Connect Savannah January 7, 2015

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ART+TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL / Jan. 21–25 AMAZE YOURSELF!

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Opening Lecture by Video Sculptor Katja Loher and Reception Wednesday, January 21, 6 pm / Jepson Center

Lecture and Dance Performance

by Purring Tiger Thursday, January 22, 6 pm / Jepson Center

Performance by the Medeology Collective Thursday, January 22, 7 pm / Jepson Center

Jan. 21-25, 2015 / FREE!

Performance by Miwa Matreyek and Outdoor Projections by Switzon Wigfall III Friday, January 23, 6 pm / Telfair Academy $5 suggested donation

Free Family Day Saturday, January 24, 1–4 pm / Jepson Center

Visit Telfair.org/Pulse for a full schedule.

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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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Film: The Penthouse (1967, U.K.)

In honor of the birthday of ‘60s and ‘70s British actress Suzy Kendall (who stars in this movie), the Psychotronic Film Society presents an incredibly rare public viewing of the highly sought-after, ahead-of-its time home invasion thriller The Penthouse.

Based on a controversial stage play, this shocking and brutal film caused quite a stir upon its initial release, and has never been officially issued on home video in any format. It is a prized find among collectors of niche movies, and the PFS has finally located an uncut print of the film. The plot concerns a group of thugs who hold captive and terrorize a woman in her chic penthouse apartment - with very unexpected results. Due to the graphic subject matter, it is recommended for mature viewers only.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $7 Mature Viewers Only

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Film: The Babadook Friday / 9

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Ballet: Swan Lake

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Film: The Hobbit: The Battle of Five 11 a.m.

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7 p.m Jennifer Kent's feature debut has received Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. universal critical and commercial praise, $6 winning over twenty festival awards and Lunch'N'Thinc with Justin Sacks nominations.

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State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents Tchaikovsky's full-length ballet in four acts.

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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

Bonaventure After Hours: Stories, Nightfall & More!

Savannah's only after-hours cemetery event, in this riverside Victorian cemetery.

5-8 p.m.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. $35 912-319-5600. info@bonaventurecemetery.com

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9 a.m.-1 p.m Bacon Park, Skidaway Rd. and Bacon Park Dr. 912-651-1967

Dance: Gretchen Greene Company Showcase 2015

Gretchen Greene Company Dancers perform their favorites from the season.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $12 912-525-5050

Eastman Gun Show

Peruse thousands of guns, accessories, and knives from high-quality collectors and dealers.

Jan. 10-11 The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

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Film: The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves.

Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure. and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.

6 & 9 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $6

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Old Time Country Dance

Savannah Folk Society presents this dance with music by Paving Gravy.

7:30 p.m Notre Dame Academy, 1709 Bull St.

Swan Lake

The Lady Chablis

Lady Chablis, star of the film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," performs at Club One. 6:30 p.m Club One, 1 Jefferson St. $25-$55

Sunday / 11 Eastman Gun Show

Peruse thousands of guns, accessories, and knives from high-quality collectors and dealers.

Jan. 10-11 The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

Moonrise Kingdom

The Movies and Meatballs series at the Florence features a different Wes Anderson movie each Sunday.

6 p.m The Florence, 1 West Victory.

Monday / 12 Monday Means Community

Monday Means Community is a collaborative event series presenting speakers, highlighting projects, and encouraging engagement in a casual and focused manner as a means to appreciate the past, as well as to build the bridge into our future.

The newly-formed Port City Alliance hosts speaker City Attorney Brooks Stillwell at its inaugural event.

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

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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

GreenDrinks Savannah

A happy hour networking gathering for folks who want to save the Earth. Second Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm. Location varies monthly. Check the "GreenDrinks Savannah" facebook page. second Tuesday of every month, 5:30 p.m Free to attend. Cash bar.

Heartbeats for Life

Free support and education group for those who have suffered from or want to prevent or reverse heart disease and/or diabetes.

One Tuesday/month, 6pm.

Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public.

912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org

Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey

A poetry and music open mic with an emphasis on sharing new, original, thoughtful work. second Tuesday of every month, 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

wednesday / 14 Film: salute to cult director Larry Clark on his 72nd birthday

The PFS pays tribute to the controversial filmmaker Larry Clark (who directed such provocative films as “Kids” and “Wassup Rockers”) with a “Mystery Screening” of what might be his finest film to date. The exact title of the movie will not be revealed before showtime, so we hope adventurous movie lovers will take a chance, buy a ticket and trust our judgment! This movie caused great uproar when it was initially shown at a small number of international film festivals. As a result of the extreme and ultra-realistic subject matter depicted in the film, no distributor anywhere in the world would agree to release the picture and it essentially vanished without a trace after its brief festival run. The PFS has acquired a complete, uncut print of the film, and will proudly show it - exactly as it was shown to stunned festival crowds. This movie is highly recommended to those who appreciate bold and daring filmmaking and is not recommended for those who are easily offended. Due to the graphic subject matter, it is definitely recommended for mature viewers only.

8 p.m.

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Opening Night

Friday, January 16 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Sylvia Earle and her film Mission Blue

Sylvia Earle will be available for Q & A after the films.

Shark Showcase features Great White Shark

Saturday, January 17 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM Children’s Session

features Winter: The Dolphin That Can, whose story inspired the hit film Dolphin Tale Emerging Filmmakers Showcase and Awards

Afternoon Session

Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Swains Island and Antarctica: On the Edge

Evening Feature

National Geographic’s Deep Sea Challenge: follows James Cameron’s journey deep into the Mariana Trench Q & A with Deep Sea Challenge Expedition Film Director John Bruno

Closing Reception

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7:30 p.m Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $28-$58

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editor’s note

Blueprint for a better Savannah begins now

by Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

I SPENT MUCH OF 2014 calling out and criticizing City government, City leaders, City departments, and those people around town of all backgrounds who sold the citizens and the taxpayers and themselves out to make a buck.

They were my words and ideas, but were really just a reflection of the vast dissatisfaction among our readers with the direction Savannah is moving in, even as the economy steadily improves. (For some, anyway.)

But 2015 is a new year and an entirely new animal. It’s time to get to work.

It’s safe to say that by now nearly every regular reader of this paper is in agreement that City leadership needs a major overhaul of some type in this election year.

We may disagree over the substance of the change necessary, but I suspect very few readers think the status quo is totally acceptable, and that is my premise moving forward into the new year.

In 2015 Connect Savannah will take a role in helping affect the positive change Savannah sorely needs—though as always it’s up to the voters and taxpayers to decide what that change actually needs to look like.

In last week’s column, I proposed that a great way to start is for all of us to put aside the old ways, the old divides, the old partisan tropes and bromides.

Conservatives need to understand and respect that some communities in Savannah have an entirely different relationship with law enforcement and the legal system than

they do, or will ever have.

Liberals need to understand and respect that corruption is corruption and crime is crime no matter who does it, and the drive for social and racial justice isn’t the same as two wrongs making a right.

Both sides—and the people in the middle—all have valid points to make and contributions to offer. No one is completely right, and no one is completely wrong.

We need to take what works from all philosophies, and leave behind what doesn’t.

As part of our 2015 strategizing here, I’ve decided to begin using our popular Blotter feature as an information vector to better document the most pressing daily issue facing our community: out of control aggravated assaults using a firearm.

Among other tweaks, we will use the changing of the calendar as an opportunity to begin a running tally of 2015 homicides in the City of Savannah from Jan. 1, along with a similar tally on which cases have been solved and which still have suspects at large.

The intent is not to bash police, or sensationalize the crimes, or demonize responsible gun owners.

The intent is really the opposite: to put the shootings in perspective, to highlight efforts by police to solve the crimes, and to highlight the obstacles police face in getting criminals off the street and prosecuted and convicted by the legal system.

And yes, to highlight the constant and growing need for present and future leaders of Savannah to address the crime issue in whatever ways will get results.

Whenever a victim is protected, saved, or found unharmed, or whenever police make an arrest in a shooting, we will highlight those positive developments as well as the deaths and unsolved murders and suspects still at large.

Again: Our intent isn’t to bash police for not doing enough to solve crime.

Savannah/Chatham Metropolitan Police have had a very rough few years, with a former chief facing federal prison time along with massive top-level corruption.

The department faces some more tough years if the likely breakup of the City/ County police merger happens as expected.

There is no doubt in my mind that much of that police corruption directly enabled today’s violent, lawless environment to thrive on the streets of Savannah.

But many of those corrupt officers are gone now. There’s a new chief in town and a new direction in crimefighting.

Whether new Chief Joseph Lumpkin has what it takes to make things better remains to be seen, but the stakes are too high not to give him the full benefit of the doubt. And speaking for myself, I certainly like most everything I’ve seen so far.

In political news for 2015, there are several new-ish local groups seeking to organize for change at the ballot box this November.

Expect to read more about them here in the coming months.

We’ve never explicitly endorsed political candidates at Connect, mostly because we trust our readers to come to their own individual conclusions as free citizens with intact critical thinking skills (and also because formal media endorsements are essentially obsolete, even counterproductive, in today’s more empowered and egalitarian social media environment).

But rest assured: We support positive change and open, responsible government and will do everything we can within the bounds of journalistic objectivity and reasoned debate to keep those paths open for Savannah. cs

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news & Opinion | The (Civil) Society Column

Shouts from the underground resembled a cross between an 18th-century political pamphlet and a Grateful Dead poster.

IN A WAY, 1970 Unafraid to confront the status quo with seems like a million gleeful sedition, its founders thumbed their years ago, ancient hisnoses at threats from the KKK and a city tory, even: plot to plant drugs in their office.

Gas cost 36 cents a They sold their papers illegally, declaring gallon, and a postage a Free Speech Zone at the corner of Vicstamp was six cents. tory and Bee Road (right across the street Richard Nixon hadn’t yet disgraced the from the current Connect offices. Coincipresidency, and Neil Armstrong’s footprint dence or conspiracy?) on the moon was a brand-new marvel.

“The potential for change was so great, The country aggrandized its economic and we reveled in being rebels,” recalled and industrial accomplishments, but it Strong—who grew up to become Will was also a year of outrage and sadness: instead of Billy—at a packed Sentient Enmeshed in Vietnam, U.S. troops invaded Bean last Saturday during a reunion for Cambodia.

Albion’s Voice contributors.

The revelry was short-lived, however: The National Guard shot and killed four After Albion’s Voice published an article student anti-war protestors at Kent State. about Union Camp’s horrific pollutJimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both O.D.’d. ing practices, the college’s administration By then Savannah had made it through kicked the paper off campus, forcing it to the Civil Rights Movement with remarkable go truly underground—or rather, into the unity and minimal drama. But macro social and environmental shifts still eluded the city living room of English professor James in 1970, as city leaders doggedly resisted Land Jones.

Strong and his crew of subversive rabschool desegregation and begrudgingly built blerousers managed to publish a few more a sewage treatment plant only after repeated issues, but it was hard to find sympathetic threats from the State Water Board. advertisers (shocker!) to pay for print costs.

“The ‘60s came to Savannah in the ‘70s,” The last edition—and its first annual drily notes lifelong activist Tom Kohler, a student at Armstrong University—then Will Strong (l.) and his Armstrong college buddy Otis Johnson reunited to celebrate Save the World issue—dropped the same Armstrong State College—that same year. year.

Albion’s Voice, the underground newspaper Strong started in 1970.

The fact that the counterculture made it “Obviously, the time isn’t right for Savannah to have this kind of paper,” lamented to Savannah at all may well be attributed to something happening here, though just what the scourges of racism, women’s inequalwasn’t exactly clear. ity, environmental degradation, unchecked Strong in his last editorial. a kid named Bill Strong, who had traveled The doors of perception unfogged in capitalism, gay bashing, police brutality and Forty-five years later, in a strange turn to San Francisco and maybe inhaled at People’s Park in Berkeley and saw that America 1970, when Strong got his hands on a $750 other topics that the self-proclaimed decent that would’ve seemed inconceivable and folk hoped to suppress and ignore. probably a total sellout back then, all six was on the brink of cultural and sociopoliti- grant to start a literary publication at Armstrong. He and a handful of like-minded With a handwritten aesthetic and scis- issues of Albion’s Voice have now been cal revolt.

The Southern son returned to Savannah bohemian weirdos launched Albion’s Voice, sor-cut graphics from William Blake’s The archived at Armstrong’s Lane Library.

Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Albion’s Voice a long-haired hippie freak, determined to get an underground newspaper that attacked

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“As far as we know, this is the only complete set in existence,” said Special Collections librarian Caroline Hopkinson, who digitized the collection.

Hopkinson emphasizes that the pirate paper’s preservation was made possible by Armstrong history professor Mark Finlay, who rediscovered Albion’s Voice while researching environmental activism in Savannah. Dr. Finlay had pushed for its proper recognition for years before he died tragically in a car accident in 2013.

Faculty sympathizer Jones is gone, too— murdered in the late 80s—and his partner Jack Miller donated the collection from his personal belongings. Also commemorated at the reunion was Aaron Buchsbaum, the beloved local civil rights attorney who passed away earlier this year and, according to Strong, spent much of 1970 bailing kids out of jail for selling Albion’s Voice on Savannah’s streets.

In the first week of 2015, more than 100 people paid homage to the little liberal rag that shook its fist at the Man: Student firebrand and immigration advocate Elly Marisol Estrada addressed the subjugation of women then and now, and Armstrong alum Mickey Youmans quoted an article about the industrial wasteland of the Savannah River that sounded like it could have been written last month. (Oh wait, it was.)

Jim Reed delivered a truly memorable reading on the perceived sexuality of black men, cheekily written by none other than the Rev. Leonard Small, another longtime apostle in the ranks of Savannah’s community activism. Information architect Brittany Curry chronicled the ‘zine’s history in a spray of colorful markings.

Big applause came when former mayor

Otis Johnson, Armstrong’s first black student and an icon of Savannah’s Civil Rights movement, called for a rebirth of the movement that demanded social change through a vocal free press.

“I still believe in America’s unfulfilled promise of freedom, justice and equality for all,” he vowed.

I think most of us do.

And since you’re reading this, you probably also dig the idea of a publication that questions mainstream authority and tries to present alternative viewpoints.

Yet audacious editorials only go so far.

“Underground newspapers can serve as a weathervane,” reminded Strong.

“But they can’t create a revolution.”

Dude, tell me about it.

As someone who’s been shout-writing about injustice and ineptitude for 20 years at free newspapers, I have yet to instigate a single riot.

‘Information architect’ Brittany Curry chronicled the ‘zine’s history.

We might think of 1970 as the olden days, but in 2015 we’re still writing but the future of the river and the schools about the same goddamn problems: Endless and the job market look as bleak as they did war. Police brutality. Protests in the streets. when the Albion’s Voice kids wrapped the Racial and socioeconomic disparity.

Confederate Memorial in Forsyth Park with The Port of Savannah may have grown protest signs (Savannah’s first yarnbomb?!) and the hotels on River Street gotten taller,

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Yet somehow, this city has managed to support Connect for over 15 years, and though any alternative press must now compete with cat videos and listicles about celebrity boob jobs, the legacy of Albion’s Voice is the stubborn belief that the “potential for change” that bubbled up in the 1960s will one day be permanently activated.

That, of course, will require action: A new project by Emergent Savannah is asking every one of us two questions over the next few weeks: What do you love about Savannah? What do you dream for Savannah?

Post your answers at the Sentient Bean (that bastion of rebellion!) through January, after which they’ll be collated into a collective vision and a strategic plan for the city we want to create.

We don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, friends—but we do need to get our heads out of the 1970s.

And to fulfill the promise of liberty and justice for all, we have to show up for the revolution. cs Read all six issues of Albion’s Voice at library.armstrong.edu/speccoll.html

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News &Opinion | community “She wants people to appreciate what it’s like being on an island that isn’t lit up, that doesn’t sell real estate, where you can’t play golf,” Fishman says. “That’s the legacy that she wants to leave.”

Fishman began a friendship with West when the islander was a spry 89 years old.

She started taking notes and asking questions. What emerged is a humorous, witty and engaging book about West and her memories.

“It’s really a story of her stories,” Fishman says.

Like when West met Salvador Dali in an elevator. Or when Johnny Mercer told West her hairline “had rhythm.”

And all throughout, West’s flowery language just palpitates this writer’s heart.

She “tizzies up” when she cleans for guests. The “big pumpkins” are the important people. Her “pins are wobbly” when her legs fail her. And on and on.

Much of that language goes back to West’s parents.

“They were people who talked to one another,” Fishman says. “They had parties.

When Sandy’s parents went to Ossabaw for the winter, trying to escape the northern winters, they brought down all their fine silver and china.”

And their 18 staff members! Cue Downton Abbey theme.

But West lost much of that wealth in the 1960’s and 1970’s when she ran a pair of programs, the Ossabaw Island and Genesis Projects, aimed at sparking creativity and changing lives.

She has no regrets about losing (more like, sharing) her inheritance.

“That’s the beautiful thing about this woman,” Fishman says. “She had a vision of how she wanted this island to be preserved.

She says many times, ‘Oh, mother would have a cow if she saw how I was dressed or if she saw what I was doing now.’”

This voice – especially West’s cadence – Fishman uncannily captures in her book and on my podcast. She treats her subject with laughter and wonderment.

And by all accounts, that’s exactly how West treats those around her.

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Talking about…

Sandy West

Jane Fishman’s new book is about the matriarch of Ossabaw

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I can only hope Savannah writer Jane Fishman is right about how Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West has lived so long.

West, the matriarch of Ossabaw Island, is a few days shy of her 102nd birthday. And she’s still asking questions.

“It’s her curiosity and her interest in other people,” Fishman says.

And if that alone does it, then Fishman and I, both interviewers of long stature here, are both in for long lives. Of course, longevity also could be a divine gift for a landmark figure in Georgia history.

Fishman writes about West in her new book, The Woman Who Saved an Island.

“She’s a hero,” Fishman says. “She’s somebody who stands up to the prevailing opinion in the world.”

Back in the 1970’s, West was a riches-torags heiress who owned a 40-square-mile private island near Savannah. Only the Michigander couldn’t afford to keep the retreat that her parents left her. So potential buyers came knocking, including real estate developers and the super rich.

“There was a man representing Aristotle Onassis and Jackie Kennedy who wanted to buy the island, sight unseen,” Fishman says.

West could have sold Ossabaw to the highest bidder. But her single greatest contribution to Georgia was turning away all comers until an agreement could be reached to protect the island’s natural and cultural heritage forever.

And Greek shipping magnates just didn’t cut it.

Sandy West in her element on Ossabaw Island; author Jane Fishman sits in the background. Photo courtesy Jane Fishman “Her lawyer said, ‘Can’t you just pretend, so I can meet Jackie Kennedy?’” Fishman says. “And she said, ‘No, I will not do that!’”

Thanks to West, Ossabaw Island became the state’s first heritage preserve in 1978.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources manages the island for scientific and cultural research and environmental preservation.

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Forsyth Farmers’ Market, at the south end of Forsyth Park, is open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. SNAP dollars are doubled at the market. The FFM Bring It Home initiative combines activity at the park with cooking demonstrations and information about how to use nutritious food as a way to prevent chronic disease.

Learn more by contacting teri@forsythfarmersmarket.com.

Helen Fields of Joseph Fields Farm has a welcome smile for everyone who visits her display of organic produce at Forsyth Farmers’ Market.

Visiting Forsyth Farmers’ Market is a family outing for Stephanie, Lee, and young Ryan Davis. They buy fresh, healthy ingredients and enjoy the friendly, social atmosphere created

by Savannah residents and visitors of all ages.

Saturdays in the park with your farmer Forsyth Farmers Market is the place for fresh food and fresh air

By Jan McIntire with Teri Schell

JAN 7-13, 2015

Visit the south end of Forsyth Park on a Saturday morning – yes, even in the winter – and you’ll find an array of tents, booths, and stands with eye-popping displays that include vegetables, greens, pastured meats, honey, breads, and many other healthy and delicious ingredients for any meal.

Forsyth Farmers’ Market (FFM), a 501c3 nonprofit, organizes the weekly event. We spoke to Teri Schell, executive director FFM and one of its founders, to find out more about the market and the people who make it happen.

Forsyth Farmers’ Market, located at the south end of Forsyth Park, is open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. SNAP dollars are doubled at the market. The FFM Bring It Home initiative combines activity at the park with cooking demonstrations and information about how to use nutritious food as a way to prevent chronic disease.

Learn more by contacting teri@forsythfarmersmarket.com.

CRISP: What makes FFM important to

Savannah?

Teri: FFM is a community effort to help

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food comes from, how it was grown, who did the growing, and why it is healthy. At FFM, you can actually talk to the person who harvested the lettuce you’re going to eat. We know that straightforward connection matters to people. It matters to us, too.

growing up and growing food. During the collection process, we discovered there are so many wonderful and inspiring stories, that we’re already working on a second book.

We’re happy to accept stories and volunteers for this project.

CRISP: FFM goes beyond the market to

CRISP: What would you like more people

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to know about FFM?

Teri: We’d like to get the word out to more

CRISP: Why aren’t there more types of

items for sale at FFM?

Teri: We only accept food vendors at FFM

because our mission is to support a local healthy food system. That means giving all our time and attention to the farmers who bring their food to FFM. Many have been participating since we started the market in 2009. They’re not just our farmers, they’re our friends, and we hope Savannah residents and visitors will get to know them, too.

people that FFM is a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) redempTeri: You can think of Mixed Greens as our tion site and that we double SNAP dollars CRISP: Friendly people. Quality food. Fun! outreach group. The group works together thanks to our partnership with Wholesome Visit the Forsyth Farmers Market soon to support FFM with projects and learning Wave Georgia. Two for one is a great way to for a fresh taste of Savannah! opportunities. Mixed Greens is supported stretch the family food budget. by the Georgia Council on Developmental Another FFM activity that we’re parTeri Schell is executive director of Forsyth Farmers’ Disabilities Real Communities initiative and ticularly proud of is the health screenings Market and one of its founders. She also serves as a provides connection and collaboration for provided by Mercer University School of community builder for the Georgia Council on Developpeople with and without disabilities.

Medicine. Those take place nine months mental Disabilities and is on the executive commitOn second Saturdays at FFM, the Mixed of the year and provide our customers with tee of the Savannah Chatham Food Policy Council.

Greens team members invite kids to plant baseline health data and nutritional advice.

Communication professional Jan McIntire is CRI Senior seeds in the Little Green Wagon at the main Advisor for Outreach and a self-proclaimed evangelist FFM booth. The Mixed Greens care for the for healthy living. plants during the week, and on Saturdays, the young planters can visit their plants and check on them.

Have you ever wanted to start a garden?

The Forsyth Farmers’ Almanac is one of Join us! Saturday, January 10 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. my favorite projects. We originally thought Trustees’ Garden, southeast corner of East Bay and East Broad it would be a one-time effort to collect stoQuestions? Call 912-443-3264 or email ries and photos about people’s experiences CRI@canyonranchinstitute.org

news & Opinion | blotter 2015 Homicides (through Sun. Jan. 4): 2 1 solved (shooter committed suicide) 1 person of interest surrendered

2015’s first recorded homicide occurs during ‘murder/suicide’

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two people in a domestic situation New Year’s Day, which they term a “murder/suicide.”

Bera Elaine Ribel, 60, and Ramon Anthony Mooney, 48, of Rincon, were found dead in her Estill Hammock Road residence on Tybee Island at about 10:20 p.m. Jan. 1.

“Neighbors alerted police after responding to a request from a Ribel family member to check on the woman,” police say. “The two had been involved in a relationship that recently ended.”

The site of the murder is within the jurisdiction of the Islands Precinct of Savannah/ Chatham Metro PD. Tybee Police were a supporting agency in responding to the incident.

One dead, four injured on West 54th; person of interest surrendered

2015’s second reported homicide happened during a shooting on West 54th St. in the very early morning hours of Friday, Jan. 2.

Later that Friday, a “person of interest turned himself into Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police, after an early morning domestic incident ended in a violent shooting,” police say.

The shooting took place at an apartment on the 500 block of West 54th Street, “after the two male combatants arrived separately, but within a short a time span.”

Randolph Scott, 28, died at the scene.

Transported to Memorial University Medical Center with what are believed to be non-life threatening wounds were Nylante Santiago, 2; Alex Collins, 8; Watea Smiley, 28; and Marisol Akin, 28. “ All participants are related,” police say.

Reportedly, “shots were fired during an argument between both men,” police say.

Police didn’t immediately reveal the name of the person of interest who surrendered.

and driving away.”

“The victim managed to safely escape A 16-year-old girl was the vehicle once taken “hostage” during a carAdside passed out jacking late New Year’s Eve/ behind the steering early New Year’s Day. wheel,” police say.

The silver 2015 Nissan Metro recovered Altima sedan with Georgia the Jeep with Adside tag PWA 9410 was taken in still passed out inside, a “carjacking about 4 a.m. by parked at a gas starged cha ide Troyozzie Ads a black male in his early 30s tion on Ogeechee ing app with kidn wearing black cargo pants Road. A firearm was and black shirt with a brown recovered, and the jacket,” police say. victim was located nearby.

The passenger, Desiree “Desi” Jewel Noonan, 16, was found “safe and Hit & run kills man; driver at large unharmed” on Montgomery Street about Detectives are searching for a truck that 7:45 a.m. struck and killed Florida man Peter Meyers, 72, as he tried to cross Abercorn Street Kidnapper arrested; victim safe Sunday night. They seek a 1999 or 2000 On New Year’s Day, police arrested a Chevrolet Silverado, Tahoe or Suburban Savannah man after a domestic incident with front end damage on the right side. involving a gun discharge and kidnapping.

Due to the nature of the investigation, this Just after 5 p.m., Metro responded to a isn’t listed as a homicide as of now. cs residence on the 1300 block of E. 31st St. All cases from recent local law Officers learned that Troyozzie Adside, enforcement incident reports. Give 24, “fired a gun inside the house he shared anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers with his 25-year-old girlfriend, before at 912/234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) forcing her into her 1998 Jeep Cherokee using keyword CSTOP2020.

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REUSE, SAVE THE EARTH AND GET CAFFEINATED!

Did the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico really cause any lasting environmental damage? Or did the environment just kind of take it in stride? —Jim Huff YOU KNOW the old saying: Don’t cry over spilled oil—at least not if you’re getting billions in damages to make up for it. These things are bound to happen, right? A couple CEOs get fired, the president shakes his head disappointedly, and we’re a little short on Bayou shrimp for a year or so.

But before long someone drops a bomb on someone else, or someone new turns up naked on the cover of something. Twentyeight billion-plus in clean-up costs later and we can’t help but turn our eyes to more pressing matters.

In all honesty, though, you ask a fair question. Two hundred million gallons of crude oil gushed out into the Gulf of Mexico over the three months following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010—19 times the official volume figure for the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989—and then another two million gallons of chemical dispersants were pumped in to break up the slicks.

President Obama called it a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.”

Despite all this, the surface-level answer is that things are better than one might have feared: humans, sea creatures, and BP alike have all seemingly recovered. The entire state of Louisiana wasn’t classified as a

biohazard, and not all the dolphins died.

But the consequences aren’t entirely dismissible, and the worst damage is often the hardest to quantify. It’s only been four and a half years, after all; some effects might not show up for decades.

Part of the reason things look so peachy is that the spill originated 50 miles offshore—oil didn’t penetrate much more than a few yards past the shoreline. What oil did manage to get that far was extensively weathered, meaning it had lost most of its volatile organic hydrocarbons, and with them a lot of capacity for damage.

As a result, marine life closer to shore fared surprisingly well. Crab and shrimp were found to have three times as many deep lesions as before the spill, but fortunately they have an admirable reproductive instinct and their numbers rebounded to pre-spill levels very quickly. Fish were discovered with similar lesions, but these decreased by more than half after two years.

But, much like when the dog pees on your kid’s bed instead of yours, just because the damage isn’t front and center doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Promising population totals notwithstanding, there’s plenty of evidence to keep both the environmentalists and the fishing industry awake at night.

Various heavy metals contained in oil from the spill have been accumulating in the flesh of the gulf ’s sperm whales ever since. Among these, nickel and chromium in particular are carcinogenic (some dispersant ingredients may be too), which could lead to mutations and resulting long-term impact on the ecosystem. Fish near the site have shown evidence of DNA damage, and studies suggest exposure to oil-spill hydrocarbons would likely cause heart defects in developing tuna, swordfish, and other large predator fish, limiting their ability to hunt for food.

Something like 200,000 to 700,000 birds have died thus far following contact with oil; it’ll probably wind up being a million eventually. Dispersant chemicals were found in

pelican eggs in Minnesota (where the birds migrate to) two years after the spill. And finally, the mammals: while only around 100 whale and dolphin carcasses were found in the months immediately following the spill, estimated historical carcass-to-death ratios suggest that 50 times as many may actually have died.

Dolphins in the areas hit hardest with oil showed numerous health problems, with nearly half expected to die.

The impact on human mammals isn’t so clear either. Leaving aside the eleven oil-rig workers killed on the day of the explosion, a study of 117 people involved in the cleanup found changes in their blood chemistry and levels of liver enzymes; they also reported a variety of chronic conditions like headaches, rashes, and shortness of breath.

Health surveys showed that alcohol and illegal drug use increased among residents in affected counties, with the most psychological stress on fishers and coastal dwellers.

Overall, however, spill-specific results were difficult to distinguish from lingering traumatic effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

It’s been a tough decade on the Gulf Coast.

If you’re still inclined to conclude that Obama’s a dirty liar (The environment’s fine!

And these shrimp are terrific!), consider this: the 2010 spill was enormous, but only 8 percent of the total oil making its way into North American oceans each year comes from pipeline spills.

The fact the environment recovered to the extent that it did is impressive, but this spill was just one of many factors contributing to to the ongoing damage of the marine habitat. Maybe in 20 years our waters will be full of three-eyed mutant fish, maybe not.

We can predict with some confidence that however apocalyptic the future scenario, the Deepwater Horizon spill was probably a contributor. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com

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Richard Rosario is in year 18 of a 25-tolife sentence for murder, even though 13 alibi witnesses have tried to tell authorities that he was with them — 1,000 miles away — at the time of the crime. (Among the 13 are a sheriff ’s deputy, a pastor and a federal corrections officer.) The “evidence” against him: Two “eyewitnesses” in New York City had picked him out of a mugshot book.

Rosario had given police names, addresses and phone numbers of the 13 people in Florida, but so far, everyone (except NBC’s “Dateline”) has ignored the list, including Rosario’s court-appointed lawyers. As is often the case, appeals court judges (state and federal) have trusted the eyewitnesses and the “process.” (In November, “Dateline” located nine of the 13, who are still positive Rosario was in Deltona, Florida, on the day of the murder.)

Questionable Judgments

• Pastor Walter Houston of the Fourth Missionary Church in Houston repeatedly refused in November to conduct a funeral for longtime member Olivia Blair, who died recently at age 93 — because she had come upon hard times in the last 10 years and had not paid her tithe. Ms. Blair’s family had supported the church for 50 years, but Pastor Houston was defiant, explaining, “Membership has its privileges.” (The family finally found another church for the funeral.)

• A U.S. Appeals Court once again in September instructed government agencies that it is unconstitutional to make routine business-inspection raids without a judicial warrant. “We hope that the third time will be the charm,” wrote Judge Robin Rosenbaum. In the present case, the court denounced the full-dress SWAT raid in 2010 of the Strictly Skillz barbershop in Orange County, Florida, for “barbering” without a license. (All certificates were found to be up-to-date, and in fact, the raiding agency had verified the licenses in a walk-through two days before.)

The Continuing Crisis

• Disappointed: (1) Cornelius Jefferson, 33, was arrested for assaulting a woman in Laurel County, Kentucky, in October after he had moved there from Georgia to be with her following an online relationship.

Jefferson explained that he was frustrated The two are still subject to fines and restituthat the woman was not “like she was on tion, but have been returned to administrathe Internet.” (2) In November, an unnamed tive duty. groom in Medina, Saudi Arabia, leaped to his feet at the close of the wedding, shocked Ironies at his first glimpse of his new bride with (1) In October, Reynolds American Inc., her veil pulled back. Said he (according to whose iconic product is Camel cigarettes, the daily Okaz), “You are not announced it would ban the girl I had imagined. I am employees at its North sorry, but I divorce you.”

Carolina headquarters • The recovery rate is from smoking in the about 70 percent for the offices, relegating them to Roll (over) 1,200 injured birds brought special smokers’ rooms. for treatment each year to (Critics of the company tide! the Brinzal owl-rescue park noted that Reynolds has near Madrid, Spain — with for years staunchly denied acupuncture as the center’s that “secondary smoke” is specialty treatment. Brinzal dangerous.) (2) In Sepprovides “physical and psytember, Guinter Kahn, the chological rehabilitation” so South Florida dermatolothat eagle owls, tawny owls gist who developed minand the rest can return to the oxidil (the hair-restoring wild, avoiding predators by ingredient in Rogaine), being taught, through recordpassed away at age 80. Dr. ings of various wild screeches, Kahn himself had noticewhich animals are enemies. However, the able hair loss, but was allergic to minoxidil. signature therapy remains the 10 weekly pressure-point sessions of acupuncture.

Scenes (1) The owner of a wine shop in HighSuspicions Confirmed gate, England, said the thief who robbed • Even though one state requires 400 him in September somehow placed him in hours’ training just to become a professional a trance so the man could pick his pockets manicurist, for instance, most states do not — and then, brushing past him on his way demand nearly such effort to become armed out, the man brought the shop owner out of security guards, according to a CNN/ the trance. Victim Aftab Haider, 56, pointed Center for Investigative Reporting analysis to surveillance video showing him staring released in December. Fifteen states require vacantly during the several seconds in which no firearms training at all; 46 ignore mental his wallet was being lifted from his trousers. health status; nine do not check the FBI’s (2) In October in Scotland’s Perth Shercriminal background database; and 27 states iff Court, Paul Coombs was sentenced to fail to ascertain whether an applicant is 14 months in jail for a June home invasion banned by federal law from even carrying a in which accomplices conveyed Coombs’ gun. (After an ugly incident in Arizona in threats to the resident because Coombs which a juvenile gun offender was hired as a himself is deaf and does not speak. guard, the state added a box on its form for applicants to “self-report” the federal ban — People Different From Us but still refuses to use the FBI database.)

Cry for Help: Calvin Nicol, 31, com• Two high-ranking Hollywood, Florida, plained that he was obviously the victim police officers were absolved of criminal of a “hate crime” when thugs beat him wrongdoing recently even though they had up in Ottawa, Ontario, on Nov. 1 — just intentionally deleted their colleagues’ names because he is intensely tattooed and pierced, from Internal Affairs investigative records. with black-inked eyes, a split tongue and Assistant Chief Ken Haberland and Maj. implanted silicone horns on his forehead.

Norris Redding somehow convinced prose- (Though “hate” may have been involved, so cutors that they were unaware the files were far “body modification” is not usually cov“public records” that should not be altered. ered in anti-discrimination laws. However,

Nicol suggested one legal angle when he explained that “piercing myself and changing my appearance, and making me look like the person I want to look like is almost a religious experience to me.”)

Least Competent Criminals

(1) Three women, whose ages ranged from 24 to 41, were charged with larceny on Black Friday in Hadley, Massachusetts, when they were caught in the Wal-Mart parking lot loaded down with about $2,700 worth of allegedly shoplifted goods. The women had moments earlier begged a WalMart employee for help getting into their car — because they had locked themselves out. (2) Michael Rochefort, 38, and Daniel Gargiulo, 39, were merely burglary suspects in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sept.

25, but sheriff ’s deputies’ case against them soon strengthened. While being detained in the back seat of a patrol car (and despite a video camera pointed at them), they conversed uninhibitedly about getting their alibis straight.

Recurring Themes

In December, Florine Brown, 29, finally accepted removal, by the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, of the estimated 300 rats, grown from her initial three, inhabiting her house (with the familiar droppings and smell). “I just want them to go to good homes,” she said, comforted that a local rat “shelter” would take them in temporarily.

“I really depended on the rats to get me by (bouts of depression).” (It turns out ratremoval is a slow process, since they hide. It took several days even to trap the first 70.)

A News of the Weird Classic (April 2011)

The long-standing springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March (2011) CNN dispatch. Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about 23 cents each. Many residents consider the tradition gross, but for devotees, it represents, as one said, “the (joyous) smell of spring.” cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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Music | HOUSE OF GUNT

A new year for drag collective House of Gunt

By Anna Chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

JAN 7-13, 2015

IT’S NEW YEAR’S EVE, and Max Arnzen is carefully shaving off the top of a purple Elmer’s gluestick with a dinner knife, sweeping the tacky stuff over his eyebrows. He works quickly and

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meticulously, brushing over the school-supply base with a light powder.

The roar of a hairdryer locks it in, heating the glue through the powder to smooth and set.

Arnzen’s Influenza Mueller, alongside House of Gunt collaborator Anita Shavé (currently adhering glitter to her beard), are about to bid farewell to a whirlwind 2014 and welcome a new year for the drag collective.

Performers Raine Raine and Toyota Mitsubishi join us around Arnzen’s dining room table, which is covered in a multitude of makeup palettes, brushes, and supplies, to take a look back at the House’s successful 2014 and their Jinx debut.

House of Gunt is still young, but the troupe (now roughly 16 members strong) has grown beyond what any of the founding performers could imagine.

“Patrick [House of Gunt’s “Soccer Mom”] and I had thrown around the idea of drag, but never took it seriously,” co-founder Arnzen explains.

While checking out the drag scene in New York, they encountered a “very beautiful, Marilyn Monroe-looking queen,” Arnzen remembers. “ This Monroe, however, just happened to be covered in tattoos and flaunting exposed chest hair. It was the lightbulb moment.

“They were embodying a different form of femininity,” describes Arnzen. “They’re That’s Anita Shavé’s famous glitter beard in feeling it; they’re not necessarily flawless, all its glistening glory; for Toyota Mitsubiin a way. We started to see all these differshi, two, three, dozens of [doll] heads are ent drag queens who are screwing with all better than one. Photo by Dave Spangenburg the stereotypes, and we were like, ‘We can totally do this in Savannah.”

Founded in late 2013, The House of Gunt is a collective, a movement: it’s a band of performers – many of whom began as amateurs – dedicated to subverting the subversive. ”We all know our herstory,” Arnzen says.

“Drag isn’t totally new in itself. We’re trying to jolt this community that’s already used to gender performance.”

The feminine ideal that defines a lot of drag ain’t a priority around here. Chest hair proudly peeks out of skin-tight tops. Green locks frame coordinating eyebrows and manicured moustaches; beards are tangled in glitter and confetti.

“The initial thing was just being allowed to be insecure about the way you look and celebrate that,” says Arnzen. “Our biggest hurdle is, you want to shock people who are used to seeing men in wigs and heels. You know you’re going to have people who say, ‘Oh, that’s not a drag queen.’ If that’s the thing that bothers people the most, so be it.”

Perhaps their most brazen move?

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“One of the biggest things was like, hey, we got a real woman!” says Arnzen, smiling over at Raine. “Deal with that! How you gonna wrap your mind around that?!”

“It’s a good question – and one you should keep asking people,” Raine says sagely.

Instead of being adopted by a Drag Mama, as is tradition in many circles, most Gunties learned (and continue to learn) about costuming and performance through Internet culture.

“We’re getting all our cues from scrolling through Tumblr and learning that way,” says Arzen.

Of course, they also have formed a family, learning from each other every step of the way (and sometimes researching a particular eyebrow tutorial on YouTube together).

It makes the name of their latest show, #BLESS: A Transdenominational Experience, all the more relevant. The plan is to convert The Jinx, perhaps the largest venue they’ve performed in, into a megachurch.

“The idea is, we’re welcoming all different kinds of church activities,” says Arnzen.

“There’s a cult, Satanism, there’s good ol’ Christian values onstage. There’s all these sort of different ideas, and I think that’s why the hashtag works. If you open up a hashtag, you get all these different results from all over the world. It’s sort of this weird democratization.”

As for the “transdenominational experience: “I read that on a truck stop poster,” Arnzen laughs. “You can go to church when you’re pulling over on the side of the road, and the word they had to describe it was

‘transdenominational,’ which I thought was really cool.”

Arnzen’s occasional character, Appalachia Judd, will make an appearance (she was banned from her megachurch and is trying to make right); she’ll open in prayer and serenade the crowd with an original song: “What If Gunt Was One of Us?” Shavé pays tribute to a classic Fundamentalist episode of Wife Swap. The newest Gunt member, Inertia Bazaar, will be indoctrinated into the collective by baptism. Plus, two of Atlanta’s Village Queens are trekking down for the event.

Arnzen notes that #BLESS isn’t complete irreverence: “We really are happy, and blessed, that Gunt has survived so long,” he says. “’It’s been over a year now, so I think that’s something to be happy about.”

“I mean, I don’t know if I thought there was a future,” Mitsubishi says. “We did a house show, and then the next show was at a bar, and we were like, ‘This is real?!’”

“Back then, we were doing it without any expectations,” adds Arnzen. “I was wrapped in a shower curtain and had chocolate syrup and we were like, ‘Oh, who cares?’ We didn’t really think what was going on. Just like, ‘We’re here!’ We pretended like it was our house.”

Thoughout the collective’s growth, House of Gunt has made a point to not lose that spark of spontaneity and improvisation.

“It’s really less about choreography,” Raine explains. “You get onstage, and you end up doing whatever is happening in that moment in your head – it’s way more entertaining for me.”

“Interacting with the crowd is really important,” adds Mitsubishi. “Sometimes I’ll plan something and get onstage and say, ‘forget it, it doesn’t even matter.’”

Improvisation is sure to define their newest endeavor: Drag Brunch at Ampersand, which starts Sunday, January 11.

The restaurant/bar posed the concept of Drag Brunch, but the Gunts fill in the details, maintaining artistic command over the event. And the House wouldn’t have it any other way.

“That’s kind of the deal breaker for us,” Arnzen says. “If any place wants us to sign a contract – say no. We take a lot of pleasure in being able to go where we want to go.”

With that kind of brazenness and bond, there really isn’t anywhere they can’t go. CS

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Kickstarter-funded van – they’ve taken live painter Lauren Schwind and Savannah projectionist Planetary Projections along for Since November, Savannah psych the ride to create inspired, colorful ambience renegades Omingnome have been on the while the band performs. road in Phase One of their Year of Healing The Gnomes have made a point of stopTour: The Caterpillar Phase. ping to take in the sites and natural beauty Their six – week tour has taken them all on their trip, camping and exploring along across the US, from skyscraper-lined metro the road. streets to open desert to the glitz of Vegas to “In Sedona, we went on a hike,” they the humble quiet of small, suburban towns. shared. “There are different energy vortexes It’s not just the gnomes crammed into the around the area that have certain magnetic

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pulls when you’re hiking; they’re really beautiful.”

This was a first trip west for many of the East Coast natives. Even the nights have been enchanting experiences.

“You could see the creaminess of the Milky Way galaxy,” the band excitedly told us of their stop in the Mojave Desert. “Just a blur of light and million stars.”

“We are lucky to have such a magical group of people,” the Gnomes share. “Everyone is loving and caring and some of the

easiest people to get along with – but we surely have learned how real you have to be with each other to keep things healthy. If you let even the smallest thing pass, it snowballs up really fast in such tight quarters. We have learned that keeping it real with each other – no matter how hard or uncomfortable it may be to bring up – is always worth it and helps propel the group forward.”

During some down time in San Diego, the Gnomes filled us in on some of their most memorable tour stops.

In Jackson, we played with some of the most soulful musicians we encountered all tour – Young Valley, Fides and the Tallahachies. We ended up trapped in Jackson the next day when our bus was blocked in. It happened there was a monthly art market, similar to the Savannah Bazaar or First Friday Art March in Savannah. We met the organizer and he let us set up a little gnome merch table. People loved our gnome hats and prints by our singer Melissa (MothaBug) and our live painter Lauren Schwind. We felt so welcomed by Jackson and its people that we have set up two shows on our way back to Savannah – one in the city of Jackson with Young Valley and one in Starkville, Mississippi with Jackson natives Fides in which is one of their regular stomping grounds they insisted we play.

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In Phoenix, we played this tiny art district – houses converted into bookstores, bars, coffee shops. It felt surprisingly homey there, and definitely different than the big city feel of Phoenix that you’d be expecting.

“In Corpus Christi, we were able to relate with the local musicians, artists and the scene that houses them on the regular and us for the night.

Corpus Christi, much like Savannah, is a town that many touring bands overlook, being only a few hours from Austin and San Antonio – just as Savannah has Atlanta, Athens, and Asheville as neighbors, places many bands opt to book. The whole scene was so supportive. They had us play last, which is usually quite undesirable as a touring band for fear that after the last local act many people will leave. But in Corpus Christi, more and more people came out as our set began.”

Omingnome return to Savannah on February 6.

They’ll celebrate their homecoming with a show at Barrelhouse South with XuluProphet before they hit the road again; stay tuned for details.

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In Las Vegas, we experienced both extremes you face as a touring band – an empty bar on a Monday, as well as a packed house show at a gorgeous space known as the Womb Room with great local bands supporting us such as Candy Warpop. We also reunited with our saxophone player John Benarducci, who just happened to have a situation arise that forced him to head to Las Vegas from California (where he was spending that past several months) just in sync with our arrival to Las Vegas. He joined us during both our sets on saxophone.

He had a beautiful jacket and left us with some very kind words and wonderful feelings. CS

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By Anna Chandler | anna@connectsavannah.com

WELCOME to The Band Page: Extended Edition! The year is new, the students are back, the (brief ) winter lull is over, and it’s time to get back out there and catch the wild variety Savannah’s offering this week. From classical to cowpunk, there is quite literally something for everyone—and with plenty of free and all-ages shows, there’s no excuse to start 2015 on the couch.

Bitchmouth, Window Liquor, The Toxic Shock @The Jinx

Fur Elise, Kyle @Black Box Theatre /S.P.A.C.E.

The Coastal Rock Productions winter calendar is filling up with all-ages shows split between Black Box Theatre and The Guild Hall. Promoter Timothy Walls will soon start ushering in touring bands, like The Independents, but 2015’s kicking off with an all-local show.

Fur Elise has been kickin’ in some capacity since 2009, churning out aggressive, radio-ready rock cuts in the vein of Deftones and Thrice.

While there ain’t a God-given Kyle in the band Kyle’s lineup (it’s Henry McGehee, Magnus Nelson, and John Blanken of Big Awesome), there’s plenty of mathy goodness to around. The three-piece has been hitting it hard since fall, playing mostly house shows and the occasional event, like October’s tripped-out Neon Napalm’s Omnidimensional Pathos Factory.

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Baltimore’s Bitchmouth returns! It’s always refreshing to see women helming hardcore projects, muscling out blistering, high-speed riffs, rattling your fillings and leaving big black boot scuffs all over our stages. Kelsey Hulvey’s vocals occasionally curl with snark around the corners, returning to slap you clean across the face with unfettered abandon – good luck catching your breath at this one.

Philly’s Window Liquor share the bill. Their six-track album, Glen, is a nasty, heavy thing, noisy and grungy with a stoney sludge pace to it. Though the album quality opts for a lo-fi tin-can-processer sound, beneath the grime flails what’s sure to be a super-fun live act.

Locals The Toxic Shock ( Josh Sterno and Daniel Lynch of Crazy Bag Lady with Greta Odrezin on vocals, pictured) make their Jinx debut. They threw a four-song demo, Cyclist, up on their Bandcamp a couple weeks back; the longest song clocks in at a meaty 1:12.

Old Time Barn Dance with Paving Gravy @ Notre Dame Academy

I was square dancing in North Carolina barns from the time I could stand; in my family, memorizing how to do a four-leaf clover or garden gate was a priority on par with spelling your name and learning the Pledge of Allegiance.

When I moved to flat Georgia, I’d sometimes look at that stretch of Atlantic and find myself pining for the mountains and the wild spin of a good ol’ country square Friday 1/9, 10 p.m., $5 dance, the caller’s commands crackling over a just-hanging-in-there PA system.

Whaleboat, Doom Salad, Conversations @The Rail Imagine my delight when Joe Nelson told How many among us have found ourselves teetering on that tiny stage upstairs at The me that the Savannah Folk Music Society Rail, wailing on some Bon Jovi or Kelly Clarkson at Wrath Nasty’s legendary karaoke hosted monthly dances! While the Glow in nights? Many, I’m sure. And while the Congress Street institution invested in a beautiful the Dark String Band typically provides the outdoor stage this year, they’ll be throwing an old-fashioned three-band rock ‘n’ roll show soundtrack, Paving Gravy will set the tune upstairs on that very itty-bitty stage that you’ve air-guitarred on so hard you’ve fallen on the and tempo at the January 10 dance. hardwood floor (yes, we all saw it).

Paving Gravy is a super-group of sorts Whaleboat’s lineup has fluctuated throughout the past months; they’re back down to featuring Colleen Heine and Zach Smith of a three-piece as of October’s No Control Fest. Vocalist Brent Collins, last member of the The Accomplices and Cory Chambers and original lineup, is handling bass duties, one-time second guitarist Blake Yokeley has taken Jay Rudd of City Hotel. You may have seen over all things six-string, and they’ve gained a new drummer, Sean Moloney. Plus, their them pickin’ and grinnin’ at Tybee Island sound’s growing; look for a new single and accompanying video in late winter.

Social Club during Sunday brunch (their Funk experimentalists Doom Salad and newcomers Conversations join the bill. usual gig). While The Accomplices and The gig may seem unusual, but seeing as Moloney’s a Rail bartender and Conversations’ City Hotel keep their roots in mind while Erich DeFeo’s works the door there, it looks like everybody will be right at home. exploring new styles and interpretations of Monday, 1/12, 10 p.m., free. bluegrass and country music, Paving Gravy is all about keeping it old school, with standards and lesser-known tunes to keep your toes tapping.

If your last square dance happened in Still War, The Anxiety Junkies, Trophy Wives @Graveface Records & Curiosities middle school gym class, there’s no need to Another slammin’ punk show at the record shop. Touring band Still War are a grungy fret. One, the art of square dancing is way two-piece hail from Carbondale, Illinois, built on tense, gritty riffs and big, brutal texture. more fun than your burn-out gym coach If you haven’t caught The Anxiety Junkies yet, go get some sweat on your melodic punk – made it seem, and two, you’ll have the they’ll be playing some new songs after returning from winter break. chance to learn some moves the night of.

“Did I hit you too hard?” Trophy Wives vocalist Madison Davis asks with a snarl on You don’t even need to bring a partner, just their demo opener, “Skort.” Sure seems so – the scuzzy and scrappy four-piece may have a good attitude – and shouldn’t we all be just had a couple shows since their November debut, but they’ve got folks hooked since starting the New Year with some gusto? uploading their demo to Bandcamp. They kick off the show at 6:30 sharp.

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Nine Pound Hammer (started by Cartwright and Scott Luallen) were forerunners of the cowpunk movement, among the first to blend country twang with the backbone of punk.

Nashville Pussy, founded by Cartwright and his wife Ruyter Suys, have been cranking out psychobilly sleaze since 1996, receiving Grammy nods and gaining a zealous following.

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There are two opportunities to see Anderson Hill Trio’s modern take on classical music this weekend, but alternating between such varied spaces as church hall and gallery is natural for the players; they’re big believers in sharing their talents with all kinds of crowds and venues, from esteemed concert halls, to bars to homeless shelters.

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A member of the drag collective House of Gunt, artist Raine Eliza Blunk aims to destroy traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Photo by Anna Brody

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BY THE TIME you read this, Raine Eliza Blunk will be halfway through a series of installation tasks that may completely change everything Savannah thinks about art.

31, the 22 year-old conceptual traverses the artistSincehasDec. occupied ArtRise gallery—eatsleeping, making and thinking in the boundaries ing, plain white canvas of space in the Starland District. Titled UN/LEARNING, the 24/7 project also entails the artist of identity nine-day, cocooning in a duct-taped comforter, orderBy Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

Self-described as “a white, pansexual trans-to-neutral able-bodied person,” Raine eschews traditional gender pronouns, though will alternately amend the classification to “resident bio-girl, half-birthed alien fetus” with an ironic raise of an eyebrow.

By day, Raine works as social media consultant for a game design company, and daily dress might involve dungarees and white leather dog collar. (Raine also sports a set of orthodontic braces, worn to treat a case ing takeout and writing on the wall with of TMJ and incorporated significantly into teeth-only after a couple of shots of NyQuil. UN/LEARNING; see Official Task #14.)

A dozen and half more tasks will be exeAt night, however, the bespectacled blogcuted throughout the exposition, each conger becomes a wildly-adorned associate ceived with the objective of distilling down with the House of Gunt, a free-form drag to the essential self—though the writer/ collective born out of the monthly Candyillustrator/collaborator describes it as more land queer dance party hosted at Hangfire. of a process of “pulling out rather than While it does employ a certain amount of uncovering something.” singing and sequins, House of Gunt intends “I know where the things are that I want to elevate the concept of “drag” from the bigto access about myself,” explains Raine. “I wigged, lip-synching tradition exclusive to just have to take the steps to get there.” gay men.

The closing event—taking place this Fri“As someone who was not assigned day, Jan. 9—will culminate in a cathartic male, doing drag is different way to explore summary and hopefully, the emergence of being queer, a way to pull off a personalthe artist now possessing a “deeper underity,” explains Raine, who has enlisted House standing my own perception on every plane.” of Gunt founders Influenza and Monster

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Raine has also invited Savannah emerging artists Emmolei Sankofa and Ross Fish into the self-dissecting festivities, and those who contribute to the Indiegogo campaign will find themselves included into the exhibition. (For $5, Raine will eat your name off a spoon during Official Task #15.)

Like the project itself, the path that led to UN/LEARNING is twisted: The SCAD graduate had a childhood full of unusual influences, bouncing between grandparents in Arkansas and a United Nations videographer father in Cambodia, where refugees of the Khmer Rouge regime displayed a remarkable creative resilience.

“It was amazing to see how invested these people were in the local arts community, how they revived ideas after their entire culture had been destroyed,” recalls Raine.

“I learned the value of creativity.”

More artistic impacts came from British artist Tracey Emin, who locked herself in a gallery naked for two weeks to exorcise her artistic demons on canvas, and Molly Soda, the digital artist who made internet history for selling an 8-hour video of herself reading all of the messages in her Tumblr inbox.

UN/LEARNING is being live-streamed at raineblunk.com and the gallery is open daily, but Raine is hesitant to call it “performance art.”

“Performance insinuates an audience, and I’m not doing it for other people,” muses Raine, noting that that “art” of residential art projects happen mostly within the artist.

(Another in-residence exhibition made news recently when actor Shia LaBeouf installed himself in a L.A gallery and invited the public to interact with him while he wore a bag over his head, with disturbing results.)

In 2014, Raine pitched her nine-day selfexamination project to Art Rise’s Exhibition Fellowship Program, designed to bring contemporary and non-traditional creative forms into Savannah that challenge the notion of art. If there ever was an artwork that fulfilled the fellowship’s mission to “defy conventional gallery dynamics,” this was it.

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submission came in, we knew immediately that we had to make it work,” says ArtRise executive director Clinton Edminster.

“This was by far our most absurd submission we’ve ever received, and I’m incredibly attracted to the absurd and the challenging.”

Accepting the fellowship was just the beginning; growing the foundation of partnerships has been what’s made Raine’s UN/ LEARNING possible.

“I have so much respect for this community that’s bolstered me to get to this point,” offers the artist humbly.

About now, Raine is gestating within a womb seeded by many, a list of tasks still left to complete. When the last has been checked off, the artist and Savannah may never be the same.

“This project has so many collaborators, in so many mediums, for so many days,” marvels Edminster.

“What we learn—or un-learn—will have far reaching implications for our community’s art scene not only for 2015, but for all time.” cs UN/LEARNING Closing Event When: 5-9pm, Friday, Jan. 9 Where: ArtRise, 2427 DeSoto Ave. Info: raineblunk.com

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SO THERE was this young college dude with no particular interest in cooking, who somehow always ended up in the dorm kitchen making omelets for friends, study partners and buddies who finally made it back after the weekend binge.

Seems like he just had a way with throwing together some tasty goods on the fly when the occasion demanded it. He never thought of himself as a chef.

Hahaha—who, me?

If you happen to belong to a family that accompanies dad around to his job postings to places like, oh, France, Poland, and Korea, you may pick up a wider and more refined culinary taste than your average hot dog ‘n’ tater tot lovin’ American kid.

So this kid possessed better instincts than he gave himself credit for. Eventually those omelets and soups and inventive ways with burgers gave way to the realization that, hey, maybe he had something special going on!

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The bacon, salami and pancetta are house-smoked and carefully cured, which gives the flavor of dishes here a multi-level zest.

The soup de jour on my last visit was a beautiful, peach-colored Lobster Bisque and was perfectly paired with the two, thick Baked Potato Cakes and their soupçon of lobster, caviar and sour cream.

A hearty treat is the already famous Chicken n’ Waffle soup; John explained that it is quite different from the prevailing idea of fried chicken fingers and waffle most expect.

The origin of dish was a simple farmer’s meal: bits of roast chicken left over from dinner, cooked with a light, creamy chicken gravy, then poured over the morning waffle, making a satisfying tummy-warmer of a Chicken n’ Waffle Soup, Mixed Greens breakfast—add fresh veggies and a curl of w/Lemon Truffle Vinaigrette, China fragrant herbs on top and you have John’s Marine Wings, and Duck Confit. version.

For those seeking fine dining at its best, and present it all in a place that lends itself check out the incredible Maple-Grilled as easily to well-bred ladies lingering over martinis and small bites as it does to an eve- Pork chop, with mashed sweet potatoes & baked apples, or the Delmonico steak seared ning jaunt of best-buds looking for a great in duck fat, with cream corn and luscious burger and brewski? Sounds like a plan. whipped potatoes.

Burnished woods, cream-colored walls Seared scallops or salmon or the great and funky art make for a relaxing atmoFresh Catch BLT will satisfy seafood aficiosphere at Liberty Street Grill, and the full nados, and veggie-lovers have four unique bar of fine wines, craft beers and specialty and colorful salads to choose from. cocktails gives diners the chance to mingle If burgers and wings are whatcher lookin’ in style. Soft spotlights linger on imaginative for, Liberty Street Grill has a huge and deliabstracts of Boba Fett and Darth Vader, and a detailed model of an Imperial Walker cious half-pounder created from their house blend of round steak, chuck roll and tri-tip greets you upon entering the dining room. beef, specially ground in Atlanta.

Mr. Roelle Sr. donated an eccentric porThe menu of wings is changeable, but trait of his dog, dressed in a red satin gown, do take a chance on the China Marines. a bottle atop her head; framed in rococo gold the painting never fails to elicit curious John’s dad, a former Marine who flew the China-Burma-India route during the war, comments.

John’s wife Amber, who he met at culinary fashioned the marinade of Hoisin, brewed soy sauce and other secret ingredients into a school, lends a gracious and exacting hand mouth-watering treat. to running the business, assuring that all Fans of John’s former venue will find diners have what they need and the clockplenty to please the palate, and newbies work runs smoothly. seeking interesting takes on well-loved Manager Ross oversees the dining room dishes will find the lovely patio or friendly and bar with ease, and between Execubar becoming their favorite place for lunch tive Chef Lorenzo Cooper and Sous-Chef Goodman the kitchen purrs like a well-oiled or dinner. cs Walker striding across the snows of Hoth.

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Victorian era), part life story, and part circus.

“Most people don’t realize that P.T. Barnum was really a sideshow purveyor,” says Do you act? Sing? Juggle? Unicycle?

Poole. “He really was known for finding Walk on stilts? Are you an amateur aerial oddities and showcasing oddities—he even artist? had this museum in Manhattan, The AmerSeriously. There’s a place for you! ican Museum, that showcased oddities. He Asbury Memorial Theatre is hosting didn’t join the circus until later in his life… auditions for their spring production of Bar- he joined the circus because of his business num, directed by Collective Face’s David I.L. partner, Bailey. Ringling Brothers came into Poole. A biographical musical based on the life of P.T. Barnum (Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey), Barnum is the perfect show for the whimsical Poole, who most recently brought The Little Prince to light in dazzling and imaginative fashion.

It’s undeniable that circus themes are très chic in theatre, film, and TV right now (no, I will not be watching American Horror Story: Freak Show with you, already had to bleach my eyeballs after seeing that terrifying clown in the trailer). While Asbury performed a condensed version of the musical as part of their God On Broadway series, Savannah hasn’t seen Barnum in full in 30 years.

“There’s all this consciousness of circus in the air,” Poole observes. “What’s interesting about Barnum is that it was a show about a circus before the big circus movement.”

Barnum is actually on tour in Great Britain right now, so it’s fresh in the minds of theatregoers.

“We thought, ‘Okay, why don’t we try to make a circus in a sanctuary?’” Poole laughs. David I.L. Poole lends his directorial Asbury seeks talented individuals to tell talents for Asbury’s production. a story that’s part period piece (set in the by anna chandler

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play many years after that.”

Puppeteers may be interested in auditioning, too.

We’re going to be using a lot of puppetry,” says Poole, who just introduced puppetry to Collective Face audiences via The Little Prince. “I’m off of one puppet show, why not go right to another?” he laughs.

Poole estimates a cast of 20-25 people for Barnum.

“The script calls for a mock museum or sideshow of Barnum’s, where you bring out circus performers, says Poole. “In a lot of ways, it’s a choose-your-own-adventure production.”

The two lead roles are for a male baritone aged between 27-50 and a female mezzo aged between 30-55. There are plenty of supporting and cameo roles for men and women alike. Actors should prepare a short musical theatre monologue and perform 15 bars of an upbeat musical theatre song.

If Poole’s tangible excitement is any indicator, Barnum is sure to be a blast, whether you’re behind the curtain or in the audience on March 13-15 and 20-22.

“I like working with the people at Asbury,” Poole says; he previously worked with them on Into The Woods. “That’s one of the reasons I said yes again.” CS Barnum auditions When: Thursday and Friday, Jan 8-9, callbacks Saturday, Jan. 10.

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Admission is free. Gallery awards reception Jan. 23 at 5:30pm. Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St.

Continuing Exhibits Arthur Bennett Kouwenhoven — Savannah

resident shows his sculpture and works on paper. Through Jan. 31. Local 11 Ten, 1110 Bull 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.

Through Jan. 15. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Courtney Fredette — Courtney Fredette

presents mixed media work that explores meaning and interpretation. Through Feb. 2. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisted by Contemporary African Artists — This

exhibit explores the sequences of Dante’s poem through new works by 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries.

Through Jan. 25. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Doctuh Buzzard’s Hoodoo Awakening — This

exhibit celebrates Gullah Geechee spiritual heritage and looks closely at hoodoo artifacts. Through Jan. 25. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Lowcountry Scenes — Coastal Images by

Bryan Stovall & Les Wilkes from mid January through March 31. The public is invited to meet the artists – two of Savannah’s best known photographers - at their opening reception Friday, January 16th 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Gallery at 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

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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. Through Jan. 8.

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Children’s Clay — This introductory clay class romantic movement in the American South. will teach young students the fundamentals of hand building and sculpture. Students Through Feb. 15. Telfair Academy of Arts will work with coils and slabs and a variety and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. of glazes. Ages 8-12. Instructor: Clair Buckner. $65, $60 city resident Tuesdays, Whitfield Lovell: Deep River — Lovell’s art pays 3:30-4:30 p.m. City of Savannah Departtribute to the lives of anonymous African ment of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Americans and explores passage, memory, and the search for freedom. Through Feb. Digital Imaging Basics — Learn about digital 1. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West photography, its language and equipment.

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WILD

OOOP Ever since its August debut at the Telluride Film Festival – and through its tireless relay race over the course of two dozen more fests – Wild has been positioned first and foremost as a showcase for star Reese Witherspoon.

Yet Wild is far more than just Oscar bait for an A-list star – based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (with no less than Nick Hornby handling the adaptation), it’s a galvanizing human-interest story of the highest order, centering on a woman who immediately emerges as one of the cinematic year’s most complex individuals. Witherspoon is superb as Cheryl, who undergoes a strenuous 1,100-mile hike in an attempt to find herself after suffering through a series of personal crises.

An adulteress and heroin addict, Cheryl’s grown-up existence has been most informed by the cancer-related death of her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern). Absolutely devastated by her loss, Cheryl flounders until she stumbles upon the idea of embarking on this hike, an arduous odyssey that poses many risks but also allows time for plenty of soul-searching.

Director Jean-Marc Vallee, coming off last year’s excellent Dallas Buyers Club, has fashioned an invigorating picture which, through its uncanny use of both flashbacks and songs, successfully provides a

stream-of-consciousness flow that beautifully suits the piece’s themes of reflection and introspection.

As for Witherspoon, Wild represents the crown jewel of her 2014 accomplishments – it’s a dizzying high-wire act, and she’s performing without a net.

BIG EYES

OOO Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are the gents who wrote the script for director Tim Burton’s excellent 1994 feature Ed Wood – not to mention Milos Forman’s 1996 controversy The People vs. Larry Flynt and his underrated 1999 effort Man on the Moon – so they may not exactly be the good-to guys when it comes to stories that remain committed to historical accuracy.

After all, Ed Wood included not only a scene in which Hollywood great Orson Welles had a friendly chat with Hollywood hack Wood, it also contained a sequence in which Wood and his entourage attended a standing-room-only premiere screening for Plan 9 from Outer Space. The truth will out?

Not with these guys at the keyboard!

But what they lack in fidelity to the facts, they make up for in providing pure entertainment, and they score again with Big Eyes, a picture that reteams them with Burton.

This one does hew closer to reality, relating the bizarre and fascinating story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), a single mom who drew paintings of children with exceptionally large eyes, and her second husband

Walter (Christophe Waltz), a smoothtalking con man who took credit for all her work and then parlayed it into an empire.

Big Eyes primarily seems to exist as a showcase for two fine performances – Adams’ honest emoting in one corner, Waltz’s bombastic showboating in the other – but the film also touches upon the difficulties faced by women in the 1960s. More pointedly, it looks at how one woman’s decision to remain silent about a cruel deception (“Lady art doesn’t sell,” Walter tells her) enforces the notion that spousal abuse doesn’t always have to take the form of physical violence.

Like Margaret Keane’s artwork, Big Eyes catches viewers with its surface quirks, but there’s also something taking place underneath the surface.

THE IMITATION GAME

OOOP We’re initially amused, nodding our heads knowingly at the screen. Here’s Benedict Cumberbatch playing a socially awkward genius who’s not only smarter than everyone around him but who makes damn sure they all recognize his vast superiority and, by extension, their own humbling inferiority.

Hey, it’s Sherlock redux! Well, not quite.

Despite the obvious similarities to the brainiac from Baker Street, Alan Turing, the real-life personage at the center of The Imitation Game, is cut from a separate cloth, and Cumberbatch shifts gears accordingly. The result is one of the year’s best performances

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in one of the year’s best films, a vibrant work that refuses to be relegated to the status of just another Brit biopic appearing in the thick of awards season.

Focusing on one of the most compelling stories to emerge from World War II – Allied efforts to crack the Enigma code employed by the Germans – the picture follows Turing as the mathematician and his team, all working in top secrecy for the British government, tirelessly toil around the clock trying to find the solution.

Despite the skepticism of his colleagues, Turing uses what could only be described as an early-model computer to aid him in his efforts – he soldiers on mostly alone, as his only friend among the co-workers he (to paraphrase Run-D.M.C.) disses and dismisses is Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), who becomes his fiancée even though he’s secretly gay.

But being a homosexual was a crime in England, and The Imitation Game earns its stripes by not only honoring the magnificent wartime achievements of Turing but also by shedding light on the ridiculous laws that would later embarrass and marginalize a hero of his caliber. And just like that, an inspirational movie about an international triumph becomes a sobering film about a national tragedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Imitation Game

INTO THE WOODS

OOP It’s telling that the first two actors director Rob Marshall reportedly cast in the screen version of the stage smash Into the Woods were Meryl Streep as the Witch and Johnny Depp as the Wolf. Subscribing to the Ridley Scott mantra that global superstars are more important to a film than finding the perUNBROKEN fect performers for the right roles, Marshall OOO selected an actress who at this point would Unbroken marks Jolie’s second directorial get nominated by everyone for simply flosseffort (the first being 2011’s barely seen In ing and bypassed, well, every male in Holthe Land of Blood and Honey). lywood for an actor who has devolved into Adapted by a powerhouse quartet of a mugging caricature no longer capable of scripters (including Joel and Ethan Coen) surprising or even engaging us. from Laura Hillenbrand’s book, this centers Move past the marquee names, howon the true-life tale of Louie Zamperini ever, and the other players adeptly take us ( Jack O’Connell), an Olympic athlete who, through this revisionist take on age-old fairy during World War II, survived for 47 days tales. As the bumbling baker and his sension a life raft alongside two fellow airmen ble wife, James Corden and Emily Blunt are (Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock), affable protagonists, while Anna Kendrick again displays her professional singing chops only to then end up in a POW camp overseen by a sadistic guard known as “The Bird” (as she did in Pitch Perfect) as Cinderella.

Daniel Huddlestone and Lilla Crawford, (played by Japanese rock star Miyavi).

The story of Unbroken is a great one, and the kids cast as Jack (of beanstalk fame) and Red Riding Hood, hold their own against Jolie largely tackles it as if she were mounting an old-fashioned Hollywood flick sprin- the older cast members, and Chris Pine, the most amusing person in Horrible Bosses 2, is kled with modern trimmings (she doesn’t even funnier as the vain prince smitten with shy away from the brutality on view). But the passion evident in her best performances Cinderella.

The production looks handsome, but is largely missing in her direction, as the Marshall’s direction renders it a bit stiff, austere workmanship keeps the incidents with no real blood behind the proceedings, at an emotional distance and rarely allows for the inspirational catharsis demanded by and the deficiencies in the source material are present and actually amplified here. the material. Unbroken is a fine biopic of a remarkable American, but it needed a little In the battle of the season’s two musicals, more fire in its belly to truly roar.

Into the Woods will trump Annie for a number of reasons, but on balance, I’ll take the latter’s heart over the former’s art.

THE GAMBLER

OOP This remake finds Mark Wahlberg playing Jim Bennett, a college professor whose bad habit of placing gargantuan bets in gambling dens has left him tens of thousands of dollars in debt. His icy mom ( Jessica Lange), a loan shark (Michael Kenneth Williams) and an underworld kingpin ( John Goodman) all consider fronting him money, but whatever funds come his way end up being used not to pay off debts but blown on more blackjack hands and roulette wheels.

Gambling as an addiction isn’t the focus here – this isn’t Leaving Las Vegas with playing cards replacing the booze bottles – which is fine since the film is content operating as a tightly wound drama about a man with self-destructive impulses. Yet this isn’t really a character study, either, since we’re never allowed to get inside Bennett’s head.

That leaves only the melodramatic tension, which dissipates as the movie limps toward a disappointing conclusion that feels committee-driven rather than narratively sound.

That’s too bad, because a movie that displays a winning hand for most of its length should never turn up snake eyes at the end.

FOXCATCHER

OOOP Let it be noted that Foxcatcher isn’t so much a study of a dream deferred but of the American Dream deferred. Director Bennett Miller and writer Dan Futterman, who previously worked together on Capote, reteam on another true-life horror tale, this one related with the same sense of clinical detachment as their previous triumph.

At heart a film about the awkward dance between the haves and have-nots – and, more specifically, a brutal condemnation of the barely masked disdain the one-percenters have for the other 99 – this finds Steve Carell cast waaay against type as John du Pont, scion of one of the most prominent and wealthiest families in the nation. A meek and strange character charged with a patriotic zeal, John pushes aside one passion – ornithology – and begins using his vast fortune to build a team of world-class wrestlers.

To anchor the group, he picks 1984 Olympic gold medalist Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum), an opportunity that seems like a godsend to the struggling athlete. But John’s paranoid-schizophrenic nature soon gets the better of him, and he humiliates Mark by inviting his saintly older brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo), also a 1984 Olympic gold medalist, to take over as head of the team.

Carell is scary-good, subjugating all traces of the familiar comic spark very much in evidence in his previous films. Ruffalo is effortlessly reassuring as the big brother who would be a benefit to any family, while Tatum reaches a new plateau as the troubled kid simply wanting life to give him a break.

Like Carell, Tatum is required to suppress his natural charm – it’s a knockout performance, fully in line with a movie that feels like a body slam to the mat.

ANNIE

OOO Here’s the thing about Annie: She’s never been defined by her race but her class. It’s her social standing that’s always driven the story, not the color of her skin, which is why it’s been downright depressing to find so many people outraged that a black moppet has been cast in the part in the new Annie.

Annie is the sort of movie that opens itself up to criticism, and even during the screening, I became aware of how savagely reviewed it would be.

The film is frequently awkward, suffers from some pedestrian choreography and wears its heart perhaps a bit too openly on its sleeve. But it’s also charming, well-acted, and, most surprisingly, quite funny.

If nothing else, this Annie is infinitely better than John Huston’s 1982 turkey, a grotesque version starring Albert Finney and Carol Burnett. Of course, while it was critically hammered back in the day, many of those lambasting the new take are now describing that older adaptation as a national treasure. Because white people. CS

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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

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Victorian Neighborhood Association Meetings

Open to all residents, property owners and businesses located between Anderson and Gwinnett, M.L.King,Jr. Blvd to East Broad Street. Free second Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. 912-233-0352. alpost135. com/. American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. 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

Armstrong State University Youth Orchestra Auditions

Armstrong’s Art, Music & Theatre Department announces new-member auditions open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students for course credit. Auditions by appointment. To schedule, email savaayo@yahoo.com. Thu., Jan. 8. savaayo. org. Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. Auditions for Barnum

Actors and singers, especially those with circus acts in their repertoire, are invited to attend auditions for the Asbury Memo-

rial Theatre’s production of Barnum, which will be performed March 13-15 and 20-22.

Callbacks are January 10 at 3pm, and evening rehearsals begin in January. Actors are asked to prepare a short musical theatre monologue and perform 15 bars of an upbeat musical theatre song. Jan. 8-9, 7-9 p.m. 912-429-3950. Asbury Memorial Theatre, 1008 E. Henry Street.

Auditions for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Come audition for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” at the Jewel Conservatory Theatre. Auditions are by appointment only, so call today. All roles needed. Must be 18 years to audition. N/A Mon., Jan. 12, 4-7 p.m. 912-257-0671. jewelconservatorytheatre@gmail.com. jewelconservatory. com. The Jewel Conservatory Theatre, 6014 Hwy 21.

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. artrisesavannah. org/artintel. artrisesavannah.org. Art Rise Savannah, 2427 Desoto Ave. Call for Entries for Savannah Stopover’s Band Poster Juried Exhibition

Art Rise Savannah welcomes the city’s graphic and visual artists to create posters inspired by the individual bands from the 2015 lineup. These include local bands as well as touring bands from around the country. Artists are invited to choose a band from the Festival lineup listing at savannahstopover.com and create a poster inspired by that band using the specifications listed here. Additional acts, including local bands, will be announced January 16th, 2015. Semi-Finalists will be included in an exhibition of posters in the Jepson Center Atrium from March 2 - 9, 2015.

Through Feb. 16. artrisesavannah.org. Art Rise Savannah, 2427 Desoto Ave. Call for Local Artist

Gallery 11 seeks an artist to join its cooperative gallery. Must live in the Savannah area and submit representative samples of your artwork, resume/bio, website, etc. for jury process. Inquire weekdays 11am-5pm

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at 912-598-8217 or 912-925-5465. Through March 1. Gallery 11, 309 W. Julian Street.

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 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.

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 ,.

Homeschool Music Classes

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

Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollections for 40th Anniversary

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

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone that loves to sing is invited to join the Savannah Sacred Harp Singers from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, January 10th at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway, Savannah. All are welcome to participate in America’s original roots music. For more information dial 912-655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp.com. Sat., Jan. 10, 1-4 p.m. Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 30 Diamond Causeway.

Benefits

Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control seeks items for pets in the facility. Canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels. Open daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912-351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and support the local economy.

Sponsorships begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. Tuesdays.. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com/. Forsyth Farmers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park.

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4 Back of the neck 5 Mt. number 6 “Gotcha!”

7 Mailer of “Harlot’s Ghost” 8 Novelist ___ Alexie 9 Get under control 10 ___ Baba 11 Hair goop 12 One of a pair 14 Bowling headache 21 Cross letters 22 Tolkien creature 25 White Cliffs city 26 Agenda components 27 Sandwich shops 29 Where: Lat. 30 Dudes 31 Atticus Finch and colleagues, for short 32 Pea place 33 Top invitees 34 Therefore 35 Darer’s phrase 39 Two, in Tegucigalpa 41 Bestseller 42 Bk. of the Bible 45 Lot gamble 47 It might get cracked 50 Gold, to Garcia Marquez 51 Preferably 52 Mary Poppins, e.g.

56 Reporter’s win 57 Color slightly 58 General Motors great Alfred 59 Enthusiastic about 60 Sacred 61 Classic book of 1815 62 Peasant 63 Spooky flyer 64 ESPN analyst Holtz 65 Bookstore section

$5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities

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.

912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com.

Professional Clothing Drive at Armstrong

Armstrong State University’s Office of Career Services is accepting donations for its Clothing Closet, a professional clothing drive seeking gently used professional attire—oxford shirts, men’s and women’s suits, slacks, blouses, dress shoes. Clothing will be available to students seeking career guidance assistance. Drop off location: the alumni office in Burnett Hall on the Armstrong campus. Through Feb. 1. 912.344.2563. careers@armstrong. edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers

Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

Senior Citizens, Inc. Annual Blanket Drive

Senior Citizens, Inc. invites Savannah and the surrounding areas to help seniors stay warm this winter by donating a new blanket. You can drop off the blankets at SCI’s headquarters, throughout the Landings, or the Starbucks at the following locations: Twelve Oaks, Victory Drive, Broughton, Montgomery Crossroads, Oglethorpe Mall, and Pooler. The drive ends January 31.

Through Jan. 31, 9 a.m. starbucks.com/.

Starbucks (Twelve Oaks Shopping Center.), 550 Abercorn St. Classes, Camps & Workshops

7-Week Diabetes Repair Class

The key to health is nutrition and lifestyle.

If you have heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, are overweight, or have digestive issues, chronic pain, or allergies, you’ve learned enough about the wrong habits and the wrong foods. Now is the time to take control of your life. Free Sat., Jan. 10, 2 p.m. 912236-8987. liveoakpl.org/. Carnegie Branch Library, 537 East Henry St. The key to health is nutrition and lifestyle. If you have heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, are overweight, or have digestive issues, chronic pain, or allergies, you’ve learned enough about the wrong habits and the wrong foods. Now is

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37 Never before seen 38 Show people the way 40 PART TWO OF QUIP 43 Ms. Lovato 44 Randy Travis song “Faith ___” 46 Sounds from tiny dogs 48 Blog feed letters 49 PART THREE OF QUIP 53 Vietnamese new year 54 Period 55 Doesn’t eat 59 END OF QUIP 63 White, in Geneva 66 One of the bases 67 Taboo act 68 The mother of all arteries 69 Patron saint of sailors 70 Mat activity 71 Help a student 72 Seacrest of “Seacrest out” 73 Be the author of

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the time to take control of your life. Free Mon., Jan. 12, 7 p.m. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. Anatomy of the Shoulders & Spine

Workshop focusing on the anatomy of the shoulders as spine specifically as they relate to yoga asana practice. Presented by Kristjan Thompson, PhD. No asana practice, but dress comfortably. $30 Sat., Jan. 10, 2-4 p.m. 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com.

Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive.

Argentine Tango Beyond Basics Group Class

A class for advanced beginners in Argentine Tango. Prerequisite: knowledge of Basic elements of Argentine Tango. No partner required. This is a 4 week course 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.

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

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.

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.

Beginner Guitar Class

8 week guitar course for complete beginners. Classes offered for adults and teenagers ages 13 and up. Covers basic chords and strumming techniques, rhythm, tuning, and use of a flatpick. Email savannahschooloffolkmusic@gmail.com to sign up. $120 Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m.. savannahschooloffolkmusic@gmail.com. Ms. Amy’s School of Music, 2421 Waters Avenue.

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. JAN 7-13, 2015

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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 “Community/Explorers Post 876 or call. Wednesdays.. 912-651-3743. chathamsheriff.org.

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.

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. HypnoBirthing Classes - The Mongan Method

Teaches mother and birth partner to use her natural instincts, trust her body, release emotions and facilitate relaxation during labor and delivery. Five class series on Monday evenings, 6PM. $450/group sessions. $650/private sessions. Call or email for info and space availability. $450 / 5 week session Mon., Jan. 12, 6-8:30 p.m. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries. com. douladeiveries.com. renahowellacupuncture.com. Rena Howell 5 Element Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, 216 E 41st 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.

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. 912-6928055. 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. New Mama’s Club

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. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

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.

Photo Seminar

Senior lead wedding photographer for Walt Disney World, Rick Ferro, will teach stuLife Coaching dents lighting, posing, hand posing, body Group & individual life coaching with a Cer- language, the art of romance, exposure, DUI Prevention Group tified Life Coach. Plan for a career change, and how to use reflectors. He will also Offers victim impact panels for intoxinew lifestyle, or an opportunity to pursue take requests on what you’d like to learn. cated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone creative or business projects. Step-by-step $65 early bird, $75 day-of Tue., Jan. 13, seeking knowledge about the dangers of guidance to fulfill aspirations. In person 6-8 p.m. https://eventbrite.com/e/65-fordriving while impaired. A must see for teen or telephone sessions. Thursdays.. 9122-days-hands-on-photography-workshopdrivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912596-1952. info@roiseandassociates.com. by-rick-ferro-disney-worlds-lead-wed443-0410.

Downtown Savannah, downtown. ding-photographer-tickets-14138479573.

English as Second Language Classes Mommy & Me Relaxation Class Brockington Hall, 213 East Hall Street.

Learn conversational English, comprehen- Teaches techniques to face the physical, Photography Classes Beginner photography to post production. sion, vocabulary and life communication mental, and emotional changes of a new Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour skills. All ages. Thursdays, 7:30pm, Island mother’s body, mind and heart with poise class. See website for complete class list.

Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 and grace. a variety of relaxation tech410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotogEast. Free. 912-897-3604. islandchristian. niques for mother and child. For expectraphy.com. chrismorrisphotography.com. org. ing and new moms as well as those with Family Law Workshop Piano Lessons small children (4 and under). $15/class The Mediation Center has three workshops or 6 classes for $50 (to be used within 2 Piano lessons with a classically trained per month for people who do not have legal months) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m.. instructor, with theater and church representation in a family matter: divorce, experience. 912-312-3977. ongoing.

912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, legitimation, modifications of child support, 5301 Paulsen Street. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Instruction visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Piano Voice-Coaching 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruc- Pianist with M/degree,classical modern 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call tion by professional musicians. Band inSpanish is fun. Classes for adults and chil- struments, violin, piano, drums and guitar. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious dren held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. All ages welcome. ongoing. 912-358-0054. inquiries only. ongoing.

Polish Language Classes Register by phone. ongoing. 912-921-4646. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Figure Drawing Classes The lessons are for beginners and Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:30Music Lessons: Private or Group open to anyone interested in learning Portman’s Music Academy offers private 12:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 the Polish language. Taught by Andrew drop-in fee. At the Studio School. ongoing. or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner Boguszewski. Reservations required. to advanced level. All instruments. Also, 912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail. $25 Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m.. 912-401com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio voice lessons, music production technol5861. St James Catholic Church, 8412 ogy and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over School, 1319 Bull St. Whitfield Ave. Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons Pregnancy Yoga Workshop 20 instructors with professional, well

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This two hour workshop, held quarterly at SYC Pooler, is designed for mamas-to-be who are in the second and third trimesters. $35 in advance / $40 day of event Sun., Jan. 11, 1-3 p.m. ann@douladeliveries.com. savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street.

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.

Savannah Authors Meeting

Open to published or unpublished writers. Beginners are welcome. Savannah Authors Autonomous encourages firstclass prose writing, fiction or non-faction, using discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, and examples. The group was founded by Christopher Scott (912) 3981727 and Alice Vantrease (912) 308-3208.

Visit us at savannahauthors.org. We meet every second AND FOURTH Tuesday of the month. Free second Tuesday of every month. (912) 308-3208. savannahauthors. org.

ServSafe Training and Certification

The ServSafe® program blends the latest FDA Food Code, food safety research and years of food sanitation training experience. $75 (class and exam); $25 (exam only) Mon., Jan. 12, 5-8 p.m. and Tue., Jan. 13, 5-8 p.m. 912-478-5555. professionaltraining@georgiasouthern.edu. academics. georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/professionaldevelopment/servsafe/. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro.

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,

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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.

Trade Secrets Workshops for Actors by Casting Director Chad Darnell

Are you a newbie? Been acting for years?

This workshop is specifically for people who want to learn the business of acting.

Taught by MAGIC MIKE XXL Casting Director and producer of the upcoming R.I.P., Chad Darnell. Topics include headshot and resume evaluation, how to get an agent, self-taping auditions, branding yourself with social media, creating your own content, and how to be a working actor in Georgia. Costs $100 until December 31st, $125 after January 1. $100/ day Saturdays, Sundays.. chaddarnell.com/workshops.

html. Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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.. 912-656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown.

302 West Victory Drive sav.smokecartel.com

Voice Lessons - Technique and Coaching

Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing, accepting, and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music. Audition and competition preparation. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-484-0628. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Yoga Anatomy Workshop

Over the course of a weekend, yoga master and YogAnatomy creator David Keil guides you on an exploration of the amazing body you inhabit. Investigate your yoga practice through the lens of physical awareness: the muscular/skeletal systems, along with the joints and how they move. This workshop is ideal for yoga teachers and dedicated students. Jan. 9-11. 912-2322994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga. com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. continues on p. 36

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ARIES

allies you respect.

In his novel *Breakfast of Champions,* Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways... to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form... to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

LEO

(March 21-April 19)

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20)

I live in Northern California, where an extended drought led to water-rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. You could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling.

Any ideas about how to get it? Brainstorm.

Ask questions. Seek help.

VIRGO

GEMINI

Doug Von Koss leads groups of people in sing-alongs. You don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfectionfree zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra.

You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek, and savvy. You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose, and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands.

Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out purge. Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for you, and get rid of them. While you’re at it, why not carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life?

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

JAN 7-13, 2015

(July 23-Aug. 22)

Novelist E. L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog.

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing.

The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

(May 21-June 20)

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“Nothing was ever created by two men,” wrote John Steinbeck in his novel *East of Eden.* “There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional nonsense. And it’s especially inapt for you in the coming weeks. In fact, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Actress Uzo Aduba’s formal first name is Uzoamaka. She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. One day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call me Zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “Because no one can say Uzoamaka.” Mom was quick to respond: “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: This is no time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That’s rarely a good idea, but especially now. Say NO to making yourself more generic.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“If you have built castles in the air,” said

happenings | continued from previous page philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time. “When Mockingbird first heard rock / He cocked his head and crapped / What in the hell is that? / It sounded like a train wreck / Someone was screaming / Someone’s banging on garbage cans.”

Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves -- “all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you -- maybe even fulfill you.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when a White Rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself.

She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip.

Finally she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)

You are positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse.

Dream big, you crazy wise dreamer.

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™

A free-flowing, meditative dance, with 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. Ballet: Swan Lake

State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents Tchaikovsky’s full-length ballet in four acts. $28-$58 Sat., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. savannahcivic.com/events. savannahcivic. com. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Ballroom Group Dance Class

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

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

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.

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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. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com.

Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team

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

Dance for Peace

A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages.

Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed.

Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com.

Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Dance: Gretchen Greene Company Showcase 2015

Gretchen Greene Company Dancers perform their favorites from the season. $12 Sat., Jan. 10, 7 p.m. 912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Dance Lessons (Salsa, Bachata)

Learn to dance Salsa & Bachata. For info, call Austin (912-704-8726) or Omar (Spanish - 787-710-6721). Thursdays.

912-704-8726. salsa@salsasavannah.com. salsasavannah.com. Great Gatsby, 408 West Broughton Street.

Dance Meditation: 5Rhythms Wave Class

A dance. A spiritual practice. A path to higher vibration. Each person does his/her own dance to a wave of music through the rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. There is no right or wrong way and no steps to follow. No experience is needed. Simply Show Up. Led by: Dana Danielson. Each month, 2nd Tuesday (7:158:45 pm) and 4th Sunday, (noon-1:30). $15 per class, or purchase class packs ongoing. 912-429-0190. savannahyogabarre. com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive.

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.

Wednesdays.. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com.

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.

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. Mahogany Shades of Beauty

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.

Modern Dance Class

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

Savannah Folk Society presents this dance with music by Paving Gravy. Sat., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. notredamesav.org. Notre Dame Academy, 1709 Bull St. Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

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

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

Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com.

Salsa Night

Come and shake it to the best latin grooves and bachata the night away in Pooler

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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.

Swan Lake

This full-scale production, set to the music of Tchaikovsky and based on Russian folklore and German legend, follows a heroic young prince as he works to free the beautiful swan maiden from an evil spell. The State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents 50 of Russia’s brightest ballet stars to bring this romantic tale of true love to glorious life. $28-$58 Sat., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. savannahcivic.com. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. 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.

Fitness

$6 Community Yoga Classes

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

Most classes are heated to 90 degrees.

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

Jivamkuti Inspired w/ Brittany Roberts Mondays 6:30pm – 7:45pm Soul Progression w/ Lynn Geddes Tuesdays/Thursdays 12:30pm – 1:45pm & 6:30pm – 7:45pm TGiF! Power Hour with Lynne McSweeny Fridays 5:45pm – 6:45pm All Levels Yoga w/ Christine Harness Glover Saturdays 9:30am – 10:45am n/a first Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday of every month.

912-308-3410. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. Al-Anon Family Groups

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

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age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing. 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group

Located in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery.

Call or see website for info. first Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m. 912-350-3438. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura

MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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). 6:30pm7:30pm 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.

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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

38 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.

Historic Savannah Foundation Ninth Annual Race for Preservation

Registration is now open for the Historic Savannah Foundation’s 9th Annual Race for Preservation. Registration is open through February 27 and is at Fleet Feet Savannah.

Through Feb. 28. Fleet Feet, 3405 Waters Ave. 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 or $80 for 10 classes Mondays, 6 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Mommy and Baby Yoga

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

hyoga.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 of Savannah, 5500 White Bluff Rd. Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

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

Savannah Disc Golf

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

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.

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. 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 the process. Free and open to the public.

Mondays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m.. 912-356-2887. Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive (facing Sallie Mood Dr.).

Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-355-4601. ssavannahspeechandhearing.org/.

Savannah Speech 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.

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Find your next great job at Select Staffing! Now Hiring in the Savannah area **Certified Clamp/Forklift Operators **Reach Lift Operators **Loader & Unloaders **Verifiers Apply Online Today at www. select.com and then call (912)330-8229 with your confirmation number. EOE EXPERIENCED PRESSER & COUNTER CLERK NEEDED Someone dependable with a great personality. Counter Clerk must be able to handle customer requests and complaints without supervisory assistance. Apply: Clifton’s Dry Cleaners, 8401 Ferguson Ave. No phone calls.

EXPERIENCED TRIM CARPENTERS NEEDED. CALL 912-210-1069 IMMEDIATE OPENING exists for an Experienced Medical Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, and Medical Biller.

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TERRY’S CHILDCARE HIRING Experienced Daycare Worker.

Must have patience. Must have CDA or willing to obtain CDA. Call 912-233-5868

Real Estate For Rent

JANUARY ONLY * ASK ABOUT OUR DEPOSIT SPECIALS* *Credit Issues, Prior Evictions, Bankruptcies may still apply *Weekly & Bi-Weekly Payment Options Available for Apts. $245 & $450 Videos of properties B Net Management Inc. on Facebook 32 Liberty Heights: 3BR/2BA, LR, DR, CH/A, carpet & vinyl, fenced backyard, fireplace, bonus room. $975.

5509 Emory Drive: 3BR/2BA house. LR, DR, hardwood floors, carpet, CH/A, laundry room, kitchen, fenced yard. $865/month.

426 E. 38th St. (Habersham & Price) 2BR/1BA Apt. Appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookup, carpet $675.

807-809 Paulsen St. 2BR/1BA Apt. Appliances, central heat/ air, carpet & hardwood floors $625.

801 West 39th Apt.B 1BR/1BA Apt. Appliances. $700/month or $185/weekly option payment; 2wks. deposit needed.

Off Westlake Ave. 2 & 3BR, 1 Bath Apts.

Newly Renovated, hardwood floors,carpet, ceiling fans, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $575$695/month, utilities may be added to rent if requested.

912-228-4630 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www. bnetmanagement.com *For Qualified Applicants* WE ACCEPT SECTION 8

LEWIS PROPERTIES 897-1984, 8am-7pm NEAR LAMARVILLE/LIBERTY CITY *1919 COWAN: 4BR/1BA $800 *1929 COWAN: 3BR/1.5BA $850 *1921 FENWICK: 3BR/1BA $775 *1928 FENWICK: 2BR/1BA $550 *1932 FENWICK: 4BR/2BA $825 *2027 E. 36th: 3BR/1BA $725 *All above have carpet, A/C/heat, *1106 E. 31st: 3BR/1BA Apt. $700 kitchen appliances, washer/dryer Several Rental & hookup, fenced yard. References, Rent-To-Own Properties. application.

One-year lease GUARANTEED FINANCING minimum. Deposit same as rent.

STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829 None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

1BR/1BA DUPLEX: 1720 E.39th St. off Victory Dr. & Hibiscus, across from Whole Foods. No appliances, REDUCED RENT & DEPOSIT! no pets. $400+dep. 912-507-8127 *1512 GEORGIA: 5BR/3BA, very large $1150. *2102 NEW YORK: 3BR/2BA, new kitchen $975. *2001 E. 51ST: 3 or 4BR/1.5BA, new kitchen $895. 912-257-6181

2 Bedroom/1 Bath House for Rent. Large fenced yard, washer/ dryer hookup, freshly refinished hardwood floors. Great Eastside location. $650/month. 912-6584492

SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 11515 White Bluff Road: $595/month for 1BR/1BA Apt. with $500/deposit.

Great Apt. Townhouse, 1812 N. Avalon St. 2BR/1.5BA for only $695/month.

Nice location, 127 Edgewater Rd. 2BR/2BA, all electric, $795/month.

2250 Utah Street: 3BR, 1BA, LR, Kitchen w/Gas Stove & Refrig.

CH&A, Off street parking. $725/ Rent, $675/Deposit. Call 912-8984135 3BR/1BA FOR RENT: 2152 Mississippi Ave. off Pennsylvania Ave. CH/A, washer/dryer hookup, no appliances, no pets. $700 + deposit. 912-507-8127 4 BEDROOM/2 BATH: 2201 Alabama Avenue, 1-1/2 story, total electric, real oak floors throughout, fenced corner lot.

Text messages accepted. $825/ month plus deposit. Call Ben, 912-228-2502 624 MONTGOMERY STREET. Downtown.

Furnished, all utilities. Clean, quiet, nice room on busline. $120 & Up per week.

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SENIOR LIVING AT IT'S BEST FOR AGES 50 & BETTER Shared community living for full functioning seniors ages 50 & above. Nice comfortable living at affordable rates.

Shared kitchen & bathroom.

All bedrooms have central heating/air and cable.

Bedrooms are fully furnished and private. Make this community one you will want to call home.

SAVANNAH'S HOUSE OF GRACE also has community housing with its own private bath. Different rates apply.

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SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.

2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/ RENT OR RENT-TO-OWN: week with No deposit. 844Remodeled mobile homes, 5995 3BR/2BA, in Garden City mobile home park. Low down affordable payments. Credit check approval.

Roommate Wanted Call Gwen, Manager, at 912-964HOUSEMATE WANTED: Ardsley 7675 Park area. Large BR w/ceiling fan. Private bath. $550 for single SOUTHSIDE tenant; $650 for 2. Call 912-398•1BR Apts, washer/dryer 4301 included. $25 for water, $125 & Up. trash included, $625/month. ROOMMATE: Private bath, Spa, Cable TV, •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, Internet, CH/A, Washer/Dryer, total electric, w/washer & Kitchen, Clean & Safe. 24-Hour dryer $675. 912-927-3278 or surveillance, Busline, Near 912-356-5656 grocery store. (912)401-1961 DAVIS RENTALS 310 EAST MONTGOMERY X-ROADS, 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

719 South Ave. Spacious 3BR/2BA, Room for Rent den, LR, front porch, deck. Must ROOMS FOR RENT see to appreciate. $950/month, $950/security dep. Section 8 OK. $75 Move-In Special Today!!

Clean, furnished, large. Busline, 912-844-2344 central heat/air, utilities. $100CROSSROADS APARTMENTS $130 weekly. Rooms w/bathroom 2 Bedroom $650, 3 Bedroom $695. $145. Call 912-289-0410. $600 Security Deposit. Section 8 FURNISHED APTS. $170/WK. welcome. 401 W. Montgomery Private bath and kitchen, cable, Crossroads. 912-596-9946 utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely DUPLEX: 1223 East 53rd St. safe, manager on property.

2BR/1BA $550/month plus $550/ Contact Denise, (352)459-9707, deposit. One block off Waters Linda, (912)690-9097, Jack, Avenue, close to Daffin Park. (912)342-3840 or Cody, (912)695Call 912-335-3211 or email: 7889 adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ Nights/Weekends.

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ROOM FOR RENT - 5 minutes from Savannah Mall, no smoking inside. All amenities included. $150/week. Background check.

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Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

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