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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.

Wednesday / 22

Craft Brew Battle at the Beach

Comedy: Stewart Huff

The first annual Craft Brew Battle at the Beach is a competition to crown the Best Georgia Craft Brew. Georgia breweries provide tastings of their top craft brews.

Everyone who attends gets a ballot and tastes the brews. Fresh-popped movie popcorn, live music and games, but the Georgia-borne brews take center stage, including the biggest names in local craft brews.

5-8 p.m Tybee Pier Pavilion, Off HWY 80 at the end of Tybrisa St. $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

912-663-1099. tybeeposttheater.org

Stewart Huff has performed all across the country and has been featured in the Aspen Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy and is a hit on various Fringe Festivals.

8-10 p.m Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. $9/$15 412-605-4807. stewarthuff.com

Film: Desperate Outpost

The PFS screens this film from 1959, an insanely rare black-and-white Japanese wartime drama filled with amazing cinematography, incredible acting and a thoughtprovoking script. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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

Film: Las Calles Hablan

Las Calles Hablan, a documentary on Barcelona street art, is a story about discovering a hidden world, an extraordinary subculture and the struggle between an artistic community painting for freedom of expression and an increasingly restrictive dogmatic government.

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

Thursday / 23 48 Hour Film Project Screenings

Filmmakers from all over the Savannah area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2016 for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.

July 23-25, 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $12

Service Brewing Co. One-Year Anniversary

Celebrate Service Brewing Co.'s oneyear anniversary with the release of their Anniversary Brew, live music by DJ Jose Ray and Futurebirds, custom ice cream

by Leopold's, food by the Florence's Kyle Jacovino, and tours of the facility.

Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street.

Session 1 $35, Session 2 $45

Civvies Grand Opening Party

Concert: I'll Cover You

Join Trae Gurley and a few of his friends for an evening of songs from artists that have and continue to inspire him. Ranging in genres from gospel, soul, standards, and singer songwriter - this show has something for everyone.

8-10 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $25 912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com/schedule/illcover-you/

Film: The Lottery of Birth

First in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. The series draws together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating.

6:30 p.m

Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Comedy: Stewart Huff The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Free 912-507-5735. fsioab@yahoo.com

Theatre: Almost, Maine

Armstrong's Masquers Summer Theatre presents John Carliani's play about nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

U.S. Army Soldier Show

The Broadway-style musical production delivers 90 minutes of high-energy entertainment. The show's cast and crew are made up entirely of soldiers.

7 p.m Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leonard Neat St. Free and open to the public 912-767-9841

Film: Frida

Oscar-winning film starring Salma Hayek.

Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring Alfred Molina and Geoffrey Rush, the film chronicles the life, struggles and passion of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Thu., July 23, 7 p.m.

SCAD Museum of Art

Friday / 24 48 Hour Film Project Screenings

Filmmakers from all over the Savannah area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2016 for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.

July 23-25, 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $12

Savannah Stage Company presents Carrie Smith Lewis' adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. This creative adaptation uses six actors to play nineteen parts.

8 p.m.

Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Theatre: Almost, Maine

Armstrong's Masquers Summer Theatre presents John Carliani's play about nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors

Savannah Summer Theatre Institute presents this brand new concept production of the beloved play "Little Shop of Horrors."

7:30 p.m.

Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Dr. $20

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Civvies is moving to a new and improved larger location only two doors down into the old stomping grounds of the Primary Art Supply building. Live music by COEDS and Carpet Coats.

6-10 p.m Civvies, 22 East Broughton St. 912-236-1551. civviesclothingonline@gmail.com.

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Saturday / 25 48 Hour Film Project Screenings

Filmmakers from all over the Savannah area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2016 for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival 2016, Court Métrage.

July 23-25, 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $12

CSS Georgia ‘Raise the Wreck!’ Festival

JULY 22-28, 2015

A free, public event highlighting the ongoing recovery of the Confederate ironclad vessel, the CSS Georgia, and its history.

Underwater archeology is currently taking place in the river where the vessel was scuttled, with dive activity scheduled during the first hour and a half of the event.

The event will provide opportunities for the public to examine artifacts recently recovered from the wreck site, view recovery operations taking place on the dive barge immediately offshore and talk with experts involved with the recovery.

9 a.m.-2 p.m Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Rd. Free to Public 912-652-5777. sas.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/SavannahHarborExpansion/CSSGeorgia.aspx

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Film: The Bourne Identity

A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and regain his memory. Followed by a post-show discussion of the film.

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

Forsyth Farmers Market

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

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

912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com

Ogeechee Riverkeeper Paddle Trip

To celebrate 10 exciting years of advocating and looking out for an important part of Coastal Georgia’s most beloved natural resources, Ogeechee Riverkeeper announces a new program of paddle-trips , which runs from March through September 2015. In exchange for a small fee, paddlers who don’t own a boat can rent one and embark on a tranquil journey that boasts facets of exploration, education and relaxation.

Each fourth Saturday, participants meet at 9 a.m. to acquaint themselves with the breath-taking sights in the Ogeechee River basin’s four sub-watersheds. Each trek necessitates about three to four hours of paddling plus an hour for lunch and features a guide who will share knowledge

of local wildlife and nature.

July trip: George L. Smith State Park Ogeechee Riverkeeper, 785 King George Blvd.

866-942-6222, ext. 2

Midnight SpitFire Saturday Open Mic & Showcase

A midnight version of this monthly openmic showcase that incorporates music, poetry, visual art, and many other artistic forms of expression. Sign up begins at 11:30 pm. Brought to you by Spitfire Poetry Group, with support from The Performing Arts Collective of Savannah, Muse Arts Warehouse, DJ Doc Ock. Last Saturday of every month, 11:30 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $5 Spitters. $7 Sitters. musesavannah.org

Splash Fest

Beat the heat and join us for the the splash-iest day of the year. Speed down our slip and slide, make a splash in one of our sensory pools, go wild in a sopping sponge war, dive into water science, and much more.

9 a.m.-2 p.m Savannah Children's Museum, 655 Louisville Road. $10 912-651-4292. chsgeorgia.org

Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Savannah Stage Company presents Carrie Smith Lewis' adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. This creative adaptation uses six actors to play nineteen parts.

8 p.m.

Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Theatre: Almost, Maine

Armstrong's Masquers Summer Theatre presents John Carliani's play about nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors

Savannah Summer Theatre Institute presents this brand new concept production of the beloved play "Little Shop of Horrors."

7:30 p.m.

Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Dr. $20

Sunday / 26 48 Hour Film Project Screenings

Filmmakers from all over the Savannah area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2016 for a chance at the grand prize and an

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3 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $12

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

This Civil Rights Era production, written by the late Dr. Ja A. Jahannes, deals with race relations in the South as well as the plight of Blacks and Jews in the 60's. The tale is woven with rich, original musical selections and a dynamic cast. The play is directed by Lucia Jahannes, musically directed by Gary Swindell, and choreographed by Muriel Miller.

5-7 p.m Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn Street. $15/advanced; $20/at the door 912-272-8631. csingleton88@gmail.com

Theatre: Almost, Maine

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Tuesday / 28 Dogtripping

Join author David Rosenfelt and the Humane Society to celebrate the release of his new works Lessons From Tara and Who Let the Dog Out. Enjoy an evening with the entertaining Rosenfelt as he shares his experiences in dog rescue and signs his latest releases all in support of the Humane Society for Greater Savannah.

5:30 p.m The Brice, 601 East Bay Street.

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. fourth Tuesday of every month, 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Monday / 27

Film: The Intruder

Mayor Jason Buelterman, City Manager Diane Schleicher, and all department heads will meet with the public for a question-and-answer session about hurricane season.

6:30-7:30 p.m Public Safety Building, 78 Van Horne Drive.

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Savannah Summer Theatre Institute presents this brand new concept production of the beloved play "Little Shop of Horrors."

2 p.m.

Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Dr. $20

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Wednesday / 29 Step Up Savannah, Inc. hosts this simulation, an experiential learning experience designed to help people better understand poverty. The simulation requires groups of 35 to 75 people to assume the roles of families living at or below the poverty level.

11 a.m.-1:30 p.m Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Free; registration required jjohnson@stepupsavannah.org

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Memory Holes Other countries might consider it an act of war. Here, it’s an afterthought.

Chattanooga is feeling the tragedy very keenly. And I can tell you that those in the AS PART of my conarmed forces community directly see the tinuing mission this sumattack as a dramatic expansion of terrorism mer to see as many Sand targeting the homeland. They wonder why Gnats games as possible before the team moves to Columbia more isn’t being made of it.

But the rest of the country seems to next season, I caught a couple of games this view it as more of an inconvenience. The past weekend at Grayson Stadium. president so far has taken it in stride, even It was a great weekend of baseball, beer, attending a Broadway show in New York and brats, complete with an outstanding over the weekend. fireworks show.

I understand life has to go on, and I’m not It was also a bit melancholy thinking of some of the great players who’ve swung a bat sure what exactly this all says. But it can’t be good. and worn a glove within the park’s confines One of the murdered servicemen was over the years: Babe Ruth, Jackie RobinSkip Wells, a Georgia native and former son, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron.

Georgia Southern student who joined the Literally the greatest names in the sport, Marines. He’d only been in Chattanooga right there at Victory and Bee. What a shame to not have pro ball in that for two weeks, his girlfriend remaining in Savannah until they could be together again. shabby-chic little old park anymore. And (There were two Georgia natives killed what a shame that those immortal legends in Chattanooga, and Georgia Gov. Nathan and their time in Savannah will probably Deal has ordered flags flown at half-staff vanish down the old memory hole forever. statewide on the days of their funerals.)

Not so immortal after all.

It would be such a shame if this incident Billed as a Subway Series down South— and these deaths, like so many others before, the teams are Mets and Yankees affiliates also went down the memory hole. respectively—the Sand Gnats played the Charleston Riverdogs all weekend.

LATE THAT Friday afternoon before It was in fact the first meeting between the teams since the Emanuel AME murders. the Gnats game, some very unusual breaking news came out of a Savannah courtroom.

So it was a bit ironic walking up to the The news was understandably overstadium and noticing the American flag in shadowed by Chattanooga, but is still very front of the stadium flying at full staff for important and shouldn’t be overlooked. the first time since those murders.

A mistrial was declared in the case of forAnd then I thought: Huh. Just 24 hours before, five U.S. servicemen mer Savannah Metro police officer Malik were assassinated on domestic soil. And the Khaalis, in court for violating his oath and making false statements. flag wasn’t at half-staff for them.

You might recognize the name from the Look, I don’t want to get too Fox & saga of disgraced and imprisoned former Friends here, or God forbid start channelpolice chief Willie Lovett. ing Donald Trump. But in this time when Like an episode of The Wire, an investipeople do seem very concerned about flags gation in 2010 revealed that Khaalis, then and what they stand for, it didn’t add up. on the Counter Narcotics Team (CNT), I realize that we can’t fly the flag at halfseemed to be a mole, actively disrupting the staff every single time a U.S. serviceman or team’s efforts to target drug dealers. servicewoman dies in the line of duty, othOne example, brought up during the trial, erwise the flag would pretty much always be was when Khaalis initiated an unauthorized at half-staff. traffic stop for the apparent purpose of tipBut this wasn’t a Blackhawk going down ping off a drug dealer who was the subject of in a training accident or a firefight outside a major operation.

Kabul. This attack would certainly seem to A CNT supervisor at the time, Rusty any objective observer to be a premeditated Smith, immediately demanded that Khaalis terroristic targeting of recruiting offices.

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be removed, but to no avail.

“I want him out today. I don’t want him in my unit,” Smith said he told CNT head Roy Harris. “I begged, I begged and begged and asked for some clarification.”

But Chief Lovett—who made personnel calls for CNT—only doubled-down on gutting the Team as much as possible.

I’ve written this before, but I guess I’ll have to keep writing it over and over again: The same people who hired and supported Willie Lovett are the exact same people asking you to return them to office this November.

The drug trade and corruption they abetted without question led directly to much of the gun violence on Savannah streets today.

And now... there’s a mistrial in a key case.

The key case which could theoretically lead us further up the money trail.

To the real heart of the problem?

The judge, however, found that the prosecution was sitting on evidence and ordered a new trial, which will begin a couple of weeks before the election. I’m not sure whether that helps or hurts incumbents running for office, but it almost assuredly won’t conclude in time for the voting.

A few years have gone by since the Lovett/Khaalis debacle. We have a new chief who seems to be moving in the right direction. As part of the new police merger agreement, Chatham County made sure to take CNT away from sole City control.

In any case, incumbent City politicians are now asking you to forget all that happened before. Just stay the course.

They’re hoping the improved national economy and the new police chief will make you forget what already happened on their watch, and their accountability for it.

By all means, vote as your own mind and conscience dictate. But please—don’t let the memory hole take any more from us than it already has. cs

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Our rising feminine mystique

By Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

JULY 22-28, 2015

Savannah has its share of women who own the national stage.

Some continue to elevate our city’s stature, like Flannery O’Connor and her legacy of blowing the minds of eleventh grade English students everywhere.

Others have built high-profile media careers only to bring us TMZ shame. (Dear Paula Deen, we will always adore you, but you might consider STAYING OFF THE INTERNET FOREVER.) There are also those whose accomplishments were subsumed during their lifetimes but later revealed, notably Catharine Littlefield Greene, down in the history books as the spunky wife of Revolutionary war hero Nathanael Greene and now widely believed to be the true inventor of the cotton gin.

(How hard it must’ve been for feisty Caty to keep her bonnet on while Eli Whitney mansplained “his” miraculous contraption to the patent office!)

But nobody puts our brilliant babes in a corner these days, and July has been a banner month for talented women representing our fair little town.

It all started at the MTV Fandom Awards, when Hunger Games ingénue Willow Shields accepted a trophy while wearing a flowing red gypsy dress created by Connect’s 2015 Best Local Fashion Designer Brooke Atwood. Featuring Brooke’s signature heavy metal flourishes and emblazoned with cheeky naked baby dolls, the nowfamous frock caught the eye of celebrity stylist Law Roach and has been splashed across Instagram and numerous “Eeek or Chic?” polls, demolishing the notion that Southern style must include grosgrain ribbon.

While our Brooke is used to A-Listers like Alyssa Milano and Vampire Diaries’ Candice Accola donning her fabulous duds (hello, even Beyoncé has shown interest), Shields’ red carpet tribute took her by surprise.

“I didn’t even know Law had picked the dress for her until I saw it online!” she exclaims. “I’ve had stars wear my clothes before, but this is a whole other level.”

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awards from the Atlanta Press Club and the Associated Press. The native Midwesterner became excited by politics at an early age and worked as a Senate page when she was just 16, but realized a career in government wasn’t quite her scene, after all.

“I realized I didn’t want to take sides, that I’m more interested in observing. I think it’s really important for democracy that there is someone watching and presenting information in an impartial way,” she mused at a going-away gathering in her honor.

“Not that I don’t have opinions, but my job is to be objective.”

Seeing her off at Tequila’s Town were GPB cohorts J. Cindy Hill, Emily Jones and Gabrielle Ware as well as Savannah Magazine associate editor and bestselling food writer Amy Paige Designs by Brooke Atwood (photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) and Condon, Armstrong PR manjeweler Meredith Sutton made national news this month. And guess ager Melanie Simón, Step Up what?! GPB’s Sarah McCammon (r.) is going to Washington!

Savannah’s new communications director Kate Blair, and Meredith Sutton. It seems the jewelry artto veterans’ charities. (Full Paprika Southern’s Bevin Jalist’s Instagram feed piqued the interest of disclosure: I compose SBC’s bert and Siobhan Egan, who iconic NYC menswear designer Michael beer labels, so enjoy that recently crowdfunded the first Bastian, and he sent a message wondering 4-point type next time you print issue of their indepenif she might be interested in supplying some crack open a cold Ground Pounder.) dent art and style magazine. jewelry for the launch of his new women’s As Meredith soldered for her Fashion It was, to quote a refrain from female rapline. In less than two weeks, no big deal.

Week spotlight, she and Kev were also per Kreayshawn’s 2011 smash hit “Gucci One of the SCAD jewelry department’s soldiering through Georgia’s new-andGucci,” “one big room, full of bad bitches.” most prolific graduates, Meredith regularly improved brewery laws and planning SBC’s Sarah’s also a mother to two hilarious supplies pieces to boutiques in Los Angefirst anniversary party this Friday, July 24. boys, and because the patriarchy is still les and beyond, and her work is ubiquitous (The Florence’s Kyle Jacovino is cooking, hanging on to its terrible toupée with its around Savannah (you may have seen her and Futurebirds is playing! Read more on liver-spotted hands, some of you may be Kobo Gallery polo cuffs adorning the page 45.) wondering how she’ll manage her familial wrists of some of the city’s most prominent It’s a lot of responsibility for this low-key duties while she’s in DC. The answer is that women; I’m almost positive that they can lady, but not much fazes a woman who liter- her husband, Armstrong philosophy teacher deflect bullets à la Wonder Woman, but ally bends metal to her will.

Christopher McCammon, is perfectly don’t ask me to prove it.)

“Yeah, we’ve been able to accomplish a capable of handling things at home while his Not one to hem and haw in the face of a lot this year,” shrugs Meredith. “We’ve really wife covers this historic presidential election. challenge, the artist ensconced herself inside been able to stick to our mission, and I think Maybe one day we’ll all learn to be conher studio with her torch, her dog and a bar- that’s why we’ve been successful.” cerned with how badass women and men rel of coffee and churned out a dozen new And if it weren’t enough that Savannah’s figure out the whole work/life balance thing. pieces. And voila! Last Wednesday at the designers are taking over the style pages, (Hey, knock Bernie Sanders all you like, but first annual men’s New York Fashion Week, we’ve also got a woman in Washington. paid leave for both parents and free childthe world got a sneak peek at Bastian’s femiGeorgia Public Broadcasting bureau care sounds pretty helpful, no?) nine debut, accessorized with Meredith’s chief Sarah McCammon embarks on a Until then, rest assured that our Savanoversized horseshoe necklaces and stacked 16-month stint at NPR this week as a lead nah dames have it covered. brass bangles. candidate reporter for the 2016 political Speaking of equilibrium, I’ll be taking the This creative feat is made even more campaign, a momentous election season for next few weeks off to recalibrate and cultiimpressive by the fact that Meredith is also women everywhere, no matter how you feel vate a state of restorative hebetude. I’ll be the marketing force behind Service Brewabout Hillary. Or Carly Fiorina. back mid-August with more (Civil) Society ing Co., the craft brewery started last year Sarah covered the 2012 election for Iowa columns, but in the meantime, I guess I’ll by her boyfriend, Kevin Ryan. SBC has Public Radio and has brought accuracy have to figure out other ways to honor those achieved national recognition for its tasty and alacrity to the airwaves since she joined whose triumphs might be overlooked. brews and for donating portions of its sales GPB Savannah in 2013, earning multiple Cotton gin ‘n’ tonic, anyone? cs

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And under the control of someone who is properly trained, a bicycle is a magnificently nimble vehicle that can be easily steered clear of potentially dangerous situations.

Most people arrive at Smart Cycling classes with a general understanding of traffic laws. They know that whether they are riding a bike or driving a car, they are supposed to follow the same regulations, summarized by the phrase, “Same roads, same rules, same rights.”

Yet it’s not quite that simple. There are passages in the Official Code of Georgia that apply specifically to bicycles and within some of these passages there’s a certain level of nuance that is not always apparent.

For instance, some people read, “Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable…” and presume that they should hug the curb to get as far to the right as possible.

However, “as practicable” and “as possible” are not synonymous phrases, explained Brent Buice, executive director of Georgia Bikes and one of the instructors for last weekend’s class. It is up to each person to determine how far right in a lane is practicable.

In fact, the law permits people on bikes to move away from the right side of the street in a number of scenarios including avoiding debris or other hazards.

One of these hazards can be the street

itself. When a “lane is too narrow to share safely with a motor vehicle,” says the law, a person on a bike may move to the center of the lane.

Doing otherwise may invite a driver to attempt a pass when there is not enough room.

While permitted by law, “taking the lane” as it is often called, is completely bewildering to some drivers. They complain about “fools riding their bikes in the middle of the street,” not recognizing that it may be the safest place for them to be.

Some of these complaints are issued directly to people on bikes via blaring horns or expletive laden tirades yelled from the windows of their cars.

As a result, graduates of the Smart Cycling class may find themselves in the uncomfortable position of receiving unsolicited advice on how to ride their bikes from people who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Still, they know the law is on their side and, having completed the class, can talk about the legalities and practicalities of cycling with family members, friends, neighbors, classmates and coworkers.

With more Savannahians equipped with Smart Cycling knowledge and the ability to explain it to others, we will all be safer. cs For information on upcoming Safe Cycling classes, email john@bicyclecampaign.org

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HERE’S WHAT I remember about the drivers education class I took in high school: The simulators that required students to steer along to scenes of suburban Los Angeles streets from the 1970s, which were projected on a classroom wall.

It was like driving through an episode of “The Brady Bunch,” except with a bored football coach occasionally barking commands.

Did I learn anything? Probably. It’s hard to say because that drivers ed class, the first and only formal training I received in motor vehicle operation, happened three decades ago.

I suspect my experience is fairly common.

Do you know any adult who has voluntarily taken a refresher course? I don’t. Attending the Richard Petty Fantasy Racing Camp (yes, that’s a thing) does not count.

Last Friday and Saturday, however, grown people from around Savannah willingly submitted to more than eight hours of training on how to drive a different kind of vehicle: a bicycle.

The League of American Bicyclists’ Smart Cycling class covers principles of traffic law, crash avoidance maneuvers, basic bicycle maintenance and other topics. Participants receive classroom instruction, practice bike-handling skills on a closed course, and ride with traffic in a group to demonstrate concepts learned in the class. The class is taught by nationally certified instructors and is designed to make people safer and more confident when riding on city streets.

Reasons for taking the class vary. Some want to become cycling instructors themselves or simply want to make sure they are teaching their children best practices.

Others are eager to try bicycle commuting or using their bicycles to run errands, but are apprehensive about sharing the streets with people driving cars and trucks.

The crash avoidance techniques taught in the class make full use of two significant advantages that people on bikes have at their disposal. When riding a bike, a person’s field of vision is uninterrupted by roof pillars or air fresheners dangling from the rearview mirror.

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Raising the Wreck

Event at Ft. Jackson gives public a chance to see the complex dive effort on the CSS Georgia

by Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

JULY 22-28, 2015

THOUGH THE Confederate Navy was massively outnumbered in the Civil War, they equaled the odds a bit through the use of major technological breakthroughs —some of which reverberated through the centuries.

Up in Charleston, for example, the CSS Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink an enemy vessel.

The Confederate Navy pioneered the first use of ironclad warships, widely dreaded by Northern sailors and precursors of the huge battleships of the 20th Century.

Like a bull in a china shop, a single rebel ironclad could by itself wreak havoc on a fleet of unarmored Yankee ships powerless to stop it, their shells bouncing harmlessly off the iron plates.

Savannah had its own ironclad, the CSS Georgia, scuttled in the Savannah River late in the Civil War to keep it out of the hands of Sherman’s troops.

But that isn’t to say the warship has rested quietly since then.

An ill-advised salvage effort in the 1870s used explosives to dislodge the remains, not surprisingly causing great damage to the ship’s structure.

As the river has been dredged deeper and deeper since then, changing current and sediment patterns mean that the shipwreck—now more accurately called “a debris field,” in the words of one expert—is spread out in open water on a shelf of ancient clay, essentially in plain sight to divers.

A buoy directly across the Savannah River from Old Fort Jackson has marked the remains of the Georgia for years, to keep other vessels away.

Cargo vessels have managed to avoid it, but at least twice—once in the 1960s and again in the 1980s—dredging barges 10 squarely hit it.

Above, the team raises one of the Georgia’s cannon last week. Right, a grapeshot stand with cap. Photos courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Now, perhaps mercifully, the final waterborne chapter in the life of the CSS Georgia is being written, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with assistance from the U.S. Navy, has been budgeted $15 million to salvage as much of the wreck as possible in advance of the next large dredging project.

The most newsworthy thing going on these days is the salvage of the ship’s weaponry, a project which has brought a few surprises.

“We were surprised by the sheer volume of munitions still aboard,” says Russell Wicke, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District.

Previous sonar imagery had shown only half a dozen unused artillery shells, Wicke says, “but so far we’ve discovered more than 50,” he says.

According to Wicke, the discrepancy is largely because the shells had fallen into crevasses left by dredging, hiding the shells from sonar.

While Wicke says “these are completely water-soaked black powder munitions” and therefore almost certainly harmless, “in the interest of safety we have to assume each piece is potentially dangerous. So that means the U.S. Navy has to handle that as part of protocol. The Corps isn’t trained to

handle that.”

With help from the Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Two, the project is bringing up not only the shells for the Georgia’s cannon, but the heavy guns themselves. And there are a few surprises on that end as well.

There were a total of six guns on the Georgia, two of which were pulled up in the 1980s and are now on view at Fort Jackson.

“Of the four that stayed down there, we just now pulled up one of the smaller ones, a six-pounder,” says Julie Morgan, staff archaeologist with the Corps’ Savannah District.

The six pounds refers of course not to the cannon, but to the weight of each shell fired.

Two of the three remaining guns are enormous 32-pound rifled cannon, with the other being a smaller smooth-bore gun.

Another surprise, Wicke says, has to do with the aiming of the ship’s guns.

“We found out the cannons were mounted so they could swivel side-to-side,” he says. “Previously we thought they could only be angled up or down.”

While there are certainly many more well-preserved Civil War vessels, the CSS Georgia stands unique in the historical record in a number of ways, Morgan says.

“The CSS Georgia specifically used railroad track for her armor,” says Morgan. “We only know of three other ironclads that used railroad iron.”

Also of significance is the fact that a local civilian organization, The Ladies Gunboat Association, raised money to build the Georgia “and then literally donated it to the Confederacy,” Morgan says.

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operation in real-time, at next weekend’s Raise the Wreck Festival at Old Fort Jackson.

“This will be real fun for the whole family,” says Rita Elliott, a respected local archaeologist who also serves as Cultural Resources Outreach Specialist for the firm GEC, a contractor on the operation.

“You’ll be able to see the dive barge from the shore, right across from the fort. We’ll have binoculars set up,” Elliott says.

“There will be livestreaming video from the barge, and people will actually be able to talk back and forth with the divers several times during the day.”

In addition, there will be a number of booths set up from all kinds of vendors and groups with an interest in the CSS Georgia.

“This shipwreck is very important to the history of the Civil War in this area, and this is a great opportunity to engage directly with that history,” she says. cs Raise the Wreck Festival When: Sat. July 25, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; get there early to talk to dive team and see livestreaming video Where: Old Fort Jackson Info: www.chsgeorgia.org

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Most ironclads were retrofitted former steamships, but the Georgia was purpose-built from the keel up as a dedicated ironclad.

However, she shared the often-fatal flaw of most Civil War ironclads—a too-weak propulsion system.

“The main problem was her engine was just not powerful enough to consistently fight the current on the Savannah River,” Morgan says.

So with her devastating array of cannon, she was converted to an anchored floating fortress instead.

Morgan says it’s not known exactly what type or how big an engine the Georgia had, but the Corps hopes to have some answers soon.

“We’ve brought up one propeller and a few engine parts so far,” she says.

While Morgan says the goal is to salvage 100 percent of the Georgia’s remains, she agrees that’s often not completely realistic with marine salvage operations.

“We might find ourselves at a point where we attempt to conserve what’s still down there, for some future project to bring up at a later date.”

But for now, she says, the Corps is operating with the goal of bringing up all of what’s left of the ship and turning it over to research partner Texas A&M University for cataloguing and potential display.

Don’t fret, however—Savannah gets an altogether unique chance to see the

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conveys an essentially identical message. In other words, the Rosetta Stone is a hieroglyphics cheat sheet.

The two researchers who vied to translate the Rosetta Stone were the French linguist Jean-François Champollion and the English freelance genius Thomas Young. Young had the first breakthrough, discovering that demotic script was actually a cursive version of hieroglyphics. However, like everyone else at the time, he thought both hieroglyphs and demotic characters were ideographs— that is, each symbol represented a concept, as with the components of Chinese characHow do we know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian? ters, rather than representing only a sound, as with the Latin alphabet.

A string of glyphs like “bird-snake-manHow do we know how to pronounce proper river” was assumed to mean something, but names in ancient Egyptian? I understand the no one thought you could pronounce it like Rosetta Stone gave us the ability to translate a sequence of letters. hieroglyphics, but how do we know two birds Young believed some hieroglyphs were laying eggs is pronounced “Tutankhamun”? — phonetic—specifically, those used to spell Dave K., Milford, Connecticut out the names of foreign rulers. HieroSOME are now thinking: who cares how we glyphs representing kings and queens were know this? This is shallow. Fact is, David, we often enclosed in an oblong border called a do know, more or less. And how we know is cartouche, making them easy to spot. The glyphs representing Egyptian rulers’ names a fascinating tale. were believed to be purely symbolic, not It won’t surprise you to learn our knowlphonetic. edge of how to pronounce Egyptian hieroBut since foreign names had no local glyphics begins with the Rosetta Stone. equivalent, they could only be expressed Discovered in 1799, the stone is a black granite-like slab on which a decree by Ptol- phonetically, suggesting the glyph strings in those cartouches had to be pronounceable. emy V is inscribed in three languages— This proved to be the key to decoding. hieroglyphics, what’s now called demotic The Rosetta scripts encoded different lanscript, and ancient Greek.

The message itself, issued in Memphis in guages. But proper names would presum196 BC, is of little consequence. (Short ver- ably be pronounced similarly regardless of language. sion: I, Ptolemy V, have done great deeds.

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only six before giving up. The task fell to Champollion.

He made two breakthroughs. The first was comparing the demotic characters signifying Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone to those representing Cleopatra in a separate example of demotic. He found characters corresponding to the Greek equivalents of P, L, T, O, and Ein each name. In other words, demotic characters didn’t just symbolize concepts; they spelled out how words were pronounced. (As you may have guessed, in Greek the P in Ptolemy isn’t silent.)

Champollion’s next brainstorm was more of a leap. First he identified the hieroglyphs corresponding to various demotic characters. Then he took the hieroglyphs for Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone and compared them to those on an obelisk, in a cartouche known to signify Cleopatra.

Sure enough, he found the P, L, O, and E hieroglyphs exactly where he predicted.

What about the T? Champollion deduced he’d found a hieroglyphic homophone for this letter—that is, another symbol having the same pronunciation, as with our F and PH. Champollion set about finding other correspondences between Greek letters and hieroglyphs. In 1822, he found noncartouche-enclosed hieroglyphs spelling out “Ra-mes-ses” (i.e., the name Ramses, used by numerous pharaohs). Bingo! Champollion’s work wasn’t confirmed until 1866, when another multilingual text was discovered. But he’d figured it out.

The ancient Egyptians weren’t the only ones with a glyphic language—the ancient Mayans had one too. Early Spanish explorers attempted to record the Mayan calendar

symbols in Spanish, producing a potentially Rosetta-like transliteration, but made a fatal error and got lost.

Translation of Mayan glyphs made no real progress until 1952, when Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov pointed out the critical wrong turn in early attempts: the Spaniards assumed each Mayan glyph represented just one sound, whereas really each represented a syllable, or set of sounds, similar to Japanese kana writing.

The ingenuity of linguists in matching up sounds notwithstanding, without some Rosetta-type document or connection to a living language, translation of dead tongues is close to impossible. We have some idea what ancient Etruscan sounded like because Greek and Etruscan letters tend to be used interchangeably in surviving Etruscan writing samples. But for the most part no one knows what the writing says.

So that’s how we know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian names. That’s not to say an ancient Egyptian would know what you were talking about if you chronoported back to Thebes in the second century BC and asked to see Tutankhamen. As any American knows who’s earned Parisian scorn trying to communicate with just a FrenchEnglish dictionary, the Latin alphabet gives only a rough idea of pronunciation.

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dark colored Ford Taurus, Ford Fusion or sports car. He was last seen traveling toward West Bay Street.”

The second suspect is a black female.

During the incident she drove a dark colored compact car. She also fled toward West Bay Street.

Police seek shooting subject

Lamarlvin Watts

Ruff sustained non-life threatening injuries. He was transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center for care.

The shooting occurred on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Indian Street.

Investigators believe the suspects fled in two separate cars.

“The first suspect is a black male with a dark complexion, possibly in his 20s. He weighs roughly 220 pounds. During the incident he wore a striped shirt,” police say. “The suspect fled in a newer model,

Violent Crimes investigators of Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department ask the public’s help in identifying and locating the suspect in a Saturday morning shooting, July 11.

At 2:48 a.m. Metro responded to West 38th and Jefferson streets, where Mario Lemon, 34, hid after being shot. Lemon’s injuries were non-life threatening. He was taken to Memorial University Medical Center for care.

The suspect is a black male, short in stature with short hair. He drove away from the scene in a gray sedan with tinted windows.

All cases from recent local law enforcement incident reports. Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 912/234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) using keyword CSTOP2020.

JULY 22-28, 2015

Violent Crimes investigators of 20 Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are seeking information on a (7 solved) Wednesday night shooting, July 15, that sent one man to the hospital in serious, yet Alleged Wells Fargo robber in custody stable condition.

Lamarlvin Watts, 20, was arrested last At 11:26 p.m. “Metro responded to Wednesday evening, by the Federal Bureau Memorial University Medical Center where of Investigation’s Southeast Georgia Violent Malique Buie,18, arrived in a private vehicle Crime Task Force and Savannah-Chatham after being shot,” police say. “Preliminary Metropolitan Police for an armed bank rob- investigation led Metro detectives to the bery earlier in the week week.

1100 block of East 70th Street, where the Metro’s Robbery Unit obtained arrest shooting may have occurred. No evidence of warrants on Wednesday afternoon. Watts the crime was recovered.” was taken into custody by 5:30 p.m. without Investigators are searching for a white incident. The FBI along with Metro’s Crimi- Hyundai Sonata possibly connected to nal Investigations Division, K-9, and Islands this case. It was last seen traveling toward Precinct CSU were on scene.

Waters Avenue from 70th Street.

The incident occurred Tuesday, July 13 at Wells Fargo on the 1900 block of East Shooting suspect sought Victory Drive. Watts is charged with armed Violent Crimes investigators of Savanrobbery, possession of a firearm in commit- nah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Departting a crime and aggravated assault. ment are searching for two suspects linked During the incident he wore a yellow hat to a shooting early Sunday morning July 12. with a Polo logo and a camouflage bandana “At 3:34 a.m. Metro responded to a gas over his face. station on the 500 block of West Bay Street, where Maurice Xavier Ruff, 27, of Savannah was found suffering from a gunshot wound,” police say.

2015 Sav/Chatham County Homicide Total through Sun. July 19:

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news & Opinion | News of the weird Outsourcing

housecats are “in the magnitude of millions” in the United Kingdom and “billions” in the United States.

• The “parasitic ways” of the cuckoo bird were remarked upon “as far back as Aristotle,” wrote a Wall Street Journal book New World Order reviewer in May, but some biologists may In 1993, the owner of the iconic 5Pointz not have believed the behavior because it building in New York City was so cold-blooded. The began allowing graffiti artists bird, according to Nick to use the walls for their masDavies’ book “Cuckoo: terpieces, but by 2013 had Cheating by Nature,” grown weary of the buildlays its eggs in other speing’s look and had the walls cies’ nests to trick those the Donald, whitewashed. In June 2015, birds into incubating the your 15 minutes nine of the artists filed a fedcuckoos, who then hatch is up eral lawsuit demanding that and kick the eggs of their the owner compensate them, host out of the nest. The mother cuckoo, it is said, Government in Action substantially, for destroying times her mating schedule • WOOD-TV of Grand Rapids, Michi- their creations -- and they so that her eggs mature gan, seemingly uncovered an antiquity -- if stand a good chance of coljust before the victims’ eggs not a potential vulnerability -- in the Grand lecting (under the Visual Artwould. Hence, according Rapids public school system in June when ists Rights Act) if they prove to Davies, she is “nature’s it reported that the heating and cooling their particular works are of most notorious cheat.” systems at 19 schools are controlled using a “recognized stature” and not merely art of an “ephemeral Commodore Amiga computer (released in the 1980s, about the same time as Windows nature.” At its height, 5Pointz Perspective 2.0), operating on an early Internet modem. attracted more than 350 artTo cover various general ists’ works from around the world.

It had been installed by a computer-savvy expenses (such as helping the indigent), the student and, according to the maintenance average hospital mark-up for patient care in supervisor, still works fine. Fortunately, the Animal World the United States is about 3.4 times costs supervisor said, the student still lives in the • A June entry in Wired.com’s “Absurd (according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg area and is available if problems arise.

Creature of the Week” series warned of School of Public Health report in June), but • Recurring Theme: Government officials the Beaded Lacewing that preys on ter50 of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals charge who insist on such “bells and whistles” as mites by first immobilizing them with a more than 10 times the cost, with the North redesigning their department’s logo are often “vapor-phase toxicant” released from its Okaloosa Medical Center near Pensacola, ridiculed for wasting taxpayer money (yet anus. The silent-but-deadly gas is reportFlorida, billing at 12.6 times costs. Accorddesign consultants continue to sell the illuedly powerful enough to disable six ordinary ing to the co-author, professor Gerard sion that a new logo can give a bureaucracy termites for up to three hours (plenty of Anderson, the 50 “are marking up the prices a refreshing rebirth). In May, Tennessee offi- time for a sumptuous meal of termite) and because no one is telling them they can’t.” cials unveiled a new state logo (which cost weaken several more that might get caught (Forty-nine of the 50 are for-profit hospionly $46,000 -- not counting the expense of in the backdraft. Wired.com also learned tals, and 20 are in Florida.) changing signs, cards, stationery, etc.), which of the related species Chrysoperla comanconsists of the letters “TN” in white inside che, whose anal weaponry is in solid form, People With Issues a red box with a blue trim underneath. (A wielded by “master contortionists” who lift Former British Navy sailor Alan ReynWatchdog.org critic suggested a contest to their abdomens in order to directly contact olds, 55, of Porthleven, England, was condesign a superior one, but open only to kids their victims’ head. victed in April of a burglary in which he age 12 and under, with the prize a $50 Ama• Suspicion Confirmed: In June 2015 stole items from the home of a colleague to zon.com gift certificate.) research, scientists from Britain’s University pursue his fetish for waterproof clothing of Exeter and Queen Mary University of -- to enrich his fantasy, he told a judge, of Compelling Explanations London warned that owners of “domestic” imagining himself a prisoner of war. Photos Adultery is illegal in Japan -- except, as a cats seem not, on average, to appreciate what and videos taken from his home show him vicious killers their pets are and urge, for Tokyo District Court judge ruled in a “psyin bright yellow waterproof trousers and chological distress” lawsuit filed by the jilted instance, that they be kept indoors more green waterproof poncho, removing layers wife, when it is done by a company to retain often lest they decimate the neighborhood’s of clothing from underneath and “smelling” bird and small-mammal populations. Estia good customer. A night club hostess who them. had carried on with the married man proved mates of the yearly death toll generated by that she did so only as “makura eigyo,” or

JULY 22-28, 2015

Among the protesters at New York City’s Gay Pride Parade on the Sunday after the Supreme Court’s historic gay-marriage decision was a group of men outfitted in Jewish prayer garments and representing the Jewish Political Action Committee, carrying signs reading, for example, “Judaism prohibits homosexuality.” However, the men were very likely not Jewish, but in fact Mexican laborers hired for the day. A representative of the committee told The New York Times that the men were “supplemental” -- necessary because the committee’s rabbis would not permit their students (who normally staff such protests) to be exposed to the sights of same-sex exuberance typical for the parade.

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“pillow sales tactic.” Said the judge, “As long as the intercourse is for business, it does not harm the marital relationship at all.” (The ruling, from 2014, was first publicized this year.)

Least Competent Criminals

Confused: (1) Christopher Furay, 33, pleaded guilty in Pittsburgh in April to six bank robberies -- the first four in which surveillance video revealed him to have a reddish beard and the last two in which the video revealed him to be wearing a fake red beard covering his reddish beard. Furay did not explain. (2) In June, police in Roseville, Minnesota, quickly located J&J Construction’s missing equipment trailer (stolen from a work site) -- parked near the Washington County Courthouse, where the thief apparently had left it while he answered a court summons. WCCO-TV reported that the man was soon jailed on a separate charge.

Recurring Themes

Sy Allen, arrested in March in Colchester, England, on suspicion of possessing drugs with intent to sell, relied on a fairly common strategy: As officers burst into the room, he swallowed the “evidence.” As in the other cases, police decided to wait for nature to take its course in order to recover the suspected drugs. Unlike in the other cases, Allen managed to hold out, with no bowel movement, for 23 days -- but not a 24th. He was arrested.

A News of the Weird Classic (November 2010) In November (2010), after her fourthgrade son was allegedly slapped by his teacher at a Kansas City, Missouri, elementary school (son, black; teacher, white), Lisa Henry Bowen submitted a 40-page list of reparations she expects from President Obama and two dozen other officials, including: $1.25 million cash, $13,500 in Wal-mart gift cards, free college education, Disney World vacations, private tennis lessons, an African safari, her mortgage paid off, home remodeling, nine years of free medical and dental coverage, and a nine-year “consulting contract” with the school district at $15,000 a month. Anticipating criticism that she had taken it too far, she added that opponents can (original punctuation) “kiss my entire black (rear end)!!!!!! I haven’t begun to go far enough!!!!!!!”

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Had y’all been talking to Phillip [Cope, of label Retro Futurist and Kylesa] before Retro Futurist got interested?

(The) Niche is back!

By Anna Chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

Guitarist/ vocalist Justin Dick may sing about the absence of heroes of old, but if there’s anything Dick and his band Niche prove on their new LP, it’s that guitar heroes are alive and well.

Niche’s Retro Futurist debut, Heading East, is a tidal epic, sending listeners roaming across expanses of hot, hard-beaten earth and soaring them skyward in airy, psychedelic swirls. Sprawling out of the dynamic dueling guitars of Dick and Niche’s newest member Kris Maedke-Russell, their huge, ‘70s-steeped sound is awakened by Corey Barhorst’s organ, Mike Redmond’s full-throttle bass, and the incredible chops of drummer Lee Vallier. Across the board, there’s a transcendental, road-ready influence that Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, and even Grateful Dead fans can all equally get behind.

The band is currently touring to promote Heading East. I gave Dick a ring while both our bands were on the road (he was hanging out at Maedke-Russell’s mom’s abode in Milwaukee, I was dripping sweat onto a Tampa bar’s patio) to learn more about the making of Heading East.

We had the two albums we self-released, and Phillip was already interested in recording this material.

Of course, Corey has history with Phillip, and we grew up together—I’ve known him since I was a teenager, and he’s recorded my bands in the past. So I was familiar with working from him at a younger age...he showed interest, and just wanted to be a part of it. We hadn’t worked together in awhile, but we went ahead and got up in the studio and recorded everything.

Later on after that, he talked about Retro Futurist. We had planned on doing the same ol’ self-release—with this, we wanted to spend more time and money and focus on it.

We listened to the album on the drive down here—love it. Niche has always kind of been known as a Southern Rock band, Is it a collaborative effort of writing guitar but off the bat, this one has a really South- parts? Is the writing focused around them? western feel to it.

Mainly on guitars, it’s natural. I’ll come up Yeah, it’s a good bit different than the others. with a strong structure—mainly like a verse, chorus and maybe sometimes a bridge, usuIt has this kind of smoky haze to it. What ally—then, this album a lot of it, me and were you going for this go-round?

Kris got together and he’d help me fine-tune what should be where. Most guitar parts we Well, the songs were already heading in kind of come up with—especially with the that direction from the last record. Basically, dual leads—are written in the song when it was getting Kris on and having second we’d get together with everybody else and guitar. We kind of focused more melodyjam. We take the initial simple structure of wise and structurally-wise…we were focus- verse-chorus and just kind of expand on ing more on two guitars and using that that. dynamic; it naturally progressed.

What’s it like writing those dual leads? Is a I really love how there are these Neil lot of jamming out?

Young vibes in parts, that Pink Floyd atmospheric feel in others, but you can lis- A lot of stuff with me and Kris, it’s a lot of ten to any section and it’s clearly a Niche back and forth. He’s got a real good ear for record—there’s still those big, distinct melody that I don’t necessarily hear. I focus guitars. How did things change when Kris on how vocals go through the song, and he’s joined the band? got a good ear for finding an underlying melody. He’ll come up with a riff, and we’ll Other Side of the End, we’d just finished that expand on that. It’s real natural—we’re not when Corey and me were going back and like, ‘this part needs dual guitars,’ ‘an underforth talking…‘what think about a second lying melody would be cool to throw in guitar?’ there’—it just kind of happens naturally.

I was like, ‘I’d be down to try it.’ And he

The album art is really beautiful.

Thanks, Samantha Muljat and Sarah Winkle did it. They’ve done a couple other album covers for EARTH and some other bands. For this album, we just wanted to do something completely different: we decided to get out of town record it, decided to go with somebody completely outside of family and friends [for art], which we’d rarely done in past. Just wanted to try something new. They shot on location in California on a lake, and through email we were able to come to final product.

Wait, that’s a photo?!

Yeah! I sent early rough version of album for inspiration. Then yeah, they took pictures, then I guess ran it through whatever filters in Photoshop and came up with overall art.

It feels super-Houses of the Holy.

That’s exactly it!

Lyrically, there’s a very heroic vibe throughout the record. What were you going for when you were writing the lyrics?

Honestly, lyrics are always secondary for me.

Once a song starts coming close to finishing, I just kind of get into the mood of the song and go from there without having an overall strong theme right away. I let it happen, but physically I can think of going off of the mood and go from there.

Yeah, the closer—“the eye that’s always watching us…”—has that Pink Floyd, smoky feel. The guitars really set the mood before the vocals come in.

That song›s specifically a mixture of like, kind of cryptic, but still an underlying message of distrust of the world surrounding us, feeling government and media and everything, and still very kind of like, coming from a punk rock-y feel.

When’s vinyl coming in?

They were both pressed at the same time— so we’ll do vinyl and a full album release on November 6. We’re just anxious to get them, so we’ll do the CD release now, and it gives a chance to get out on the road and create buzz for when the album’s in. CS Niche, Bask When: Friday, July 24, The Jinx, 10 p.m.

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was friends with Kris and I was like, ‘alright, bring him on and we’ll jam’—and everything clicked. After Other Side of the End, we didn’t end up touring—we got something completely new here.

For the next year after that, we focused on writing new material and how to make it specifically tailored, now having Kris in the band. We naturally let things go from there, writing songs, getting really tight, and ended up recording up at The Jam Room.

Niche and their beards will offer a free CD with entry to their album release show. Photo by Julie Anne Daniel

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OnStage Cabaret: I’ll Cover You @The Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Trae Gurley

The summer OnStage Cabaret series continues with one of Savannah’s favorite vocalists: Trae Gurley.

For this special performance, Gurley and friends have selected some of his best-loved tunes to share with the audience. What makes it all the more unique is the singer’s incredible range of selections: expect to hear Sinatra (a Gurley mainstay), Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, and, as the name suggests, a tribute to Broadway’s Rent.

It’s a stripped-down performance in which only acoustic instruments will be used, creating a whole new take on Gurley’s gospel, singer-songwriter, soul, and standard picks.

Thursday, July 23, 8 p.m., $25

Futurebirds

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Futurebirds and craft beer: it’s becoming a Savannah thing. Last time we were sippin’ something hoppy and hoppin’ on the dance floor to Athens’ favorite psych-countryflavored rockers, it was Savannah Stopover’s big lineup announcement party this past November.

The boys are back in town to raise a glass and commemorate another great local effort: one year of Service Brewing Company. Since their last trek to the Lowcountry, the quintet dropped a 7” Record Store Day split with fellow Georgian T. Hardy Morris (guitarist/ vocalist of Southern rock band Dead Confederate). A melodic heartbreaker of a country song, “Painted Tears” boasts wistful pedal steel, Wurlitzer organ care of Alabama R&B guru Steve Bassett, pleasingly loose harmonies and a catchy, slow-toe-tapper of a melody.

Service, a veteran-owned-and-brewed brewery, has been a welcome addition to local taps; a celebration of one turn around the sun with these great folks is sure to be a memorable one. For a $45 ticket, attendees get a 36 oz. tasting (including several brews that are only available at the brewery), a 750mL vessel of SBC1 (Service’s limited edition anniversary brew), a take-home souvenir glass, a tour of the facility, delectable meats grilled up by Executive Chef Kyle Jacovino of The Florence, and a Futurebirds show. Dang!

A portion of ticket sales will benefit the Honor Our Heroes Foundation.

And now for something completely different! The Sweet Tease burlesque boys and girls are ready to surprise, tantalize, and delight longtime fans through a summer show with a twist.

“Typically all three of the co-founders decide the theme [of a show],” explains Anita Narcisse (Erin GO Brahless onstage).

“As far as acts, we have a working list of act ideas for each theme,” she says. “We are always open to input from the rest of the troupe as well, when it comes to act ideas within the theme.”

But for SPF15 (Something Pretty F%*@#ing...), they’re bucking the rules with no theme to be seen! Rather, individual Teases have brought their own ideas to the table, doing “whatever they like” for an act, “whether it be something they have been dying to do, an idea they’ve had, a concept they’ve been developing on their own,” Narcisse offers.

SPF provides some seasonal context, as Rebel Belle, Magnolia Minxxx, Erin GO Brahless, Vesper Von Havoc, Sadie De Sade, Edie Bellini, and Jack N’ Thacox each offer “Something Pretty F%*@#ing Fun,” “Sacrilegious,” “Badass,” “Seductive,” “Elusive,” “Bizarre,” “Ridiculous,” “Fascinating,” etc.

Each performer is in charge of their every twist, turn, wink, sequin, and shimmy—it’s certainly going to be fun to see their individual personalities shine through in a whole new light (so hot, perhaps, we better slather on some sunscreen).

Athens punk quartet SHEHEHE always put on a great show; they’ll open the night.

Friday, July 24, 9 p.m., $45

Saturday, July 25, doors at 9 p.m., show at 10 p.m., $10

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Last year, MusicFile Productions (parent company of Savannah Stopover) hatched a brilliant idea. Driving up I-16 sucks (with the exception of that one exit where you can pet llamas)—and getting behind the wheel after a full day of music and libations isn’t a good idea, either. Enter Road Trip to Bragg Jam Music, Art, and Kids’ Festival, the Savannah passageway to Macon’s annual day-long fest.

There’s a great lineup this year featuring a lot of Stopover alums and Savannah favorites, Futurebirds, Family And Friends, Turbo Fruits, New Madrid, T. Hardy Morris & The Hardknocks, The Apache Relay, Good Graeff, Margo & The Pricetags, and Cicada Rhythm among them. But even the most devout Savannah music fan will find something new and exciting on the lineup—and with bands like Moon Taxi and Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band heading up the fest, it’s gearing up to be a dance party.

Reading through the roster, I was particularly struck with who I found way down on the second-to-last line of the lineup: Wreckless Eric, the neon-tiger-stripe-suited weirdo of ‘70s English new wave. While most may know him from his single “Whole Wide World”—the delightfully sloppy two-chord wonder of a pop song, unmistakable thanks to Eric’s cockney accent—it seems the now-61-year-old “Donovan of Trash” is still at it and as screwball as ever.

Please, someone, scope that set out and report back!

So why’s MusicFile-style the best way up the highway? First off, you get a ride in a Seabreeze Motorcoach with fellow music fans and like-minded individuals (get to know your neighbors!). On that bus, there is free beer (!!!), and a box lunch waiting for you, courtesy of The 5 Spot. And, last but not least, the $55 round-trip-all-inclusive charge includes your Concert Crawl ticket.

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During the evenings and weekends throughout the decades, he built models Hand-carved with impossibly tiny of the vessels he enjoyed most, a craft he details, the model ships that make up the learned from his father, of whom he once collection at the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum awe and educate thousands of visi- said, “I only got one-tenth of his talent.”

That fraction of artistry was enough to tors every year. earn him a commission from the Central of Some of the vessels have been comGeorgia Railway in 1919 to build a sevenmissioned by the museum and built by professional model makers; others were con- foot model of the Steamship Savannah (it sat in City Hall through the 1960s and is structed independently and used as a reference point in advance of the construction of currently on display at the Savannah History Museum inside the Visitors’ Center.) a full-sized ship.

In 1934, Savannah Evening Press editor A third category contains small-scale repPleasant A. Stovall had the chance to preslicas known as sailors’ models, constructed ent Franklin D. Roosevelt with a model by talented amateurs who use their experience on the sea to tell a story. These are the Galletini created for the President’s birthday, a four-masted vessel carved from a tree kind that former sea captain and longtime felled in Gallettini’s backyard by a hurricane Wilmington Island resident Giuseppe “Joseph” Gallettini set out to make, though and featuring fully-functioning ropes and his hobby granted him more interesting pulleys. tales than he could have possibly imagined.

“The ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt’ took six For the first time in almost 20 years, the months to complete and was whittled from work of the legendary craftsman will be cedar wood with a small pocket knife,” exhibited at the Ships of the Sea Maritime reported the Evening Press.

Museum, an institution that owes a great After that, Gallettini became something debt to the Italian immigrant who made of a local celebrity. these local waters home.

“He was a media darling!” says Wendy Born in Sicily in 1878, young Giuseppe Melton, Ships of the Sea’s curator of exhibcame to America by way of the Italian its and education. “Every time he built a new Royal Navy, settling with his wife, Lucia, model, the newspapers covered it.” in Thunderbolt, Ga., to operate a fleet of His exquisite works eventually caught shrimp boats in 1906. During World War the eye of local maritime enthusiast Mills I, he worked on Hutchison Island rigging B. Lane, Jr., who began buying them up as four-masted schooners; by WWII, he had fast as Gallettini could finish them. When risen to a management position overseeing Ships of the Sea was first dedicated in 1966 by jessica leigh lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

on River Street, Lane’s personal collection of Gallettinis became its focal point.

But times changed, as did the museum’s location, moving into the historic Scarbrough House on MLK Blvd. in 1996.

As the museum’s mission evolved to focus more on local maritime history, Gallettini’s models were relegated to storage to make room for newer, more relevant models.

His contributions have finally been recognized in a magnificently curated exhibit that will be housed in the Scarbrough House’s grand upper atrium through the end of the year. Shadowboxes of tools and original photographs provide fascinating content and context, and Gallettini’s commitment to family and his adopted country is evident among the artifacts.

Of course, the most enchanting elements of the display are the ship models themselves—and their stories.

There is the Anita, a replica of a ship Gallettini sailed to South America on as a boy.

On the return trip, provisions were scarce, and the ship’s sailors threw out their lines to feed the passengers. Someone caught a porpoise, and what Gallettini remembered most is how one of the sailors chopped off its tail and stuck in on the jibboom at the front of the ship. A miniscule wooden version of that tail is still affixed to the model.

There is also the JFK, an exact likeness of the model Gallettini made for President Roosevelt. In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy saw a book of Gallettini’s work and requested the same model. It was supposed to have been ready by November

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Gallettini’s beloved wife Lucia passed away in April 1963, and by the time the new widower felt up to a trip to Washington to present his gift, President Kennedy had been assassinated.

He and his family tried to donate the beautifully-rendered ship to the President’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, but sadly, the transfer could not be arranged before RFK, too, was killed in 1968.

Gallettini passed away in 1964, and his friend and benefactor Mills B. Lane, Jr. vowed that his work would have a prominent place in “the little marine exhibit we’re going to fix down on the bay.”

Fifty years later, those tiny ships have found their way to the spotlight again, introducing a new generation to the marvelous models of Joseph Gallettini.

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tion of 56 small oil paintings for $56 each. Through Aug. 1. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

The Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting — The landmark exhibition,

organized by Millennium Gate Museum, is the first of its kind in the United States since 1965 and features paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, as well as photographs, letters, and personal belongings on loan from members of his family. The Art of Diplomacy explores the relationship between Churchill’s strategic decision-making and his evolving practice as an artist. Through July 26. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. City Transversed — Lisa D. Watson’s wall

pieces are made with 90% reclaimed materials. On display will be the I-95 Savannah River Bridge, CSX - Savannah River Bridge, the Houlihan Bridge, the Talmadge Memorial Bridge, Factors Walk, RRX - Henry Street and Islands Expressway Bascule Bridge. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

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unique exhibition, titled after the 1992 Nirvana song, showcases 65 works from paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations to photographs, prints, videos, and digital art. Come As You Are explores the history of the 90s through the perspectives of 45 different artists born or working in the United States between the years of 1989 and 2001 -- from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Folk Art: Simply Profound — What is folk art?

Exaggeration and simplicity converge to describe the folk artist as he deals with family, God and the human condition.

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JULY 22-28, 2015

From Bankers to Presidents: The Work of Joseph Gallettini — Gallettini is Savannah’s foremost

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Only a few more days left to see the awesome exhibit of paintings by Winston Churchill at the Jepson Center. Here, Churchill painting a view of the Sorgue River while on vacation in the south of France, January 1, 1948 (Photo by Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) ful vignettes also with a French twist and wit. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. The Highwaymen — The exhibit features several well known black artists known as The Highwaymen. A total of 26 artists, one woman and twenty-five men, traveled the highways of Florida from the early 1960s to the early 1990s selling oil paintings from the trunks of cars. Reception July 30, 6-8:30pm. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. i feel ya: SCAD + Andre 3000 Benjamin — The summer highlight exhibition, which debuted at Mana in Miami during Art Basel last year, explores fashion, film, and painting through the work of artist, musician, performer, fashion innovator, and actor André Benjamin (aka André 3000), filmmaker Greg Brunkalla, and painter Jimmy O’Neal.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Karen Macek and Heather MacRae Trulson —

Karen Macek is an artist and designer working in oil, acrylic and computer graphics. Heather MacRae Trulson works in acrylic, ink and watercolor. A portion of sales will benefit the Daily Impact Fund, providing extra patient services not covered

by Medicare or insurances. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

Landfall: SCAD Summer Sales Exhibition — 2015 SCAD summer sales exhibition featuring artwork by SCAD students, faculty, staff and alumni. For this annual thematic and juried exhibition, entries were culled from varied interpretations of the landscape genre. Through Sep. 5. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St

Life’s a Beach: Photographs by Martin Parr —

Martin Parr has been photographing this subject for many decades, creating images that range from close-ups of sunbathers to rambunctious swimmers caught midplunge. Intrigued by the general absurdities and local quirks of beach-going, Parr has photographed beaches across the world.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Robert Patrick — Robert Patrick is a self-

taught photographer from Denver, Colorado.

With less than a year of experience, he has managed to create his own intricate and unique style of art. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. ThincART: Thomas Mitz — This exhibition

will display a range of works by Thomas Mitz, from large oil paintings, to personal portraits and charcoal studies, showcasing Mitz’s vast artistic skill set and artistic process. Much of the work explores cultural figures and objects found in New York City, where Mitz lived for several decades.

Through July 23. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300.

Vivienne Westwood Designs — Andre Leon Talley curates this collection of legendary designs by Vivienne Westwood. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

The Wonderful World of Pens — Anita L. Ross’s imagery explores the rich interplay that occurs when line and color interact. The pen and ink combination offers a departure from the traditional forms of representation, emphasizing organic shapes and the interplay of texture and color found in the natural world. Through July 31. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

culture | theatre

A new visit to the Little Shop

Savannah Summer Theatre Institute presents challenging new take on beloved classic

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Little Shop of Horrors is one of the most popular and widely-seen productions in theatrical history.

Much like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, people seem to have an endless appetite for it whether they’ve seen it one time, or ten times.

And it holds an allure for theatre groups as well as audiences.

“At Savannah Summer Theatre Institute we typically do productions that are more new that people have been asking for,” says director Ben Wolfe. “But we liked the challenge of doing Little Shop. It’s done a lot, and just about everyone has seen the production.

We wanted to put our own spin on it.”

Among other things, their own spin involves an ambitious five-level set.

“It’s not literally five stories tall,” laughs Wolfe. “But there are five distinct levels, where cast members can surround the action and look down.”

For example, he says, “In the initial scene there are the people of the streets on Skid Row. As the show progresses, people from Seymour’s real world become sort of a

The cast comprises all high school-age students, most of whom are seriously interested in a career in the arts. Photos by Rebecca Moore conscience, looking down on the flower shop.”

While this is a production staged at a high school using all high school-age actors and crew, it’s anything but a “high school” production in terms of professionalism.

“Our goal with this program is creating professionals onstage and off,” says Wolfe.

“We show them what it means to be professional—to arrive at the first rehearsal already off-book, to know all your solos,

to know you talk to the costumer, how the whole team works.”

The simile with the professional Broadway-type environment even includes 8-hour rehearsal days with the same union breaks.

“We want to show them how the whole theatre world works and functions so they’re ready to step into either the college or pro environment right away,” Wolfe says.

“They may have had a lot of fun in a production at their school, but we’re telling

them how it actually is going to be if they get into the field.”

The Savannah Summer Theatre Institute is part and parcel of a larger movement to more properly educate and prepare young people for careers in all aspects of theatre.

“There are a lot more regional theatres around the country, and more and more kids are going to school to get degrees in theatre,” Wolfe says.

That movement has paid off not only in great productions like Savannah Summer Theatre Institute’s, but in a much higher level of quality in community theatre across the area.

“Just look here with what groups like Collective Face are doing,” says Wolfe.

“That wasn’t possible here ten years ago.

Everybody has stepped their game up.” cs Little Shop of Horrors, presented by Savannah Summer Theatre Institute When: July 24, 25, 31, Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and July 26 and Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. ‘ Where: Jelks Auditorium at the Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Drive.

Cost & Info: $20 adults, $15 children under 12. 843642-8845 and www.LittleShopSavannah.com.

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culture | food & Drink

The livin’ is easy at bô biên hut Tybee Island’s first foodie couple delivers take out with an Asian twist

by Jessica leigh lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

JULY 22-28, 2015

Forever smiling and sun-kissed, culinary couple Sarah and Kurtis Schumm make operating multiple restaurants look effortless.

They changed up the beach food game in 2010 with the casual and classy Tybee Island Social Club, and their fine dining sanctuary, Fish Camp, continues to entice foodies from far and wide since it opened last year.

Last week brought the “silent open” of their latest island venture, bÒ biên hut, and while the pressure of a third kitchen might diminish another restauranteur’s summer glow, Sarah and Kurtis appeared as tanned and relaxed as ever.

“Everything’s going really smoothly so far,” reported Sarah cheerfully as she arranged menus and grass mats outside the sliding glass order window. “It’s just been word of mouth, and we’ve had customers walking up all day.” bÒ biên hut offers outdoor seating, take out and eventually on-island delivery, but this is the Schumms, so don’t expect fried fish fingers to go. The name is a nod to the couple’s adoration of culture and travel: bÒ biên (pronounced “boh bee EN”) means “beach” in Vietnamese, and the new venue embodies a whole different kind of coastal vibe—and taste.

“We’ve always wanted to do an Asian spot, and this was the perfect place to do it,” said Kurtis of the quirky, glass-bricked building at the south end of the island, caddy corner from Tybrisa's beach shops.

“We’ve let the buildings dictate the menus and worked backwards from there,” he continued, explaining that Fish Camp was first conceived as their Asian fusion dream, but it became clear that the charming cabin under the pines would make a better high-end seafood restaurant.

“We didn’t necessarily want a third res24 taurant, but this fell into our laps.”

Kurtis and Sarah Schumm have finally realized their Asian fusion dream with banh mi sandwiches, miso brown butter fried rice, housemade pho and more. Photos

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Locals may remember a greasy Chinese joint that once served deep fried fare from these same windows, but any kind of Asian food, let alone scratch-made ramen and pillowy pork dumplings, has been absent from Tybee for a long time.

Now the Schumms have finally filled the void with inexpensive, easy-to-eat snacks and entrées. It’s a simple concept with complex flavors: Finger foods include freshlysteamed edamame tossed in Thai chili oil and sea salt ($4), perfectly crispy coconut shrimp ($6 and gluten-free), and tasty barbecued skewers ($6) of all stripes (chicken and pineapple for the kids, octopus and jalapeño for the grown-up palates!)

Traditional dishes require chopsticks (or a fork) but they’re worth it: Kurtis’ version of fried rice may look typical with its cubed carrots and peas, but miso brown butter turns this cardboard box into a savory carnival ($8).

Vegetarians will find plenty to peruse,

particularly the cold and crunchy ginger salad ($6 and chock full of baby greens) and the mapo doufo, comprised of seasoned tofu seared and tossed in black bean paste, Szechuan peppercorns, pickled mushrooms and cabbage ($10).

An outrageously delicious standout is the banh mi sandwich, a soft baguette piled with grilled meat, roasted red pepper and slaw and served with a potato skewer in lieu of a side of fries ($10.)

It’s still too dang hot around here to even think about soup, but a sip of the meticulously prepared pho (“ask a hipster how to pronounce it” advises the menu) proves that the Schumms’ easygoing demeanor stops at the kitchen door. While bÒ biên hut is just steps from the bustle of the Tybee Pier, if you close your eyes and take a few bites, you might swear you just stepped off the beach in Nha Trang.

“I think this is really different than anything that’s been done on Tybee,” nodded Kurtis.

“We’ve really put a lot of effort in the recipes.” cs bô biên hut, 1650 Inlet Ave., Tybee Island, (912) 4724130, bobienhut.com

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Battle of the beers Georgia’s craft breweries throw down at the beach by jessica leigh lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

Sixteen Georgia breweries compete in this Friday’s Craft Brew Battle at the Beach to benefit the Tybee Post Theater.

This “Oscars of Georgia Craft Brew” benefits the Tybee Post Theater, the same folks who help start the year with a brisk slap at the Polar Plunge and bring us the sumptuous Tybee Wine Festival every spring.

For those concerned that Tybee’s festival schedule is too bare in during the summer months, the new brew battle should bring some relief.

“We wanted to host something in the middle of year,” explains Tybee Post Theater’s executive director, Melissa Turner.

“Savannah’s big craft beer festival is held in the in the fall, and there are no festivals at all on Tybee during the summer—nothing between the wine festival and Pirates Fest!”

Like the Wine Festival that netted $30K earlier this year, proceeds from the Craft

Brew Battle will go towards programming and upkeep of the historic theater, built in 1930 for the soldiers stationed at Fort Screven. After almost a decade of fundraising, it looks like the refurbished stage and screen is finally ready for the spotlight.

Turner reports that the theater will open its doors to the public for two weekends of events starting Labor Day. Mark the September calendar for a first-run blockbuster, a classic movie, and something for the kids, plus live music and theater performances.

The last days of summer will also bring the debut of “Tybee City Limits,” a monthly gig featuring local bands from Savannah, Tybee and Wilmington Island.

“This is a multipurpose venue, and we want to showcase all of what it can do,” says

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Speaking of multipurpose venues, the Craft Brew Battle takes place under the Tybee Pavilion, an open-air octagon shaped a lot like the rings used in those pugnacious Ultimate Fighting Championship throwdowns. But these are brewers, not fighters, and the Craft Battle of the Brew should be a mellow good time.

“The competition is good-natured, I hope,” laughs Turner.

“Our whole goal is to make it fun.” cs

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Tybee Island hosts a carbonated contest for the ages this Friday, July 24, when 16 of the state’s favorite local and regional craft breweries compete at the first annual Craft Brew Battle at the Beach.

Local challengers Moon River Brewing, Coastal Empire Beer Co., Southbound Brewing and Service Brewing Co. face off against brew-hahas Sweetwater, Terrapin and Red Hare, and worthy competitors Yes Face, Jekyll Brewing and other homegrown picks join the fray.

Each brewery is bringing its top two contenders, giving attendees 32 brews to vote for as one takes home the winning title of Best Georgia Craft Brew. Tickets are $25 in advance, and expect to fill your collectible five-ounce glass stein with tart Hefeweizens, hoppy IPAs, coppery Ambers and golden Pilsners while reveling in the ocean breeze.

Included in the price of admission are fresh-popped popcorn, bar games, prizes in the form of gift certificates to local restaurants, and the swingin’ country-folk sounds of the Lazaretto Creek Band, fronted by down-home singer/songwriter Thomas Oliver.

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film | local film

Walls talk at The Sentient Bean Documentary explores Barcelona’s street art underground by anna chandler anna@connectsavannah.com

JULY 22-28, 2015

The rattle of a spray paint can sends a metallic echo off of a shadowed street. A familiar hiss emits as a darkhooded artist sweeps color across a wall. The beat drops.

With that, we’re welcomed into the world of Las Calles Hablan (“Streets Speak,” translated), a fascinating peek into Barcelona’s street art scene. Featuring the work of over 20 artists, the documentary profiles the art and tight-knit community that exists in Spain’s underground world.

The film moves with a passionate fervor as we watch the artists work—the camera follows closely, moving jarringly at times

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It accompanies you like a little demon that talks to you,” he explains. “You can pretend not to hear it, or you can face up to what it says. This is what inspirations is for me.

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while an array of Barcelonans hurriedly wheat paste, paint, and disappear into the night.

It’s enough to make you want to hop in a plane and set off to find the Technicolor world just feet away from Gaudi’s basilica and the Museu Picasso.

Street art broke out of Barcelona’s totalitarian state in 1970s,at the end of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. In the 1980s, Parisian street art influences trickled in; in the 1990s, it was all about New York City’s graffiti scene, MTV, and hip-hop culture.

Artist El Xupet Negre says that the “golden era” took place in the early 2000s, when Barcelona was the mecca of graffiti.

Artists could freely paint without asking for permission—the canvas only had to be abandoned.

Los Calles Hablan offers something for longtime fans of street art and newbies as well. Artists working in a variety of styles demonstrate their craft, provide a historical context, and share their stories of why many up-and-coming artists find street art to be the most direct way to reach an audience and challenge corporate and political framework.

It’s also a glimpse into a subculture fighting against a restrictive government to spread color, promote dialogue, and have street art seen as a cultural asset to the city and tourism.

In addition to sharing their work many artists (some with pixelated or shadowed faces, for anonymity), had insightful words into the importance of accessible art.

Gola’s passion for creation is tangible in

his interview. “It accompanies you like a little demon that talks to you,” he explains. “You can pretend not to hear it, or you can face up to what it says. This is what inspirations is for me.”

El Xupet Negre sees street art as a way to counteract the forces of corporate propaganda. “…everything is publicity, and we are bombarded with messages from all angles so that you can buy and consume and do what they want. Well, the artist sees all that as a

way to display his art,” he says.

Zosen is particularly interested in people’s varying definitions of art and the question of what inherently makes art just that. “You have to educate people—most of them, at least—in questions of art,” he poses thoughtfully.

Vinz has a decidedly romantic and communal view of art’s contribution.

“I think that the function that this has is to keep you company, so that we can walk

and see that we are not alone,” he poses.

“When you go for a walk, and you see a work by a great artist, you see that he has the same insecurities as you, the same sensitivity. He looks for the same things. That is what street art can do.” cs Las Calles Hablan When: Friday, July 24 at 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean Cost: Free

JULY 22-28, 2015

…everything is publicity, and we are bombarded with messages from all angles so that you can buy and consume and do what they want.

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ANT-MAN

OOO After the overkill of Avengers: Age of Ultron, it’s nice to see Marvel return to a comparatively small-scale effort—in more ways than one.

The diminutive superhero at the center of Ant-Man may not be a marquee name among the masses, but he’s enjoyed a lengthy career in comic form. Created by Stan Lee and co. in 1962, Ant-Man was the alter ego of scientist Hank Pym—a founding member of the Avengers, he was also responsible for accidentally creating the villainous robot Ultron (obviously, the films stray dramatically from the inked page). Others later donned the Ant-Man suit, most notably Scott Lang beginning in the late 1970s. This screen version neatly folds these threads together by positing Pym (Michael Douglas) as an older man no longer able to suit up and Lang (Paul Rudd) as the younger guy he chooses to succeed him. Pym’s recruitment of Lang is charged with urgency, as he needs someone to assist him in stopping his former protégée, the ruthless Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), from discovering the formula, the so-called “Pym particle” that allows a man to shrink to insect size, and selling it to the highest-bidding evildoers.

What allows Ant-Man to flourish is that it largely turns its back on the solemnity and self-importance that occasionally hamper Marvel features and instead traffics in the same sort of freewheeling frivolity seen in last summer’s smash, Guardians of the Galaxy. For that, thank the four screenwriters—Shaun of the Dead’s Edgar Wright (who was the initial director until the usual “creative differences” forced him out), Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish, Funny or Die’s Adam McKay and Rudd himself—and their ability to include witticisms both verbal (“tales to astonish” is there for the comic fans) and visual (love the bug zapper, and is that oversized toy with the happy face a nod

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monogamy is an impossibility. Amy’s sister Kim (Brie Larson) was given the same speech but ignored it, and now has a husband and stepson; Amy, on the other hand, embraced her father’s dubious wisdom and has spent her adult life committed to a series of one-night stands. She does have a lunkhead boyfriend (WWE wrestler and straight-to-DVD action star John Cena, cast against type) but cheats on him, and when she’s not drinking or boffing, she’s found working at a sleazy rag called S’Nuff, the sort that offers articles with names like “Ugliest Celebrity Kids” and “You Call Those Tits?” It’s a story assignment for S’Nuff that leads to her meeting Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), a sports doctor Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man is a freshly funny summer superhero. whose patients include NBA superstar LeBto Ghostbusters?). Rudd and a scene-stealing assume that around the Apatow household, ron James (playing himself in a sizable supMichael Pena (as Lang’s ex-con buddy) the 4-hour, 40-minute Shoah is considporting role). Amy and Aaron hit it off, and further contribute to the gee-whiz spirit, ered TV-sitcom length while the 15-hour, for the first time in her life, she’s forced to with Douglas and Evangeline Lilly (as Pym’s 40-minute Berlin Alexanderplatz passes for a question her dad’s outlook on life and love. daughter) staking out most of the dramatic comfortable feature-film length.

Like all Apatow efforts, Trainwreck offers content.

At any rate, the real reason Trainwreck a mix of the silly and the sincere, with most As for the effects, they’re generally excelcomes closer to Knocked Up and The of the best comic bits packed into the first lent, particularly in a bravura inner-space 40-Year-Old Virgin is because, like those half. The second part turns more serious sequence that hearkens back to the 1957 films, it’s funny and engaging and well worth and, consequently, more familiar, which is classic The Incredible Shrinking Man. Ironiseeing, conditions that did not apply to largely why its length begins to make its cally, only the ants fail to convince. Granted, Apatow’s overlong—and long-winded – presence known. But Schumer is terrific they’re not laughable creations on the order disappointments Funny People and This Is throughout, as adept at her dramatic scenes of the insects seen in the ‘70s shlock flick 40. Certainly, this new picture could stand opposite Larson (a calming presence as her Empire of the Ants, but they’re fake enough being 10 or 15 minutes shorter—its length sensible sibling) as when flashing her sizable to bug all but the most forgiving of Marvel is particularly felt toward the end, when it comedic chops. Her long-term prospects devotees. begins to feel like it’s going to be dragged out as an A-list movie star have yet to be deteras interminably as a Peter Jackson Middlemined, but she’s off to a roaring start, barrelTRAINWRECK earth saga. But any last-act hemming and ing across the screen like a runaway train.

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Soderbergh as director) and commercial hit (largely—solely? — due to the presence of all those rippling bods). Yet that first flick frequently left me shrugging, with a plot that was often more soapy than gritty. The solution in this second installment? Remove the plot completely!

Or so it feels, as this outing offers little more than a road trip taken by Mike (Channing Tatum) and his fellow male strippers to a Myrtle Beach competition, with a couple of stops along the way. One is at an establishment run by Mike’s former boss and former squeeze, Rome ( Jada Pinkett Smith); the other is the home of a friend of Mike’s latest potential girlfriend, Zoe (Amber Heard), a Charleston estate where the guys entertain a MILF (Andie MacDowell) and her equally appreciative guests.

Magic Mike XXL is a breezy, all-inclusive treat. It’s sexy, it’s stylish, it’s well-paced (and the dance routines exceptionally wellchoreographed), and it’s unexpectedly prowoman, treating the female characters as respectfully as the male strippers do and reminding moviegoers that carnal pleasures aren’t only for the hot young thangs among us (props also to Mike’s view of God).

Trainwreck will reinstate your desire to have Amy Schumer for a BFF.

actually enjoyed it; the autograph line forms to the right!).

Terminator Genisys exists for no other reason than to line studio coffers, which of course is the raison d’etre of many an unnecessary sequel. But a film can be an unwanted follow-up and manage not to destroy everything that preceded it through its addition of daft new wrinkles to the story frame. Perhaps not since Alien 3 have I felt a sequel so betrayed everything that came before it.

TERMINATOR GENISYS As before, the John Connor of the future O ( Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Courtney) It’s a toss-up as to what reigns as the most back to 1984 to prevent the Terminator risible element in Terminator Genisys, the (Arnie in CGI-enhanced younger mode a fifth—and flimsiest—film in the deathless la Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy) from killing series (with two more installments already Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), a waitress being planned!). There’s the out-of-leftwho will eventually become a warrior as well field reason given as to why the Terminator as a savior of humanity.

But wait! The timeline is in flux, alternate played by Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer realities exist, and Kyle discovers that Sarah looks like the young(ish) cyborg from past is no longer a mousy woman but already a pictures but instead looks like a refugee full metal badass, having been trained since from a Miami nursing home.

There’s the fact that Arnie’s Terminator, a childhood by the good Terminator (the big guy again). The noodling of time has character that in past incarnations inspired also resulted in the appearance of both a fear and awe, is now called the decidedly liquidy T-1000 (the G.I. Joe series’ Byungnonthreatening “Pops” by those around him. There’s the casting of Game of Thrones’ hun Lee) and a cop who transforms into J.K. Simmons when the movie picks back Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, whose up in 2017. The shift to the 21st century chirpy demeanor makes this often feel like also leads to an encounter with a similarly Teen Beach Terminator. There’s the mere sight of Jai Courtney once again attempting time-traveling John Connor, who has been assimilated by the villainous operating systo act. And then there’s that off-screen bit of hilarity: the fact that series creator James tem Skynet with some uncredited assistance from the Borg. With John Connor now Cameron has taken to the press circuit to compromised, can Jean-Luc Picard be far rave about this piece of junk. behind?

It’s a shame to see this once-great propDespite the Herculean efforts by Camerty sink to such a depressing low. The first eron to make all the time travel material two films are acknowledged classics, the third fell a bit short but was still a valiant— believable in the first two films, there were and respectful—effort by all concerned, and some obvious holes, but we didn’t mind because the results were so damn entertainthe fourth (Terminator Salvation) remains ing. Bereft of genuine excitement, this entry an underrated piece of sci-fi sizzle (yes, I’m can’t hide the rampant ludicrousness. one of those 12 people on the planet who

emotions to navigate such murky waters, and the beauty of Inside Out is how it allows Sadness to basically be the equivalent of both the outcast nobody wants to be around as well as the friend everybody wants by their side in a pinch.

As expected with an A-list Pixar piece, there’s plenty of humor to go along with the heart, particularly in the peeks inside the control rooms of Riley’s mom (Diane Lane), dad (Kyle MacLachlan) and the hysterical twofer seen at film’s end. There are also the expected gags engineered to please the parents even more so than the children, with a few threatening to raise the bar for future animated endeavors.

JURASSIC WORLD

OO Certainly, Jurassic World will emerge as OOOO one of the summer season’s top grossers, but Inside Out is a glorious return to form for is it really better than the 1993 blockbuster Pixar, as it demonstrates that few filmmakhelmed by Spielberg in the same calendar ers in Hollywood today can match the Pixar year that also saw him tackling Schindler’s brain trust when it comes to creating motion List? Of course not, though it’s easily an pictures that offer an irresistible mix of improvement over the two sorry sequels that imagination, intelligence and emotion. followed.

Inside Out relates the story of an 11-yearChris Pratt is Owen, who works at Jurasold girl named Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn sic World as a combo dinosaur wrangler Dias). More accurately, it relates the story of and velociraptor whisperer. Like his filmic what’s inside Riley—specifically, core emoforefathers Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, tions that have been with her since birth. he’s not sure man should be messing around First and foremost, there’s Joy (Amy with nature—in this case, creating a new Poehler), the “control room” leader and the and improved dinosaur meant to be bigger one responsible for trying to make Riley and bolder than anything that’s ever walked enjoy every moment of her life. That’s a tall the earth.

Having learned nothing from the lessons order, considering the other emotions are all imparted via the aborted Jurassic Park— vying for prime-time programming.

There’s Anger (Lewis Black), there’s Fear namely, that out-of-control dinosaurs love to snack on humans—the scientists, capitalists (Bill Hader) and there’s Disgust (Mindy and paleontologist powers-that-be overKaling). And then there’s Sadness (Phyllis Smith), the emotion that Joy is perpetually seeing Jurassic World ignore all modes of attempting to most keep at bay. common sense and soon find their baby, the Yet once Riley moves from her cherso-called Indominus Rex, wreaking havoc all over the themed island. ished childhood home in Minnesota to The lovingly crafted critters seen in the a ramshackle abode in San Francisco—a move dictated by her dad’s efforts to get his ’93 model have naturally given way to startup business off the ground—it’s hard CGI counterparts, but for the most part, for Joy to keep Sadness from not only affect- the effects work proves to be potent, with ing Riley’s current mood but also infecting enough bravura sequences (the aquatic the shimmery orbs that house her most pre- mosasaurus maneuvers, the pterodactyl cious memories. attack) to satiate the faithful. CS An accident results in Joy and Sadness being ejected from the control center, and it’s at this point that the movie really takes off, both visually and philosophically. Riley’s at a crucial, critical age for any young person, waving goodbye to childhood innocence and about to undergo changes that will make her feel like a stranger both in her own body and in a world suddenly a lot more complicated.

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Activism & Politics

Saturdays with Alderwoman Shabazz

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

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

Savannah Libertarians

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

Savannah Tea Party

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

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

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

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

American Idol Auditions

Audition for this season of the hit talent show American Idol. Wed., July 22. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Call for Applicants for Step Up Savannah

JULY 22-28, 2015

Step Up Savannah is looking for emerging leaders — young and more seasoned — to participate in a leadership course starting September 14. The Neighborhood Leadership Academy at Savannah State University brings together established and emerging leaders to enhance their leadership skills with a focus on advocacy, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Upon completion of this free 12-session course, graduates will be asked to serve as resources to Step Up and other community organizations. It is open to men and women, 21 years and older in Savannah/Chatham County. Participants will be asked to work in small groups to research and present on a neighborhood or community issue during the course. Interested applicants must submit an application and be interviewed.

30 Completed applications are due on Aug. 7.

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

Through Aug. 7. 912-401-0672. stepupsavannah.org. stepupsavannah.org. Step Up Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

Call for Artists for 2016 Exhibitions

The City of Savannah's Department of Cultural Affairs is now accepting exhibition proposals at the Cultural Arts Gallery for the 2016 calendar year. The 1,700 square foot community gallery serves the Savannah area with exhibitions and educational programming that strengthen awareness and stimulate dialogue through artistic expression. In conjunction with each exhibition, artists are encouraged to develop and present a learning opportunity to the public such as a workshop, lecture or demonstration. All mediums will be considered for a non-degree seeking solo or group exhibitions, including video and installation pieces. Proposals should be professionally presented and should include a cover letter; a resume; an artist statement; a previous exhibition record; 10-12 digital images of the work to be considered; and a self-addressed stamped envelope if the proposal needs to be returned. Through Sep. 11. 912-651-6783. savannahga.gov/ arts. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Call for Proposals for 2015 Weave-a-Dream

The City of Savannah's Weave-a-Dream Panel has issued a call for proposals for its 2015 cultural and arts projects initiative.

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

Programs are to be completed prior to October 1, 2015. Project funding is available up to $2,000 for specific and innovative arts, cultural, or heritage projects or presentations that have a measurable, quantifiable benefit to Savannah’s diverse populations. The Weave-A-Dream committee seeks proposals that actively involve youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts based programs in Savannah. Programs engaging participates ranging from 6 -11 graders with disciplines of production, animation, photography desktop publishing, CAD, metalworking and carpentry are of particular interest to Weave-A-Dream. While other programs such as performing, visual, media, theater, folk, design (architecture), or literary arts are also encouraged to apply. To be eligible for consideration, an organization must be a non-profit, 501c3, head-quartered in Savannah’s corporate limits. Proposed programs must also be produced within the City’s corporate limits. No individual artist applications will be accepted. Through Aug. 2. 912-651-5988 ext. 8969. rbrown02@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/arts. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

the following topics: Design, Development, Mobile, Social Media, Marketing, Growth Hacking, Access to Capital, Sales, Management. The festival will take place October 15-17. Through Oct. 15. 912-447-8457. geek-end.com/speakers/apply. thecreativecoast.org. Creative Coast, 415 W. Boundary St.

Fashion for MS

Coastal Georgia Breaking the Cycle will host a symposium on substance abuse and freedom from addiction as part of National Recovery Day on September 19, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at Lake Mayer. Volunteers are needed for this event in the following areas: reception, food, greeters and cleanup. For more information on how you can participate call volunteer coordinator Teneka Gerido at 912.661.7014. Through Sep. 19. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Call for Volunteers for Breaking the Cycle

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 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.

Benefits

Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control seeks The theme of Creative Coast's Geekend items for pets in the facility. Canned 2015 is Growth. All entrepreneurs, develop- and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, ers, marketers, social media mavericks, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, technology enthusiasts, designers and leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels. Open other creatives are encouraged to apply to daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912-351-6750. speak now. Geekend is looking for compel- animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. Chaling cutting-edge content that is actionable tham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie and touches upon any one or several of Mood Dr. Call for Speakers for Geekend 2015

Come celebrate with The Influenced MS Support Group as their members model the latest fashions provided by Dress Barn and Divine Men's Wear. Enjoy dazzling fashion, hors d'oeuvres, music by Coastal Harp and door prizes. $10 Fri., July 24, 6-9 p.m. 912-224-2352. The Gingerbread House, 1921 Bull Street.

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. $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.

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, walkins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 5252151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

Shoes to Trees Program

Help with West Broad Street YMCA with the Shoes to Trees program. Help the MORE Foundation send millions of tree seeds to offset carbon and help Y’s overseas support themselves. Funding for this life-changing program comes from used athletic shoes donated by members, volunteers, donors, community partners, and more. Every donated pair sends 10 tree seeds to a Y overseas. Every pair removes one ton of carbon from the atmosphere.

Now collecting gently used athletic and soccer shoes sizes 7-11. Through Aug. 31.

912-233-1951. westbroadstreetymca.org.

YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Classes, Camps & Workshops

Accelerated Acting Class

Learn how to invest in your Oscar, take charge of chance, and putting purpose in the pause. Deadline to register is July 21. $150 Sat., July 25. angelique@firstcityfilms.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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.

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

ArtLab Summer Classes

Art Exploration Sessions on Saturdays from 12-1pm for ages 6-11. Projects will include color exploration, mixing experiments, creation with found objects and beyond. Tiny Artists Classes on Saturdays from 10:45-11:30am for ages 2-5. Parents and kids work together to create small projects introducing textures, colors and discovering art all around us. Take a creative break on Saturdays. Please call or email to sign up. $15 per class, sibling discounts available Saturdays.. 912-388-1939. artlabsavannah@gmail.com. artlabsavannah.com. ArtLab, 2417 Waters Ave. Beading Classes

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

Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio

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

912-920-6659. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. 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.

Belly Dance at the Beach

Magic Carpet Dance Studio, Savannah's Exclusive belly dance studio is now offering special belly dance classes on the Beach on Tybee Island! We will meet at the 10th street beach access and carve our little dance oasis in the beautiful sand with the clashing waves in front of us, and the magical ocean breeze! $15ea drop in, or $10ea with punch cards Sundays, 5:306:30 p.m.. 912-663-5114. beckywaller99@ gmail.com. magiccarpetdancers.com.

Magic Carpet Dance Studio, 6409 Abercorn Street, Suite E. Board Game Nights

Bring your favorite board game or learn to play one of ours! Join our community of gamers and make some new friends while having an awesome time. Guild Hall members get in free, and non-members must simply purchase a $2 Day Pass. Saturdays, 7 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Build Your Own End Table

Ever wanted to build your own furniture?

Then now's your chance! We're hosting a two part workshops that will provide you with materials and teach you how to build a pine wood end table. This class gives you access to two three hour sessions to build the perfect table. Safety goggles are required for this class. They will be available for purchase on the day of the class, or you may bring your own. $35 for Guild Hall members $40 for non-members Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.. 844-MY-GUILD. events@ theguildhall.com. theguildhall.com/ events/2015-06-22/BuildYourOwnEndTable. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Champions Training Center

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

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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.

Chinese Language Classes

The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University offers free Chinese language classes starting January 17. To register, please call 912-358-3160. ongoing. 912358-3160. confuciusinstitute@savannahstate.edu. savannahstate.edu. savstate. edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. 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.

DUI Prevention Group

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

Krav Maga / Tactical Self Defense:

Dynamic Defensive Tactics combines the Israeli self defense techniques of Krav Maga with tactical fighting concepts. This is NOT a martial art but a no nonsense approach to self defense. With over 37 years of experience, Roger D'Onofrio will teach you solutions, which are aggressive, simple and effective, to the violent situations of today. Note: these are private sessions for adults only. ongoing. 912-308-7109. ddt_910@yahoo.com.

Family Law Workshop

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

Fany's Spanish/English Institute

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

Register by phone. ongoing. 912-921-4646.

Fast Makeup - 10 mins or less!

Busy ladies, don't miss out! Learn time saving tricks for pulling together your makeup in less than 10 minutes. Attendees will receive 20% off products. FREE Wed., July 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 707-340-3655. info@julesmorethanmakeup.com. julesmorethanmakeup.com/events/. julesmtm. com. Jules - More Than Makeup Designery & Lab, 30 W. Broughton St. Suite 204.

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9 Mai ___ (bar order) 10 Cutting crew, for short?

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lor Helmut 28 Ctrl-___-Del 29 Flute part 30 What X may mean 31 Old albums 32 Walk of Fame award 33 Punctuation in an email address 34 Cousin of Rover 35 Bulbed vegetable 36 On target 37 Financial barometer, with “the” 41 “The Dude ___” 42 Small horses 43 Pushed hard 45 $100 bill, in old slang 46 Billions of years 47 “Ultimate” degree 48 Taiwanese golfer Yani ___, youngest to win five major championships 50 Love like crazy 51 “Hooked on Classics” company 52 “Tomb Raider” heroine 53 One-___ (multivitamin) 54 Talking computer of film 55 “Love ___ Battlefield” 56 Psychedelic stuff JULY 22-28, 2015

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

912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail. com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St.

ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St.

Vocal Lessons

JULY 22-28, 2015

A group of voice instructors who believe in the power of a nurturing community to help voice students blossom into vibrant Novel Writing artists. Each instructor holds a Masters of Write a novel, finish the one you've started, Music in Voice Performance. Group classes Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons revise it or pursue publication. Award-win- held once a month, plus an annual recital.

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and ning Savannah author offers one-on-one or Varies Wednesdays.. 912-656-0760. TheVimprovisation. Located in Ardsley Park. small group classes, mentoring, manuoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown. ongoing. 912-232-5987. script critique, ebook formatting. Email Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource for pricing and scheduling info. ongoing.

Clubs & Organizations Center 13th Colony Sound Barbershop Chorus pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com.

Housing Authority of Savannah hosts Photography Classes Sing in the harmonious barbershop style Beginner photography to post production. classes at the Neighborhood Resource with the Savannah Chorus of the BarberInstruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Monshop Harmony Society. No charge Monclass. See website for complete class list.

Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial days, 6:30 p.m.. 912-344-9768. rfksav@ education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. 410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotoggmail.com. savannahbarbershoppers.org. raphy.com. chrismorrisphotography.com.

Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon- Piano Lessons Ave. Piano lessons with a classically trained Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 instructor, with theater and church experi- Classses for multiple ages in performance x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. dance and adult fitness dance. African, ence. 912-312-3977. ongoing. georgiacom/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, musicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Knitting & Crochet Classes gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. Piano Voice-Coaching 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-631Pianist with M/degree,classical modSee the calendar of events on website.

3452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. ongoing.

Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. ern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call abeniculturalarts@gmail.com.

Avegost LARP 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious com.

Learn to Sew Live action role playing group that exists in inquiries only. ongoing.

Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels. A. Roper Studio - Voice Technique and Coaching a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets Private and Group classes. Tuesdays.. 912- Experienced and successful voice instructhe second weekend of the month. Free tor is accepting students. Nurturing and 596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com. Kleo's for your first event or if you're a non-player collaborative studio. Services offered inSewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201. character. $35 fee for returning characters.

Life Coaching clude strengthening the voice, range exten- ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com.

Group & individual life coaching with a Cer- sion, relaxation techniques, and coaching avegost.com.

Buccaneer Region SCCA tified Life Coach. Plan for a career change, through various styles of music. Audition Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of new lifestyle, or an opportunity to pursue and competition preparation. Located 15 creative or business projects. Step-by-step minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays- America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyguidance to fulfill aspirations. In person Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-484-0628. one with a safe car, insurance and a valid or telephone sessions. Thursdays.. 912Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Russian Language Classes driver's license is eligible to participate.

596-1952. info@roiseandassociates.com.

Learn to speak Russian. All experience See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Music Instruction levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for org.

Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Business Networking on the Islands info. ongoing. 912-713-2718.

Small Business Professionals Islands Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruc- SAT Prep for Critical Reading, Vocabulary, and Writing Networking Group meets first Thursday tion by professional musicians. Band ineach month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds struments, violin, piano, drums and guitar. This one-week (5 day) series focuses on Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call All ages welcome. ongoing. 912-358-0054. strategies used in active reading that pertain specifically to the SAT, and addresses for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Chatham Sailing Club writing strategies used on possible topics Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Music Lessons: Private or Group Friday evening social event at the clubduring the writing portion. $160.00 per Portman’s Music Academy offers private prson July 27-31, 12:30-2:30 p.m. 912-478- house. Meet Members and their families or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner 5551. conted@georgiasouthern.edu. acawho all enjoy water based activities but to advanced level. All instruments. Also, demics.georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/ whose prime interest is sailing. This BYOB voice lessons, music production technolevent is free and all are welcome, but personaldevelopment/satprepsavannah/. ogy and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Membership is encouraged after several 20 instructors with professional, well visits once interest is gauged!! We look Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Singing Classes equipped studios. Fridays.. 912-354-1500. forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

Bel Canto is a singing style which helps the pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young's Marina, portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic. voice become flexible and expressive, imcom. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 218 Wilmington Island Rd. proves vocal range and breathing capacity. Exchange Club of Savannah - Weekly Lunch Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments Meets every Monday (except on the fifth A foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel Savannah Musicians' Institute ofand musical theatre. $25 Mondays, 6 p.m.. Monday of the month), 12pm-1pm. Weekly fers private instruction for all ages and speaker, and honor a student of the month 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo. experience levels in Guitar (electric, and year, police officer and fireman of the com. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West acoustic,classical), Piano, Bass, Voice, year. Charities: Jenkins Boys & Girls Club; State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

Spanish Classes Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Flute, Clarinet, Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse.

Spanish courses for professionals ofSaxophone, Music Theory/Composition/ Guest are welcome Mondays, 12-1 p.m.. fered by Conquistador Spanish Language Songwriting. 609 69th Street, Savannah 912-441-6559. Savannahexchange.org.

GA. ongoing. 912-398-8828. smisavannah@ Institute, LLC. Beginner Spanish for Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook Street. gmail.com. savmusiciansinstitute.com.

New Horizons Adult Band Program Fiber Guild of the Savannahs ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, Music program for adults who played a A club focusing on weaving, spinning, M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets in the band instrument in high school/college basket making, knitting, crocheting, quiltKeller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 and would like to play again. Mondays at ing, beading, rug hooking, doll making, Commercial Drive. Tuesdays.. conquista32 6:30pm at Portman's. $30 per month. All and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland dor-spanish.com.

Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead. com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Freedom Network

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

Historic Flight Savannah

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

912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby's Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257.

Islands MOPS

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

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

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

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

Knittin’ Night

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

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

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

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

National Association of Women in Construction July Chapter Meeting

NAWIC is dedicated to enhancing the success of women in the construction industry through networking and educational programs and speakers. Join us in July for an exciting networking luncheon! Meet other women that work in the construction industry, both NAWIC members and guests, and experience first-hand how NAWIC can help support a professional woman in a male dominated field. Let NAWIC help you build your professional network! $20 Members, $30 Guests Mon., July 27, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. https://facebook.com/events/985567581489517/. thepirateshouse.com. The Pirate's House, 20 East Broad St. Philo Cafe

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

Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

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

Savannah Brewers' League

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

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

Meets Saturdays, 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds and better investing. Contact by email for info. ongoing. charlesfund@ gmail.com. panerabread.com/. Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St. Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

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

in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games

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

Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Savannah Toastmasters

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

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

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

Mondays.

Savannah Writers Group

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

Free and open to the public. fourth Tuesday of every month.. savannahwritersgroup. blogspot.com.

Step Up Savannah Fundrasier

Step Up Savannah is hosting our first

Frozen Yogurt Fundraiser July 24, 2015.

We will host at La’ Berry located at 225 W. Broughton Street Savannah, Georgia 31401. The fundraiser is open to the public during business hours 12pm to 10:30pm.

Cost of purchase Fri., July 24, 12-10 p.m. 912-401-0672. cpolland@stepupsavannah.org. https://facebook.com/ events/477924705703429/. laberryfrozenyogurt.com/. La' Berry Frozen Yogurt Cafe, 225 West Broughton St. Tertulia en español at Foxy Loxy

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

7:30pm to 9pm at Foxy Loxy, 1919 Bull street. All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. fourth Thursday of every month.. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

A volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome. Prior experience/boat ownership not required. fourth Wednesday of every month.. 912-598-7387. savannahaux.com.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

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

Waving Girls--Smocking Arts Guild of America

The Waving Girls welcomes smockers and all those who create fine heirloom items. At each meeting there is an opportunity to learn and share our work. The

group makes over 100 "wee care" gowns for memorial hospital each year. fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912 536 1447. debcreation@hotmail.com. smocking.org. Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

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

Concerts

13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)

“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-3449768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Concert: I'll Cover You

Join Trae Gurley and a few of his friends for an evening of songs from artists that have and continue to inspire him. Ranging in genres from gospel, soul, standards, and singer songwriter - this show has something for everyone. Enjoy music from artists such as Iron and Wine, Ryan Adams, and Frank Sinatra, as well as a heartfelt rendition of I'll Cover You from Broadway's Rent. Acoustic set. $25 Thu., July 23, 8-10 p.m. 912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com/schedule/ill-cover-you/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.

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Savannah Fencing Club

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

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

Savannah Go Green

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

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

302 West Victory Drive www.smokecartel.com

Savannah Kennel Club

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

Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue.

Savannah Newcomers Club

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

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

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

Society for Creative Anachronism

Meets every Saturday at the south end of Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. For people interested

Savannah’s New Smoke Shop (912) 574 2000

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Concert of music for violin, cello and bass: Music includes Renaissance, Classical, tangos, fiddling and more. Terry Moore, violin; Sarah Schenkman, cello; Peter Berquist, bass. Donations accepted. Sun., July 26, 4-5:15 p.m. sschenkman6@gmail. com. Wesley Oak United Methodist Church, 3124 East Victory Drive.

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

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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Ballroom/Latin Group Class

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

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

Beginner's Belly Dance Classes

Learn basic moves and choreography with local Belly Dancer, Nicole Edge. Class is 34 open to all ages and skill levels. Walk-ins

welcome. 15.00 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. 912596-0889. edgebelly@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.

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.

where it's cooler. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

912-988-1052. medi.tavern314@gmail. com. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way.

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.

Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

Home Cookin' Cloggers

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 Happenstance Bellydance programs, workshops, camps. Certified.

All levels and styles of bellydance welWednesdays.. 912-704-2052. prideofirecome. Classes every Monday, 5:30-6:30pm. landga@gmail.com.

Kids/Youth Dance Class Drop-ins welcome. $15/lesson Mondays, Kids Group class on various Ballroom 5:30 p.m.. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebel- and Latin dances. Multiple teachers. Ages 4-17 currently enrolled in the program. lydance.wordpress.com. Anahata Healing Prepares youth for social and/or competiArts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team tive dancing. $15/person Saturdays, 10 Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or a.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ tap dance experience is necessary. Call gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.

Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912-748com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Travis Street.

LaBlast- Dance Fitness designed by Louis Van 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 Lessons (Salsa, Bachata)

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

Dance Party

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

Disco Hustle Dance Class

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

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

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, Lake Mayer is offering free dance and fit7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. ness classes for all ages every Thursday, in ongoing. 912-354-5586.

Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah the Community Center. 9:30 am and 10:30 am is the "Little Movers" class for toddlers. Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur.

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm12:00 pm Lunch Break Fitness. 1:30 pm Super Seniors. 5:30 pm youth hip hop. 6:30 6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. pm Adult African Fitness. FREE ongoing, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 912-652-6780. sdavis@ Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com.

Salsa Night chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Come and shake it to the best latin grooves Montgomery Crossroads.

FUNdamentals Dance Lesson and bachata the night away in Pooler Free Dance Thursdays at Lake Mayer

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

A class designed to maintain that summer body by dancing and having fun.

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

West Coast Swing Class

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

Fitness

$8 Community Yoga Classes

Savannah Power Yoga offers a community yoga class nearly every day of the week for just $8. 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. $8 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) 349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. 5Rhythms

A moving meditation. A path to higher vibration. A spiritual practice for some. A workout for others. With limited guidance and an eclectic mix of music, each person moves through the 5 rhythms of: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. In this practice the "energy" of these rhythms is explored through each persons authentic way of moving. There is no right or wrong way and no steps to follow. No experience is needed. Led

by Dana Danielson. Last Friday of every month. Sign up at savannahyogabarre. com or simply show up. ongoing. danadanielson.com. savannahyogabarre. com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive. $8 Community Meditation Classes

Join us for breath work, guided meditation, and yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique to relieve stress, quiet the mind, and find the calm within. All proceeds support local organizations. $8 Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912-349-2756. savannahpoweryoga.com/. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Al-Anon Family Groups

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for friends/family of problem drinkers.

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

Barre Classes

Looking for a fun way to tone and burn calories? Savannah Yoga Barre offers daily barre classes to help you reach your fitness goals. Diverse classes ensure there's something for everyone. All levels are encouraged to attend. Start where you are and go from there. Classes start as early as 6 a.m. and as late as 6:45 p.m. $15 drop-in or use class pass ongoing. 912200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory Drive.

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.

Free Dance and Fitness Classes at Lake Mayer

The Community Class (with a user-friendly $5 cash price) has a rotating roster of SYC teacher training graduates & SYC regular teachers. It is affordable, fun and a great chance to take class from fresh and enthusiastic new teachers. These teachers volunteer their time/talents to teach these classes and funds from these classes are donated to a local charity. $5 Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m.. 912-988-1320. savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street.

Free Yoga for Cancer Patients

CommUNITY Yoga Classes

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.

Core Pilates

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeing offers Free Yoga for Cancer Patients every Monday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in Candler’s Heart & Lung Building, Suite 100. The very gentle movements and breath work in this class will give you much needed energy, it will make your body feel better, and it will give you a mental release. This class is free to cancer patients. Mondays, 1:30-2:30 p.m. 912819-8800. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St.

This fun and challenging Pilates class will tone your entire body while focusing on building core strength. Betsy HunterHughes is at your service every Mon-WedFri 9:45 at Savannah Yoga Barre. $15 dropin or class pass Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9:45-10:45 a.m. 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory Drive.

Fitness Classes at the JEA

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. CommUNITY Classes

SYC teacher training graduates & SYC regular teachers. It is affordable, fun and a great chance to take class from fresh and enthusiastic new teachers. These teachers volunteer their time/talents to teach these classes and funds from these classes are donated to a local charity. $5 Wednesdays, Fridays, 2:30-3:30 p.m.. 912-232-2994. http://savannahyoga.com/. savannahyoga. com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St.

The Community Class (with a user-friendly $5 cash price) has a rotating roster of

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.

outs and have goals to lose weight, tone up, or get in shape for the new year. Different packages available: Classes start out at $8 Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.. 832470-2257. amanda@channelyourinnerathlete.com. channelyourinnerathlete.com/ work-with-me/sports-conditioning-bootcamp/. Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West.

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and

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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. Happy Hour Boot Camp Classes

Amanda Jessop, certified strength and conditioning specialist, teaches classes for those who enjoy challenging and fun work-

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More local numbers:1-800-777-8000 Ahora en Español/18+ www.guyspyvoice.com

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.

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power over what happens on your turf.

The Latin motto “Carpe diem” shouldn’t be translated as “Seize the day!”, says author Nicholson Baker. It’s not a battle cry exhorting you to “freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.”

The proper translation, according to Baker, is “Pluck the day.” In other words, “you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were a wildflower, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things -- so that the day’s stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, and the flower is released in your hand.” Keep that in mind, Aries. I understand you are often tempted to seize rather than pluck, but these days plucking is the preferable approach.

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, the *Mona Lisa.* The results suggest that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your probably mix for the coming days: 16 percent relieved, 18 percent innocent, 12 percent confused, 22 percent liberated, 23 percent ambitious, and 9 percent impatient.

I’m a big fan of the attitude summed up by the command “Be here now!” The world would be more like a sanctuary and less like a battleground if people focused more on the present moment rather than on memories of the past and fantasies of the future. But in accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a temporary exemption from the “Be here how!” approach. You have a poetic license to dream and scheme profusely about what you want your life to be like in the future.

Your word of power is *tomorrow.*

TAURUS

“What makes you heroic?” asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s how he answered himself: “simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope.” This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo. Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain. Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it.

March 21-April 19

April 20-May 20

When I talk about “The Greatest Story Never Told,” I’m not referring to the documentary film about singer Lana Del Rey or the debut album of the rap artist Saigon or any other cultural artifact. I am, instead, referring to a part of your past that you have never owned and understood . . . a phase from the old days that you have partially suppressed . . . an intense set of memories you have not fully integrated. I say it’s time for you to deal with this shadow. You’re finally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as a crucial thread in the drama of your hero’s journey.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20

The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. Funny story: Once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. Oops! He didn’t watch where he was going, and fell down into a well. He was OK, but embarrassed. Let’s make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated, and inspired -- but only if you watch where you’re going.

CANCER

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Charles Darwin is best known for his book *The Origin of Species,* which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology.

But while he was still alive, his bestseller was *The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.* The painstaking result of over forty years’ worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature’s crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwin’s central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time can have monumental effects. This also happens to be one of your

July 23-Aug. 22

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Actress and musician Carrie Brownstein was born with five planets in Libra. Those who aren’t conversant with astrology’s mysteries may conclude that she is a connoisseur of elegance and harmony. Even professional stargazers who know how tricky it is to make generalizations might speculate that she is skilled at cultivating balance, attuned to the needs of others, excited by beauty, and adaptive to life’s ceaseless change. So what are we to make of the fact that Brownstein has said, “I really don’t know what to do when my life is not chaotic”? Here’s what I suspect: In her ongoing exertions to thrive on chaos, she is learning how to be a connoisseur of elegance and harmony as she masters the intricacies of being balanced, sensitive to others, thrilled by beauty, and adaptive to change. This is important for you to hear about right now.

SCORPIO

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

You’re entering a volatile phase of your cycle. In the coming weeks, you could become a beguiling monster who leaves a confusing mess in your wake. On the other hand, you could activate the full potential of your animal intelligence as you make everything you touch more interesting and soulful. I am, of course, rooting for the latter outcome. Here’s a secret about how to ensure it: Be as ambitious to gain power over your own darkness as you are to gain

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

A philanthropist offered $100,000 to the Girls Scouts chapter of Western Washington. But there were strings attached. The donor specified that the money couldn’t be used to support transgender girls. The Girl Scouts rejected the gift, declaring their intention to empower every girl “regardless of her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.”

Do you have that much spunk, Capricorn?

Would you turn down aid that would infringe on your integrity? You may be tested soon. Here’s what I suspect: If you are faithful to your deepest values, even if that has a cost, you will ultimately attract an equal blessing that doesn’t require you to sell out. (P.S. The Girls Scouts subsequently launched an Indiegogo campaign that raised more than $300,000.)

AQUARIUS

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

Consider the possibility of opening your mind, at least briefly, to provocative influences you have closed yourself off from.

You may need to refamiliarize yourself with potential resources you have been resisting or ignoring, even if they are problematic.

I’m not saying you should blithely welcome them in. There still may be good reasons to keep your distance. But I think it would be wise and healthy for you to update your relationship with them.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20

Over 10,000 species of mushrooms grow in North America. About 125 of those, or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others are unappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility is in question. By my reckoning, a similar statistical breakdown should apply to the influences that are floating your way. I advise you to focus intently on those very few that you know for a fact are pleasurable and vitalizing. Make yourself unavailable for the rest.

street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am-10pm.

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

Insanity Workout Group Class

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

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.

Living Smart Fitness Club

St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which is an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesdays, the classes are held at the center, at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (Mondays/Wednesdays). Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605. Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. 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. Nonstop Fitness Spin Class

Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm for Spin.

Space is limited, please call 912-349-4902 to reserve your spot and to inquire about our other classes. 10 classes for $50 Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 912-349-4902. kristi@nonstopfitnesssav.com. nonstopfitnesssav.com. NonStop Fitness, 8511 Ferguson Ave. 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

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Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Pregnancy Yoga Classes

Pregnancy is a transitional time when many physical and emotional changes take place. Pregnancy Yoga is about honoring these changes in ourselves, our body and our baby. Yoga strengthens the rapidly changing body and increases the ability to relax, and helps to prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and motherhood. Pregnancy Yoga classes are offered as a 6 week session on Thursday evenings from 6pm – 7:15 pm. The class is suitable for all stages of pregnancy and no prior yoga experience is necessary. $120 - six week session Thursdays. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes

Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 ongoing. qigongtim.com/.

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. 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.

Somatic Movement Improvisation

This class is for everyone who moves!

Improve your dynamic alignment, breath, grounding, and the ability to access fluid movement. You will improve in all your movement activities, while awakening more fully within your own life as an embodied experience. Led by international teacher Janet Kaylo. Wear light, loose fitting clothes suitable for dance or yoga.

No experience necessary. $15 drop-in or use class pass Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. 912200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory 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.

Crossword Answers

Calling all readers: What’s your happy place?

By Your Pal Erin

psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com www.yourpalerin.com

Dear Pals, Lately, I’m suffering from a serious case of weltschmerz— a German word meaning “world weariness.” Based on your letters and feedback, you’re feeling it too.

In the past few years, the world seems to have gone mad. Reading the news is like playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons where every character you encounter has rolled a perfect 20 in the alignment of Chaotic Evil.

Even worse, the people that we know and love are leaving us much too soon. Parents, grandparents, children and friends, taken away by addictions they just couldn’t kick; freak accidents that no one saw coming; rogue diseases that had no business being in their bodies in the first place.

Take a wellness census in my neighborhood and you’ll tally two strokes, three terminal illnesses and one passing that could be attributed to a broken heart. We also bore witness to the motorcycle crash that claimed the life of Black Tusk bassist Jonathan Athon, while still recovering from having lost our incomparable Ben Tucker just seventeen months before.

Last week I lost my childhood friend, Jeffrey “Meat” Gadbois, to an aggressive form of colon cancer. Meat was a brilliant visual artist and poet with absolutely zero filter when it came to speaking his mind. He also had the biggest, most loving heart of anyone I’ve ever known.

He is survived by parents Marilyn and Stanley, brothers John and James; all of whom buried his sister Janet just a few years back.

As you read this now, you might be reminded of someone just like him; a light unto the world, whose passing has left you feeling like your heart was robbed at gunpoint. Lately it seems that guys like Meat are not Death’s exception, but its rule. Even more so, in groups of three.

For sixteen years, I have studied with The Ascended Masters. Their teachings have helped me to embrace this amazing new energy that brings important changes

to our planet. Intellectually and spiritually, I understand that loss is a necessary part of the process. Yet for all of my training, I am gobsmacked and reeling from the emotional burnout brought on by this non-stop mourning.

One of the things I love most in life is bringing light, love and positivity to everyone I meet. I’m upbeat and joyful more often than not, but this constant exhaustion is corroding my morale. Sadness and grief are a natural part of life, but they contradict our inherent state of wellbeing.

It’s time to nip this sucker in the bud before it can blossom, dog forbid, take root.

And so, my pals, I am turning this column over to you. How do you stay positive in difficult times? How do you bring light, love and joy to the world? Please tell us about your Happy Place so we can benefit from your insights.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed right now, how can we help? What do you need? Is there a resource you’d like to see that’s not available? A special community you’d like to build?

Please let your fellow Savannahians know what we can do for you at: psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com.

Thank so much for keeping your eyes, ears and hearts open to those of us who could use a little boost of love and positivity.

And thanks for spreading it generously.

As always, I am sending much love and light to you. I look forward to sharing your thoughts.

Your pal, Erin The Ghost Dog Diaries is a weekly advice column, inspired by the late PJ Cuddlesworth. Three hours after PJ’s passing, Erin held an Irish Wake in her honor.

That’s when her name appeared in her beer. (Misspelled, of course. Ghost Dogs aren’t equipped with Autocorrect.) Erin and PJ have been giving psychic readings and helping people connect with their loved ones who have passed ever since.

Got a question about life after death and other phenomena? Give us a shout at psychicyourpalerin@ gmail.com. Although we don’t give psychic readings in this column, you can learn more about private consultations at www.yourpalerin.com

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Paint & Body Work.

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

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SHARED LIVING: Fully Furnished Apts. $170 weekly.

No deposit. All utilities included. Call 912-844-5995

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HELP WANTED WE’RE LOOKING FOR A TALENTED SALES ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE You will be responsible for developing new & existing business, making presentations, managing accounts & collections, and delivering return on investment to Connect Savannah advertisers.

The ideal candidate has media sales experience, knows Savannah and excels in cultivating relationships with area businesses.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL POSSESS: Excellent written and verbal skills; time management skills with sharp attention to details and follow through. You must also be computer literate and new media savvy.

You’ll be expected to execute an effective needs-based selling approach and have a naturally outgoing and influential personality with a contagious positive attitude.

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THIS POSITION OFFERS: Salary and commission on sales, benefit package with paid vacation and gas allowance.

We value and reward great people!

TO APPLY: Send resume and cover letter to: sales@connectsavannah.com.

JULY 22-28, 2015

CLEAN, QUIET, NICE ROOMS & EFFICIENCIES from $100-$215. Near Bus lines.

Refrigerator, Stove, Washer & Dryer. For More Info, Call 912-412-2818 or 912-2723438

Connect Savannah is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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the livin’ is easy this summer at the lucas.

This week...

I’llDiamonds Cover YouAre Forever With Gurley JulyTrae 10th, 8:00pm July 23rd, 8:00pm

Savannah Children’s Choir End of Camp Concert July 24th, 7:00pm

next week: You Made Me Love You, A Judy Garland Tribute July 30th, 8:00pm Priscilla: Queen of the Desert FCN Charity Event July 31st, 7:30pm

LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS

912.525.5050

for tickets: lucastheatre.com