Connect Savannah December 19, 2018

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Monday, April 1

Saturday, April 6

Thursday, April 11

12:30 pm

John Doyle

12:30 pm

Pokey LaFarge

12:30 pm

Courtney Granger

11 am

tenThing

6 & 8:30 pm

Zydeco Dance Party: Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas

6 pm

Lars Vogt, piano

6 & 9 pm

12:30 pm

Anda Union

7 pm

Aaron Diehl Trio / Chris Pattishall Quintet: Zodiac Suite

Cajun Dance Party: Pine Leaf Boys / Jourdan Thibodeauxet les Rôdailleurs

6 pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Rhapsody in Blue and the Firebird Suite Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra with Marcus Roberts Trio

7 pm

Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait

7:30 pm

Union Tanguera and Kate Weare Company, a collaboration, Sin Salida

7:30 pm

Charlie Hunter Trio Feat. Lucy Woodward

8 pm

Dimmer Twins / T. Hardy Morris

6 pm

Juho Pohjonen, piano

7:30 pm

The Del McCoury Band / Steep Canyon Rangers

Tuesday, April 2

8 pm

Fatoumata Diawara / Noura Mint Seymali

12:30 pm

Friday, March 29 12:30 pm

Mike + Ruthy of The Mammals

5:30 & 8:30 pm Asleep at the Wheel 6 pm

Daniel Hope & Friends I with Juho Pohjonen

7:30 pm

I’m With Her Sara Watkins • Sarah Jarosz • Aoife O’Donovan

8 pm

Daymé Arocena

8:30 pm

Asleep at the Wheel

Saturday, March 30 4 & 8 pm

John Medeski’s Mad Skillet / Jon Cleary

6 pm

Dafnis Prieto Big Band

7 pm

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

7:30 pm

Punch Brothers

8:30 pm

Dafnis Prieto Big Band

Sunday, March 31 4 & 7 pm

Kat Edmonson / Pokey LaFarge

5 pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with Daniel Hope A S L E E P AT THE WHEEL Friday, March 29 at 5:30 and 8:30 pm

5 & 8 pm

Aaron Diehl: Blues & The Spanish Tinge

7:30 pm

8 pm

John Pizzarelli Trio with Catherine Russell present: “Billie & Blue Eyes”

Angélique Kidjo’s Remain in Light

6 pm

Daniel Hope & Friends II with Lars Vogt

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7:30 pm

Flamenco Virtuoso: Vicente Amigo

Saturday, April 6 at 8 pm

Wednesday, April 3 5 & 8 pm

John Pizzarelli Trio with Catherine Russell present: “Billie & Blue Eyes”

Thursday, April 4 11 am

Daniel Hope & Friends III

12:30 pm

Jerry Douglas, dobro

4 pm

Jazz on the River

5:30 & 8:30 pm Herlin Riley Quintet / Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio 7 pm

7:30 pm

Andersson Dance & Scottish Ensemble: Goldberg Variations ternary patterns for insomnia The Earls of Leicester

Friday, April 5 8:30 am

Swing Central Jazz Competition

11 am

Caterina Lichtenberg & Mike Marshall: Bach to Brazil

12:30 pm

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

5:30 & 8:30 pm Kathy Mattea / Molly Tuttle Band 6 pm

Daniel Hope & Friends IV

6:30 pm

Swing Central Jazz Finale: Romance, Swing and the Blues

10 pm

Late Night Jazz Jam

Sunday, April 7 5 pm

Santiago Ballerini, tenor

6 pm

Roby Lakatos / Sam Reider and the Human Hands

Monday, April 8 6 pm

Daniel Hope & Friends V

7 pm

Bryan Sutton & David Grier / Mike Marshall & Darol Anger

Tuesday, April 9 5 & 8 pm

Dreamers’ Circus / Seamus Egan Project

6 pm

The Tallis Scholars

7 pm

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Wednesday, April 10 11 am

Sebastian Knauer, piano

12:30 pm

Darrell Scott

6 pm

Daniel Hope & Friends VI: Balkan Roots

7 pm

Anda Union

8 pm

Pat Metheny Side Eye with James Francies & Nate Smith

Friday, April 12 11 am

tenThing

12:30 pm

Robbie Fulks with Robbie Gjersoe

6 pm

Daniel Hope & Sebastian Knauer: Homage to Yehudi Menuhin

6 pm

Stringband Spectacular: Acoustic Music Seminar Finale

8 pm

Jeff Tweedy

8:30 pm

Latin Dance Party: El Septeto Santiaguero

Saturday, April 13 2 & 5 pm

Modern Broadway

4 pm

Christopher Hope Presents “My Son the Fiddler”

4 & 8 pm

Closing Night Party: Maceo Parker

7:30 pm

Robert Earl Keen / Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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Christmas on the River 12.21-12.23

Get in the holiday spirit with the Savannah Waterfront Association. Friday evening features the Savannah Arts Academy Skylarks, the Windsor Forest High School Concert Band, and music by Jason Bible. Saturday, enjoy performances by Abeni Cultural Arts, Maxine Patterson School of Dance, Marilyn Youmans School of Dance, Two Little Birds, and Danielle Hicks and the Resistance. Sunday, close out the weekend with the 3rd Infantry Division Band and Kelly and Company Studios.

River Street, River St. riverstreetsavannah.com

WEDNESDAY 12.19 Film: Santa Claus

A twisted and completely surreal lowbudget kids’ movie that is one part David Lynch and one part Willy Wonka, and must be seen to be believed. Presented by the Psychotronic Film Society.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $7

The Great Russian Nutcracker

Christmas is coming and so is the one and only Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker.

3 & 7 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $32.50 savannahboxoffice.com

Oyster Roast

All-you-can-eat Bluffton cluster oysters for $20. Also enjoy drink specials and cornhole.

6 p.m.

The Crab Shack, 40 Estill Hammock Rd.

SkateFest

Bonaventure Tours Christmas Day

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Let Bonaventure be your best excuse to get out of the house on Christmas Day or you know, either escape the family for a minute. Tours are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. As a Christmas gift to everyone, Bonaventure will give away beautiful posters as a thank you to everyone touring.

10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. $15-$25 912.319.5600. shannon@shannonscott. com. facebook.com/ events/772509093093895/

A Savannah holiday tradition returns to the Savannah Civic Center.

Through Jan. 2 The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $8 per person, 6-person punch passes $40 savannahcivic.com

THURSDAY 12.20 The Downtown Delilahs w/ Up to SNOW Good

Up to Snow Good is a high energy performance that takes a modern twist on the original cabaret experience.

Thurs.-Sat., 11 p.m.

House of Mata Hari, 306 W. Factor’s Walk. $20 912-272-7601. thedowntowndelilahs.com

Film: The American South As We Know It

The American South As We Know It explores the lives and experiences of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

6 p.m.

Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Free, but reserve a ticket

Film: Meet Me In St. Louis

The Vincente Minnelli film, nostalgic and poignant, focuses on four sisters on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.

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$10, includes glass of wine. For $35 you also get a three-course prix fixe dinner at 80 East Gastropub.

912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org.

Premier Bowl & Bistro, 4 Towne Center Court. $15 912-224-6084

Lindsey Stirling

The three-ring Circus has been dusted with Sparkling Snow. The all new Winter show is filled with fantastical characters here to celebrate the Winter Solstice.

3 & 5 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $15 adults, $10 children 12 and under 912-472-4790. tybeeposttheater.org

Singer Lindsey Stirling brings her Christmas tour to Savannah.

7 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $39.50 savannahcivic.com

Live Oak Concerts: Beethoven, Kurtag, and Sounds of Yuletide

Join Live Oak Concerts in southern yuletide gaiety with trios by Beethoven, Kurtag, and reimagined Christmas tunes

by Josh Henderson and Daniel Silliman.

7 p.m.

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 2716 Mechanics Avenue. $10 suggested donation 912-663-3642.

Savannah Third Thursdays

Savannah Third Thursday is a monthly event held in the Historic District. Select local galleries will be open late from 5-8 p.m. third Thursday of every month, 5-8 p.m.

Theatre: Little Women the Musical

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Presented

by Savannah Repertory Theatre.

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

Savannah Rep’s PLAYShop, 980 Industry Drive. $25

FRIDAY 12.21 Christmas on the River

Stardusted Circus Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice

Enjoy an evening under the winter sky surrounded by candle light and delicious food.

5:30 p.m.

La Petite Abeilles, 2425 Barnard St. 912-921-4509. lapetiteabeilles.com

SATURDAY 12.22 Christmas on the River

Get in the holiday spirit with the Savannah Waterfront Association.

Saturday, enjoy performances by Abeni Cultural Arts, Maxine Patterson School of Dance, Marilyn Youmans School of Dance, Two Little Birds, and Danielle Hicks and the Resistance. Studios.

Dec. 21-23 River Street, River St. riverstreetsavannah.com

Christmas Will Be Televised

Using his pop culture obsession, comedian Andy Livengood immerses himself in every Christmas special ever made and brings the audience along for the ride.

9:30 p.m.

Front Porch Improv, 2222 Bull Street. $10 frontporchimprov.com

Get in the holiday spirit with the Savannah Waterfront Association. Friday evening features the Savannah Arts Academy Skylarks, the Windsor Forest High School Concert Band, and music by Jason Bible.

-23 River Street, River St. riverstreetsavannah.com

Dashing Through the Snow with Front Porch Improv

Holiday Living Room Concert

Film: Green Book

Sip, savor and enjoy the songs of the holidays with Roger Moss and Kim Steiner.

7 p.m.

East End Provisions, 420 E. Broughton St. $15-$20

Love & Soul Experience: A Soulful Christmas Celebrate in the Christmas Spirit and enjoy the soulful sounds of Kimberly Gunn Music & Company.

8 p.m.

Come on down and enjoy some Holidayinspired improv comedy with Front Porch Improv.

8 p.m.

Front Porch Improv, 2222 Bull Street. $10 frontporchimprov.com There’s a lot of Oscar buzz around this new film about a working-class ItalianAmerican bouncer, who becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Sat. & Sun., 3 & 7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $8 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.showare.com/

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Forsyth Park

Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour

The tour is hosted by Danny and Johnny Moron, two local actors, comedians, and history buffs.

11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Visitor’s Information Center, 301 MLK Jr. Blvd. $33 savannahformorons.com

Savannah Holly Days: Holidays on the Big Screen

A family friendly event, bring everyone down along with chairs & blankets and watch a favorite holiday movie under the stars in Ellis Square. Sponsored by The Savannah Harbor Foundation.

6 p.m.

Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

Free savannahhollydays.com

Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market

The Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market provides residents with locally grown produce, baked goods, natural skincare solutions and a variety of artisan creations.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Islands High School, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

Free wifarmersmarket@aol.com

SUNDAY 12.23 Christmas on the River

Get in the holiday spirit with the Savannah Waterfront Association.

Sunday, close out the weekend with the 3rd Infantry Division Band and Kelly and Company Studios.

Dec. 21-23 River Street, River St. riverstreetsavannah.com

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The Goliards Christmas Program

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The program will consist of several hymns from the 12th and 13th centuries that were based on the Gregorian Chant Ave maris stella, and dances fom 15thcentury Italy and France.

3 p.m.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. $10 912-604-8983

MONDAY 12.24 A Festival of Lessons and Carols

Join the Trinity United Methodist Church Music Ministry as they perform a Festival of Lessons and Carols performed in the King’s College Cambridge choral tradition.

5 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Free and open to the public

Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night Madness

Built around a series of improv games, the show relies on audience suggestions to put the players into hilarious characters and scenes to drive the show forward.

7:30 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $5

Tybee Island Farmers Market

Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, eggs, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products.

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Tybee Island tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com

TUESDAY 12.25 Annual Christmas Concert & Jam Session

Enjoy a festive holiday concert featuring Savannah’s esteemed jazz musicians and legends. The concert performance will be followed by a special Homecoming Jam. All proceeds benefit Coastal Jazz Association.

5 p.m.

Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

Advance $25, door $35 courtney@coastaljazz.org.

Bonaventure Tours Christmas Day

Let Bonaventure be your best excuse to get out of the house on Christmas Day or you know, either escape the family for a minute. Tours are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. As a Christmas gift to everyone, Bonaventure will give away beautiful posters as a thank you.

10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. $15-$25 912.319.5600. shannon@shannonscott.com

Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey

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

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

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IN AN age of an almost unbridgeable partisan divide, our region has seen a remarkable political consensus on the issue of offshore drilling.

Specifically and most recently, the issue of seismic airgun testing, a brutal prelude to many types of offshore drilling.

A distant cousin to sonar, seismic airgun blasting is delivered by vessels towing large arrays of airguns behind them.

They blast the ocean every 10-15 seconds, often 24 hours a day, to receive a bouncedback sonic picture of the substrates on the ocean floor — the blueprint for drilling.

The blasts can be heard thousands of miles away. The sound waves hit at about 250 decibels; a jet engine 100 feet away is 140 decibels by comparison.

There’s an old trope about fishing with a hand grenade; the blast delivers fish to the top of the water, stunned or killed by the concussion. That’s an exaggerated description of the effect of seismic airgun tests — in fact, before seismic airguns were developed, actual dynamite was used.

The concussive waves from seismic airguns can seriously disrupt the hearing and navigational senses of all types of marine life, especially marine mammals.

Those on the Georgia coast are fond of our North Atlantic Right Whales, who bear

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their calves in the winter off our coast.

Already endangered –mostly due to increased shipping activity to the Port of Savannah and other regional ports – the Right Whales are in a serious birth decline.

With only about 400 left on the planet, seismic airgun testing could be what tips them over the edge into extinction.

It’s not just whales – fish stock declines wherever airgun surveys are conducted, eggs and larvae killed by blasts, adults and juveniles scared from feeding grounds.

Even the inventor of the seismic airgun, geophysicist Stephen Chelminski, has voiced his regrets, and is now working on patenting a quieter version.

The political aspect has to do with, you guessed it, Donald Trump. In April 2017, the Trump administration overturned an Obama-era denial of all pending permits for such activity in the Atlantic.

Just last month, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued permits to five companies to begin seismic airgun blasting.

Last week, a wide-ranging lawsuit was filed against the NMFS to reverse the issuance of the permits.

The groups Oceana, Center for Biological Diversity, National Resources Defense Council, the Southern Environmental Law Center (on behalf of South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, North Carolina Coastal Federation, One Hundred Miles, Defenders of Wildlife) and Earthjustice (on behalf of Surfrider

Foundation and Sierra Club) are plaintiffs.

What’s interesting is not just the wide array of environmental groups suing, but who is supporting the lawsuit. Some of the most important elected officials of both parties here have signaled opposition to seismic testing, including Rep. Ron Stephens (R-Pooler), State Sen. Lester Jackson (D-Savannah), and Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman, a Republican.

Even uber-conservative Governor-Elect Brian Kemp has gone on record opposing offshore drilling off the Georgia coast.

However, Savannah Congressman Buddy Carter (R-Pooler) has stated he is in favor of seismic airgun testing.

In addition, practically the entire coastal delegation of South Carolina supports the lawsuit, including CongressmanElect Joe Cunningham (D-Charleston), who defeated Trump acolyte Katie Arrington in last month’s election.

Cunningham has unique insight.

“As a former ocean engineer I know how destructive offshore drilling can be,” Cunningham said at a press conference in Charleston last week.

Cunningham said the first bill he will sponsor when he takes office next month will be a bill to reverse the Trump administration’s backing of the policy.

Meanwhile, the North Atlantic Right Whales are gathering as best they can, in their dwindling numbers, off the Georgia coast. The wait is on to see if they will have any babies at all this year. CS

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Why we oppose offshore testing and drilling more than ever: Climate Change

urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to prevent catastrophic flooding, Editor, drought, and mass migraFor the last 15 years we at the tions that will be caused by Center for a Sustainable Coast unchecked climate change. have been strongly opposed Damage to marine life done to offshore drilling - and have by seismic testing and offrepeatedly said so on opinion shore drilling - though very pages from Georgia’s coast to objectionable - will be far Atlanta and beyond. less destructive than permaLikewise, we object to the nent harm to both ocean and recent approval of seismic land-based species (including testing in offshore areas along humans) brought by continued Georgia by the Trump adminis- emission of GHGs. tration. Not only will such testAlso, don’t be fooled by false ing irresponsibly harm marine claims justifying fossil-fuel life - as well documented - but projects on the basis of “U.S. all fossil-fuel related projects energy independence.” Such should be unconditionally assertions are complete fabopposed because they will rications, made obvious by worsen increasingly dangerous the fact that America is now climate-change impacts.

EXPORTING more fossil fuels Objections to offshore drillthan ever before. Using this ing must include well-reasoned deception, the fossil-fuel indusjustification supporting the try is recklessly profiting at

ever-greater risk to the future of our environment, economy, and quality of life.

Oppose offshore drilling and seismic testing - without doubt - BUT also oppose other fossilfuel projects such as pipelines, processing plants, and export facilities. All such fossil-fuel activities will only worsen the disastrous effects of an overheating climate.

However, opposing offshore activities while remaining silent about how they’re related to increasing climate threats will only assist in prolonging reckless emission of GHGs aggravating future disasters, especially in coastal areas.

Another fabrication that must be defeated is the absurd obstructionist claim that reducing GHGs will harm the economy. Actually, the opposite is true - proven by hundreds

of thousands of American jobs created by clean energy.

Falsehoods spread by fossilfuel profiteers are glaringly contradicted by the fact that there are already over TEN TIMES more U.S. jobs in solar energy than in coal. With responsible reforms in energy policy and continuing market trends favoring solar panels and wind turbines, replacing fossil-fuel-based power sources with clean energy will bring billions in American business opportunity and millions of new jobs - while helping to prevent the worst dangers of climate disruption.

We advise fellow citizens to support the Off Fossil Fuels Act, now in Congress.

David Kyler Director, Center for a Sustainable Coast

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The Elf On The Shelf: A 21st Century Christmas tradition

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BY KRISTY EDENFIELD

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UNLESS YOU’VE been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the barrage of photos that inundated social media this time of year, featuring an elf, in seemingly happy holiday homes, across the world.

Sometimes the elf is mischievous, other times elaborate; some elves write notes, and others bring gourmet delights.

In cases where the elf forgets to move (and this should happen nightly), there is an entire section of ElfOnTheShelf. com entitled, “Why Didn’t Our Scout Elf Move?”, to give parents eleven different reasons to help continue the elf mythology.

The first Elf on the Shelf was produced in 2005, and now families can adopt boy and girl “scout elves” in light and dark skin tones. More than 13 million Scout Elves have been adopted by families all over the world. You can now add an “elf pet” to your collection in either a reindeer or Saint Bernard puppy and 2 million Elf Pets have been adopted in nine countries.

The Elf on the Shelf is so popular, it was featured in a sketch on Saturday Night Live earlier this month. Jason Momoa, known for his role as Aquaman, played Scrappy the Elf, who witnessed his assigned child doing some 13 year-old things. And you can’t miss the Elf balloon in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

For those not familiar with Elf on the Shelf, a scout elf comes to your home and, according to the companion book sold with the elf, “At holiday time Santa sends me to you. I watch and report on all that you do.

My job’s an assignment from Santa himself. I am his helper, a friendly scout elf.”

Once an elf arrives, your family is supposed to quickly name him or her, and each night while your child is sleeping, the scout elf flies back to the North Pole to frolic with their elf friends and report to St. Nick.

Children jump out of bed each morning to see where their scout elf has perched anew, and the only rule is that the children can’t touch the elf, otherwise the magic might go and the elf won’t be able to fly back to Santa.

This year, all elves were scheduled to make their arrival or comeback from the North Pole between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1.

Men seem to be less adept than women

at the whole elf moving tradition.

Tye Whitely, mom of three, recently posted about her husband, Adot, “this is what happens when dad is in charge of our elf, Ruby, the kids wake up to find her pooping Hershey’s kisses,” with a photo of Ruby the Elf squatting over a red Solo cup.

Beckie Hayes, mother of four, posted a photo of a large Tyrannosaurus eating their elf, “when dad has Charlie (the elf) duty.”

In my own home, our teen son was on elf assignment one night this month and posed “Joy the Elf” with a paring knife.

Whitely and Hayes both find their elves to be delightful holiday traditions.

“We like our elfie Ruby Dee cause she’s fun and we tend to have fun around this time of the year. But let’s be clear, my kids behave with or without her, cause I’m the type of mom who will give out coal and take away presents if need be. I have a list of what we need to do to raise responsible and caring kids, and giving out Christmas gifts ain’t on it,” said Whitely.

Hayes noted, “we try to keep kid magic alive as long as we can because they enter real life all too soon. I enjoy the magic through them. We have had Charlie since the big kids were little kids, and now they help us maintain the magic with their younger siblings.”

I first learned about Elf on the Shelf several years ago, while visiting my friend Lisa Collins. Though Collins’ children are now older, she had this to say: “Although the elf sometimes puts a little stress in things, ‘oh no, I didn’t move it’ or ‘what am I doing tonight’, it keeps the magic real. My kids both know the truth, and have always known the real reason and celebration of Christmas,” she says.

More experienced holiday aficionados often comment, like Emily Calhoun did, “I am so glad the elf didn’t exist when my child was young. I love seeing what everyone’s elves are up to, but I find myself hoping I never have to live with one!”

Calhoun is a first time doting grandma this Christmas, and I bet there will be an elf in her life in the not-so-distant future.

Theresa Gines, mother of one and a local teacher, lamented, “a student gave me the elf in 2013. They named him Jack. I used him in the classroom once and brought him home the next year and introduced him to Christian. It’s mostly for fun, kind of like kids believing in Santa, but I don’t do too much with it. It can get out of hand

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and you set higher expectations if you go nuts with it. I spend on average two to three minutes moving it. I did use the elf to be mischievous at first, and he still can be, but I’ve had him be a good role model too. One year, I had him open the Bible to a Bible verse. I say if you want to do it, great.

If not that’s fine too. There’s no single way to parent or have fun.”

Elise Williams, mother of a 3 year-old, acknowledging the hard work of parenting, replied, “I can’t keep all the current work and home balls in the air; it would be be fun, but that ball would definitely get dropped and my sanity would suffer needlessly.”

Tracy Brisson, a local businesswoman and mother of a 2 year-old boy, “whenever I see an Elf on the Shelf photo, I think of the $17 million a year the inventors make on parents’ pain.”

Creatively Classic Activities and Books (CCA & B, home of The Elf on the Shelf) have been in business for 13 years and have grown both the employee base and SKU count every year since the company began; all this while maintaining 100 percent family ownership. CCA & B is an-Atlanta based company with more than = 80 fulltime employees, and contines to grow.

In addition to the elves and elf pets, you can purchase many accessories and

couture outfits for your elf. A new movie and other box kits, such as “Letters to Santa” are also available on The Elf on the Shelf website and in stores.

In addition to these options, CCA & B works with many licensing partners to offer exclusive items to their customers such as Elf on the Shelf branded pencils, erasers, mugs, magazines, cookie mixes, and a wide variety of other holiday gear.

In previous years, I was always grateful we had missed the window on this new holiday tradition as our son was too old; but we recently became guardians of a 7 yearold and her second grade teacher warned me that all of the students talk about their elves, so I would be wise to invite one into our home.

So far, Joy the Elf hasn’t been too cumbersome as my soon-to-be 18 year-old, husband and I stumble around in a nightly routine to move her to a different location for the little one to discover afresh.

When asked what is on the horizon for 2019 for this profitable Georgia based company, CCA & B responded, “The North Pole is a large and magical place, and only Santa Claus knows what is next!”

However, a little scout elf did let it slip about the launch of “The Elf on the Shelf A Christmas Musical”. Tickets go on sale next summer. CS

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Ardsley In Motion provides groundbreaking toolkit for neighborhood improvement Volunteer effort results in over 2,000 site-specific recommendations

BY JIM MOREKIS

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A REMARKABLE grassroots effort to improve one Savannah neighborhood, Ardsley Park, has the potential to be a model program for every neighborhood in the city, organizers say.

Over the course of six weeks this past October and November, over 100 volunteers canvassed every block of the 400-acre-plus Ardsley Park neighborhood, exhaustively noting items of concern ranging from the pressing — such as broken pavement — to the cosmetic, such as faded signage.

“This kind of effort has never been done on this scale in Georgia before in an all-volunteer effort,” says Nick Palumbo, president of the Ardsley Park/Chatham Crescent Neighborhood Association.

The volunteer effort was accomplished with technical help from Bike Walk Savannah (formerly the Savannah Bicycle Campaign), with a five-point spectrum of goals: Bikability, walkability, safety, community, and beautification, along with a philosophy of how to tie all those together.

The result is a densely detailed Google Maps document with more than 2,000 site-specific recommendations for individual neighborhood improvements.

“This illustrates that Savannah does a good job of maintaining parks and homes, but one element is lacking far behind: Basic infrastructure needs,” says Palumbo.

The volunteer notes were divided into things that the neighborhood could accomplish on its own — such as planting trees and addressing overgrown vegetation — and things which will need the assistance of City government, such as adding or modernizing sidewalks.

“We’ll bring those to the City’s Chief Development Strategies Officer and try to help come up with strategies of how to fund the improvements,” Palumbo says.

“I don’t like to just put something across someone’s desk without also offering a solution.”

The whole idea came from a safe schools conference this past summer held at East Broad Elementary.

“One of the folks there was explaining how to conduct a walk audit — how to do an assessment of a neighborhood,” says Palumbo. “I figured, why not try that in Ardsley Park? I didn’t know that we’d be able to pull it off, but it turns out we did

A screenshot showing the remarkable density and variety of the citizen-spotted items needing improvement — over 2,000 total discovered during the six-week canvassing period.

have enough volunteers to cover the whole neighborhood.”

After taking the idea to the neighborhood association board and, in Palumbo’s words, “hammering out what would be good for the neighborhood to do that wouldn’t be too subjective” to be practical, the effort was off and running — or more accurately, walking.

Many of the Ardsley In Motion findings are interesting.

For example, Palumbo says, “The Habersham bike lane doesn’t have a bike lane symbol painted in it — it has the High Occupancy Vehicle symbol. I suppose the HOV symbol is technically correct because it’s an alternate use, but it would be better to more clearly identify the bike lane.”

Some old Neighborhood Watch signs in Ardsley Park have been up so long, “they’re now vintage collector’s items,” laughs Palumbo. “I’m not even sure how much good they do anymore.”

The fact that Ardsley Park — one of the most affluent neighborhoods inside city limits — is in such dire need of infrastructure improvement, Palumbo says, just increases the urgency that the pilot program be extended to less fortunate Savannah communities.

“We’re planning on packing all this up and releasing it as a toolkit for other neighborhoods to use,” Palumbo says.

“This demonstrates that you can do it

City to do it. And you have technical expertise from nonprofit organizations. This is entirely resident-driven.”

Bike Walk Savannah has applied for a grant to replicate the program throughout Savannah. Another grant application, spearheaded on behalf of the Charles Ellis PTA by Denise Grabowski, is a finalist for a grant to help make school routes in Ardsley more safe.

While Ardsley In Motion made a deliberate effort to stay away from making traffic calming suggestions, to a certain extent the effort does tie into the larger goal of introducing more traffic calming.

“Traffic calming was probably the seed that planted all this, but we decided not to pursue traffic calming recommendations because that process already has a backlog many years into the future,” Palumbo says.

“It’s so deeply underfunded that we didn’t want to put too much time and energy into a situation where we won’t even be able to get an assessment done four years into the future,” he says.

“The current process is very myopic.”

Palumbo is interested in innovative — and possibly controversial — ideas to fund neighborhood improvement in Savannah, for example, issuing bonds.

“We issue bonds all the time to build brand-new neighborhoods. Why not issue bonds to help already-existing neighborhoods?” Palumbo muses. CS

NEWS & OPINION AN URBANIST VIEW

BY JASON COMBS

“NOBODY ever does the f*cking math.”

Caveat – the math in question is hard.

Finance can be not just difficult, but arcane.

When you add in low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC, “lie-tech” to those who know it), it becomes downright Byzantine.

So I called my friend Rex to get a handle on it. Rex is not his real name. However, he gave me some colorful quotes, so that’s what I’m calling him.

I knew Rex in grad school. He now works for a developer that specializes in the construction of affordable housing, utilizing LIHTCs. LIHTCs are too complex to delve into in here, but know that the vast majority of new, affordable housing is created through this program. It is estimated to cost the federal government about $6 billion per year in lost revenues (due to use of those tax credits by the end purchaser).

The “nobody” that Rex is referring at the top are those seeking to help create affordable housing – with an offer of free or low cost land, or a low interest loan – that they think will be the silver bullet allowing the project to be affordable.

But as Rex explains to me, it’s usually not enough, even with the LIHTCs. Developing affordable housing is complex, and difficult.

Let’s back up a second. That word.

“Affordable” – what does that really mean?

First of all, affordable, when speaking of housing, is not the opposite of luxury.

Affordable is not the same as cheap.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines housing as affordable if a household can attain it with no more than 30% of the household’s income.

Obviously, affordability defined this way is relative to income. Thus, income must be discussed along with affordability. Affordable to whom?

Step One: get very comfortable with the acronym AMI – Area Median Income.

(A reminder that median is not average – it means that half of households will have incomes above this number, and half will have incomes below.)

When stated without any extra

“I can’t afford that dirt,” he replied, speaking of in-demand areas that marketrate projects target, such as these. “If the land is priced at market, then the units will be market-rate.”

Then I told him that in the first case, the land is being sold to the developer by the comment, you can assume that the AMI city, and in the second case, the land would applies to a family of 4. AMI does go up be sold to the developer by a church. or down for households that are larger or Rex said that both of these could have smaller. been opportunities for creating some When devising AMI, HUD casts a wide affordable housing, but only if the land net, because households will theoretiwere sold significantly below market, or cally look for housing in a fairly wide area. better yet, donated to the project.

HUD’s Savannah “area” is three counSpeaking of the Atlanta area, he menties – Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty tions a couple of projects where the church counties. “stayed in the project” as a partner, donatHUD’s current AMI for this threeing the land to ensure that affordability county area is $65,200. goals could be reached.

Recalling that HUD defines affordable But, he doesn’t blame churches with housing as consuming 30% or less of the dwindling congregations for just selling off household’s income, here are some numland at market rates - “Hey, they’re broke bers for different income levels scaled to too.” our HUD-provided AMI: When it comes to a city selling off surAffordable monthly expenditure for plus land, that’s definitely an opportunity housing: to make a deal for some affordable units.

Area Median Income (AMI): The two basic ways to do that are to either $65,200 $1,630 sell the land to the developer below market Low-income: price in exchange for a percentage of the 80% of AMI $52,160 $1,304 units being affordable, or to ask that a cerVery low-income: tain number of units be available to renters 50% of AMI $32, 600 $815 using housing vouchers.

Extremely low-income: In addition, says Rex, if a city really 30% of AMI $19, 560 $489 wants affordable units, they should also Long story short – when you hear some- be willing to give property tax abatements one say “affordable”, and that person and/or waive a variety of fees. knows what they are talking about, this “I’ve got a 100-unit project right now is typically short-hand for units in new where I’m already looking at half-adevelopments targeted at, and reserved for, million in permitting fees,” he says with households making 80% of AMI or lower, frustration. made possible through subsidy of one form “100k in building permit. 100k in city or another. impact fee. 40k or so in land disturbance Rex doesn’t think that new affordable permit and fees. Water tap fees of about development projects should target those 35k and sewer tap of 200k. I think there at 80% AMI – the market should already are some other small ones that fill it out to be producing that, somewhere, though 500k.” maybe not right where people would like it.

“And that’s for 108 units!”

60% AMI is what housing wonks conSo, understand that it is difficult for sider the spot where you are actually doing developers to supply new, affordable houssome real good. ing units, even when it’s their specialty.

But even developers specializing in They have to have help – as much as affordable housing want as many marketpossible. rate units in the mix as possible, to make But, there are other ways to provide the numbers work. affordable housing, and other ways to look For example, here’s the distribution of at affordability. units in a recent affordable project that Todd Litman, founder and executive Rex was involved in: director of the Victoria Transport Policy 20% of units at market rate Institute, would characterize the HUD 60% of units affordable at 60% AMI definition of affordability, and the subsidy20% of units affordable at 50% AMI reliant methods of addressing it, as part of Two recently announced market-rate a “narrow analysis” of affordability. projects here in Savannah have raised the Litman argues for a “broad analysis” ire of many for not containing any affordwhich looks at increasing affordability for able units. I described these to Rex - the the middle class as well, and takes trans243-unit “703 Lousiville” development portation costs into account along with near the new arena, and the half-block housing. apartment building that will be conFrom Litman’s blog: structed on Bull and 31st in the increas“A narrow definition favors policies that ingly desirable Starland District. preserve and subsidize cheap housing. A

broader definition tends to supports policy reforms that allow much more development of moderate-priced housing in walkable urban neighborhoods.”

“Even if the new units are initially too pricey for lower-income households, they increase affordability through filtering, as some lower-priced housing occupants move up to the moderate-priced units, and over time as they depreciate and become cheaper.”

Just last week, the city of Minneapolis made some huge moves that take the “broad analysis” approach.

The Minneapolis city council passed a new comprehensive plan (12-1 no less), Minneapolis 2040, which will kill the most sacred of all zoning cows – the single-family housing district.

Duplexes and triplexes will be allowed everywhere in the city. That is unheard of, and awesome.

In addition, and just as importantly, the plan also eliminated off-street parking requirements (which increase construction costs, and hence housing costs) – EVERYWHERE in the city.

Not just in certain districts. That’s heard of, but only in two other cities (Buffalo NY & Hartford CT).

Finally, the plan also allows increased density at transit stations, along with actually limiting parking in the vicinity. That one is a no-brainer.

With these radical changes to its urban DNA, Minneapolis has suddenly become the poster-child for walking-the-walk and taking a broad, long-term approach to housing affordability.

There are many ways to address affordability, narrow and broad, short-term and long-term, subsidized and market-based.

Do some further research, and decide which ones you support. I never even got to inclusionary zoning. Look it up.

Then, by all means, advocate for more affordable housing, but don’t just show up at public meetings and ask why it isn’t being included in a new market-rate project.

That’s too little and too late. More on this next. CS If you are interested in this issue and want to learn more, here are three links that will get you started: The Vox Affordable Housing Explainer: https:// www.vox.com/2014/4/10/18076868/affordable-housing-explained The National Low Income Housing Coalition: www.NLIHC.org The blog of Todd Litman: https://www.planetizen.com/blog/2394

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The health benefits of safer streets

BY JOHN BENNETT

john@bicyclecampaign.org

WHAT DO you know about U.S. Census tract 13051003301? By looking at its boundaries I learned its home to a portion of the historic Carver Village neighborhood.

Thanks to Georgia Healthy Cities (georgiahealthycities.org/), I discovered 13051003301 is also home to the highest prevalence of diabetes in Savannah. An estimated 23.7 percent of residents are diagnosed with diabetes, boosting it into the top 1 percent of Census tracts for diabetes among the 500 largest U.S. cities.

Tract 13051003301’s dubious diabetes distinction was easy to ascertain using the “Savannah Story Map and 5 High Health Risks” feature on the GHC website, which is part of a new project that, “exists to help communities better understand how their neighborhoods impact their health—and what local-level changes can help improve their health outcomes.”

Along with diabetes and complications, the website allows visitors to peer into Savannah neighborhoods and see rates for stroke, respiratory disease, and poor and low sleep. The differences between neighborhoods — even some that are adjacent to each other — can be jarring.

In describing 13051003301’s diabetes rate, the Georgia Healthy Cities website explains, “Nearby, two census tracts are estimated to have fewer than 6 percent of residents with the disease. The great disparity for residents just a few miles away from each other is an illustration of health inequity. It may be that seemingly small differences between these neighborhoods, such as the presence or absence of safe

crosswalks, are related to health outcomes.

It may also be that the city’s past has shaped where different people live, thereby creating clusters of residents who are at higher risk for developing the disease.”

Lizann Roberts, executive director of the Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition, sees significant potential in the tools provided by the project, which is also focusing on Albany, Atlanta, and Columbus.

“This data will help coalition partners and the community to investigate the underlying causes of disparities in the data and collectively create a strategy to address them,” she said.

“For instance, the GHC data shows that Savannah is No. 433 out of 500 cities in the data set for overall health. We will examine the factors and through cross-collaboration among partners, create viable, sustainable solutions. Even on an individual level, organizations can see where they can focus their attention to the areas of highest need.”

The project is supported by the Urban Institute through funds provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and focuses on social determinates of health, five factors that influence health and well-being: economic stability, education, social and community, health and healthcare, and neighborhood and the built environment.

The last of these has been the topic of increasingly intensive research. The headline of a New York Times story from earlier this year, “Writing Prescriptions to Play Outdoors,” encapsulates the connection between where we live and how it affects our health.

But simply going outside for a walk may not be a viable proposition for those who live on one of the more than 70 percent of Savannah streets that do not have sidewalks. Or for those who live in an area where speeding and traffic crashes are

common.

The GHC project should help clarify the relationship between neighborhoods, in which residents would be unable to safely comply with a doctor’s prescription for exercise because of problems with the built environment, and higher rates of chronic diseases.

“We can feature communities with the highest rates of diabetes, or zip codes with the greatest concentration of hypertension and stroke,” Roberts said.

“The public can also see where various amenities in Savannah are located, such as green space and fitness facilities.

Our hope is that skillful use of the data will draw the public to ask the question, why and what does the data indicate? Policymakers can then work with the community to address those questions to provide insight into underlying causes and create a culture of health for all.”

In my work I hear from people who live in Census tracts all over town including 13051004211 (Windsor Forest), 13051001500 (East Victorian District), and 13051011600 (Hudson Hill) who want to reclaim neighborhood streets from speeding and aggressive driving, and make them safe places for people.

The primary goal of these efforts is reducing traffic crashes, especially those that involve people who walk, use wheelchairs and other assistive devices, or ride bikes. Now, however, residents can identify additional benefits that could be derived from neighborhood safety projects.

In addition to decreasing traffic-related injuries and deaths, better health outcomes provide more justification for implementation.

In that way, safer streets are wonder drugs. They reduce the traumatic injuries that are caused by traffic crashes and at the same time attack chronic conditions. It’s hard to imagine a wiser investment. CS

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Roz Rouse and Patt Gunn at the Slave Bins for Underground Tours.

Jubilee Freedom Day: Cheering to freedom

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DECEMBER 21, 1864 is one of the most important days in Savannah’s history. Do you know why?

On that day, upwards of 200,000 Union Army troops arrived to enforce President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

It’s now commemorated as Jubilee Freedom Day by the Center for Jubilee, headed

by Patt Gunn and Rosalyn Rouse of Underground Tours.

Now in its fifth year, Jubilee Freedom Day is a celebration of healing and forgiveness. Gunn, Rouse, and Alexis Javier of Sulfur Studios and Emergent Savannah have come together to create a special weekend.

“AJ is the master behind the artists coming together,” says Gunn. “They call them the Jubilee Freedom Day Artist Collective, but I think they’re artists of social change.”

“As we got a little closer to the event, I reached out to friends and artists and activists—we call them artivists,” shares Javier.

“For the most part, everyone has responded with enthusiasm and excitement. Everyone has their own knowledge or understanding about what Jubilee Freedom Day is. Some don’t, and they’re learning even more. Because we have all these

different people coming together for this, everyone is being heard. For me, it’s allowing for more nuance and complexity of this topic to come to light, and I would like to believe we’re all finding some sort of larger understanding of this. It’s larger than we may have thought before.”

The artivists were taken down to the Cluskey Storage Vaults, where it’s believed enslaved people were kept.

“The Cluskey Storage has not been definitely proved as a place where slaves were held, but the city has put a mandate that they’re going to continue to investigate,” says Gunn. “We felt the spirit down there.

The artivists came down and they felt it, too. When you don’t acknowledge truth, that’s what happens.”

Like the artivists, Gunn hopes that the attendees will feel the spirit and be encouraged to make change.

“I think with all the excitement and good vibes going across this city, one thing we’d like to see come out of this is have these be tools for advocacy,” says Gunn.

“Visitors go back home and say, ‘What’s my project? How do I take something that’s negative and pull together and change that thing, heal and redress it? We have to begin to have people on the Earth that will do that. We’re looking for the abolitionists.”

“We find them all the time on our tour,” adds Rouse. “They don’t want to leave Savannah. They say, ‘What can we do?

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What can we do to help Underground Tours?’ Once they get it, they feel it.”

Friday’s event begins with the ringing of church bells and goes into a formal ceremony with libations and prayers before breaking off into the main events.

“We’ll have visual arts, spoken word, freedom songs, and something that’s so touching: the reading of the manifest project we did last year called Say My Name,” says Gunn. “It’s a reading arranged on the manifest of slaves, and we compiled probably over 100,000 names from manifest lists. Our goal is to read 10,000—we have many more, but that’s our goal.”

The reading is sure to be emotionally stirring, especially on the heels of the art exhibit Thursday.

Eric Saul and Dr. Amy Fiske curated “Been In the Storm So Long,” a collection of photographs that show the history of slavery. The graphic exhibition is intended for mature audiences only.

“It’ll stir some anger up,” Javier says.

“We want people to see what actually happened, and we want to stir up ideas about how we can get past this atrocity,” says Gunn. “The exhibit will be a culmination of visuals in terms of portraits, but it’s blended with freedom songs. If you look at a portrait and put the freedom songs with it, and hear freedom songs of forgiveness, you can take them through that process a lot easier.”

Gunn and Rouse note that their Underground Tours don’t happen without freedom songs.

“Walking downtown and hearing the story about slaves is very hard,” says Gunn.

“You can’t just show p and then release people .We take them on a journey through slavery.”

Last year, Saul and Fiske brought an exhibition called “The American Abolitionist,” which was very well-received.

That exhibition is currently at the Beach Institute, with a reception scheduled for Dec. 19. (For more, turn to page 35.)

“Last year, people came to the exhibit and they were saying, ‘Is John Brown here?

I can’t wait to see John Brown. What about Sojourner Truth?’” shares Gunn. “It was magical.”

“I started to look in their eyes,” adds Rouse. “When I looked in the eyes of those abolitionists, I felt like they were looking at me, saying, ‘Ros, don’t forget.’”

Gunn hopes that the event stirs up the need for change in Savannah.

“Our charge is to redact the history of Savannah and place markers in spaces we think are sacred,” she says. “From the Cluskey Storage where we believe slaves dwelled to the unmarked burial sites to the waterways, we have identified over 15 places where there should be markers, because we have zero markers. As we go into the 400 years of slavery, it’s time to begin the work.” CS

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Teen charged for shooting Windsor Park sign

Savannah Police Department has charged a 13-year-old boy in connection to the shooting of the sign at Windsor Park.

On Nov. 28, officers responded to Windsor Park after someone discovered that the new sign had been shot several times.

Around this same time, the 13-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital for a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Following an investigation, the teen admitted to also damaging the sign.

The teen was charged with reckless conduct, interference with government property and possession of a handgun by a person under 18.

Savannah Police participate in ‘advanced active shooter training’

Last week, a group of Savannah Police officers received training to educate other officers on how to handle an active shooter scenario.

“Our Training Unit has worked very hard this year to bring relevant and critical trainings to our department,” said Sgt. William Bailey, of the Training Unit.

“Now more than ever, it is very important for our department to stay up-to-date on the best practices when dealing with an active shooter situation. That’s why having this ‘Training the Trainer’ course was high on our priority list.”

The Savannah Police Department welcomed instructors from the LSU- National Center for Biomedical Research and

Trainees at active shooter program

Training/Academy of Counter Terrorist Education (LSU-NCBRT/ACE) to the city to train not only SPD officers, but officers from the Chatham County Police Department, Board of Education, Georgia Ports Authority and the Chatham County Sheriff ’s Office.

This four-day course gave officers the tactical training needed to reduce threats when dealing with an active gunman.

“An active shooter can happen anytime, anywhere, so it was important for us to not only have the training, but to open it up to surrounding agencies. This collaborative effort makes for a more resilient community, and helps everyone have the necessary skills to respond to potentially devastating situations,” said Assistant Chief Robert Gavin.

The training was funded by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Pedestrian-involved crash on Liberty Street

Savannah Police’s Traffic Investigation Unit is investigating an afternoon crash that resulted in injuries to two Atlanta residents.

About 3:30 p.m. today Benjamin Schoefield and Andreina Icaza, both 29, of Atlanta, were crossing the eastbound lanes of Liberty Street at Barnard Street in the crosswalk when they were struck by a vehicle. The Honda Accord, which was driven by 29-year-old Courtney Mitchell, of Savannah, had been traveling south on Barnard Street. She stopped at the stop sign in the median and then made a left turn onto Liberty Street, striking the pedestrians.

Both pedestrians were transported to Memorial Medical Center for treatment.

Schoefield suffered serious injuries. Icaza suffered minor injuries.

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“About 9:30 p.m. officers were called to a residence in the 1500 block of Lincoln Street and discovered Lee deceased from gunshot wounds. All parties involved were on the scene when officers arrived. An initial investigation revealed an altercation took place that resulted in Lee’s death.

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NEWS & OPINION NEWS OF THE WEIRD Giving Up the Ghost

In January, Amanda Sparrow Large, 46, of Belfast, Ireland, stretched the MayDecember union to new lengths when she wed a 300-year-old ghost of a Haitian pirate. “I wanted the big traditional wedding with the white dress. It was very important to me,” she told the Irish Mirror. Large said that “Jack,” who was executed for thieving on the high seas, became known to her one night in 2014, when she felt the energy of a spirit next to her while lying in bed. Large has worked as a Jack Sparrow (of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies) impersonator, and she believes her job opened the door for her spirit-husband to reach out to her. Alas, the Mirror reported on Dec. 8, things didn’t work out for the odd couple: “I will explain all in due course,” Large wrote on social media, “but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality. It’s not something to mess with.”

Scrooge Visited by Ghost of Lunches Past

The Cranston (Rhode Island) School District is taking its response to delinquent school lunch accounts up a notch, reported WJAR TV on Dec. 6. District COO Raymond Votto Jr. sent a letter to parents notifying them that a collection agency will be contacting those with lunch overdrafts starting on Jan. 2 and noted that the current deficit is almost $46,000. “The district lunch program cannot continue to lose revenue,” Votto wrote. The letter specified that students will continue to receive food regardless of whether their account is in arrears. Families with unpaid charges of more than $20 will be notified by mail, which the district called a softer approach.

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Unclear on the Concept

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-- Dominick Breedlove of Spring Hill, Florida, doomed his chances of landing a job at Kohl’s on Dec. 5, reported Fox 13 News, by getting arrested for shoplifting after his interview. Breedlove arrived for his appointment with Human Resources around 3:20 that afternoon, Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies said, and afterward stopped to browse in the shoe department. A loss prevention officer watching Breedlove told police the suspect went outside to his car, retrieved a Kohl’s shopping bag and returned to the store, where he stashed two pairs of Nike athletic shoes worth $150 in the bag. Breedlove was charged with shoplifting, and the sheriff’s office confirmed he was not hired.

-- A Michigan bank robber failed to appear at his sentencing hearing on Dec. 6 in Macomb County Circuit Court because he was cooling his heels in Toledo, Ohio, after being arrested in connection with another bank robbery. Paul Carta, 45, pleaded guilty in October to robbing

a bank in May in Utica, Michigan, and was due in court on the 6th, Newsweek reported. But on the 5th, the Toledo Police Department said, Carta entered a Toledo bank and handed a clerk a note demanding money and warning that he was armed.

The bank employee gave Carta an undisclosed amount of money, and he fled the bank. Toledo police took him into custody 11 minutes later at a Taco Bell drive-thru nearby. He was held in Toledo on $50,000 bond.

Sweet Revenge

Ted Pelkey of Westford, Vermont, has been battling the Westford Development Review Board for months over his proposal to erect a building on his property for his truck repair and monofilament recycling business. But he told WCAX News that the city keeps putting up barriers to the development, so Pelkey has instead installed a message to the board and the people of Westford: a giant sculpture of a fist with the middle finger raised. “It’s very big.

Everybody got the message,” said Fairfax resident Carol Jordan. Pelkey, who spent $4,000 on the public rebuke, said he hopes the citizens of Westford will take a “really long look at the people who are running their town.” In the meantime, the select board told WCAX that because the sculpture is considered public art, they can take no action against it.

Bromance

Anthony Akers, 38, and the Richland (Washington) Police Department embarked on an amusing meet-cute of law and fugitive on Nov. 28 when the department posted a wanted photo of Akers on its Facebook page. Five hours after the posting, National Public Radio reported, Akers responded with: “Calm down, i’m going to turn myself in.” When Akers was a noshow, the department messaged him the next day: “Hey Anthony! We haven’t seen you yet.” Officers even offered him a ride.

But Akers couldn’t be bothered: “Thank you, tying up a couple loose ends since i will probably be in there for a month.” He promised to surrender within 48 hours.

When the weekend passed without any sign of Akers, officers wrote: “Is it us? We waited but you didn’t show.” To which Akers replied: “Dear RPD, it’s not you, it’s me. I obviously have commitment issues. ... P.S. You’re beautiful.” Finally, on Dec. 4, Akers arrived at the Richland police station, posting a selfie with the caption: “Thank you RPD for letting me do this on my own.”

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Lindsey Stirling brings her Christmas album and tour to Savannah.

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The hugely successful violinist’s popular holiday tour comes back for another year

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

VIOLINIST, singer, dancer, and songwriter Lindsey Stirling skyrocketed to fame thanks to her appearance on America’s Got Talent and her popular YouTube channel, but she’s earned a devoted fan base through her consistent musical output and unique style that blends classical, pop, and sometimes even Middle Eastern melodic sensibilities with dubstep and electronic rhythmic components.

Her habit of incorporating dance into performances and music videos has also help set her apart and make her something of an unrivaled force in pop music since her debut album in 2012. One of her most popular releases is 2017’s Warmer in the Winter, a collection of both original Christmas songs and covers that range from traditional to contemporary. The album was so successful that a deluxe edition followed this year, and Stirling embarked on a tour in support of it. That tour brings her to the

Johnny Mercer Theater on Thurs., Dec. 20.

Stirling’s unique musical style is something she landed on through the musical discovery and an ambition to write songs early in her career.

“I pull from a lot of inspirations,” she tells Connect. “I feel like I have quite a diverse palette. People ask, ‘Who were your influences growing up?’ and I feel like it was everything from classical music to John Williams’ Greatest Hits album. But I also loved Evanescence so much, so I have this really diverse palette of people that musically inspired me.”

As a college student, Stirling discovered the music of Skrillex - which proved to be a game changer for the young writer.

“I was like, ‘What is this electronic sound?’ and it was dubstep that I was falling in love with. That was the time that I was starting to write, so I tried to figure out how I could infuse my sound with this

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“I think that’s one thing that I love so much about Christmas music. Even more so than any other music, I think it helps hold on to memories.

They’re like little time capsules of memories and traditions, so it was such a cool thought that I could possibly add my own flare to it. dubstep thing that was happening,” she says.

As for her Christmas album, Stirling explains that it was something she’d wanted to do for a long time.

“I love the nostalgia that [Christmas music] creates, and that it created for my childhood,” she says.

“I think that’s one thing that I love so much about Christmas music. Even more so than any other music, I think it helps hold on to memories. They’re like little time capsules of memories and traditions, so it was such a cool thought that I could possibly add my own flare to it. Then maybe my Christmas album would become a little time capsule to help people create and hold on to memories.”

Another important aspect of recording Warmer in the Winter was the chance for Stirling to let her faith come through a bit more in the material.

“A Christmas album is a really great opportunity to express faith through music,” she says.

“I do that through a lot of my music, but a lot of it’s instrumental and it’s more like implied faith. But when you’re performing songs like ‘Angels We Have Heard On High’ or ‘What Child Is This’ - those songs are about Jesus Christ. It’s about my faith, and about my faith in angels. Not everybody that makes Christmas music feels that way about it. Sometimes it’s just a Christmas album because that’s what people want, but Christmas is a very faith-oriented time for me.”

Stirling has a hard time picking a favorite Christmas song, but says she’s narrowed it down to two that are particularly important to her for a number of reasons.

“One of my favorites is ‘Carol of the Bells.’ If I had written any of these classics, that would’ve been the one I’d have written. It’s in my wheelhouse - I love the minor key, and I love that it’s moody but epic,” she says. “But then also, with the spiritual side of me, I think ‘Angels We Have Heard On High’ is my favorite in that way.”

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MUSIC INTERVIEW

Cathedral Bells’ shoegaze stylings will be on full display at El Rocko.

Matthew Messore opens up about his process, the live show, and dream pop ahead of Savannah gig

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

CONNECT SAVANNAH | DEC 19-25, 2018

CATHEDRAL BELLS, an Orlando-based project led primarily by songwriter Matthew Messore, isn’t what you’d expect to be coming out of Florida these days. It’s best described as a dream pop with a shoegaze aesthetic, but it’s often much more uptempo and rhythmically frantic – not unlike krautrock pioneers Neu! or postpunk icons Joy Division.

Though Cathedral Bells is largely the brainchild of Messore, he and collaborator David Horne have been working together more frequently as of late. The duo will be bringing their gorgeous compositions to El Rocko Lounge on Fri., Dec. 21, and we spoke to Messore ahead of the show to learn more.

It sounds like you’re not just doing a shoegaze thing – there’s also some element of post punk and new wave, not unlike Joy Division or New Order. Is that a fair assessment?

MM: I think the influences go all over the place. It’s a cross between a lot of shoegaze bands and a lot of different stuff. I think krautrock has a lot to do with this project.

Can and bands like that?

MM: Yeah. It’s just kind of more in a post22 punk feel. I think I have somewhat of a

drums together. And then all the guitars and vocals I did with another engineer in his bedroom. In the future, I feel comfortable recording songs all on my own to get the same sound and formula that I have now.

formula for writing with this new project.

I don’t really know where a lot of the direct influences come through, but definitely like My Bloody Valentine and the Creation Records stuff, Jesus and Mary Chain – a lot Are you doing a lot of looping patters of different stuff blended in. and layering things for drums?

The krautrock thing is definitely prominent now that you say it – there’s a lot of those rhythmic elements. This is mainly you in this project, right?

MM: It started off with just me. I don’t want to say it’s a solo project, but pretty much everything that’s been released so far was written by me. [Collaborator] David Horne was a fan of my last project, and we eventually met up and started playing together. I definitely think he’ll help with writing for future stuff, but as far as the actual structuring and formula and stuff it’s mostly my writing.

What’s the recording process like for this project, since you’re doing a lot of it on your own?

MM: Kind of. It’s a strange process – I basically get the patterns and throw on a metronome first. I do a lot of copying and pasting, but a lot of them is actually by hand. A lot of people use Ableton, but I actually use Audacity as strange as that seems. I get the custom drum sounds and then bring a metronome into the session.

I’ll have maybe six or seven tracks and then export them into one, and for some reason I like how it sounds.

It’s a long process and not as convenient maybe as Ableton or other programs, but it’s very unique and that’s what makes me want to keep doing it this way. I enjoy it, actually.

Everyone has their process, and I think there’s something to be said for finding your thing. It sounds great, and I think MM: A couple of these songs, and a few that it’s also really creative to do it the way haven’t come out yet, were made with cus- you’re doing it. tom sampling for drums. I kind of have a very tedious and strange way of arranging MM: Yeah! the drums. Basically I just kind of get the files together and try to do as much as I can When you’re playing live, is it just you on my own. or are you bringing a band? What can For the songs that are out now, I people expect for the upcoming show? recorded all the synth parts and put the

MM: That was a challenging thing. It was the biggest setback for me with this project. I knew I was going to be playing with some kind of backing tracks – it’s basically just a two-piece as of right now. We were playing with a live drummer, kind of early Jesus and Mary Chain style. A floor tom and snare with a sheet, a ride and hi-hat.

Now we have a backing track on a loop station – it’s got the bass guitar that I recorded, the drum tracks, and all the synth tracks. So it’s basically just two guitars live and then I sing. David plays a lot of leads so I can focus more on vocals.

There are some parts that we’re doing differently live, but it sounds really full for a two-piece. I also was messing with a live bassist at one point, but at the end of the day it sounded best with just the backing tracks and us. It’s a good dynamic, and a good range with volume as well.

You can control a lot more.

MM: Yeah. With the drummer thing, it was sounding good but we had to turn up a little too much and it was hard to get a good balance with the backing tracks. It’s definitely not an everyday setup, though there are some bands doing it. Drab Majesty play as a two-piece and kind of have a similar thing.

With them I think it’s more like synth bass, and for us it’s actually live bass guitar.

We’re excited to play these shows. As long as we have some monitors, I think we’ll be okay [laughs]. CS

CATHEDRAL BELLS, BERO BERO, EARLY BRANCH @EL ROCKO LOUNGE Fri., Dec. 21, 9 P.M.

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MUSIC FEATURE

The Goliards carry on a Christmas tradition The long-running ensemble brings its Christmas program to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church just in time for the holiday

The Goliards keep early music alive with their annual Christmas show.

PHOTO BY ELIZABETH OSTERBERGER

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

CONNECT SAVANNAH | DEC 19-25, 2018

THE GOLIARDS, founded in Atlanta in 1998, have been exploring and studying the work they performed for two decades now.

Focused initially on music from before the 14th century, the ensemble currently consists of rebec and vielle player John Hillenbrand, vocalist Cuff y Sullivan, organ and sinfonye player Anne Acker, vocalist and viola de gamba player Marcy Brenner, and vocal soloist Sheila Berg.

When the group relocated to Savannah, it notably staged some incredible work including songs by Torlough O’Carolan, The Sibyls, The Message of Gabriel, and most recently Shakespeare’s Music. One longstanding performance they’ve done is Christmas with The Goliards – a concert that features a variety of work including 13th century hymns of praise and even a 24 restructuring of The Coventry Carol that

features 14th century cadential intervals.

This year’s Christmas performance is set for Sun., Dec. 23 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, with an impressive set of music planned. The latest incarnation of The Goliards, largely led by Hillenbrand, boasts a unique and diverse cast of musicians with varied backgrounds.

“All of the musicians working for me now are pretty accomplished, but they’re mostly in baroque music. That was a much more popular aspect of the early music movement, so that’s where their expertise lies. But we’re gradually trying to move in a more improvisatory mindset. We’re not quite there yet, so I pretty much do all of the arranging for everything that we perform,” Hillenbrand says.

The musician explains that when he moved to Savannah, it occurred to him that there weren’t many musicians in the city who were rooted in early music as he was.

“I recruited people on the basis of people being good musicians instead,” he says.

“So we expanded our time period into the Renaissance. In fact, the first concert we did here in Savannah was all 15th century music. The last concert we did was music from Shakespeare’s time, and that was as recent as 1610 or 1615. That’s about as modern as we’re going to get.”

As for the music in this year’s Christmas performance, Hillenbrand explains that the music is split into two sets consisting of a variety of pieces.

“The first set consists entirely of anonymous pieces. The first piece is actually earlier than the 13th century, and is a Gregorian chant upon which the others are based,” he says.

“It has a very likeable, although simple, melody that just had an incredible shelf life. We don’t know when it was composed – we think it was around the ninth century.

By the 13th century, people were still using the basic melody as a skeleton upon which to hang more modernized music.”

The four pieces that follow that Gregorian chant are all based on it melodically.

That particular chant, “Ave Maris Stella,” traveled well throughout its centuries-long life – making its way into pieces like “Quen a Omagen de Virgen,” which is from the Cantigas de Santa Maria collection that originated in the late 13th century in Spain.

The Goliards will be performing that piece instrumentally.

The show also features a number of carols and ceremonial music played traditionally at Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Hillenbrand describes some of that music as “joyous” songs that are “fairly inconsequential but fun to play.”

The concert concludes with “Ave Mater, o Maria,” a popular polyphonic conductus from the 14th century that was written in dedication to the Virgin. It’ll be a fitting end to a show that aims to showcase the true lineage and roots of music and spread some spirit at the same time. CS

CHRISTMAS WITH THE GOLIARDS @ ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Sun., Dec. 23, 3 P.M., $10

MUSIC INTERVIEW

Nicole Brancato comes home for the holidays The accomplished musician and Savannah native returns for a concert at Trinity

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

PIANIST Nicole Brancato has had an extremely impressive career since she graduated from the Savannah Arts Academy - performing throughout the country and in Italy, playing esteemed venues like Lincoln Center, garnering awards, and winning competitions. These days she calls New York home, but is set to return to Savannah for a show at Trinity United Methodist Church.

“Savannah always has a close place in my heart,” she says. “This is a special concert for me to play in Savannah. Whenever I get the chance to, I try to.”

The concert at Trinity will explore the works of Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, and Luciano Berio, among others, and will feature Brancato’s immense talent on full display. Ahead of her special homecoming show, we spoke to Brancato about her beginnings, her career so far, and the upcoming performance.

Acconplished pianist Nicole Brancato comes to Trinity for a special hometown performance.

NB: Oh gosh, where do I start? The story goes, because I was too young to remember, that my older brother Paul started playing piano when I was maybe three or four. When he would practice, I would come on the other end and bang the keys to try and participate [laughs]. He would get annoyed, and eventually my mom said, “She has to start getting lessons, too.”

That was around 4 or 5 years old, which was the start of piano for me. But in terms of really getting serious, it was when I started attending Savannah Arts Academy.

That really changed things for me in terms of my perspective on music and the possibilities that I saw in the art form. I totally loved my time there at Savannah Arts Academy – it really did so much for me.

This show in particular, you’re doing the work of a few different composers. Will it be primarily classical

compositions? What was the process of the water one – water is a theme that’s used putting this music together? so heavily in classical music, so it’s really cool to see the compositional techniques NB: A large part of my musical is in clasthat he used to create the watery sound. sical music, but I definitely have tried to I paired that with Ravel’s Gaspard de la cultivate a penchant for newer composers nuit. Those are also programmatic pieces, and for conceptual and thematic program- but the first one of the set – Ondine – has ming. Luciano Berio is the most contempo- that watery element, so it has the elemental rary composer on my list. His is a set that I connection to the Berio work. Gaspard de discovered maybe three or four years ago la nuit has literary origins, and the set was and just fell in love with. Each one on the inspired by the writer Aloysius Bertrand. set represents a different element.

Each one has a poem that accompanies it, There’s “Erdenklavier,” which is for so those all have very specific storytelling Earth, “Luftklavier” for air, “Wasserkand programmatic meaning. lavier” for water and “Feuerklavier” for That all fits very nicely with Robert fire. I’ve just really enjoyed playing these Schumann’s Kreisleriana, which also has – they’re really like little preludes, charac- literary origins. The title of that works terizing an element in ways that composcomes from an E.T.A. character by the ers hadn’t done in the past. Especially with name of Kreisler. He was this manic

composer who at one moment was basking in glorious, serine inspiration and the next moment was full of angst. It’s sort of the classic image of the composer – manic and moving between emotions.

The Beethoven music – Op. 90 - works nicely as a musical appetizer, if you will.

It’s only two movements, which is rather unusual for sonata form. But he gets particularly sentimental in a way that we don’t really see from him very often. I really love that different character of Beethoven as a composer, and I feel like that leads really nicely into other pieces on the program. CS

NICOLE BRANCATO @TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Fri., Dec. 21, 7 :30 P.M., $25 suggested donation

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BY SEAN KELLY

TRAIL DIVER @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH

Jacksonville-based group Trail Diver blends electronica, funk, trip hop and jazz to create a sound that is all their own. It’s upbeat and danceable, but it’s also quite musically complex and expansive. The band is perfect for both the casual music lover and people who appreciate layered compositions and musical complexity.

Sat., Dec. 22, 9 P.M.

VOODOO SOUP @CONGRESS STREET SOCIAL CLUB

Voodoo Soup is anchored by acclaimed bassist Eric Moore, and has made a significant name in town playing a fusion of funk, jazz, soul, and rock. Moore and his group of equally virtuosic musicians are always a treat when they come together, and their pre-Christmas gig at Congress Street will certainly be no exception.

SUN. DEC. 23, 10 P.M.

MONKEY MAN (ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE) @EL ROCKO LOUNGE

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Savannah’s own Rolling Stones tribute Monkey Man returns with a gig at El Rocko, playing the most beloved Stones hits as well as deep cuts from the band’s hugely extensive catalog. It’s the best way to hear your favorite Stones songs without having to worry about those insanely high-priced arena shows that Jagger and company will be doing in 2019.

WED., DEC. 26, 9 P.M.

TEDDY ADAMS SEXTET @GOOD TIMES JAZZ BAR & RESTAURANT

Local jazz legend Teddy Adams, a staple in the Savannah music scene, has made Good Times his home – aside from being an integral part of running the beloved establishment. He’ll be bringing his sextet to the stage for some pre-holiday music and literal good times. This is a performance not to be missed for music fans of any kind.

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WEDNESDAY 12.19 LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, 9:30 p.m.

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

Bayou Cafe Ray Tomasino, 9 p.m.

Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m.

Bootleggers Karaoke w/ DJ Miracle, 7 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m.

Fia Rua Irish Pub Logan Thomas, 6:30 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Michael McCormick Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Eric Jones Trio ft. Laiken Williams, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Sean Clark, 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Bill Smith Trio, 6:30 p.m.

The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

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

Southbound Brewing Company Boogaloo Bingo and DJ Miami, 7 p.m.

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

Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay The Wormhole Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Bingo, 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.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Wacky Wednesday Stafford’s Public House Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy, 9 p.m.

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Little Lucky’s Live DJ SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

THURSDAY 12.20 LIVE MUSIC

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.

Castaways Bar & Grill Live Music, 6:30 p.m.

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

Eric Jones Trio with Mark Rapp @GOOD TIMES JAZZ BAR & RESTAURANT

Esteemed musician Eric Jones returns to Good Times with his trio, bringing his virtuosic playing to the stage alongside an equally-notable band. For this special performance, he’ll have South Carolina musician Mark Rapp in the fold.

FRI., DEC. 21, 8 P.M. Congress Street Social Club DJ Basik Lee Fannie’s on the Beach Christy and Butch, 8 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Jeremy Riddle Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Randy Reese Quartet, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ramona Quimby, 7 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre Lindsey Stirling, 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Trivia The Perch at Local 11 ten Marcus Kuhlmann PS Tavern Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Gypsy Jazz, 7 p.m.

River House Matt Eckstine Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Rachael Shaner Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Frank Bright, Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jon Lee’s Apparitions, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 7 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) City Hotel, 7:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 6 p.m.

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

Southbound Brewing Company Geeks Who Drink Pub Trivia, 8 p.m.

Tybee Island Social Club Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

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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.

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

Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

The Distillery An Evening with Celena Adams, 7 & 9 p.m.

Foxy Loxy Cafe Vinyl Appreciation, 7 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m.

Stafford’s Public House Open Mic, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 12.21 LIVE MUSIC

B & D Burgers (Congress St.) Ugly Sweater Party w/ Josh Johansson, 7 p.m.

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

Bootleggers Dance Music w/ DJ Lishis, 8 p.m.

Club Elan Yella Beezy, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club JD Music Group Dockside Seafood Bluegrass Happy Hour, 4 p.m.

East End Provisions Holiday Living Room Concert, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Cathedral Bells, Bero Bero, Early Branch, 9 p.m.

Fia Rua Irish Pub Free Spirits Orchestra, 7:30 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant

The Eric Jones Trio ft. Mark Rapp, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar AMAR, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Scaryoke, 10 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Ford Natirboff Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Whiskey and Wine Molly McGuire’s Tyler Fulcher, 6 p.m.

Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m.

River House Georgia Kyle Rusty Rudders Tap House Tyler Branch, Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

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

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

Service Brewing Company Bluegrass

By The Pint w/ City Hotel, 5:30 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Taste of India Don Read, 6:30 p.m.

Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Vic’s on The River Frank Bright, Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Norm Gagne, 7 p.m.

The Warehouse Eric Culberson, Eric Britt Liquid Ginger, Individually Twisted, DJ Bil-E, 5 p.m.

The Wormhole LCO Magnetic Bass Solstice Party, 9 p.m.

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

PS Tavern Beer Pong Tournament, 10 p.m.

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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.

Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

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Fia Rua Irish Pub Ugly Sweater Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Teddy Adams Sextet, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Magic Rocks, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Damon and the Shitkickers, Johnny Octane Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Adam Nye Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Hitman Molly McGuire’s Voodoo Soup, 6 p.m.

The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m.

River House Ford Natirboff Rocks on the Roof JD Music Group, 8 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Tyler Branch, Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Stafford’s Public House DJ Rudy Lui, 9:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Frank Bright, Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Norm Gagne, 7 p.m.

The Warehouse Eric Culberson, Jason Bible Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Band, Draucker, Bill Hodgson, DJ Bil-E, 1 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Dakota Duo, 9:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Wow: A Really Good Comedy Show, 8 p.m.

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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.

COMEDY

Front Porch Improv Dashing Through the Snow with Front Porch Improv, 8 p.m., Christmas Will Be Televised, 9:30 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans Visitor’s Information Center Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Moon River Brewing Co. Trivia, 6 p.m.

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

DJ

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

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

The Distillery An Evening with Celena Adams, 7 & 9 p.m.

Saddle Bags Ugly Sweater Party, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY 12.23 LIVE MUSIC

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

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

Cuoco Pazzo Sunday Jazz Brunch, 10 a.m., Bill Smith and David Keller, 6 p.m.

The Fitzroy Live Music, 3 p.m.

Flashback Open Jam, 5 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Eric Jones Trio ft. violinist Ricardo Ochoa, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Honey Moonshine, 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Open Mic, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Perch at Local 11 ten Ford Natirboff River House Ricky Standard The Shrimp Factory Eric Britt Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, noon Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Hitman Blues Band, 1 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Trivia, 8 p.m.

KARAOKE

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Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Saddle Bags Bar Olympics

MONDAY 12.24 LIVE MUSIC

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic, 10 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Bootleggers Karaoke w/ DJ Nick, Pool Tournament and River Street Poker League Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jon Hill 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.

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.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

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

White Whale Craft Ales White Whale Open Mic Comedy

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Little Lucky’s Live DJ SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Fia Rua Irish Pub Family Movie Night, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 12.25 LIVE MUSIC

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

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

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music 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, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Westin Savannah Harbor Christmas Concert & Jam Session, 5 p.m.

Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa Annual Christmas Concert & Jam Session, 5 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

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.

McDonough’s Bingo, 7 p.m.

Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

PS Tavern Poker Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun Adults Only Trivia, 9 p.m.

Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m.

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

The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

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

Basil’s Pizza and Deli 216 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

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

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

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s 20 E. Perry St.

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

Blueberry Hill 546 Dean Forest Rd. 964-8401

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

Bootleggers 1017 U.S. 80 #8 The Britannia British Pub 140 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

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Johnny Mercer Theatre 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St.

Jukebox Bar & Grill 3741 US Hwy 17 Ste 500

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Cuoco Pazzo 606 Abercorn St.

912-239-6950 cuocopazzosavannah.com

The Distillery 416 W. Liberty St.

912-236-1772 www.distillerysavannah.com

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

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

Doubles Nightclub 7100 Abercorn St. 912-352-7100

Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St.

(912) 200-3652 dubspubriverstreet.com

East End Provisions 420 E. Broughton St. 912-335-5522

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

Fannie’s on the Beach 1613 Strand Ave. 912-786-6109 fanniesonthebeach.com

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

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) 131 West River St.

Castaways Bar & Grill 7360 Skidaway Rd

912-644-7172 www.liveoakstore.com/ fiddlersriverstreet

The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd.

The Fitzroy 9 Drayton St. Five Oaks Taproom 201 W. Bay St.

912.354.8288 www.sandflysportsbar.com/

912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

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

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

Club Elan 301 Williamson St. Club One 1 Jefferson St. 912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

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

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

coffee deli 4517 Habersham St.

912-352-7818 savannahcoffeedeli.com

912-236-4440 fiveoakstaproom.com

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

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

Front Porch Improv 2222 Bull Street 843-868-1553

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant 107 W. Broughton St. Hercules Bar & Grill 2500 Dean Forest Rd. 912-966-5790

The Islander 301 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

912-897-6137

Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St.

912-236-7777 www.jazzdsavannah.com

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

912-651-6556 www.savannahcivic.com

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Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant 402 MLK Jr. Blvd.

912-292-1656 ranchoalegrecuban.com

River House 125 W. River St.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub 117 West River St.

912-234-1900 liveoakstore.com/riverhouse

Little Lucky’s 6 Gateway Blvd. E.

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Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St.

912-944-6302

912-233-9626 www.kevinbarrys.com

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The Loft on Liberty 215 W. Liberty St. McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St.

912-233-6136 mcdonoughssavannah.com

Rocks on the Roof 102 W. Bay St.

Rusty Rudders Tap House 303 W. River St. Ruth’s Chris Steak House 111 W. Bay St. 912-721-4800 ruthschris.com

Saddle Bags 317 West River St.

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St.

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912-495-0705 mellowmushroom.com

The Sandbar 1512 Butler Ave.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina 2518 Hwy 17

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Savannah Smiles 314 Williamson St.

912-459-6357 melscoastalcafe.com

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

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

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) 3742 US-17 Molly McGuire’s 216 Johnny Mercer Boulevard

912-898-0852 liveoakstore.com/mollymcguires

Moon River Brewing Co. 21 West Bay St. 912-447-0943 www.moonriverbrewing.com/

The Olde Pink House 23 Abercorn St.

912-232-4286 www.plantersinnsavannah.com

The Perch at Local 11 ten 1110 Bull St. Pour Larry’s 206 W. St. Julian St. 912-232-5778

Premier Bowl & Bistro 4 Towne Center Court sales@poolerbowl.com www.PoolerBowl.com

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

Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun 1190 King George Blvd.

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

912-527-6453 www.facebook.com/pages/ Savannah-Smiles-DuelingPianos/118909441502557

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

SEED Eco Lounge 39 Montgomery St. 912-349-5100

The Sentient Bean 13 E. Park Ave. 912-232-4447 sentientbean.com

Service Brewing Company 574 Indian Street The Shrimp Factory 313 East River Street

912-236-4229 www.theshrimpfactory.com

Southbound Brewing Company 107 East Lathrop Ave. Stafford’s Public House 306 W. Upper Factor’s Walk Sunny’s Lounge 5630 Ogeechee Rd. 912-234-6628

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill 11215 Abercorn St. 912-921-2269

Taste of India 401 Mall Blvd.

912-356-1020

Tijuana Flats 1800 E. Victory Dr. 912-344-9111 tijuanaflats.com

Tree House 309 W. St. Julian St.

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SEARCHING for a last-minute gift for an art lover? Head down to the Gutstein Gallery to shop SCAD’s latest exhibition.

SCAD’s “Small Works” is a yearly favorite for both its moderate prices and exceptional talent coming out of the university.

The exhibition is open to the entire SCAD network—students, alumni, faculty and staff all are invited to submit works for the juried show.

“We annually open this show right before Thanksgiving so the public can come and purchase works,” says SCAD Exhibition’s assistant curator Ben Tollefson. “It’s great for the holidays, and it’s great to have our commitment to nurturing alumni and our careers and showing off our fabulous faculty. We’re really bringing that tot the public and having this open gives exposure to students and alumni and faculty doing really special things.”

Because the show is open to everyone in the whole SCAD family, there are always a lot of submissions.

“The exhibition team, as I represent, collaborates with SCAD Art Sales for the jury,” explains Tollefson. “We jury with a member of SCAD Art Sales and another exhibitions member. We had about 1,300 submissions—it was insane. We whittled that down to 150.”

Tollefson worked with Rebecca Chatwick on the exhibitions team and Kimberly Santos from SCAD Art Sales to cull the works down to a reasonable exhibition size.

“It’s really amazing to have two other people to bounce ideas off of when you’re

doing this,” Tollefson says. “It’s overwhelming and it’s a challenge, but it’s also something that we talked through. We definitely speak up for or talk through different works.”

Tollfeson, Santos and Chatwick all considered the work in the context of SCAD’s most public space.

“There’s so much in this show, and I think it’s awesome because this space is always open to the public,” says Tollefson.

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One of Zara Bell’s pieces. PHOTO BY RACHAEL FLORA

work. ‘Small Works’ and many of our other shows at the Gutstein allows the public to view and purchase artwork from students.”

Tollefson highlights work by Honor Bowman Hall, Hernando Gonzalez, Rebecca Slivinsky, Kristen Heritage, and Robin Miller as artists to look for.

“The year-round exhibitions at the Gutstein are a great example of SCAD’s mission to provide our hometown communities access and exposure to public art,” Tollefson shares.

SCAD’s full service art consultancy, SCAD Art Sales, has placed art in the

Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and in the Heathrow Airport in England, among other notable projects.

The work in ‘Small Works’ is all priced under $600 to allow easy purchasing.

“Most things, just by nature of being so small, don’t come close to our cap,” says Tollefson.

The exhibition is on display through Jan. 26, allowing you plenty of time to buy that piece you’ve been eyeing. CS The Gutstein Gallery is located at 201 E. Broughton St.

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The work coming out of the jewelry department utilizes unique materials, like corn in one necklace. PHOTO BY RACHAEL FLORA

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8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL EXHIBTION — Celebrating its 7th year, this gallery features juried selections of two-dimensional artwork submitted by professional artists throughout the United States. Reception: January 19, 2018, 12:00pm-1:30pm. Located in Fine arts Gallery. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST AND ANTISLAVERY ACTIVISTS: CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION — The exhibit consists of photographs and engravings of historic abolitionists and anti-slavery activists. The exhibit begins in the 18th century with some of the early colonial American anti-slavery activists.

Curated by Eric Saul. Through Feb. 28, 2019. americanabolitionists.com. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. AVANGUARDIA — Join for the Avanguardia Art Exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery. The reception will be Jan 16, 2019 at 12:00 pm Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Campus), 11935 Abercorn St., Fine Arts Hall.

BEHIND US — Behind Us is a series of paintings that playfully interprets stories and theories of multiple and alternate realities.

Some paintings are made on recycled glass windows using highly saturated colors and figures that move in and out of abstraction.

Through Dec. 31. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

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CAPTURING THE SOUL: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE W.W. LAW COLLECTION — The display features thirty portraits from the W. W. Law Photograph Collection which highlight the evolving nature of photography, portraiture as an art form, as well as material culture through time. The images date from the 1870s through the 1990s, and document the lives of individuals both prominent and anonymous. Through Jan. 31, 2019. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

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FOR THE BIRDS — Tim Foster is an artist who has lived and worked locally for almost two decades. This body of work represents a selection of his photographs taken from his years documenting the Savannah skyline and the detail inherent in many of its architectural monuments. In his photography, he juxtaposes panoramic scenes of Savannah and its surrounding area in various stages in its development post 2000, with detailed elements rarely seen by the naked eye. Through Jan. 24, 2019. In Vino Veritas, 102 E. Liberty St. HARMONIC TENSION — “Harmonic Tension” is a collection of black and white abstract paintings by Calvin Woodum. The nonrepresentational technique of the artwork helps to explain the harmonic tension between the African-American and CaucasianAmerican races. Raised in a small Georgia town, the artist remains intrigued with the

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NATIVE SON: FIFTY YEAR RETROSPECTIVE — The name Rudolph Valentino Bostic conjures up one of the most focused, religiously graphic artists in American Folk Art today. Through March 31, 2019. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

dynamics of two races and the way they relate to each other.

Profits from show are donated to First City Network for the Savannah LGBT Center. Through Dec. 31. Location Gallery at Savannah LGBT Center, 1515 Bull St. HOLIDAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE — An upscale holiday art market featuring collectibles, original paintings, genuine photographs, fine art prints and gifts created by local artists. Through Jan. 5, 2019. Photopoint Gallery, 30 Cherokee St. I HAVE MARKS TO MAKE — For 24 years, the exhibition has brought together individuals of all ages from the Savannah community to celebrate the power of art to transform lives. Works in the exhibition were drawn from community partner organizations, and more than half were created as a result of Telfair’s Therapeutic Outreach program.

Partners include the Savannah Art by Lisa Watson is featured in ‘Avanguardia’ at ArmCenter for Blind and Low Vision, strong.

Inc., EmployAbility, and Ruth Byck Adult Daytime Care Center.

Bravo, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt.

Through Jan. 11, 2019. telfair. org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 Connected historically and often personally through artist social circles, their work shares West York St. key stylistic attributes that will be explored in the exhibition. Through Jan. 13, 2019. telfair.

I SEE YOU — Presented by the SCAD org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 Museum of Art, the group exhibition “I See West York St. You” considers the human body as terrain that is constantly subject to different forces.

Through geographical, economic, political, historical, psychological and social dynamics, the body is pressured — even physically affected — by the weight of abstract structures.

Through Dec. 30. May Poetter Gallery (SCAD), 342 Bull St.

IN THE PRESENT: FIVE DECADES — The SCAD Museum of Art presents “In the Present: Five Decades” by veteran photographer Elaine Mayes, exploring works that span 50 years of her career. The exhibition includes iconic works from the 1960s and ‘70s as well as mines lesser-known aspects of her practice to consider in relation to recent work.

The curatorial framework centers on Mayes’ broader philosophy surrounding image making, which stems from her immersion in the moment and in producing imagery with a visual vocabulary that stands the test of time.

Through Jan. 13, 2019. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

THE LANGUAGE OF VISION — The Language of Vision: Early 20th-Century Photography brings together the work of four eminent artists from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection: Ralph Steiner, Manuel Álvarez

LOOK! I’M OVER THERE — This is Marcus Kenney’s first major solo-exhibition in Savannah since exhibiting at the Jepson Center in 2007. Look! I’m Over There is an installation of sculptures that expand Kenney’s visual language past the narrative collage and mystical taxidermy creatures for which he is recognized. Through Jan. 26, 2019. Laney Contemporary, 1810 Mills B. Lane Blvd.

MONET TO MATISSE: MASTERWORKS OF FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM FROM THE DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS IMPRESSIONISM — Monet to Matisse: Masterworks of French Impressionism from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens boasts significant works of art by the most dynamic artists to work in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, including Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Matisse. From plein air landscapes to scenes of modern life in Paris, the 30 paintings in the exhibition illustrate the radical innovations launched by artists we know today as Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Free with Museum Admission Through Feb. 10, 2019. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

NOW, SOON, THEN, TOMORROW — In recent years, Spanish artist Guillermo Mora has generated a particular visual vocabulary where formal elements like color gradients, layers, textures and shapes are used to create an abstract mode of communication. For this exhibition, Mora has created four sitespecific layered diorama installations that play in and out of different planes, creating volumes by juxtaposing layers, using bright colors to seduce and entrap. Through Jan. 6, 2019. scadmoa.org. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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BY COINS — Danish artist FOS creates at the intersection of art and design. Through Jan. 27, 2019. scadmoa.org. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

REMEMBERING THE GREAT WAR — In honor of the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Armistice of World War I, the City of Savannah presents “Remembering the Great War.” On display at City Hall through December 2018, “Remembering the Great War” commemorates the contributions and sacrifices made by citizens of Savannah during World War II. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

STRAWBERRY LUNA — These screenprints

by Strawberry Luna hang in Foxy’s print gallery. Through Jan. 27, 2019. foxyloxycafe. com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. SULTRY — “Sultry” is the passion of love bursting into flame. It can only be seen through an intimate exchange of rich elements, textures and radiant light. Through Feb. 12, 2019. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. TAMARA GARVEY — Tamara draws quirky, cheerful illustrations of forests, text, abstraction, desserts, animals, and absurdism, and then make them into prints and cards from home. She has always loved to read, so her abstract paintings frequently incorporate tiny handwriting hidden within the images.

Through Dec. 31. galleryespresso.com/. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. VANESSA WITHUN — Vanessa Withun is a representational artist of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. She combines elements of traditional realism with a contemporary style. Through Dec. 31. savannahjea. org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

FOOD & DRINK EPICUROPEDIA

BY LINDY MOODY

RIVER STREET has commonly been a place many locals avoid because of the saturation of tourists. And though most locals love what tourism brings to the community, they love their own local watering holes more.

Many days it seems as though there are more new buildings popping up than tourists roaming the streets of the Historic District. So it never comes as a surprise to see a shiny new hotel joining the ranks

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among the others in town.

A true surprise is to find a delicious new restaurant nestled inside one of the many downtown vacation spots, especially one that sits near River Street and will quickly become a new favorite for many locals.

Rhett, on the lower floor of The Alida Hotel, opened its facing doors only a few short weeks ago. Although there has been no official press release, the word has been that many locals already adore the beautiful restaurant.

Director of Restaurant and Bars Arthur Sertorio sat down to chat with me before my meal, and explained the menu: “It is a pretty simple menu, it does not have that much selection but we really focus on the quality of the ingredients. All of the ingredients we get we get them from local

vendors, and we are pretty proud of that.

On top of that we make everything from scratch.”

The House Made Ricotta is a dish I have not stopped speaking about since the day I visited. In fact, I went back a second time to eat it before this article ran.

Upon your first bite you can taste the care that was placed into creating this dish. ”We make our ricotta from scratch. We press and we filter the cheese, we add some Georgia olive oil, and some za’atar spices to it,” Sertorio elaborated as we chatted.

Creamy is an insufficient term to describe the texture of the delicate homemade cheese. The delicate cheese gives way to the fresh grain flavor of the bread, resulting in a bite that taste as though you are sitting on the porch of a farmhouse.

The Macaroni Gratin

Just as gentle as the cheese is the addition of za’atar seasoning—the appropriate amount is used so it does not overwhelm the flavors of the cheese and bread.

Luckily for patrons, the ricotta is featured on the menu two ways—for breakfast and as a starter. You can try this amazing dish no matter the time of day, and for breakfast you can expect the addition of seasonal fruit preserves.

The Fried Cauliflower is Rhett’s homage to the south’s love of fried food, by elevating the fried dish through balance of flavors. The dish almost does not taste fried, but we Southerners can spot any fried dish from a mile away.

Sertorio summed up the dish perfectly: “We wanted to add something that is a

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little more refined. We have a cauliflower puree on the bottom and we add a lot of zest of lemon to fight the fatness of the dish.” You will also find a showering of briny fried capers which gives you palate a jolt of salt with each bite.

The final starter I devoured was Rhett’s take on macaroni and cheese, the Macaroni Gratin. As someone who has made and eaten a shipping container’s worth of the staple Southern side, I can state with confidence that Rhett’s version did not disappoint.

“We did a lighter version of it [macaroni and cheese]. The Monet cheese is like a bechamel sauce...we made it the french traditional way, super light, and we add flavor with the thyme bread crumbs on top,” Sertorio told me in explaining the starter.

As for the pasta, which may be the best part of the plate, it is made in house without eggs. Which also helps reduce some of the decadence, resulting in a more balanced dish.

My favorite part of the menu, besides the food, is the use of the term Supper to describe the entrees available after 5 pm, it is a wonderful nod to the southern touches added to many of the dishes.

For Supper I recommend you step out of your steak or fish comfort zone and try the Celery Root Dumpling. The menu

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describes the dish as “country captain” flavors, which actually means the dish includes a coconut curry butter, Fresno chilis, pistachios, apple, and fresh parsley.

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The celery root inside of the dumpling, which is more southern than Asian, adds a nuttiness to the finished dish. And although there are a ton of ingredients, every single one has a place in the dish, working together as one but still distinguishable as an individual element. I would call this entree magical.

The most Southern dish on the entire menu is the Roasted Pork, a large portion meat and three. Juicy herb crusted slices of roasted pork sit atop a Stone Mountain sized heap of roasted fingerling potatoes, fresh jalapeños, and tender fermented collard greens. A large sprinkling of boiled peanuts, a thick cut slab of bacon, and a beef sauce is used to finish the dish.

To ferment the collard greens featured in the entre, leftover whey from the process to make the ricotta is used. As for the sauce, Rhett attempts to waste very little and uses caramelized beef scraps to create the gravy.

I have not forgotten about the most important part of any meal—the drink pairings. The wine list was created by Sertorio, and features a well rounded yet concise group of wines.

“We try to go on the origin of the grape, so if you are going for Pinot Grigio we usually try to get the Pinot Grigio from Italy,” Sertorio told me.

A homage to Savannah, the Savannah Smash is the cocktail on their list that I will order time and time again. Bourbon, rainwater Madeira, lemon, peach shrub, and a large bundle of fresh mint are combined to create the cocktail. The hint of peach is just enough to cut through the throat-grabbing flavor of the bourbon. CS Rhett is at 412 Williamson St.

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Beach Institute kicks off documentary series with ‘The American South As We Know It’

BY RACHAEL FLORA

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This film screening kicks off the Beach Institute’s new documentary series.

“Starting in 2019, we’re going to show a different documentary at the Beach every month,” says Scott. “Some will be old documentaries that the public doesn’t know much about. It’ll all be centered around something unique to Savannah or the South, based on African-American heritage and the African diaspora.”

“We want to pay tribute to the arts by showing documentary. We want to have intelligent discussion around it, and the best way to do that is through film,” says Scott. “It creates a benign environment for people to look at hard subjects and topics like this. That’s what we wanted to do with this film.”

While Scott notes that not all the films in the series will be as heavy as the first one, the goal of the series is to get everyone in the community together to watch.

Since people of all races will be watching together, Scott and the team are careful to

Frederick Murphy traveled the Southeast to visit important sites in the creation of his documentary. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE BEACH INSTITUTE & THE AMERICAN SOUTH FILM

foster discussion afterwards that serves as a debrief of sorts.

“We really don’t want people to leave feeling despondent. That’s one of the things that make it difficult for both black people and white people,” explains Scott.

“It’s part of the racial reconciliation that goes both ways. White people leave a film like that covered in guilt. Black people leave feeling angry. We don’t want you leaving angry because if anger and guilt are both leaving, you’re both going out on the streets and you bump shoulders and it escalates into something because it leaves you with all these feelings.”

As part of that racial reconciliation, the Beach welcomes everyone to their safe space to watch and learn together.

“We want people to come here and be who they are,” says Scott. “When you come to the Beach Institute African-American Cultural Center, you can come and be whoever you are, and you don’t have this question of cultural appropriation because it’s showing at the Jepson Center or wherever.

When we saw the Jepson showing ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ we thought, ‘We really should be showing that. We should be doing it and make it free.’” CS

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THANKS TO the erasure of AfricanAmerican history, it can be easy to forget the fact that the civil rights movement happened in some of our lifetimes and that the people we read about in history books are not that distant of relatives to living people.

“For me, it was my aunts and uncles!” says the Beach Institute’s Alicia Scott. “It’s easier to want to forget about it, but we’re talking about it. We’re trying to shed a light on a culture that has created a massive system of disparate treatment.”

One way the Beach Institute is shining that light is through its screening of “The American South As We Know It,” a documentary by Frederick D. Murphy.

Murphy is the founder of History Before Us, a project that preserves influential history. As part of that project, he traveled around the Southeast interviewing people who had survived the Jim Crow era, which inspired him to begin filming the documentary.

“In the film, they’re interviewing people who talk about what it was like growing up in the segregated South,” says Scott. “As children, they actually witnessed the KKK and racism.”

As most know, racism is by no means over, and its effects are still seen today.

“There are parts of Alabama that they say are worse than a third-world country,” says Scott. “The UN has come in and condemned these rural areas where there’s raw sewage, no plumbing. We talk badly about other countries, but there are rural parts of the South where, because of the disparity and the greed of the local government, these people live in almost the same conditions as slavery.”

“The American South As We Know It” shows those silos of Southern inequity in a thoughtful way. The film is making its way down the coast, showing in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston before screening in Savannah.

“Of course, it’s showing in this historic Gullah-Geechee heritage corridor,” says Scott. “We just officially became a partner in the Gullah-Geechee heritage court.

We’re excited about that—it’s going to add texture, as I call it, to our community, since everyone loves tourism.”

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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

OOO The moldy adage “You won’t believe your eyes” takes on new life in the wake of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which is pretty good as a superhero saga but absolutely phenomenal as an animated feature.

Employing animation in ways not usually found on the big screen – but definitely found inside the margins of an actual comic book – this latest Marvel adventure comes on the heels of the live-action hit Spider-Man: Homecoming and, like that film, assists in erasing the memories of those disappointing Spider-Hipster films starring Andrew Garfield as a GQapproved webslinger.

Of course, it doesn’t erase memories of Sam Raimi’s trilogy starring Tobey Maguire – but how could it, when several moments are direct homages to events that occurred in those pictures?

The tributes don’t end there, as even the popular TV toon series from the late 1960s gets a shout-out. And the late Stan Lee? Yup, he’s here, too, and let’s honor what will be his final appearance (albeit in animated form) in a superhero flick.

The principal Spider-Man in this film is Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), but he’s not the only webslinger on display.

Peter Parker (Chris Pine) also shows up, at least until he’s killed by the Kingpin (Liev Schreider) as the latter dabbles with a machine that opens up portals to other dimensions. It’s through this device that Morales’ world is flooded with other Spidey variations.

Chief among them is another Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) — this one older, more cynical, and sporting a pot belly — but also joining the fray are Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld), the 1930s-era Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) and her mechanical SP//dr, and the diminutive Peter Porker / Spider-Ham (John Mulaney). Together, they must pool their resources to combat not only the Kingpin but also Doctor Octopus (Kathryn Hahn) and other colorfully garbed villains.

To say that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is packed with incident is an understatement, but scripters Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman do a fine job of delineating all the overlapping universes and shared storylines and allowing every character at least one moment to stand out (Johnson’s alternate Parker is an especially vivid character).

The personal drama is more boilerplate than the humorous interludes, but the story here isn’t the real story here. Instead, it’s the look of the film, which meshes together all sorts of styles: comic book paneling, anime, intentional pixilation, black and white, even Looney Tunes riffs (“Wait, is he allowed to say that?”).

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THE FAVOURITE

OOO Basically All About Eve with corsets, with Rachel Weisz starring as Bette Davis’ Margo Channing, Emma Stone cast as Anne Baxter’s Eve Harrington, and Olivia Colman as the Sarah Siddons Award.

Set during the kickoff of the 18th century, this historical seriocomedy unfolds in the court of Queen Anne (Colman), a sickly ruler who would rather spend time with her pet rabbits than deal with pesky politics or the fog of war that envelops England’s ongoing battle with France.

For such matters of state, Anne relies on Sarah Churchill (Weisz), who’s not only the ruler’s confidante but also her lover.

But there’s a palace uprising of sorts with the arrival of Abigail Hill (Stone), a former lady of high society who, through no fault of her own, has now fallen on hard times.

Abigail appears to be all sunshine and light as she joins the royal staff as a maid, but it’s not long before Sarah becomes aware of her Machiavellian maneuverings.

Those expecting a staid and stuffy period drama will be taken aback by the outrageousness that The Favourite displays not only in word but in deed. With all manner of shady characters, the picture isn’t lacking for intrigue, and the exceptional screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara is filled with dialogue that cuts like daggers.

Colman is aptly pathetic as the grasping queen, Stone uses her kewpie-doll mannerisms to chilling advantage, and Weisz is typically superb as she embraces all sides of her richly textured character. Indeed, it’s Weisz’s Sarah who ultimately reveals that The Favourite is as much of a poignant love story as it is a historical drama or acerbic comedy.

Could the ending be stronger? Certainly.

I do suspect that repeated viewings might allow its abruptness to feel more in line with the rest of the swerves found in this dazzling drama — at any rate, 120 seconds hardly erase the splendors of the other 120 minutes.

The Favourite is one of the best films of 2018, and it’s a sure favorite — excuse me, favourite — as we head further into award season.

MORTAL ENGINES

OO The title might be borrowed from Shakespeare, but the aesthetic is pure Miyazaki. Based on the first in a series of Young Adult novels by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines is yet another film set in a post-apocalyptic future wherein food and water are scarce and the strong prey on the weak. The largest cities have been placed on wheels and roam the wastelands, devouring smaller towns (i.e. integrating the citizenry into their own but stealing all of their resources).

London is the largest of such burgs practicing what is known as “Municipal Darwinism,” and its chief architect is Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving), who is soon revealed to be a murderous opportunist. It’s up to the bitter Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) and the naïve Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) to bring him down, although they have plenty of allies — chief among them are a rebel leader known as Anna Fang (singer Jihae) and Valentine’s own daughter (Leila George).

The plot is both daft and derivative (there’s even a Vader-friendly “No, I am your father” moment), and the YA elements end up overtaking the welcome WTF moments by the end. But because this comes from Peter Jackson (in producing and scripting modes) and other folks involved with The Lord of the Rings, the world-building is spectacular and almost makes this worth the price of admission. ‘ Steampunk is the driving style here, and this might be the first live-action movie to successfully mimic the design of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated epics. Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky loom large, and while there’s no catbus co-opted from My Neighbor Totoro, there is a camouflaged vehicle that scurries along like a metallic caterpillar. CS

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looking for new participants in this free community activity. For information contact info@davenporthousemuseum. org or call 912-236-8097. ongoing. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St. CALL FOR LOCAL PRODUCTS AND RETAILERS FOR COHEN’S RETREAT ONSITE BOUTIQUE SHOP Cohen’s Retreat, a historic destination for art, food and community located in Savannah’s famed Moon River District, is seeking specialty retailers interested in placing their locally or regionally-made products in its onsite boutique shop, Brown Dog Market. Cohen’s Retreat is refreshing its product lines at Brown Dog Market to feature more of a mix of mainstream local products to include with their current artisan products. Retailers who would like access to some of Savannah’s largest neighborhoods located in and near the Moon River District are encouraged to apply for shelf space. Interested retailers should reach out to Colleen Smith at colleen.smith@cohensretreat.com or by calling 912.355.3336, ext. 4. Please include product name(s), description, price point, availability, contact information and any other essential details. ongoing. Cohen’s Retreat, 5715 Skidaway Rd.

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A FOSTER’D CHRISTMAS $10.00 Fri., Dec. 21, 7 p.m. savstate.edu/.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St. 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. third Thursday of every month. (912) 341-7427. livingliberally. org/drinking/chapters/GA/savannah.

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SAVANNAH AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS Get involved. Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month (except for December) at 7:00pm. Contact number: (912) 657-9623 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org.

VICTORIAN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS The VNA represents all residing, working or otherwise involved in the Victorian District and meets every second Tuesday of each month to the exception of the month of August. Meetings are held at The Mansion on Forsyth Park. Social starts at 5:30 p.m. and meetings start at 6 p.m. There is no fee to attend our meetings. For anyone using the Valet Parking at The Mansion, there is a $5. fee. MEMBERSHIP YEARLY FEES are: Individual $25. - Household (2 people) $40. - Business $50. and Students $10. Free ongoing, 6-7 p.m. vnasavannahga2013@ gmail.com. mansiononforsythpark.com.

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Saturdays, 9 a.m. (912) 663-4528. Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards Street.

BACHATA AND SALSA DANCE CLASSES New 4 week dance series, designed for absolute beginners to learn the fundamentals of Bachata or Salsa for social dancing! Bachata and salsa are fun dances from the Dominican Republic that can be found in cities all over the world, and is a great way to meet other people and enjoy amazing music. No partner or dance experience needed, just come and have fun!

Special discount if you decide to do the salsa and bachata series together! RSVP via facebook or email. $40 for 4 classes,

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AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Auditions for our spring session will be held January 9, 2019. Students who played in the Fall 2018 session, and who plan to remain in the same ensemble, do not need to re-audition in January. The January auditions are for new students, or students wishing to move to a different ensemble.

Choose your instrument from the list on their website - https://ayosavannah.org/ auditions/ -to see the audition requirements for applicable ensembles. Then, contact them via email at ayosavannah2004@ gmail.com to reserve an audition date and time, or with any questions you may have. ongoing. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR BOXED IN/BREAK OUT Telfair Museums is excited to offer Chatham County artists an opportunity to feature their art in the Jepson Center! The call to artists seeks entries for Boxed In/ Break Out, a museum-sponsored public art installation at the Jepson Center that involves activating six windows that face Barnard Street. The artist chosen would have a detailed plan for how to utilize all six windows in a cohesive manner through selfcreated art that fulfills the following criteria:

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$70 for both bachata and salsa series ongoing. stephaniehmetzger@gmail.com. facebook.com/events/239285403377870/.

BASIC SELF DEFENSE Essential self-defense for adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com.

Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

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.

BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU CLASSES Monday/Wednesday- Competition 5:30pm and Fundamentals at 7:00pm Tuesday/ Thursday- Fundamentals at Noon and Fundamentals at 5:30pm Friday- Private Lessons by appointment Saturday- Open Mat at 10:30am ongoing. Serg Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 401 Mall Blvd.

BRIDGE LESSONS Learn to play bridge. BB2 Competitive Bidding: Monday, September 24@7:00PM. BB4: Play of the Hand/ Declarer/Play: Saturday, September 15@10:00AM. Intermediate/Advanced Workshops: Friday, September 14@10:00AM ongoing. 912-2284838. bridgewebs.com/savannahclubs.

Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. COUNTRY TWO STEP GROUP CLASS Join us every week to learn how to dance to the classics and modern day songs of country music. All levels welcome- beginners to advanced. Each week will progress from the previous.

First week is the top of the month and runs for 4 weeks. Sign up today! $40 for 4 weeks Thursdays, 7-8 p.m. 612-4706683. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. 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. You’re Invited To A Free Masterclass: 5 Steps to Turning Your Talents and Expertise Into A Successful Online Coaching Business (even if you have no idea how to get started!) See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/ creativity_coaching/ or contact Creativity@ LaurenL.com ongoing. Online, ---.

DUI PREVENTION GROUP Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers.

Sign in time begins 6:00-6:20 p.m. Panel starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. and ends at approximately 8:00 P.M. Fee is $40.00 money orders or certified bank checks only payable to DUI Prevention Group. Meets monthly, check the website. $40/session (912) 691-4905. info@duipreventiongroup. org.

FREE BEGINNER BRIDGE LESSONS 10:00am-noon. Saturday January 5, 12,19, and 26. Savannah Duplicate Bridge 38 Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave, Sandfly. There

Film: Meet Me In St. Louis

The Vincente Minnelli film, nostalgic and poignant, focuses on four sisters (one of whom is the nonpareil Judy Garland) on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

The film spotlights the sisters’ education in the ways of the world, which includes, but isn’t limited to, learning about life and love, courtesy of the prototypical boy next door. $10 and come with a complimentary glass of wine. For $35 you also get a three-course prix fixe dinner at 80 East Gastropub around the corner!

THU., DEC. 20, 7 P.M. 912-472-4790. INFO@TYBEEPOSTTHEATER.ORG. TYBEEPOSTTHEATER.SHOWARE.COM/. TYBEEPOSTTHEATER.ORG. TYBEE POST THEATER, 10 VAN HORNE.

are games held in the afternoon and /or evenings almost every day. There is a game for players of all levels. Check our website for fees and schedules of games and other classes. 912-228-4938. www.bridgewebs.

com/savannahclubs Through Jan. 8, 2019.

HIGH VIBE / LOW COST YOGA Join Melissa DeLynn for all-levels, beginner friendly Yoga classes. These classes are well-balanced, nourishing, and challenging

with an emphasis on philosophy and spirituality. Expect to learn, heal, meditate and connect. $15 Wednesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. 706-614-4715. mdelynn@gmail.com.

WELMONT, 1930 Montgomery Street.

JEWELER’S GUIDED OPEN STUDIO Join us for time to practice your skills and knock out some projects you’ve been dreaming up. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials. Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Thursdays, 1-4 p.m.

912-289-8337. christina@dreamcatstudio. com. dreamcatstudio.com. Use our space to practice your skills and knock out your personal pieces. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials.

Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Fridays, 6 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@ dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. MUSIC LESSONS AND CLASSES: ALL INSTRUMENTS, ALL AGES Portman’s Music Academy offers private lessons on piano, guitar (electric, acoustic, classical), mandolin, ukulele, banjo, bass guitar, drums, percussion, voice, clarinet, saxophone (alto and tenor), oboe, flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, DJ, Pro Logic, Composition, Ear Training, violin, viola, and cello. Group classes for beginner piano and guitar.

Music Adventures for ages 5 to 7. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic. com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. POWER SELF DEFENSE Join us for fun and fitness in the heart of downtown Savannah. Fit912Savannah offers fun, safe, friendly classes in yoga, self defense, dance, and fitness, with more classes coming soon! Have a question, want to register? Contact us at nfo@ fit912savannah.com! Located in the lower level of the United Way Building, 428 Bull Street, Savannah, GA (Enter via the red doors on East Wayne Street) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

QIGONG CLASSES Qi Gong energy cultivation. What used to be an ancient Chinese secret is now known as one of the best healing modalities available.

Come learn these amazing exercises from a twenty year practitioner. Relax, energize, destress, revitalize, balance and strengthen.

Tuesday and Thursday at 1:30 p.m. classes only $8. www.savannahyogabarre.com 912200-4809 ongoing. savannahyogabarre. com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive.

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.

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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. 323-539-1760.

DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL.COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. SURFING AND UKULELE LESSONS Surfing & Ukulele Lessons and surf camps. Tybee Surf Lessons, Tybee Island/ Savannah. Email or call Turner for more info 808-385-5364. TybeeSurfLessons.com. ongoing. Tybee Island, Tybee Island.

TAI CHI The tai chi classes are open to the first 25 participants 60 years of age or older.

Wednesdays, 10 a.m. 912-877-0056. Senior Citizens, Inc. Liberty County Neighborhood Center, 800 Tupelo Trail.

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 award-winning 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

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. For more info visit https://www.abeniculturalarts.com or call 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com. abeniculturalarts.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.

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 Our mission is to further the art of beading and bead education within our membership and our communities.

Visit website for more info regarding the next Bead-In Class or the next CBS Meeting! ongoing. coastalbeadsociety. com/coastalbeadsociety-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, and other fiber arts.

Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center (in the 2nd floor studio), first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am - 1pm.

Visit website for more updates! ongoing. fiberguildsav.com. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. HOSTESS CITY TOASTMASTERS CLUB 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, 6:15-7:15 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. ONE MILLION CUPS Opportunity to polish your pitching skills while networking and making valuable connections. Pitch your idea/business in front of fellow entrepreneurs and get real-time constructive feedback. 2222 Bull Street, weekly Wednesday 9-10am, no charge, free coffee. www.1millioncups. com/savannah Wednesdays. bullstreetlabs. com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. PROOFREADER’S WHISKEY CLUB Membership includes the first whiskey drink free, free monthly private whiskey tastings from various brands, 15% off the member’s bill for the year, and a personalized book card including a list of 75 whiskeys in each chapter in the DeSoto library. Library series meetings will be the last Thursday of every month and include one free guest pass per member for the year. They will pick a book from the Edgar’s P&P library to hold their personalized book card which will be used to keep track of their progress on the whiskey list. $50 ongoing. eventbrite. com/e/proofreaders-whiskey-clubtickets-42943991635. proofsavannah.com.

Edgar’s Proof and Provision, 15 E. Liberty St. 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. facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SAVANNAH SACRED HARP SINGERS Savannah Sacred Harp Singers welcome you to join our monthly community singing on the second Saturday of the month from 2-4pm at Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church.

Sacred Harp is an American tradition of singing hymns in four part harmony. No particular religious affiliation is required or endorsed. All are welcome. No experience necessary. ongoing. Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church, 10050 Ferguson Ave. 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. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/ daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of Art and Design, PO Box 2072.

SOCIAL MEDIA BREAKFAST SAVANNAH Social Media Breakfast Savannah (#SMBSAV) is a grassroots organization of professionals in the greater Savannah area who meet monthly to discuss social media and its application to business.

Please check the Facebook Page for this Month’s Topic at facebook.com/smbsav/ Free Fri., Dec. 21, 8-9:30 a.m. 920-819-2642. socmedbreaksav@gmail.com. facebook. com/smbsav/. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. STITCH AND BITCH Slow down and nurture your creative spirit in a constructive, casual atmosphere. Bring a project or enjoy one of our kits curated to focus on the dedicated process of craft: embroidery, knitting, needlework, or any of the fiber arts. All ages are welcome!

Cheeseboard + wine deals to be had.

Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. foxyloxycafe.com.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. 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.

CONCERTS

A FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS Join the Trinity United Methodist Church Music Ministry as they perform a Festival of Lessons and Carols performed in the King’s College Cambridge choral tradition. The service will showcase readings from the nine traditional lessons, hymns accompanied by pipe organ, and special music from featured soloists and the Trinity Sanctuary Choir. Free and open to the public Mon., Dec. 24, 5 p.m. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. THE GOLIARDS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The program will consist of several hymns from the 12th and 13th centuries that were based on the Gregorian Chant Ave maris stella, dances fom 15th-century Italy and France, Christmas hymns from the Piæ Cantiones (1581), and and a number of other early pieces from a variety of sources. $10 Sun., Dec. 23, 3 p.m. 912-604-8983. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. LIVE OAK CONCERTS: BEETHOVEN, KURTAG, AND SOUNDS OF YULETIDE Join Live Oak Concerts in southern yuletide gaiety with trios by Beethoven, Kurtag, and reimagined Christmas tunes

by Josh Henderson and Daniel Silliman.

Reception to follow catered by the culinary

geniuses at Joe’s Homemade Cafe, Bakery & Catering. $10 suggested donation Thu., Dec. 20, 7 p.m. 912-663-3642. amundendixon@gmail.com. facebook. com/events/542355596176495/. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 2716 Mechanics Avenue.

LOVE & SOUL EXPERIENCE: A SOULFUL CHRISTMAS Celebrate in the Christmas Spirit and enjoy the soulful sounds of Kimberly Gunn Music & Company as they take you on a musical journey singing your favorite Holiday songs and a variety of classic hits. JK Productions will be in the building providing quality sound and keep you running to the dance floor. Come experience live music, dancing, food & drinks, shopping with our vendors, door prizes, and much more. $15 Fri., Dec. 21, 8 p.m. 912-224-6084. mrmattgunn@ yahoo.com. eventbrite.com/e/lovesoul-experience-a-soulful-christmastickets-40146055934. PoolerBowl.com.

Premier Bowl & Bistro, 4 Towne Center Court.

THE LOVE AND SOUL EXPERIENCE Kimberly Gunn Music Presents The Love and Soul Experience every third Friday of the month beginning May 17th. There will be music, poetry, comedy, creative arts, and networking. Kimberly Gunn Music and friends will provide musical entertainment. An event for ages 18 and up. $10 Admission $12 VIP third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m. (912) 224-6084 or (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

EVENTS

BONAVENTURE TOURS CHRISTMAS DAY Let Bonaventure be your best excuse to get out of the house on Christmas Day or you know, either escape the family for a minute.

Tours are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. As a Christmas gift to everyone, Bonaventure will give away beautiful posters as a thank you to everyone touring. $15-$25 Tue., Dec. 25, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. 912.319.5600. shannon@ shannonscott.com. facebook.com/ events/772509093093895/. savannahga. gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb.nsf/ cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. DA’UGLY SWEATER CHRISTMAS PARTY $10.00 Sat., Dec. 22, 9 p.m. The Tavern Hookah Bar and Lounge, 125 Foxfield Way. DECEMBER BIRTHPLACE GENERAL TOURS $15.00 Wed., Dec. 19, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $15.00 Thu., Dec. 20, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $15.00 Sat., Dec. 22, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. DRINKS AFTER WORK This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinks-afterwork/ https://www.facebook.com/

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groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF SAVANNAH In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com.

Savannahexchange.org. Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Street.

FREE COMMUNITY SAT TBA Sat., Dec. 22, 10 a.m. Class 101 Savannah, 7702 Waters Avenue.

HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS WITH SAVANNAH TOURS AND TALES True tales of the Irish Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans of Savannah’s past. Join KT O’Brien, a native Savannahian, for a leisurely stroll through the serene squares of Savannah.

Frequent stops for seats and refreshments available. Reservations required for tours daily at 10:30am and 8:00pm 2hours $30. Private tours upon request. ongoing. savannahtoursandtales@gmail.com.

NIGHTLY SPIRITS GHOST TOUR Explore haunted bars, haunted buildings, and Savannah’s oldest area, all while having time to enjoy some tasty beverages along the way. Step back in time to the 1700’s to explore the parts of Savannah that most only dare to talk about. You’ll hear tales about the dead that haven’t quite moved on, visit some of the most haunted places in the city and get to know the spirits that haunt the locals…and the places that the locals haunt. $20 Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. nightlyspirits.com/savannah-ghosttours/. savannahtaphouse.com. Savannah Taphouse, 125 E. Broughton St. THE ORIGINAL MIDNIGHT TOUR One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

PICNIC WITH SANTA ON THE BEACH $5.00-$28.00 Sat., Dec. 22, 11 a.m. The Beach House Resort, 1 South Forest Beach Drive.

SAVANNAH HOLLY DAYS: HOLIDAYS ON THE BIG SCREEN A family friendly event, bring everyone down along with chairs & blankets and watch a favorite holiday movie under the stars in Ellis Square. Sponsored by The Savannah Harbor Foundation. Free Sat., Dec. 22, 6 p.m. savannahhollydays.com. Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, and allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms 40 and administrative buildings, galleries,

residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. For more information please visit, https://www. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/dailytours. ongoing. SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. SHIRE OF FORTH CASTLE FIGHTER PRACTICE Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org.

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

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

Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. STARDUSTED CIRCUS WINTER SOLSTICE The three-ring Circus has been dusted with Sparkling Snow. The all new Winter show is filled with Fantastical Characters here to Celebrate the Winter Solstice.

Snowflakes will soar through the air, watch as our acrobatic Snow Angels take shape, Ice Fairies will delightfully dance and glide to bring back the Light, see spectacular Ice Sculptures in-motion, and Witness the Extraordinary Flying Roller Skater. $15 adults, $10 children 12 and under Fri., Dec. 21, 3 & 5 p.m. 912-472-4790. tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.org.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.

TWO HOUR WALKING GHOST TOUR Chilling stories & eerie properties that paved the road to this fascinating title. Precolonial ghost history, all the way up to the 21st century. The most complete picture of all of the human psychical and paranormal events that put Savannah on the map as the ghostly city of greatness. Presented by America’s Most Haunted City Tour. ongoing, 9 p.m. 6thsenseworld.com/.

WILMINGTON ISLAND FARMERS’ MARKET The Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market (WIFM) is a non-profit organization that provides Wilmington Island and adjacent islands’ residents with locally grown produce, baked goods, natural skincare solutions and a variety of artisan creations. Free Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. wifarmersmarket@aol.com. wifarmersmarket.org. Islands High School, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

FESTIVALS

CHRISTMAS ON THE RIVER Get in the holiday spirit with the Savannah Waterfront Association. Friday evening features the Savannah Arts Academy Skylarks, the Windsor Forest High School Concert Band, and music by Jason Bible.

Saturday, enjoy performances by Abeni Cultural Arts, Maxine Patterson School of Dance, Marilyn Youmans School of Dance, Two Little Birds, and Danielle Hicks and the Resistance. Sunday, close out the

weekend with the 3rd Infantry Division Band and Kelly and Company Studios.

Dec. 21-23. riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com/. River Street, River St.

FITNESS

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.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE Let the excitement begin as Mahogany takes you to the best staycation each and every Tuesday night to the Islands through movement and rhythm. This class will focus on the cultural movement of Afro-Caribbean dance. Get ready for hip winding and arms in the air as we explore our bodies’ rhythm through Caribbean and reggae music. $10 Tuesdays, 6:45-7:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. 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.

732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@gmail. com.

BALLROOM FIT Always wanted to learn how to ballroom dance? Don’t have a partner? Want to get in shape and have fun in the process? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this program is for you! Learn how to ballroom dance and get a great workout in the process. We use all styles of music that are modern or traditional. Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Jive, Samba, Paso Doble, Foxtrot, Waltz, Hustle, and more! Check out our schedule for more details. 4 classes for $40, 10 classes for $80, UNLIMITED for $120 Sundays, 5-6 p.m., Mondays, 6-7 p.m., Tuesdays, 12:30-1 p.m., Wednesdays,

12:30-1 & 6-7 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:30-1 p.m. 612.470.6683. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. 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. CANDLE(LIT) COMMUNITY FLOW Catherine Mulligan teaches this vinyasa flow yoga class in efforts to raise money for local charities in the Savannah community.

The class is heated, candlelit, and set to upbeat music. Charities are rotating and chosen based on feedback from the students who show up. $8 Thursdays. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham St. COMMUNITY TAI CHI Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese martial art tradition that is now practiced as a graceful form of exercise, performed in a slow, focused manner and accompanied by deep breathing. All of the exercises are performed from a standing position, so please wear shoes which are comfortable for standing, and clothing which allows freedom of movement. Weather depending, the class may be held indoors or outdoors. $5 fourth Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. customfitcenter.com. CustomFit Center, 101-A West Park 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. 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. Visit the website for more info. Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and TuesdaysThursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 912-663-5833. getexcitedandmove.com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive.

GLUTE CAMP WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Fridays, 12:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. INSANITY LIVE WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and

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day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. ISRAELI KRAV MAGA SELF-DEFENSE CLASSES A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops.

Visit website for more info. ongoing. 912441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

LINE DANCE Line dance class teaches basic instructions, coordination, and dance combinations, to the rhythm of different styles of music. Line Dancing is exercise for the body & mind, and is a fun way to dance socially without a partner.

Dancing styles covered in this class include Country Western, Swing, Salsa, Tango, Cha Cha, Waltz & more. $10 Wednesdays, 6-7:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. POWER YOGA This is an hour of stretching your mind and body to become one, and a reset in the middle of the work week. Come experience the endless possibilities as you take yourself to the next level with Mahogany. $10 Wednesdays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. PRANA YOGA

Prana Yoga is a practice that integrates breathing techniques and chakra sounds into the yoga. Come experience a deep sense of grounding, learn to be present, and develop your center, passion, strength, compassion, creativity, intuition, and light. $10 Mondays, 6:45-8 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. SHIMMY CHIC Shimmy Chic Fitness is an energetic, fun dance workout based on the ancient art of belly dance- with a modern twist.

The class provides calorie-burning and muscle-toning moves, along with increased flexibility, grace, and sense of self. No dance experience necessary. Shimmy Chic provides fun & repetitive routines suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear comfortable workout clothes and sneakers (you do not have to show your stomach).

Open to all ages and fitness levels. $10 Thursdays, 5:45-6:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. SLIDERS WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m.

Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TIMED INTERVAL TRAINING WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more

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the Room” company 12 Cardiologist’s dilator 14 Heighten 17 Excruciatingly loud, in sheet music 20 Roth of “Inglourious Basterds” 24 Nervous spasms 25 “Rebel Yell” singer Billy 26 Inbox item 28 “thank u, ___” (Ariana Grande song) 30 Farm residents?

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information. Mondays, 12:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TRX CIRCUIT TRAINING WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TRX FUNCTIONAL TRAINING WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. VINYASA YOGA In this vinyasa yoga class you will experience dynamic movements while linking breath, building heat, and endurance. This class is open to all levels. We will explore each pose with special attention to alignment.

This class will be the perfect way to start your week and stay energized. $10 Mondays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. WEIGHTED WORKOUT A 45 minute, total body workout that includes a 5 minute warm-up and a 5 minute cool-down/stretch. We will use dumbbells and steps to perform compound functional movements to maximize workout time. $10 Tuesdays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. YOGA WITH BIANCA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Mondays, 6 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. YOGA@THELIBRARY The All Levels class meets from 10:3011:30 and the Chair Yoga class meets from 12:00-1:00. Tuesdays. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. ZUMBA Zumba Fitness is a dance fitness class for everybody and every body!

With easy to follow moves, Zumba focuses on a wide variety of Latin and International rhythms. This hour long class is guaranteed to make you sweat.

It’s not a workout, it’s a party. $10 Tuesdays, 5:45-6:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. facebook. com/ZumbaFitnesswithSheena/. 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

OYSTER ROAST All-you-can-eat Bluffton cluster oysters for $20. Also enjoy drink specials and cornhole.

Dec. 19, 6 p.m.. thecrabshack.com/. The Crab Shack, 40 Estill Hammock Rd. WINTER SOLSTICE Enjoy an evening under the winter sky surrounded by candle light and delicious food. Enjoy the musical sounds of Savannah while celebrating the lighting of the Christmas tree and ornament exchange.

Finish the evening with a luscious dark chocolate cheesecake. Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m..

912-921-4509. lapetiteabeilles.com. La Petite Abeilles, 2425 Barnard St. GREAT DAY 4 BASEBALL- ALL YOU CAN EAT- OYSTER ROAST FUNDRAISER $30.00 Dec. 22, 4 p.m. The Lighthouse Historical Venue, 120 North Columbia Ave. MIRACLE ON BAY STREET Guests can expect to find a holiday themed takeover at PACCI. Miracle on Bay Street at PACCI is part of an exclusive pop-up group of holiday themed take-overs. The Miracle on Bay Street cocktail menu will feature drinks such as Christmapolitan, Snowball Old-Fashioned, Bad Santa, Jingle Balls Nog and Naughty Shot, paccisavannah.com.

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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-jeansavannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. BETHESDA FARM AND GARDENS STAND Featuring in season, organic (not certified) veggies, herbs and flowers. All proceeds go directly to funding tuition expenses for Bethesda Academy students. For specialty orders, contact Merrin at merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy.org. merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy. org. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. FARM TRUCK 912 The Farm Truck 912 is a mobile market program of the Forsyth Farmers’ Market that aims to improve healthy food access by bringing locally produced fruits and vegetables into Savannah’s neighborhoods. Check the website for more info, including the location where the truck would be found in different days of the week. forsythfarmersmarket.com/ farmtruck912/. W.W. Law Gym, 909 E. Bolton St.

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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 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. Tours are offered Tuesday-Sunday from noon-5 p.m. They do not require a reservation and guests are welcome to purchase a cocktail to take with them on the tour. $12.50 Saturdays. (912) 298-0071. ghostcoastdistillery.com. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. GREAT DAY 4 BASEBALL- ALL YOU CAN EAT- OYSTER ROAST FUNDRAISER $30.00 The Lighthouse Historical Venue, 120 North Columbia Ave. HAPPY HOUR Join us at 39 Rue de Jean in downtown Savannah for one of the best happy hours our city has to offer. Enjoy drink and food specials during Happy Hour 7 days a week from 5-7 p.m. Visit the website for more info. Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 912-721-0595. holycityhospitality. com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/promotions/. holycityhospitality.com/39-rue-de-jeansavannah/. 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 Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.. 912-234-0688. jessie@savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

MIRACLE ON BAY STREET Guests can expect to find a holiday themed takeover at PACCI. Miracle on Bay Street at PACCI is part of an exclusive pop-up group of holiday themed take-overs. The Miracle on Bay Street cocktail menu will feature drinks such as Christmapolitan, Snowball Old-Fashioned, Bad Santa, Jingle Balls Nog and Naughty Shot, paccisavannah.com.

Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. OYSTER ROAST All-you-can-eat Bluffton cluster oysters for $20. Also enjoy drink specials and cornhole. thecrabshack.com/. The Crab Shack, 40 Estill Hammock Rd. PRESS PLAY BOOMBOX BRUNCH Brunch is served from 11 am – 3 pm. Jason B. James Live vinyl DJ spinning classic soul, R&B, indie, rock, pop, and everything in between begins at noon. foxyloxycafe.com.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. TYBEE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, eggs, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. Artisans are also featured each week. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. Located on beautiful Tybee Island, GA at 30 Meddin Drive.

We are right behind the Historic Tybee Lighthouse. Visit the website for more info. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com. Tybee Island, Tybee Island.

WEEKLY CASK & FOOD PAIRING Each Wednesday, we create a special cask and pair it with a complimentary dish. Follow us on Facebook for more information! moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. WINE SAMPLING Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer.

WINTER SOLSTICE Enjoy an evening under the winter sky surrounded by candle light and delicious food. Enjoy the musical sounds of Savannah while celebrating the lighting of the Christmas tree and ornament exchange.

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HEALTH

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St. FREE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Are you gradually feeling more alone as friends and family don’t seem to get what you are going through as the unpaid caregiver of a loved one with dementia, serious illness or disability? Our drop-in and non-disease specific Caregiver Support Group meets twice a month to provide a safe place to connect with others who truly understand. Second Tuesday of each month from 10 – 11 a.m. and/or the fourth Monday of each month from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. at the Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive off Chatham Parkway. 912.629.1331. ongoing. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center

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FREE RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR CAREGIVERS Are you the unpaid caregiver for a loved one with dementia, serious illness or disability? Schedule some relaxation time just for you! Our free restorative yoga and deep relaxation classes use bolsters and blankets to support the body and quiet the mind. Dress comfortably and join us at the Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive off Chatham Parkway.

912.629.1331. ongoing. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive.

HIGH VIBE/ LOW COST YOGA WITH MELISSA DELYNN Join this accessible, all-levels class

for meditative movement, breath and meditation! Ample free parking, beauty facility and no-fuss yoga. Expect a little sweat, philosophy and possibly enlightenment! $15 Wednesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. 706-614-4715. mdelynn@gmail.com.

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NATIVE AMERICAN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Georgia’s only Native American Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Meets every Thursday at 2 pm at 517 East Broad Street, Savannah. Court papers will be signed.

Open to all. You do not have to be Native American to attend Free ongoing, 2-3 p.m.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

*Consumer Reports* says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. The glut is holding steady. Years ago you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo. Nowadays you may be faced with twenty varieties of each. I suspect that 2019 will bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries—especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. This could be both a problem and a blessing. For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness, and meaningfulness.

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People have been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 AD. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to twentieth-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodical table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

United States President Donald Trump wants to build a concrete and fenced wall between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, twelve Northern African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-mile-long wall of droughtresistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll

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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

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be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former. Erecting new boundaries will be healthy for you—if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your health, not out of fear and divisiveness.

Speak her words as if they were your own.

“On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything— marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Cancerian poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like—and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to all of you Crabs during the next ten months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them.

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” This advice is sometimes attributed to sixteenth-century politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories, and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories, and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded, or toxic.

Studies show that the best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved; in the long run, it’s also the least expensive.

Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting band-aids on but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions; to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

In 1891, a 29-year-old British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast.

During the next forty years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnetttype year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation. Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

I’ll be bold and predict that 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story; a time when you will feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual; a phase when you will be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Claire Wahmanholm.

Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.” Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottoes to live by in 2019?

This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office.

There were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a Stanton-Woodhull-Salter type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Many people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seeking an audience: *skúffuskáld*, literally translated as “drawer-poet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius?

Do you produce some good thing but never share it? Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019 will be the year you might want to change your mind about it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Scientists at Goldsmiths University in London did a study to determine the catchiest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. This triumphant tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest you learn the lyrics and melody, and sing it once every day. It should help you build on the natural confidence-building influences that will be streaming into your life.

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Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm. Mondays. 912-236CITY. 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.

NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

$5 MARSH TREK FALL PROMOTION On a marsh trek, you’ll enjoy a hands-on exploration of Georgia’s salt marsh, searching the mud for fiddler crabs, snails, and more. Learn about adaptations necessary for survival in this environment, how the marsh functions as a nursery for many organisms, a filter for pollutants, and as an abundant food source. Please wear closed-toed, closed-heel shoes, such as rain boots or old tennis shoes (no flip flops or Crocs) and expect to get muddy. Marsh Treks meet off-site, on the north end of the island at Spanish Hammock. Directions are provided with paid program confirmation. $5 per person Through Dec. 31, 4-5 p.m. 912786-5917. brenda@tybeemarinescience. org. tybeemarinescience.org. tybeemarinescience.org/. Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand Ave. GREENDRINKS SAVANNAH GreenDrinks Savannah is a social networking group initiated by local non-profits and businesses to engage community members in an informal setting.

Everyone is welcome to attend and meet people interested in a more Sustainable and Greener Savannah. Check the “GreenDrinks Savannah” facebook page. Free to attend.

Cash bar. third Wednesday of every month, 5:30 p.m. greenfirepizza.com. Green Fire Pizza, 236 Drayton St. WILDERNESS SOUTHEAST A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115. wildernesssoutheast.org.

PETS & ANIMALS

LOW COST PET CLINIC TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.

5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

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Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL

CHRISTMAS EVE COMMUNION SERVICES Join Wesley Monumental for one of our annual Christmas Eve services as we celebrate the birth of our Savior.

All three will feature communion and a candlelight conclusion. For the 6:00 service, the Chancel Choir will lead us in 30 minutes of music before the service.

Mon., Dec. 24, 10:30 a.m., 3:30 & 6 p.m. wesleymonumental.org/. Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St. EPIPHANY WORSHIP AND POTLUCK Calling all freaks, geeks, oddballs, and misfits - this is a Church service for you. Join us for some judgement-free community centered worship followed by a potluck supper. You don’t have to bring anything if you don’t have time to prepare or pick up, just drop in. Sun., Dec. 23, 5:30 p.m. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. 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.

SAVANNAH FRIENDS MEETING (QUAKERS) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, Joy Cottage behind Wesley Oak United Methodist Church. Call or email for info.

All are welcome. ongoing. 636-233-1772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. Wesley Oak United Methodist Church, 3124 East Victory Drive.

SAVANNAH REIKI SHARE During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah.

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

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.

THEOLOGY ON TAP Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm-10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St.

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FILM: SANTA CLAUS A twisted and completely surreal lowbudget kids’ movie that is one part David Lynch and one part Willy Wonka, and must

be seen to be believed. Presented by the Psychotronic Film Society. $7 Wed., Dec. 19, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. FILM: THE AMERICAN SOUTH AS WE KNOW IT The American South As We Know It explores the lives and experiences of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

This film depicts a time when racial tension was at its peak. The educators, historians and brave “everyday” people featured in this documentary, express their vested interest in creating a comprehensive narrative of what life was like for African- Americans in the south. Free, but reserve a ticket Thu., Dec. 20, 6 p.m. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. FILM: GREEN BOOK There’s a lot of Oscar buzz around this new film about a working-class Italian-American bouncer, who becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. $8 Sat., Dec. 22, 3 & 7 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 23, 3 & 7 p.m. 912-472-4790. info@ tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater. showare.com/. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.

FILM: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS The Vincente Minnelli film, nostalgic and poignant, focuses on four sisters (one of whom is the nonpareil Judy Garland) on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

The film spotlights the sisters’ education in the ways of the world, which includes, but isn’t limited to, learning about life and love, courtesy of the prototypical boy next door. $10 and come with a complimentary glass of wine. For $35 you also get a threecourse prix fixe dinner at 80 East Gastropub around the corner! Thu., Dec. 20, 7 p.m.

912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater. org. tybeeposttheater.showare.com/. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.

SPORTS & GAMES

ADULT AND JUNIOR TENNIS CLINICS On Thursdays. Intended for a class size of 4-8 students. Buy four classes, get the fifth class free. $15 per class ongoing.

912-201-2000. westinsavannah.com. theclubatsavannahharbor.com/index.php.

The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. ADULT COED FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE 8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

BEARS ELITE FOOTBALL Learn the fundamentals of football. Ages 4-12. Sign up now. Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 912-272-6684. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. DERBY DEVILS ROLLER DERBY CLASSES Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs. See website for info. ongoing. savannahderby.com.

GRIEF 101 SUPPORT GROUP Seven-week morning or evening adult

support group offers tools to learn to live with loss. Tuesdays, 10am-11am; or Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Free of charge.

Offered by Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

JINGLE BARBELLS OPEN WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS $40.00 Sat., Dec. 22, 8 a.m. Anderson Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7232 Varnedoe Drive.

SATURDAY GROUP RUN OR WALK Join us in our quest for fitness. Beginners are welcome. We can help you exceed your fitness goals. Free Saturdays, 7-8:15 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live.com. savystrider.com. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

SAV. STRIDER WEEKLY GROUP RUN OR WALK DOWNTOWN Join us for a run or walk downtown or over the bridge if you’re feeling froggy. The best part is afterwards when we get coffee or whatever else your heart desires from Savannah Coffee Roasters. Free Sundays, 7-8 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live. com. savystrider.com. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

SAVANNAH BIKE POLO Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. ongoing. facebook.com/ savannahbikepolo.

SKATEFEST A Savannah holiday tradition returns to the Savannah Civic Center. Each day of SkateFest consists of individual “session” times which are blocks of 90 minutes each of fun on the ice. For daily session start times please consult the SkateFest calendar on savannahcivic.com. $8 per person, 6-person punch passes $40 Through Jan. 2, 2019. savannahcivic.com. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 5K & 10K - SAVANNAH $18.00-$28.00 Fri., Dec. 21, 1 p.m.

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cleats (highly recommended). ongoing. savannahultimateproject@gmail.com. savannahultimateproject.wordpress.com/ pick-up/. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave.

SUPPORT GROUPS

ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS Adult children of Alcoholics is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes.

Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. 24 Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Drive.

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Are you troubled by someone else’s drinking? Please go to alanon.org for daily meeting schedule. ongoing. savannahalanon.com.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. ongoing.

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVER AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP For individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-236-0363 x143.

AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers. Call for info. ongoing. 912-355-7778.

BACK PAIN SUPPORT GROUP Second Monday of every month,7:00pm.

Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 ongoing.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm. In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. ongoing. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS GROUP Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-844-4524. fpc. presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. ongoing. 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Join other non-paid family caregivers in a welcoming and encouraging environment on the fourth Monday of each month from 5 to 6 pm. For more information, please call 912.629.1331, or visit www.

EdelCaregiverInstitute.org. fourth Monday of every month. Ruth Byck Adult Day Care Center, 3025 Bull St. This drop-in, one-hour support group provides a safe place to connect with other family caregivers who truly understand each others’ feelings, needs and concerns. Exchange practical information on caregiving problems and possible solutions, and learn about resources available in our community.

You’re not alone. fourth Monday of every month, 1-2 p.m. 912-629-1331. edelcaregiverinstitute.org. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive.

CHILDREN’S GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Seven week structured educational support group for children 6-17. Support, coping tools, utilizing play and activity to learn to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

CONNECT FOR KIDS This group is for children who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. EATING DISORDERS ANONYMOUS Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Email for info. ongoing. edasavannah@ yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. ESSENTIAL TREMOR SUPPORT GROUP For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life. First Wednesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Call for more info. ongoing. 912-819-2224.

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Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-8196743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. GAMBLING PROBLEM 12 STEP PROGRAM Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. ongoing. 912-748-4730.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling for children, teens and adults is available at no charge.

Counseling is offered at 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H in Savannah, and appointments are also available in the United Way offices in Rincon and in Richmond Hill. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442.

HospiceSavannah.org/GriefSupport.

HEAD AND NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP MEETING This group is open to individuals with cancers of the head and neck area and their caregivers. At the meetings, we have a brief discussion from experts in the treatment of head and neck cancer and allow time for group discussion. For more information, please call Suzy Buelvas at 912-350-7845.

Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. HOWARD HAND IN HAND CHILDREN’S SUPPORT GROUP Hand in Hand is a support group for children that have a family member or loved one affected by cancer. third Wednesday of every month. 912-819-5704. Hand in Hand is a support group for children that have a family member or loved one affected by cancer. For more information, call 912-8195704. third Wednesday of every month, 2 p.m. 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. KLINEFELTER SYNDROME/47-XXY SUPPORT GROUP For parents of children with this diagnosis, and for men with this diagnosis. Started by the mother of a boy with 47-XXY. Email to meet for mutual support. ongoing. amkw21@gmail.com.

LEGACY GROUP: FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ADVANCED AND RECURRENT CANCER. Group addresses the concerns of advanced and recurrent cancer survivors from the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of healing. To register for a specific session and to learn about the group, please call Jennifer Currin-McCulloch at 912-350-7845. ongoing. 912-350-7845.

Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA AND MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call or see website for info. Located in the Summit Cancer Care office at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m.

912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Call for the Savannah Lowcountry Area NA meeting schedule. ongoing. 912-238-5925.

PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH IEP’S (INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PLANS) For parents of children attending ChathamSavannah Public School System who have IEP plans, to offer mutual support through the challenges of the IEP process. Email for info. ongoing. amkw210@gmail.com.

PARENTS OF ILL CHILDREN Backus Children’s Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment.

Case manager facilitates the meetings.

Meets weekly. Call for info ongoing. 912350-5616. memorialhealth.com/backus. memorialhealth.com/backus. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Ave. PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP The Parkinson’s Disease Support Group will meet on the first Thursday of the month from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds Street. Featuring medical and therapeutic guest speakers, join us for discussion, support, and new community activities. For more information, call Fran McCarey at 912-819-2224. ongoing. 912355-6347. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. PET BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP This group meets on the first and third Thursday of each month and helps pet owners get through the loss of their animals. Contact Jeffrey Wittig at jeffwitt912@gmail.com for more information. ongoing, 7:30 p.m. The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: MAN TO MAN This group is for prostate cancer patients and their caregivers. Meets in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute.

Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. RAPE CRISIS CENTER Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week. 912-2337273. ongoing.

REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SUPPORT GROUP Second Tuesdays at 7pm in Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For anyone with this disorder, plus family members/ caregivers interested in learning more. Call for info. ongoing. 912-858-2335. sjchs.org/.

Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. SBC TOASTMASTERS Toastmasters is an organization dedicated to the art of public speaking. In a friendly, supportive atmosphere, members learn to speak more precisely and confidently via prepared speeches, impromptu speaking, and constructive evaluations. It’s fun, informative, and a great way to network with area professionals. Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m. 912663-7851. St. Leo University, 7426 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Suite A.

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