good.

It’s an insider topic made accessible through the terrific dialogue by writerdirector Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Biutiful) and his three co-scripters, and it’s joined by a cheeky dig at the film capital’s obsession with superhero flicks, a look at the tempestuous backstage relationships that often inform a show (in this case, not only between Riggan and Mike but also Riggan and Laura, Mike and Lesley, and more), and musings on the fine line that separates artistic inspiration from out-andout insanity.

DUMB AND DUMBER TO

OP It’s amusing to glance over the early reviews stating that Dumb and Dumber To is no comedy gem like its 1994 predecessor. Reading over those words, one

might get the impression that the original Dumb & Dumber compares favorably to cinematic masterpieces from the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen or the Marx Brothers.

Um, no.

The rest is a feeble reworking of the first film’s story, with champion morons Harry (Daniels) and Lloyd (Carrey) again hitting the road to deliver a package, and again running afoul of some nasty people who want them dead.

As Lloyd, Carrey doesn’t seem to have missed a beat in nailing Lloyd’s nuttiness.

Daniels, though, doesn’t seem to be playing the same character he essayed 20 years ago, meaning he’s either forgotten how to tackle the part or he couldn’t be bothered to do much more than draw air in exchange for a paycheck.

And then there’s the tragic case of Kathleen Turner, cast as the boys’ old flame Fraida Felcher. In another lifetime, she was a terrific, alluring actress known for hits like Romancing the Stone and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Here, she turns up only to be subjected to fat jokes and play it straight next to our heroes.

Then again, maybe she’s just come full circle. In her exciting debut in 1981’s Body Heat, she delivered one of cinema’s great lines, murmuring to William Hurt, “You aren’t too smart, are you? I like that in a man.” And now she’s with two men who aren’t too smart – she must be loving that.

BIG HERO 6

OOOP An adaptation of a lesser-known Marvel Comics title,Big Hero 6 is set in the Eastmeets-West landscape of San Fransokyo and centers on Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter), an aimless 14-year-old genius who’s given some much-needed guidance by his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney).

Tadashi has developed a vinyl, inflatable robot named Baymax (Scott Adsit). Baymax has been programmed to serve as an efficient health care provider, and he and Hiro end up forming a special bond.

The first hour of Big Hero 6 is superb, complete with an array of interesting characters, an eye-popping visual design and, courtesy of the bulky Baymax, a sizable number of hearty laughs. It’s a shame that the relationship between Hiro and Baymax takes a backseat to various action set-pieces, but even in this latter portion, the film is overflowing with visual invention and genuine sentiments. CS

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Activism & Politics

13th Colony Patriots

Conservative political activists that meet the 13th of each month. Dedicated to preserving the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. See Facebook page for meeting location. Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912604-4048. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Savannah Area Young Republicans

Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

Savannah Libertarians

Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook.com/groups/SAVlibertarians.

Savannah Tea Party

5pm social time. 5:30pm meeting begins.

6pm speaker. Reservations not necessary. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Mondays, 5:30 p.m.. 912-598-7358. savannahteaparty. com. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Young Democrats

Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free ongoing. 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Auditions and Calls for Entries

Call for Artists

The Sentient Bean seeks experienced artists for one-month-long exhibitions of his/ her work. Artists must have a website with current images representing a sample of the work to be shown in order to be considered. Apply to sentientbooking@gmail. com, subject line “art show.” See website for info. Fridays.. sentientbean.com/ booking#visualarts. sentientbean.com.

The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Call for Entries for Savannah GIF Festival

Art Rise is looking for GIF images to be submitted for the first annual Savannah GIF Festival, which is part of the Telfair Museum’s PULSE festival. Selected GIFs will be exhibited during Art Rise Savannah’s ARTificial Intelligence Symposium at the Bull Street Public Library on January 20. There is no limit and no charge to submissions. Submit at savgiffest.tumblr.com.

Through Jan. 10, 2015. artrisesavannah. org/artintel. artrisesavannah.org. Art Rise Savannah, 2427 Desoto Ave. City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries

The City of Savannah’s TV station, SGTV, seeks profiles, documentaries, animations, original music videos, histories or other original works by or about the citizens of Savannah to run on “Engage,” a television

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show produced by the city. No compensation. SGTV offers an opportunity to expose local works to over 55,000 households in Chatham County. Submit proposals via website. Saturdays.. savannahga.gov/engagesgtv.

Downtown Delilahs Dancer Auditions

RSVP to 912-272-7601 for location information. Wed., Dec. 10, 6 p.m. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Gallery 209 Call for Artists

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

Interested artists call 236-4583 between 10:30am--1:30 pm, or emailbmrousseau@ aol.com. Sundays.. gallery209savannah. com/. Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Gallery Seeks Local Artists

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, 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.

Submit 5-10 images of work, resume/CV and bio to info@kobogallery.com. Mondays.

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,.

Come get the health insurance coverage you need to stay healthy. Enrollment assistance for the Affordable Care Act, including Medicaid and PeachCare for kids, will be provided from GA Certified Application Counselors. You will need proof of your home or mailing address, your Social Security number and birthday, documentation information for legal immigrants, employer and income information for every member of your household (such as pay stubs or W-2 forms), and policy numbers for any current health coverage you may have. free Tue., Dec. 16, 5-7:30 p.m. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

that will progress each week. $35 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile. dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Bikram Yoga Savannah offers a weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Thursdays during the 6:30pm class.

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

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Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@ gmail.com. ongoing. 912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

$5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities

Professional Clothing Drive at Armstrong

Armstrong State University’s Office of Career Services is accepting donations for Homeschool Music Classes its Clothing Closet, a professional clothMusic classes for homeschool students ing drive seeking gently used professional ages 8-18 and their parents. Offered in attire—oxford shirts, men’s and women’s Guyton and Savannah. See website for suits, slacks, blouses, dress shoes. Clothdetails. ongoing. CoastalEmpireMusic.com. ing will be available to students seeking Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recolleccareer guidance assistance. Drop off tions for 40th Anniversary location: the alumni office in Burnett Hall Oatland Island Education Center is looking on the Armstrong campus. Through Feb. 1, for memories of Oatland Island in honor 2015. 912.344.2563. careers@armstrong. of their 40th anniversary. People who were edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. part of the Youth Conservation Corp that html. Armstrong State University, 11935 helped to build Oatland Island Education Abercorn St. Center in the 1970’s. Great memories from SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers field trips. Special family memories of Oat- Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks land Island. Send your photos and stories as needed by the shelter. No prior animal to memories@oatland40th.org. Deadline shelter experience is necessary. Newly is August 31. undefined. 912-395-1500. trained volunteers will be authorized to oatlandisland.org.

Ukulele Group serve immediately after orientation. PotenContact Warren Walker for lessons or intial volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis formation on participation at 912-398-1640. prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are Through Jan. 4, 2015. Downtown Savannah, welcome. Volunteers must be at least downtown.

17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

Benefits PICKYuletide Jam Chatham County Animal Control Seeks DonaMusic Line-up Outside Stage 6:00pm tions of Items 6:45pm: Keith & Ross 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Chatham County Animal Control seeks Bottles & Cans 8:00pm - 8:45pm: The items for pets in the facility. Canned Veraflames 9:00pm - 10:00pm: Stewart & and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, Winfield Inside Stage 9:45pm - 10:30pm: newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, Soap 10:45pm - 11:30pm: Willie & The leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels. Open Giant 11:45pm - 12:45am: Junkyard Angel daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912-351-6750.

12:45am - 2:am: The Andrew Gill Band and animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. ChaJam Sessions Food Drive: Bring your food tham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie donations - Bring 5 cans and receive $5 off Mood Dr. your entrance donation on event night! $20 Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors Fri., Dec. 12, 6 p.m. yuletidejam.com. liveoMarket sponsors invest in a healthy comakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s munity and support the local economy.

Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Sponsorships begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. Tuesdays.. kristen@ Classes, Camps & Workshops forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmer- Argentine Tango Beyond Basics Group Class smarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. A class for advanced beginners in ArgenForsyth Farmers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St., tine Tango. Prerequisite: knowledge of Basic elements of Argentine Tango. No South End of Forysth Park.

Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Fair partner required. This is a 4 week course

Art Classes at The Studio School

Ongoing weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. See website, send email or call for details. 912-4846415. 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

Basic Breastfeeding Class

This two-hour session is designed to educate and support the mother planning to breastfeed. Topics include information on preparing to breastfeed, basic breastfeeding concepts, nutrition, and a discussion of common concerns. Issues such as family support for the breastfeeding mother, the father’s role in feeding, and how to breastfeed and continue to work are also covered. Your support person is encouraged to attend. $20 per couple Tue., Dec. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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. Champions Training Center

Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876, is taking applications from young men and women (ages 14-20) interested in law enforcement careers. Explorers experience mentoring, motivation, and learn skills which help prepare them for their roles as productive citizens. See Chatham County Sheriff’s web page, click “Commu-

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Classical Guitar Instruction

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 Auxiliary. See website or call to register.

912-897-7656. savannahaux.com.

Coffee Cupping

Like a wine tasting, but with coffee. A lesson on coffee process methods and origins worthy of a connoisseur. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome. Fridays, 11 a.m.. 912-209-0025. perccoffee.com. PERC Coffee Roasters, 1802 East Broad Street.

Conscious Kids Yoga

A yoga class for children age 4 and up, to build skill, confidence, strength, and abilities of the body, mind, and heart. $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. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Creative Magic Mondays

A way to begin the week on a creative note.

Doodling, planning, manifesting, crafting.

Participants bring their own art supplies.

Free. Love donation appreciated. Mondays, 11 a.m.. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. facebook.com/creativemanifest. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. 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.

English as Second Language Classes

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. ongoing. 912-921-4646.

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Fashion Design/Sewing Lessions

$25 Mondays-Saturdays.. 305-401-2729. labissiereinc@gmail.com. provokestyle. com/classes. Labissiere Studio, 145 Bull St. Feng Shui Simplified!

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Sunday of the month. The class covers the nine main areas involved in Feng Shui to boost harmony in your life! $30/class second Sunday of every month, 1 p.m. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. facebook. com/relaxsavannah. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Figure Drawing Classes

Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:3012:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 drop-in fee. At the Studio School. ongoing.

912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail. com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987.

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

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

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

HypnoMothering is a 2.5 hour class for moms-to be that was developed by two hypnotherapists, each a mother of twins, this fun, practical class teaches mothers easy and fast self-hypnosis techniques to make the most of limited sleep, keep calm and balanced on challenging days, and find focus and mindfulness amidst the myriad of feelings that mothers face. 50 Mon., Dec. 15, 6-8:30 p.m. 912-704-7650. ann@ douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

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.

Learn to Sew

Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels.

Private and Group classes. Tuesdays.. 912596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com. Kleo’s Sewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201.

and grace. a variety of relaxation techniques for mother and child. For 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, 10-11 a.m..

912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

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. ongoing. 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. Fridays.. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Novel Writing

Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publication. Award-winning Savannah author offers one-on-one or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com.

Photography Classes

Beginner photography to post production.

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

Life Coaching 410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotogGroup & individual life coaching with a Cer- raphy.com. chrismorrisphotography.com. tified Life Coach. Plan for a career change, Piano Lessons Piano lessons with a classically trained new lifestyle, or an opportunity to pursue creative or business projects. Step-by-step instructor, with theater and church experience. 912-312-3977. ongoing. georgiaguidance to fulfill aspirations. In person musicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music or telephone sessions. Thursdays.. 912Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. 596-1952. info@roiseandassociates.com.

Piano Voice-Coaching Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Mobile App Development Course Pianist with M/degree,classical modStudents will learn how to develop an app ern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call and stay on the cutting edge of technology. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious Fee includes use of Apple computers, iOS inquiries only. ongoing.

Polish Language Classes devices and developer accounts. $2,195 The lessons are for beginners and open to per person Through Dec. 11. pe.gatech. edu/savapp. savannah.gatech.edu. Georgia anyone interested in learning the Polish Institute of Technology, 210 Technology Cir. language. Taught by Andrew Boguszewski.

Mommy & Me Relaxation Class Reservations required. $25 Thursdays, Teaches techniques to face the physical, 6:30-8 p.m.. 912-401-5861. St James mental, and emotional changes of a new Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. Prepared Childbirth Wednesday Session mother’s body, mind and heart with poise

This course gives an overview of reproductive anatomy and physiology and explains the process of labor and delivery in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The four-week course includes a tour of the labor and delivery unit. This class is popular, so please register early. $75 per couple Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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. 912-660-7399. cordraywriter@gmail.com.

Russian Language Classes

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

Sewing Classes

For beginners or advanced sewers. Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet standards in the garment industry.

Open schedule. Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. Sundays.. 912-290-0072. savsew.com.

Singing Classes

Bel Canto is a singing style which helps the voice become flexible and expressive, improves vocal range and breathing capacity. A foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 Mondays, 6 p.m.. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@ yahoo.com. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

Spanish Classes

Spanish courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. 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. Tuesdays.. 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 ongoing.

Ukulele Workshop with Jim D’Ville

Learn from ukulele artist D’Ville for one night only. Thu., Dec. 11. 912-659-8639.

Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

Vocal Lessons

A group of voice instructors who believe in the power of a nurturing community to help voice students blossom into vibrant artists. Each instructor holds a Masters of Music in Voice Performance. Group classes held once a month, plus an annual recital. Varies Wednesdays.. 912-6560760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown.

Clubs & Organizations

13th Colony Sound Barbershop Chorus

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days, 6:30 p.m.. 912-344-9768. rfksav@ gmail.com. savannahbarbershoppers.org.

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. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com.

Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month.

Free for your first event or if you’re a nonplayer character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@ gmail.com. avegost.com.

Backgammon Club

Players of all levels, from beginner to expert, are encouraged to meet for play, discussion, and the formation of a group to meet on a regular basis. If you own a set, please bring it. Sat., Dec. 13, 3-6 p.m.

912-247-0893. granttarredus@icloud. com. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn 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. ongoing. buccaneerregion.

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

ing, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA.

Meets every Friday evening for an informal social gathering of like minded people who enjoy the water. Watch the sun go down over Turner Creek. All are welcome, including kids and dogs. Fridays.. chathamsailing.org. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd.

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world. Meetings twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. Every other Thursday.. onebornfree@yahoo.com.

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Business Networking on the Islands

Chatham Sailing Club

Drop N Circle Craft Night

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina.

Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. A working gathering of knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers, etc. All levels of experience welcome.

Tuesdays.. 912-233-1240.

Exchange Club of Savannah - Weekly Lunch

Meets every Monday (except on the fifth Monday of the month), 12pm-1pm. Weekly speaker, and honor a student of the month and year, police officer and fireman of the year. Charities: Jenkins Boys & Girls Club; Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse.

Guest are welcome Mondays, 12-1 p.m..

912-441-6559. Savannahexchange.org.

Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Street.

Fiber Guild of the Savannahs

A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilt-

Freedom Network

Historic Flight Savannah

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

912-596-1962. 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. ongoing. 912-660-8257.

Hostess City Toastmasters Club

A group for improving public speaking and leadership skills. Professional, friendly, peer-run. Every Tuesday 6-7 PM at 35 Barnard Street 3rd Floor (ThincSavannah.) $10/month Tue., Dec. 16, 6-7 p.m.

912-484-0165. hostesscitytm@gmail.com. facebook.com/hostesscitytoastmasters. thincsavannah.com. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300.

Hostess City Toastmasters New Year’s Resolution Membership Offer

The Hostess City Toastmasters club of historic downtown Savannah is offering new members a chance to get a leg up on their New Year’s resolution to improve public speaking skills. For anyone signing up during December and January, the Club will waive the first three months of local dues. Weekly meetings are on Tuesdays from 6-7 pm at ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard Street, Third Floor, just off Ellis Square. Guests are welcome. Through Jan. 31, 2015. 912-209-4521. hostesscitytm@ gmail.com. thincsavannah.com. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Island MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, grades K-12. Mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope.

First and third Mondays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. third Monday of every month.. 912-8984344. kymmccarty@hotmail.com. mops. org.

Islands MOPS

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Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees.

Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-3086768.

Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-2380514. wildfibresavannah.com/. Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. Philo Cafe

Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe.

Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.

R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues.

Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St.

by email for info. ongoing. charlesfund@ gmail.com. panerabread.com/. Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St.

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

A dinner meeting every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at local restaurants. 3rd Tuesday in November; none in December.

For dinner reservations, please call Sybil Cannon at 912-964-5366. ongoing. 912748-7020. savannahnavyleague.us.

Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, join the Savannah Fencing Club; $5/month.

Experienced fencers welcome. Tuesdays, Thursdays.. 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub. org. barnesrestaurant.com. Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue.

Savannah Newcomers Club

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com.

Rotary Club of Savannah Sunrise

No Kidding. Join Savannah’s only social club for people without children! No membership fees, meet great new friends, enjoy a wide variety of activities and events. savannahnokidding.angelfire.com/ or e-mail savannahnokidding@gmail.com ongoing.

The Historic District, Downtown Savannah.

Safe Kids Savannah

Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. ongoing. savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc. com.

A local club for role-players, gamers, and fans from all over the sci-fi /fantasy universe. Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Super King Buffet 10201 Abercorn St., Savannah at 7PM. third Tuesday of every month.. 912-308-2094. kasak@ comcast.net. roguephoenix.org.

Meets every Thursday, 7:30 a.m. for breakfast at Ort Hall (Lady & Sons) 112 West Congress Street. Visitors are welcome.

Thursdays.. savannahsunriserotary.org.

Ort Hall, 112 W. Congress St. A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/.

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

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Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month.

Prose--fiction and non fiction. Discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques/Fine Silver, 14 W. Jones St. All are welcome. No charge. third Tuesday of every month.. 912-308-3208. alicevantrease@live.com.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

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Savannah No Kidding!

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Savannah Quilt Guild

Meets second Saturday, 9:30am-11:30am.

Social time, business meeting and program. September through June, at Woods of Savannah, 1764-C Hodgson Memorial.

Membership: $25/year. second Saturday of every month.. (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 to one of America’s most revered musical traditions.

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

Society for Creative Anachronism

Meets every Saturday at the south end of Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. For people interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games

A group that plays games that tell improvised stories. Create an amazing story in just three hours, using group games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts. Sundays at 6pm. free Saturdays, 6 p.m.. info@savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com.

Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment.

Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Veggies and Vegans

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

Mondays.

Spies and Mysteries Book Club

A book club for readers who love thrillers, spy novels, and mysteries. We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm. None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-925-8305. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. 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. All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. second Thursday of every month.. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

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

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

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

Concerts

13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)

“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-3449768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Building 429 with Lindsay McCaul

The I Believe Tour is an intimate night of worship, stories, and songs. Headlining is Building 429 with Lindsay McCaul as support. $10 presale, $15 at the door Sat., Dec. 13, 7-10 p.m. 843-259-1052. brian@bblive.cc. https://facebook.com/ events/740106206067021/. First Baptist Church of Richmond Hill, 9184 Ford Avenue.

Concert: A Magical Grassical Christmas w/ the Depue Brothers

A non-stop celebration for audiences of all ages of fresh arrangements of holiday favorites performed by elite musicians who seamlessly blend Bluegrass, Americana & Classical Music. $30 Sat., Dec. 13, 8 p.m. marstheatre.com. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street.

Concert: Celtic Christmas Guitar Show with Robin Bullock and Steve Baughman

Two of North America’s leading Celtic

guitarists join forces to create a uniquely beautiful sonic experience. $23 plus tax Sat., Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. 912-748-1930. randywoodguitars.com. Randy Wood Guitars (Bloomingdale), 1304 East Hwy. 80.

Concert: Victor Wainwright

Victor Wainwright returns to his hometown for the 20th anniversary of Savannah Harley-Davidson. Free Sat., Dec. 13, 4-7 p.m. savannahhd.com. Savannah Harley Davidson, 6 Gateway Blvd West.

Savannah Philharmonic: Holiday Pops

Featuring some of the most entertaining and well-loved holiday music, the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus brings the magic, joy, and cheer of the holiday season to Savannah. Soloists Caitlin Andrews (soprano) – 2014 American Traditions Competition Semifinalist; and Wesley Morgan (tenor). $18 to $100 (all reserved seating except balcony) Dec. 12-13, 7:30 p.m. savannahphilharmonic. org. savannahcathedral.org/. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. East Harris St. Savannah Philharmonic: Special Family Event Holiday Pops

The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra, with special guests the Savannah Children’s Choir, performs a holiday-themed concert for children of all ages. Enjoy performances from popular films Frozen and The Polar Express as well as traditional holiday classics. $25 for a family of 4, $10 for individual tickets (all general admission) Sat., Dec. 13, 3-4 p.m. savannahphilharmonic.org. savannahcathedral. org/. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222.

East Harris St. 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. ongoing. 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. Wednesdays. 912-921-2190.

Beginner and intermediate ballet, modern dance, barre fusion, barre core body sculpt, gentle stretch & tone. Tuesdays..

912-925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com.

Ballet School, 10010 Abercorn St. 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. ongoing. 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo.com.

Argentine Tango Basics Group Class

This beginners group class will focus on the basic elements of movement and Argentine Tango. This class is a 4 week session that will start from week 1 and progress while reviewing each week until week 4. No partner or experience required. $35 Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m..

912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail. com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Awaken with Chakradance™

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eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery. No dance experience or chakras knowledge needed. $20 ongoing, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@ comcast.net. chakradance.com/. synergisticbodies.com. Synergistic Bodies, 7901 Waters Ave.

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Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B.

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. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Dance for Peace

Ballroom Group Dance Class

Ballroom Series Group Class

A group ballroom dance class for beginners through advanced. Rumba, Swing, Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Cha Cha, Samba, and more. Singles or couples. $10.00 per person or $35 for 4 weeks (per person) Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Ballroom/Latin Group Class

Group classes every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesdays focus on fundamental steps, styling, and techniques.

Wednesday’s classes are more specific, with advanced elements. $15/person and $25/couple Wednesdays, 8 p.m. and Tuesdays.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing. com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Beginner’s Belly Dance Classes

Learn basic moves and choreography with local Belly Dancer, Nicole Edge. Class is open to all ages and skill levels. Walk-ins welcome. 15.00 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.

912-596-0889. edgebelly@gmail.com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St.

Beginner’s Belly Dance Classes Every Wednesday

Beginner’s belly dance class instructed by local performer Nicole Edge. Learn the basics of American Cabaret belly dance.

15$ Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912-596-0889. edgebellydance@gmail.com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/Skill levels welcome. Sundays, 12pm-1pm.

Fitness body and balance studio. 2127 1//2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/hour. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-596-0889. cairoonthecoast.com.

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. ongoing. 912-414-1091. info@ cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com.

Happenstance Bellydance

All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes every Monday, 5:306:30pm. Drop-ins welcome. $15/lesson Mondays, 5:30 p.m.. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com.

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C.C. Express Dance Team

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912-7480731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

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.

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. Great Gatsby, 408 West Broughton Street.

Dance Party

Dance on Thursdays at 8pm--fun, friendship, and dancing. Free for Savannah Ballroom students. $10 for visitors ($15 for couples). free - $15 Thursdays, 8 p.m. 912335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Disco Hustle Dance Class

Do the hustle! A New York style Disco Hustle group class taught by Jos’eh Marion, a professional ballroom dance instructor.

Sundays at 5pm. Call for pricing. Sundays, 5 p.m.. 843-290-6174. Trudancer@gmail. com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Free Dance Thursdays at Lake Mayer

Lake Mayer is offering free dance and fitness classes for all ages every Thursday, in the Community Center. 9:30 am and 10:30 am is the “Little Movers” class for toddlers.

12:00 pm Lunch Break Fitness. 1:30 pm Super Seniors. 5:30 pm youth hip hop. 6:30 pm Adult African Fitness. FREE ongoing, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 912-652-6780. sdavis@ chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

FUNdamentals Dance Lesson

Group dance lessons every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesday: fundamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday: advanced elements. $15/person $25/ couple Tuesdays, 8 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing. com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm, Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912-748-0731.

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.

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Kids Hip Hop and Jazz

A kids dance class with high energy music.

Students learn different elements of hip hop dancing and how to put it together in a routine. $8 Thursdays, 5:15-6 p.m..

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

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. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

LaBlast- Dance Fitness designed by Louis Van Amstel from DWTS

Created by world renowned dancer and ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” professional, Louis Van Amstel, LaBlast uniquely combines a wide variety of ballroom dance styles and music genres. Do the Cha Cha Cha, Disco, Jive, Merengue, Salsa and Samba set to everything from pop and rock to hip-hop and country – and burn fat and blast calories! No experience and no partner necessary. $15.00 drop in or 10 classes for $80.00 Mondays, 6-7 p.m. and Fridays, 10-11 a.m. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

and bachata the night away in Pooler where it’s cooler. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

912-988-1052. medi.tavern314@gmail.com.

Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

ongoing. 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. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

West Coast Swing Class

Instructor Rick Cody teaches the smooth rhythms of beach music and west coast swing. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Wednesdays, 7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Events

150th Anniversary of the Siege of Fort McAllister and Winter Muster

Mahogany Shades of Beauty

Fort McAllister troops will reenact the siege by General Sherman on its 150th anniversary. Skirmishes and historical activities will occur throughout the day, culminating in the final battle at 5 p.m. $7.50 adults, $4.50 kids Sat., Dec. 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. gastateparks.org/FortMcAllister/. Fort McAllister Historic Park, 3894 Fort McAllister Rd.

Modern Dance Class

734 graduates will be honored in this twopart commencement ceremony. Sat., Dec. 13, 10 a.m. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

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. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/.

Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Dance classes - hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step. Modeling and acting classes. All ages/levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. ongoing.

912-272-8329.

Beginner and intermediate classes. Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. ongoing. 912-354-5586.

Old Time Country Dance

An evening of contras and other set dances to the live music of Glow-in-the-Dark String Band. Callers walk through and prompt each dance. Bring a partner or come alone. Come early for a review of the basic figures. $8, Students and SFMS members: $6 Sat., Dec. 13, 7:30-10:30 p.m. 912-355-3357. savannahfolk.org. notredamesav.org. Savannah Folk Music Society presents this dance with music by Glow In The Dark. Sat., Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. notredamesav.org. Notre Dame Academy, 1709 Bull St. Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah DEC 10-16, 2014

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8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406.

Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com.

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Awaken with Chakradance™ - Thursdays

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. No dance experience or prior knowledge of the chakras is necessary. Limited to 12 participants – email to reserve a spot today! $20 Thursdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m. 912-663-1306.

Chakradancer@comcast.net. anahatahealingarts.com/healing-aha/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. “Savannah in the Civil War,” A Film by Michael Jordan

Local filmmaker/historian Michael Jordan’s 90-minute film highlights events and people who played a role in Savannah’s Civil War story. More than a dozen historians discuss forces that shaped Savannah’s war years, and thirty local actors portray important Savannahians of the time. Characters include Suzie King Taylor, the only

African-American woman to keep a journal during the war, and Francis Bartow, who suggested gray as the Confederate military uniform color. Learn about the massive prisoner-of-war camp in that housed thousands of Union prisoners in Forsyth Park, the dramatic battle between ironcal warships in Ossabaw Sound and other key events. General museum admission Thu., Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m. telfair.org. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

with your family. Call for Pricing Sundays, 2-4 p.m.. 678-392-9219. photography@ stevienicole.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Telfair Museums present a living history program interpreting the Union occupation of Savannah from the perspective of the Telfair family. From the beginning of the Civil War, Savannahians had viewed the conflict and its horrifying consequences as distant spectacles. On December 10, 1864, everything changed. 60,000 Union Troops maneuvered on the outskirts of the city. Confederates, numbering only 10,000 successfully retreated to Hardeeville. Tickets are $20 per adult and $5 per child Fri., Dec. 12, 6-6:30 p.m. telfair.org.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

Guided Civil War Tours

“The Eve of Occupation” Living History Program

Board of Public Education Meeting

Wed., Dec. 10, 11 a.m. Whitney Administrative Complex (School Board), 2 Laura Avenue.

Bonaventure After Hours: Stories, Nightfall & More!

Savannah’s only after-hours cemetery event, in this riverside Victorian cemetery. $35 Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.. 912-319-5600. info@bonaventurecemetery.com. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb.nsf/ cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd.

Grand Opening of Coastal Ability Solutions

Coastal Ability Solutions is a lab that features tech solutions aimed at assisting people who are facing a disability. Experts from Georgia Tech’s Tools for Life will be available for private consultation throughout the open house. Thu., Dec. 11, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Coastal Regional Commission, 1181 Coastal Drive SW. Learn about Savannah’s experience before, during, and after the war with these guided tours. Advance payment required. $15 Thu., Dec. 11, 5 p.m. massieschool. com/. Massie School Museum, 207 East Gordon St.

Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment. Call for info. ongoing. 912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Holiday Boat Parade

Enjoy this nautical display of holiday spirit at the bluff. Food and drinks will be served, and the best boats will receive prizes or trophies. Sat., Dec. 13, 6 p.m. 843-4418247. alton.aimar63@gmail.com. thunderboltmarine.us/. Thunderbolt Marine, 3124 River Dr. Film: Home Alone

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a 1989 Christmas comedy film directed

by Jeremiah S. Chechik. The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster in the third installment in National Lampoon’s Vacation film series. Free to public Sat., Dec. 13, 7 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre. com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-12/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.

Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eightyear-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. Kevin initially relishes being home alone, but soon has to contend with two would-be burglars played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci. Free to public Fri., Dec. 12, 7 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-12/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.

Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign their various books. 350 wristbands will be distributed at 9 am. Free to attend.

Books available for purchase. Fri., Dec. 12, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-232-1579. mandy@ pauladeen.com. pauladeen.com. ladyandsons.com. The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St.

Take a look around before the big day. Tour the labor and delivery unit at Memorial University Medical Center. Tours are free and open to the public but pre-registration is required and space is limited. Sun., Dec. 14, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

Film: Christmas Vacation

Deen Family Book Signing

The Eve of Occupation: Living History Program

Telfair Museums presents a dramatic interpretation of the Union occupation of Savannah, as lived (and told) by the Telfair household. $20/adult. $5/child. Dec. 12-14, 6 & 7 p.m. telfair.org. telfair.org.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Family Portrait Sessions

Stevie Nicole Photography will be offering a limited number of Mini Family Portrait Sessions in the beautiful Forsyth Park. The heart of Savannah has many photo opportunities to capture beautiful memories

Labor and Delivery Tour

Luminary Night with Santa

Celebrate the holidays with family activities, like photos with Santa and hay rides, and a walk in the maritime forest. $5 parking pass Sat., Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m. 912-5982300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Film: Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 Christmas film written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies.

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and focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. Free to public Sat., Dec. 13, 3 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-12/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. NeoPopRealist Art Contest Dedicated to its 25Year Anniversary

Deadline: December 15, 2014. Artists’re welcome to submit up to 3 images of NeoPopRealist work as .JPEG files 300dpi with brief info about self & work’s medium, email: neopoprealismPRESS@mail.com.

Winners ‘ll be announced Dec. 31, 2014.

Grand prize for the 1st place is signed original drawing by NeoPopRealism creator Nadia Russ. S2nd place winner’ll receive signed print of the same work. See the Grand Prize at www.neopoprealism. org Free Through Dec. 15. neopoprealismpress@mail.com. Online only, none.

Odd Lot Improv

In the tradition of The Groundlings, Second City, and Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Odd Lot Comedy Troupe presents live, in the moment, hilarity with a showcase of improvisational comedy. There’s no telling where the evening will take you! Appropriate comedy for a PG crowd. Mondays, 8 p.m.. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. The original Midnight Tour

One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

PBJ Pantry

A free food pantry held every Thursday, 10-11am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 ongoing. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Richmond Hill Christmas Decoration Contest

The City of Richmond Hill will hold its first-ever Christmas decoration contest.

The decorations must be a residential yard located within the city limits of Richmond Hill, and entries must be called into City Hall by December 12. Yards will be judged on the evening of December 15, and winners will be announced at the City Council meeting on December 16. Categories include: 1) best use of lights; 2) most original; 3) most elegant; and 4) the “Griswold Award” (most lights and decorations in one yard). Winners will receive a gift certificate to a local business or restaurant and a small yard sign announcing their win. Fri., Dec. 12. Richmond Hill City Center, 520 Cedar Street.

Richmond Hill Historical Society Oyster Roast

This year’s fundraising gala, an oyster roast, will be held at the historic Henry Ford Oyster House and feature a new documentary, The Hidden History of Richmond Hill. Actors portraying historical figures such as Henry and Clara Ford, General James Oglethorpe, a Southern belle, a Civil War soldier and more will be joining the guests for a chat and photo opportunities. $125 Fri., Dec. 12, 6-9 p.m.

Henry Ford’s Oyster House at the Ford Plantation, 12511 Ford Ave. Run For Warriors 5K

Tybee Island Police Association is hosting a 5K, 1 mile beach warrior dash, and Kid’s Fun Run. Proceeds will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. $25 registration fee, includes T-Shirt and snacks Sat., Dec. 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. jtoole@cityoftybee.org. runforwarriors.com. tybeelighthouse.org/.

Tybee Island Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Ave. Savannah Storytellers

students to apply, be admitted, and sign up for classes. All application fees will be waived for the event. Fri., Dec. 12, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 912-344-2772. amy.mccoy@armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Tacky Christmas Party

Guests with the tackiest attire will be awarded a prize, so get creative. All of the proceeds raised will go to the Kicklighter Resource Center, a nonprofit which helps improve lives for the differently abled. Free, but $20 donation suggested Sat., Dec. 13, 5:30 p.m. Jaycee Building, 101 Atlas St.

Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm.

Reservations encouraged by calling 912Tickets on Sale for Richmond Hill Rotary Club’s 349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank Annual Fundraiser The fundraiser is February 14th from House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. SCWA 30th Anniversary Celebration 6:30-10:30 pm. $60 Through Feb. 14, 2015.

Enjoy a traditional Russian Dessert Recep- rotaryofrichmondhill.org. Richmond Hill tion: Authentic sweets and beverages, a City Center, 520 Cedar Street.

“Soviet Propaganda” artwork display, folk character dance performances, and a book Fitness $6 Community Yoga Classes signing by Dr. Stephen Blank, presenter Savannah Power Yoga offers a community for SCWA’s evening program. Thu., Dec. yoga class nearly every day of the week for 11, 6:30-8 p.m. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. just $6. All proceeds support local orgaCoastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice nizations. See schedule online for details.

Local chapter of the Society for Creative Most classes are heated to 90 degrees.

Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Bring a yoga mat, towel and some water.

Park (south end) for fighter practice and $6 $5 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) general hanging out. For those interested 349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpowongoing. savannahsca.org. eryoga.com/. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Sixth Sense Savannah Tour Skidaway Rd. In 2002, smashing all of the barriers,the Al-Anon Family Groups An anonymous fellowship of relatives Sixth Sense Savannah tour became the and friends of alcoholics. The message first tour to go well beyond the usual of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope touring areas and subject matter, starting for friends/family of problem drinkers. in a neighborhood, where locals, famAl-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people ily, friends, chose to share their personal age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the ghost stories, exclusively with the comSavannah area. check website or call for pany founder. 30.00 Every 55 days, 9:30 info. ongoing. 912-598-9860. savannahalap.m. 9122920960. 6thsenseworld.com. non.com.

6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Beach Body Workouts with Laura Street.

Skatefest MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer $7-$35 Dec. 12-Jan. 3. savannahcivic.com. Community Center $5.00 per session Martin Luther King Jr Arena, 301 West Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Oglethorpe Ave. Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Southbound Brewery Saturday Tours and Tastes

Savannah’s first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. Hang out, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah’s first craft brewery. Free Saturdays, 2-4 p.m.

912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Southbound Brewery Tours and Tastes

Savannah’s first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday - Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. So come hangout at the brewery, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah’s first craft brewery!

Free Wednesdays-Fridays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Start Strong, Start Now Registration Event

Armstrong hosts a one-day registration for

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results.

Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes

Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique high energy dance style. Drills and choreographies for all levels.Small classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. ongoing. bohemianbeats.com.

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm. Fri., 9:30am10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. ongoing. egs5719@aol. com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. Fitness Classes at the JEA

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

Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing.

912-355-8811. 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 in need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com.

Free Dance and Fitness Classes at Lake Mayer

Every Thursday. 9:30am-10:15am Toddler Class. 12pm-1pm Adult Lunch Break Dance Class. 1:30pm-2:30pm Super Seniors Workout. 5:30pm-6:15pm Youth African Dance Fitness (ages 6-12).

6:30pm-7:30pm Adult African Dance Fitness. Wear comfortable clothing. Free and open to the public. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.7:30 p.m.. 912-652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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. 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 scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am-10pm.

Call or see website. ongoing. 912-5982300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Insanity Workout Group Class

INSANITY turns old-school interval training on its head. Work flat out in 3 to 5-min blocks, and take breaks only long enough to gulp some air and get right back to work. It’s called Max Interval Training, because it keeps your body working at maximum capacity through your entire workout. $10 or $80 for 10 fitness classes Sundays, 11 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes

A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. ongoing. 912-441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-9241.

Latin Cardio

A cardio-based workout class designed to get students fit while having fun. Latin style dances like cha cha, samba, jive, rumba, salsa. No partner necessary.

Workout clothes required. $10 drop in

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912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail. com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St.

Savannah Disc Golf

Mommy and Baby Yoga

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. ongoing. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah.com/.

Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pole Fitness Classes

Pole fitness classes taught by Pole Dance America’s 2014 National Professional Champion and Miss Fitness 2013 & 2014, Sabrina Madsen. Pole fitness concentrates on upper body strength and overall flexibility as well dance elements. Call for pricing.

Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m. and Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 801-673-6737. info@firstcityfitness. com. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912704-7650. 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 ongoing. 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 ongoing. 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. ongoing.

Rock’n Body Fitness Bootcamp

Ultimate outdoor power workout! Group physical training program conducted by former military personnel. Build strength and fitness through a variety of intense group intervals lasting approx. 45 minutes. First Class FREE Mondays-Fridays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 912-675-0952. rocknbodyfitnessbootcamp@gmail.com. rocknbodyfitnessbootcamp.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Ronin Academy Self Defense Classes

A short course in simple self defense techniques for adults. Uses real life scenarios designed to provide greater self confidence and empowerment. Fees vary. Every 3 days. michael@roninacad.com. roninacad. com. aikidosavannah.com/. Aikido Center 42 of Savannah, 5500 White Bluff Rd. DEC 10-16, 2014

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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. ongoing. 912-4958010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

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. ongoing. savannahdiscgolf@ gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com.

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

With a one-year, $35 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. ongoing. savystrider.com.

SIZZLE- Dance Cardio

The hottest cardio class to keep or get you in shape for summer. Sizzle is designed to give you cardio, strengthening, and stretch training that you need for that bikini body.

Enroll 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. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. ongoing. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

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 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for cancer patients and survivors. The classes help with flexibility and balance while also providing relaxation. Located at FitnessOne, on the third floor of the Memorial Outpatient and Wellness Center.

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:45 p.m. 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Zumba Fitness (R) with April

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

Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. ongoing. 912-349-4902.

Lavender Mocha Stout

Dec. 12. The Collins Quarter, 151 Bull Street.

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

8:30 a.m.-noon. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market

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

Every Saturday. Free and open to the public wifarmersmarket@aol.com. wifarmersmarket.org/. Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques. 3-5:30 p.m.. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org.

Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Health

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. ongoing. 912-344-3333. armstrong. edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Armstrong 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 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. Free ongoing, 6 p.m. 912-350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Free Enrollment Help for Medicaid and PeachCare

Parents can find the help they need to renew or sign up their children (ages 0-19) on Medicaid or PeachCare. Enrollment Assisters will work with clients through Food Events the process. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday Night Supper Club Mondays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays, A new Savannah tradition. Gather at Pacci’s 1-5 p.m.. 912-356-2887. Chatham County community table to make new friends and Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower share in a night of food, wine and Southern Drive (facing Sallie Mood Dr.). hospitality. With seasonally inspired dishes Free Hearing and Speech Screening Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: from Executive Chef, Roberto Leoci. Call First Thursdays,. Call or see website for for pricing. Reservations required. 7-9:30 times. ongoing. 912-355-4601. savanp.m.. 912-233-6002. jackie.blackwelder@ nahspeechandhearing.org. savannahpaccisavannah.com. paccisavannah.com. speechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. Special Limited Release Service Breweries and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.

Free Help Signing Up for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Seven care navigators to answer all your questions and sign you up through the ACA Insurance Marketplace. Able to enroll between November 15 to February 15, 2015. Free Thursdays, 8 a.m.-noon & 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Mondays-Wednesdays, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.. 912-721-6726. srogers@ jclewishealth.org. J. C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center, 125 Fahm Street.

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. ongoing. 912-6445217. 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. ongoing. 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 website or call for info. ongoing. 912-9273432. savannahypnosis.com.

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. ongoing. 912897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga. html.

Living Smart Fitness Club

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.) ongoing. 912-447-6605.

Mommy & Me Relaxation Class (Prenatal & Postpartum)

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. Open to expecting and new moms as well as those with small children (4 and under). $15 a session.

15.00 Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m..

912-544-6387. info@erigosavannah.com. erigosavannah.com/. erigosavannah. com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services. Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoing. 800-264-7154.

You Are Invited To Lunch With John Jubilee!

The public is invited to enjoy a free lunch and informative seminar with John Jubilee and his Transformations team. The team will help you learn how to be in the best shape of your life in just 88 days...guaranteed! RSVP for you and your friends TODAY! Call Bridget at 615.481.9522 or email bridget@

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615-481-9522. bridget@johnjubilee.com. johnjubilee.com/. ruthschris.com/SteakHouse/111120/Savannah. Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 111 West Bay St. Zumba

A total workout, combining elements of fitness, cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, boosted energy, mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Free. Call to register and for eligibility. Mondays, Wednesdays, 4:455:45 p.m.. 912-525-2166. zumbabrandistyle@gmail.com. brandimuhammad. zumba.com/. Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards Street.

Kid’s Happenings

Baby & Mom Yoga

For mothers with babies who are precrawlers. Moms learn poses for baby to help with digestion and sleeping -- and get a bit of relaxation, movement and camaraderie for themselves. $120 for a six session pass. Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m..

912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveriescom. savannahyogacenter.com. savannahyoga. com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street.

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. Adult classes available.

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

Kids Night Out

Lynn Geddes hosts this kid’s yoga night, along with snacks and a performance of Johnny Appleseed. $40 Fri., Dec. 12, 6-9 p.m. 912-308-3410. yogamelynn@gmail. com. anahatahealingarts.com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. New Mamas Club

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Savannah Children’s Museum School Year Hours

SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum.org ongoing.

Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor.

New location effective 11/2012. ongoing.

Georgia Equality Savannah

Local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-547-6263. ongoing.

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. Call for location. ongoing. 912-288-7863. heather@ savpride.com. savpride.com.

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Secret Santa

Savannah-Chatham CASA is currently accepting unwrapped holiday gifts at their office for children who have entered the child welfare system after suffering abuse and neglect. The gifts will be delivered to the kids as a special delivery from Santa.

Through Dec. 12. savannahcasa.org/. CASA Savannah-Chatham County, 428 Bull St.

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Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children. Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays.

912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. LGBT

First City Network

A weekly Friday gathering of new moms and their babies. Practice baby & mom yoga, do a planned activity. Dream boards, affirmation writing, personalized aromatherapy and other projects. $20 per session. Six session discount. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Sailing with Santa

Join Santa onboard a riverboat for an hourlong narrated sightseeing cruise. Children sail free with a donation of a new, unwrapped toy to the Salvation Army. $12.95$21.95 Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.. 912-232-6404. savannahriverboat.com. Savannah Riverboat Cruises, 9 East River Street.

Georgia’s oldest LGBT organization (founded in 1985), is a local non-profit community service organization whose mission is to share resources of health care, counseling, education, advocacy and mutual support in the Coastal Empire. Members and guests enjoy many special events throughout the year, including First Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm.

Mondays. 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork. org.

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ARIES

work for you in the future?

Lord Byron (1788-1824) was an English poet who loved animals. In the course of his life, he not only had dogs and cats as pets, but also monkeys, horses, peacocks, geese, a crocodile, a falcon, a crane, and a parrot. When he enrolled in Trinity College at age 17, he was upset that the school’s rules forbade students from having pet dogs, which meant he couldn’t bring his adored Newfoundland dog Boatswain.

There was no regulation, however, against having a tame bear as a pet. So Byron got one and named it Bruin. I think it’s time for you to find a workaround like that, Aries.

Be cunning. Try a gambit or two. Find a loophole.

LEO

(March 21-April 19)

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20)

Whenever I lost one of my baby teeth as a kid, I put it under my pillow before I went to sleep. During the night, the Tooth Fairy sneaked into my room to snatch the tooth, and in its place left me 25 cents. The same crazy thing happened to every kid I knew, although for unknown reasons my friend John always got five dollars for each of his teeth -- far more than the rest of us. I see a metaphorically comparable development in your life, Taurus. It probably won’t involve teeth or a visit from the Tooth Fairy.

Rather, you will finally be compensated for a loss or deprivation or disappearance that you experienced in the past. I expect the restitution will be generous, too -- more like John’s than mine.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20)

Through the scientific magic of grafting, a single tree can be altered to grow several different kinds of fruit at the same time.

One type of “fruit salad tree” produces apricots, nectarines, plums, and peaches, while another bears grapefruits, lemons, oranges, limes, and tangelos. I’m thinking this might be an apt and inspiring symbol for you in the coming months, Gemini.

What multiple blooms will you create on your own metaphorical version of a fruit salad tree?

CANCER

DEC 10-16, 2014

(June 21-July 22)

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No other structure on the planet is longer than the Great Wall of China, which stretches 3,945 miles. It’s not actually one unbroken span, though. Some sections aren’t connected, and there are redundant branches that are roughly parallel to the main structure. It reminds me of your own personal Great Wall, which is monumental yet permeable, strong in some ways but weak in others, daunting to the casual observer but less so to those who take the time to study it. Now is an excellent time to take inventory of that wall of yours. Is it serving you well? Is it keeping out the influences you don’t want but allowing in the influences you do want? Could it use some renovation? Are you willing to reimagine what its purpose is and how you want it to

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(July 23-Aug. 22)

The Arctic Monkeys are British rockers who have produced five studio albums, which together have sold almost five million copies. *Rolling Stone* magazine called their first album, released in 2003, the 30th greatest debut of all time. Yet when they first formed in 2002, none of them could play a musical instrument. I see the current era of your life, Leo, as having a similar potential. How might you start from scratch to create something great?

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician and pioneering computer scientist. After World War II broke out, he got worried that the German army might invade and occupy England, as it had done to France. To protect his financial assets, he converted everything he owned into bars of silver, then buried them underground in the countryside north of London. When the war ended, he decided it was safe to dig up his fortune. Unfortunately, he couldn’t recall where he had put it, and never did find it. Let’s draw a lesson from his experience, Virgo. It’s fine if you want to stash a treasure or protect a secret or safeguard a resource. That’s probably a sensible thing to do right now. But make sure you remember every detail about why and how you’re doing it.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Even if you are not formally enrolled in a course of study or a training program, you are nevertheless being schooled. Maybe you’re not fully conscious of what you have been learning. Maybe your teachers are disguised or unwitting. But I assure you that the universe has been dropping some intense new knowledge on you. The coming week will be an excellent time to become more conscious of the lessons you have been absorbing. If you have intuitions about where this educational drama should go next, be proactive about making that happen.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You now have a special ability to detect transformations that are happening below the threshold of everyone else’s awareness.

Anything that has been hidden or unknown will reveal itself to your gentle probes. You will also be skilled at communicating your discoveries to people who are important to you. Take full advantage of these superpowers. Don’t underestimate how pivotal a role you can play as a teacher, guide, and catalyst. The future success of your collaborative efforts depends on your next moves.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Harper Lee was born and raised in Alabama. At the age of 23, she relocated to New York City with hopes of becoming a

happenings | continued from previous page writer. It was a struggle. To support herself, she worked as a ticket agent for airline companies. Finding the time to develop her craft was difficult. Seven years went by.

Then one Christmas, two friends gave her a remarkable gift: enough money to quit her job and work on her writing for a year.

During that grace period, Lee created the basics for a book that won her a Pulitzer Prize: *To Kill a Mockingbird.* I don’t foresee anything quite as dramatic for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will receive unexpected help that provides you with the slack and spaciousness you need to lay the foundations for a future creation.

Stand Out Youth

CAPRICORN

Retired Armstrong professor Bob Strozier will read Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home for the 25th year. Free and open to the public Sun., Dec. 14, 3 p.m.

Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

In the ancient Greek epic poem the *Odyssey,* Odysseus’s wife Penelope describes two kinds of dreams. “Those that that pass through the gate of ivory,” she says, are deceptive. But dreams that “come forth through the gate of polished horn” tell the truth. Another ancient text echoes these ideas. In his poem the *Aeneid,* Virgil says that “true visions” arrive here from the land of dreams through the gate of horn, whereas “deluding lies” cross over through the gate of ivory. Judging from the current astrological omens, Capricorn, I expect you will have interesting and intense dreams flowing through both the gate of ivory and the gate of horn. Will you be able to tell the difference? Trust love.

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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Your chances of going viral are better than usual. It’s a perfect moment to upload a Youtube video of yourself wearing a crown of black roses and a *V for Vendetta* mask as you ride a unicycle inside a church and sing an uptempo parody version of “O Come All Ye Faithful.” It’s also a favorable time for you to create a buzz for you and your pet causes through less spectacular measures. Promote yourself imaginatively.

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(Feb. 19-March 20)

At age 80, author Joan Didion has published five novels, ten works of non-fiction, and five screenplays. When she was 27, she wrote, “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” That wasn’t a good thing, she added: “We are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.” I recommend her counsel to you in the coming months, Pisces. Get reacquainted with the old selves you have outgrown and abandoned.

A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-6571966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street.

What Makes a Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing. 912-3522611.

Literary Events

Annual Reading of Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/ body.cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Exhibit: Savannah Historical Maps and Prints

A selection of maps and prints from the collection of John and Virginia Duncan, tracing the growth and development of Savannah through the 18th and 19th centuries, on exhibit in celebration of the City of Savannah’s 225th anniversary in 2014.

Free and open to the public. Through Dec. 31. savannahga.gov. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

Lecture: Opher Aviran

Israeli Consulate Ambassador Opher Aviran will speak about the economic ties between Savannah and Israel. Free and open to the public Thu., Dec. 11, 7 p.m.

912-355-8111. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Low Country Sisters in Crime, Inc.

A reading group for lovers of crime fiction, focusing on books and authors. Meets the 2nd Saturday of each month, 10am12pm. Free and open to the public. second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. owcountrysistersincrime.blogspot.com.

Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Nature and Environment

Dolphin Project

Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment.

Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. ongoing. thedolphinproject.org.

Ebenezer Creek Canoe

Canoe on the Ebenezer Creek and learn how the river swamp ecosystem works from a naturalist guide. Fee includes canoe, paddling instruction, and guide.

Reservations are required. $50 Sat., Dec. 13, 8:30 a.m. 912-236-8115. Ebenezer Creek, n/a.

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Fort Pulaski Bird Walk

Members of the Ogeechee Audubon Society lead this park walk to see new and different birds. Meet near the park’s Entrance Station. Sunscreen, insect repellent, binoculars recommended. Free and open to the public. Sat., Dec. 13, 8:30 a.m.

912-786-5787 X114. Joel_Cadoff@nps.gov. nps.gov/fopu/planyourvisit/events.htm.

Fort Pulaski, US Highway 80 E. Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportunity Authority

Support EOA through the FundingFactory Recycling Program. Recycle empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, laptops, to EOA for recycling. They will receive technology products and cash.

Businesses may also recycle items on behalf of EOA for credit. Drop off at EOA, 681 W. Anderson St. See website, email or call for info. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x126. dwproperty@aol.com. fundingfactory.com.

Walk on the Wild Side

A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native animal exhibits. Open daily, 10am4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Call or see website for info. ongoing.

912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Wilderness Southeast

A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115. wilderness-southeast.org.

munity donations. ongoing. chathamsheriff. org. humanesocietysav.org/. Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. St. Almo’s

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St. Religious & Spiritual

Band of Sisters Prayer Group

All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-6638728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom. org/georgia.

A Buddhist Meditation Center

Welcoming all lineages and spiritual traditions. Newcomers to meditation welcome.

Daily meditation, study groups and classes.

Sunday includes a talk given by resident priest on Buddhist philosophy and how it relates to daily life. The center is available for individual and group retreats, weddings and funerals. Visit Savannahzencenter.com for schedule and see us on Facebook. Soto Zen lineage, resident Priest Un Shin Cindy Beach Sensei. 912-427-7265 ongoing. The Savannah Zen Center, 111 E. 34th St.

through production; the ancient town of Bethlehem comes to life with shops and an inn that’s full to capacity. Shepherds find Mary, Joseph and a baby crying softly in a manger in a star-lit stable. $7 - $10 (Children aged 5 and under are free) Wed., Dec. 10, 5-8 p.m., Thu., Dec. 11, 5-8 p.m., Fri., Dec. 12, 5-8 p.m., Sat., Dec. 13, 5-8 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 14, 5-8 p.m. 912-925-9657. info@savannahchristian.com. SCCJourney. com. Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

ers. Second class is studying the movie, “Facing the Giants”, a 2008 American Christian drama centered on faith in our Heavenly Father’s love. Children’s classes are “Growing in Christ” and based on age appropriate lessons about the Gospel.

Our new Two Year Old class incorporates every day events based on “We are in God’s hands.” Free Thursdays, 9:45-10:45 a.m..

912-925-4839. www.trinitylutheransavannah.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St.

Thursdays. 912-826-0206. maritimebethelatsavannah.org. The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road.

A New Church in the City, For the City

Read the Bible in One Year

A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study.

All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm7:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-2335354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. ongoing. 912-308-8286. savbranart@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Reiki Share

During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet via Reiki and other healing modalities. frequently for fun, fellowship and service.

Present at the shares are usually no less Send email or check website to receive than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with announcements of activities and to suggest us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@ month at the Sweet Water Spa in downdiosav.org. diosav.org/familylife-singles.

Pets & Animals town Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Animal Blanket Drive Center for Spiritual Living--Savannah Share or Reiki by Appointment on FaceDonate blankets for the Animal Shelter in All are invited to this Science of Mind book. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. three ways: call 912-658-8299 for a free community. Recognizing the presence and Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street. pickup, take to Animal Control between power of God within, and believing that this Science of Mind Foundations Class A ten-week course for enhancing a spiri1-4:45pm, or drop off the items at one presence is in everything in the universe, tual connection to a Higher Power., and for of three locations - Savannah Veterinary unifying all of life. Welcoming all on their discovering emerging direction and purMedical Center, TailsSpin, or Critter Sit spiritual pathway. Celebration: Sunday pose and how to make it happen. Taught by Doggy Daycare. Through Dec. 22. 912-658- mornings. Location: Bonaventure Chapel, Rev. Wesley, with discussion, sharing and 8299. savannahblanketdrive@gmail.com.

2520 Bonaventure Road. Meditation at learning to grow. $20 each class WednesChatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sal- 10:30am Service at 11:00am Childcare days, 6:30-9:30 p.m.. 912-335-1905. lie Mood Dr. available in the “Funday School” Sundays.

Low Cost Pet Clinic cslsavannah@gmail.org. cslsavannah.org. cslsavannah.org.

TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host Columba House Center for Spiritual Living, 109 E. 52nd Columba House is an inclusive, welcoming Street. low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth hospitality space dedicated to building and Service of Compline A chanted service by candlelight held every sustaining a community of faith commitWednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm.

Sunday night at 9pm. “Say goodnight to Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savan- ted to social justice with the city’s young God.” Presented by Christ Church Angliadults, college students, and creative nah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. demographic. Tuesday evenings 6:30-8pm, can. ongoing. Independent Presbyterian includes dinner and a program focused on Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 HaberSouth Valley Baptist Church justice. All are welcome. Free and open to sham St., Habersham Village.

Operation New Hope the public. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-228- Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, Operation New Hope allows inmates to 9425. Columba House, 34th Street between 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible train unadoptable dogs from the HuStudy/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Abercorn and Lincoln Streets.

Guided Silent Prayer mane Society for Greater Savannah. The Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided goals of the program are to decrease the Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul silent prayer, and minutes to receive recidivism rate among Chatham County at a time.” ongoing.

Sunday School Classes for Adults and Children prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Mont- Classes available for adults and children and help previously unadoptable dogs ages two and up. First adult class is studygomery St. See website for info. ongoing. find loving homes. The graduated dogs ing St. Paul’s Letter to the Christians in vineyardsavannah.org. are available for adoption can be viewed Rome. Law and Gospel are clearly taught PICKThe Journey at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www.

A living theatre illustration of the night to believers - who then can use their chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope knowledge in witnessing to unbelievis funded by the Humane Society and com- Christmas began, in an outdoor walkCatholic Singles

Sundays on Thursdays Worship Service

Tapestry Church

A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here.

From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Theology on Tap

Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where people with different beliefs gather as one faith.

Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-234-0980. admin@ uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. Unity Church of Savannah

Everyone is welcome. Unity of Savannah is not concerned with where people come from, what they look like, or whom they love – Unity is just glad that each person is here. Sunday 9:15am meditative service and 11:00am celebratory service show what the New Thought Movement is all about. Children’s church 11am service.

Sundays. 912-355-4704. unityofsavannah. org. 2320 Sunset Blvd.

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