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The Price is Right WED 3.22

The world famous daytime game show will give audience members a chance to “Come on Down” to win. Prizes may include appliances, vacations and possibly a brand new car.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

WEDNESDAY 3.22 Birthday Tribute to William Shatner Exact title remains a secret until showtime, but here’s a clue: it’s the original director’s cut of a shocking movie that was years ahead of its time. Before the film, cool Shatner-related prizes will be raffled off.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8

The Price is Right

The world famous daytime game show will give audience members a chance to ‘Come on Down’ to win.

7:30 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

THURSDAY 3.23 Film: Singin’ in the Rain

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor star.

7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne $10

Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens

SMF: The Avett Brothers THU 3.23 & FRI 3.24

Kicking off the Savannah Music Festival with a two-night stand is this celebrated North Carolina folk-rock band led by brothers Scott and Seth.

8 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $50-$120 savannahmusicfestival.org

A-Town Get Down

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Headlines by Cracker this year, this art & music festival celebrates creative expression and spirit as exemplified by the life of Alex Townsend. A-Town features a variety of local and regional musical and visual artists. The festival is adding workshops in songwriting, urban art, performance, art labs, Children’s Section with DIY art lab & more. begins at noon Indian Street Free before 5 p.m., general admission $35 after

The Tour offers a rare opportunity to appreciate the beautiful architecture, interiors, and gardens of Savannah’s Historic Landmark District and Historic Ardsley Park. Visit private homes not usually open to the public and walk down moss draped, oak-covered streets during colorful springtime in Savannah.

March 23-26 Downtown Savannah. savannahtourofhomes.org

SMF Highlight: Arias and Encores

In SMF’s third consecutive year of collaborations with the Savannah VOICE Festival (SVF), director Maria Zouves joins renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes in skillfully curating a two-night run of selections from opera, musical theatre and song performed by acclaimed and rising stars of the Milnes VOICE programs.

8 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $52 savannahmusicfestival.org

Tara McPherson Pop Up

Artist Tara McPherson hosts a pop-up shop in Sulfur Studios with The Hidden Hand Society, Shaun Beaudry, and Tittybats.

5 p.m.

Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

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Lecture: The Madness of Mary Telfair

A-Town Get Down

Citing the contest of Mary Telfair’s will by disgruntled nephews, Dr. Felicity Turner will examine how gendered assumptions informed late 19th-century medical and legal understandings of insanity. noon Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St.

Quiet Riot

Heavy metal legends perform in Savannah.

8 p.m.

The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $25

An art and music festival celebrating creative expression and spirit as exemplified by the life of Alex Townsend. A-Town features a variety of local and regional musical and visual artists. The festival is adding workshops in songwriting, urban art, performance, art labs, Children’s Section with DIY art lab and more.

Begins at noon Indian Street Free until 5 p.m.; $35 after

The Charlie Fog Band Presents the Grateful Dead

The Charlie Fog Band will do a full Grateful Dead theater show starting at 7 SMF Highlight: Brahms vs. p.m., complete with a psychedelic light Tchaikovsky show, and a three-hour performance In this extraordinary, original producpaying tribute to Jerry Garcia and one tion conceived by violinist Daniel Hope, of the greatest rock n’roll band of a multimedia elements will build a backdrop generation. to the performance of masterworks by the 7 p.m. two composers. With actors portraying Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Tchaikovsky and Brahms on either side of $13 advance, $15 door the stage, this concert will illuminate tales Feiler Park Community Garden Work of their rivalry.

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Part of Savannah Urban Garden Alliance’s Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. (SUGA) 4th Saturday Garden Work Days. $52-$65 9 a.m. savannahmusicfestival.org Feiler Park Community Garden, 601 W. 57th This double bill dance party is part of the Lafayette invasion of opening weekend.

Feufollet is Americana at its finest: reverential but wholly nonconformist. Fourtime Grammy-nominated Pine Leaf Boys have made a name for presenting their own inimitable brand of Louisiana music with youthful exuberance.

5:30 & 8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $35 savannahmusicfestival.org

Southern Women’s Show

Returning for its 14th annual year, the s show features an exciting weekend full of one-of-a-kind shopping, fashion shows, s cooking demonstrations, health screenings, DIY workshops, makeovers and so much more. Pretty Little Liars star Keegan Allen will make an appearance.

March 24-26 Trade & Convention Ctr, 1 International Dr. southernwomensshow.com

Theatre: 9 to 5

Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents 9 to 5: The Musical, based on the 1980 movie of the same name with music and lyrics by the legendary Dolly Parton.

8 p.m.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St. $25

Film: Uncommon Grace

This feature length documentary on Flannery O’Connor traces the people and events that would help shape her remarkable career, including her upbringing in the class-conscious South of the 1930s and her battle with lupus, which would ultimately take her life at age 39.

3 p.m.

Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. Free

SMF Spotlight: DakhaBrakha: Dovzhenko’s Earth

One of the most important films of the Soviet era, Earth (1930) is a passionate tribute to the Ukrainian countryside, to nature and to the process of collectivization, also depicting the hostility of Kulak landowners in Ukraine. Self-described as an “ethno-chaos” quartet, Kiev, Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha creates an almost otherworldly sound rooted in Ukrainian culture but incorporating Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation.

3 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $35 savannahmusicfestival.org

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SMF Highlight: Cajun Dance Party: Feufollet, Pine Leaf Boys

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Nathan Stanley

Grandson of the late Icon and Grammy Award Winning artist Dr. Ralph Stanley,.

7 p.m.

Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $20

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Theatre: 9 to 5

Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents 9 to 5: The Musical, based on the 1980 movie of the same name with music and lyrics by the legendary Dolly Parton.

8 p.m.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St. $25

SUNDAY 3.26 Choral Evensong of Refreshment Sunday in Lent

Prelude music by Kyle Balentine begins at 5:05 p.m., and the Sung Service beings at 5:30. A reception at the Green-Meldrim house follows.

5 p.m.

St. John’s Church, 1 West Macon Street.

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This annual celebration of acclaimed author and Savannah native Flannery O’Connor’s birthday will offer free family fun, live music, a wacky parade, and more. Attendees are invited to walk in the parade, bring handmade signs and sing along. Music for the parade will be played by the Sweet Thunder Strolling Band.

Costumes inspired by Flannery O’Connor are encouraged but optional.

3 p.m.

Lafayette Square, Abercorn and East Macon Streets.

SMF Highlight: BalletCollective

SMF hosts the southern debut of the dynamic company BalletCollective with live music from Hotel Elefant.

2 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $37-$67 savannahmusicfestival.org

Theatre: 9 to 5

Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents 9 to 5: The Musical, based on the 1980 movie of the same name.

3 p.m.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St. $25

MONDAY 3.27 Odd Lot Improv

An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

8 p.m.

Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 W Liberty St $10

SMF Highlight: Haitian Roots: Chouk Bwa Libète and Leyla McCalla ft.

Dom Flemons US debut of the extraordinary Haitian band with special guests.

7 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $35 savannahmusicfestival.org

TUESDAY 3.28 SMF Highlight: Stewart Goodyear: Beethoven Sonatathon

Praised as a phenomenon by the Los Angeles Times, Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concerto soloist, chamber musician, recitalist and composer.

10 a.m., 3 & 8 p.m.

Trinity UMC, 225 West President St. $35 savannahmusicfestival.org

Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey

A poetry and music open mic with emphasis on sharing new work. fourth Tuesday of every month, 8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

WEDNESDAY 3.29 Memorial Tribute to Robert Culp

The PFS will present one of his leastknown films. The exact title is a secret until showtime, but it is a clever, perplexing murder mystery.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8

SMF Highlight: Jazz Organ Summit: Joey DeFrancesco and the People, Ike Stubblefield Trio The sound and versatility of the Hammond B-3 organ and Leslie tone cabinet are showcased.

5:30 & 8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. $40 savannahmusicfestival.org

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Tony Thomas and his many enablers

BY JIM MOREKIS

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THE CITY EMPLOYEES who worked overtime to clean up the overwhelming mess of the raucous St. Patrick’s Day celebration all deserve medals as far as I’m concerned.

Unfortunately, these hard-working public servants were represented on Savannah’s biggest day in part by a City Alderman who was publicly intoxicated while carrying out duties of his office.

As everyone has seen by now, Sixth District Alderman Tony Thomas was photographed in a state of heavy inebriation in the lobby of the DeSoto Hilton on St. Patrick’s Day, literally falling out of his chair and spilling his cocktail on the polished marble floor.

He was wearing a green jacket and the regalia of an elected official and public servant while representing the City on the taxpayer-funded City Council float.

Thomas ended up having to be escorted — at the front of the City parade delegation!

— because he was too much of a liability to be on the float itself.

Perhaps symbolically, a mostly inert Thomas was helped off the floor by an outof-town police officer or firefighter here to walk in the parade.

Here’s what that uniformed public servant will tell his friends, family, and colleagues back home in New York or Chicago or wherever: In Savannah even City Council members get blasted out of their minds on St. Patrick’s Day, and no one seems to care. They do it right out in the open.

Thomas later apologized for his state via Facebook, but then again his behavior has been the fodder for social media, and this column, for years.

It appears that Tony Thomas needs to seek professional help.

I hope this very shaming incident can serve as a catalyst to get the help he needs.

But the more difficult question is: Who is responsible for enabling the behavior of Tony Thomas?

The rest of City Council, which after many similar incidents still refuses to censure him publicly? Thus ensuring that Thomas continues to undermine not only Council’s own credibility, but that of hardworking City employees as well?

How about the local District Attorney, who impaneled a grand jury to investigate claims which were already known to be outside the statute of limitations? Thus ensuring that nothing came of said claims?

How about Savannah itself, for making millions of dollars a year encouraging excessive alcohol consumption on St. Patrick’s Day, and indeed all year-round?

We sell T-shirts that say: “I Got River Faced On Shit Street.”

What did you expect would happen?

About the same time the incriminating photos of Thomas began making the rounds on social media, I checked out the post-parade scene at Ellis Square, packed with a huge but peaceful crowd.

In a group of other people in various

One of the widely shared social media photos of Tony Thomas in the DeSoto lobby, first seen via The Stone Stairs of Death

stages of drunken immobilization, one young woman rolled over, got on all fours, and vomited heavily, in front of everyone.

People walked by like it was nothing.

She simply rolled back over and passed out again, steaming pile of vomit inches from her face.

Fifty feet from her in the square, a group of young men with unleashed dogs were smoking joints unmolested as police foot patrols walked just yards away, looking right at them.

A few squares away, in Chippewa and Lafayette, the huge piles of litter left behind were jaw-dropping even by St. Patrick’s Day standards. And these are the “well-heeled” squares, generally staked out and claimed by local families.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m thankful police used common sense and discretion and didn’t escalate what was a mostly peaceful St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah.

Kudos to SCMPD and other law enforcement agencies for a job well done.

So if you’re mad about Tony Thomas doing the same thing tens of thousands of others did on St. Patrick’s Day, except while representing taxpayers, I’m right there with you. He should be held to a higher standard, no doubt about it.

But please, just spare me the moralistic hypocrisy.

Speaking of hypocrisy, let’s switch locales. Let’s take a trip to Tybee Island.

Next month, a similarly raucous annual event takes place there, Orange Crush.

Just like St. Patrick’s Day, people at Orange Crush will get drunk and high.

People at Orange Crush will litter. People at Orange Crush will misbehave.

But while Savannah sells St. Patrick’s Day hard, and looks the other way at just about anything that happens– including elected officials literally falling down on the job — Tybee does its best every year to stigmatize Orange Crush.

As videos clearly indicate, there is no way that there is more trash produced at Orange Crush than at St. Patrick’s Day. As arrest records clearly indicate, there is no way that more crimes are committed at Orange Crush than on St. Patrick’s Day. Yet which event is considered “good oldfashioned fun,” and which is considered a dangerous, drunken menace to society?

The difference of course is that Orange Crush is an overwhelmingly African American event, the St. Patrick’s Day celebration predominantly white.

One of my epiphanies this year came when a group of green-clad partiers, drinks in hand, stumbled out into the middle of traffic, staring down drivers who had to slam on brakes.

It occurred to me that if those partiers had been African American, police would be called. Some people would hysterically demand to “call out the National Guard.”

There would even be calls to shut the whole thing down — indeed as is the case on Tybee every year.

But on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s “just folks” having “good clean fun.”

So let’s not kid ourselves about what we’re really talking about here. If you want a discussion, let’s make it a real one.

If you live in the Sixth District, which I don’t, perhaps you can vote Thomas out at your next opportunity.

Or maybe you’ve decided, as many of his constituents have, that his service to the district outweighs his public persona.

Until then, the onus is on other members of City Council to expect more from their colleagues, and do something about it — even if Thomas won’t. CS

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MAR 22-28, 2017

NEWS & OPINION THE (CIVIL) SOCIETY COLUMN

This rendering by Jimmy Darling shows the transformation of the formerly abandoned 24,00 square foot area under the bridge.

The urban planning vision behind A-Town Get Down

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavannah.com

MAR 22-28, 2017

WHEN you’re an outlier thinking outlaw thoughts, sometimes it feels like your only friend is the city you live in. Sure, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were singing about Los Angeles and heroin instead of Savannah and how to make it better.

Yet there’s a relatable sense of loneliness, especially if you believe that sustainable economic development has less to do with building more beige hotels and more with creating opportunities where innovation can flourish.

As the tune goes, however, salvation might be found under a bridge downtown.

The A-Town Get Down Festival has been connecting all kinds of citizens to music and art for seven years, and this time it’s busting its boundaries to illuminate civic engagement and public spaces.

By the time you read this, what was once a forlorn patch of weeds under the Talmadge Bridge will have been transformed 10 into a public park bustling with bands,

food trucks and visual art, a testament to the possibilities and potential of climbing outside the proverbial boring box.

“The stage is going to be here,” described A-Town’s indefatigable organizer Erin Wessling last Tuesday, pointing to a small slope next to a concrete pylon, traffic shuddering overhead.

“And the shipping container with the art installations will go over there.”

As we traipsed across the fire ant beds to be leveled and laid with sod, she pantomimed where folks will lounge upon sculptural benches constructed by artist Matt Toole and take in Will Penny’s dazzling light projections. We circled the imaginary dance floor in the dirt, conjuring up a mirage of families getting down in the sunshine. Maybe because I’d already peeked at landscape architecture grad student Jimmy Darling’s colorful renderings, I could picture it all perfectly.

It’s also due to Wessling’s dynamic diligence. In addition to A-Town, she has championed and executed of some of the city’s most memorable projects, including Savannah’s Fashion Night and the revolving mural façade at Judge Realty. She’s also facile with all manner of

bureaucratic minutiae, patiently presenting Powerpoints to the Site and Monument Commission and filling out piles of permit requests in the pursuit of more public art in Savannah and beyond.

Reclaimed spaces under bridges are an ancillary passion, and she cites marvelous examples around the globe, notably Les Corts skatepark in Barcelona and the Garscube sculpture garden in Glasgow.

“Other countries do this really well,” sighs the world traveler and part-time resident of Warsaw, Poland.

After A-Town’s awesome attendance last year, it was evident the festival had outgrown the Morris Center, so she began seeking new digs. Undaunted by downtown’s high rents and prohibitive zoning, the unconventional thinker became enchanted with the cracked pavement and crumbling parking lots past Service Brewing and Ghost Coast Distillery at the end of Indian Street, landing on the crummy little spot across from SCAD’s Alexander Hall.

“It’s just outside of the historic district, so there weren’t all of those restrictions,” Wessling explained of the festival acreage that includes the 24,000 square feet under

the bridge that was previously littered with beer cans and old appliances.

“With the proper permitting, we’ve been able to transition an unused, neglected space into an artistic application of urban design.”

Bringing beauty and music here also evokes the day’s namesake, Alex Townsend, who loved to look at the Talmadge Bridge and whose parents, Tom and Jeanne, carry on his legacy through the festival and its programming.

While it might’ve been a lonely idea to move A-Town across town, Erin is adamant that it’s taken a village to realize the vision. Tom Havens of Coastal Civil Engineering volunteered the aerial views to map out the grounds to the last square inch, tapping his buddy Eric Tucker of Eastern Excavating Co. to bring on the bulldozers and dump several tons of dirt.

SCAD urban design and architecture professor Ryan Madson lent his consulting services as principal of Madson Modern Workshop, overseeing the renderings and talking through the terrain itself.

Madson knows this spot better than most Savannahians, having explored it back in 2005 as part of the Savannah

THE (CIVIL) SOCIETY COLUMN Psychogeographical Society, a semisecret group of urban planning geeks who enjoy exploring creepy places.

Apart from lost tourists and design students sneaking a toke, few others would have had reason to muck around down this overgrown field that abuts the Port and runs along the terminus of the historic Savannah-Ogeechee Canal.

“People curious about the margins and edges of this city will be fascinated,” mused Madson as we peered into the water, port cranes looming a few feet away.

“This used to be an infrastructural noman’s land.”

Turns out, though, others have recognized the place’s potential. For her Master’s thesis, SCAD Design for Sustainability student Caroline Ingalls conceived Boxport, a public commerce project made out of repurposed shipping containers that links Savannah’s dual identities of port city and art destination.

This brilliant idea was taken by professor Scott Boylston to the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority, which has been negotiating with the Ga. Dept. of Transportation over this little strip of public right-of-way ever since.

“We got really excited about it, and we have been coming up with ways to turn into a real project,” says SDRA’s Kevin

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Festival organizer Erin Wessling says, ‘I’m hopint this acts as a pedestal for future projects.’

Klinkenberg, another urban planner who has advised A-Town’s complicated approval process.

“When Erin contacted us to help with logistics, I saw an opportunity to help the festival with this small installation—a tease of what could happen at this site.”

Long term, Boxport would host more than a dozen containers to serve as art studios and incubators for small businesses, growing to include a permanent outdoor music venue and other attractions that would magnetize both tourists and locals to this once-lost land.

For now, however, it’s all temporary.

Per the city permits, no permanent structures have been laid and no trace of art shall remain after next week. The

pretty new park under the bridge doesn’t even have a proper name.

“That’s the only way we can do this,” shrugs Wessling. “But I’m hoping it acts as a pedestal for future projects.”

But even if no one else has the fortitude to navigate the bureaucracy for another physical project, A-Town will already leave behind more than a graded area and fun memories (until it returns next year, of course!)

The residents of Yamacraw Village and the HUE student housing complex now have a walkable greenspace to enjoy, and we can now imagine an Indian Street commercial district beyond what it was before.

(Y’all, the street is screaming for a burger joint.)

It’s also an opportunity to revive discussions of reclaiming all 16 miles along the canal as a bike path—from the Savannah River to the Ogeechee!—as well as spotlight the imminent issue of rescuing the bridge’s name from its racist history. (Artist/activist Lisa D. Watson assures that Phase 2 of Span the Gap is in full effect, lobbying local representatives with a recent survey that voted overwhelmingly to swap out Talmadge for Tomochichi.)

Most importantly, the no-name park under the bridge gives hope to those who believe this community of music, art and magic can create and sustain something other than another hotel.

Take it from the place you love, Savannah outlaws: You aren’t alone. CS

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Let’s get intersectional

Crunk Feminist Collective breaks it down at Armstrong on March 30

CFC founders Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavannah.com

MAR 22-28, 2017

WHEN IT comes to discrimination and oppression, not all experiences are alike.

Gender, race, class, sexuality and ability all inform the ways a person encounters inequity in society, and the injustices overlap and compound with each factor.

That’s the crux of intersectionality, a term charging current conversations about social justice and the fight for equality. Since January’s Women’s March on Washington, the word seems to be everywhere, from glossy magazines to celebrity Twitter feeds.

Civil rights and legal scholar Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw minted the concept in 1989 to address how feminist theory and anti-racist platforms failed to include the particular way African American 12 women experience sexism and racial

discrimination, positing that it is impossible to separate them.

Dr. Crenshaw’s work has since extended to all people of color as well as the LGBT and trans communities to elevate the different ways oppression shows up, and the voices of the Black feminist movement continue to lead the way.

The scholarly activists of the Crunk Feminist Collective began posting poignant essays about hip hop culture, smashing the patriarchy, political theory and personal experiences in 2010.

The website now attracts more than a million readers a year of all stripes for its thought-provoking pieces that include “Ben Carson’s Shame,” “Misogyny and Infamy: The Erasure of Dark Skinned Black Women as Love Interests in Straight Outta Compton,” and “Fish Dreams,” which explores the conflicting messages black women receive about pregnancy and motherhood. The crew will be in

Savannah to discuss their new book, The Crunk Feminist Collection, at Armstrong State University’s Ogeechee Theater on March 30.

By presenting academic feminism through an African American lens, CFC founders Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn—Ph.Ds all—have opened the conversation to the intersection of gender and race beyond the mostly white mainstream.

“Feminism isn’t accessible because it’s an academic term, and the people who use it have been historically territorial,” explains Dr. Boylorn, an associate professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication at the University of Alabama.

“But what we learned from our communities, what we learned from our mothers, our grandmothers, that resilience and independence we were taught, is feminism.

Our goal is to be able to talk about these

ideas in the college classroom as well as the beauty shop.”

The mission of Crunk Feminism is to hold space for the experience of “hip hop generation feminists of color, queer and straight, in the academy and without” outside of traditional theory while owning the history and genealogy of black feminism, specifically.

“Some people ask ‘Why can’t we all just be feminists? Why do we have to categorize?’ But we can’t erase our differences,” continues Dr. Boylorn.

“I think it goes back to identity politics—the primary issues of white women have never been the issues of women of color. In the second wave feminism of the 60s, you have women fighting to work, but black women were already working, often for those white women! That has to be acknowledged.”

That isn’t to say that other types of feminists aren’t welcome to the party; they just

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Harriet Tubman, we have Angela Davis, but what do today’s warriors look like? That’s one of the things the collective brings.”

She credits intersectionality with providing a framework for diverse articulations of womanhood that go beyond ethnicity.

“You can’t have conversation about race and gender without talking about class, and how those run into each other,” she says, adding that sexuality and gender identity also inform her work.

“Being able to recognize and honor trans women of color, there didn’t used to be language for that.

I feel honored to push forward the conversation and make room for those who are marginalized to be able to speak themselves.”

She encourages all people invested in social change to come listen to the Collective, including men, and is offering extra credit to all of her students who attend.

While Dr. Boylorn agrees that new acclaimed book, heightened awareness of trans CFC’ will discuss their lection, at Armstrong celebrities like Laverne Cox and The Crunk Feminist Col rsday.

Thu this y Janet Mock has helped highlight rsit State Unive the different expressions of what don’t get to design the context. it means to be a woman of color, this new “We see our primary audience as women narrative must not exclude the dangers. of color, but that does not exclude white “With visibility comes responsibility, women who want to be better allies. People and there still needs to be conversations who engage our work understand that we about sex workers, about single mothers, appreciate the necessity of white allies in about women in poverty,” she admonishes, this movement, but the way allyship works, reminding of murdered Philidelphia trans it’s not about you,” she says. woman Maya Young.

“Crunk Feminist Collective is about “Discrimination happens around black feminists, and many of the white silence. We can literally forget that people women who engage us want to learn what exist that are not like us.” they can do better.”

While intersectionality and the Crunk Thursday’s event is sponsored by Feminist Collective bring attention to the Armstrong’s Gender Studies program, important fact that not all feminists come Department of Languages, Literature and from the same background or hold up the Philosophy and Office of Multicultural same issues, Dr. Boylorn reminds that they Affairs and will be moderated by African all share the same goal of equality, freeAmerican Literature professor Dr. Regina dom and access to opportunities.

Bradley, who recently received national The focus of third wave feminism on attention for her popular class “OutKast inclusivity and diversity has shifted sociand the Rise of the Hip-Hop South.” ety towards that goal, but Dr. Boylorn Dr. Bradley began reading Crunk Femithinks it’s too soon for the academy to call nist Collective in graduate school and, the beginning of a fourth wave. because of the relatively small number of “I don’t think we’re ready,” she says Southern African American feminists in thoughtfully. “We’re all anxious to move academia, developed a friendship with the on the next thing, but there’s still a lot of group. She often brings questions about work to do.” CS gender, race and class to the classroom, citing the CFC platform as a source of inforAN EVENING W/ CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTIVE mation and inspiration.

“The current moment is about women, WHEN: Thursday, March 30, 6 p.m. and where do black women fit into the con- WHERE: Armstrong State University, Ogeechee versation?” asks Dr. Bradley, who spent Theater part of 2016 at Harvard University as a COST: Free Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow.

INFO: Armstrong.edu “When we talk about social justice and popular culture, we are reclaiming the idea that black women are warriors. We have

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When and why did humans start wiping or manually cleaning themselves postdefecation, since animals generally don’t do this? —Roger MANY of humanity’s greatest pioneers— Newton, Edison, Rubik—have been fortunate enough to achieve household-name status for their groundbreaking work. Others, unluckier but no less visionary, must necessarily remain unknown.

Sadly, we’ll never ID the first human to slide a digit or foreign object between the buttocks after doing number two, just as we’ll never locate the first person who decided it was a good idea to wash up afterwards. But we can figure out roughly when evolution would have made it necessary for our ancestors to develop a species-appropriate method of anal cleansing.

As you say, animals in general don’t make a habit of wiping after defecation— limbwise, few are up to the task anyway.

Birds and fish would seem to lack means, motive, or both. Some mammals, it’s true, do clean themselves when necessary— think of your cat licking itself. (Maybe don’t think about it too long, though.)

Only the most flexible hominids would be able to pull off that grooming trick, and the rest of us, I’d imagine, aren’t generally envious. Nor does it seem appealing to follow the lead of those species that occasionally drag their rumps along the ground to

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tidy up down below. (If you notice your dog engaging in such behavior, that’s more likely an attempt to relieve fluid buildup in the anal glands than some canine stab at hygiene.)

Our pressing need to wipe is the result of a significant anatomical difference separating us from the rest of creation. You and I may be so used to having them that we don’t think of our uniquely fatty, muscular posteriors as an evolutionary development that makes us stand out as humans—or, more precisely, stand up.

Considered strictly as an adaptation, the glutes certainly don’t get all the good press that, say, the opposable thumb does.

Nonetheless, the development of a stronger set of gluteal muscles was a major leap forward in enabling us to become an exclusively bipedal species.

It didn’t happen all at once—Australopithecus was strolling around upright nearly four million years ago with a body more akin to an ape’s than to ours. But eventually, between one and two million years ago, those of us who had sturdier hips and stronger muscles supporting them began to outrace our peers and our predators.

The evolutionary advantage of the thickened layers of fat that cushion the glutes is less evident—some scientists speculate they offered a reserve that could be burned off for energy when food grew scarce.

Essential as they proved to be, butts came with issues. Our anal cavity was now tucked away within two mounds of flesh.

From our present-day acculturated vantage point, this might seem like an obvious improvement, helping to keep the anus out of sight and mind.

But for prehistoric folks it created a hazard that our animal friends, what with their exposed bungholes, rarely faced: fecal residue might linger in there, and the accumulation of bacteria in so moist a locale could cause infection. Women were especially vulnerable, given the proximity of the exposed vagina and urethra.

So one of these buttock-equipped

humans—named by science Homo erectus, after their default posture—was probably the first wiper. Some rectal discomfort must have inspired this innovator to impulsively run a finger or two through the crevice and (ideally) wipe the accumulated crud off somewhere. H. erectus didn’t stand on formalities, after all.

Perhaps over time those who engaged in the habit prospered, and taught their offspring to do likewise. Nobody said evolution was pretty.

As human culture progressed taboos and rituals developed around our eliminatory regimens, some apparently rooted in prudence, others in disgust. By the time of Deuteronomy, divinely ordained pooping instructions had been set forth, enjoining the Israelites to scoot out of camp before doing their business and bring a little shovel along to cover up the evidence.

At length toilet paper enters the picture—though as I mentioned in a TP column way back in 1986, folks were ripping pages out of the Sears Roebuck catalog before softer tissue became more widely available. Even today, many cultures prefer the gentle cleansing of the bidet, as we discussed at some length last year when someone wondered if wiping was necessary at all.

Bear in mind that our ancestors might not have needed to wipe as vigorously or diligently as we do. Their diet, however omnivorous and haphazard, lacked the modern poisons that gunk up our GI tracts—Cheetos and Twinkies were hard to come by in paleolithic times, you know.

And toilet use hadn’t yet trained them to relieve their bowels in an unnatural seated position. Squatting in the woods not only puts less strain on the system (possibly making squatters less prone to hemorrhoids) but allows smoother fecal passage, alleviating some of the need to wipe. Homo erectus had more to teach us, it seems, if we’d only been wise enough to listen. CS

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It’s a Wrap: St. Patrick’s Day Arrest Roundup

Law enforcement officers made a total of 54 arrests just in the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day “Festival Zone,” SCMPD reports.

The festival officially began at 8 a.m.

Thursday, March 14 and ended 3 a.m. Sunday, March 20.

Forty-four of the arrests were misdemeanors and 10 were felony arrests.

“The arrests are up slightly from 2016; last year officers arrested 39 individuals in the festival area during the festival period,” police report.

“Twenty-three of the arrests this year were alcohol-related, including 8 for underage drinking. In 2016 only 13 arrests were alcohol related.”

“This year we made it very clear to the public that our focus was going to be on

alcohol related issues like underage drinking and overconsumption, and that’s exactly what we did,” said Special Operations Commander Major DeVonn Adams who served as the daytime incident commander of the festival. “The officers did a great job identifying problems early on to keep situations from escalating.”

In addition the SCMPD’s HEAT Unit (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) which combats impaired and aggressive drivers made 12 DUI arrests, one in the festival area. Police say the HEAT Unit was primarily assigned “to patrol the feeder roads and highways which led to downtown Savannah such as President Street, the Truman Parkway, Whitaker and Drayton streets.”

The Georgia State Patrol sent more than 100 officers to the Savannah area to assist with traffic enforcement. Troopers conducted 845 traffic stops in the Savannah Metropolitan area during the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. These traffic stops resulted in the issuance of 611 citations, police say, with the total including 60 DUI arrests.

“This year three individuals were cited for swimming in the Savannah River; in 2016 only one person made that mistake,” police report.

SCMPD officers, Counter Narcotics Team agents and other officers working the

festival area netted 11 drug-related arrests.

Over the entire weekend, ThursdaySunday, local law enforcement agencies made a grand total of 411 arrests, including the total of 126 arrests SCMPD made throughout their jurisdiction.

The agencies tallied up as follows: Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Dept. (SCMPD): 126 arrests Port Wentworth Police Dept: 105 arrests Chatham County Sheriff’s Office: 68 arrests Georgia State Patrol: 58 arrests Pooler Police Dept.: 17 arrests Tybee Island Police Dept: 11 arrests Bloomingdale Police Dept: 8 arrests Garden City Police Dept.: 8 arrests Counter Narcotics Team: 7 arrests Thunderbolt Police Dept.: 3 arrests

15-year-old shot on Massachusetts Avenue

Detectives are investigating the shooting of a male, 15, on Monday, Mar. 13.

At around 6:30 p.m., Metro officers responded to a home on the 2000 block of Massachusetts Avenue after reports of a shooting. Reportedly, a group of teens were in the home when the shooting occurred.

Detectives do not believe this to be a random shooting. The 15-year-old is in the hospital in critical condition.

Task Force makes 19 arrests

The SCMPD Violent Crimes Task Force wrapped up a four-day operation that concluded with 11 felony arrests and eight misdemeanor arrests.

“The mission of the Task Force was to address the recent increase in violent crime by targeting prolific offenders of violent crime,” said Lt. Tonya Reid, “We targeted high crime areas where these offenders are known to frequent, as well as areas where drugs and gangs are prevalent.”

Those with felony charges include: Desmond Tolbert, 33, possession Dominick Jackson, 33, possession of firearm by convicted felon, possession with intent, possession Phillip Moore, 22, possession Stephen Walker, 24, possession of firearm by convicted felon Devonte Ruffin, 24, possession w/ intent Jeffrey Scott, 33, possession with intent Bobby Shields, 23, possession Christopher Gamble, 26, felony probation violation warrant Joseph Blake, 33, felony warrant Jahkeem Bryant, 24, possession of firearm during commission of crime Torrey Milton, 27, federal warrant

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Perhaps there are parents who (according to the Cinepolis movie chain) long to watch movies in theaters while their children (aged 3 and up) frolic in front in a “jungle-gym” playground inside the same auditorium. If so, the company’s two “junior” movie houses (opening this very week in San Diego and Los Angeles) may bring a new dimension to “family entertainment.” Another view, though, is that the noise (often “screaming”), plus the overhead lighting required for parents to monitor their tykes’ equipment-usage, plus the planned $3-per-ticket surcharge, will soon create (according to the Guardian critic) a moviegoing “apocalypse.”

Can’t Possibly Be True

(1) The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in January granted IBM’s 2010 application for a patent on “out-of-office” email message software (even though such messages have, of course, been ubiquitous for two decades) after the company finally convinced examiners that its patent had enough software tweaks on it to qualify.

(Critics, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, laughed at the uselessness of the tweaks.) (2) Also in January, the office granted Daniel Dopps a patent for “adhesive vaginal lipstick,” which his Mensez Technologies claims can cause the labia minora to tighten so strongly as to retain menstrual fluid until the woman can deal with buildup in privacy.

News of the Pretentious

• Why live with a cat if one cannot take it out for some wine together? The Apollo Peak in Denver and the Pet Winery in Fort

Myers, Florida, serve a variety of the real their boats. Such territory marking by the grape to humans and nonalcoholic propri- “piersters” includes, according to a Febetary drinks for the kitties to enjoy tableruary report in Florida Today, perhaps a side (or underneath). “Pinot Meow” ($12) version of classic mammal behavior, like in Denver and “Meow and Chandon” ($15) strategic urination and hurling their feces in Fort Myers, are specialties -- basically at the waterborne invaders. watered catnip, according to a February Government in Action New York Times report (so the felines can • Illinois has problems: a $130 billion also get buzzed). The wine outing is the unfunded pension crisis, 19 months human’s preference, of course, with a without a budget, the lowest loftier cachet than the “happy hour” credit rating and highest propmost cats might prefer (say, a “sarerty taxes in the country, and dine bar”).

I WAS THE • “I tried the $5,000 hamburger, ONLY SOBER the murder rate in Chicago.

However, at least the state and it was absolutely worth it,” ONE house of representatives is wrote the apparently straightnot standing by idly. In Febfaced CNBC reviewer Robert ruary, it moved to designate Frank in February, describing his October 2017 as Zombie Premeal at the Las Vegas Mandalay paredness Month (basically, Bay restaurant Fleur. (The burger adding “zombie invasion” to the included Waygu beef, foie gras and list of mobilizations for any natutruffles, and was served with a simiral disaster and urging residents larly inexplicably priced wine.) Other to stockpile food and supplies for recent consumer challenges: an $18 up to 72 hours). cup of coffee at Brooklyn’s Extraction • Lawyers for former U.S. Lab; a $100 bottle of Norwegian iceRep. Jesse Jackson Jr. have conberg water (Svalbardi.com); a $2,000 vinced federal officials that his bipolar dispizza at New York City’s Industry Kitchen (caviar, truffles, gold flakes); and a order was “caused” by the stress of being a $25,000 taco at the Grand Velas Los Cabos congressman and thus that he is entitled to “total disability” worker compensation resort in Mexico (caviar, brie, Kobe beef, for an “on-the-job” injury—and thus to langoustine lobster, rare tequila -- and about $100,000 a year, tax-free, accordonce again with the gold flakes). ing to a February Chicago Tribune report.

Wait, What?

(Jackson, 51, also receives Social Security Anglers fighting to preserve choice disability payments.) Lawyers said his spots on the fishing pier on Sebastian disorder (often attributed to genetic facInlet, north of Vero Beach, Florida, have tors) surfaced during an investigation into taken to tossing lead weights and other Jackson’s looting of his campaign treasury items at “competitors,” especially those for luxury goods and vacations (charges who approach the pier to fish directly from eventually settled with a guilty plea).

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Bright Ideas

• A councilman in Overtornea, Sweden, introduced a bill (a “motion”) that workers be given paid “sex breaks” during the business day in order to improve well-being and, thus, job performance. The primary beneficiaries would be married, fertile couples, but all workers would receive the benefit. And employers, said Councillor Per-Erik Muskos, would have to “trust” their employees because some surely would “cheat” (by not having sex!).

• Not Clever Enough: Daniel Crowninshield, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court in Sacramento in 2016 to illegally manufacturing assault weapons that had no serial numbers -- despite efforts to circumvent the law by claiming that his customers actually “made” their own weapons using his equipment. Crowninshield (known as “Dr-Death” online), an expert machinist, would take a “blank” metal casting and, using special equipment and computer programs, create the firing mechanism for a numberless AR-15 -- provided the customer presses a button to start the process. “Pressing the button,” Crowninshield figured, made the customer the creator, not a buyer or transferee of the gun, and thus exempt from federal law. In February, Judge Troy Nunley, unimpressed, sentenced Crowninshield to three years and five months in prison.

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time

“Life’s full of peaks and valleys, man,” Californian Georgiy Karpekin told a reporter, but Jan. 18 seemed all valley.

Karpekin has both a pickup truck and a car, and as he was leaving Sacramento City College that day during violent storms, a falling tree crushed the truck. When he got home, he learned that the same storm had taken down another tree -- on top of his car. (Karpekin, insured and uninjured, called himself “the luckiest guy.”)

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Miami defense lawyer Stephen Gutierrez caused quite a spectacle on March 8 when, representing a man accused of arson, he rose to address jurors, and his pants appeared to catch fire. He insisted afterward that a malfunctioning e-cigarette caused smoke to billow from his pocket, but observers had a field day with metaphors and “stunt” theories.

• Despite an exaggerated, widely read headline in London’s Daily Mail, the recent death of a 50-year-old man in Japan was indeed pornography-related.

The man was a hoarder of porn magazines, living alone with an unimaginably large collection, and when he suffered a fatal heart attack sometime early this year, he collapsed atop the piles, where his body was found in February. (The Daily

“In February, it moved to designate October 2017 as Zombie Preparedness Month (basically, adding “zombie invasion” to the list of mobilizations for any natural disaster and urging residents to stockpile food and supplies for up to 72 hours).”

Mail headline had him “crushed” to death under a six-ton stack, but the Mail conceded below the headline that he might have just fallen.)

A News of the Weird Classic (June 2013)

Chengdu, China, barber Liu Deyuan, 53, still provides traditional “eye-shaving,” in which he holds the lid open and runs a razor across its inner surface. Then, using a thin metal rod with a round tip, he gently massages the inside of each lid. Liu told Chengdu Business Daily in April (2013) that he had never had an accident (though the reporter balked at volunteering for him), and a highly satisfied customer

reported afterward that his eyes felt “moist” (surely the easiest part of the story to accept) and his vision “clearer.”

Thanks This Week to Jim Weber, Elaine Weiss, Bob Stewart, Neb Rodgers, Robin Daley, Mark Hazelrigg, Gerald Thomason, Paul Kaplan, Alex Boese, and Chuck Hamilton, among others, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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A-TOWN GET DOWN is back, and this year promises to be the most innovative celebration yet. The annual day-long festival dedicated to visual arts, music, and community has moved from its usual spot at the Morris Center to an unexpected and overlooked location: the west end of Indian Street, just past SCAD’s Alexander Hall and a stone’s throw from Service Brewing.

In the cool shadow of the Talmadge Bridge, aspiring artists, seasoned creators, and families will gather to take in an array of visual art, installation, and live music.

Perhaps one of A-Town’s best characteristics is its participatory nature: this isn’t a spectator’s festival. Kids and adults alike are invited to roll up their sleeves and learn and create alongside the pros.

The musically-inclined can participate in the annual Open Jam led by swampblues hero Walter Parks or turn trash into treasure at Billy Jonas’s Re-Percussions: Making Instruments from Recyclable Objects workshop. Brass aficionados can hang out with A-Town artists The Snarky

Horns and learn how to develop an improvisational style, play as a group, use effects pedals, and practice efficiently in the Master Brass Class. Learn about Listening & Ear Impression from a professional audiologist at the beginning of the day.

If you want to get a little paint under your nails, check out SCAD Ceramics: Slip Printing, where you’ll learn how to create a print using a clay slip, or hit the Collabostation and participate in a Drawing Jam with provided supplies.

Over at SCAD Print: Poster Printing, students teach you how to create your own one-of-a-kind A-Town Get Down poster.

Build A Better World with Live Oak Library gives you the chance to decorate your handprint and add it to a banner to be displayed during the library’s summer reading program. Add some paint to a large-scale painting at Moonlighting Over a Reflective Savannah: Collaborative Mural, and say hey to Garrison junior high students as they host a game of Mix Match Monster. Get ooey, gooey and gluey with Library In Motion, where you’ll dip yarn in colored glue to make your own unique work of art, or make a decorative magnet from tree trunk slices and art

18 Headliner Cracker has continued to make boundary-pushing albums over the years.

supplies at Slices of Creativity.

Locals and touring acts will grace the stage from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., starting with Savannah Children’s Choir and ending with ‘90s heroes Cracker.

This year’s lineup features returning A-Town favorites like Marques and the Miracle Workers, Swamp Cabbage, Waits & Co., and exciting performers like blues hero Bobby Rush, Col. Bruce Hampton, Old Salt Union, Snarky Horns, J Chambers, The Billy Jonas Band, Annalise Curtin, and Low Country Voices Headliner Cracker rose to the top of the charts in the early ‘90s for now-classics like “Low” and “Euro-Trash Girl,” but rather than fall exclusively into karaokefavorite status, the band has continued to make boundary-pushing albums over the years. Their last release, Berkeley to Bakersfield, was a bold double-disc release that showed two sides to the band: Disc 1, “Berkeley,” revealed their punk and garage roots, while “Bakersfield” brought out their California and Georgia country influences.

We spoke with founding guitarist Johnny Hickman on his and frontman David Lowery’s special chemistry, the band’s evolution, and taking the show on the road.

You and David have a real musical chemistry. What is it about the way you play and write together that just works?

I think part of that comes from being friends and being aware of each other in other bands for a few years before we formed Cracker. Also, we were both from military families and had traveled extensively, being exposed to all kinds of music growing up before we met as young guys in Redlands, California.

Cracker’s had many a member over the years outside of you and David. Do you consider Cracker to just be the two of you these days?

Well, we decided from the start to keep the core of it just us two. After a few years of doing this we’d learned that democracies rarely work in bands. Usually there are one or two people at the center of things. It’s really been a plus to have played live and recorded with so many talented people too. It gives every record, every song a uniqueness while still always sounding like Cracker. It just works for us.

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We’re looking forward to seeing y’all in Savannah! How has touring changed for the band over the years?

We’re looking forward to being back in Savannah too, thanks! We have a lot of great memories and fans there. Touring hasn’t changed that much for us over the years. We’ve always been a little too weird for the mainstream but have a very loyal fan base so we’re one of those eternal cult bands if you will. We get in the van and go! It’s like we’ve been getting away with something for 25 years and happily, the fan base has slowly gotten a little bigger every year.

Your last album, Berkeley to Bakersfield, was an adventurous undertaking. Can you tell us about the concept behind a double-disc release with two distinct sounds?

We’ve always been appreciated by our fans for being a band that’s not real one dimensional from that first record on.

We’ve always brought elements of rock, punk, soul and country into what we do on every record because that’s what we love. It’s all in our blood, ya know? This time we thought it would be fun to sort of separate the rock (Berkeley) and the more

A-Town Get Down Schedule:

12 p.m. – 5 p.m. - Adobe Arts Lab 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.- ArtPort Shuffle 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.- SCAD Ceramics: Slip Printing 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Collabostation 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Face Painting by Scribble Art Studio 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Portrait Post 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – SCAD Fashion: Fashion Illustrations 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – SCAD Print: Poster Printing 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Build A Better World with Live Oak Library 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Moonlighting Over A Reflective Savannah: Collaborative Mural 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Emergent Savannah presents: The Music That Got Us Woke – MiniDance Party and Fuel for the Revolution 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – The Enchanged Mansion: An installation by Kristie Duncan 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Mix Match Monster 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Ooey gooey Gluey Yarn Art with Library in Motion 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Slices of Creativity 12:30 p.m. – Listening & Ear Impression 12:30 p.m. – Open Jam

Americana/country songs (Bakersfield) onto two separate discs. It was David’s idea and it worked very well. It’s been one of our

1 p.m.: Savannah Children’s Choir 2 p.m.: The Billy Jonas Band 2:30 p.m.: Snarky Horns Master Brass Class 2:30 p.m.: Annalise Curtin 3 p.m.: Col. Bruce Hampton 3:30 p.m.: Re-Percussions: Making Instruments from Recyclable Objects 3:30 p.m.: Missionary Blues 4 p.m.: Low Country Voices All day – Starlandia Live 5 p.m. – Waits & Co 6 p.m. – Swamp Cabbage 6 p.m. – J Chambers 6:30 p.m. – Marques and the Miracle Workers 7 p.m. – Snarky Horns 7:30 p.m. – Bobby Rush 7:30 p.m. – Jason Armstrong Beck Projection 7:30 p.m. – Old Salt Union 7:30 p.m. – Will Penny Show 8:30 p.m. – DJ for Gesture Jam 9 p.m. – AJ Ghent 9:30 p.m. – DJ for Gesture Jam 9:55 p.m. – Art Shuffle Art Silent Auction Ends 10 p.m. – Cracker

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On a related note, Cracker’s been able to remain chameleonic in sound over the years; is it freeing as a writer and guitar player to dabble in genre rather than stick to one sound?

Absolutely, yes. It’s not really something I think about while coming up with something. I’ve always been that sort of guitarist. I listened to punk rock, country, folk, British blues-based rock, all of it and probably subconsciously borrowing from all of it. The fact that David Lowery is an equally varied lyricist and songwriter makes what I do just come naturally. Whether a guitar riff or a partially finished song come first is less important than the end result.

What’s next for the band?

More shows are popping up. We’re going back to Spain in May for a few weeks, our best country along with the US. It’s fantastic for us there. I’ve got a few songs in the oven, a good little batch of guitar riffs too.

I’ll bet David does as well. We may just play shows and write a bit this year, David and Camper Van Beethoven may start working on another record, I’m just writing. Some of it may be for Cracker, some might be for another solo record. As long as I’m making music, all is well. CS

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Ukranian quartet returns with an original score of Dovzhenko’s Earth

BY ANNA CHANDLER

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YOU just never know what you’re going to see in Savannah Music Festival’s eclectic lineups. The festival acts as a sort of global tour, honoring great musical traditions while nesting eclectic fusions of classic sounds in the program. Perhaps one of the annual musical celebration’s finest hours occurred on the 2015 festival’s closing night with DakhaBrakha.

The Ukranian folk quartet offers an entrancing performance that’s unlike most anything Savannahians have seen.

Shout-singing, bird calls, and thunderous drumming create a tiny thunderstorm onstage that inspires crowds to get on their feet, dance, and shout along.

DakhaBrakha was originally a project of the DAKh Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, Ukraine, meant to be a live theater music crew.

Created by the avant-garde theatre director Vladyslav Troitskyi, the quartet is easily recognizable for its members’ tall, black woolen hats and the traditional white wedding dresses worn by the ensemble’s three women.

Though their sound is rooted in Ukrainian folk music, DakhaBrakha is a rhythmic journey around the world. Its members perform on traditional Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian instruments. Marko Halanevych performs on the goblet drum (a single-head drum with a goblet-shaped body, commonly used in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe), the tabla (a South Asian percussion instrument similar to bongos), didgeridoo (a wind instrument created by Indigenous Australians), harmonica, accordion, and cajón (a boxshaped percussion instrument).

Olena Tsybulska plays percussion and sings, while Nina Harenetska sings and plays cello and Iryna Kovalenko plays the djembe (a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum), flute, piano, ukulele, and buhay (a Ukrainian friction drum that typically requires two performers to operate it, usually with one person holding the drum and the other pulling a tuft of horsehair that runs through the instrument using moistened fingers).

The culmination of all those sounds, resulting in what the band calls “ethnochaos,” can sometimes resemble experimental drone music, traditional folk, and, in other moments, raw punk rock.

Their 2015 Tiny Desk Concert for NPR’s All Songs Considered remains one of show producer Bob Boilen’s favorites to date.

Their concerts, which show off finetuned dynamics while also feeling entirely unexpected, have taken the group to many countries, including Ukraine, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Slovenia, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, China, Australia, the United States, Canada, Columbia, New Zealand, and Brazil. Rolling Stone named their Bonnaroo performance Best Breakout Performance of the 2014 festival.

The name DakhaBrakha means “give/ take” in the old Ukrainian language and is the perfect moniker for the band. In their songs, voices merge in unison, rise above one another, and call and respond.

DakhaBrakha released their first album in four years, The Road, in 2016.

“This album was created at the very difficult time for our Motherland,” the group explained upon the record’s release. “We want to dedicate it to those who gave their lives for our freedom, who continue stand over its guard, and who go the challenging way of a free person without losing hope.”

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Their 2015 Savannah Music Festival concert had the whole town talking, and 2017’s performance is sure to be an unforgettable multimedia experience. DakhaBrakha has created an entirely original soundtrack to the classic 1930 film Earth

by Aleksandr Dovzhenko and will perform it at the festival.

Considered to be one of the most important films of the Soviet era and one of the best films in the history of world cinema, the film is a love letter to the countryside and the people who live and work there.

Earth was banned only nine days after its original release and garnered favor after Dovzhenko’s death in 1956.

“Making music for Alexander Dovzhenko’s Earth was a great honor for us and a difficult creative challenge,” the band shared in a statement. “Frame by frame, this Ukrainian masterpiece of world cinema impressed us every time we worked on it. No matter how we tried to work on the film as a self-contained artistic endeavor, avoiding ideological evaluation, we could

not. Of course, we voiced the film in the human terms of the 21st Century, even while being aware that after 1930, when the work was completed on Earth, came the years of the Communist famine of 1932-1933, the years of repression, and we know about the difficult fate of the Dovzhenko socialist empire. Together, we tried to convey the authenticity, and also the naivety, of those feelings and messages brought to us from that time and that era, to us today and our Earth.”

With the release of their sixth studio album and unique projects like the scoring of Earth, DakhaBrakha continue to gain a loyal following around the world. When ethno-chaos takes over the stage at Savannah Music Festival, it’s a beautiful and rare thing. CS

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The Avett Brothers ‘reframing’ their sound

Sadness.

“You know, it’s a funny thing. For an artist, they really love to be surprised by some thing they’re making that doesn’t sound like them. Whereas a lot of times the listener is like ‘I don’t want to hear, like if I want to hear calypso, I’m going to listen to a calypso artist. I don’t go to the Avett Brothers to hear calypso music.’ And I get that. But I hope, what I feel like is happening is we are opening ourselves up further, further and further in the aesthetics, to have no boundaries while hopefully stayretaining their acoustic foundation, but ing heavily rooted in what makes us us, broadened their instrumental and stylistic which is by and large some version of story reach to the point that the group could no telling, I think.” longer be considered simply folk nor Recorded with the current seven-memacoustic. ber touring band (bassist/fiddle player Bob The next two albums, 2012’s The CarCrawford, drummer Mike Marsh, keypenter and 2014’s Magpie and the Dandeboardist Paul Defiglia, cellist Joe Kwon and lion, continued down that path. And now, fiddle player Tania Elizabeth), the songs on Seth Avett, who started the group with his True Sadness touch on a myriad of styles. older brother, Scott, in 2000, feels the new There’s stomping pop delivered with Avett Brothers album, True Sadness, repre- bass, drum and a ragged choir on the first sents another leap forward for the group. single, “Ain’t No Man.” “You Are Mine” “This one’s a major one in terms of me takes jangly folk-rock and gives it a jolt reframing what I think the Avett Brothwith a big, fuzzed up bass line and spriners sound like,” Seth Avett says of True kles of keyboard. “Fisher Road” is a gentle

Sibling storytellers expand the sonic nature of their musical journey

BY ALAN SCULLEY

MAR 22-28, 2017

THE AVETT BROTHERS have been on quite a musical journey of evolving their sound over the past decade, going from a trio playing acoustic guitar, banjo and stand-up bass to what is now a seven-member lineup that can build considerably on the group’s scrappy, stripped back acoustic beginnings.

The big shift came with the 2009 album, I and Love and You. Produced by 22 Rick Rubin, it found the Avett Brothers

and pretty finger-picked acoustic ballad.

“There Is A Sea” sounds like it was written for an epic western or sea-faring movie soundtrack.

Even with that variety, True Sadness sounds very much like an Avett Brothers album, mainly because many of the songs (“Roof Over My Past,” “Mama,” “Smithsonian” and “No Hard Feelings”) still have the acoustic folk and rough-hewn rock foundation that defined the early music of the group.

Seth Avett agrees with that assessment.

“You can’t change your beginning. You can’t go back and change where you’re from. It just is what it is,” he says.

“Our skeleton is the acoustic guitar (played by Seth) and the banjo (Scott) and the stand-up bass (Crawford, who joined the Avetts in 2002), and our stories and our romanticism and me and Scott’s voices.

That’s what we are at our core. So I think as long as we don’t disgrace that or completely turn our backs on that, I think it will come through.”

Like the previous three albums, “True Sadness” was produced by Rubin (whose work with the likes of Johnny Cash, Slayer,

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“Our skeleton is the acoustic guitar (played by Seth) and the banjo (Scott) and the stand-up bass (Crawford, who joined the Avetts in 2002), and our stories and our romanticism and me and Scott’s voices. That’s what we are at our core. So I think as long as we don’t disgrace that or completely turn our backs on that, I think it will come through.”

Tom Petty and ZZ Top, to name a few, has made him one of music’s most respected producers).

The friendship and familiarity that has developed between Rubin and the band made for a great environment during the making of “True Sadness,” Avett says.

“There’s just this friendship and there’s this great mutual respect,” Avett says. “So it really sort of freed us up to have a lot of fun and have a lot of experimentation with just a good friend. I think it makes for better work because there are no nerves in it.”

The two Avett brothers remained the songwriters on True Sadness, but Avett says the other band members, more than ever, brought their influences and ideas to the table and had a big hand in how the songs grew from their bare bones beginnings.

“We have, I think, a very good, very natural sort of rhythm within our communication where Scott and I are able to present our visions for a song,” Avett says.

“You just have faith in the players and you don’t have to micro-manage everything…I think we all have enough experience where we can come to a great agreement, normally without saying anything at all.”

That sort of chemistry has been developed through four-plus years of touring.

And while shows of recent vintage demonstrate that the seven-member lineup is plenty potent live (a recently released concert disc, “Live, Vol. Four,” offers a good example of the group’s live sound), Avett feels the group has plenty of room to grow as a live unit.

“We have not really fully embraced what is possible here with this band. I mean, seven people with more than a few that are multi-instrumentalists, there’s a lot that can be done,” he says.

“I know we’ve embraced it a little. But over the last couple of years, we’ve worked up kind of outlaw country songs, a Harry Belafonte song, we did a Beyoncé song for a little while. Sometimes it starts feeling like we really could be presenting something with a lot more breadth than we have so far,” Avett says.

“Now, we’re committed to our original material. That in and of itself is going to be kind of a stew of a lot of things. But man, it’s so fun to dig into something that seems really out of our comfort zone and then realizing we can actually present it because of this band.”

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Some of that growth could happen as the group revisits songs both new and old on tour and explores different ways to perform the material.

“Right now, it’s that very exciting time, which only happens for us once every few years now, where we’re starting to share, like really share in earnest, all of the new material from the new record. That just has a way of injecting some life into the whole set,” Avett says.

“We subscribe very heavily to like the Dylan mentality where no song, it’s not settled how you play the songs,” he says.

“Like one night it might be, whatever, a ragtime song, the next time it might be folk. If the night and the personality of the night, the audience and the feeling is calling for something different, you don’t fight it. You try to go with it.” CS

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Joel Savoy:

‘Whatever I do is Cajun enough for me’

Legendary fiddle player brings Louisiana sound to town

BY JIM MOREKIS

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JOEL SAVOY — pronounced “Joe-EL Sav-WAH” — is often described as “Cajun music royalty,” or some such.

And it’s true. His father Marc and mother Ann are seminal figures in Louisiana’s Cajun scene.

That said, Joel and his wife, fellow musician Kelli Jones, think of themselves as anything but monarchs. Together they seek to spread the sound and tradition of Cajun and Applachian culture to audiences all over.

Joel and Kelli perform twice in this year’s Savannah Music Festival. You can see them in the “Lafayette Late Night” jam session Friday evening at the newly remodeled B. Matthews.

The next afternoon, Joel and Kelli perform a double bill with Brazilian musician German (pronounced “Herman”) Lopez at the Morris Center.

Joel spoke to us from home in Eunice, La., about 30 miles outside Lafayette.

How do you and Kelli work out what you’re going to play?

MAR 22-28, 2017

Kelli and I are sort of a union of two different folk traditions. She comes from Raleigh, N.C., and grew up in a family that played a lot of Appalachian music.

I grew up in Southwest Louisiana. All I heard as a kid was Cajun French music.

There was a lot of country and blues around here in general. My mom was really into swing and early jazz music.

In your view, what is the main difference between the Cajun music tradition and the Appalachian tradition, other than language?

Folk music is primarily a way of socializing. Down here it will be a band that’s mainly fiddle-driven. But primarily folk 24 music is about bringing people together for

Joel Savoy often performs with his wife Kelli Jones.

dancing and socializing.

The dance styles can be different, of course. In Louisiana we have a lot of couples dancing. In Appalachia it’s more group dancing, squares and contras. But there is a big similarity in styles.

There are differences of instrumentation, for example in Cajun music you’ll have the accordion, whereas in Appalachia there’s the banjo. But the rest of the band is similar. Of course there is the language difference.

But basically it’s the same – music by the people, for the people. It’s music about working people and about the stuff that working people relate to.

You come from a famous Cajun musical family, but I get the impression that you don’t in any way consider yourself any kind of ‘musical royalty.’

I’m glad you said that! If you come down here, you can’t throw a rock without hitting another great musican. In general I absolutely feel I’m just another guy playing music here, and that’s the way I like to see myself.

I do consider myself an ambassador for my culture. But by no means do I think I’m the best or the most famous.

I did happen to have parents that got famous doing it. But everywhere you look in Southwest Louisiana you have families playing music together and handing down that tradition.

This is where my father’s family is from.

I live in my grandfather’s house. We are the eighth generation on the prairie here.

They’ve been in this area almost since Cajun people arrived in Louisiana.

Most folks consider Lafayette to be the center of Cajun tradition, but you actually live out in the country near there.

Tell us about where you live and how that influences your music.

Eunice is the birthplace of Cajun music.

The earliest known recordings of Cajun music were by people around this area.

Dennis McGee, the grandfather of Cajun fiddle, was from here, for example.

My dad likes to say wherever you find rice, you find accordions. We think the accordion arrived with German immigrants to the area.

Lafayette is 40 minutes south of here.

That’s where the Cajun dancehall sound started up. It’s a much more urban area.

Out here you get mostly fiddles and accordions. In Lafayette they began adding things from other types of music popular at the time — drums, steel guitars.

The question everyone asks you: What, in your opinion, is the main difference between Cajun and Zydeco?

My favorite answer to that comes from my dad, and I’m paraphrasing: “When I was a child I had a young black friend. His mother would bake a cake using the same flour, eggs, and oil my mother had. But each cake would be completely different.”

Both musical traditions come from the same place. Zydeco and Cajun music have the exact same roots, they just emerged from different cultures.

Back in the day, people would say that anyone playing fiddles and accordions was playing “French music.” The words we use today to define those styles are actually pretty new to this area.

Do you worry about Cajun music getting watered down and losing its roots?

I’m from here and lived here my whole life.

So whatever I do is Cajun enough for me. (laughs) I’m not worried about what other people think.

But Cajun music has always been a bastard child. It’s always been a product of whatever is going on at the time. When Western swing got popular, for example, Cajun bands began to incorporate some of that sound and instrumentation, to give people what they wanted to hear.

The Lafayette Late Night Jam sounds like one of the highlights of the Festival. What can we expect to hear?

You’ll be hearing a lot of fiddle duets, mostly songs in French with a lot of fiddles and guitars. You might hear a couple of originals. You’ll hear lots of stories. I like to give perspective about where this music comes from and who plays it.

I’ve been charged with assembling all of the Cajun band members at the Savannah Music Festival all into something (laughs).

What you’ll see is kind of a house band with probably drums, guitars, fiddle, bass, and accordion, with a whole rotating cast of characters coming up and singing all kinds of music.

We’ll have some Jerry Lee Lewis style rock ‘n’ roll, to early country and swing, to French music. We’ll be running the whole gamut. CS Lafayette Late Night is Fri. March 24 at 11 p.m. at B. Matthew’s, tickets $10. German Lopez/ Joel Savoy & Kelli Jones is Sat. March 25 at 12:30 p.m. at the Morris Center, tickets $30.

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BalletCollective: It starts with a conversation Southern premiere of collaborative performance brings architecture to life onstage

BY JIM MOREKIS

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Tell us about the actual process of how these works come to life.

We start with a conversation, about something important to us. When we join the right people together at the right time, the conversation becomes more and more fruitful. Utilizing that conversation as a third point, from there the composer begins working on the music.

I come from a very musical place myself.

So I will spend hours and hours listening to that piece of music, planning out larger points.

We’re essentially using a piece of art that is made for us, or bundled, as a communication tool. We use that tool as a point going forward.

We have no preconceived ideas. When you go into these processes they lead you to places you didn’t think you would go.

That said, dancers don’t improvise during BalletCollective performances.

Not at all. We’re providing a very cohesive theatrical performance. However, as with any performing art, no two performances will be exactly the same.

There are three basic elements of choreography: The actual movements of the dancers, the shapes the dancers are making and how they utilize the space on the floor, and then the larger structure of who is dancing when.

In the typical choreographic setting, the choreographer takes a recording they want to use, they press play, and they start writing out the moves. This isn’t that at all.

BalletCollective comprises members of the prestigious New York City Ballet.

We spend months and months constantly questioning ourselves and each other, questioning our decisions.

I’m very lucky to have a group of dancers whose styles and abilities I know very well. They each have very different dance personalities. We try and utilize their strengths.

And of course in our conversation we’re always pushing people outside their comfort level. But their reaction might push you out of your comfort level.

In other art forms, the artist can spend time in solitude working on their art, whether it’s composing music, writing a novel, or painting. But in our process you have to be malleable in the moment. That is what’s unique about our choreography, in this method that we use.

It can be a terrifying thing to write a symphony in front of the same orchestra that will play it! But that’s a good description of what we do.

What can we expect at this particular performance?

We curate each season around a particular art form. This year we picked architecture, and we’re working with two renowned architects, James Ramsey and Carlos Anaiz.

Going into the whole thing we thought, well, architectural drawings are beautiful, but they could also be a literal blueprint of how to intellectually transcribe an idea into dance.

But in working with these architects we realized the great emotional and

contextual place that their work comes from. We started channeling the emotional starting points of the concepts that drive them, rather than architectural ideas and techniques per se.

BalletCollective doesn’t do classical repertoire, so it seems like the use of “ballet” in the name is a deliberate decision, rather than “modern” or “contemporary.” Why? We do use it deliberately, mostly as a reference to the level of our training. These dancers are amazing beings. They spend decades teaching their bodies to do amazing things, to superarticulate every joint.

They are superhuman in a way. They exhibit a level of precision unlike many other dancers. We require a very high level of athleticism and musical ability.

This is the first time the South will see this performance.

I’m originally from Stone Mountain, Ga., so I’m very excited to bring this show to my home state!

But you’ve never brought your work to Atlanta?

No! Savannah will be the first. There are friends driving in from all over to see it. It’s going to be so much fun! CS BalletCollective performs Sun. March 26 at 2 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre. Tickets $37-67 at savannahmusicfestival.org

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WE OFTEN view dance as an interpretation of music. But what happens when music and dance are created simultaneously, with dancers collaborating with both composer and choreographer?

Leading the way in this unique collaborative process is BalletCollective. Made up of dancers from the legendary New York City Ballet and directed by acclaimed choreographer Troy Schumacher, BalletCollective combines the precise athleticism of highly trained dancers with a communal approach to music and choreography.

Their Southern premiere at the Savannah Music Festival, with live music by Hotel Elefant, blends themes as disparate as an Allen Iverson jump shot, the isolation of Manhattan life, and New York’s new Lowline urban reclamation project.

We spoke to Schumacher last week.

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Savannah’s ‘gleaming musical treasure’ Savannah Music Festival’s Rob Gibson talks about this year’s premiere-studded event

BY JIM MOREKIS

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SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL Executive and Artistic Director Rob Gibson is now in his 15th year at the helm of the beloved local cultural event.

This year’s edition promises an even more diverse and compelling lineup than we’re already accustomed to, which is saying quite a bit.

We caught up with Rob last week to talk about the performances, and his point of view on the state of the arts in Savannah.

There are some really unique shows this year. How do you find these things?

The Brahms vs. Tchaikovsky show we’re bringing, for example, I saw that in Bristol, England, at the Bristol Proms.

Most people don’t realize the two composers were contemporaries and pretty much detested one another. There’s an actor playing Brahms and another playing Tchaikovsky, in a fictitious script about their rivalry that plays out between the pieces of music.

This uses a lot of cameras to give the audience multiple views, in a multimedia/ theatrical presentation. The presentation makes it very modern, and also interesting for people who aren’t used to attending chamber music.

Their performance in Savannah is literally the second time this production will ever happen, anywhere. And I think it’s actually a better production here, because we’re spending more money with the cameras and big screen.

We try every year to give people onetime-only productions like that. We have special double bills that happen only in Savannah. You literally can’t see them anywhere else in the world.

What are some other things this year that have you hyped?

MAR 22-28, 2017

We’ve got a fantastic group from Haiti, Chouk Bwa Libète, making their U.S. debut at the Savannah Music Festival. I saw them at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival. It’s one of the most incredible perfor26 mances I’ve ever seen. I decided we had to

have them in Savannah.

They’re not playing anywhere else in the U.S. We’re flying them in from Port Au Prince to Atlanta and down to Savannah, just for this! You can imagine in this era how challenging that was.

And they will play in a room that holds only 300 people. This will be one of the most intense performances you’ll ever witness.

It must be an ever-increasing challenge finding the right venues in Savannah for these acts.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre was modern — in 1967! But it’s tired as a facility.

Performers and audiences today expect a more modernized and better sound.

I have to remind people that we live in a city without a concert hall. We don’t have an opera house. In any little community in Europe, and many in the U.S., they’ve got an opera house and a concert hall.

Charleston had a version of the Johnny Mercer Theatre, the Gaillard. They redid it, and shrunk the seating from 2800 to 2000 seats. But it cost $150 million to do it.

Now they’re talking about building a whole arena here in Savannah for about that same amount. Which really can’t be done for that amount of money, whether people realize it or not.

Right now, every single day on I-95 there are artists and musicians in a tour bus driving right by Savannah. They’re going from Charleston to Jacksonville, or maybe from Asheville to Miami. We just don’t have the venue for them here.

I love the Lucas and Trustees for what they are. But they were built as movie palaces, in the ‘20s and ‘40s respectively.

Their design is clearly for watching a movie on a big screen, the purpose for which they’re originally designed.

Savannah also has historic places of worship, which are very unique places to have performances. They’re doing great things over at the Ships of the Sea, which we’re happy to use as a venue.

And of course the Charles Morris Center has been a fantastic venue for us. We practically live there during the Festival.

I know a lot of folks who specifically come to see shows at the Morris Center and Ships of the Sea because they say they like the intimacy of those places.

‘We have special double bills that happen only in Savannah. You literally can’t see them anywhere else in the world.’

Live jazz in a small venue can be a lifechanging experience.

We’ve got some master level jazz people coming. We’ve got Rodney Whitaker, an incredible bass player who has over the last 12-15 years built an amazing program at Michigan State. It’s a band made up of faculty members, so they decided to call themselves the Professors of Jazz.

That same night we’ll have Marcus Printup from Conyers, Georgia. He created this group called The Youngbloods, basically kids between 18-23 So we will have the Professors of Jazz and the Youngbloods playing one smokin’ night at the Morris Center.

We’ll have Joey DeFrancesco, probably the best organ player of our time. We’ve got Ike Stubblefield, the best Hammond B3 player in the South today. And the Monk And Dizzy at 100 show at the Lucas will bring a marvelous cast of people together, in more of a big band setting.

Challenges aside, booking this Festival must be a blast.

I’ve been doing this kind of work for basically 35 years. I’m in my 15th year at the

Savannah Music Festival. I like to think I’m getting better at it (laughs). Right now we’re trying to finish booking the 2018 Festival. I’d say we’ve got about 60 percent done. We’ve even got some for 2019 done.

It’s tricky because classical music really has to be booked two years in advance. You can book some bluegrass about 9 months to a year out. You can’t book most rock music until about 5-6 months out at the most.

That’s just the nature of that type of music.

They can wait for the phone to ring.

For example, the Avett Brothers, who have been with us before, they have changed and evolved so much. They’re a well-oiled machine now. They’re doing two nights with us, but they can sell out 12,000 seat arenas now with no problem.

Jason Isbell is another one like that. He played at Ships of the Sea last time he was here, and since then has just taken off. He’s graduated, in a sense, to the bigger Johnny Mercer.

Where does the upcoming Cultural Arts Center fit into your future plans?

Or does it?

Well, it’s being built as we speak, and it’s happening regardless of what you and I say about it. And I’ll tell you the same thing I’ve said in numerous op-eds and letters to the editor.

All I ever wanted was for them to rethink the Cultural Arts Center as more of a public/private partnership. Then you could go out and find those people willing to gift a million dollars to put their name on a seat.

That would alleviate some of the burden on taxpayers. Then you can take what’s short in the budget and create a finer performance space.

But that just wasn’t the thinking out of City Hall at the time. I think the new person in that position [City Manager Rob Hernandez] will do a much better job. I think he has a real task to do in front of him. But I’m pulling for him.

I will say we are lucky to live in a city that continues to fund culture like Savannah does. That’s not a given by any means.

Of course you remember what happened when it was suggested to slash cultural funding. Don’t think that’s not going to come up again someday.

The City of Savannah remains our largest supporter and we value that relationship. We’re helping to sell 12,000 hotel rooms, we’re filling up restaurants over town. We don’t look at the funding they give us as a gift — we think of it as the City making an investment in what we do.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution just called us “one of the gleaming musical treasures of the Southeast.” You can’t buy that type of positive press for our city. I don’t know very many other local cultural organizations generating that kind of national spotlight. CS

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Nikki Lane

The Travelin McCourys

Parker Millsap

THURSDAY, MARCH 23

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

T’Monde 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Cajun Dance Party: Feufollet / Pine Leaf Boys 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Brahms vs. Tchaikovsky 6:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts The Avett Brothers 8:00 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre Cajun Dance Party: Feufollet / Pine Leaf Boys

Trinity United Methodist Church

MONDAY, MARCH 27

Daniel Hope

Che Malambo

8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Lafayette Late Night Jam: Arrête Pas La Musique!

11:00 p.m.

B. Matthew’s Eatery Germán López / Joel Savoy & Kelli Jones 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center DakhaBrakha: Dovzhenko’s Earth 3:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Le Vent du Nord / De Temps Antan 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center William Bell

8:00 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Le Vent du Nord / De Temps Antan 8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

SUNDAY, MARCH 26

BalletCollective: What Comes Next 2:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Arias & Encores 4:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Ebène Quartet with Daniel Hope & Simon-Crawford Phillips 6:00 p.m.

Leyla McCalla 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Beethoven and Beyond: Part II 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Haitian Roots: Chouk Bwa Libète / Leyla McCalla feat.

Dom Flemons 7:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

TUESDAY, MARCH 28

Stewart Goodyear: Beethoven Sonatathon 10:00 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Dom Flemons, solo 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Stewart Goodyear: Beethoven Sonatathon 3:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Songsters & Stringbands: Dom Flemons / Foghorn Stringband 7:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

MAR 22-28, 2017

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Beethoven and Beyond: Part I 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Arias & Encores 6:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Flatt Lonesome 7:00 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum The Avett Brothers 8:00 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre

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William Bell

Stewart Goodyear: Beethoven Sonatathon 8:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Jazz Organ Summit: Joey DeFrancesco & The People / Ike Stubblefield Trio 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Jan Lisiecki, piano 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Jazz Organ Summit: Joey DeFrancesco & The People / Ike Stubblefield Trio 8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

Sounds of Kolachi

SUNDAY, APRIL 2

Richard Thompson / Sarah Jarosz 3:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Hiss Golden Messenger / Sounds of Kolachi 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Daniel Hope & Friends feat. Edgar Meyer and the Dover Quartet 6:00 p.m.

Temple Mickve Israel

THURSDAY, MARCH 30

MAR 22-28, 2017

Ike Stubblefield Trio 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Swing Central Jazz: Jazz on the River 4:00 p.m.

Rousakis Plaza Professors & Youngbloods: Rodney Whitaker & MSU Professors of Jazz / Marcus Printup & Youngbloods 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Mozart & His Legacy 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Jerry Douglas presents the Earls of Leicester 7:30 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Patrick Watson 8:30 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Professors & Youngbloods: Rodney Whitaker & MSU Professors of Jazz / Marcus Printup & Youngbloods 8:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

Swing Central Jazz: The Competition 8:30 a.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts 28 Passionate Piano Trios

MONDAY, APRIL 3

T’Monde

11:00 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Marcus Printup & Youngbloods 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Grateful Ball feat. Travelin’ McCourys & Jeff Austin Band 5:00 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Monk and Dizzy at 100: Swing Central Jazz Finale 6:30 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Grateful Ball feat. Travelin’ McCourys & Jeff Austin Band 8:30 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Late Night Jazz Jam 10:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

SATURDAY, APRIL 1

Dover Quartet 11:00 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church

Piano Showdown: Chucho Valdés, Marcus Roberts and Danilo Pérez 3:00 p.m.

Trustees Theater Chicago Blues Meets Gulf Coast Boogie: Lurrie Bell / Marcia Ball with Paul Oscher 4:30 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Edgar Meyer & Mike Marshall 6:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Chicago Blues Meets Gulf Coast Boogie: Lurrie Bell / Marcia Ball with Paul Oscher 8:00 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Jason Isbell 8:00 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre Hiss Golden Messenger / Sounds of Kolachi 9:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

Sutton, Holt & Coleman / Noam Pikelny 5:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center David Finckel & Wu Han 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Sutton, Holt & Coleman / Noam Pikelny 8:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

TUESDAY, APRIL 4

Máirtín O’Connor Trio 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Máirtín O’Connor Trio / Molsky’s Mountain Drifters 5:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center All Dvořák: Daniel Hope & Friends feat. David Finckel, Wu Han & the Dover Quartet 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Máirtín O’Connor Trio / Molsky’s Mountain Drifters 8:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 Molsky’s Mountain Drifters 12:30 p.m.

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Charles H. Morris Center Lawrence Power, viola 6:00 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Masters of Brazilian Music: Hermeto Pascoal / Danilo Brito Quintet 7:30 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Charles H. Morris Center Gerald Clayton’s Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation featuring René Marie 8:00 p.m.

Trustees Theater Justin Townes Earle 8:30 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Zydeco Dance Party: Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie 9:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

Sebastian Knauer, piano 11:00 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Danilo Brito Quintet 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Release the Hounds: An Evening with Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge / Aoife O’Donovan 5:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Che Malambo 7:00 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Nikki Lane / Parker Millsap 8:30 p.m.

North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum Release the Hounds: An Evening with Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge / Aoife O’Donovan 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

Ike Stubblefield

Charles H. Morris Center

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

Into the Romantics 11:00 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church Joe Alterman Trio 12:30 p.m.

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Sanam Marvi 3:00 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers 7:30 p.m.

Trustees Theater Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough 8:00 p.m.

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BY ANNA CHANDLER anna@connectsavannah.com

Often called the first metal band to top the pop chart, Quiet Riot helped define rock ‘n’ roll in the 1980s.

Founded in 1973 by legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, the band debuted as Quiet Riot in 1975 along with vocalist Kevin Dubrow and drummer Drew Forsyth. The band released two albums through Columbia Records in 1978 and 1979. After Rhoads left to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band, Quiet Riot broke up and Dubrow began a new project under his own name.

After some time, he took the Quiet Riot mantle back up, hitting the studio with guitarist Carlos Cavazo and bassist Rudy Zarzo to record the band’s signature record, Metal Health. The 1983 album produced the iconic single “Cum on Feel the Noize,” (originally recorded by the band Slade in 1973) dominating the charts and going platinum five times.

The band’s gone through many brief breakups, reformations, and lineup changes throughout the years, continuing to record with Dubrow until his unexpected death in 2007. After his passing, several singers were brought in to replace Dubrow, and Savannah can catch fresh talent James Durbin taking the reins at The Stage on Bay. Durbin was a finalist on American Idol and a fan favorite; he’ll record the new Quiet Riot album Road Rage with the band. The album is set to be released sometime this summer. The young singer has expressed a desire to help elevate the band to its original glory and honor Dubrow’s legacy.

In collaboration with Rock 106.1, The Stage on Bay is hosting a free Battle of the Bands on Thursday, March 23, at 7 p.m. The winner, determined by the crowd, will earn the opening spot at Quiet Riot’s concert. Local bands Lindsy Says, Street Clothes, and Groove Town Assault are competing.

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, DOORS AT 7 P.M., SHOW AT 8 P.M., $25 VIA SAVCONCERTS.COM, ALL-AGES

BACKUP PLANET, JIVE MOTHER MARY @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH

MAR 22-28, 2017

BACKUP PLANET

Nashville-based experimental funk band Backup Planet brings their high-energy show to Barrelhouse South. Blending technical proficiency with huge hooks and funky flair, the quartet has gained a loyal following for their modern, innovative sound.

The band is touring in support of their second full-length album, Reactions, coming out on Friday, March 31. The record was recorded at Syncromesh Studios in Birmingham, Alabama with acclaimed producer Jason Elgin behind the board. Elgin, who’s worked with bands like Collective Soul and Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, worked with the band to highlight their intricate songwriting, musical prowess, and dynamic vocals.

Their flexible sound has earned Backup Planet opening spots for The Revivalists, Papadosio, and more, and led them to a deal with management firm Red Light Management, home of Dave Matthews Band, Phish, and My Morning Jacket.

Burlington, North Carolina’s Jive Mother Mary kicks off the show. The four-piece performs harmonious, anthemic Southern Rock with a soulful spirit.

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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QUIET RIOT @THE STAGE ON BAY

A TRIBUTE TO DR. RALPH STANLEY @THE MARS THEATRE

In 2015, The Mars Theatre in Springfield hosted one of America’s most unique and influential performers, Dr. Ralph Stanley. The musical icon passed away in 2016 and his grandson, Nathan Stanley, has put together a loving tribute to his grandfather’s work and legacy, bringing the classic songs back to the historic stage.

Nathan made his Grand Ole Opry and musical debut when he was just two years old, playing the spoons with The Clinch Mountain Boys. In 2007, he became the lead singer and rhythm guitar player in his grandfather’s legendary band.

That impressive first gig paved the way for a stellar music career for Nathan, leading him to record with Brad Paisley, George Jones, Marty Stuart, Patty Loveless, and more. He’s recorded eight solo albums, merging bluegrass and gospel to create a faith-inspired sound.

Nathan’s work has earned him many accolades; his single “White Dove” hit #1 on the Inspirational Country Music charts in 2011, and his record My Kind of Country was named Classic Country Album of the Year by The National Traditional Country Music Association. In 2014, the album Every Mile earned Nathan a GMA Dove Award nomination and took home the award for Bluegrass Album of the Year.

His concert at The Mars Theatre will highlight favorite songs and memories from Dr. Ralph Stanley’s storied career.

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 7 P.M., $20 VIA MARSTHEATRE.COM, ALL-AGES

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DEAR BLANCA

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THOSE LAVENDER WHALES, CLOUDS & SATELLITES, DEAR BLANCA @EL-ROCKO LOUNGE

REVEREND HORTON HEAT, UNKNOWN HINSON, THE GODDAMN GALLOWS, BIRDCLOUD @THE JINX

Well, here’s one for the books, folks. Three of Savannah’s favorite visitors of the rockabilly/psychobilly/gutterbilly persuasion are back, this time sharing a stage together, for a truly epic show.

Reverend Horton Heat came through and sold out the crowd in 2014 in support of his last album, simply titled Rev. The Rev and his band kicked out old favorites like “Psychobilly Freakout” and shared new hits like “Let Me Teach You How To Eat” and “Victory Lap.” It’s good to see Unknown Hinson coming back to our fair city. After quitting touring altogether in 2012, he’s been back on the road, sideburns and vamp teeth intact, ever the raucous and hysterical performer.

Gutterbilly favorites The Goddamn Gallows, always a hit at The Jinx, just finished writing their sixth studio recording last week. They’ll begin recording the effort in Detroit in May. Birdcloud is a Tennessee two-piece dishing out modern country music about “the real America.”

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Beloved Columbia, South Carolina indie band Those Lavender Whales is back on the road with a new record.

In 2014, doctors found an astrocytoma, a rare, life-threatening tumor, in singer Aaron Graves’s brain. After years of treatment, Graves has explored the struggle on the band’s latest album, My Bones are Singing. Released Fork & Spoon Records, the album is classic Those Lavender Whales with Graves’s honest, earnest lyrics coasting over wry pop stylings. While the songs never directly address his struggle with cancer, My Bones are Singing delves into themes of losing time and questioning one’s place in the universe, and spiritual questionings.

Recorded with Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi in Berkeley, California and in Graves’s home in Columbia, the album is a deeply personal follow-up to 2012’s Tomahawk of Praise.

Those Lavender Whales are joined by Columbia brethren Dear Blanca. The indie band blends elements of folk, blues, post-punk, and vintage rock ‘n’ roll, a sound that culminates beautifully on their latest EP, “To Tell a Half-Truth.”

They’re joined by a three-piece version of Savannah indie-Americana band Clouds & Satellites.

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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WEDNESDAY 3.22

Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South VuDu Shakedown, 10 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, 9 p.m.

Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m.

CO/Savannah Cocktail Company VuDu Cocktail Acoustic Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m.

Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ricky Standard, 7:30 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Levi Moore, 7 p.m.

PS Tavern Trivia, 7 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Jeremy Riddle, 10 p.m.

The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Latin Music Night, 9 p.m.

Tree House Wobble Wednesday Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m.

White Rabbit Wobble Wednesdays w/ CLVLND Wild Wing Cafe Brandon Reeves, 5 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 9 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m.

Club One Drag Show

SATURDAY 3.25 LIVE MUSIC

Selector Dub Narcotic, Daniel Brady Lynch @GRAVEFACE RECORDS & CURIOSITIES

TRIVIA & GAMES

The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m.

Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo, 10 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Team Trivia, 8:45 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Tubby’s Trivia, 7 p.m.

World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke hosted by K-Rawk, 8 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Totally Awesome Bar Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy, 9 p.m.

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

THURSDAY 3.23

MAR 22-28, 2017

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Barrelhouse South The Orange Constant Album Release Party, 10 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Jan Spillane, 6:30 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Tahah

The influential Calvin Johnson, founder of K Records and member of numerous beloved projects, including Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders, and Cool Rays, returns to perform a solo set as Selector Dub Narcotic at Graveface. Daniel Brady Lynch (Sunglow, Cray Bags, The Lipschitz) joins.

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 7 P.M., $5, ALL-AGES Graveface Records & Curiosities Selector Dub Narcotic, Daniel Brady Lynch, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Shane and Andrew, 7:30 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Georgia Kyle, 7 p.m.

The Stage on Bay Quiet Riot Band Opening Contest, 7 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Stan Ray Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Totally Awesome Bar DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Eric Britt, 6 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Rachael Shaner, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Acoustic Thursday, 6 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 6 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

The Britannia British Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Butt Naked Trivia with Kowboi, 7 p.m.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m.

Totally Awesome Bar 80s and 90s Trivia, 8 p.m.

Tybee Island Social Club Trivia,

7:30 p.m.

Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m.

KARAOKE

FRIDAY 3.24

Applebee’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Trivia and Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night, 9 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke, 8 p.m.

PS Tavern Karaoke Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m.

World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

DJ

Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout, 10 p.m.

The Jinx DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao Mediterranean Tavern DJ Kirby Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Daas

LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South Pato Banton and the Now Generation, Scholars Word, 10 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Georgia Kyle, 7 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Casimir’s Lounge Tradewinds, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Chew, 10:30 p.m.

Dockside Seafood Bluegrass Happy Hour, 4 p.m.

Driftaway Cafe Cory Chambers, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Those Lavender Whales, Clouds & Satellites, Dear Blanca, 9 p.m.

Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Anne Allman, 6:30 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Shrimp City Slim, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Scaryoke, 10 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Justin Morris, 7 p.m.

PS Tavern Stan Ray, 5 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m.

Savannah’s Music City Bar and

Grill Live Music The Shrimp Factory Ben Keiser The Stage on Bay Quiet Riot, 8 p.m.

Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Eric Britt, Johnny Octane, 2 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe The Hypnotics, Bill Hodgson, Andalyn, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Josh Johansson, 9:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Star Period Star, Philip Polk Palmer, Pussy Launcher, 9 p.m.

The Wyld Dock Bar Velvet Caravan, 7 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Coach’s Corner Trivia, Movies & Music Trivia, 8 p.m.

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

DJ

Club 309 West DJ Zay Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ D-Frost

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Barrelhouse South Backup Planet, Jive Mother Mary, 10 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli The Dimes Band, 7:30 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Casimir’s Lounge Jackson Evans Trio, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Bella’s Bartok, 10:30 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ Precisa Jazz’d Tapas Bar Shrimp City Slim, 9 p.m.

The Jinx The Rumjacks, In For A Penny, The Muckers, 10 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Susanna Kennedy, 7 p.m.

Mars Theatre Nathan Stanley, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth PS Tavern Stan Ray, 6 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Live Music The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Space Station @Starlandia Supply Dad Joke #39: Hand Grenade Job, Orthodox, Ankle Sox, 9 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater The Charlie Fog Band Presents Grateful Dead, 7 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Susanna Kennedy, Epic Cycle, 2 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Bill Hodgson, Groovetown Assault, 1 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Clear Daze, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Applebee’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

COMEDY

The Wormhole Comedy Planet presents Zach Albers, 7:30 p.m.

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Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Exclusives Bar & Grille Open Mic Poetry Night, 7 p.m.

Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

COMEDY

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MONDAY 3.27

SUNDAY 3.26 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eric Britt, 7 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Eric Britt, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, noon Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Irritating Julie, 1 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Molly Mondays, 10:30 p.m.

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LIVE MUSIC

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic with Craig Tanner and Mr. Williams, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Cohen’s Retreat Monday Munchies and Music, 5:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Ray Tomasino, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Josh Johansson, 5 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 8 p.m., Open Mic, 6 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Team Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Britannia British Pub Bingo, 8 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo

KARAOKE

Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

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912-236-7122 17hundred90.com

Abe’s on Lincoln 17 Lincoln St. Savannah-Downtown 912-349-0525 abesonlincoln.com

Applebee’s 1492 E. Oglethorpe Hwy. Hinesville 912-369-4909 applebees.com

Barrelhouse South 125 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-662-5576 barrelhousesouth.com

Basil’s Pizza and Deli 216 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Wilmington Island 912-897-6400 basilsonline.com

Bay Street Blues 17 E. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-6655

Bayou Cafe 14 N. Abercorn St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-6411 bayousavannah.com

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s 20 E. Perry St. Savannah-Downtown

912-231-9049 billysplacesavannah.com

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina 1611 Habersham St. Savannah-Midtown 912-231-2385 blowinsmokesavannah.com

Blueberry Hill 546 Dean Forest Rd. Savannah-Westside 964-8401

Boomy’s 409 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-436-6660 boomysbar.com

The Britannia British Pub 140 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Wilmington Island 912-898-4257

Casimir’s Lounge 700 Drayton St. Savannah-Midtown

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The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Savannah-Downtown 912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

Chuck’s Bar 305 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-1005

Club 309 West 309 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-1901 club309west.com

Club One 1 Jefferson St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

CO/Savannah Cocktail Company 10 Whitaker Street Savannah-Downtown 912.234.5375 www.eatatco.com/

Coach’s Corner 3016 E. Victory Dr. Savannah-Eastside 912-352-2933 coachs.net

CoCo’s Sunset Grille 1 Old U.S. Hwy. 80 Tybee Island 912-786-7810 cocostybee.com

coffee deli 4517 Habersham St. Savannah-Midtown

912-352-7818 savannahcoffeedeli.com

Cohen’s Retreat 5715 Skidaway Rd. Savannah-Midtown Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-238-1985 congressstreetsocialclub.com

Dockside Seafood 201 West River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-3810

Doodles 586 S. Columbia Ave. Rincon 912-295-2536

Doubles Nightclub 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah-Southside 912-352-7100

Driftaway Cafe 7400 Skidaway Rd. Savannah-Southside

912-303-0999 www.driftawaycafe.com

Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown (912) 200-3652 dubspubriverstreet.com

El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-5808

Exclusives Bar & Grille 2003 Greenwood Street Savannah-Eastside 912-695-2116

Fia Rua Irish Pub 10132 Ford Ave. Richmond Hill 912-459-4160 fiaruairishpub.com

Fiore Italian Bar and Grill 7360 Skidaway Rd. Isle of Hope 912-349-2609 fioreitalianbarandgrill.com

Five Oaks Taproom 201 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-4440 fiveoakstaproom.com

Flashback 10010-B Ford Ave. Richmond Hill 912-428-1643

Foxy Loxy Cafe 1919 Bull St. Savannah-Downtown 912-401-0543 foxyloxycafe.com

Graveface Records & Curiosities 5 W. 40th Street Savannah-Downtown 912 335 8018 www.graveface.com/

Hercules Bar & Grill 2500 Dean Forest Rd. Savannah-Westside 912-966-5790

The Islander 301 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Wilmington Island 912-897-6137

Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St. Savannah-Downtown

912-236-7777 www.jazzdsavannah.com

The Jinx 127 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-236-2281

Jukebox Bar & Grill 3741 US Hwy 17 Ste 500 Richmond Hill 912-756-6997

Little Lucky’s 6 Gateway Blvd. E. Savannah-Southside 912-925-1119

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Rail Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Chuck’s Bar Comedy Open Mic, 9:30 p.m.

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m.

D I R E C T O R Y

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-341-8897

Mars Theatre 109 S. Laurel Street Springfield

912-754-1118 www.marstheatre.com

McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St. Savannah-Downtown

912-233-6136 mcdonoughssavannah.com

Mediterranean Tavern 125 Foxfield Way Pooler 912-988-1052

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-0705 mellowmushroom.com

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina 2518 Hwy 17 Richmond Hill 912-459-6357 melscoastalcafe.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub 311 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-239-9600 macphersonspub.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) 110 Towne Center Dr. Pooler 912-348-3200 macphersonspub.com

The Olde Pink House 23 Abercorn St. Savannah-Downtown

912-232-4286 www.plantersinnsavannah.com

Pour Larry’s 206 W. St. Julian St. Savannah-Downtown 912-232-5778

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Trivia, 7 p.m.

Coach’s Corner Trivia, 8 p.m.

CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia, 7 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Trivia, 10 p.m.

Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Battle of The Sexes Game, 9 p.m.

Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Trivia, 9 p.m.

The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

LIVE MUSIC

Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m.

Foxy Loxy Cafe Resonant Rogues, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ray Lundy, 7 p.m.

The Jinx Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, The Goddamn Gallows, Birdcloud, 7:30 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Luke Lander, 7 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Open Mic The Sentient Bean Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay, 5 p.m.

S O U N D B O A R D 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant 307 E. President St. Savannah-Downtown

TRIVIA & GAMES

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

PS Tavern 11 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-495-5145

Rachael’s 1190 1190 King George Blvd.

Savannah-Southside 912-920-7772 rachaels1190.com

The Rail Pub 405 W. Congress St. Savannah-Downtown 912-238-1311 therailpub.com/

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant 402 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Savannah-Downtown 912-292-1656 ranchoalegrecuban.com

Rusty Rudders Tap House 303 W. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-944-6302

Ruth’s Chris Steak House 111 W. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown 912-721-4800 ruthschris.com

The Sandbar 1512 Butler Ave. Tybee Island 912-786-8304

Savannah Taphouse 125 E. Broughton St. Savannah-Downtown 912-201-8277 savannahtaphouse.com

Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill 65 Fairmont Ave. Savannah-Southside SEED Eco Lounge 39 Montgomery St. Savannah-Downtown 912-349-5100

The Sentient Bean 13 E. Park Ave. Savannah-Downtown

Tybee Post Theater 10 Van Horn Tybee Island

The Shrimp Factory 313 East River Street Savannah-Downtown

Vic’s on The River 26 E. Bay St. Savannah-Downtown

The Stage on Bay 1200 West Bay St. Savannah-Downtown

The Warehouse 18 E. River St. Savannah-Downtown

912-232-4447 sentientbean.com

912-236-4229 www.theshrimpfactory.com

savconcerts.com

Sunny’s Lounge 5630 Ogeechee Rd. Savannah-Southside 912-234-6628

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill 11215 Abercorn St. Savannah-Southside

912-633-1099 www.tybeeposttheater.org

912-721-1000 vicsontheriver.com

912-234-6003 thewarehousebarandgrille.com

Wet Willie’s 101 E. River St. Savannah-Downtown 912-233-5650 wetwillies.com

Tijuana Flats 1800 E. Victory Dr. Savannah-Midtown

White Rabbit 307 W. River Street Savannah-Downtown Wild Wing Cafe 27 Barnard St. Savannah-Downtown

Totally Awesome Bar 107 B Whitaker St. Savannah-Downtown

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) 417 Pooler Pkwy.

Pooler

912-921-2269

912-344-9111 tijuanaflats.com

912-495-5945

Tree House 309 W. St. Julian St. Savannah-Downtown

912-239-0095 treehousesavannah.com

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) 2909 River Dr. Thunderbolt 912-354-9040 www.liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt

Tybee Island Social Club 1311 Butler Ave. Tybee Island

912-472-4044 tybeeislandsocialclub.com

912-790-9464 wildwingcafe.com

912-208-3700 wildwingcafe.com

World of Beer 112 W. Broughton St. Savannah-Downtown 912-443-1515 worldofbeer.com

The Wormhole 2307 Bull St. Savannah-Midtown 912-713-2855 wormholebar.com

The Wyld Dock Bar 2740 Livingston Ave. Savannah-Eastside 912-692-1219 thewylddockbar.com

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MAR 22-28, 2017

A good parade isn’t so hard to find Celebrate Flannery

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O’Connor’s birthday with fanfare, local authors, costumes and cake

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavannah.com

A good parade isn’t so hard to find Celebrate Flannery O’Connor’s birthday with fanfare, local authors, costumes and cake If there’s anywhere more appropriate to break out your grandmother’s lace gloves on a spring Sunday than Lafayette Square, I’ll eat the matching hat.

With an absence of monuments and the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist presiding above the oaks, this shady spot offers a charm more subdued and perhaps more sacred than some of Savannah’s more raucous public places. There’s also something about ironic about its rare respite in the bustling historic district, inspiring a kind of bittersweet nostalgia for Southern propriety and its bygone accessories.

Vintage attire is definitely de rigeur at the annual Flannery O’Connor Birthday Parade & Street Fair, taking place around and in Lafayette Square on March 26. The quirky community event pays homage to Savannah’s local literary luminary with 1930s-era dress, celebratory activities and a deep appreciation for the Wise Blood author’s darkly humorous take on society and faith, which was cultivated in the modest three-story Greek revival house right across the street.

Andrew Hartzell always kicks things off with a drum roll, a signal to the Sweet Thunder Strolling Band to come to some kind of reasonable order.

“Most of Flannery’s childhood took place between these walls, the square and the Cathedral,” says Cody Shelley, the foundation manager of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home at 215 Charlton. “The birthday, the parade, the whole day connects us to her experiences.”

Those experiences include attending St. Vincent’s School for Girls and famously teaching a chicken to walk backwards in

the garden before moving to Milledgeville, where O’Connor raised peacocks and wrote her skewering cultural critiques. Yet the mischievous spirit of that “pigeon-toed child with a receding chin and a you-leaveme-alone-or-I’ll-bite-you complex” lives on with her birthday party every spring.

Conceived in 2012 by then-Home board president Christine Sajecki and community rabble-rouser Andrew Hartzell, the

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Characters from O’Connor’s books can usually be found among the costumes of cat-eyed glasses and tailored shirtwaists.

“This will be the fifth year will be joining the festivities,” says Book Lady proprietor Joni Saxon-Giusti, who will oversee book sales. “Over forty local authors and publishers will be in the square to share their work with the public. It’s a great opportunity for our community to see what great talent resides right here in our creative city.”

Flannery’s birthday is a family-friendly affair, and scampering around the peacock tail bandshell is always a hit with the kidlets, as is the storied tradition of chickenpoop bingo, which is exactly what it sounds like.

If the horns play too loud or the weather is too beautiful to handle, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home will be open all afternoon, admission fees waived in honor of the honoree. Shelley will be on hand to sign up new members and show off some of the Home’s new acquisitions, including a graduation photo of O’Connor cousin and patron Katie Semmes as well as a remarkably odd Victorian-era portrait above the mantle.

The afternoon concludes with a sheetcake adorned with peacock-blue frosting, daintily eaten by the Flannery faithful turned out in white gloves and pillbox hats.

Those costumes would have been normal churchwear in the author’s time, a funky marching band next to the Cathedral considered sacrilege back then. Yet Lafayette Square still holds a timeless quality that allows literarily-minded later generations to relate.

“We can connect to Flannery just by being here,” promises Shelley.

“She probably would have spent a spring Sunday afternoon playing in the square, just like us.”

FLANNERY O’CONNOR BIRTHDAY PARADE & STREET FAIR When: 1-4pm, Sunday, March 26 Where: Lafayette Square Cost: Free Info: flanneryoconnorhome.org

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first parade consisted of a bunch of folks shaking tambourines and carrying signs with O’Connor quotes. The eccentric procession became an officially-sanctioned Flannery celebration in 2013, a clarion call to the city’s artists, readers, writers and weirdos ever since.

Hartzell always kicks things off with a drum roll, a signal to the Sweet Thunder Strolling Band—made of up of a revolving cast of local musicians—to come to some kind of reasonable order. A popular fixture at many a community gathering past and present, the band was conceived at the behest of and tribute to another Savannah legend.

“Ben Tucker and I were talking one day about how there wasn’t a funky marching band in Savannah, and he told me to start one,” recalls Hartzell wistfully of the internationally-heralded jazz musician who was killed in a car accident oon after the Sweet Thunder Strolling Band debut in 2013. “Sweet Thunder is the name of his last album.”

Echoing Tucker’s tragedy and O’Connor’s penchant for emotional paradox, the band strikes a befitting chord between solemnity and frivolity, mixing up sing-a-long standards and classic hymnals as parade watchers become part of the spectacle.

Speaking of spectacles, characters from O’Connor’s books can usually be found among the costumes of cat-eyed glasses and tailored shirtwaists. Disgruntled gorillas and humble priests make appearances with nods to Wise Blood, and there’s usually some good country person carrying around a prosthetic leg.

Bumperstickers for sale in the Home quote, “All Writers Are Local Somewhere,” and the day’s literary love extends to the local writing community. Savannah writers will fill out the square as fiercely independent bookshop The Book Lady sponsors Local Authors Day, showcasing Jane Fishman, Rosemary Daniell, Bess Chapas, Tina Whittle, poets Danelle LaJeune and Tony Morris and many more.

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COUNTRY / NO COUNTRY — An exhibition of paintings and drawings exploring rural and urban, travel and home, man and wilderness, and the places where they all fold together.

Fri., March 24, 5 p.m. Roots Up Gallery, 6 E. Liberty Street.

ALT-AI — Telfair features selections from Alt-AI, an exhibition that explores artificial intelligence and machine learning through art. Presented works at Telfair include Gene Kogan’s “Cubist Mirror,” which transforms the viewer’s image into the style of a cubist painting, as well as Melanie Hoff and Druv Mehrotra’s “Dopplecam,” an app that matches your photograph with an image pulled from the Internet. Through March 26. telfair.org.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

ENCHANTED BY THE SEA — Cynthia Knott’s works capture the sea during moments of sublime drama. Knott’s en plein air paintings connect with the fascination of the horizon we have all felt. Her latest works are an impassioned pursuit of capturing the oceans, waterways and marshes of the lowcountry.

March 24-April 14. mansiononforsythpark. com. Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. LA MEMOIRE DE TERRE — This collection of photos by Jason B. James explores memories evoked by food. March 27-May 28. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. NO PLACE TO REST — Jay Jacobs uses acrylic on panel in a variety of shapes and sizes to create illustrative works that inspire the viewer to build their own story behind the

Work by Cynthia Knott is featured at Mansion on Forsyth Park’s Grand Bohemian Gallery, with a reception this Friday 4:30-8 p.m.

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spent eight weeks in Lacoste, France studying, painting and drawing. The exhibition includes both works from that trip and works created when they returned to Savannah.

March 23-25. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

ARTCADE — Featured works include London-based Robin Baumgarten’s ingenious, internationally-exhibited “Line Wobbler,” an abstract dungeon crawler game played with a spring controller and a 15-foot-long LED strip.

Also on display is art collective Kokoromi’s “Superhypercube,” a beautiful virtual reality puzzler recently released for the PSVR system, as well as Mason Lindroth’s strange and surreal game “Hylics.” “Don’t Touch Red” is an immersive cooperative game designed in SCAD’s Physical Computing class. Through March 26. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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BUILT: SAVANNAH — Built: Savannah is about the built environment here in Savannah. Whether the structure is a celebrated landmark, a piece of history, or an eyesore (or all of these combined), Location Gallery is showing 16 different artists’ own interpretation of what makes Savannah intriguing.

Gallery profits are donated to the Historic Savannah Foundation Revolving Fund. Through March 24. Location Gallery, 417 Whitaker St. DEFFECTIVE: DISNTINCTIVE IMPRESSION — Kurt Marsh Jr’s wood carvings impress upon the viewer the beauty found in nature’s imperfections. The holes, cracks and inclusions skillfully embraced by Kurt’s forms elevate, rather than spoil, the impact of these gorgeous carvings. Meet the artist March 10 at 4:30pm. Free Through March 31. 912-7215007. anna.quinlivan@kesslercollection. com. grandbohemiangallery.com/. The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St. FACE TO FACE: AMERICAN PORTRAITS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION — Spanning the period from the American Revolution to World War II, the paintings in this exhibition demonstrate the broad range of American portraiture found in Telfair’s permanent collection. Through May 1. telfair. org. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

LOW COUNTRY CALLINGS: GOIN’ WITH THE FLOW — This exhibition of large-format acrylics by Carol Lasell Miller comprises a narrative of Savannah’s maritime community in portraiture, with vital and vivid almost-lifesize portrayals of those who live and work here on our waterways. Through April 2. shipsofthesea.org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

NICK CAVE — This exhibition of Nick Cave’s work is the largest ever presented in Georgia, including work shown in the Southeast for the first time. Through April 23. telfair.org/ jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

OBJECTIFIED: STILL LIFES FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION — Objectified considers the traditional genre of still life as MANUFACTURING VICTORY: THE ARrepresented in the works of Telfair MuseSENAL OF DEMOCRACY — Manufacturing ums’ permanent collection. Presenting still Victory: The Arsenal of Democracy tells the lifes from the late 19th century through the inspiring story of the Home Front effort that present day, this exhibition invites viewers to produced tanks, planes, ships, and guns with consider the genre as a form ripe for artistic staggering speed and unparalleled energy, a exploration. Through June 11. telfair.org. surge in productivity that not only brought the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 country out of depression, but also created Barnard St. mighty military forces, supplied the Allies abroad, and opened new doors of opportunity RE-EMBODIED: FROM INFORMATION TO and social change. Through March 26. 912SCULPTURE — Featuring Heather Dewey988-1848. mightyeighth.org/. Mighty Eighth Hagborg’s unnerving portrait sculptures Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. based on DNA information extracted from materials that people leave behind, like chewME IMAGINO CUBA — Kim Huffman presing gum or hair. Courtney Brown and Sharif ents his recent photographs. Through April 3. Razzaque’s “RAWR! A Study in Sonic Skulls” galleryespresso.com/. Gallery Espresso, 234 builds upon scans of a hadrosaur to create a Bull St. sculpture that allows participants to recreate the sounds of an extinct creature. Through NANCY LEBEY SOLANA — Nancy Lebey April 9. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for Solana’s watercolors are in honor of her fathe Arts, 207 West York St. ther, Clifford, who spent the last six weeks of his life in Hospice House. Through March 31.

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OUR contributing photographer on the scene, John Alexander, took some amazing portraits of partiers and celebrants this past Friday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. The luck of the Irish prevailed, the weather was perfect, and the parade was one of the best in recent memory.

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Below Zero Dessert Bar + Café on Barnard builds on success of Broughton location

The Tsoi and Cutlip family plan to build a brand and introduce Savannah to new food trends.

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IT’S BEEN about eight months since Broughton Street welcomed the Savannah Seafood Shack and Below Zero Rolled Ice Cream, which opened its doors in July 2016.

Owners, husband and wife duo David and Christine Cutlip, as well as her father Timmy Tsoi and brother Jonathan Tsoi, were the first to introduce rolled ice cream to Savannah.

By now, Savannahians should be familiar with Below Zero Rolled Ice Cream, as it can be seen being made from scratch through the windows of their Broughton Street location.

This creamy frozen treat, which originated in Thailand, has a process that involves showmanship and skill. Those who pass by can observe ice-cream artisans pouring house-made cream onto a flat metal surface that is set well below 0°F. After blending any variety of goodies into the cream with a spatula, the mixture is spread into a thin sheet. Once it reaches a precise temperature, the now frozen cream is rolled into rosebud shaped tubes.

Each spiraled cylinder is placed into a deep round bowl and embellished with freshly cut fruits, confections and sauces.

As of Monday, March 20, the Cutlips and the Tsois have opened a brand new location called Below Zero Dessert Bar + Café at 10 Barnard Street. This new space is located in the former Season’s Café next to Ellis Square and around the corner from Five Guys.

So what is the biggest difference between the Barnard Street location and the one on Broughton? “The dessert bar and café will not concentrate on seafood,” Jonathan Tsoi clarifies.

While there will be a small selection of seafood dishes, like shrimp and fish tacos, they will not serve Savannah Seafood Shack’s popular Po’ Boys or Low Country Boils. The focus for the new menu will be fast and fresh, not fried.

They added “Dessert Bar + Café” to the Below Zero name because, in addition to rolled ice cream, they will be serving savory and sweet crepes, salads, and 40 sandwiches.

The Dessert Bar + Café will serve boba tea, a creamy non-dairy drink with tapioca pearls and popping pearl tea, green and black teas with small fruit juice filled balls.

This location is not about sitting down and eating a meal. It is more like getting a small bite and hanging out before or after dinner On top of that, Below Zero Dessert Bar + Café plans to serve unique teas. First, they will offer boba tea or bubble tea with tapioca pearls. This creamy non-dairy drink is sweet and refreshing with chewy marblesized balls resting on the bottom of a clear cup.

They will also serve chilled green and black teas with popping pearls. Popping pearls or popping boba originated in Asia.

These small juice filled balls are typically served on top of frozen yogurt.

However, when added to plain tea, the popping pearls add a fun burst of fruitiness when they erupt in your mouth. We can look forward to flavors like pomegranate, strawberry and mango.

Because the Cutlips and Tsois are always on the verge of cutting-edge experiences, they plan on sealing the teas with an autosealing machine. This securely fit, vibrant, smiley face “lid” allows patrons to throw their plastic cup, filled with tea, into a bag, stroller or backpack without it spilling!

So, if you are a traveling tourist or an on-the-go SCAD student, your tea will be safe and sound until you are ready to stab it with a large brightly colored straw.

But cool teas are only the beginning.

The family wants to continue growing the Savannah food scene. “In all of our ideas, we try to be the first for Savannah. We try to bring food trends from big cities into this smaller town,” says Jonathan.

Once they become established in their new location, the family is considering introducing Bubble Waffle Cones to our city. This spin on a waffle cone, crammed with ice cream and vibrant toppings, resembles over-sized bubble wrap. Imagine a dented-in waffle.

“People love to try something new.

Everyone is from different walks of life.

When they visit a new city, they want something different than what they can get at home,” Timmy Tsoi recognizes.

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His father, Timmy Tsoi, a seasoned entrepreneur, serves as his mentor through this process.

“A lot of people think owning a business is easy, but you have to know every aspect of it so you can fill in when you need to,” Tsoi explains. Jonathan Tsoi is looking forward to growing into his management position at the new Below Zero Dessert Bar + Café.

“The Below Zero name is what we want to try to build.” With that, Tsoi divulged that they plan on opening a third location on the Southside in an effort to reach all crowds, including locals.

For now, the family is committed to traveling around, looking for new food trends to introduce to Savannah.

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Another noticeable difference between the Dessert Bar + Café and the Seafood Shack is the appearance. The new space is trendier with modern white tile, grey walls, wooden benches and eclectic gold Edison bulb chandeliers.

“This location is not about sitting down and eating a meal. It is more like getting a small bite and hanging out before or after dinner,” says Timmy.

They plan on making the cue time faster than the Broughton location, using digital menus and an efficient ticket system.

Unlike the other restaurant, the Dessert Bar + Café is wider, “so people will not feel constrained.”

“It will be a more relaxing atmosphere where people can work,” Timmy says.

Timmy Tsoi expresses that they “want this to be a place to hang out, a place for people to sit down and plan the next step, a place to meet up and a place for SCAD students to do some work.”

Furthermore, techy people can rejoice.

With free Wi-Fi and all outlets having USB connections, the Barnard location is a recharging station for travelers and locals alike.

Don’t worry if you forget your charger, the Dessert Bar + Café will provide USB chargers for every platform.

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But wo beer festivals on the same day?

Well, that’s just Bananas.

No really, the Savannah Bananas are holding two beer festivals on the same day.

Hosting a morning beer fest and then an afternoon beer fest immediately after it was the crazy thing.

“We thought why not? Savannah can handle it,” ays Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole.

Tap of the Morning, as the a.m. version of the April 1 beer fest is called, and Afternoon Delight, the p.m. version, are the next great marketing events from the Savannah Bananas. Each will feature numerous breweries serving up over a hundred beers, food trucks to keep you fed (and sober) and some music to keep you entertained.

Here is the run down. Tap of the Morning opens, April 1 at 9:30 a.m. for you early birds, the food truck Big Cheese Legend will be serving up breakfast sandwiches, and the first of five bands scheduled through day will begin playing and the beers will start pouring.

Tap of the Morning closes up at 12:30 p.m. allowing everyone to take a breather, or a nap, and enjoy some between festival music. Afternoon Delight starts up at 2 p.m. and runs until 5. The Squeaky Beaver foodtruck will be on hand for afternoon snacking and the full slate of breweries will continue to pour. Entry for each festival is $35 but $50 VIP tickets earn you admission to both festivals and a few reserved beers samples.

The full brewery list has not been released yet but expect all your local favorites, Service, Moon River and Coastal, some of the usual larger craft breweries, Lagunitas, Oskar Blues and plenty of the hotter breweries like Bell’s, and Cigar City.

An all day beer fest can take a toll. So here is my tried and true beer festival survival guide: Eat: Food will help you make it through the day. Take advantage of those food trucks and eat before you go. Have a nice big breakfast or lunch before you go and your full belly will help keep the pace of your drinking level.

(Bonus pro tip: Avoid palate-killing spicy foods.)

Drink water: Hydrate before you enter the festival. Hydrate while at the festival.

Drink a glass of water for every glass of beer you drink.

Pace yourself: The day is about quality beer, not quantity. Sip and enjoy your beer.

Pay attention to the flavors in every beer you sample. Make comparisons and talk them over with your buddies. If you don’t like a beer, that’s OK, don’t drink it. Take a break every now and then to enjoy the music and talk to a beer rep.

Talk to brewery representatives: The reps aren’t there just to pour you a drink.

Beer representatives all love beer and beer lovers love to talk beer so ask questions, these guys are pros, you’ll get good answers.

Have a plan: Brewery participants for the Dual Fests are not listed yet but will be posted online before festival. Go in knowing what breweries you want to sample.

Feel free to wander from time to time but stick to your plan.

Charge your phone: You are certain to find a great beer you’ll want to revisit later.

There are several beer apps available that usually have a rating system, a means to record photographs and a means to take beer notes. You may also need it to call a for a ride.

Upgrade to VIP tickets: VIP tickets to beer festivals always have several perks that are usually worth it for the craft beer enthusiast. Tap of the Morning & Afternoon Delight Beer Fests VIP tickets access to special beers and free naps.

Have a safe ride home: NO ONE wants you driving home after drinking. Have a ride ready to pick you up or plan for a cab.

The Savannah Bananas have $10 designated driver tickets. Your ride can enjoy music while to drink up. CS The Tap of the Morning and Afternoon Delight beer fests both take place April 1st on the grounds of Grayson Stadium. Tickets to individual fests are $35. A VIP ticket will set you back $50 but gives you access to both festivals. Tap of the Morning runs from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Afternoon Delight 2-5:30 p.m. More information and tickets can be found at thesavannahbananas.com/beerfest or by calling 912-712-2482.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

ooo Admittedly, a live-action version of 1991’s Beauty and the Beast, one of Disney’s all-time great animated features, sounds like nothing more than a cash-grab, an easy way for the studio to make a mint off of gift-wrapped nostalgia.

What’s truly wondrous is that this new Beauty and the Beast is a powerful piece in its own right, with everyone involved shedding copious amounts of blood, sweat and candle wax to produce a picture that illuminates rather than tarnishes the legacy.

In a year in which several of the biggest hits have been little more than sops to fanboys and fanboy critics more interested in bloodletting than storytelling, here’s a film that should appeal to all demographics. The plot remains fundamentally unchanged from the ’91 model, and the narrative diversions that have been added along the way are acceptable and sometimes even manage to enhance particular points from its predecessor.

While some great individual moments don’t survive the transition—I particularly missed the “If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it” line, which never fails to amuse me — what is transferred unencumbered is a true sense of enchantment and an even truer sense of romance.

Starting with Emma Watson, who proves to be absolutely luminous as Belle, the cast is top-flight straight down the line.

As Belle’s father, Kevin Kline rescues the role from irrelevance—little more than dotty comic relief in ’91, here he’s a fully fleshed-out character with an added backstory that brings him into focus.

Ewan McGregor and Ian McKellen are

dandy providing the voices of Lumiere and Cogsworth, and Luke Evans amuses as the conceited Gaston. Even Josh Gad, typically as welcome as a rash, is fine as Gaston’s sidekick LeFou. LeFou, as everyone has doubtless heard by now, has been transformed into an openly gay character.

It’s a progressive change that neither helps nor hurts the overall narrative – ditto for the pair of mixed-race relationships found among major supporting players.

The 1991 Beauty and the Beast featured both the best song score and the best thematic score found in any Disney animated feature, and if there’s a major complaint to be lodged against this latest film, it’s that the new songs—doubtless added to snag an Oscar nomination or two—don’t compare to the original tunes and occasionally slow down the proceedings.

But in most other respects, from the vibrant visual sheen to the enormous emotional pull, this picture doesn’t disappoint.

To be sure, it’s no match for the animated take, which belongs in a special class all by itself. Yet on its own terms, it manages to return a splash of magic to the movies, even if only momentarily.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND

ooo For those who don’t keep up on such matters, the new Kong: Skull Island is part of a so-called “shared universe” of movies.

Just as the Marvel movies share a universe and the DC flicks operate in similar fashion, the new King Kong thriller likewise shares a MonsterVerse with 2014’s Godzilla and with the rash of M.U.T.O. (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism)

motion pictures barreling our way.

(Up next: Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019 and Godzilla vs. Kong in 2020.)

If it all seems a little too much like the result of brand marketing and capitalist co-opting and less like a natural ebb and flow in artistic temperament and intent, that’s par for the course. The biggest fear is that shared universes will become the norm in modern cinema, leading to that awkward point when, say, the young men from Moonlight team up with the La La Land lovebirds to prevent Paul Blart from inadvertently destroying a shopping mall owned by the Tyrell Corporation.

For now, though, it’s all eyes on Kong: Skull Island, an action romp that’s frequently clever, occasionally inane, and always exciting. Practically all ties to past Kong pictures have been neatly severed, from Carl Denham to Ann Driscoll to the Empire State Building.

About all that remains is what’s promoted in the title itself: the island and the ape. Certainly, the human players matter less than ever, with all but one character painted in the broadest strokes possible.

The glorious exception is Hank Marlow, played with the right mix of cheer and fear

by John C. Reilly. A fighter pilot who’s been stranded on Skull Island since World War II (the film itself is set in 1973, so cue the ample Creedence Clearwater Revival), Marlow proves to be the most sympathetic character in the film, the go-to figure for audience involvement.

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Jackson), government wonk (John Goodman), whiny company suit (John Ortiz), and various expendables in the form of scientists and soldiers. All are part of an expedition that arrives on Skull Island and proceeds to get ambushed not only by Kong but by other oversized inhabitants.

Before long, though, it becomes clear that the great ape doesn’t deserve to be lumped into the same category as the isle’s other beasties: Unlike the subterranean Skullcrawlers and a particularly nasty spider, Kong has far nobler reasons for employing his berserker rage against the hapless humans.

Like Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow and Fantastic Four’s Josh Trank, Jordan Vogt-Roberts is the latest indie filmmaker automatically entrusted with a franchise blockbuster. Clearly, the director responsible for 2013’s sweet coming-of-age tale Someone is very pleased with Kong: Skull Island, an action romp that’s frequently clever, occasionally inane, and always exciting.

The Kings of Summer has adapted better than the others. flicks, and, in the case of Logan, that turns are slaughtered with reckless abandon, unsettling seeing this great character Pacing is never an issue in Kong: Skull out to be an unfortunate development. and the end result makes Natural Born reduced to wasting away in his own piss Island, and some of the shot selections Set in the year 2029, the movie explores Killers look like The Sound of Music by and vomit while grappling with AlzheimVogt-Roberts devises with cinematograa landscape in which practically all comparison. er’s—it’s akin to watching Indiana Jones pher Larry Fong are exceptional: Note, Except that Oliver Stone piece at least struggle with putting on his Depends, or particularly, the moments that evoke Apoc- mutants have died off and (shades of Children of Men) no new ones have been born had purpose behind its gruesomeness— James Bond popping out his false teeth alypse Now in both form and content. His in approximately a quarter-century. The particularly the manner in which this before retiring for the night. helming is certainly more accomplished only ones who apparently remain are country mindlessly cheers on anybody

than the script, which passed through A UNITED KINGDOM Logan (Hugh Jackman), toiling away as a who can pass as a celebrity. In contrast, several sets of hands before being deemed limo driver near the U.S./Mexico border the violence in Logan only has the purpose /// filmable.

The sort of formidable true story that (oddly, no wall seems to exist), Charles of making 12-year-old kids all that more Insipid one minute and overstuffed the nevertheless doesn’t generally make it into Xavier (Patrick Stewart), now suffering determined to sneak into the auditorium. next, it also never allows an incredibly the textbooks handed out during history from dementia, and Caliban (Stephen At any rate, those who enjoyed watchtalented assemblage of players to strut classes, A United Kingdom centers on the Merchant), tasked with looking after the ing Keanu Reeves shoot people through their stuff. Still, the people don’t matter former Professor X. the head approximately 400 times in John difficulties encountered by a loving couple nearly as much as the creatures, and in whose different skin colors meant they But when the gang comes into contact Wick: Chapter Two will enjoy watching that respect, Kong: Skull Island offers some had to deal with an astonishing amount of with Laura (Dafne Keen), a little girl who, Logan stick his claws through people’s truly dazzling visual effects, particularly societal prejudices. like Logan, also has the ability to sprout skulls approximately 400 times here. when it comes to its towering star.

David Oyelowo, terrific as Martin claws and shish-kabob the opposition, Naturally, fanboys who live and die by As with all movies occupying a shared Luther King in Selma, here plays another it’s clear that the mutant lifestyle isn’t as the hype will love the picture, but more universe, it’s imperative that viewers sit crusader for equal rights: Seretse Khama, extinct as presumed. Spurred on by Laura discerning viewers will note that even the through the entire picture to be privy a prince who in the 1940s journeys from and with Xavier tossed into the back seat, plotline isn’t particularly fresh. to the requisite coda. Just be sure not to Bechuanaland (now Botswana) to England Logan hightails it to a presumed safe The evil scientist portrayed by Grant actually read the credits that precede to further his education before he returns haven in Canada, dogged every step of the and a swaggering henchman played this tease, as it spells out (via copyright home to claim the mantle of king. While way by a despicable scientist (Richard E.

by Boyd Holbrook come straight from acknowledgments) exactly what this surin London, he falls in love with Ruth WilGrant) and his bumbling minions.

Generic Casting 101—the film is crucially prise addendum will contain. liams (Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike), a secSuperhero sagas have occasionally opted missing a worthy villain of note—and Then again, since no one actually reads retary who returns his affection. to go deeper and darker (The Dark Knight, when the scripters run out of ideas, they the closing credits—aside from OCD critThe two plan to wed, a decision that not for instance), but Logan elects to take the paraphrase Stephen Sondheim and elect to ics, of course—the secret is probably safe full plunge into pitch-black nihilism. It’s send in the clones. This latter decision ren- only upsets Ruth’s parents but also Seruntil it reveals itself. etse’s kinfolk, who bristle at the thought Stan Lee by way of Cormac McCarthy, but ders the action sequences even more rote LOGAN of a white woman becoming queen of their the end result—basically, No Country for and less interesting. // country. The proposed union also faces the Old X-Men—suffers from its own sense of Still, Logan is extremely well-made — It’s too early to make a definitive decwrath of the British government, whose self-importance.

Mangold knows how to frame a shot—and laration, but the R rating handed by the members are outright antagonistic since There’s little joy to be had in the experi- the performances by the leads are topMPAA to last year’s Deadpool might end ence of watching the movie, with direcnotch. Jackman, both more wary and more they’re playing nice with a South Africa up being the worst thing to ever happen to tor James Mangold (who also helmed The that has just recently adopted a policy of weary than ever in his signature role, is comic-book movies. apartheid.

Wolverine) more interested in serving up typically excellent—his pain, frustration Certainly, Deadpool earned its R, and it The first section of A United Kingdom is groovy kills for the gamers than anything and tiredness can be felt radiating off the wore it well: Everything about the film was more substantive. the strongest, since the personal problems screen. Stewart is equally compelling, gleefully over the top, and the tongue-infaced by the couple are more delineated Since the first X-Men film in 2000, playing a version of Xavier different than bloody-cheek attitude matched the gore than the political ones that tend to blur moviegoers have spent 17 years knowing what movie audiences have seen before. that smoothly flowed like wine at a somduring the latter segments. And, as is often that Logan/Wolverine has no problem There, however, rests another problem, meliers’ convention. But the massive sucthe case with historical sagas, the picture with killing, yet Logan, with its newone that will bother some (like me) more cess of that film has emboldened studios relegates lots of fascinating material into found ratings freedom, treats it like a than others. Professor Charles Xavier 44 to eye the R when making more superhero fresh fact. Innocents and evildoers alike is a titan among screen heroes, and it’s a few blocks of text at the end, giving short

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shrift to the subsequent accomplishments of two people who refused to be defined merely by their physical appearances.

Overall, though, director Amma Asante (Belle) and scripter Guy Hibbert (Eye in the Sky), working from Susan Williams’ book Colour Bar, have presented a compelling piece that serves as a welcome reminder that, even in the direst of situations and in the most impossible of times, love can indeed trump hate.

THE RED TURTLE

/// The Red Turtle (aka La tortue rouge) stands as the first Studio Ghibli movie that isn’t primarily a Japanese production.

Instead, the outfit behind such hits as My Neighbor Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away put its faith in Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit after studio founder Hayao Miyazaki caught de Wit’s animated short Father and Daughter.

It was a move that paid off, as the picture is one of the five Academy Award nominees this year for Best Animated Feature Film.

Certainly, the film itself is all about tolerance and acceptance, as a man who finds himself deserted on a tropical island encounters a large turtle that becomes his constant companion. I won’t reveal exactly how the turtle becomes an integral part of his life, but it involves a transformation that transforms the direction of the film.

Related with no dialogue and illustrated in an uncluttered yet often luminous style, The Red Turtle is ultimately a mediation not only on what it means to be human but, more significantly, what it means to be as one with the natural order of the world.

THE GREAT WALL

/ Perhaps not since Roman centurion John Wayne ambled up to Jesus on the cross in The Greatest Story Ever Told has an American actor looked so uncomfortably out of place as Matt Damon in The Great Wall.

Set in 11th century China, the film posits that an army of warriors has been tasked with protecting the nation—indeed, the world—against the monsters that periodically rise up and destroy everything in their path. As in Little Shop of Horrors, these so-called Taoties are mean green mothers from outer space, and as in Jeepers Creepers, they only awaken from their slumber at set intervals to wreak havoc.

The Chinese forces are comprised of nothing but brave warriors and smart generals, but even they’re helpless against these marauding monsters. But wait! Just when everything seems hopeless, along comes Matt Damon to save the day!

Hold on, you interject. An American in 11th century China? But of course, my sluggish friend! After all, The Great Wall is a co-production between the U.S. and

China, and while it’s all well and good that it’s based on Chinese history and on Chinese legend (e.g. the Taoties), that just ain’t gonna sell in Butte, Montana, Biloxi, Mississippi or Bumfuck, Maryland.

So enter a Yankee doodle dandy in the form of Matt Damon, cast as a mercenary who ends up helping the Chinese help themselves.

Beyond the grotesque miscasting of Damon, The Great Wall proves to be a spectacularly stupid movie, and it’s a shame to see the great Yimou Zhang attached to such shameless hucksterism.

After all, the director’s 1991 Raise the Red Lantern remains one of the great foreignlanguage imports of the past few decades.

This new feature might as well be called To Sell Out: It boasts little of the lyricism of his past efforts, and the visual effects employed to bring the creatures to life are embarrassingly gaudy and unconvincing. The movie may already be a box office hit overseas, but all in all, it’s just another brick in the wall of cinematic stinkers.

FIST FIGHT

/ Aggressive in its insistence on being as awful as possible, this flagrantly unfunny film centers on the conflict brewing between two teachers at a high school where the students spend more time masturbating in the bathroom stalls and drawing penises on the blackboards than in cracking open textbooks. Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube) is the scariest teacher on the premises, while Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) is the wimpiest.

After Andy snitches on Strickland in regards to an altercation with a student (an ax was involved), the latter educator finds himself without a job. Angered, he challenges Andy to fisticuffs immediately after the school day ends.

The remainder of Fist Fight involves Andy doing everything in his power to get out of the fight, including bribing a student to lie about the ax blow incident and planting drugs in Strickland’s satchel.

Along the way, he receives poor advice from a fellow teacher (tedious Jillian Bell) who’s obsessed with sleeping with students and the coach (Tracy Morgan) who’s obsessed with sleeping with the students’ moms. Compounding Andy’s stress is the fact that his wife (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) is set to give birth at any moment and his daughter (Alexa Nisenson) has a musical competition that he simply cannot miss.

Ice Cube is a reliable screen presence, but he can do nothing with a film as utterly devoid of entertainment value as this one.

Day, generally an acquired taste anyway, is insufferable as the whining teacher, and it’s hard not to root for Strickland to beat the living hell out of Andy. And when he’s through, maybe he can go after this rancid film’s creators as well. CS

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SMF: BalletCollective: What Comes Next

SMF hosts the southern debut of the dynamic company BalletCollective with live music from Hotel Elefant. $37-$67 SUN., MARCH 26, 2 P.M. SAVANNAHMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG. LUCASTHEATRE.COM. LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS, 32 ABERCORN ST.

ACTIVISM & POLITICS

MAR 22-28, 2017

DEFUND DAPL/SAVANNAH RIVER VIGIL At 4 pm we gather in Wright Square as a community to stand with the Indigenous people to let our voices be heard the only way they can hear us - by divesting our money! Don’t let our hard earned dollars fund the destruction of the environment and sacred lands of the original peoples of this country and the contamination of drinking water for millions. At 5 pm, a silent vigil to offer our prayers and blessings to the Savannah River, the third most toxic river in the United States. http://www.defunddapl. org/ Fri., March 24, 4-6 p.m. https:// facebook.com/events/310183506063634.

Wright Square, Bull and President Streets.

DRINKING LIBERALLY Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.

A gathering of Liberals for an informal discussion of politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and the world around us. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Thu., March 23, 7 p.m. (912) 341-7427. livingliberally.org/ drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. Tondee’s Tavern, 7 E. Bay Street.

GREEN PARTY OF CHATHAM COUNTY People, Planet and Peace over Profit!

Meets Saturdays and the first Tuesday of every month. Join the Facebook group, @ 46 ChathamGreens, to find out about upcoming

local events. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

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.

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

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

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

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. 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 2017 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 31, 2017. Savannah Youth Ambassadors (SYA) is an intensive leadership training institute for high school students living in Savannah, GA. 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 process.

Space is limited to 50 participants. Through March 31. 912-651-6520. No physical address given, none.

CALL FOR ARTISTS TO TEACH AT STUDIO SCHOOL The studio school in downtown Savannah seeks qualified artists interested in joining the team during spring and/ or summer sessions 2017. Seeking artists to present workshops for adult programming and/or teach short term summer classes for youth programming. Through Aug. 31. 912-5963873. info@thestudioschoolsavannah. com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR HOLY WEEK Auditions are being held for the Holy Week events at Forsyth Park. It is an opportunity for males and females of all races and denominations to be featured biblical roles. Prepare a monologue and call (912) 236-3154 for an audition or come as a group. Events run from Palm Sunday, April 9th through April 14th. Schedules will be provided. Costumes provided if needed.

Auditions will be held at JESUS-YESHUA Exhibit House at 1004 Collat Avenue.

Through April 9. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN DELILAHS DANCE CABARET The Downtown Delilahs dance cabaret are holding auditions for several upcoming shows. To set up an audition, contact Jade Bills at 912-272-7601. Through March 31.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR VIGNETTE SAVANNAH Are you a student living fabulously in a studio apartment or a creative with an efficient yet stylish workspace? Maybe you’re renewing your space after Hurricane Matthew, decorating your home for the holidays for the first time, or just want to share the character & charm of your historical home? Whatever your space, Vignette Savannah would love to feature you. Vignette Savannah is a web presence that features the most creative and eclectic

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living, leisure, and work spaces in Savannah.

Tell us about yours at vignettesavannah@ gmail.com, and check us out in the weeks to come at vignettesavannah.com. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

CALL FOR JESUS-YESHUA PRODUCTION CLUB AND VIDEO CREW Contact Brenda Lee at 912-236-3156 or at revbrendalee@yahoo.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

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.

RELIGIOUS ETHNIC ARTISTS NEEDED Religious ethnic (JESUS-YESHUA) artists and musicals needed for upcoming season.

A classical accompanist and conductor for sacred music and gospel singers needed.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee (912) 2363154; email: revbrendalee@yahoo.com ongoing. No physical address given, none.

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 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

BEYOND THE MASK FOR AUTISM AWARENESS “I AM A Jewel” presents this health & awareness reception to support “Cortney Walks for Autism Speaks U Armstrong”. The goal of “I AM” a Jewel, Inc. and its sponsors are to provide the necessary information and support families with autism need to bring awareness and financial assistance to help our community to see the world through the eyes of children with Autism.

Attire is all white with a masquerade mask.

Sat., March 25, 5 p.m. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. SCMPD ANIMAL CONTROL SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential

volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome.

Volunteers must be at least 17-yearsold. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@ savannahga.gov.

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CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS

AERIAL SILK CLASSES Try something different this year by improving your strength and flexibility all while suspended from aerial silk fabric. All levels, all ages, and all beginners welcome.

Class will go over basics and provide challenges for those more advanced.

Classes every Friday. Fri., March 24, 5:30-7 p.m. 954.682.5694. Elyse.theSTUDIO@ yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. 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.

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.

BRIDGE LESSONS Competitive Bidding (BB2), Saturday, February 4 at 10AM. Defensive Signals (BB5), Monday February 6. They are 4 week classes. Intermediate and advanced workshops continue on Fridays at 10AM. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave, Sandfly. Also, games are held in the afternoon and/or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Check our website for fees and schedules of games and other classes. ongoing. 912-228-4838. bridgewebs.com/ savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. CAREGIVING 101 The free one-hour class is designed to raise awareness of the importance of selfcare by exploring the physical, emotional, psychological and social components of caregiving. Learn tips to deal with the many challenges and gain useful information on community resources. Led by an experienced clinical professor and seasoned caregiver, any person finding themselves in the role of family caregiver would greatly benefit from this free class. Free fourth Monday of every month, noon. 912-6291331. edelcaregiverinstitute.org. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive.

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.

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1 Actor John of the “Harold and Kumar” movies 4 Boxer’s blows 8 Equipped for 14 Kurosawa’s adaptation of “King Lear” 15 Math class calculation 16 Situated 17 Protestant denom. founded in Philadelphia 18 Genre for bands like Wilco and Uncle Tupelo, in the wrong key?

20 Chess side 22 Bluish duck 23 Places for MDs and RNs 24 “Get Shorty” sequel 26 Hall of Famer Carew 28 “___ Boot” (1981 war film) 29 “You too?” a la Caesar 30 Villainous 33 “Why am ___? What does it all mean?”

35 Screw-shaped pasta 37 MTV cartoon with the show-within-a-show “Sick, Sad World” 38 Metallica hit, in the wrong key?

42 Looks at lewdly 43 Relate a story about 44 Go no further 45 Cookie with a Peepsflavored 2017 variety

46 Brats 50 “The Star-Spangled Banner” lyricist 51 “Neither snow, ___ rain ...”

53 Catch cunningly 55 “___ for Alibi” (Sue Grafton mystery) 56 Unwell 59 “The Jetsons” pet 60 “Runaway” singer, in the wrong key?

64 Meal starter?

65 “That makes sense” 66 “Eso ___” (Paul Anka hit) 67 Fuss 68 City where Canada’s parliament meets 69 2.0 grades 70 Man cave, really

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1 Early Tarzan actor Buster 2 “To be or not to be” soliloquist 3 Way shorter than 2-Down, say 4 The King of Pop, in tabloids 5 Aesthetic pursuit 6 “Doin’ the Pigeon” singer 7 Toyotathon, e.g.

8 Olympic speed skater ___ Anton Ohno 9 “Hit ‘Em Up Style

(Oops!)” singer Cantrell 10 Office PC hookup 11 Outer skin layer 12 Homes for some lizards 13 Like an epic voyage 19 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” singer Belinda 21 College catalog listings 25 “Dallas Buyers Club” actor Jared 27 “I ___ such thing!”

31 Melbourne is its capital 32 Comic book line artist 34 Got cranky 36 Jimmy who works with Lois Lane 38 Mixed-breed dog that sounds like a bird 39 Upper limit for a jungle gym, maybe 40 Lingerie item similar to a romper 41 Antiseptic gel source 47 Character in “The Wind in the Willows” 48 Victory celebration 49 Exactly correct 52 Ice Cube’s real first name 54 Small iPods 57 “Closing Bell” network 58 ACL’s location 61 Free ad, briefly 62 Fasten fabric 63 Verb suffix?

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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. 912-3583160. 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. 912897-7656. 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, ---.

DIVAS & PUMPS: ADULT HEELS DANCE CLASS Divas & Pumps is a dance class teaching walks, struts, freestyles, and choreography to hits by our favorite Divas. Come get your life every Wednesday at 7:30. $15 Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. 323-5391760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL. COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. salondebaileballroomdancestudio.com/.

Salón de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 7068 Hodgson Memorial Dr. 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.

ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOP WITH CHRISTINE SAJECKI All levels welcome. Learn and practice techniques to apply and manipulate encaustic paint, use photocopy transfers, and create depth and focus in your image.

Everyone should be able to go home with something beautiful. Paint and tools are supplied, students bring their own surface to paint on (no bigger than 16×20) as well as photocopied images for transfer. $110 per person Sat., March 25, 11 a.m.-5:45 p.m.

912. 231. 7105. info@sulfurstudios.org. christinesajecki.com/workshop-schedules. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. 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 912354-6686. 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. 912921-4646.

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Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens

The Tour offers a rare opportunity to appreciate the beautiful architecture, interiors, and gardens of Savannah’s Historic Landmark District and Historic Ardsley Park.

Visit private homes not usually open to the public and walk down moss draped, oakcovered streets during colorful springtime in Savannah.

MARCH 23-26. 912-234-8054. SAVANNAHTOUROFHOMES.ORG. DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, DOWNTOWN. RESOURCE CENTER Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. IMPROV CLASSES This class is for elementary school students. Learn specific improv techniques in class to enhance trust, unity, equality & creativity in a fun-filled, safe environment. $80 for eight classes Mon., March 27, 4:305:15 p.m. 912-659-4383. info@ImprovHub. com. ImprovHub.com. ticsav.com. The Inheritance Center, 42 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR ADULTS This class is for adults. Learn specific improv techniques in class to enhance trust, unity, equality & creativity in a fun-filled, safe environment. $120 for eight classes.

Mon., March 27, 7:30-9 p.m. 912-659-4383. info@ImprovHub.com. ImprovHub.com. ticsav.com. The Inheritance Center, 42 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Through well-established theater games, Resurrection Theater teaches kids how to communicate more effectively and become a team player. They also will take the first step toward becoming an actor.

The eight-week class meets on Mondays at 4:30 pm and lasts 45 minutes. $10 per class; $80 for the 8-week course

Mon., March 27, 4:30-5:15 p.m. 912659-4383. fritz@resurrectiontheater. com. resurrectiontheater.com. resurrectiontheater.com. Resurrection Theater, 42 W. Montgomery Cross Road.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Through well-established theater games, Resurrection Theater teaches teens how to communicate more effectively and become a team player. They also will take the first step toward becoming an actor. The eight-week class meets on Mondays at 6:30 pm and lasts 45 minutes. $10 per class; $80 for the 8-week course. Mon., March 27, 6:30-7:15 p.m.

912-659-4383. fritz@resurrectiontheater. com. resurrectiontheater.com. resurrectiontheater.com. Resurrection Theater, 42 W. Montgomery Cross Road.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS This class is for high school students.

Learn specific improv techniques in class to enhance trust, unity, equality & creativity in a fun-filled, safe environment. $80 for 8 classes Mon., March 27, 6:30-7:15 p.m. 912-659-4383. info@ImprovHub. com. ImprovHub.com. ticsav.com. The Inheritance Center, 42 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Through well-established theater games, Resurrection Theater teaches middle schoolers how to communicteam player.

They also will take the first step ate more effectively and become a toward becoming an actor. The eight-week class meets on Mondays at 5:30 pm and lasts 45 minutes $10 per class; $80 for the 8-week

course Mon., March 27, 5:30-6:15 p.m.

912-659-4383. fritz@resurrectiontheater. com. resurrectiontheater.com. resurrectiontheater.com. Resurrection Theater, 42 W. Montgomery Cross Road.

IMPROV CLASSES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS This class is for middle school students.

Learn specific improv techniques in class to enhance trust, unity, equality & creativity in a fun-filled, safe environment. $80 for 8 classes. Mon., March 27, 5:30-6:15 p.m. 912-659-4383. info@ImprovHub. com. ImprovHub.com. ticsav.com. The Inheritance Center, 42 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

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.

LIFE CHALLENGE COACHING In an environment of patience, nonjudgement and compassion, we will explore the source of your challenge, the beliefs that hold your challenge in place, and discover & enact healthy and healing life changes. For appointment, contact Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) to 912-429-7265. ongoing. Online only, none.

LINKEDIN LUNCH & LEARN WORKSHOP This educational program by Gregg Burkhalter, “The LinkedIn Guy,” is designed to help manufacturing leaders and industry professionals who support Georgia’s manufacturing community to maximize the entire LinkedIn platform. Fri., March 24, 11:30 a.m. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

MUSIC LESSONS--MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS AND STYLES Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels for Guitar (electric, acoustic, bass, classical, jazz), Piano, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Voice as well as Music Theory/ Composition/ Ear Training.

We teach public, private and home school students as well as adults at all experience levels. Located at 15 East Montgomery Crossroads in Office #205 near White Bluff Road, Savannah, GA. ongoing. 912388-1806. 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.

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.

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Salón de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 7068 Hodgson Memorial Dr. SAVANNAH STARTUP WORKSHOP SERIES Entrepreneurs will participate in interactive workshops and mentor sessions designed to walk them through best practices in planning and launching their product. The interactive program will help entrepreneurs identify and vet their target customer segments, articulate the value proposition, make financial projections, and prepare them to meet with investors. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. atdc.org/uncategorized/2017savstartup-bootcamp-schedule. Creators’ Foundry, 415 W Boundary St. SENIOR HUNGER LISTENING SESSION Local community partners in the coastal region will discuss senior hunger and ways to combat it. Older adults and caregivers will join elected officials, business owners, faith leaders, and others to examine the challenges that lead to senior hunger and explore solutions to overcome them. Wed., March 22, 10 a.m. crc.ga.gov. Coastal Regional Commission Area Agency on Aging, 1181 Coastal Drive, SW. YOUTH AND TEEN AERIAL SILK CLASSES Youth Class ages 8+. Teen Class ages 11+.

Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks and Hoop while suspended in the air. Weekly classes held on Fridays through the month of September only. Very limited space available, reserve your spot and register

online today. $20/class $75/September package ongoing. 954.682.5694. elyse. thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. ZONA ROSA WRITING WORKSHOP Become the writer you were meant to be: Join Zona Rosa, the internationally acclaimed, monthly Savannah-based writing workshops founded and led by awardwinning author Rosemary Daniell. Over 180 Zona Rosans have become published authors. For information, contact Rosemary at info@myzonarosa.com. Also ask about the week-long, intensive Sixteenth Annual Zona Rosa Writing and Living Retreat,Tybee Island, July 22-29, 2017. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

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. 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.

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emotional & physical healing; reduces neuromuscular & arthritic pain. E-mail request for appointment/ Fee base at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) 912429-7265 ongoing. Online only, none.

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.

SAMBA SAVANNAH DRUMMING WORKSHOP Learn Afro-Brazilian rhythms with drumming instructor Andrew Hartzell. All ages. $10 Sundays, 2:30 p.m. starlandiasupply.com.

Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street.

SASS & SWAG ADULT HIP HOP Sass & Swag is a high energy, adult hip hop dance class. Learn hip hop grooves you can take to any party or club, and learn a choreographed routine to today’s hottest hits. Mondays at 7:30 pm. $15 Mondays, 7:30 p.m. 323-5391760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL. COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM.

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PIANO VOICE-COACHING Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-9617021 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. Schedule TBA $20 Every other Tuesday, 7-9 p.m. 912-9881052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. R&B SOUL ADULT LINE DANCING The R&B Soul line dance group Savannah Show Stoppers are conducting line dance classes every Monday night at the West Broad St. YMCA and every Tuesday nights at the John Delaware Center. Both classes starts at 6:30. Lamont Hunter, the founder of the Savannah Show Stoppers, is the Instructor. Donations Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-220-7712. hlamont70@yahoo.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. REIKI TREATMENT Reiki relaxes & rejuvenates; promotes

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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. 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. 912-5961962. honorflightsavannah.org.

HISTORIC SAVANNAH CHAPTER: ABWA Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. 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 50 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. 912344-5127. Savannah Tree Foundation, 3025 Bull Street.

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. 912-447-0943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. SAVANNAH AUTHORS WORKSHOP If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about it, Savannah Authors Workshop is looking for you and has space for a few new members. We meet on the first and third Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m. at 630 East Victory Drive. We have members of all standards, from multiple-published to never-tried. Have a look at our website www. savannahauthorsworkshop.com and call Christopher Scott, President, 912-272-6309. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

THE SAVANNAH CHINESE CORNER The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check the Facebook group to see meeting location. ongoing. https://facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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.

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.

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

Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SAVANNAH VEGGIES AND VEGANS Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events.

Mondays.

SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, in Savannah, Atlanta, and Hong Kong. Tours allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. Free MondaysSaturdays. https://scad.edu/admission/ visit-scad/daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of Art and Design, PO Box 2072.

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.

WAVING GIRLS SMOCKING GUILD The Waving Girls Chapter of the Smocking Arts Guild of America the fourth Monday of the month at the Coastal Center for Developmental Services, Eisenhower and Seawright Drs. in Savannah, at 6:30 pm.

Visitors are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Each month the chapter presents a program related to smocking or fine sewing. along with a “show and share” opportunity to see members creations. More information contact l.elkin@comcast.net.

Free fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-658-4271. l.elkin@comcast.net.

Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

WAVING GIRLS--SMOCKING ARTS GUILD OF AMERICA

The Waving Girls welcomes smockers and all those who create fine heirloom items.

At each meeting there is an opportunity to learn and share our work. The group makes over 100 “wee care” gowns for memorial hospital each year. fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912 536 1447. debcreation@hotmail.com. smocking.org.

Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

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

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$8 COMMUNITY MEDITATION CLASSES Join us for breath work, guided meditation, and yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique to relieve stress, quiet the mind, and find the calm within. All proceeds support local organizations. $8 Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912349-2756.

AERIAL YOGA CLASSES Increase flexibility and strength using aerial yoga, a relatively new approach to a traditional yoga practice. We use a silk fabric called a ‘hammock’ to support the weight of our bodies, helping us achieve various postures with more depth, ease and excitement. Every Saturday. Class size limited. Required to register online ahead of time. $25 Saturdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m.

954.682.5694. elyse.thestudio@yahoo. com. thestudiosav.net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. AIKIDO CLASSES Aikido is a traditional Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba, ‘O Sensei’ or (‘Great Teacher’). On a purely physical level it is an art involving throws and joint locks that are derived from Jujitsu and Kenjutsu (open hand and weapon based techniques).

Beyond the self defense aspects of the art its true goal is to challenge its practitioners to discover their best selves. $50/month for JEA Members, $70/month for NonMembers, or $80/8-class punch card Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-6040958, 912-346-2650. AikiNorm@aol.com, AikidoBilly@hotmail.com. CoastalAikido. com. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. The message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19.

Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing.

912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

BALLET BODY TONING Ballet Body Toning is a ballet inspired workout designed to improve balance, flexibility, and use body resistance to strengthen core, legs & booty. This workout is low impact and scorches major calories and teaches you basic ballet! Call to make a reservation before class. This is a semiprivate class so space is limited! $10.00 Wednesdays, Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

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732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@gmail. com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. BEACH BODY WORKOUTS WITH LAURA MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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

Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. BEGINNING POLE FITNESS Pole fitness is a fun and flirty way to get in shape! Taught by Pole Dance America National Professional Champion Sabrina Madsen, you’ll learn the basics of pole dance in a safe and welcoming environment. Gain strength, balance and confidence. Beginner Classes are open to all shapes and sizes and are for ladies only (men welcome at our Intermediate Class). $25 for drop-in or $100 for a package of 5 classes Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. 801.673.6737. info@firstcityfitness.com. firstcityfitness. com/pole-fitnessparties.html. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. BLUE WATER YOGA Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm.

Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. DANCE DYNAMIX Dance DynaMix is a choreographed dance fitness class inspired by funky hip hop and sleek jazz moves! No dance experience required. Call 732.232.3349 to reserve your spot ahead of time, as class space is limited. Stay after class for a 30 minute stretch to wind down for the weekend with! $10.00 Wednesdays, Fridays, 10-11 a.m.

732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@gmail. com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. FIT4MOM SAVANNAH STROLLER STRIDES A group of moms that meet with strollers and workout at Savannah Mall, Daffin Park and on occasion Hull Park. Also offer HIIT Classes to other Moms who have any age children. The HIIT program is a kid free program. 1 hour long stroller based workout with kiddos. Moms- Pre and Post Natal, and kids of stroller age. Savannah Mall (M,W,F). Daffin Park (T,Th), Hull Park (Sat) ongoing. ashleyyoungblood@fit4mom.com. savannah.fit4mom.com. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. FITNESS CLASSES AT THE JEA Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. 912-3558811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. FREE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments.

Free to attend. Open to anyone in need of

support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com.

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

912-819-8800. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. FUNCTIONAL TRAINING CLASS Celebrate fall with a Saturday morning workout class. All levels welcome. A smooth mix of cardio and strengthening exercises.

Call Kara 912-667-0487 if interested. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

GET EXCITED AND MOVE This program is designed to combat the effects of Parkinson disease for Savannah/ Chatham-area people and their caregiver.

The activities are designed to enhance and improve muscular strength, and endurance, coordination, agility, flexibility, speed work, and voice command. $10 a month Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10:3011:30 a.m. 912-376-9833. psgsav@gmail. com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive.

DUDE’S DAY AT SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m.

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. HIKING & BIKING AT SKIDAWAY ISLAND STATE PARK Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am10pm. Call or see website. ongoing.

912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

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KUNG FU SCHOOL: VING TSUN Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-5150.

LIVING SMART FITNESS CLUB St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which is an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesdays,

the classes are held at the center, at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (Mondays/Wednesdays).

Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605.

Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. MOMMY AND BABY YOGA Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. PILATES CLASSES

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates. com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. PREGNANCY YOGA Ongoing series of 6-week classes.

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

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Of course you want to get the best of everything. But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind.

And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people?

A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches.

This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing.

You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

MAR 22-28, 2017

You are on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck will flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

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Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled.

Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late?

Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby *refuse* law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about

PREGNANCY YOGA CLASSES Pregnancy is a transitional time when many physical and emotional changes take place. Pregnancy Yoga is about honoring these changes in ourselves, our body and our baby. Yoga strengthens the rapidly changing body and increases the ability to relax, and helps to prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and motherhood.

Pregnancy Yoga classes are offered as a 6 week session on Thursday evenings from 6pm – 7:15 pm. The class is suitable for all stages of pregnancy and no prior yoga experience is necessary. $120 - six week session Thursdays. 912-704-7650. ann@

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beautyandtruth@freewillastrology.com

doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos.

Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly.

Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

William Boyd writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book *Waiting for Sunrise,* he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

When I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four

weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The empty space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank. The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just SHUT UP and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think -- or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to.

Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3. “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you *will* say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Are you fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent.

(Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you?

If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects. (Ninety percent is better.)

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douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. QIGONG CLASSES Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 ongoing. qigongtim.com/.

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

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

RICHMOND HILL ROADIES RUNNING CLUB A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing.

LADIES DAY AT SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. See website for info. ongoing. 912495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

SAVANNAH DISC GOLF Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am.

Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm.

Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am.

All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. ongoing. savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com.

SAVANNAH STRIDERS RUNNING AND WALKING CLUB With a one-year, $35 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes.

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

TURBO KICK CARDIO WORKOUT Lose calories while dancing and kick-boxing.

No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.

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

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

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. ZUMBA FITNESS Isn’t lifting weights and running on the treadmill boring? Come join Sheena’s Zumba Fitness class and have fun while burning calories! The class regularly has 75+ participants that know that Sheena is the best Zumba instructor in Savannah!

So show up early and see you soon!

Free with YMCA membership Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 912-354-6223. https:// facebook.com/ZumbaFitnesswithSheena/. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. ZUMBA FITNESS (R) WITH APRIL Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm.

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

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

ALL YOU CAN EAT MUSSELS Make your Tuesdays “Ruesdays” at Rue de Jean in Savannah with ALL YOU CAN EAT mussels! Choose from 6 different flavors and enjoy baby greens salad, bottomless pommes frites, and warm bread all for just $24. One order per guest.

Reservations suggested. 39ruedejeansav. com/reservations $24 5-9 p.m.. ruedejeansavannah.com. holycityhospitality. com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. BETHESDA FARM AND GARDENS STAND Each week, this popular organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, seasonal vegetables, herbs, free range eggs, a variety of plants, goat milk soap, firewood and more. In addition, 100 percent grass fed ground beef in various quantities are available at the farm stand, which is raised and distributed

by Bethesda Academy’s Cattle & Beef Operation. Specialty cuts are also available. merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. FIRE & WINE Half priced bottles of wine, campfires in the courtyard, marshmallows and s’mores kits. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe.com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. FORSYTH FARMERS MARKET Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights.

Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale.

912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com.

Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. GHOST COAST DISTILLERY TOURS Tour & Tasting Visit Ghost Coast Distillery, where you will hear about Savannah’s unique history of drinks and revelry, while learning how we create our unique, hand crafted spirits. Hours Tuesday – Wednesday: 12–6 (last tour starts at 6) Thursday – Saturday: 11-8 (last tour starts at 8) Tours begin every hour, on the hour Closed Sunday and Monday Tour with tasting: $12.50 Tour with tasting and Souvenir Bottle of Ghost Coast Vodka 261: $32.00 All guests must be 21+ or accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. ID Required $12.50 Saturdays.

(912) 298-0071. ghostcoastdistillery.com.

Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. HAPPY HOUR 39 Rue De Jean favorites at happy hour prices! Enjoy $4 house wine, $4 well cocktails, $8 daily cocktail feature, Moules en Six Preparations for $8, $8 1/2 dozen raw oysters, and more. Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 912-721-0595. holycityhospitality.com/39-rue-de-jeansavannah/promotions/. holycityhospitality.

com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. HONEY TASTING AND BODY CARE SAMPLES + STORE TOUR Daily honey tastings and body care demonstrations. Come see honeybees in the observation hive or call 912.629.0908 to schedule a tour of the Bee Garden. Garden tour available March through October. $3 per person. Must call ahead. Free MondaysFridays, 10 a.m.. 912-234-0688. jessie@ savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

INDUSTRY NIGHT AT SOUTHBOUND BREWING COMPANY Bring in proof of service industry employment (pay stub or biz card), military ID or Gulfstream badge and receive 10% off your tours & tastings admission. Admission includes six 6 ounce samples, a guided tour and a souvenir 6 pack of one of our year round beers OR Southbound koozie. $15 | 10% off with proof 912-667-0033. natalie@ southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. PREPARE SUNDAY SUPPERS AT UNION MISSION Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission’s shelters for homeless people. Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. ongoing. 912-236-7423.

TYBEE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, granola, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com.

Stephen Johnson, 206 Miller Ave. WINE SAMPLING Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer. luckysmarket.com/ savannah-ga/. Lucky’s Market, 5501 Abercorn 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. BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS St. Joseph’s/Candler’s SmartSenior offers blood pressure screenings on every Monday from 10 AM to Noon in the SmartSenior office, #8 Medical Arts on 836 E. 65th Street. No appointment is necessary; the screenings are free and open to the public.

For more information, call (912) 352-4405. ongoing. St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Arts Building, 836 E. 65th St. COASTAL EMPIRE POLIO SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION The Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association will meet at 10:30 am at the

Lewis Cancer Pavilion, 2nd floor, room 203, 225 Candler Drive on the Candler Hospital campus in Savannah. Polio survivors and guests are invited. For information call 912927-8332. fourth Saturday of every month, 10:30 a.m. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. FAMILY TO FAMILY CLASS Free 12 week course for family and caregivers of individuals with mental illness. Meets once a week for 2 1/2 hours.

FREE Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. 912-441-7724. dianebreeder@omcast.net. Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. 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

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Aerial Silk Classes

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coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing.

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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.

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.

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT SICK, YOU’RE THRISTY Are You Sick of being Sick? Learn the first step in helping your body get on the road to healing itself. Every Tuesday we will educate you on the dangers of bottled, tap, reverse osmosis, distilled, spring, and yes even bottled alkaline water. See this eye opening demonstration for your safety and for your health. We will serve Kangen water, test your water and give you a sample to take home if you qualify. NO CHARGE Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. 703.989.6995. oggisavannah@ gmail.com. goodh20.yourbodyiswater.com.

Nuts About Savannah, 14045 Abercorn St.(Savannah Mall).

NAMI CONNECTION SUPPORT GROUP We are a Recovery Support Group for people living with mental health conditions. We provide respect, understanding, resources, encouragement and hope. We meet 1st, 54 3rd, 4th and 5th Tuesday. 912-353-7143

Free Tue., March 28, 6-8 p.m. 912-353-7143. namisavannah.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

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

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

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.

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.

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL

12-STEP RECOVERY EUCHARIST/HOLY COMMUNION 12-Step Recovery Eucharist/Holy Communion is offered at 8:00AM every fourth Friday of the month at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th St & Abercorn, Savannah. Everyone is welcome. fourth Saturday of every month, 8 a.m. 912925-4609. alan.phyllis@att.net. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. 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.

BUDDHIST MEDITATION Everyone is welcome. Experience not necessary. Visit our website for location, meditation periods and classes. savannahzencenter.com. Individual instruction upon request. Email Cindy Un

Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

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.

GRATITUDE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARES Gather with others to share gratitude.

Everyone welcome. Park next to Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. facebook.com/ savannahgratitude. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. 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.

JESUS YESHUA Holidays and plans for 2017 underway for young adults and college Christians.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee @yahoo.com or call (912) 236-3156. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

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.

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. 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.

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