Connect Savannah March 9, 2016

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Randy Napoleon Trio

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He Said, She Said: Freddy Cole & René Marie

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SAT 3/26

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CHAMBER MUSIC I Viennese Masterpieces

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Irish Supergroup: The Gloaming

Late Night Jam with the Wycliffe Gordon Quintet Ballaké Sissoko, kora

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Blues in the Garden: North Mississippi Allstars/Charlie Musselwhite

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R E C I TA L S I Cameron Carpenter feat. the International Touring Organ

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Big World of Music: Kassé Mady Diabaté/Sadin's "Night Songs"

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Flamenco Mastery: Vicente Amigo

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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver/Blue Highway R E C I TA L S I I Alexandre Tharaud, piano African Superstar: Rokia Traoré A Spring Fling: Pink Martini feat. China Forbes

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Swing that Music: Catherine Russell/The Hot Sardines

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12:30 PM

Harold Mabern, piano

6 & 9 PM

Swing Central Jazz: Jazz on the River Tenor Titans: Stephen Riley Quartet feat. Marcus Roberts/ Eric Alexander Quartet feat. Harold Mabern

6 PM

C H A M B E R M U S I C V The Complete Beethoven Trios, Part II

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VO I C E I Arias & Encores

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Swing Central Jazz: The Competition C H A M B E R M U S I C V I World of the Mandolin in Four Centuries: Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg Brianna Thomas Quartet

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VO I C E I I I Mozart in Prague: An Operatic Journey Del & Dawg: Del McCoury and David Grisman

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O R C H E S T R A I Great Concertos

12:30 PM 2 PM

SAT 4/9

Haas Kowert Tice Marine Corps All Star Jazz Band

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Bryan Sutton Band/Haas Kowert Tice

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R E C I TA L S I V Jeremy Denk, piano

11 AM 12:30 & 8 PM

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings O R C H E S T R A I I All Mozart Joey Alexander Trio Pericles: Recomposed

7:30 PM

Dave Rawlings Machine

12:30 PM

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Julian Lage Trio/Söndörgő

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C H A M B E R M U S I C V I I Daniel Hope & Friends with the Danish String Quartet

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The Time Jumpers feat. Vince Gill, Kenny Sears & Ranger Doug Green

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Drive-By Truckers

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Väsen

6 & 9 PM

When the Danes Met the Swedes: Väsen/Danish String Quartet

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Dr. John & the Nite Trippers

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C H A M B E R M U S I C V I I I Danish String Quartet

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Darrell Scott

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Rhiannon Giddens/Mokoomba!

6 PM

Dwight Yoakam

The Art of the Piano Trio feat. Marcus Roberts & Daniel Hope

3 PM

6 PM

C H A M B E R M U S I C I V The Complete Beethoven Trios, Part I

7:30 PM 4–7 PM

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R E C I TA L S I I I Arnaldo Cohen, piano

5 & 8 PM

3 PM

7:30 PM

C H A M B E R M U S I C I I Mozart & Dvořák

Aaron Diehl, piano

6 PM

MON 4/4

Swing that Music: Catherine Russell/The Hot Sardines

12:30 PM 6 PM

SUN 4/3

Caribbean Dance Party: Creole Soul with Etienne Charles

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Cajun & Zydeco Dance Party: Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys/ Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

SUN 3/27

FRI 4/1

Film: Within Our Gates, Original Score Composed & Conducted by Wycliffe Gordon/ Swing Central Jazz Finale

He Said, She Said: Freddy Cole & René Marie

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THU 3/31

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WED 3/30

SAT 4/2

VO I C E I I The Tallis Scholars

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

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TUE 3/29

FRI 4/1 (cont.)

The Suffers/Langhorne Slim

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Stringband Spectacular 2016

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My Brightest Diamond

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My Brightest Diamond

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Brass Band Blowout: Fanfare Ciocărlia/Red Baraat O R C H E S T R A I I I Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Louis Lortie

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THURSDAY / 10 Harlem Globetrotters World Tour

Landmark: A Decade of Collection at the Jepson Center THURS / 10

Greening of the Fountain WED / 9

Annual kick-off to Saint Patrick’s Day celebration events. Hosted by Savannah Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee at Forsyth Park main fountain. noon Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Free savannahsaintpatricksday.com

Join Telfair’s team of curators and special guests to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Jepson Center with this presentation spotlighting the “greatest hits” of the museum’s collection acquired over the past decade and moments from Jepson history. This PechaKucha-style presentation gives each participant five minutes to highlight some of their favorite pieces and recollections that formed the foundation of this landmark museum. Come in Jepson Center-inspired attire. After the lecture, enjoy treats and other festivities in the atrium.

6 p.m. lecture, 7-9 p.m. reception Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Members Free/ non-members $12

Harlem Globetrotters World Tour

This lecture by Dr. June Hopkins will explore how middle-class, educated women entered into the public sphere using the settlement house as a gateway institution. Part of Armstrong’s Moveable Feast lecture series.

6 p.m Massie Heritage Center, 207 East Gordon St. Free

Tea at Mrs. Davenport’s

Learn about tea traditions and experience an early 19th century tea in the atmosphere of the Davenport House Museum.

Thu/Fri 5 p.m.

Davenport House, 324 East State St. $18 plus tax

FRIDAY / 11 Concert: Joe Robinson

Multi-award winning artist, including “Best New Talent” in Guitar Player magazine 2010 Reader’s Poll.

7:30 p.m Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 East Hwy. 80. $35 randywoodmusic.com

Capsula will perform the classic Bowie album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” in its entirety.

11 p.m Trinity UMC, 225 West President St.

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Lecture: Cultural Cannibals or Twentieth Century Heroes?

Savannah Stopover: David Bowie Tribute w/ Capsula

The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy.

7 p.m The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $23-$88

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The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy.

7 p.m Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $23-$88

Film: The Life Aquatic

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the shark that devoured a member of his crew.

8 p.m Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. $9 Chuck Close (American, b. 1940); Self-Portrait, 2002; 43-color handprinted woodcut, Nishinouchi paper; 22 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.; gift of Chuck and Leslie Close in memory of Kirk Varnedoe; printed by Karl Heckscher / published by Pace Editions, Inc.; Telfair Museums, 2006.10.2; © Chuck Close.

Greening of the Fountain

Annual kick-off to Saint Patrick’s Day celebration events. noon Forsyth Park Free savannahsaintpatricksday.com

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Harrison Scott Key Reading

Harrison Scott Key, author of “The World’s Largest Man,” and his SCAD humor students will read recent work.

6 p.m The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Free

Hop On Board.

Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods.

9 a.m.-1 p.m Forsyth Park

Irish Heritage Celebration Parade

Tybee Island is going green with a fun, family-friendly parade to celebrate St. Grab a pint from the concession stand and Patrick’s Day. The parade will begin at City settle in for some rowdy Irish craic featur- Hall and proceed down Butler to Tybrisa. ing In For A Penny and Seldom Sober.

3 p.m 8 p.m Tybee Island Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn.

Free and open to the public $15

Irish Jamboree

The Royal Comedy Tour

With Sommore, Earthquake, ArnezJ, Don DC Curry, and Special K. 8 p.m Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $42-$99

Savannah Stopover: Band Poster Exhibition

Jose Ray will be spinning vinyl in the Jepson atrium where the top band posters will be displayed. In collaboration with Art Rise.

5:30 p.m Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

Theatre: Death of a Salesman

Collective Face Ensemble presents Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s unflinching examination of the American Dream that is as relevant today as it was the day it was written.

Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 912-232-0018

SATURDAY / 12 Concert: Moira and Micky Nelligan

Moira and son play a mix of traditional Irish and Southern roots music and some original songs.

4 p.m Unitarian Universalist Church, 313 Harris St. $20

Craft Brew Races

A celebration of local craft brewing, an active lifestyle, and the surrounding community. A three-hour festival follows with food trucks, live music and more. noon Trade & Convention Ctr, 1 International Dr. $50 advance, $65 on site

Film: The Royal Tenenbaums

Royal Tenenbaum and wife Etheline had three children, then separated. This is the story of the family’s unexpected reunion.

8 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $9

Movie and Potluck Night

Join Savannah Yoga Center in kicking off 13th Anniversary Weekend with a free movie and vegetarian potluck. SYC’s Joe Basler & Mary McCormick are hosting our vegetarian & vegan Satsang and Potluck.

Please bring a clearly labeled vegetarian or vegan dish to share and your own reusable plate, fork, cup, and napkin.

5:30-8:30 p.m Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Free

Natural Resource Discovery Day

Wildlife-related educational activities for all ages. This year we will also be celebrating the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty with special programs focusing on bird conservation.

10 a.m.-4 p.m Savannah NWR, Laurel Hill Wildlife Dr. 843-784-2468

Old Time Country Dance

Contra dance with live music by Glow in the Dark String Band. Casual dress, easy to learn, two left feet accepted, no partner or experience needed. Come early 7:15p for lesson.

7:30 p.m.

Garden City UMC, 62 Varnedoe Ave. $8 general / $6 students savannahfolk.org

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Pipe Organ Day: Majestic Instruments in Architectural Gems

Hear “Cadillac of American Organs,” vintage 1957 Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ and tour sanctuary. Organists perform thru 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists.

1-1:45 p.m St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran, 10 W 31st St. Free

Savannah Art Walk

Includes twenty Galleries, as well as collaborative endeavors with Andaz and Bohemian Riverfront Hotel to offer wine pours a gratis for guests. second Saturday of every month, 4-8 p.m.

Free SavannahArtWalk.com

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Savannah Derby Devils

Local roller derby girls open their season.

5 & 7 p.m Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $12

St. Patrick’s Day Rugby Tournament The tournament begins Saturday at 8am, with final game around 5pm, and then teams play for final placings on Sunday starting again at 8am.

8 a.m.-5 p.m Daffin Park Free

St. Practice Day Bar Crawl

Drink specials, free swag, leprechauns, a chance to earn a free t-shirt. For details, like Stafford Promotions on Facebook.

4-11 p.m McDonough’s, 21 East Mcdonough St. $15 adv/$20 day-of

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Family-friendly feis with live performances, food, art activities, crafts and games hosted with Irish ceremony, tradition and hospitality. Featuring Ciaran Sheehan (Phantom of the Opera) and Cathy Maguire (Ireland in Song) under the direction of Gabriel Donohue.

11 a.m.-5 p.m Emmet Park, End of Bay St. Free and open to the public

Theatre: Johnny Mercer and Me

Written by local author and JEA member Miriam Center and directed by Tom Coleman III, the show reflects on Mercer’s music through the eyes of his longtime friend and confidant, Maxine.

Sat., 8 p.m, Sun. 3 p.m.

Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn $18 advance, $20 door, $15 JEA members savannahcommunitytheatre.com

Theatre: Romeo and Juliet

The Bard returns to the Beach! This time it’s his tragic romance Romeo & Juliet produced by the Savannah Stage Company.

8 p.m Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn. $15 adults, $10 students, $13.50 members

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Irish Catholics celebrate their heritage with family and friends.

1:30 p.m Emmet Park, End of Bay St. Free and open to the public savannahsaintpatricksday.com

Celtic Cross Mass

Celebrate Irish heritage.

11:30 a.m Cathedral of St John, 222. E Harris St. Free

Film: The Last Song

What better movie to launch the Movies Made Here film series than The Last Song, perhaps the best-known movie filmed almost entirely on Tybee Island.

4 & 7 p.m Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $7 adults, $5 children 12 and under tybeeposttheater.org/

ReptiDay Savannah Reptile & Exotic Animal Show

ReptiDay Savannah is a one-day reptile event featuring vendors offering reptile pets, supplies, feeders, cages, and merchandise.

10 a.m.-5 p.m Alee Shrine Temple, 13 Eisenberg Road.

Adults $10, Children (5-12) $5, Under 5 Free

Savannah Yoga 13th Anniversary

All-levels MashUp yoga class, kombucha happy hour with BUCHI from Asheville and Brighter Day, and live music with Prema Hara. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity Savannah.

4:30-7:30 p.m Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. $25 advance, $35 day of

Shamrock Festival

Enjoy oysters, hot dogs, beer, live music

by Christy Alan Band, bingo, silent auction, and more at this First City Network event.

10 a.m.-5 p.m Skidaway Island State Park $25, free for children 12 and under

MONDAY / 14 Monday Means Community: Deeply Local

Four Savannahians -- Sonny Seiler, Huxsie Scott, Eric Brown, and Betsy Bull -- talk about what’s sacred to them. The evening includes a moderated groupthink and Q&A, and the discussion continues afterwards at the American Legion.

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

WEDNESDAY / 16 Film: Mystery St. Patrick’s Day Screening

This mystery Irish-made film features an Oscar-nominated director before he came to international fame. The exact title will remain a mystery until showtime.

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

Jasper Green Ceremony

Irish community honors our military.

5 p.m Madison Square, West Harris Street.

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Parking matters—and so does common sense

BY JIM MOREKIS

jim@connectsavannah.com

AFTER A LOT of years in this business, I’ve learned it’s important not to overthink things. Some things just don’t pass the smell test.

One of them is the stinker of a new proposal to raise parking rates in downtown Savannah, and make the hours 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday in the most highdemand zone.

While those are the headline-grabbers from the $250,000 consultant-created set of “mobility solutions” — part of what you pay for is shiny new words! — those misguided suggestions are part of a larger and generally much more reasonable update of Savannah’s parking system.

It’s my fond hope that the more softheaded suggestions will get the ax, and

“How on Earth did they not take into account the impact of residential and student parking for free in front of so many businesses? Many of the locals that live above us have garage and private spaces in the lot nearby but they park by the door to be convenient and block our customers from gaining access.”

“Tybee got greedy with their parking and now a lot of people don’t go there as much anymore. Tourists, yes. Locals, less. Who is Savannah for?”

“If Savannah wants visitors to pay for parking in evenings and on weekends, it will be expected to offer all the amenities of a major destination: direct airport from NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, 24/7 dining, visitor access inside cemeteries after dark, sightseeing tours that cover many more historic districts (Ardsley Park, Victorian District, Starland District...), store hours that extend well beyond regular business hours...”

Our metro area is at most about 1/20th the population and nowhere in the same galaxy of economic mojo as Atlanta — which charges six days a week until 10 p.m. in “entertainment zones,” i.e. most places you’d want to dine or shop.

Simply put, despite our frequent delusions of big-city grandeur, Savannah doesn’t yet have the diversified economy and critical mass to justify six day a week parking until 10 p.m.

What we are now is still a small town— a small town where nearly a third of the population lives in poverty.

While “livability” is often touted in studies like this, one of the most livable aspects of Savannah is precisely the fact that locals know they can drive downtown after business hours or anytime on the weekend and don’t have to pay for parking.

However, if one’s goal is to discourage locals from coming downtown to shop or have fun, and make more room — and make more money from — visitors, then

While “livability” is often touted in studies like this, one of the most livable aspects of Savannah is that locals know they don’t have to pay for parking at night or on weekends. some of the other proposals in the study will be enacted.

Politically speaking, the 10 a.m.-10 p.m. six day per week idea is the lamest of non-starters.

Hypothetically speaking, if I were a newly elected Mayor of Savannah, I’d make so much political hay gleefully bashing this idea that Donald Trump would blush and accuse me of going over the top.

When I posted about it on Facebook, the reactions were choice. Here’s a sampling: “If the target demographic is people with disposable income, then that’s either well-todo locals (who either already have on-property parking, street parking passes or money to spend on cab fare) or tourists (who are already paying hotel taxes and/or garage parking fees). So in reality, the meters end up disproportionately hurting low- to middle-wage earning locals just trying to park safely near work or run everyday errands.”

“When I play shows downtown my take home is about $25-$50. If I am having to pay to park for 2-3 of those hours it will take a large percentage of my take home. It of course hits the minimum wage workers even harder.”

There were a couple of eloquent defenders. Here’s a quote from a friend successful in the tourism industry, with no ties to City government or the consultant: “It will help the entire Historic District by dealing with an increasing number of visitors who threaten the infrastructure and ignore the nearly 1700 parking spaces that go unused. It’ll make people walk more, bike more and stay downtown longer. It’ll cut traffic, relieve snarled zones and spread parking more evenly.”

That in a nutshell is the City’s basic position. And a lot of the new proposals do make sense. Just not the one about 10 a.m.10 p.m. six days a week.

See the entire “Parking Matters” study for yourself at www.savannahga.gov/ parkingmatters As I’ve written before, the truth is Savannah is a much smaller market than we tend to want to admit.

I’m convinced this misperception is the cause of much of our collective inability to adequately and realistically address longstanding local problems.

For example, our metro area is less than half the population and economic critical mass of Charleston — which charges six days a week for parking downtown.

this would be a quick way to do it.

I don’t even want to get into the issue of people poking around for debit cards and coins to feed meters in the dark at 9 p.m., given the drastic increase in armed robberies already going on downtown.

Don’t get me wrong — there’s a lot to like about this new parking study.

Increased share of revenue going to bicycle-friendly streets and paths is part of the package. That’s awesome.

Eliminating the confusing hodge-podge of rates and maximum parking times is long overdue. Over 20 different combinations of rate/hours! Ridiculous.

Making parking garages more competitively priced than on-street parking is also a no-brainer.

(For some reason us locals refuse to use parking garages. I’m as guilty as anyone.

When I go to Charleston I have no problem parking in a garage. For some reason, in my hometown I refuse to use garages. I don’t understand this syndrome and I doubt the consultants do either.)

Again, I encourage you to check all this out for yourself. It’s not all bad.

But higher rates and more days and hours of paid parking, whatever else it might do, would mostly serve to increase the metaphorical distance between downtown and the rest of the city. CS

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BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

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MAR 9- MAR 15, 2016

I KNOW, I know, you probably thought I’d forgotten about it.

It’s been so long since I’ve kvetched about the Savannah River deepening, I’m sure it seems that way. But I was merely taking a break from worrying about my most unfavorite civic project to wring my hands over other things.

I promise, it’s still there, gnawing away at the back of my mind like a rat burrowed in a sock full of peanuts. And a few recent updates have chewed a hole in the toe.

Some of you may be new to my nutty metaphors, so in the words of the inimitable Inigo Montoya, let me ’splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up: Last fall, after 15 years of plotting and planning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally began The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), a 38-mile dredge that will take the current shipping channel from 42 to 47 feet so that the Georgia Ports Authority can welcome the gargantuan new ships passing through a newly-widened Panama Canal (a project beset with its own problems and delays).

Heralded as an economic savior and job creator for the state, SHEP will cost taxpayers $706 million—with nearly half of those dollars applied to environmental mitigation and ancillary measures to keep the river alive and ocean salt out of our local drinking water. The price of progress, you understand.

Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of words pointing out how few permanent jobs SHEP actually creates and the weak logic of spending that kind of bank and destroying that many acres of wetland for what ultimately amounts to less ship traffic.

Not to mention how totally lame it is that the 97 million gallon freshwater reservoir built by the Corps will have to be maintained with City of Savannah—not state—funds, even though the city receives not a single dollar of direct revenue from 10 the tax-exempt port (though of course it

Big ships, small city. Just sayin’. PHOTO BY JON WAITS

does benefit indirectly from port-related private enterprises).

Other than making me extremely unpopular at certain cocktail parties, such criticisms have had absolutely zero impact.

Not that I ever expected they would. That wasn’t even my motivation; it’s just that the hunky-dory spin given to this project makes me uncontrollably obnoxious.

Progress always plunges on: The Savannah River will get deeper “come hell or high water,” Vice President Joe Biden told us when he came to call back in ’14, and his truth has come to pass. The Big Dig has had its shovels in motion off Tybee Island for quite a few months now, and all is going to according to plan. Well, almost.

Last month, President Obama released his 2017 budget recommendation, and it only contained $42.7 million towards SHEP—less than half of what Gov. Nathan Deal has demanded per year to keep the project on track.

Deal, who has already put up $262 million of state funds to fire up the dredges in the outer harbor, railed against the paltry allocation, which he says underfunds the “most critical dredging project in the country.”

(The other 17 U.S. port projects seeking federal help might disagree.)

No matter, SHEP will continue to move through fiscal 2017 full steam ahead—aided by a $24 million infusion from the Corps’ own discretionary fund. However, the 2018 budget is anyone’s guess—along with what new President will administer it.

If the infantile insanity about the size of candidates’ genitals is any indicator, the U.S.’s lack of cohesive strategy around its disparate state ports will not be a priority.

It also surfaced in February that several endangered species had been killed by dredges in the Savannah River. Sammy Fretwell first reported in the Columbia, SC newspaper, The State, that two Atlantic sturgeon and a green sea turtle had been

churned up by the SHEP hoppers since Jan. 1, and a loggerhead turtle had died during routine maintenance of the channel. The severed flipper of a giant leatherback turtle was also recovered around the same time, though NOAA biologists determined the animal was more likely hit by a ship rather than sucked into the hoppers.

The “incidental take” limits in the biological opinion of the National Marine Fisheries’ Service (NMFS) allow for a loss of a total of four Atlantic sturgeon over the entire three years of the dredging—which means SHEP has already reached half its limit in the first few months.

The project maxes out at three green sea turtles, 16 loggerheads and 11 Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, a highly endangered species that migrates past the Georgia Coast to its nesting grounds in the Gulf of Mexico.

It’s something for activists to watch, though it must be noted that in addition to other precautions, the Corps has implemented a trawling net in front of the hopper in order to catch and relocate wildlife. In its biological opinion, NMFS estimates 51 turtles and 20 Atlantic sturgeon will be moved out of harm’s way during the project.

“We regret the taking of any species; however, some adverse impacts are an unavoidable result of keeping the waterways open for commerce,” writes the infallibly polite Billy Birdwell of the Corps’ public affairs office. “We assessed those potential impacts to endangered and threatened species as part of [SHEP’s] Environmental Impact Statement.”

But even if kills exceed NMFS projections, it’s not like SHEP will be shut down over turtle soup. The limits would likely just be amended, as there are bigger fish to fry here, as it were.

Over the summer, the Corps awarded a $100 million contract to Florida-based CDM Constructors, Inc. to build the dissolved oxygen systems on Hutchinson

Island and upriver in Effingham County that are supposed to mitigate dangerously low oxygen levels caused by the deeper channel, especially during the summer.

(There’s that “mitigation” word again.

To invoke Inigo again, I do not think that word means what you think it means.)

The DO systems will consist of a dozen domed bubblers called Speece Cones that periodically saturate water with oxygen to prevent the suffocation of fish and wildlife.

Such technology has never been used in an open water environment on this scale, but don’t worry: The terms of a 2013 lawsuit settled with the Southern Environmental Law Center dictate that the Corps has to prove they actually work before it can start digging down into the inner harbor.

Yet...no matter what, we end up with a river that can’t survive without iron lungs.

Take a deep breath and think about that.

Birdwell says contractors will break ground on the Speece Cone farms very soon, along with another $40 million “mitigative” measure: Thalle Construction Co. of Hillsborough, NC was recently tapped (tell me again how this creates local jobs?) to build us Savannahians that tidy freshwater reservoir upriver at the Abercorn Creek intake, so that when the deeper channel pushes the ocean even further upriver, we’re not drinking saltwater.

“The city’s treatment plant can use water from the impoundment on occasions when high tides and low stream flow result in higher chloride levels,” explains the Corps’ Savannah District’s website.

The concern isn’t just salt in our sweet tea. Studies indicate that high tides are getting higher, and increased chlorides in the water will make it more corrosive, increasing the the risk that it could leach lead from some of Savannah’s 750 miles of aging distribution pipes. The Corps assured in a 2011 report that this would probably never happen. But it’d be real

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nice to check again, considering Flint just poisoned its entire population—with river water that corroded old lead pipes.

I don’t doubt that the hard-working engineers and scientists are doing the best job they can to meet their objective: Get ‘er done regardless of drinking water hell or tidal high water. But I still just don’t get the cost/risk benefits, no matter how many times that vague “$5.50 returned for every dollar spent” flag gets waved. It’s always a shock to find out I’m not the only one.

“I’ve been in the shipping business for over 40 years, and it doesn’t make sense to me either,” a high ranking executive in a local import/export business recently told me after swearing on my grandmother’s grave that I would not reveal his name.

“The amount of ships that will come to call may be bigger, but there will be less of them—there are only so many to go around, ya know,” he says.

“What captain wants to snake their way up the Savannah River when they can just sidle up oceanside in Charleston or Jacksonville? Plus, if the federal money doesn’t come in, which it probably won’t, the state of Georgia cannot afford to do this without a major tax increase.”

There’s also the matter of the proposed $4.5 billion Jasper Ocean Terminal, to be built on the South Carolina bank of the

Savannah River. In November, the Georgia Ports Authority signed an agreement with the State Ports Authority in South Carolina to build the 1,500-acre shipping terminal, which could open as early as 2025.

But why would Georgia want to compete with itself with another, more convenient port right downstream?

Our friendly anonymous source opines that it’s a stalling ruse to appease the people of Jasper County and the joint venture will never happen.

“The whole thing is smoke and mirrors,” he laughs ruefully.

“The whole world is going off shore anyway, and more and more ports are becoming automated. So ultimately, that won’t create more jobs, but less.”

Look, it’s all speculation, whether you’re betting on the risks or the returns. No one can make the case that the Port of Savannah isn’t a vital economic anchor for Georgia, and most folks around here seem to believe that if its growth means some sturgeon get chopped up and our coffee tastes a little salty once in a while, it’s worth it.

So I fully accept that nothing can or will turn the SHEP ship around, and that the peckings of this mouthy columnist are just flotsam under the hull.

But it’s still a free country, and I can holler into the spray if I wanna. CS

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Remembering Imam Maajid Ali

Gentle and intellectual holy man maintained that ‘the antidote for ignorance is education’ would’ve rejected the Nation of Islam’s ideology.”

After mosque members aligned with mainstream Islam, they changed their name in 1986 to emphasize their jihad (“struggle”), one of the most misunderstood Islamic terms.

“We have the responsibility to struggle with our own self to make our souls conform to the excellent potential that God has placed in us,” he said.

And God’s “excellent potential” doesn’t include suicide bombers or much else associated with Islam in the media, a business where war and fear sell more than peace and hope.

“Holy war? That’s an oxymoron. No war is holy,” he said. “Faith and force are not compatible with each other.”

But there’s no room for a media critique in an obituary. Indeed, Imam Ali said it’s not up to me or anyone else who doesn’t pray facing Mecca to clear up what Islam means.

“I believe that the onus actually is on Muslims to clarify the caricatures, the distortions and the misconceptions that

individuals have about Islam,” he said.

So whenever people asked him to speak, there he was, in groups large and small. Many non-Muslims will remember him from his annual appearances at interfaith services.

Imam Ali was one of this city’s greatest proponents for dialogue among people of faith, Jews, Christians and Muslims. He also worked as a mental health and career counselor.

Did it bother him that his words would reach a few hundred, a few thousand, at most, when television’s glow reaches millions with gross misrepresentations of Islam?

“We reach persons incrementally,” he said. “My hope far outweighs my concerns.”

Yes, 14 years passed between our conversations. But if just a word of his spirit makes its way from him to you through me, it was not too late at all.

Rest in peace, Maajid Ali. CS

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When I met him in January, he showed me around his Midtown mosque. At every

BY ORLANDO MONTOYA turn, he offered to make my visit more SAVANNAHPODCAST.COM comfortable.

He dotted our conversation with I SPOKE with Imam Maajid Ali only twice. Koranic verses and grammatical flourThe first time was shortly after the attacks ishes. Who and whom, be still my heart!

A spirited intellectual, he enjoyed classiof September 11, 2001. cal music and jazz.

And the last time was a month before When I brought up the recent insanity he died recently. Savannah lost a man of – Paris, San Bernardino, Donald Trump deep compassion, reason, learning and – his belief in the transformative effect of understanding on February 27.

As the spiritual leader of Savannah’s old- gaining new knowledge was unbounded.

“As a person of faith, I look at matters est mosque, Masjid Jihad on 34th Street, realistically while at the same time, I never Imam Ali often fielded questions from lose hope,” he said. “The antidote for ignoreporters like me after some kind of bad news involving Muslims. And the past year rance is education.”

Ali began spreading knowledge about has been terrible for Islam in the press.

Islam nearly 40 years ago, when he became A lesser man would have resented only being called when the idiots came out. But imam. This was a time of great change for Imam Ali always relished the opportunity Islam in the US. Millions of African-Americans had joined the Nation of Islam as a to talk about his faith. political movement.

“Matters have gotten much worse,” he “It was more of a satire,” he said of the told me recently. “But I’m very hopeful because of what I see as the possibilities on group’s hateful spew. “If the Nation of Islam members really read the Koran, they the other hand.”

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Bored with the status quo? Get on a board!

City of Savannah has dozens of openings for citizens just like you

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

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ARE YOU fed up with ugly shopping complexes built by out-of-town developers?

Concerned about Savannah’s image on the international stage? Want to keep an eagle eye on the City staff’s pension plan?

This may come as shocking surprise, but the most effective way to address such interests is not to post snarky rants on social media. All those shares might make you internet-famous, but they won’t do a thing to affect the good oldfashioned policy that governs everyday life in Savannah. Instead, consider influencing decisions made by our elected officials as a member of one of the city’s boards, commissions and authorities.

The City is currently accepting applications for over 40 vacancies in 20 municpal advisory bodies, from Metropolitan Planning to Tourism Advisory to Traffic Calming. There’s bound to be one that fits right in with your priorities, and you’ll get an extra-large gold star for your extra credit civic duty.

Well, the gold stars may just be a rumor.

But you will get to wield your informed opinions in front of real people rather than as emojis with Facebook friends.

“We need these positions filled with smart, thoughtful people who care about Savannah,” admonishes District 2 Alderman Bill Durrence. “This is a real way to make a difference and contribute.”

Please note that some boards require specific knowledge and experience. For instance, you need to know your copper

wires from your conductors to be considered for the Electrical Appeals and Advisory Board, which examines complaints made against decisions by the city’s electrical inspectors. Similarly, the Code Enforcement Appeals Board needs qualified folks in the areas of architecture and structural engineering, ‘cause no one wants their construction project in the fate of someone who thinks a cantilever should be served with a nice Chianti.

However, many of the organizations need only that you show up to the meetings—usually held once a month or every other month—awake, aware of the agenda and ready to create positive change.

Ready to keep Savannah beautiful? That board has five spots for the aestheticallyminded. Want to shortlist some public art?

Sit on the Historic Sites and Monument Commission. (Sorry, the Ethics Board is full up for now.)

If fighting for inclusion and equal representation is your thing, consider applying for one of three spots on the Savannah/ Chatham Council of Disability Issues, which works to improve the quality of life for all citizens. The Savannah Development and Renewal Authority also needs input on its many revitalization projects and poverty reduction plans, and maybe you’re the exact person for the job.

Judging from Facebook, there are a lot of folks out there who are interested in how big, new stuff gets built in Savannah. The 11-member Historic District Board of Review makes decisions on new construction downtown and has three vacancies for anyone who’d like to have a say on that. And there are two opportunities to lend a hand in recommending current building plans and future developments to the City Council as part of the granddaddy governing body of ‘em all, the Metropolitan Planning Commission.

You don’t even need to be a city resident: The person appointed to the Coastal Workforce Investment Board, which aims to improve the quality of the region’s labor force and create opportunity for the underserved and underemployed, can live anywhere in Chatham County. Same goes for the Savannah/Chatham Board of Health.

You can check out the other openings at savannahga.gov/boards. In the time it takes to post one crazy comment online, you can download the one-page application, fill it out and email it back to clerkofcouncil@savannahga.gov.

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What if humans became coldblooded?

If humans could change to become coldblooded, would it be advantageous to us?

(Assuming we changed instantly.) —Zayne AND assuming some of us haven’t already made the transition. I mean, try convincing me Vladimir Putin doesn’t have at least a little reptile in him.

I kid, of course, but before getting to your question I’ll just note some research showing how humans can in fact become a little colder-blooded in a hurry: through social exclusion. In one study, after some subjects were excluded from what they thought was a communal computer game— frozen out, you might say—their skin temperature measured 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit lower than subjects who’d gotten to play.

Other experiments have likewise confirmed that temperature influences our interpersonal skills, such that when folks are warmer they’re more likely to engage in social behavior; simply raising the

temperature of the room can improve relations within a group. Need a converse data point? Take the Donner party: when the going got cold, the cold ate each other.

These are minor, temporary fluctuations, of course, and you’re apparently thinking bigger and bolder, Zayne. OK, but first we should be clear on what we mean.

“Cold-blooded” is layperson-speak, and corresponds to several overlapping technical terms describing an animal’s metabolism and how much variance in body temperature it can handle. The concept we’re really interested in here, though, is ectothermy. Ectothermic animals—reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, basically—don’t generate significant body heat; their external surroundings determine their internal temperature, which they can only regulate via behavior: seeking out sunlight or shade, burrowing, etc.

(This limitation is called poikilothermy, but let’s keep things moving.)

Endotherms, by contrast—birds and mammals, including us—maintain consistent body temperature using their own metabolic heat, and can regulate it physiologically as needed (by shivering or sweating, for example). The primary advantage endotherms have over ectotherms is the ability to thrive in a wider variety of climes, whereas the big advantage for ectotherms is lower food consumption, meaning a higher carrying capacity for the habitats they do live in.

So humans becoming ectothermic—out of the question, right? Not so fast. That first fish crawling out of the primordial sea was cold-blooded, and we evolved from it—suggesting that creatures can change

teams, thermoregulation-wise, but it’s likely to take a while. If somehow we were to manage it on the expedited schedule you propose, though, here are a few practical effects the switch might occasion: • Life would go by at a different pace.

Because ectothermic creatures rely on external temperatures for energy, we’d have to spend some time lolling in the sun each morning before we were really able to get going—like drinking coffee, but cheaper. Wintertime? You might want to set up a few heat lamps in your house, lest you run the risk of descending into a state of torpor. On the other hand, your Facebook habit’s probably already primed you for this.

• With torpor on the menu of metabolic options, though, space travel should be much easier for cold-blooded humans— kind of like the “cryosleep” you see in sci-fi (which, by the by, NASA-funded research really is exploring as a means of enabling long-distance missions—say, to Mars). A cold-blooded crew could survive at low temperatures for much longer than a warm-blooded one, allowing them to travel months, maybe years, on minimal resources. This won’t make the trip to Alpha Centauri any quicker, of course, but time flies when you’re torpid.

• Come to think of it, combing the universe for other habitable locales might start to look like a pretty good idea. Back here on earth, land-dwelling ectotherms tend to do best in a temperature range of about 70 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. So provided we wanted to lead reasonably active lives, ectothermic people would likely gravitate toward latitudes close to

the equator, and presumably give rise to the kinds of malign side effects that come with large-scale human migration: overcrowding, resource depletion, political destabilization. Think Cancun’s packed now? Just wait till it’s beset by lizard people.

Then again, there’s global warming to consider. If the world gets <ital>too<> hot, those warmer regions might not end up being so attractive to the cold-blooded version of us after all, or for that matter to any ectotherms. We don’t have to speculate alone on this topic: the coauthor of a 2009 paper described the outlook for tropical ectotherms as “catastrophic,” given the narrow range of temperatures in which they’re comfortable. Too cold, they can’t move; as it becomes too hot for them, though, they’ll spend all their time searching for shady spots—which, with deforestation, are already disappearing— thus reducing the amount of time they’re able to look for food or reproduce. We’re talking about everything from crocodiles all the way down to insects; you can’t take a swathe of creatures like that out of the food chain without some major repercussions. So not to get too cheery here or anything, but: if by some future miracle humans are able to render ourselves coldblooded, we’ll already have foreclosed the possibility of living successfully that way on earth. CS

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Man killed, another shot in West 40th incident

Detectives are investigating shootings of two people, that resulted in the death of one on Tuesday, March 1, near the 500 block of West 40th Street.

Metro responded to the scene at about 1:18 p.m. finding Jonathan Lang, 18, and Tonya Murcherson, 51, with gunshot wounds. Both victims were transported to Memorial University Medical Center, Lang with serious injuries and Murcherson with non-life-threatening injuries. Lang succumbed to his injuries at MUMC. Reportedly, shots were fired during an altercation at West 40th and Burroughs streets. Investigators are working to determine if the victims were the intended targets. The identity of the shooter remains under investigation.

Eight arrested at Widespread show

“Nearly a dozen people are facing felony drug charges following an undercover drug operation at a Savannah concert,” says a spokesperson for the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT).

CNT agents, “along with agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration, attended the Widespread Panic concert held at the Savannah Civic Center Friday night,” the CNT spokesperson says.

“Undercover agents made purchases of various forms of controlled substances including heroin and LSD. Agents also seized a cylinder containing nitrous oxide CNT: Balloons used to huff nitrous after observing persons purchasing balloons filled with nitrous.” suspect from entering his house. Hermida Eight people were arrested on felony was treated at the scene for a non-lifedrug charges. U.S. currency and a vehicle threatening injury. were also seized during the operation.

SCMPD patrol officers, Violent Crimes Homeowner injured in burglary investigators, K-9, Forensics and Aviation Detectives are investigating a residenunits responded to the scene in search of tial burglary reported on the 500 block of the suspect believed to have attempted Pointe South Drive, during which a home- to enter the residence. The suspect is owner sustained a self-inflicted bullet described as a white male, standing about graze wound on Wednesday, March 2.

6-feet, with medium length blonde hair Metro responded to the scene just after covering his forehead and thick eyebrows.

2 p.m. following reports of a burglary susDuring the incident her wore a dark blue pect shooting at homeowner, Matthew shirt with a picture of a fish and dark Hermida, 24, as Hermida stopped that pants. The suspect fled on foot. After

further investigation, evidence revealed that Hermida’s injury was self-inflicted.

Fake Craigslist sale leads to gunshot

Police are investigating a robbery by sudden snatching and gun discharge at Savannah Mall’s food court on March 3.

Metro responded to the mall at about 1:54 p.m. where they made contact with Nicholas Rivera, 28. Rivera was robbed while attempting to sell a laptop computer he advertised on Craig’s List to the suspect posing as a customer. The suspect reportedly grabbed the laptop, before running out of the food court with Rivera trailing.

Once outside, Rivera fired one warning shot into the air. No injuries were reported. Investigators believe Rivera continued following the suspect until the suspect entered a burgundy sedan with at least three other occupants. The sedan fled toward Highway 204.

The robbery suspect is described as a black male with a dark complexion, possibly in his late teens to early 20s. The suspect was clean-shaven with his hair styled in twists or a short afro.

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NEWS & OPINION NEWS OF THE WEIRD The Square Wheel of Justice

In February, New York’s highest court finally said “enough” to the seemingly endless delays on a multimillion-dollar judgment for negligence that occurred 23 years ago. Linda Nash had sued, among others, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for injuries she suffered when trapped in an underground parking garage during the World Trade Center terrorist act. (No, not the one in 2001, but the bombing eight years before that, which killed six and wounded more than 1,000). Nash was 49 that day and 72 now, and after winning a $5.4 million jury verdict in 2005, endured 10 more years of appeals. In its final, unsuccessful motion in the case, the Port Authority said it had spotted a technicality and that Nash should start over.

The Continuing Crisis

“Nostalgia,” Gone Too Far: Retired engineer Harry Littlewood, 68, watching workers tear down outdated public housing in Stockport, England, recently, rushed over to ask the local Stockport Council about recovering a “souvenir” since the teardowns included his residence growing up.

The council agreed, and Littlewood was awarded the toilet he had used as a boy. “I never thought I’d see it again,” he mused.

He said he would probably turn it into a planter.

Latest Religious Messages

• Evangelicals Applaud Sexual Predator: The Jacksonville (Florida) City Council was addressing a proposed amendment to its Human Rights Ordinance (one that would specifically protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders) in January when Roy Bay, 56, stood during the comment period and insisted that those kinds of lifestyle protections are what led him on a 20-year history of molesting one little boy after another. Gasps in the audience turned into cheers, however, when he reported that he had abandoned his bad self after becoming a “born-again child of God,” and realizing that it was not “acceptable” to assault kids even though he was raised in such an environment himself. (Conveniently, the crimes are not prosecutable because of the statute of limitations. Fact-checkers, including FloridaPolitics.com, are still investigating Bay’s claims.)

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• Local governments in Taiwan’s South- Bright Ideas • According to a former spy for the west Coast National Scenic Area in Chiayi province recently put the finishing touches Soviet Union, dictator Josef Stalin so distrusted his Communist China counterpart on a 55-foot-high “church” in the form of Mao Zedong during the 1940s that when a shoe made from more than 300 glass panels (and costing the equivalent of about Mao visited the USSR, Soviet engineers arranged to capture his bowel movements $680,000). According to a BBC News disso that Stalin’s scientists could examine patch, no religious services will be held them chemically to form a psychological there; rather, the church will be a destination for weddings and feature other events profile. Spy Igor Atamanenko found evidence that other world tailored for glass-slipperleaders received similar obsessed females. treatment. Among the • Prosecutors in Spain indicators: High levels finally filed charges this of the amino acid trypyear against three women tophan signaled the for a May 2014 protest that PAY ME $100, I’LL TELL YOU CHARGING person was calm and was apparently aimed at FOR PARKING ON approachable, and lack of religious intolerance of WEEKENDS IS BAD potassium portended nerhomosexuality, and are askvousness and insomnia.) ing that the charges against • Williams Lake, Britthe women be labeled antiish Columbia, has the Catholic “hate” crimes. One most violent crime per judge particularly noted the capita for its size (pop. anti-Catholic props — rosary 10,800) of any town in beads, prayer lace, canoniCanada, and in February cal hoods, and a 6-foot-high the city council unaniplastic vulva constructed to mously passed a dramatic resemble the well-known action plan: to inject representation of the Virgin “high risk” criminals with Mary. In January, judges “GPS tracking” devices. called police to court to The program was immediately denounced help identify the women in videos of the by privacy advocates, but that challenge is protest. almost beside the point — since injectable Unclear on the Concept GPS tracking does not even exist. (CounProgressives’ Anxiety Disorder: Sevcilors likely confused implantable microeral students at the Ivy League’s Brown chips, which contain data but do not track, University complained (quoted in a Febwith GPS transponders, which track but ruary story in the student newspaper) only via sight-line contact with a satellite.) that classroom work (ostensibly what Uselessness of the Miranda Brown charges $50,000 a year in tuition Warning for) was increasingly a burden, distract• The three young men charged so far ing them from their more important callin the Feb. 17 murder in a South Carolina ing: organizing and protesting against bowling alley made their first post-crime various “injustices” on campus. Students courtroom appearances memorable ones. were underperforming academically (and According to a WYFF-TV (Greenville, suffering health problems and anxiety South Carolina) report, Albert Taylor, issues) because, said the students, Brown 22 (and labeled as the shooter by police), still expects them to complete course seemed indifferent to the charges, but requirements even though they are busy questioned the judge about courtroom denouncing racist columns in the student cameras, appearing preoccupied. As newspaper and challenging the weakness he was being ushered out, he turned to of Brown’s “diversity” policies (among address the camera and barked, “What’s other targets). up, y’all? You can follow me on Twitter, follow me on Instagram, Snapchat.”

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (who left the company early, and like Bill Gates, became known for his philanthropy, which has been directed toward conservation projects including coral reef restorations) is the owner of the 300-foot yacht whose anchor in January accidentally crushed 14,000 square feet (about 80 percent) of the Cayman Islands’ precious West Bay coral reef. Harm to the islands’ ecosystem, world-famous for its diversity, will not quickly be repaired, said officials.

The MV Tatoosh’s business in the area was not reported, but Allen was not aboard.

Cayman Islands is a popular Caribbean vacation and diving spot (and, of course, tax haven).

A News of the Weird Classic (December 2011)

When Tattoos Aren’t Nearly Enough: In some primitive cultures, beauty and status are displayed via large holes in the earlobe from which to hang heavy ornaments or to insert jewels or tokens, and BBC News reported in November (2011) that an “increasing” number of counterculture Westerners are getting their lobes opened far beyond routine piercing, usually by gradually stretching but sometimes with a hole-punch tool. The hard core are “gauge kings (or queens),” showing a “commitment” to the lifestyle by making holes up to 10mm (3/8 inch) wide. (Cosmetic surgeons told BBC News that they’re already preparing procedures for the inevitable wave of regretted decisions.) CS

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Folk | Folk rock | Acoustic | Roots

BY ANNA CHANDLER

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Harmonies, mountain air, warm strumming, and poignant lyricism.

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HAPPY STOPOVER, y’all: Connect Savannah’s festival genre guide is back by popular demand! Once again, we’ve sat down and listened to every single act playing Stopover ‘16 to help you figure out just what you want to hear this weekend.

Remember, the three-day fest is all about discovery, so get out there and find your new favorite band. Happy hunting!

And The Kids | Friday, March 11, 11 p.m., Ampersand Mothers | Thursday, March 10, 10:30 p.m., Wild Wing

“Ya Gotta See ‘Em Live”

Perhaps one of the most buzzed-about acts in the Southeast right now, folk-flushed Athens rockers Mothers are on the rise. What began as the solo project of Kristin Leschper has evolved into a full band full of Athens indie talent, featuring Matthew Anderegg on drums, Drew Kirby on guitar, and Patrick Morales on bass. There’s a mathy, experimental approach to Leschper’s folk rock that make it uniquely modern and fresh, shining bendy obscurities on traditional songwriting. The band released its highly-anticipated debut LP, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, on February 26.

Christopher Paul Stelling | Friday, March 11, 5 p.m., The Jinx Rathborne | Sunday, March 12, 12 a.m., Ampersand The Ballroom Thieves | Thursday, March 10, 10 p.m., Trinity UMC Des Ark | Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Hollis Brown | Friday, March 11, 9 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Great Peacock | Friday, March 11, 8 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Quiet Hollers | Thursday, March 10, 9 p.m., Trinity UMC Family and Friends | Friday, March 11, 8 p.m., Trinity UMC Daniel Bachman | Friday, March 11, 4 p.m., The Jinx

Bedroom pop | Atmospheric pop | Experimental pop

Garage rock | Fuzz-rock | Noise rock

Gossamer approaches to traditional structures meant for reflection and introspection.

Pair with: Vermouth, selective solitude

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Porches | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., Trinity UMC Alex G | Saturday, March 12, 6 p.m., Wild Wing Jeff Zagers | Saturday, March 12, 7 p.m., Trinity UMC Your Friend | Saturday, March 12, 5 p.m., Wild Wing

Taryn Miller (Your Friend) crafts beautifully vulnerable, introspective songs carried by her crystal-clear, chillinducing vocals. Melodic as it is meditative, Gumption (2016, Domino Records) will stick with you for its catchiness and its lyrical resonance.

Ancient Warfare | Saturday, March 12, 5 p.m., Congress St. Social Club

SAV will be talking about these shows for months: with hypnotic stage presence, visuals, and contagious energy, these acts deliver.

Pair with: Tequila shots, glowsticks

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Ra Ra Riot | Thursday, March 10, 8 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Mass Gothic | Saturday, March 12, 11 p.m., The Jinx Mr Little Jeans | Friday, March 11, 12:30 a.m., Club One French Horn Rebellion | Saturday, March 12, 11 p.m., Club One Mystery Skulls | Sunday, March 12, 12 a.m., Club One Wildhoney | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., The Rail Wolkoff | Friday, March 11, 10:30 p.m., Club One Twisty Cats | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., The Jinx Sunglow| Saturday, March 12, 9 p.m., Club One

Dreamy swells and warm flushes travel throughout these compositions that fall somewhere between folk and bedroom pop.

Pair with: hot toddy, fuzzy socks Twin Limb | Saturday, March 12, 9 p.m., Trinity UMC Lucette | Friday, March 11, 7 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden

Dance | Electropop Synthesizers, tough grooves, and thick beats. Get ready to dance.

Pair with: Vodka Red Bull, freakum dress

Ambient Folk

This is as heavy as Stopover gets: feedback, plenty of distortion and noise.

Pair with: Shot and a beer, shower embargo

White Reaper | Thursday, March 10, 12 a.m., The Jinx PWR BTTM | Thursday, March 10, 12 a.m., Ampersand Heaters | Friday, March 11, 10 p.m., The Rail Big Ups | Friday, March 11, 11:30 p.m., The Jinx Go!Zilla | Thursday, March 10, 11 p.m., The Jinx Washer | Friday, March 11, 9:30 p.m., The Jinx Grand Vapids | Saturday, March 12, 3 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Muuy Biien | Friday, March 11, 10 p.m., Congress Street Social Club Wild Powwers | Friday, March 11, 10:30 p.m., The Jinx Capsula | Friday, March 11, 11 p.m., Trinity UMC (David Bowie Tribute Concert) | Sunday, March 12, 12 a.m., The Jinx Wet Socks | Friday, March 11, 11 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Bruiser Queen | Friday, March 11, 9 p.m., The Rail The Gotobeds | Thursday, March 10, 11 p.m., Ampersand The Britanys| Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., Ampersand Acid Dad | Thursday, March 10, 10 p.m., Ampersand Sundial Kings | Saturday, March 12, 7 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden

Prince Rama | Friday, March 11, 11:30 p.m., Club One Terror Pigeon | Thursday, March 10, 12 a.m., Club One Scotty ATL | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., Club One

Scotty ATL’s Savannah ties go deep. Raised in Atlanta, where he created a recording studio in his family’s basement as a teen, the rapper spent some time at SSU before issuing his 2011 debut, Summer Dreams. Created in collaboration with DJ/producer DJ Burn One, the release earned widespread praise, including being dubbed “one of [the] year’s great unheralded mixtapes” by Stereogum.

Since then, Scotty’s résumé has grown impressively: he’s celebrated the release of seven mixtapes, including a Scion-sponsored EP in collaboration with the Killer Mike, and, most recently, a mixtape with B.o.B., Live & Direct.

With a classic style and substantial lyricism, top-tier media is all over Scotty, with support pouring in from Pitchfork, SPIN, XXL, Fader, and more.

With the national hip-hop eye on the South—particularly Atlanta—now more than ever, don’t sleep on the chance to see one of our emerging voices right here at home while you still can. And, hey, Stopover: more of this!

No BS! Brass Band | Friday, March 11, 12:30 a.m., The Jinx

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Indie-pop The California King-sized blanket under which cheery, textural pop falls. Fans of New Pornographers, The Shins, Merriweather Post Pavilion-era Animal Collective and similar fare will dig.

Pair with: Old Crow & ginger, Tinder date Yuck | Friday, March 11, 12 a.m., Wild Wing Lazyeyes | Saturday, March 12, 11 p.m., Ampersand OxenFree | Saturday, March 12, 3 p.m., The Jinx Shilpa Ray | Thursday, March 10, 11:30 p.m., Wild Wing Sun Club | Thursday, March 10, 7 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Hospital Ships | Saturday, March 12, 7 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Rainbow Kitten Surprise | Friday, March 11, 7 p.m., Trinity UMC

Americana | Alt-country Southern-steeped songwriting with a kick.

Pair with: Bourbon (neat), well-groomed beard Blitzen Trapper | Friday, March 11, 10 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Hiss Golden Messenger | Friday, March 11, 6 p.m., The Jinx Futurebirds | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Susto | Saturday, March 12, 9 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden T. Hardy Morris | Thursday, March 10, 11:30 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Blank Range | Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Chief Scout | Thursday, March 10, 10:30 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Say Brother | Saturday, March 12, 4 p.m., The Jinx Ancient Cities | Saturday, March 12, 4 p.m., The Rail

Fusion | World These bands pull from a variety of cultures and stylistic genres to create one-of-a-kind sounds.

Pair with: Long Island Iced Tea, TSA-approved carry-on bag Culture Vulture | Thursday, March 10, 9 p.m, Ampersand The Hip Abduction | Saturday, March 12, 11 p.m., Congress St. Social Club David Wax Museum* Mexi-Americana | Thursday, March 10, 11 p.m., Trinity UMC Sweet Crude | Friday, March 11, 6 p.m., Trinity UMC Street Clothes | Saturday, March 12, 2 p.m., The Rail Dosti Music Project | Saturday, March 12, 3 p.m., Trinity UMC

Sunshine pop | Jangle-pop What a strange time to exist in when a band can rack up over a million hits on a single via Spotify, have artfully arranged lyrics scattered across countless teenage Tumblr accounts, and birth legions of Beatlemania-level fans, all while unsigned. While the moniker Rainbow Kitten Surprise may, as one YouTube commenter hilariously notes, “sound like a 2005 mall goth’s myspace username,” vocalist Sam Melo brings to mind the rootsy, gently atmospheric melodies of The Antlers set against slow-swelling acoustic pickings and honest ponderings on complicated love and basic human existence. The Boone, N.C. fellas have the potential to be the next Mumford & Sons in the way they could seamlessly carry indie-pop to radio waves: don’t miss ‘em on the brink.

Mobley | Thursday, March 10, 11 p.m., Club One Lucy Dacus | Friday, March 11, 11 p.m., Wild Wing Big Thief | Friday, March 11, 10 p.m., Wild Wing Brooklyn-based Big Thief just signed to Conor Oberst’s Saddle Creek record label in mid-February. There are certainly shades of Bright Eyes in the four-piece’s folk-tinged pop.

Breakers | Thursday, March 10, 6:30 p.m., Ships of the Sea North Garden Miquel Moure | Friday, March 11, 5 p.m., Trinity UMC Curbdogs | Saturday, March 12, 2 p.m., Congress St. Social Club

Summertime is on its way! The melodies are saccharine, the guitars ooze melatonin, and all is right in the world.

Pair with: Captain & Sprite, heart-shaped sunglasses (to be worn indoors) Shot into the indiesphere by a performance at Newport Folk Festival, Ancient Cities stir crunchy, swampy tones in with psychedelic textures, blistering rock ‘n’ roll vocals and fiery guitar licks. Keep an ear out for their next album, Super Moon Black Out, sometime this summer.

The High Divers | Saturday, March 12, 12 p.m., The Grey (Stopover in the Yard) Damon & The Shitkickers | Saturday, March 12, 5 p.m., The Jinx

All Dogs | Thursday, March 10, 9:30 p.m., Wild Wing Sydney Eloise & the Palms | Friday, March 11, 6 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Motel Radio | Friday, March 11, 5 p.m., Congress St. Social Club The Fontaines | Saturday, March 12,, 3 p.m., The Rail Joy Again | Saturday, March 12, 4 p.m., Wild Wing Mercury Girls | Friday, March 11, 8 p.m., The Rail

Ambient pop | Shoegaze

Catchy hooks with a lot of grit, garage, and vintage influences thrown in.

Pair with: PBR tallboy, denim jacket Diet Cig| Friday, March 11, 12 a.m., Ampersand Beverly | Saturday, March 12, 10 p.m., Wild Wing Haybaby| Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m., The Rail Faux Ferocious | Thursday, March 10, 10 p.m., The Jinx New Madrid | Sunday, March 12, 12 a.m., Wild Wing Chrome Pony | Thursday, March 10, Congress Street Social Club Expert Alterations | Saturday, March 12, 9 p.m., The Rail Honduras| Friday, March 11, 12 a.m., Congress St. Social Club Tedo Stone | Friday, March 11, 7 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Surf Rock is Dead | Friday, March 11, 6 p.m., Ampersand COEDS | Friday, March 11, 10 p.m., Ampersand Garden Giant | Friday, March 11, 9 p.m., Wild Wing

Stargazer Lilies | Saturday, March 12, 6 p.m., Congress St. Social Club Dear Tracks | Saturday, March 12, 4 p.m., Congress St. Social Club SALES | Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m., Trinity UMC Wray | Friday, March 11, 5 p.m., Ampersand Birmingham, Alabama’s Wray blend shoegaze with a little surf, college rock, and dream-pop to create a memorable sound. Their latest, Hypatia, co-produced with Lynn Bridges (Jack Oblivian, Devendra Banhart, Dan Sartain) and mixed by Daniel Farris (Man or Astroman?, St. Vincent, Azure Ray), is deeply inspired by science and philosophy; it’s a sublimely intricate listen.

Weekender | Friday, March 11, 4 p.m., Ampersand Triathalon | Saturday, March 12, 11 p.m., Wild Wing DEGA | Thursday, March 10, 10 p.m., Club One

Philly-based Mercury Girls, comprised of Northeastern indie scene vets (members of Literature, Little Big League, Pet Milk), deliver all the dreamy summertime jangle you could want. Fans of Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, and Stopover alums Teen: eat your heart out.

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Guitar-pop | Fuzz-pop | Power-pop | Twee

Guitar pedals paving the stage, reverb so heavy your skin feels dewy, gauzy textures, and woozy arrangements.

Pair with: Red wine, essential oils

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STOPOVER SPECIAL EVENTS! ANNA CHANDLER

anna@connectsavannah.com

SAVANNAH STOPOVER weekend is studded with one-of-a-kind experiences that meld music, art, culture, and good food and drink. Mix up your schedule with a special event!

Opening Night Event Thursday, March 10, 6 p.m., Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum North Garden

Jumpstart your Stopover with a strong dose of visual art and music in the picturesque Ships of the Sea Museum.

The fest begins with headliner Ra Ra Riot, Stopover alums Sun Club, and SAVbased Breakers.

Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot’s tunes have been coursing through the earbuds of tastemakers and indie kids since 2006. Catching on early with catchy baroque-pop stylings, fueled by Rebecca Zeller’s violin, the band’s evolved into a synth-pop force to be reckoned with. Fans of Architecture in Helsinki, Tokyo Police Club and Vampire Weekend will find something to cause a riot about. And speaking of Vampire Weekend, former member Rostam Batmanglij is responsible for mixing a couple of tracks on Ra Ra Riot’s latest, Need Your Light, released February 19, 2016.

Sun Club will light up the garden’s greenery with their super-fun, weirdo layered dance-pop.

Fresh Savannah band Breakers just released a self-titled EP, recorded by Peter Mavrogeorgis at Dollhouse Productions, in late February; it’s a great mix of the band’s refined ‘70s and ‘80s post-punk-meetsStrokes-style throwback sound.

Food trucks will be on location ready to sate, and there will be beverages aplenty from sponsors Deep Eddy Vodka, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire, and Lagunitas Brewing Co beer. As you sip and nosh, scope out the finalists from the annual Stopover Band Poster Competition, a collaboration with Art Rise Savannah.

Band Poster Exhibition Friday, March 11, 5 p.m., Jepson Atrium

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Miss your chance to see the array of Stopover posters on Thursday? Hit the Jepson for drinks from the Art Bar (Lagunitas and cocktails will be served), vinyl, and the top poster contest finalists.

Out-of-towners: this is a great chance to experience the contemporary edge and 22 sleek design of the Jepson Center!

Festival headliners Ra Ra Riot kick off the weekend on Thursday at Ships of the Sea’s North Garden.

David Bowie Tribute with Capsula Friday, March 11, 11 p.m., Trinity UMC

If there’s anyone we trust to recreate the holy sounds of The Thin White Duke, it’s returning Stopover favorites Capsula.

The glitzy rock ‘n’ roll trio recorded their version of Ziggy Stardust in 2012 to honor a record that has deep influenced Capsula as a band. Don’t miss their original material at The Jinx on Saturday, too: it’s one of the best live shows you’ll catch.

Furious Hooves/Graveface Records/ Noisy Ghost Showcase Saturday, March 12, Congress St. Social Club

Savannah’s own Furious Hooves and Graveface Records labels, in conjunction with Noisy Ghost PR (another Ryan Graveface endeavor), have teamed up to create a killer roster of rock ‘n’ roll kicking off at 2 p.m.

Check out locals curbdogs, the excellent Grand Vapids from Athens, Dear Tracks, Ancient Warfare, Stargazer Lilies, Hospital Ships, and Des Ark.

Stopover in the Yard Saturday, March 12, 12 p.m., The Grey

If you caught the first few Stopover in the Yard afternoons in 2015, you know you’re in for a treat, and if you missed ‘em, there’s no better time than festival week to get in on the action.

If you’re into good Southern cookin’, live music, and dining al fresco, this event’s made for you. The High Divers provide the tunes while award-winning chef Mashama Bailey dishes out the good stuff. Admittance is first-come, first-serve, so get there early to nab a good spot and nom to your heart’s content.

Secret Shows Throughout the weekend, Abe’s On Lincoln

This weekend, Savannah received sad news of the passing of Lola Collins, proprietor of iconic tavern Jim Collins Bar. Abe’s on Lincoln now occupies the original site of the beloved watering hole,and will play host to a number of secret shows throughout Savannah Stopover. The fact that cozy, historic spot is the place to be for impromptu, intimidate concerts during

festival weekend just solidifies the place’s special history in unique Savannah nightlife culture.

Keep a sharp eye on Twitter, as that’s where the pop-up shows will be announced just an hour before the show. If you’ve never been to Abe’s, know that the lovely wood-paneled establishment is also one of our smaller pubs in town: when you get your Twitter push notification, head to the corner of Lincoln and Bryan Street! The place fills up quickly, and space is limited; secure your spot, and raise a glass for Mrs. Collins.

Dosti Music Project Saturday, March 12, 3 p.m., Trinity UMC

With Savannah being one of only four scheduled performances, the Dosti Music Project brings ten musicians together from the United States, Pakistan, and India to compose together and create a melting pot of sound. Expect to hear Appalachian mountain music intertwined with traditional Sufi Qawwali and electronic experimentations. CS

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BY RACHAEL FLORA

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DON’T let the name dissuade you: Yuck is really good.

In fact, their midnight set Saturday night at Wild Wing might be the best set you’ll hear all Stopover weekend.

Hailing from London, England, Yuck comprises Max Bloom (formerly of Cajun Dance Party), Jonny Rogoff, Mariko Doi, and Ed Hayes.

Their third album, Stranger Things, just dropped in late February and is the first without Daniel Blumberg fronting the band. Their personnel changes led to a refocusing on the music itself.

“I think we just wanted to make ten or eleven songs that would be really fun to play live, and just try and be as instinctive as possible with it,” Bloom explains.

“With our last two albums, we had the tendency to get slightly carried away in the studio, but with this one I think we wanted to just stick to the main parts of the song

and try not to go beyond that.”

Stranger Things sticks to Yuck’s familiar sound of bright fuzz-rock, particularly in the eponymous title track. Just as the band intended, the song s are simple and don’t get carried away in experimental sounds.

Like their previous songs, this album’s offerings invoke ‘90s shoegaze sounds and draw comparisons to Built to Spill, Pavement, and Teenage Fanclub.

However, this album is notable because it was produced by the band themselves and recorded in Bloom’s parents’ house.

“It’s always challenging recording by yourself because you can do 100 takes of an insignificant guitar part and not have someone else there to say, ‘That was the one, let’s move on,’” notes Bloom.

“That being said, it was a huge joy being able to do it by ourselves and not have any outside influence.”

The Stopover show marks Bloom’s first time in Savannah, but he’s gotten a taste of that Southern charm even from across the ocean.

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Stopover is Yuck’s first stop on an extensive tour that takes them to SXSW—the original vision of Stopover being to get SXSW bands to “stopover” in Savannah on their way to Austin—and from there across the United States, and back to the U.K. “Touring and recording are kind of polar opposites in my mind,” Bloom muses. “I really enjoy touring because it’s just fun to play shows and be on the road with your friends, but recording music is something that makes me feel really fulfilled.”

The fulfillment Bloom feels from recording the album will surely be evident at their show, which promises happy, danceable vibes.

Their tour support, Big Thief, takes the Wild Wing stage Friday at 10 p.m. CS

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MUSIC THE BAND PAGE

BY ANNA CHANDLER anna@connectsavannah.com

PARKER URBAN BAND

PARKER URBAN BAND @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH

Blues, soul, gospel, R&B, prog, and rock ‘n’ roll collide in the Southern stylings of Parker Urban Band. With Myrna Stallworth’s huge, bone-shaking vocals at the helm, Barrelhouse South’s floor will be bouncing in the wake of the band’s melodies and grooves.

Stallworth, a Florida native, grew up in a family of gospel performers; with encouraging lyrics and a boundless voice akin to Aretha Franklin, she’s a mesmerizing frontwoman. Backed by Stevie Ray Vaughan-style guitar wailings, organ, danceable rhythms, and silky sax, a Parker Urban Band show is a party where all are sure to leave with a smile.

The band’s shared the stage with the likes of The Wailers, JJ Grey & Mofro, The Lee Boys, and Barrelhouse regulars like Zach Deputy, so if you’re into the Congress Street bar’s typical rock/soul/jam selections, you’ll definitely want to hit this show.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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AK 1200 @THE WORMHOLE

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MAR 9- MAR 15, 2016

Fans of drum and bass music should head to Starland on Saturday: electronic icon AK 1200 is ready to deliver a show. As the longest-running drum and bass DJ in the U.S., AK 1200 has been delighting audiences for over two decades.

With a career that kicked off in the late ‘80s, AK 1200, a.k.a. Dave Minner, was ahead of his time, DJing and playing electro in 1989.

Thanks to his record shop, The Hottie Shop, Minner developed relationships with labels like Moving Shadow and Suburban Base; the latter released his first track, a remix of “Flex and Fats,” in 1993.

AK 1200 has collaborated with the likes of Dieselboy, Danny Breaks, Aphrodite, DJ Dara, and more and has remixed tracks for A Tribe Called Quest and The Crystal Method. His dedication to the jungle and drum and bass genres throughout the years has solidified AK 1200 as a scene leader and acolyte of electro music.

A self-descried “classically-trained DJ,” Minner mixes live, programming on the fly and peppering his set with abrupt surprises.

Bomb Jovi, JungleQueen, and Superpickle act as support on the Wormhole bill.

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HIM & HER

CHASE BRYANT @SADDLEBAGS

With a musical journey that began at age three, Chase Bryant has bloomed into a versatile performer on the pop-country scene.

Bryant first rose to attention with 2014’s chart-topping single “Take It On Back,” a catchy debut that remained in heavy CMT and Billboard rotation.

The up-and-comer has a new single, “Little Bit of You,” fresh out of the gates, and Bryant is garnering critical acclaim, praised

by Rolling Stone as one of “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know Now.” A glossy pop song countrified by a little bit of accent and some pedal steel, “Little Bit of You” shows off Bryant’s Keith Urban-style approach to his craft—it’s sure to win him a spot on the playlists of pop-country radio fans.

Bryant’s past two summers have consisted of tours with giants Tim McGraw and Brantley Gilbert, allowing the 23-year-old to follow in the footsteps of the greats. With a grandfather who played keys with Roy Orbison and Waylon Jennings and uncles who co-founded ‘90s country band Ricochet, it seems Bryant has success in his blood.

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HER & HIM: MOIRA & MICKEY NELLIGAN @UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF SAVANNAH

Her & Him is Savannah native Moira Nelligan and her son, Mickey, a family team here to get you in the mood for Saint Patrick’s Day through song and fellowship.

Currently living in Decatur, Georgia, Nelligan is a master of the Irish fiddle, a talent that’s earned her not one but two Georgia Council of the Arts Folklife Grants.

When she’s not performing at folk venues through the Southeast, Nelligan shares her passion for playing with others, teaching music to infants and children up to age four in Rob Sayer’s The Music Class and educating adults and children alike at summer camps, festivals, and in her home. Nelligan keeps the folk spirit in her teaching style, showing her students how to learn by ear. Even longtime players, trained to read sheet music, find pleasure in the Nelligan School of Traditional Music, honing their craft and learning the old-school way of playing roots.

Together, mother and son perform on fiddles, guitars, and accordions, blending traditional Irish tunes with Southern roots music. Does it get more March-inSavannah than that?

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Trivia & Games

The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo Rachael’s 1190 Team Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia World of Beer Trivia

Karaoke

Ampersand Karaoke Club One Karaoke Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke hosted by K-Rawk Wet Willie’s Karaoke

Comedy

Mutuals Club Phatt Katt Comedy Thang

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar

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DYLIJENS, DJ Leo, Anklesox, Vinay Arora Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jon Lee’s Apparitions Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Acoustic Thursday Z2 Jimmy Taylor Experience

The Warehouse Stan Ray Wild Wing Cafe Eric Britt The Wormhole Open Mic

Trivia & Games

32 Degrees Midtown Grille and Ale House Trivia The Britannia British Pub Bingo McDonough’s Trivia Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo

Trivia & Games

The Britannia British Pub Trivia Dub’s Pub Trivia McDonough’s Trivia Mediterranean Tavern Butt Naked Trivia with Kowboi Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint Trivia

Karaoke

Applebee’s Karaoke The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night Club One Karaoke Doodles Karaoke Thursday & Saturdays Flashback Karaoke Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke World of Beer Karaoke

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Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout The Jinx Live DJ Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao Mediterranean Tavern DJ Kirby Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar

Bar & Club Events

Club One Drag Show SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays

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Friday / 11

Barrelhouse South Parker Urban Band Basil’s Pizza and Deli Jan Spillane Bay Street Blues Hitman Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals) Cocktail Co. Laiken Love Fannie’s on the Beach Christy Alan Band Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Waits & Co. Rocks on the Roof Ben Kaiser The Foundery Coffee Pub Open Mic 28 QuoLab Abdu Ali, Elon

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Barrelhouse South Treehouse, Sowflo Basil’s Pizza and Deli The Accomplices Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals) Driftaway Cafe Jeff Beasley and Mike Perry Dub’s Pub Joseph Wilson Fannie’s on the Beach Christy Alan Band Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Anne Allman Huc-A-Poo’s Ellis Doddi Trio Mansion on Forsyth Park Tradewinds QuoLab Fake Boyfriend, Abi Reimold, Blue Azul, Tokalos, Raine Raine

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This Asheville trio is leading the way in the the Southeast Americana/roots scene with beautiful, soulful harmonies, poignant lyrics, and mountain picking.

Underhill Rose was formed over a decade ago, when Molly Rose and Eleanor Underhill met at Warren Wilson College. The band’s latest, The Great Tomorrow, found its place in the Americana Music Assocation’s Top 30 Airplay Chart and took #1 on The Roots Music Report’s Progressive Bluegrass Album Chart for over nine weeks.

FRI., MARCH 11, 9 P.M., $10 Randy’s Pickin Parlor Joe Robinson Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio Rocks on the Roof Fellowship of Love Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth & Kim Polote Saddle Bags Chase Bryant The Sentient Bean Joe Cat Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Liquid Ginger The Wormhole Underhill Rose Z2 Jimmy Taylor Experience

Trivia & Games

Coach’s Corner Movies & Music Trivia

Karaoke

Bay Street Blues Karaoke The Islander Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ

DJ

Club 309 West DJ Zay Cocktail Co. Cocktails & Beats Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok Treehouse DJ Phive Star

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Karaoke

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Bar & Club Events

Club One Drag Show

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17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) Sunday Jazz Brunch Bayou Cafe Don Coyer Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup Huc-A-Poo’s Footwerk The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry

Trivia & Games

Lulu’s Chocolate Bar Sunday Afternoon Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia

Karaoke

Club One Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ

Boomy’s Karaoke Club One Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Wet Willie’s Karaoke

DJ

The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces

Tuesday / 15

Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Thea, piano/vocals The Jinx Hip-Hop Night Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic Savannah Coffee Roasters Tongue: Open Mouth & Music Show hosted by Calvin Thomas Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay

Trivia & Games

80 East Gastropub Trivia The Chromatic Dragon Board Game Night Coach’s Corner Trivia CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia Congress Street Social Club Trivia Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia Mediterranean Tavern Battle of The Sexes Game Mellow Mushroom Trivia Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Trivia The Wormhole Trivia

Karaoke

Ampersand Blues & Brews

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Monday / 14

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DJ

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CULTURE FESTIVAL FEATURE

Tara Feis turns Family-friendly Irish cultural event remains one of Savannah’s most beloved and unique celebrations

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BY JIM MOREKIS

MAR 9- MAR 15, 2016

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FOR A quarter century, the Saturday before the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade has always been reserved for Tara Feis.

Whether the Parade is on the following weekend seven days later or on the following Monday just 48 hours later, that schedule hasn’t wavered in 25 years.

Indeed, Tara Feis remains perhaps the Savannah festival most true to its roots.

“We’ve sort of adopted the philosophy that ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’” laughs longtime Tara Feis chair Bernadette Winters.

The Gaelic words are pronounced “tara fesh,” and the event was expressly designed to take advantage of the City’s strong Irish spirit without the, uh, spirits.

See kids, back in the day our extended St. Patrick’s Day celebration was even more raucous than it is now, especially on River Street, if you can believe that.

For example, there were no wristbands or controlled entry, and immediately following the parade basically everybody in town flooded onto River Street – including cars, which cruised up and down full of partiers and blaring music the rest of the afternoon and into the wee hours.

Tara Feis was founded in that atmosphere, to carve out a niche for families with children to also celebrate Savannah’s signature happening.

“Our history goes back to 1990 when Don Mendonsa was City Manager,” recalls Winters. “Don asked Joe Shearouse, who was director of Leisure Services, to come up with something that was a nice family celebration, that would reflect our Irish heritage as not being all about drinking on River Street.”

The first Tara Feis started out small, on River Street’s Rousakis Plaza. “It wasn’t the greatest,” remembers Winters. “There was still so much going on all around it, and to keep it nonalcoholic we had to keep

Irish songstress Cathy Maguire headlines the all-day event this Saturday in Emmet Park.

people out of the area.”

The game-changer happened when the Department of Cultural Affairs-sponsored event was moved up to the Bay Street level, in Emmet Park. Also called the “Irish Green,” Emmet Park sits across Bay from the Old Fort/Trustees Garden area, once a residential area mostly for working class immigrant families.

“The Irish Green was where the old Savannah Irish families that lived in the Old Fort would go and have a picnic or take their children to play,” Winters says. “My parents and grandparents would take us there all the time when we were kids.”

From day one, Winters says, the great local singer/performer Harry O’Donoghue, an Irish native, was in charge of the entertainment at Tara Feis.

“Harry’s been with us since the beginning and he’s still the emcee,” says Winters fondly. “He’s the one I count on to scout out entertainment every year.”

Winters says the goal is always to keep authentic Irish music and culture paramount.

“We didn’t want a country band playing an Irish festival,” she says. “I credit Harry with always getting the best great Irish entertainment.”

Winters says not only is the music authentic, Tara Feis tries to keep sales of merchandise to a minimum to make sure the event stays unique and up to standards.

“We hang on tight to the reins to keep it from becoming just another event,” says Winters. “As we get further and further away from those folks of ours who came

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over from Ireland, our goal is to appreciate the culture and heritage and keep it alive.”

The only thing sold besides food and non-alcoholic drink at Tara Feis are official event T-shirts, “and our entertainers sell their CDs,” Winters says.

She says organizers have also resisted any attempts to extend Tara Feis into a weekend-long affair.

“It’s always a short but full day, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.,” she says. “We get folks who just pull up chairs and stay from beginning to end and make a whole day of it.”

Winters says she especially hopes folks will make it out to the stirring opening ceremony, which starts right at 11 a.m.

“Not everybody makes it out that early on a Saturday morning, but it’s really inspiring and really worth it,” she says.

This year, in addition to the usual great lineup of music and dance on two stages, including Harry O’Donoghue himself, and Irish dancing from all the local Irish dancing schools, special musical guests include the Savannah Philharmonic Chorus, Cathy Maguire and Ciaran Sheehan and band, with musical director Gabriel Donohue.

Maguire is an acclaimed Irish singer/ songwriter who will be joined by Dublin native Ciaran Sheehan, veteran of Broadway productions of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. CS

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CULTURE YOGA

Savannah Yoga Center celebrates Lucky 13 Bend over backwards with kombucha and kirtan March 13

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

MAR 9- MAR 15, 2016

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BACK IN 2003, opening a yoga studio in slow Savannah was practically a radical act.

Native daughter Kelley Boyd had fallen in love with the practice after discovering an old White Lotus VHS tape. She knew she just had to share it with others, so she stretched past her comfort zone.

“It wasn’t mainstream then, no, but Madonna was really into yoga,” laughs Boyd, the proprietor of Savannah Yoga Center, the city’s longest continually operating yoga studio.

“I figured there had to be other people like me here, who wanted to be in their bodies but weren’t into high-impact sports.”

She traveled to Asheville for her foundational training, then to New York to receive her advanced certification. Then she took a big breath, rented the living room in a house in the Starland District, bought some mats and opened the doors.

“The place was so small, a super slammed class was 20 people,” recalls the prana pioneer.

“We would all sit around and drank tea together afterwards.”

Since then, Savannah Yoga Center has moved to its airy, multi-roomed studio on Bull Street, offering more than 50 classes a week in diverse disciplines. It has graduated hundreds from its teacher training programs and raised thousands of dollars for local charities through its community classes and member donations.

This weekend, SYC commemorates 13 years of sun salutations and tricky asanas with an afternoon event on March 13.

Beginning with a “mash-up” class taught

by Boyd and some of SYC’s most popular teachers at 4:30, the transformative bliss continues with a kombucha happy hour with the infused flavors of Asheville’s own small-batch brewery, Buchi.

Then comes the chanting as Prema Hara brings their joyful devotional music to the party. Using chimes and sitar, the dynamic duo sets the tone for a meditation that Swami Ramananda calls “a kirtan experi32 ence that melts the heart and touches the

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Savannah Yoga Center founder Kelley Boyd (top) has been helping folks practice good form and good karma for 13 years.

spiritual Self.”

Boyd has partnered with local charities from the very beginning, and a portion of the proceeds from Sunday’s event will go to Habitat for Humanity.

“This is my home, so I’ve always wanted to give back, but our members allow us to do that on scale I couldn’t do by myself,” she says.

Yoga is hardly the esoteric endeavor it

once was, and all kinds of practices have popped up in town since SYC was the lone outpost.

“The culture has definitely changed,” notes Savannah’s original yogini.

“When we first started, people used to say, ‘oh, it’s way too slow, I’ll never get a good workout doing that.’

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OPENINGS & RECEPTIONS

BAZAAR CONCEPTIONS — Armstrong presents the first ever independent graphic design exhibition featuring the works of senior designers Holly Nance, Cc Witt, Haley Geller, Kim Crabtree, and Elizabeth Rhaney.

Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. DORIS GREIDER AND DICKY STONE — Stone will set up outside the gallery carving a new piece to add to his popular Sea Grass Series. Come out and learn how he brings his wood bowls to life. Sat., March 12, 4-8 p.m.

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St IN LOVING MEMORY — Multimedia body of work that investigates questions and themes regarding what happens when we die. Fri., March 11, 6 p.m. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull Street.

LANDMARK: A DECADE OF COLLECTING AT THE JEPSON CENTER — Since the Jepson Center opened its doors to the public 10 years ago, Telfair Museums has added 1,267 works of art to its permanent collection.

These works encompass a broad range of time periods, styles, and media, ranging from 19th-century paintings to digital interactive installations. To celebrate the strides made in collecting during the Jepson Center era, this exhibition highlights 10 of the most significant acquisitions made from 2006 to the present. The selections include silver from the 437-object donation made in 2012 by Dr. Frank A. Rizza; a 19th-century painting of Dutch peasants by Gari Melchers; an iconic Chuck Close self-portrait; and a mixed media assemblage by contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell. March 11-Aug. 14. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. ORIENTATION — First two-person exhibition of Indonesian artist Novita Permatasari and South Korean artist Sua Han. The exhibition will showcase the works of the individual artists as well as their collaborative work that question the cultural, lingual, and temporal boundaries from which we take a step toward unexpected. The question is explored through various mediums such as painting, video projection, and installation. Fri., March 11, 6-9 p.m. and March 12-Feb. 14, 1-4 p.m.

Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. RESONANCE — Lee O’Neil Gallery will host a group show featuring Robin Rose, Steven Cushner and WC Richardson, a​ll of whom are Washington DC b ­ ased artists whose works have been included in the continuing critical discourse surrounding Washington Color School painting. s Fri., March 11, 7-9 p.m. The Lee O’Neil Gallery, 2217 Bull Street.

A wooden bowl by Dicky Stone, who will set up outside the gallery carving a new piece to add to his popular Sea Grass Series; this Saturday March 12, 4-8pm during the Art Walk.

WELCOME! (THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD) — Location Gallery’s grand opening show with works by Bob and Julia Christian, Kipling Collins, Richard Leo Johnson, Elena Madden, Bellamy Murphy, Juliana Peloso, and Peter E. Roberts. Fri., March 11, 5-8 p.m. Location Gallery, 417 Whitaker St.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS ALAN STECKER — Alan’s childhood experiences with family, Jewish culture, and the surrounding religious and ethnic diversity of West Philadelphia continue to play a major role in shaping his imagery and message.

Through March 31. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. THE ART OF CAL WOOD — Calvin Thomas exhibits his latest art at Ta Ca. Through March 31. Ta Ca Sushi & Japanese Fusion, 513 E Oglethorpe Ave. ARTISTRY IN WOOD — Artistry in Wood, presented by the LowCountry Turners, contains over 50 works and will include pens, pepper mills, bowls, vases, wine toppers, plates, and more. Through April 1. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. BLOOD BOUND — Exhibition by artisan duo, brothers Steven and William Ladd, that is the first comprehensive look into their nearly twodecade-long collaborative studio practice.

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CARRIE MAE WEEMS: CONSIDERED — Exhibition by deFINE ART 2016 honoree and keynote speaker Carrie Mae Weems that brings together a range of her work that is both provocatively disparate and deeply connected. Part of deFINE ART. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

THE FUTURE WAS THEN — Monumental installation by Daniel Arsham created specifically for the museum’s Pamela Elaine Poetter Gallery for deFINE ART 2016. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

GEORGIA DISPATCH — In Summer 2014, the SCAD Museum of Art sponsored “Georgia Dispatch,” the seventh and final project of Alec Soth’s ongoing “Dispatch” series (2011–2014) during a two-week, 2,400-mile excursion through rural and urban Georgia.

The “Dispatch” series began in 2011 when Soth and writer Brad Zellar journeyed across Ohio masquerading as small-town newspaper beat reporters, covering day-to-day happenings along their trek. The exhibition will feature a selection of Soth’s documentary photography from a variety of stops on their journey. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

I REALLY WANNA LOSE 3 POUNDS — An exploration of beauty and excess by Michael Mahaffey. . Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR — Long before the word “selfie” entered the vernacular, new media artists began to experiment with digital imaging, projecting a viewer’s own image back at them in “transforming mirrors.” Includes two of artist Daniel Rozin’s celebrated mechanical mirrors. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION — This exhibit features approximately 40 European and American works dating from the 16th century through 1945 and includes works by Rembrandt, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, Goya, and others. Also features American printmakers, such as Whistler and Bellows, and a selection focused on the South. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

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THE PURPLES and pinks are so electric, the oranges and greens so dazzling, it’s hard to believe such colors could possibly be found in nature.

The refrigerated case at Beetnix on Broughton may look like a candy store, but its rainbow of hues is powered by carrots, beets, kale, spinach, apples, turmeric and other fresh goodies that won’t rot your teeth or send your blood sugar spinning.

Everything else on the menu is just as healthy: In addition to fresh-pressed juices, Beetnix serves up a solid menu of crunchy salads, gluten-free bowls and dairy-free delights all day long. You can also ramp up your immune system with a non-pharmaceutical “flu shot” made from lemon, garlic, cayenne and other germkicking ingredients.

If this sounds like a paradise for the quinoa-loving, rosy-cheeked yoga set, you’re absolutely right—though those who don’t know their kombucha from their savasana dig it, too.

Beetnix opened quietly last week on the ground floor of Dancing Dogs Yoga studio, and it’s already seen far more traffic than its built-in customer base.

“The juices have been flying off the shelves,” marvels Shelley Lowther, who owns both businesses. “We thought we had ordered enough produce for a week, and it was gone in two days!”

A devoted disciple of yoga scion Baron Baptiste, Lowther has owned Dancing Dogs for over a year and began building out the juice bar last spring. Once upon a time, however, the Savannah native dealt in draft beer and Irish whiskey instead of cashew butter and goji berries. As the proprietor of local watering holes Finnegan’s Wake and Murphy’s Law in the early 2000s, she never dreamed she’d be pushing superfoods over bar snacks.

“I used to live on fish ‘n’ chips and pizza, believe me,” she laughs. “But the more I practiced yoga, the more I craved healthy things. So I began juicing and trying out recipes at home. And I found out that it’s hard to do it for yourself and stay inspired.”

Lowther wanted to share the tasty innovations she’d come up with in her kitchen and enlisted Dancing Dogs student and restaurant veteran Jessica Stafford to help open the juice bar.

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converge in the organic smoothie bowls ($8.50 and $10.50), power-packed with a choice of anti-oxidant acai berries or the latest superfood trend, pitaya. Also known by its superhero name, dragon fruit, this hot pink cactus is imported from Brazil and is rich in B vitamins. The Warrior One features pitaya blended with banana, strawberries, raw almond butter, sprouted almond milk, white mulberries and cacao nibs.

“It tastes like you’re being bad, doesn’t it?” laughs general manager Nicholas Buttimer. “But it’s so good for you!”

Bowls are made to order at the counter, Beetnix owner Shelley Lowther (front, bottom right) brings the color to Broughton Street along while salads are stocked in the colorful with chef Jessica Stafford (l.), general manager Nicholas Buttimer and juice mistress Brita grab ‘n’ go case along with the rainbow Melom (r.). PHOTOS BY JON WAITS/@JWAITSPHOTO of fresh juices and nut milks ($9.50.) For those interested in a total system flush, a line cook in typical kitchens. I felt like such “Forbidden Pudding,” a hearty combo of Beetnix offers single and multiple day a grease monkey!” says Stafford of her gig as coconut milk-soaked black rice, fresh pear cleanses, based on Lowther’s extensive Beetnix’s top chef. “I’m just really excited to and chia seeds. Stafford has also taken nutritional research. work with all of these beautiful ingredients.” salad to a high art, evidenced in the kaleiAll the packaging is compostable or Lowther insists that the menu be as doscopic Root Down, Rise Up, layered with recyclable, and regulars can bring ten botallergen-free as possible, and swapped kale, golden beets, apples, quinoa, raisins tles back and get a fresh juice in return. out almond milk in the smoothies ($7.95 and hemp seeds ($8.) Dressings are original If anyone thought Savannah wasn’t ready and $9.95) for the coconut variety when creations and made from scratch (the tahini for an all-vegan, super juice bar, their doubts she learned that the former can cause turmeric curry is a house favorite.) can be answered with the way Beetnix mows reactions in some customers. For sure, There’s also a hot supper option of lentils through the pounds and piles of fresh greens everything is entirely devoid of chemicals, and quinoa steamed with coconut oil and and roots required to make the juice. refined sweeteners, gluten and dairy. topped with avocado, house-made cashew “Our biggest challenge right now is get“We are essentially vegan, though we do butter and sprouts ($9.) ting all the vegetables we need to keep up have honey,” she says, pointing to a Savan“I like the challenge of surprising people with the demand,” says Lowther. nah Bee Co. pump on the counter. with how good this kind of food can taste.

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BREW/DRINK/RUN was founded under the concept that good beer and a healthy lifestyle can, and should, go hand in hand.

The combination of a good healthy 5k run with a craft beer festival is a dream that we at BDR have had many times.

Fortunately The Craft Brew Race Series has made that dream a reality of us all.

Billing itself as a “a celebration of local craft brewing, an active lifestyle, and the surrounding community,” the Craft Brew Race Series combines a timed 5K run followed by a beer festival.

Craft Brew Races started as five events spread out around New England. They have since grown to eight events around the country. Savannah is lucky enough to be one of the locations and we’re all better for it.

The crowd for the Craft Brew Race is pretty diverse. Last year’s run served more than 500 runners. There were several hard-core runners but also plenty of people who were there for a fun run.

There is a costume contest and since the Savannah edition of the Craft Brew Races is March 12, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, so expect to see plenty of green.

The race and festival take place at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. The route is a simple out and back, though slightly different from last year’s race.

If you ran last year you’ll be happy to know the start/finish line is now adjacent to the Trade Center so parking and the festival will be easily accessible this year. The

Expect to see Savannah breweries represented as well as regional ones such as Jekyll Brewing and Southern Barrel, and Atlanta area regulars like Eventide, Orpheus and Wild Heaven.

route takes you out along the west end of Hutchinson Island. It’s not the most scenic of routes but there is beer waiting at the end.

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Both the race and festival are located at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. The run starts at 12:00 pm while the festival opens its doors at 12:30. Both events are strictly 21+ (bring your ID). Tickets come in several flavors; there is a run and festival combined registration for $55, a festival only ticket for $45 and a designated driver ticket for $15. Race day registration is available but prices go up $10 so register ahead of time at craftbrewraces.com/savannah.

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/// For the sake of the children—heck, for your own sake—be sure not to rapidly skim the multiplex marquee and accidentally amble into Zoolander 2 instead of Zootopia.

While one ranks as an atrocity worthy of living in infamy, the other is an absolute delight, certain to satisfy adults as much as (even more than?) the small fry.

That Zootopia proves to be such a joyous occasion is something of a surprise, since off-season animated efforts typically tend to be on the rancid side (e.g. The Lorax, Gnomeo & Juliet). Yet here’s a family film that would be welcome any time of the year. At its center is a marvelous new character: Judy Hopps (voiced by Once Upon a Time’s Ginnifer Goodwin), a smalltown rabbit who dreams of moving to the sprawling metropolis of Zootopia and becoming the first bunny to ever serve as a police officer, a vocation that has always been filled by more imposing animals such as rhinos and tigers.

Judy nevertheless graduates from the academy and earns her badge, but the police chief Bogo (Idris Elba) is unimpressed and relegates her to meter-maid duty. Rather than slapping tickets on cars, she would be much more interested in joining the other cops in tackling the mystery of why approximately a dozen citizens have vanished without a trace. A chance encounter with a con-artist fox named Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) provides the impetus she needs to pursue the case on her own, and, with the reluctant help of

Nick, she uncovers a labyrinthine plot with fearful implications.

It ain’t Chinatown, of course, but Zootopia crafts an unexpectedly complex mystery, one that also allows for an examination of cultural differences and the poisonous prejudices that result in being judged by the color—and, in this anthropomorphic world, the texture—of one’s skin.

It’s particularly apropos given the current mood of fear and loathing in this exceedingly nasty election year.

The beauty of Zootopia, though, is that you can be unaware of the subtext (as would a child…or a right-wing moron) and still reap the benefits of an imaginatively designed endeavor packed with huge laughs. The sequence involving the sloths will remain one of the comic highlights of 2016 cinema, and there’s a bit with wolves that’s nearly as uproarious. If nothing else, Zootopia proves that laughter is still the best medicine, providing temporary soothing relief during these sick times.

LONDON HAS FALLEN

/ President Trump hasn’t even taken office yet, but here we’re already being force-fed the first motion picture under his new world order. London Has Fallen suggests the sort of film Leni Riefenstahl might have made had she bade Hitler “Auf Wiederhesen” and trotted off to enjoy a lucrative Hollywood contract under David O. Selznick. It’s nationalistic nonsense from start to finish, calibrated to maintain

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such a fever pitch of patriotism that it makes Team America: World Police look like Communist propaganda by comparison. Lest we forget, Team America was a satire by design; London Has Fallen is a satire by stupidity.

A sequel to 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, a mediocre action flick whose only claim to fame is that it beat the identical White House Down into theaters by a mere three months, this one finds all of the world’s leaders gathering in London to attend the funeral of the Prime Minister, who, apparently taking a hint from Scalia, died suddenly. But as the global dignitaries gather for the funeral, Pakistani terrorists disguised as British soldiers, bobbies, Beefeaters and everything else short of Nanny McPhee all suddenly start slaughtering politicians and civilians alike. They also destroy many of the city’s most famous landmarks, including Westminster Abbey and Chelsea Bridge. Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t blow the London Eye off its base, just to give us a shot of Gerard Butler’s character attempting to outrun it like Indiana Jones and that giant boulder.

Yes, Butler is back as Secret Service agent extraordinaire Mike Banning, and he’s the only reason U.S. President Benjamin Asher (returning co-star Aaron Eckhart) is the only world leader to escape death. The French president is killed while being smug and aloof. The Japanese prime minister is killed while being fastidious.

The Italian president is killed while being a horny bastard. (Yes, this movie rarely misses an opportunity to wallow in stereotypes.) But the U.S. prez is not killed because Mike Banning is man enough to ward off any and all assassins. Watching him take down terrorists is like watching the opening Normandy Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan, with the thousands of Germans replaced by thousands of terrorists and the thousands of Allied soldiers replaced by one Mike Banning.

The remainder of the movie follows Banning as he tries to extract Asher from the deadly surroundings, with regular cutaways to Vice President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) back in D.C. barking out orders. Banning’s wisecracks throughout the film are exceedingly lame (such as when he tells a bad guy to “go back to Fuckheadistan”), but no worries, as there are plenty of unintentional laughs. The movie takes care to identify (via urgent type) countless characters (e.g. “Allan Trumbull, U.S. Vice President,” “Jacquelin Marshall, MI6,” “Carmen Sandiego, Criminal Mastermind”), a useless endeavor since most are only given a line or two before blending into the background. There’s a traitor among the Brits, but his identity is moronically easy to guess (Spoiler: It’s the guy with the receding hairline, since a frequent sign of a traitor is that he has a receding hairline; see also Air Force One. End

Spoiler). One of the good guys, so obviously set up to perish that the character’s name might as well be “Luckless Character Destined To Die Solely To Make Mike Banning Realllly Angry,” suffers a gruesome death more suited to Christopher Lee in one of those Hammer Dracula flicks. And at one point, Vice President Trumbull, speaking via recording, takes it upon himself to share a personal anecdote so that Mike knows it’s the real Trumbull. Well, of course it’s the real Trumbull; who in this universe could possibly pull off a successful impersonation of Morgan Freeman’s heavenly voice, aside from maybe God?

THE WITCH

/// One of the most memorable sequences in the otherwise much-ado-about-nothing revenge yarn The Revenant is the one which finds Leonardo DiCaprio’s character getting savagely mauled by a bear.

Yet even that grizzly comes across as only slightly more menacing than Yogi Bear when compared to Black Philip, the goat who proves to be a key character in the new horror opus The Witch.

Black Philip isn’t the only animal who may or may not be a harbinger of evil— there’s also a rabbit whose eyes are so freakishly penetrating that all visions of the laughable Night of the Lepus will be immediately exorcised from moviegoers’ memories. And then there’s Mother Nature, presented not as nurturer but as nightmare, at one with the Satanic emissary living deep within the bowels of the forest.

All of these elements combine to make The Witch another winner in the indiehorror sweepstakes, joining the likes of The Babadook and It Follows in its ability to establish an unsettling atmosphere of dread and not let up until the light once more breaks across the auditorium. Reminiscent of such past works as the superb 1996 film version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and the astounding 1922 Swedish docudrama Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (formerly banned in the U.S. but now available on Criterion DVD), this confident undertaking by writer-director Robert Eggers (making his feature-film debut in both capacities) is set in 1630 New England, wherein a family of six is forced out of its community for some apparently minor indiscretion—it’s never clearly stated, but it appears the head of the household, William (Ralph Ineson), was caught preaching without a license.

The family relocates to a small cabin on the edge of a formidable forest, whereupon the baby is soon snatched by an elderly witch residing in the woods. No one actually sees the witch, but everyone in the family—William, wife Katherine (Kate Dickie), blossoming daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), curious son Caleb

(William Scrimshaw), and bratty twins Mercy (Ellie Grainger) and Jonas (Lucas Dawson)—senses the evil all around them.

They turn to their rigid Christian doctrine for strength, failing miserably to ever trust in—or turn to—each other. As a result, accusations of consorting with the devil fly fast and furious, with most of the fingers pointed at Thomasin.

More than just a terror tale, The Witch harbors several weighty themes, including the fear of the feminine mystique in a patriarchal society as well as the danger of placing too much faith in a puritanical belief without allowing other emotions an equal opportunity to breathe. These notions are punched across not only by Eggers’ persuasive sense of time and place but by the forceful work of the entire cast (Taylor-Joy and Ineson are particularly impressive). It’s just a shame the ending registers as a cop-out. Certainly, cases can (and will) be made that the finale is an inevitable conclusion to everything that has transpired up to that point, but to me, it feels facile, ignoring specific convictions and relationships for the sake of wrapping up with startling imagery. I can’t say for sure whether the devil is in the details, but he doubtless had a hand in the clumsy climax.

locate the missing body of Jesus after it disappears from the cave in which it was laid following His crucifixion. As Clavius sets out on his investigation, gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses, he starts to wonder if Christ was indeed more than just a man.

In essence, Fiennes is playing George Clooney’s role in the film-within-the-film of Hail, Caesar!, minus the ample laughs.

Fiennes is fine in the part, and those keeping track of what the Harry Potter gang has been doing will be interested to learn that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) appears as Clavius’ assistant.

But director Kevin Reynolds (Waterworld), who also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Aiello, often adopts the restrictive impulses of those otherwise sturdy religious flicks of yesteryear, the ones which wouldn’t even allow the camera to gaze upon the face of Jesus (or, rather, the extra cast as Him).

Risen does give us a Jesus in actor Cliff Curtis, but he remains a beatific cypher, and the takeaway is that, in the same distancing manner as those black-themed pictures told through the eyes of white protagonists, here’s a Biblical yarn related not through Christ Himself or even his disciples but rather an individual late to the party.

// The small companies that have been producing all those faith-based films that routinely pop up in theaters have financially done so well, it’s surprising more major studios haven’t jumped on the Biblical bandwagon. One outfit that has seen the writing on the stone tablets is Sony Pictures, which, through its Affirm Films arm, has released such box office hits as Fireproof and Soul Surfer.

Its latest offering is Risen, and what’s perhaps most surprising about the film is its restraint. Most other faith-based films of recent vintage tend to preach only to the choir—and by choir, I don’t mean Christians in general but those dangerous armies of hypocritical right-wing zealots, the ones who, say, believe that Obama is not only a Muslim but also the head of ISIS, or who think that evangelists are following in the footsteps of Jesus by living like billionaires and preaching in palatial churches that resemble Vegas casinos.

Yet Risen is a religious picture measured enough to appeal to filmgoers of all persuasions—in other words, no one had the bright idea of casting Rush Limbaugh as one of the disciples or hiring Ben Stein to serve as the voice of God. It’s just too bad it’s not a bit better, since its modesty also leads to a noticeable lack of —and pun absolutely not intended—passion.

Joseph Fiennes plays the central character of Clavius, a Roman officer who’s ordered by Pontius Pilate (Peter Firth) to

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RISEN

/// Is it fair to state that Deadpool is all downhill after the opening credits? Yes and no. Certainly, the cast and crew list that kicks off one of the oddest Marvel movies to date is the sort of savvy gag that’s sure to amuse film fans, comic-book devotees and general audiences alike—I don’t dare spoil the jokes, but they’re absolutely hysterical. Still, that’s not to suggest the rest of the picture is in any way a letdown. On the contrary, a superhero romp that threatened to be smug, smarmy and self-satisfied is—well, yes, it’s occasionally all those things. But it’s also fresh, funny and absolutely kick-ass.

Speaking of Kick-Ass, this new film shares the same R rating as that 2010 effort. While Deadpool is consistently more intelligent, innovative and even emotionally involving than that fanboy fave, it’s just as brutal and bloody—and decidedly not for the kids. Of course, each child’s mileage varies—one tyke’s Mary Poppins is another moppet’s Night of the Living Dead—but this is the sort of movie where parents need to do some advance research before dumping off the small fry with a barrel of popcorn and venturing into the adjoining theater to catch The Danish Girl.

Ryan Reynolds previously played Deadpool in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but that interpretation has been axed to clear the way for a new direction.

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Reynolds’ Wade Wilson is a scrappy loner, a mercenary who unexpectedly finds romance with the tough and beautiful Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Suddenly, it’s a wonderful life for our mouthy maverick—at least until he discovers that cancer has stamped an expiration date on his life expectancy. With nothing to lose, he agrees to undergo an experimental procedure to be carried out by a mysterious figure named Ajax (Ed Skrein); the surgery eventually provides him with amazing recuperative powers, but first it leaves him at the mercy of the torturous machinations of Ajax and his right-hand woman Angel Dust (Gina Carano). Wade soon escapes, picks up the moniker Deadpool, and sets about proving that revenge is a dish best served not only cold but also hot, frozen, lukewarm or any other temperature just as long as it’s served.

While other heroes eventually enter the fray—specifically, X-Men members Colossus (voice by Stefan Capicic, body

by CGI) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand)—this is The Ryan Reynolds Show from beginning to end, with the actor clearly relishing the opportunity to rescue this character from being merely relegated to future Trivial Pursuit status following his Wolverine gueststarring role. Deadpool gets to make jokes at the expense of Marvel, at the expense of big-budget productions, at the expense of audience expectations (the fourth wall is frequently toppled), and even at Gerard Butler’s back to fight the bad guys in London Has Fallen. the expense of Reynolds’ ill-fated Green Lantern. (smart enough to stay away, or maybe the up landing on a rock, unable to take root

ZOOLANDER NO. 2 filmmakers were smart enough not to and isolated from everything else develop/ waste his time) are being assassinated. ing around them.

Based on a skit created for the 1996 There’s a bit of creative acting by BeneHonestly, there will be few other movVH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, the initial dict Cumberbatch as an androgynous ies over the course of 2016 as frustrating Zoolander cast Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolan- model named All, but his only purpose is as this adaptation of Liz Tuccillo’s book, der, an imbecilic male model who becomes to allow Derek and Hansel to make stupid a quasi-“girl power” picture that altera patsy in a conspiracy plot that explains jokes about whether he has a “hot dog” or a nates between perceptive and puerile at why there are no male models over the age “bun.” Mugatu eventually becomes impor- such breakneck speed that some viewers of 30 (Logan’s Runway, as it were). Owen tant to the plot, but Ferrell proves to be as might be tempted to sue for whiplash. The Wilson co-starred as a fellow model named tiresome with his shenanigans as Stiller focus is on a group of young women, two of Hansel, while Will Ferrell appeared as and Wilson are with theirs – in fact, all the whom are looking for love (usually in the the flamboyant villain Mugatu. All three actors try so hard to deliver anything of wrong places) and two of whom are not. reunite in this outing, which finds Derek comedic value that the force of the comAlice (Dakota Johnson, having survived and Hansel attempting to become relbined flop sweat could crash through any Fifty Shades of Grey) separates from her evant again in the world of fashion while levee anywhere. boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun), the guy Mugatu cools his heels in a maximumThe late, great David Bowie had an she expects to marry, in order to find hersecurity prison. As Derek broods over the amusing cameo in the original Zoolander, self—or get laid by someone else, whichloss of his wife (Christine Taylor), who died which made sense given his own ties to the ever comes first. Lucy (Alison Brie) wants tragically, and the disappearance of his son fashion industry. There’s no comparable a boyfriend but ends up dating men as (Cyrus Arnold), who was snatched by Child tradeoff in this picture, unless you happen insufferable as herself. Meg (Leslie Mann) Protective Services, Hansel flees from the to be a Belieber—or a fan of Susan Boyle, wants a baby without commitment and members of his orgy/family, all of whom whose appearance is supposed to be hilari- opts for artificial insemination, but then he impregnated (including Kiefer Sutherous because she cusses. finds herself getting mixed up with nice land as himself; har). But their personal (and younger) guy Ken (Jake Lacy). And HOW TO BE SINGLE problems are momentarily forgotten once Robin (Rebel Wilson), in the immortal // Interpol agent Melanie Valentina (Penelwords of Poison, don’t need nothin’ but a The excellent moments in How to Be Sin- good time, preferring drunken flings to ope Cruz) arrives on the scene, seeking gle—and, yes, there are a handful—are like anything more substantial. their help in uncovering why such famous singers as Justin Bieber (playing himself in those woeful few seeds that are flung by a In what’s become a common occur42 the opening scene) and Bruce Springsteen farmer onto a fertile field but instead end rence, Mann is again the best thing in a

so-so movie, and the Meg-Ken plotline is by far the most interesting. Alice’s scenes with a player (Anders Holm) who becomes her confidante following their one-night stand are refreshing—it’s rare to see a film in which a man and a woman remain friends after having casual sex—but the sequences involving the other dudes in her life (Braun’s Josh, Damon Wayans Jr.’s David) are the victims of clumsy writing. Lucy is so annoying that all of her vignettes register as dead weight. And Robin is the latest role that allows Wilson to be confident, assertive and sex-positive … and then puts her through the usual humiliating moves reserved for plus-sized people in movies.

HAIL, CAESAR!

/// The latest straight-up comedy from the dynamic Coen brothers duo is sure to join other underappreciated larks like Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading and especially The Hudsucker Proxy.

If you consider yourself a Coenhead and yet hate those particular pictures, it’s pretty much guaranteed you’re not gonna like this one, either. But for those who can appreciate the possibilities inherent in all of the team’s output.

Extremely episodic in nature, the film centers on the shenanigans occurring at Capitol Pictures in the early 1950s.

The title refers to the film-within-afilm, a Biblical epic in which a Roman soldier played by A-list star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) is spiritually transformed upon encountering Jesus.

It’s Capitol’s biggest picture of the year, which is why everyone is in an uproar when Whitlock disappears. Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is immediately put on the case—a Hollywood “fixer,” he’s responsible for keeping all of the studio’s stars out of the gossip columns.

Initially assuming Whitlock is either out on a bender or shacked up with some starlet, he soon learns that the matinee idol has instead been kidnapped by a clandestine outfit billing itself as The Future.

Although it takes some liberties with the manner in which the Hollywood dream factory operated, Hail, Caesar! is nevertheless an honorable look back at the olden, golden days of the studio system, when most movies were filmed on backlots and actors had strict contracts with particular companies.

Fiennes and Johansson are both riotously funny, and I would watch an entire film built around either one of their characters; the same goes for Ehrenreich and his singing cowboy.

But this is in essence Brolin’s picture and he’s in fine form, navigating us through countless bits of hilarity. CS

ACTIVISM & POLITICS

13TH COLONY PATRIOTS Conservative political activists that meet the 13th of each month. Dedicated to preserving the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. See Facebook page for meeting location.

Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-604-4048. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. PICKMONDAY MEANS COMMUNITY: DEEPLY LOCAL What in Savannah is sacred to you? Four Savannahians -- Sonny Seiler, Huxsie Scott, Eric Brown, and Betsy Bull -- talk about what’s sacred to them. The evening includes a moderated groupthink and Q&A, and the discussion continues afterwards at the American Legion. Free Mon., March 14, 7 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. ONE OF THE GUYS Guys, have you found yourself in a social rut, or just have a need for the art of conversation? Make a change in 2016.

The past decade a diverse group of guys have been getting together about every two weeks to share dinner and opinions on just about any topic. No membership requirements or dues. Just an open mind and willingness to expand your friendship base. For more information visit us on Facebook at Savannah Men’s Club, or if you prefer, email details/questions to savannahmensclub@gmail.com. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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.

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

AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo. com. Info is also available at www. savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part by the Savannah Friends of Music, www. savannahfriendsofmusic.com ongoing.

David Bowie Tribute Concert w/ Capsula

Capsula will perform the classic Bowie album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” in its entirety.

FRI., MARCH 11, 11 P.M. TRINITYCHURCH1848.ORG/. TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 225 WEST PRESIDENT ST.

about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html.

Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR SAVANNAH YOUTH AMBASSADOR SUMMER INSTITUTE The City of Savannah is now accepting applications for the 2016 Savannah Youth Ambassador Summer Institute.

Interested parties should complete the online application at www.savannahga. gov/sya. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2016. The Savannah Youth Ambassador Program fosters youth leadership and civic engagement through City sponsored training, cultural exploration opportunities, and Make a Difference community impact projects. SYA is open to all rising 9th – 12th graders that reside within the incorporated city limits of the City of Savannah. Participants will be chosen through a selective application and interview process. Space is limited to 50 participants. SYA Summer Institute is June 6 – July 22, 2016. Sessions are held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be a break during the July 4th holiday week. For more information, contact cfishel@savannahga. gov or djackson01@savannahga.gov.

Through March 11. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR WEAVE A DREAM INITIATIVE The City of Savannah’s Weave-A-Dream (WAD) Panel has issued a call for proposals for the 2016 Weave-A-Dream Cultural &

Arts Projects initiative. Applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs are to be completed prior to December 31, 2016. The application must be submitted at least eight weeks prior to the start date of the project; the last date an application can be submitted is October 21, 2016.

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 Panel seeks proposals that actively involve youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts based programs in Savannah. A priority of the WAD funding program is that organizations reach neighborhood communities, encompassing all city districts. 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. Agencies funded by the City of Savannah for 2016 are not eligible to apply. Applications are available at www.savannahga.gov/ arts. Applying organizations may request application materials and technical assistance by contacting Rebecca Brown at 912-651-6760 or rbrown02@savannahga. gov Through Oct. 21. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. CALL FOR COLLEGIATE CHAPTERS FOR

YESHUA NEXT GENERATION Young adults between the ages of 21-25 with technical and people skills are needed to attend Savannah Chamber of Commerce events and to act as Overseers for collegiate chapters. Please contact Reverend Brenda Lee at (912) 236-3154, email:revbrendalee@yahoo.com ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENT ARTWORK The City of Savannah is seeking submissions of original elementary student artwork celebrating the 50th anniversary of Savannah’s National Historic Landmark District (designated in 1966) to display in an exhibit in City Hall’s first floor rotunda.

Submissions will be judged by a panel of artists, preservationists, and City leaders.

The winning entries will be framed and displayed by the City of Savannah in City Hall for the period July-December 2016 for all our citizens and visitors to enjoy.

These winning works will become the property of the City of Savannah and will not be returned to the artists. Work not selected for display will be returned to the artists after judging. Up to 6 winners will be chosen, including a “Best in Show.”All winners will receive an award certificate, prize of art supplies, and reproduction of their winning work for their portfolio.

Winners will be announced to the public during an exhibit opening at City Hall. For more information, visit savannahga.gov/ artcontest or contact Luciana Spracher at lspracher@savannahga.gov or 912-6516411. Through March 11. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR MARITIME ARTS FESTIVAL On May 7, 2016, Ships of the Sea will hold its second “Maritime Arts Festival.” The event is a one day outdoor exhibition of maritime related arts, crafts, and antiques.

The Museum invites artists, model ship builders, and antique dealers to submit images of their maritime/nautical related paintings, drawings, ceramics, jewelry, prints, mixed-media, woodworking, and collectable pieces for consideration. For prospectus and entry information please go to www.shipsofthesea.org Through April 22. shipsofthesea.org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN PTSD STUDY Are you a recent combat veteran experiencing psychological or emotional stress related to your combat? You may be eligible to receive first-line medication and talk therapy interventions with proven effectiveness. PROGrESS is a study looking to learn more about how to effectively treat recent combat veterans with PTSD. The therapies are not experimental. You will be randomly assigned to receive either psychotherapy, medication, or both. For more information about the PROGrESS study, please call 912-920-0214 ext. 2169. ongoing. Online only, none.

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CALL FOR PERFORMERS, VENDORS AND VOLUNTEERS FOR SAVANNAH ASIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL The Savannah Asian Cultural Festival, which will take place April 15-16, 2016 at Armstrong State University, is currently seeking live performers, Cultural Marketplace vendors and event volunteers. There is no cost for performers to participate. All vendors must be consistent with the theme of the festival.

The cost for vendors is $85 per booth. The festival’s Cultural Marketplace will offer the opportunity to learn more about each country and discover the traditional arts, crafts, fashions and treasures unique to each nation. From Ming-shared jewelry to calligraphy sets, original paintings, handbeaded clothing, Asian accessories and henna body painting, an entire continent’s worth of treasures can be found at the festival. If you would like to participate as a performer, vendor or volunteer at the 2016 Savannah Asian Cultural Festival, please contact James Anderson at james. anderson@armstrong.edu or (912) 3443224. Through April 15. about.armstrong. edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR RESUMES FOR ART CAMP ASSISTANTS The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is accepting resumes for art camp assistants for Summer Art Camp June 6-July 29. Camp assistants will work with children ages 5-8, 9-12, and teen interns ages 13-18. Each week, the camp assistant will supervise morning (8-9:30am) and afternoon (4:30-5:30) activities. Other responsibilities include assisting teachers with projects, working with teen interns, and assisting the camp facilitator with overall camp structure. Qualified assistants must submit to a background check. Previous work experience with children required.

This is a contracted weekly position with no benefits. The application deadline is Monday, March 9 at 5 pm. Through March 9. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. 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. 912-3951500. oatlandisland.org.

TELL US YOUR GHOST STORY? Organization seeks to document your first hand experiences with psychical phenomenon for analysis and potential investigation. Our investigators have reputable credentials and long time investigation training and connections 44 with the top minds and researchers in

parapsychology field research and other areas. We are especially interested in Chatham and neighboring counties with special emphasis on Savannah itself and the Historic District. Interviewees should be comfortable with video documentation of themselves and events w/privacy level negotiated beforehand. ongoing. amchclub@yahoo.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

BENEFITS

5TH ANNUAL BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS WALK 5th Annual Brain Injury Awareness Walk to benefit Brain Injury Association of Georgia and Grey Matters Support Group.

Please join us to help promote brain injury awareness and support brain injury survivors in our community. Family friendly activities in addition to the ‘at-your-ownpace’ walk around the lake. Registration fee includes t-shirt and refreshments. $15.00 ; Free for Brain Injury Survivors Sat., March 12, 9 a.m.-noon. 912-350-7274. jolleje1@ memorialhealth.com. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $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, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS

ACRYLIC PAINTING This ongoing painting class is designed to meet the student where they are in their painting experience, whether they are just beginning or have been painting awhile. Each 4 week session will have a focus on certain elements and principles of design and corresponding techniques.

Students will be given several project options for each unit of focus. Beginners welcome! **Mentoring option available for this class: bring your own projects and receive feedback and guidance as you work. $140, 4 week sessions Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-noon. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES WORKSHOP Join social worker Sarah Copeland as she helps you complete the paperwork to make your wishes known when you are too ill or too injured to speak on your

own behalf. Easy-to-follow guidelines and complementary booklets provided. Do the loving thing for your family now. none third Tuesday of every month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 912.629.1045. hospicesavannah.org/.

Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. ART, MUSIC, PIANO, VOICE COACHING Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056.

BASIC DRAWING AND OIL PAINTING A multi-level ongoing class designed to train the student to see and render life accurately and with sensitivity while working from direct observation. Both drawing and oil painting techniques and materials will be explored, along with color and value principles. Beginners welcome. $140, 4 week sessions Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-noon. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. BEADING CLASSSES AT EPIPHANY BEAD & JEWELRY STUDIO Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times.

912-677-3983. epiphany.indiemade.com.

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.

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

CHILDREN’S SPRING BREAK RECYCLED ART WORKSHOP Keep Chatham Beautiful and the Chatham County Recycling Center are hosting a Spring Break Recycled Art Workshop for children! It will be held on Monday, March 14th from 9:30-11:30 AM. Ages 8-14. During this FREE workshop we will be making animal sculptures using wire and scrap fabric. Seats are limited, so register today by phone or email. FREE Mon., March 14, 9:30-11:30 a.m. 912-790-1647. armurphy@ chathamcounty.org. https://facebook. com/events/697489137059824/. Chatham County Resource Conservation Education Center, 1321 Eisenhower Drive.

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.

912-358-3160. 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. 912-351-4578. 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.

CREATIVITY COACHING Do you have a creative idea but don’t know where to start? Is it time to move forward with your project? Work with your very own creativity coach and learn how to blast through blocks, plan your time, and enjoy the richness of a creative life. See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/ creativity_coaching/ or contact Creativity@ LaurenL.com ongoing. Online, ---.

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 912-443-0410.

FAFSA WORKSHOP Savannah Graduates, a community-wide initiative focused on creating a more educated workforce in Chatham County, is offering free workshops to assist community members in completing the 2016-2017 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Wed., March 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. savannahgraduates.com. savannahtech.edu/. Savannah Technical College, 5717 White Bluff Rd. 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.

GUITAR, MANDOLIN, OR BASS GUITAR LESSONS Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987.

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

Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: MonFri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. KNITTING & CROCHET CLASSES Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website.

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

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruction by professional musicians. Band instruments, violin, piano, drums and guitar.

All ages welcome. ongoing. 912-358-0054. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. MUSIC LESSONS--MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers

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private instruction for all ages and experience levels in Guitar (electric, acoustic,classical), Piano, Bass, Voice, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Music Theory/Composition/ Songwriting. 609 69th Street, Savannah GA. ongoing. 912-398-8828. smisavannah@ gmail.com. savmusiciansinstitute.com.

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

All ages and ability levels welcome.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. NOVEL WRITING Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publication. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-onone or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting.

Email for pricing and scheduling info. ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com.

OIL PAINTING BASICS A multi-level 8-week class designed to train the student to see and render still life accurately and with sensitivity while working from direct observation. Both drawing and oil painting techniques and materials will be explored, along with color and value principles. Beginners welcome. $275, 8 week sessions Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. OIL PAINTING THE FIGURE This 8 weeks session will emphasize laying down paint efficiently in each 2 and a half hour session to convey the flow, form and energy of the model’s pose. Using striking colors to contrast, Karen will demonstrate how to build up color to highlight different aspects of the body. (alla prima oil or pastels welcome, 8 poses total) $350, 8 week sessions Thursdays, 6:30-9 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. OLD MASTERS METHODOLOGY This ongoing course is based on passages written by Leonardo da Vinci in his notebooks on the technical principals of painting. The student will be guided from

the initial drawing stages, through the greyscale “Verdaccio” underpainting, and finally into the mixing of a four-color full value palette. Through this approach the student will gain a greater ability to see the subject, learn the meaning of the related artistic terminology and language, gain the ability to see color as value; and gain insight into the historical significance of this incredible process. $140, 4 week sessions Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-noon. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. OPEN ARTIST STUDIO Open studio time for artists to work on personal projects, gain guidance from peers. No formal instruction. Working artist present. $10 Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@ thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES Beginner photography to post production. Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list. 410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com.

PIANO LESSONS Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience. 912-312-3977. ongoing. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. PIANO VOICE-COACHING Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing.

POLE FITNESS CLASSES Pole dancing is a beautiful artform, and a combination of dance, flexibility and gymnastics. Pole dancing has quickly become one of the most popular forms of fun and exercise for women. It can help you lose weight, gain beautiful muscle tone, make you stronger than ever and build confidence like no other form of exercise can. Join us on Tuesday nights and get fitter and stronger than you’ve ever been, with this amazing full body workout.

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125 Foxfield Way. PORTRAIT DRAWING AND PAINTING A multi-level 8-week class designed to train the student to see and render the portrait accurately and with sensitivity while working from direct observation.

Both drawing and oil painting techniques and materials will be explored, along with color and value principles. We’ll start with drawing and move into an alla prima oil painting approach. Beginners welcome. $350, 8 week sessions Saturdays, 1-3:30 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. A. ROPER STUDIO - VOICE TECHNIQUE AND COACHING Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music.

Audition and competition preparation.

Located 15 minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-4840628. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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

SLOW FLOW YOGA This class gently flows and pulsates with fluidity of movement and breath. You will progress through a series of postures.

Open to all Levels. Class Prices: Ongoing classes: $15 drop in. 5 Class card: $70 (3 month expiration) 10 Class card: $130 (4 month expiration) Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. 912-308-3410. yogamelynn@ gmail.com. branchesyoga.com/schedule/. branchesyoga.com. Branches Yoga Center, 2424 Drayton Street.

SOUL PROGRESSION YOGA Focus on use of the asanas(postures) as artistic self expression. This class offers a deeply rooted spiritual foundation integrating alignment techniques and enlightening messages woven throughout the practice. Open to all levels Class Prices: Ongoing classes: $15 drop in. 5 Class card: $70 (3 month expiration) 10 Class card: $130 (4 month expiration) Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-308-3410. yogamelynn@ gmail.com. branchesyoga.com/schedule/. branchesyoga.com. Branches Yoga Center, 2424 Drayton Street.

WATERCOLOR BASICS Basic fundamentals of watercolors for beginners. This class introduces students to techniques like washes and dry brush and how to use salt or rubbing alcohol to create different textures. Students will also learn how to layer colors accordingly to create desired effects and details. **Mentoring option available with this class: bring your own projects and receive feedback and guidance as you work. $140, 4 week session Mondays, 3:30-6 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. WEEKLY FIGURE DRAWING 46 Classic figure drawing & painting

sessions with a live model. No instruction. Drop ins welcome. $20 drop in or $60, 4 week sessions Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-noon. 912.484.6415. info@ thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. YOUTH DRAWING AND PAINTING/ PORTFOLIO PREP An ongoing multi-level class designed to train the student to see and render life accurately and with sensitivity.

Working from direct observation, the fundamental principles are first mastered through drawing. Students then move on, as ready and willing, to oil or acrylic painting. An excellent class for those interested in developing a portfolio for school admission. $140, 4 week sessions Tuesdays, 3:30-6 p.m.. 912.484.6415. info@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. YOUTH SYMPOSIUM 2016 The Alpha Iota Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. in partnership with the First Masonic District of Savannah will host the 19th Annual Youth Symposium – “Building Partnerships to Support Our Youth.” The goal is to demonstrate that when we work together, we create a strong “community village” positioned to support our young people.

Male and female youth, ages 8-17 are invited. Free Sat., March 12, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. www.savannahalumnaesgrho@ yahoo.com. https://facebook.com/ events/174712546231910/. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, 602 E Broad Street.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

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

AVEGOST LARP Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

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

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

CHATHAM SAILING CLUB Friday evening social event at the clubhouse. Meet Members and their families who all enjoy water based activities but whose prime interest is sailing. This

BYOB event is free and all are welcome, but Membership is encouraged after several visits once interest is gauged!! We look forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. COASTAL BEAD SOCIETY Coastal Bead Society monthly meetings, 12 noon on the third Friday of the Month at the Coastal Georgia Center, 303 Fahm Street, near SCAD. All beaders are welcome. ongoing. wyrnut18@gmail.com. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

FIBER GUILD OF THE SAVANNAHS A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. GEECHEE SAILING CLUB Founded in 1971, GSC promotes sailing and boating safety, education, and fellowship.

Member of the South Atlantic Yacht Racing Association. second Monday of every month, 6 p.m. 912-356-3265. geecheesailingclub.org. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. GLORIOSA FLOWER SHOW Trustees’ Garden Club invites the public to GLORIOSA (A GCA Flower Show).

Admission to the flower show is free of charge. Guests may purchase a $25.00 ticket for a 10:30 a.m. address from noted author Bettie Bearden Pardee. Guests may also purchase a $20 ticket for a boxed lunch. Tickets may be purchased at www. trusteesgardenclub.com. Deadline of 3/7 for boxed lunch. Varies with choice of activity Wed., March 16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

912-667-4824. charleshmorriscenter.com.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. 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.

KNITTERS, NEEDLEPOINT AND CROCHET Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

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

MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART LADIES AUXILIARY Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003

Rowland Ave. PHILO CAFE Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations.

Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe.

Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.

R.U.F.F. - RETIREES UNITED FOR THE FUTURE RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. 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. 912-7487020. savannahnavyleague.us.

SAVANNAH GO CLUB This is a new club for the board game “go” (igo, weiqi, baduk). For places and times, please call John at 734-355-2005. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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

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

SAVANNAH KENNEL CLUB Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub. org. Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. 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 help you learn about Savannah and make new friends. Ongoing sign-up. savannahnewcomers.com. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com.

SAVANNAH PARROT HEAD CLUB 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.

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general hanging out. For people interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. 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. 912-4846710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SAVANNAH VEGGIES AND VEGANS Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events.

Mondays.

SPIES AND MYSTERIES BOOK CLUB A book club for readers who love thrillers, spy novels, and mysteries. We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm. None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

912-925-8305. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. TOASTMASTERS Toastmasters International is an organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, seminars, and contests.

Regardless of your level of comfort with public speaking, you will find a club that is interested in helping you improve your speaking abilities. Free Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m.. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. thincsavannah.com. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 671 Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn. com. vvasav.com.

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

COMEDY

COMEDY NIGHT Join us for an evening of ice cream and laughter...the perfect combo for your Friday night! All ages welcome. Free Fridays, 8-10 p.m.

ODD LOT IMPROV An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” $5 Mondays, 8 p.m. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. ODD LOT IMPROV: ON THE SPOT MYSTERIES DINNER THEATRE Odd Lot is teaming up with the brilliant Chefs of Savannah Coffee Roasters to bring you a whole new dining experience.

The always surprising talent of Odd Lot will perform a fully interactive Friday night Murder Mystery while you dine on a delicious three course meal. Seating is at 6:30pm Friday nights. Reservations are strongly recommended. Four actors and three courses all for $40. It’s certain to be a

Salsa Lessons

Learn to dance salsa and bachata, and try it free before you buy it. Call 912-704-8726 to reserve your space and visit salsasavannah.com for more information.

SALSA SAVANNAH LATIN DANCE STUDIO, 408 BULL STREET. night to remember. Great for groups, parties, or anyone who loves a good show. $40 Fridays, 6:30 p.m. justin@oddlot.org. oddlot. org. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

THE ROYAL COMEDY TOUR With Sommore, Earthquake, ArnezJ, Don DC Curry, and Special K. $42-$99 Fri., March 11, 8 p.m. 800-514-3849. savannahcivic. com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

CONCERTS

13TH COLONY SOUND (BARBERSHOP SINGING) “If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!”

Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. CONCERT: JOE ROBINSON Australian guitar virtuoso walks a tightrope between the instrumental music that’s put him in the spotlight and a unique fusion of rock, blues, jazz, and R&B that’s entirely his own. Multi-award winning artist, including “Best New Talent” in Guitar Player magazine 2010 Reader’s Poll. $35 Fri., March 11, 7:30 p.m. randywoodmusic. com. randywoodguitars.com. Randy Wood Guitars (Bloomingdale), 1304 East Hwy. 80.

CONCERT: MOIRA AND MICKY NELLIGAN Moira and her son play a mix of traditional Irish and Southern roots music and some original songs. $20 Sat., March 12, 4 p.m. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist

Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. CONCERT: ALABAMA CHOIR SCHOOL The internationally-acclaimed Alabama Choir School ensemble of 100 voices returns to Skidaway Island after a successful tour of Japan. See http://www. alachoirschool.org/ for more. no admission charge Sun., March 13, 4-5 p.m. 912-5987242. skidawaycommunityconcerts@gmail. com. stpeterssavannah.org. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Road.

DAVID BOWIE TRIBUTE CONCERT W/ CAPSULA Capsula will perform the classic Bowie album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” in its entirety.

Fri., March 11, 11 p.m. trinitychurch1848. org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. JOE CAT $5 Donation Fri., March 11, 8-10 p.m. 912232-4447. https://www.facebook.com/ events/229408097392408/. joecatmusic. com. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. LENTEN MUSICAL OFFERING - ANGELA BLALOCK, SOPRANO Angela Blalock, soprano, will perform sacred arias and songs by Gounod, Fauré, Handel, and more. 30 minute recital is part of this year’s Christ Church Episcopal’s weekly noon-time Lenten Musical Offering series. Free will offering - All are welcome.

The church will remain open until 1pm.

Free Wed., March 9, 12-12:30 p.m. 912-

236-2500. timothy.hall@ccesavannah.org,. christchurchsavannah.org/. Christ Church Episcopal, 28 Bull Street.

LENTEN MUSICAL OFFERING - BENJAMIN BURRELL, PIANO Benjamin Burrell, pianist, will perform works of Chopin, Schubert and Granados as part of Christ Church Episcopal’s weekly noon-time Lenten Musical Offering series.

Freewill Offering - All are welcome. The church will remain open until 1:00 for quiet prayer. Free Wed., March 16, 12-12:30 p.m.

912-236-2500. shephardandassoc@aol. com. christchurchsavannah.org/. Christ Church Episcopal, 28 Bull Street.

PIPE ORGAN DAY: MAJESTIC INSTRUMENTS AND ARCHITECTURAL GEMS Listen to the Noack tracker organ (1987) in a magnificent acoustical setting and tour the Cathedral, one of the most beautiful buildings in Georgia. Organist, Macdowell Fogle, performs a half-hour program. Sponsored by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists. FREE Sat., March 12, 3-3:45 p.m. thall107@aol.com. savannahcathedral.org/. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. East Harris St. PIPE ORGAN DAY: MAJESTIC INSTRUMENTS IN ARCHITECTURAL GEMS Hear “the Cadillac of American Organs,” the vintage 1957 Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ and tour the mid-century modern sanctuary. Organist, Rebecca McClain, performs a half-hour program. Sponsored

by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists. FREE Sat., March 12, 1-1:45 p.m. thall107@aol.com. St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 10 W 31st St. Hear the largest pipe organ in Savannah and tour one of Savannah’s most beautiful houses of worship. Organist, Steven Branyon, performs a half-hour program. Sponsored

by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists. FREE Sat., March 12, 2-2:45 p.m. thall107@aol.com. stjohnssav. org. St. John’s Church, 1 West Macon Street. Crafted in the Czech Republic, the magnificent Rieger-Kloss Organ will be featured, along with the stately grace of this sanctuary’s architecture. Kathryn Van Eck performs a half-hour concert.

Sponsored by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists. Free Sat., March 12, 4-4:45 p.m. thall107@aol.com. Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. PIPE ORGAN DAY: MAJESTIC INSTRUMENTS IN ARCHITECTURAL GEMS Hear the British-built Harrison & Harrison Pipe Organ (1973) and tour the mid-19th c. Greek Revival sanctuary. Organist, Timothy Hall, performs a half-hour concert.

Sponsored by Savannah Chapter, American Guild of Organists. Free Sat., March 12, 5-6 p.m. thall107@aol.com. Christ Church Episcopal, 28 Bull Street.

SAVANNAH SACRED HARP SINGERS The Savannah Sacred Harp Singers present a free community singing event from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, March 12th at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway, Savannah. All are welcome to participate in America’s original roots music. For more information dial

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912-655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp. com. Sat., March 12, 1-4 p.m. Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway.

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 BALLET TONING Always wanted the body of a ballerina?

Well.. YOU CAN! Our class is designed to stretch, tone, and enhance your body to become healthier than ever. Join us and check out the calendar for dates to enroll. (this is apart of our fitness package of 10 classes for $80) $10.00 Mondays, 5 p.m.

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

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

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

ARGENTINE TANGO Wednesdays, 7 p.m. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Lessons Sundays 1:303;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. 912925-7416. 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/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.

BASIC SHAG LESSONS Every Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. BEGINNER’S BELLY DANCE CLASSES Learn basic moves and choreography with local Belly Dancer, Nicole Edge. Class is open to all ages and skill levels. Walk-ins welcome. 15.00 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.

912-596-0889. edgebelly@gmail.com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. 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. 7pm8pm. Private classes and walk ins available.

Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. ongoing. 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com.

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

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

DANCE FOR PEACE A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need.

Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. DANCE NIGHT Salsa Savannah sponsors this dance night.

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Visit salsasavannah.com or call 912-7048726 for updated locations. Fridays, 10 p.m.

Latin Chicks (Waters Ave.), 5205 Waters Avenue. Salsa Savannah sponsors this dance night. Be advised that locations often change. Visit salsasavannah.com or call 912-704-8726 for updated locations.

Thursdays, 10 p.m. Gatsby’s, 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.

DJ GREER DJ Greer spinning some old and new R&B. Happy hour all night long. Fridays, 8 p.m.-2:30 a.m. 828 216 9005. jgoodfellas@ yahoo.com. doublesnightclub.com/.

Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. FREE DANCE THURSDAYS AT LAKE MAYER Lake Mayer is offering free dance and fitness classes for all ages every Thursday, in the Community Center. 9:30 am and 10:30 am is the “Little Movers” class for toddlers. 12:00 pm Lunch Break Fitness.

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

FREE TRIAL SHIMMY CHIC: BELLY DANCE FITNESS Shimmy and Shake with a BRAND NEW dance fitness program that we will start offering in January after the holiday break. Shimmy Chic is a low impact, high cardio workout that is designed to teach beginners and challenge the seasoned dancer. You will learn the true skill of belly dance while getting a great workout.

Our instructor, Kit Dobry, is the only one certified in the Savannah area to teach this great workout! *Yoga mat is required Join us for a FREE trial Thursday, December 17th. FREE Thursdays, 7-8 p.m.. 612-470683. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

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

KIDS HIP HOP AND JAZZ Mondays, 6 p.m. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

KIDS/YOUTH DANCE CLASS Kids Group class on various Ballroom and Latin dances. Multiple teachers. Ages 4-17 currently enrolled in the program. Prepares youth for social and/or competitive dancing. $15/person Saturdays, 10 a.m. 912-3353335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

LABLAST DANCE FITNESS 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 Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

LATIN NITE SALSA DJ Vaina Enventos brings Latin Night to Doubles. Happy hour all night long. NONE Thursdays, 8 p.m.-2:30 a.m. 828 216 9005. jgoodfellas@yahoo.com. doublesnightclub. com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. LINE DANCING Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. MAHOGANY SHADES OF BEAUTY Dance classes - hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step. Modeling and acting classes. All ages/levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. ongoing.

912-272-8329.

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

OLD TIME COUNTRY DANCE Contra dance with live music by Glow in the Dark String Band. All dances called by Joyce or Bob. Casual dress, easy to learn, two left feet accepted, no partner or experience needed. Come early 7:15p for lesson. $8 general / $6 students Sat., March 12, 7:3010:30 p.m. savannahfolk.org. Garden City United Methodist Church, 62 Varnedoe Ave. SALSA LESSONS Learn to dance salsa and bachata, and try it free before you buy it. Call 912-704-8726 to reserve your space and visit salsasavannah. com for more information. ongoing. Salsa Savannah Latin Dance Studio, 408 Bull Street.

SALSA NIGHT Come and shake it to the best latin grooves and bachata the night away in Pooler where it’s cooler. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m. 912988-1052. medi.tavern314@gmail.com.

Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. SALSA! SALSA! SALSA! 0 Thursdays, 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m. 828 216 9005. jgoodfellas@yahoo.com. doublesnightclub. com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH SHAG CLUB Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH SWING CATS--SWING DANCING ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. SIZZLE: DANCE AND CARDIO A class designed to maintain that summer body by dancing and having fun.

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Incorporates dance and cardio to fun, spicy songs. $10 drop in or 10 classes for $80 Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912312-3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

EVENTS

2016 SAINT PATRICK’S DAR RUGBY TOURNAMENT With over 75 rugby teams from across the country and abroad, the Saint Patrick’s Day Ruby Tournament in Savannah is one of the largest ruby tournaments in the country.

March 12-13. rugbysavannah.com. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. AWAKEN WITH CHAKRADANCE™ THURSDAYS Join us for a free-flowing, meditative dance and experience the healing power of Chakradance™. With eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery, Chakradance™ will take you on a spiritual journey, free the energy in your body and open you to a deeper experience of life. No dance experience or prior knowledge of the chakras is necessary.

Limited to 12 participants – email to reserve a spot today! $20 Thursdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m.

912-663-1306. Chakradancer@comcast. net. anahatahealingarts.com/healing-aha/.

Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. PICKBEER AND HYMNS Drink beer while you sing your hymns. A

band will help lead in the singing and lyric sheets will be provided. Singers of all skill levels are invited to drink and sing. Free second Thursday of every month, 8 p.m.

615-364-1571. musiqueconnoisseur@gmail. com. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. CELTIC CROSS CEREMONY Irish Catholics celebrate their heritage with family and friends. Free and open to the public Sun., March 13, 1:30 p.m. savannahsaintpatricksday.com. Emmet Park, End of Bay St. COMMON GROUNDS Common Grounds is a collaboration of the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Wesley Fellowship. We meet on Wednesday nights for open theological discussion on hot button issues. All are welcome regardless of faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey. We are open and affirming of the LGBT community. Order for Compline by candlelight is offered on Sunday nights at 8PM. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/commongroundssavannah.

The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. DRINKS AFTER WORK This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on

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1 Move slowly 5 “Smokey ___ Cafe” 9 “American ___ Warrior” 14 First state to weigh in on presidential candidates 15 Inauguration Day recitation 16 How anchovies are preserved 17 Ink for a fan of ‘60s chess champion Mikhail?

19 Bossa nova relative 20 Photographer Adams 21 Facebook display 23 “I call it!”

26 Crew team need 27 Do a grocery store task 30 Introduction from an Italian guy who doesn’t speak much English?

36 Box score stat 37 Having no experience in 38 “Beat it!”

39 English aristocrat 41 Resulted in 43 Feels under the weather 44 Roman ___ (novel genre) 46 Trees that yield hard wood 48 Dir. from Reno to L.A. 49 Insult your private instructor’s headwear?

51 Monopoly token choice 52 Restroom door word 53 Actress Sedgwick of “The Closer”

55 It’s often served sweetened 60 Buddy who bugs Bert 64 Friar’s Club event 65 Barbecue offering, or what the other three theme answers do?

68 First name in fragrances 69 Musician who feuded with Eminem 70 1960s bluesman Redding 71 Consenting responses 72 Blunt-edged sword 73 Get one’s feet wet

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1 Falafel accompanier 2 Home buyer’s need, usually 3 Mail deliverers at Hogwarts 4 Behind the times 5 Write hastily, with “down” 6 Grain in granola 7 Prince William’s alma mater 8 Yeezy Boost 350, for one 9 Leaf and Pathfinder, for two 10 Where Chad is 11 Coastal Alaskan city 12 Agree (with) 13 “Only ___” (Oingo Boingo song) 18 Even out 22 Got the most votes

24 Jessica of “7th Heaven” 25 Site of a 1976 antiApartheid uprising 27 Sandwich need 28 Calculators with sliding beads 29 Lena Dunham show 31 Dark Lord of the Sith 32 Onslaught 33 From Limerick 34 Mango side, maybe 35 “Good to go!”

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42 Word of affirmation 45 Former MTV personality Daisy 47 Buying binge 50 Blast creator 54 Katniss Everdeen’s projectile 55 “Dirty Dancing” actress Jennifer 56 Actress Byrne 57 “... ‘cause I ___ me spinach, I’m Popeye ...”

58 Mr. Hoggett’s wife, in “Babe” 59 Each, informally 61 1920s leading lady ___ Naldi 62 Abbr. in the footnotes 63 “___ quam videri” (North Carolina motto) 66 Late actor Vigoda (for real) 67 Grain in some whiskey

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Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinksafter-work/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. FREE FAMILY DAYS: BIRTHDAY FAMILY DAY Happy 10th birthday to the Jepson Center!

Learn about architecture and the making of this extraordinary building. Take time to appreciate the beauty of our architecture and explore the nooks and details that make our building unique! Free and open to the public Sat., March 12, 1-4 p.m. telfair. org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. PICKGREENING OF THE FOUNTAIN Annual kick-off to Saint Patrick’s Day celebration events. Hosted by Savannah Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee at Forsyth Park main fountain. Free Fri., March 11, noon. savannahsaintpatricksday.com.

Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. GUIDED TOURS OF THE LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. Tours are Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and must be scheduled. To schedule a tour, contact Megan Chandler at 912-525-5029 or mchandle@lucastheatre.com. ongoing.

912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. IRISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION PARADE Tybee Island is going green with a fun, family-friendly parade to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The parade will begin at City Hall and proceed down Butler Avenue to Tybrisa Street and include imaginative floats, marching and musical bands, and a New York bagpipe unit. Families are encouraged to dress in green and come out and celebrate. Free and open to the public Sat., March 12, 3 p.m. Tybee Island, Tybee Island.

PICKIRISH HERITAGE WALKING TOURS These tours explore historic Savannah and the surrounding squares, focusing on our city’s Irish heritage. The tours are approximately a mile and a half long and will begin at Massie Heritage Center and end at Emmet Park. $15 Tue., March 15, 5 p.m. 912-395-5070. massieschool.com/.

Massie Heritage Center, 207 East Gordon St. JASPER GREEN CEREMONY Members of the Irish community honor our military. Free and open to the public Wed., March 16, 5 p.m. savannahsaintpatricksday. com. savannahga.gov/cityweb/p&tweb.nsf /02e67f6f5dc1d3e585256c2f0071940a/ b3c6db5e9ee4c77f852571f7002c8d61?Op enDocument. Madison Square, West Harris Street.

LANDINGS LANDLOVERS FLEA MARKET Annual flea market returns to provide great finds. Sat., March 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. messiahsk.com. Messiah Lutheran Church, 50 1 Westridge Road (The Landings). Giant

Flea Market to benefit local charities and scholarships. Bargains Galore.

Furniture and rugs, home treasures, sports equipment, luggage, fashion accessories, small appliances, artwork and toys.

Free admission and Free parking Sat., March 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 912-335-1717. landingslandlovers.com. Skidaway Island, Diamond Causeway.

LECTURE: LANDMARK: A DECADE OF COLLECTION AT THE JEPSON CENTER Join Telfair’s team of curators and special guests as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Jepson Center with this fast-paced presentation, spotlighting the “greatest hits” of the museum’s collection acquired over the past decade and special moments from Jepson history. From sparkling silver, to contemporary prints, to stunning 19th century paintings, this PechaKucha-style presentation gives each participant five minutes to highlight some of their favorite pieces and recollections that formed the foundation of this landmark museum. Come dreaded in Jepson Centerinspired attire! After the lecture, enjoy treats and other festivities in the atrium!!

Members Free/ non-members $12 Thu., March 10, 6-9 p.m. telfair.org/jepson/.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. MEET AND GREET The Keep Chatham Beautiful Board of Directors and members would like invite our friends and any other interested persons to its first informal meet and greet.

Come learn how you can help us Keep Chatham Beautiful! March 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. keepchathambeautiful2gmail.com. https:// facebook.com/events/198865160472522/. theflorencesavannah.com. The Florence, 1 B West Victory Drive.

MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP DINNER AND MEETING Membership meeting with dinner and speaker. Navy League supports our Sea Services and their families. You do not have to have been in any of the military services to join. For further information contact Jeff Zureick at 912 450 0521 $22.00 third Tuesday of every month & 5:45-8:15 p.m.. 912 450 0521. piwi@hargray.com. savannahnavyleague.us. Savannah Navy League, 17 lake heron ct west.

MOVIE AND POTLUCK NIGHT Join Savannah Yoga Center in kicking off our 13th Anniversary Weekend with a free movie and vegetarian potluck. SYC’s Joe Basler & Mary McCormick are hosting our vegetarian & vegan Satsang and Potluck.

Satsang is a Sanskrit word that roughly translates to a gathering of people who want to listen to and discuss truth. Please bring a clearly labeled vegetarian or vegan dish to share and your own reusable plate, fork, cup, and napkin. Free Sat., March 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m. https://facebook.com/ events/221494318194192/. savannahyoga. com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. NUBARTER BREAKFAST SEMINAR Meet Unforgettable Bakery’s owner, Belinda Baptiste, and enjoy a delicious breakfast as you learn about NuBarter, including how to enter transactions, track sales, read your monthly statement, and conduct a search on the marketplace. Please RSVP.

Free; RSVP required Thu., March 10, 8-10 a.m. 912-631-6808. gary@nubarter.com. unforgettablebakery.com/. Unforgettable Bakery & Deli, 238 Eisenhower Dr. OPEN LEVEL MASTER CLASS W/ ANDREA BOYD COHEN Join us as we welcome Andrea back to Savannah! Andrea is the co-director of Satsang Yoga Charleston, is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, and has been an integral part of the renowed Jivamukti teacher training for many years - mentoring hundreds of trainees and teaching all over the world. Often described as an earnest and compassionate teacher, Andrea’s classes are challenging, fun, musical, creative, and disciplined - with teachings grounded in ancient scripture and an emphasis on deep and equal breathing. $22 early bird / $25 after March 4th Wed., March 9, 6:15-8 p.m. 912-5084337. be@revolutionyogastudio.com. revolutionyogastudio.com/workshops.

Revolution Yoga Studio, 204 West Victory Drive.

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

PARENTS REDUCING INJURIES AND DRIVER ERROR COURSE The free, two-hour driver education program is designed to help teens ages 14, 15, and 16 – along with their parents and guardians – to learn more about driving behaviors and laws. The next class will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the Savannah-Chatham Police Training Center located at 3401 Edwin Street in Savannah.

Registration by a teen and at least one parent or guardian is required. To register, please call 912-644-5816. Thu., March 10.

Professional Development Center, 3401 Edwin Street.

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

PICKSAVANNAH ART WALK An inclusive and inspiring Art Walk of our Historic Downtown. The Savannah Art Walk includes twenty exceptional Galleries, as well as collaborative endeavors with Andaz and Bohemian Riverfront Hotel to offer wine pours a gratis for guests.

Free second Saturday of every month, 4-8 p.m.. 912-507-7860. savartwalk@gmail. com. SavannahArtWalk.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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

Reservations encouraged by calling 912349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore. com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. SHIRE OF FORTH CASTLE FIGHTER PRACTICE

Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org.

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

912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com.

Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. ST. PATRICK’S DAY PAGEANT Win a beautiful, huge crown and banner and reign supreme as Miss St. Patrick’s Day. Ride in the world-famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah. Registration is still open for ladies age 13-26. Free Sat., March 12, 7 p.m. savcds.org. Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Dr. PICKST. PRACTICE DAY BAR CRAWL It happens every year, you plan to party all day and all night long, but you conk out sometime in the afternoon. “St. Practice Day” is the perfect way to build your tolerance and be in tip-top shape for the big day while enjoying beautiful, historic, Savannah. Gather your friends, family, and co-workers and join us for this magical celebration. This bar crawl has everything you want; drink specials, free swag, leprechauns, a chance to earn a free t-shirt, and an after party. For full event details, “like” Stafford Promotions on Facebook. $15 adv/$20 day-of Sat., March 12, 4-11 p.m. 912-660-9001. Brian@ StaffordPromotions.com. https://facebook. com/events/1446626128972442/. innatmcdonoughs.com/restaurant-lounge/.

McDonough’s, 21 East Mcdonough St. TEA AT MRS. DAVENPORT’S Learn about tea traditions and experience an early 19th century tea in the historic atmosphere of the Davenport House Museum. Patrons will tour areas of the historic home where tea service took place and will participate in an afternoon tea with costumed interpreters. The performance requires that guests be able to walk up and down stairs. 60 to 75 minutes. $18 plus tax Thursdays, Fridays, 5 p.m.. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St. UNDER THE RAINBOW On Thursday nights come out to the coolest spot in Pooler for Under The Rainbow. Every week we will host a different event that will cater to those that play over, around and under the rainbow. Thursdays, 8-11 p.m.

912-988-1052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. VICTORY GARDENS PLANT SALE Get your gardens started right this spring! Come out to the Victory Gardens Greenhouse for: vegetable and herb seedlings, fruit trees, heirloom seeds, seed potatoes, organic fertilizer, and pre-order Easter chicks! We’ll be brewing coffee and answering questions every Saturday Morning. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.. 912-

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FESTIVALS

IRISH JAMBOREE The First Annual Irish Jamboree. Grab a pint from the concession stand and settle in for some rowdy Irish craic featuring In For A Penny and Seldom Sober. $15 Fri., March 11, 8 p.m. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn.

SAVANNAH STOPOVER The popular festival returns for its sixth year. March 10-12. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SHAMROCK FESTIVAL Enjoy oysters, hot dogs, beer, live music

by Christy Alan Band, bingo, silent auction, and more at this First City Network event. $25, free for children 12 and under Sun., March 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-236-2489. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

TARA FEIS IRISH CELEBRATION The family-friendly feis will be a feast for the eyes, ears and palate with live performances, food, art activities, crafts and games hosted with Irish ceremony, tradition and hospitality. Featuring Ciaran Sheehan (Phantom of the Opera) and Cathy Maguire (Ireland in Song) under the direction of Gabriel Donohue. Free and open to the public Sat., March 12, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Emmet Park, End of Bay St.

HEALTH

ARMSTRONG PRESCRIPTION DRUG DROP-OFF Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus.

Open to the public 24 hours/day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. ongoing. 912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. FREE HEARING AND SPEECH SCREENING Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-3554601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. FREE HEARING SCREENINGS The Savannah Speech and Hearing Center offers free hearing screenings every Thursday from 9-11 a.m. Children ages three years old to adults of all ages are screened on a first-come, first-serve basis by a trained audiology assistant. If necessary, a full audiological evaluation will be recommended. Free and open to the public Thursdays, 9-11 a.m. 912355-4601. speechandhearingsav.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. FREE HIV TESTING AT CHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed. Test results in 20

minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. ongoing. 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. HEALTH CARE FOR UNINSURED PEOPLE Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.Fri., 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or appointment. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. HYPNOSIS, GUIDED IMAGERY AND RELAXATION THERAPY Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

KNOW YOUR WATER What everyone ought to know about our drinking water (bottled, tap, distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered, alkaline and spring.) Are you paying thousands of money for water that is making you sick? Find out what water is best for your body. FREE Tuesdays, 7-8:15 p.m. 703-989-6995. oggisavannah@gmail. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. LA LECHE LEAGUE OF SAVANNAH A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. ongoing. 912-8979544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

LABOR AND DELIVERY TOUR Want to take a look around before the big day? Register for a tour of our labor and delivery areas. The tour is held once a month and fills up quickly, so please register early. Call 912-350-BORN (2676). second Sunday of every month. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. LIVE TO BE 100 AND BEYOND Discover the secrets of the longest living population. Find out how you can adopt their lifestyle to give yourself a longer and better quality of life. Tue., March 15, 6-7:45 p.m. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. LIVING SMART FITNESS CLUB An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm-7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:30-7:00 Zumba

at St. Joseph’s Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) ongoing. 912-447-6605.

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

Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoing. 800-2647154.

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH CLASS This course gives an overview of reproductive anatomy and physiology and explains the process of labor and delivery in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The four-week course includes a tour of the labor and delivery unit. This class is popular, so please register early $75 per couple Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. THE SAVANNAH 7-DAY DIABETES REPAIR If you are ready to take control of your life and health, call today, enroll in this fun but intensive seven week program to heal your body of diabetes. You will learn how changing can heal. You can reverse diabetes by following a new protocol, even if you have been diabetic for years.

Includes over a year of follow-up support. $450 Thursdays, Saturdays. 912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. TEST TOGETHER The Coastal Health District is observing National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day with “Test Together,” a free day of HIV testing that encourages women to come to the Chatham County Health Department on Eisenhower drive, with a friend, and get tested for HIV. Thu., March 10, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 912-353-3276. diana. devore@dph.ga.gov. Chatham County Health Department, 1602 Drayton St.

LGBT

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

Mondays. 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork.

org.

GAY AA MEETING True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. ongoing.

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

SAVANNAH PRIDE, INC. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBTQI community in the South.

Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. PO Box 6044, Savannah, GA 31414. 501c nonprofit. ongoing. info@savannahpride.com. savannahpride.com.

STAND OUT YOUTH A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-288-1034. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth. org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street.

WHAT MAKES A FAMILY A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing. 912-352-2611.

LITERARY EVENTS

CIRCLE OF SISTER/BROTHERHOOD BOOK CLUB Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. sjchs. org/body.cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. HARRISON SCOTT KEY READING AND SIGNING Harrison Scott Key, author of “The World’s Largest Man,” and his SCAD humor students will read recent work. If you enjoy laughing, then come support these young humorists as they share uncomfortably awkward truths about themselves and the world around them. Some adult situations, including potentially harmful references to the presidential election.

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books@thebookladybookstore.com. thebookladybookstore.com/. The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. PICKLECTURE: CULTURAL CANNIBALS OR TWENTIETH CENTURY HEROES? This lecture by Dr. June Hopkins will explore how middle-class, educated women entered into the public sphere using the settlement house as a gateway institution. Although the emphasis was on Americanizing their immigrant neighbors, Hopkins will discuss how these women found a political voice and influenced social policies. Part of Armstrong’s Moveable Feast lecture series.

Free Thu., March 10, 6 p.m. massieschool. com/. Massie Heritage Center, 207 East

Gordon St. TEA TIME AT OLA’S (BOOK CLUB) A book discussion group that meets the 4th Tuesday, 1pm. Bring a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it. Treats to share are always welcomed. Tea is provided. Call for info. ongoing. 912-232-5488. liveoakpl. org/. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 East Bay St.

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL

BAND OF SISTERS PRAYER GROUP All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is

like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ georgia.

BEREAN SPRING BREAK During this week long event there will be arts and crafts, a mission’s activity where they deliver their crafts to nursing homes around Savannah, Breakout sessions to continue education and awareness of topics that relate to them, and a fun day activity on Friday. Lunch is provided. For more information and registration please contact Mrs. Williams at Coywilliams@bellsouth. net 912.272.1812 or Rev. Simmons at 912.631.6322 Free Mon., March 14, 9 a.m.-2

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella *The Death of Ivan Ilych.* The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days. The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst, and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Quoting poet W. H. Auden, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: argument-makers and beautymakers. I think that’s an interesting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beauty-maker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at least temporarily, a *great* beautymaker. One more thing: As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makers as your companions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

To have any hope of becoming an expert in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills -- the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six and a half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you *not* to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.

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“I sit before flowers, hoping they will train me in the art of opening up,” says poet Shane Koyczan. “I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go.” I recommend his strategy to you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Put yourself in the presence of natural forces that will inspire you to do what you need to do. Seek the companionship of people and animals whose wisdom and style you want to absorb. Be sufficiently humble to learn from the whole wide world through the art of imitation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

The marathon is a long-distance footrace with an official length of over 26 miles. Adults who are physically fit and

p.m. 912.631.6322. Coywilliams@bellsouth. net. visitsavannah.com. Visit Savannah, 101 E. Bay St. BUDDHIST MEDITATION All ages, lineages, and newcomers welcome. Our schedule is: Tuesdays 6-7:30 PM- for 30 minutes mediation followed by study group, $10. Wednesdays 6-7:30 PM- one hour of gentle yoga followed by 30 minutes of guided meditation, $15. Sundays 9-10:30 AM- Mediation, dharma talk and tea, $10. Reiki healing is offered by appointment.

Text Rev. Cindy Beach at (912) 429-7265 for more info or visit savannahzencenter.com or find us on Facebook. Located atLocated at 640 E 40th St and Reynolds. $10-$15

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well-trained can finish the course in five hours. But I want to call your attention to a much longer running event: the Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race. It begins every June in Queens, a borough of New York, and lasts until August. Those who participate do 3,100 miles’ worth of laps around a single city block, or about 100 laps per day.

I think that this is an apt metaphor for the work you now have ahead of you. You must cover a lot of ground as you accomplish a big project, but without traveling far and wide. Your task is to be dogged and persistent as you do a little at a time, never risking exhaustion, always pacing yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“Look at yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury.

“Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years.

Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!

In old Vietnamese folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol. They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures. But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult.

In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo -- for all of the above reasons. Your task is to overcome the boring stories and messages so as to accomplish your lively transformations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“Your anger is a gift.” So proclaims musician and activist Zack de la Rocha, singer in the band Rage Against the Machine. That statement is true for him on at least two levels. His fury about the systemic corruption that infects American politics has roused him to create many successful songs and enabled him to earn a very good living. I don’t think anger is always a gift for all of us, however. Too often, especially when it’s motivated by petty issues, it’s a self-indulgent waste of energy that can literally make us sick. Having said that, I do suspect that your anger in the coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, clarifying, healthy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence of her declaration, Scorpio.

You may generate an unprecedented number of novel emotions -- complex flutters and flows and gyrations that have never before been experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I think it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate them as being unique -- that you refrain from comparing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest

According to a report in the journal *Science,* most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in.

We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now.

One of the legal financial scams that shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared. It was sold widely, even though noted economist Ha-Joon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it. In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that -- with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“I wish I knew what I desire,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope. The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever -- EVER! -- for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for. Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart, and your soul want more than anything else in this life.

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ongoing. The Savannah Zen Center, 640 E. 40th St. CATHOLIC SINGLES A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service.

Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@ diosav.org. diosav.org/familylife-singles.

CELTIC CROSS MASS Celebrate the Celtic Cross and Irish heritage. Free Sun., March 13, 11:30 a.m. savannahcathedral.org/. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. East Harris St. GRATITUDE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARES Join Joanne Morton and others on Wednesdays for a weekly gathering of positive energy. All are welcome. Free hugs. View calendar for the square of the week. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-6764280. magicpassionlove.com/savannahgratitude/. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

GUIDED SILENT PRAYER Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org.

MARITIME BETHEL “Sundays on Thursdays” worship at the Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220-2976.

The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road.

A NEW CHURCH IN THE CITY, FOR THE CITY Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Courses are now being offered at the new Savannah Extension of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Full course loads for both Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees will be offered. Apply now at www.nobts. edu to start classes this winter. ongoing.

912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com.

Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton Street.

READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

SAVANNAH FRIENDS MEETING (QUAKERS) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info.

All are welcome. ongoing. 636-2331772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH REIKI SHARE During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah.

Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street.

SENIOR BANQUET 2016 Reverend Dr. Earnest C. Williams, Sr. along with St. Peters African Methodist Episcopal Church cordially invites you to join them for their 2016 Senior Banquet. The event will take place at Carey Hilliard’s Restaurant Banquet Hall. Tickets are $25 per person (Adults and Children price is the same) and the dress code is church attire. Sat., March 12, 6 p.m. Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. SERVICE OF COMPLINE Enter the stillness of another age. Gregorian Chant sung by candlelight at 9:00-9:30 p.m. every Sunday night by the Complne Choir of Christ Church Anglican. Come, say good nigh to God. All are welcome. ongoing.

Christ Church Anglican, 37th and Bull.

SOUTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” ongoing.

SUNDAYS ON THURSDAYS WORSHIP SERVICE Thursdays. 912-826-0206. maritimebethelatsavannah.org. The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road.

TAIZE SERVICE The special worship gatherings start on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10, and will be about 40 minutes long. Attendees will focus on silence, breathing, healing, prayer and reflection. The services will also feature soulful, musical chants and soothing visuals. Wednesdays.. 912-233-4351. asburymemorial.org. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. TAPESTRY CHURCH A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here.

From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at Habersham YMCA.

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THE GHOST DOG DIARIES

Let rational minds and sleeping dogs lie in the morning.

When Pup awoke today, her leg had psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com ballooned into a furry little tree stump. www.yourpalerin.com So here I sit, in these wee morning hours, doing my best to stay calm until the vet’s AS I sit on the sofa, curled up next to my office opens. sleeping dog Pup, I realize that our ratioIn the course of the last twenty minnal minds have a way of tricking us into utes or so, I’ve realized that I haven’t lost believing things that are simply untrue. my mind and my panic didn’t percolate in Just yesterday, mine convinced me I’d a vacuum. I’ve been through this before, gone round the bend. only not with Pup but with PJ. It was “porch time” — the daily ritual One September morning back in 2012, where everyone congregates with our my little dog PJ woke up in agonizing, pets on our 80 year-old neighbors’ front inexplicable pain that dominated her stoop for dog treats and cocktails, in entire body. Whenever I touched her, exactly that order. Whenever Mama she would shriek such loud, high pitched Ruth calls, “Come get some cheesy squeals that her screams pinched my weezy!” the animals accompany her skin, as if I were a glass about to shatter. into the house for a round of goodies and I brought PJ to the vet, fully expectdogua stored in an old Sunny D bottle, ing to put her down, but the doctor sent giving it the faintest splash of citrus us home with a dozen or so syringes of flavor. anti-inflamatories and opiates instead.

Yesterday when “cheesy weezy” was She was unable determine the source of announced, Pup refused to move. I PJ’s suffering, but had hoped to contain panicked just a little, realizing that forher pain. Twenty-four excruciating hours saken snacks are the inciting incident and several unsuccessful injections later, of almost every event in the course of we returned to the vet and said our final human history that’s ever culminated in goodbyes. a mad dash to the vet. My logical mind As much as her loss devastates me, I overcompensated by analyzing all the really have no cause to complain. This possible outcomes and concluding my column, my psychic practice and all the fears were a result of being batshit crazy. blessings they’ve bestowed are a direct But my anxiety had already taken result of PJ making her presence known hold. By now, Pup was not only limping, in the hours and days following her death. she was yelping in pain and snapping at PJ’s miracle notwithstanding, the grief anyone who tried to examine her dog of losing both my baby and my best friend knuckles. Nothing could assuage my in one cruel swoop instilled in me a subfraying nerves, not even when Trudy liminal panic button that I didn’t realize laughed at me for using the term “dog was there until Pup tripped it yesterday. knuckles.”

Even when it was pushed, my rational Pup has an inordinately high threshmind continued denying its existence, old for pain. I’ve watched her take a tumdismissing my reaction as overly emoble from a dog park picnic table and land tional and quite possibly insane. head first CRACK on the concrete below, After all, who wants to be reminded only to bounce away like Plastic Man. that we live in an unpredictable world For her to be this vocal, the pain had to where those we love could be taken away be pretty phenomenal. from us at any moment without any My neighbors did their best to talk notice or explanation. The pain of such me down from ledge, but the more I an acknowledgement is too much to bear. obsessed, the more irrational I felt.

It’s much more logical to declare myself Thank goodness for my mom —a Healcrazy. ing Touch minister and self-taught Master Worrier— who walked me through the the intake process she uses with her clients. No, the leg wasn’t swollen. Yes, SAV HAPPS it was radiating heat. Mom sent some healing energy to Pup, calculated that if Or tExt “Savannah” tO 77948 the pain was superficial it should resolve Savannah’S only EvEnt & itself in the next day or so and instructed EntErtainmEnt GuidE me to call the vet if the limb was swollen

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THURSDAY, MARCH 10TH INSIDE 9:30 P.M. CHROME PONY 10:30 P.M. CHIEF SCOUT 11:30 P.M. T. HARDY MORRIS

FRIDAY, MARCH 11TH ON THE PATIO! 5 P.M. MOTEL RADIO 6 P.M. SYDNEY ELOISE & THE PALMS 7 P.M. TEDO STONE INSIDE 10 P.M. MUUY BIIEN 11 P.M. WET SOCKS 12 A.M. HONDURAS

SATURDAY, MARCH 12TH ON THE PATIO! 2 P.M. CURBDOGS 3 P.M. GRAND VAPIDS 4 P.M. DEAR TRACKS 5 P.M. ANCIENT WARFARE INSIDE 6 P.M. THE STARGAZER LILIES 7 P.M. HOSPITAL SHIPS 8 P.M. DES ARK 11 P.M. JAM NIGHT WITH THE HIP ABDUCTION

KITCHEN OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT. LATE NIGHT PATIO GRILL TILL CLOSE.