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9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday facebook.com/forsythfarmersmarket

Georgia State Railroad Museum Wed.-Sun. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Old Fort Jackson Wed.-Sun 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mars Theatre Friday/Saturday night movies at 7 p.m.

Islands Farmers Market Enhanced social distancing between vendors.

Mercer-Williams House Saturdays 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. , 401 QuarterMon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 11:30 man Dr. a.m.-4:45 p.m., closed Tuesday and facebook.com/islandsfarmersmarket/ Wednesday

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During the initial reopening phase, they will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Admission to all sites $20 inclusive.

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Live Concerts: Voodoo Soup at Coach’s Corner Live performance by local band in a courtyard setting.

Fri. June 26, 7 p.m. facebook.com/coachscorner/ Head Games at Coach’s Corner Live performance by Foreigner tribute band in a courtyard setting.

Sat. June 27, 7 p.m. facebook.com/coachscorner/

Livestreams:

Tybee Island Farmers Market Mondays, 4-7 p.m.

30 Meddin Dr. facebook.com/tybeeislandfarmersmarket

National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m.

Front Porch Improv: Bad Boss Live improv comedy sessions.

June 27 8:30 p.m. facebook.com/frontporchimprov/

Site Reopenings:

Pin Point Heritage Museum Thu.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Davenport House Museum Daily tours begin 10 a.m., last tour 4 p.m. except Sundays when hours are 1-4 p.m.

American Prohibition Museum Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., last entry 4:15 p.m.

Friday Night Live with Mayor Van Johnson Savannah Mayor Van Johnson’s “fireside chat” about the state of the city.

Fridays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/MayorJohnsonSAV/

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Wednesdays, Sundays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/ groups/2519522234807695/ Quarantine Concert: KIAH with Obamabo and Stardust Pixies Live show streamed from the Tybee Post Theatre.

Sat. June 27, 9 p.m. facebook.com/quarantineconcerts/ Seldom Sober Savannah’s only Irish music ensemble, Seldom Sober (Michael Corbett and Colleen Settle) perform a set spanning Trad Irish to American folk.

Tuesdays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/seldomsober/ Savannah Performance Project - Chris Bass’ daily live stream show airs at 1:15 p.m. at Facebook.com/SPPAdmi

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AS I write this, the much-feared “second wave” is firmly upon us: the new spike in COVID-19 infections we were repeatedly warned about as various states began reopening.

As was the case with Charleston, S.C. about a week ago, Savannah has begun its own list of food and beverage establishments voluntarily shutting down after employees tested positive for COVID-19.

Spanky’s Southside, the 5 Spot, the Shell House, the Starbuck’s on Victory, and The Rail Pub have all voluntarily closed while they disinfect and test employees.

My guess is this is the tip of the iceberg, and many more will join them on that list.

fierce and stubborn debate which has now become painfully familiar — what I call the Great Mask War of 2020, which I’ve written about at length in previous pieces.

And there’s the issue of who exactly will enforce said order, given the other great debate going on in this country, about the limits of police behavior and authority.

Some people are talking about the need for “another shutdown.” I have some news for them.

We only had one shot at a shutdown.

We aren’t going to get another one.

The only way for us to have made that shutdown work — that one chance we had, and squandered — was to make it fast, complete, and provide enough financial assistance during the shutdown to make the sacrifice worthwhile.

Your federal and state government failed you on all those fronts.

having their back.

If there’s another serious shutdown, all bets are off in terms of who will have a job at the end of it.

Maybe only City Council members will.

Speaking of which: During this week’s discussion of the mask order, Alderwoman Kesha Gibson-Carter pointed out many of the overlapping dynamics at play.

“We should be mindful of… the implications if you’re caught without a mask. I would hate for us to make a blanket rule whereby all citizens have to wear masks and it becomes complicated,” she said.

“We’re in a time and space where there are concerns about police officers approaching [people] and what constitutes that engagement,” she said.

When she asked Mayor Johnson what the City could do to assist businesses which do the right thing and take on the

As of now, the ‘new normal’ looks a lot like this: A stutterstep reopening, with places briefly opening back up for awhile and then abruptly closing again, combined with long lines at free testing centers and frantic attempts to do your own junior contact-tracing.

Over the past few months we’ve talked a lot about the “new normal,” and what that might look like.

As of now, it looks a lot like this: A stutterstep reopening, with places briefly opening back up for awhile and then abruptly closing again, combined with long lines at free testing centers and frantic attempts to do your own junior contact-tracing.

Put your left foot in, take your left foot out. Do the hokey-pokey.

Eventually, I suppose everyone will end up getting tested at least once, if not multiple times. Until a vaccine is available — and if enough people are even willing to take the vaccine, which is another story in itself — COVID-19 tests will probably become a routine thing.

And eventually, inevitably, some of those businesses will only be able to do the reopening dance for so long, and many will opt to simply close their doors for good as the money and patience runs out.

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson is poised as I write this to move ahead with an order for mandatory face coverings in public spaces in the City of Savannah.

While that is nearly the least our government can do at this point, it would no doubt run smack into the same irrationally

There won’t — can’t — be another full shutdown.

Pick your metaphor. You can’t put that genie back in the bottle. That horse already left the barn. Pandora’s box is already open.

As bad as the situation is now, the only reason these businesses are pushing to open despite the medical threat is because they have to.

There wasn’t nearly enough help, or incentive, for them to stay closed.

So when Governor Kemp gave the green light, people pretty much had to go for it, whether they wanted to or not.

This is the dilemma small businesses in Savannah find themselves in: Stay closed until everything blows over — later this year? 2021? 2022? — and basically be guaranteed to go out of business for good.

Or reopen now despite their misgivings about the virus, make a play for whatever money they can make, and hope against hope that no employees get sick and spread it around.

It’s an exceptionally cruel predicament to be forced into.

I feel for the business owners having to navigate this minefield that none of them signed up for, with virtually no one really

additional financial burden of voluntarily closing, the Mayor answered “The City doesn’t mandate anyone to close. I don’t believe the City has the wherewithal to provide any assistance to a business that does close.”

While the Mayor is certainly factually correct, that is thin comfort for those who do their civic duty and close down at the urging of governments which offer them little in return for their altruism.

In the end, though, some things are simply beyond our control.

For example, the great flu outbreak of 1918 – usually inaccurately called the “Spanish Flu,” though it likely didn’t originate there at all – essentially ended on its own, and also featured an extended civic debate about wearing vs. not wearing masks.

Nearly as suddenly as it began, scholars say, the 1918 flu simply tailed off and went away, perhaps just running out of warm bodies that hadn’t already had it.

It’s too soon to say if that’s the case now.

But if so, then it’s doubly important to support each other how, and when, we can. cs

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Rep. Gordon’s committee assignments include Economic Development & Tourism, and Health & Human Services. A 1995 graduate of Alfred E Beach High School, Gordon is a life-long resident of Savannah. Craig Gordon is the CEO of Statewide Healthcare Inc. and when he is not working, he enjoys gardening and reading.

Why does it matter that people educate themselves about social and racial justice?

I think we should all make a pledge to never stop learning. Honestly, that’s in anything that we do. As it relates to social injustice, some of the best decisions and worst decisions were made due to the lack of knowledge and information.

If my brothers and sisters in the majority don’t know the history of persecution done to blacks in America, then they will never understand why we are as a county. In 400 years blacks in America have dealt with slavery, debt peonage, share cropping, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and still today hate crimes, banking discrimination, housing

discrimination, access to healthcare, and prison work camps.

What changes are essential to bringing racial equality to Savannah?

I think an adoption of the 8 practices law enforcement should shun (Savannah has gotten rid of many already).

Adoption of an economic agenda that pledges 30 to 40% inclusion in all city bids and contracts.

I think an ongoing conversation with all facets of the community, at least monthly, to establish an understanding of what we all are going through. Regardless of how painful and uncomfortable it may be.

One of my favorite books is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The book is written as a letter to the author’s teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being black in the United States.

What is the most important thing that people can do at this time?

I think that the people have spoken and are continuing to speak, and likely not going anywhere until firm commitments are made to eliminate injustices. Remember some of the bus boycotts lasted over 380 days. It wasn’t until those cites went bankrupt that changes were put into law.

What are some steps that the Georgia legislature can take?

Is there anything else that you want to add?

I think that our legislature can adopt the 8 principles stated prior regarding police procedures that should be outlawed, they should abolish Stand Your Ground and Citizens Arrest. The state also needs to make sure every state HBCU offers terminal degree programs and commit to a 30% spending with minority owned businesses across all state agencies.

Having family (parents, grandparents, aunts, etc.) actively involved in the civil rights movement, as well as a lifelong respect and pride in who I am as a Black male in America, have kept me focused on being a part of change and sensitivity to all diversities. Strongly feeling that there has to be more than agreeing to finally saying Black Lives Matter but showing through meaningful action and encouraging purposeful dialogue in order to bring about systemic changes. CS

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NEWS & OPINION VOICES ON THE PATH What are some of your favorite resources that people can use to grow a deeper understanding?

The Hardnett family.

When people want a deeper understanding we refer them to the organization, Showing Up For Racial Justice. We also recommend following Jane Elliott on YouTube and attending a workshop if ever given the opportunity.

What is the most important thing that people can do at this time?

Have an open mind and heart to learn. The most important thing someone can do is learn and listen.

Is there anything else that you want to add?

Change is not easy, but it’s necessary. We hope that racial justice becomes something that people work and strive toward even after the “hype” is over. Tragedies such as the murder of George Floyd are but the tip of the iceberg. We hope that people help us attack the root of this country’s issues. CS

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ELDER Erika Hardnett and her wife, Pastor Candace Hardnett, are the parents of three daughters ranging in age from 29 to three years old.

The couple met in California where they trained in ministry together, and moved to Savannah in 2008 to start Agape Empowerment Ministries.

Candace is a Marine Corps veteran, and the couple has worked extensively with Savannah’s homeless population and advocating for LGBTQ rights.

What changes are essential to bringing racial equality to Savannah?

What do you say to “all lives matter” folks?

Poverty in Savannah is astounding. Gentrification is rapid. People need a living wage, better school systems, and help in revitalizing neighborhoods that were once primarily black owned. The history of black Savannah should be preserved and not torn down.

Usually “all lives matter” folks are not safe people for us to engage in conversation with. They are the same as the confederate flag waving, MAGA hat wearing people. We don’t engage in conversations with them because they rarely see through their racism. Dealing with them is exhausting.

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Keeping it 100

The 100 Black Men of Savannah support, encourage youth

President Harold Oglesby, at left, takes pride in the work his organization does to enrich youth’s lives in our own community. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY 100 BLACK MEN OF SAVANNAH

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take the kid off to the side and talk to them for a few minutes and figure out what in the world is going on.” which favors group mentoring instead of Oglesby shares the story of one kid who

BY RACHAEL FLORA one-on-one. was 11 years old, but he looked like he was rachael@connectsavannah.com It’s easier for the group to reach more 18. As a result, everyone in his life treated kids in a group setting, but depending on him as if he were much older, which in turn FOR nearly twenty years, the 100 Black the kids’ needs, the mentors are also avail- caused him to act that way. The boy acted Men of Savannah has been committed to able for a more interpersonal relationship. out in class and took his aggression out on supporting our youth.

Most of the outreach that 100 Black Men his much smaller classmates.

It’s a chapter of the nationwide 100 of Savannah does is achieved through inDuring a mentoring session, two of the Black Men of America, founded in 1963 school mentoring. Guidance counselors men took him to the side and, Oglesby with the purpose of helping Black youth choose students they think would benefit recounts, “They gave him permission to succeed. from the sessions, and parents can also ask be 11 years old.” When they talked to him Savannah’s chapter was founded in for their kids to be included. about his dreams, they learned he wanted 1996, just six months after Charles L. The mentoring sessions occur weekly to be a football player, so they encouraged Gordon attended the Million Man March in about 32 of Savannah and Chatham him to get his aggression out on the footin Washington, D.C. In that time, it’s County’s public schools, from elementary ball field and to work hard in school so he expanded into 32 public schools in the through high school. Two to three mentors could get to college and then the NFL. area, from elementary to high school. lead the session, which takes place around “All of a sudden, this kid changed,” says President Harold Oglesby learned about lunch so as not to disrupt academic hours. Oglesby. “Teachers went to them and said, the group from a coworker and felt moved The sessions are very orderly: on the ‘What did you guys do with him?’ They to join. second session, the group elects its own said, ‘Nothing—we just talked to him and “He told me it was a focus on mentoring, officers, learn Robert’s Rules of Order, and set some expectations.’ That kid turned and I was looking for something I could get wear dress shirts. Oglesby notes that in into one of the leaders of his group.” involved in the community with. It seemed the first few weeks, the kids get teased for At its heart, that’s the power of 100 Black like a good fit for me,” says Oglesby. being dressed up, but by about the fourth Men of Savannah: it sets up clear expecThe men of 100 Black Men of Savanweek, kids are asking how they can join. tations for kids who may not have that nah—which, Oglesby notes, currently This puts the kids on an equal playing otherwise. number closer to 50—represent a wide field, something that doesn’t always hapAn important part of the organization is swath of expertise, from lawyers to doctors pen in the classroom. the Collegiate 100, a group of college-aged to retired military personnel. The main “We never separate the kids. We have a men who also serve as mentors. requirement of a mentor is consistency. kid with a 1.0 GPA next to a kid with a 4.2 “Kids can relate to someone that’s more “What we find is a lot of kids are used GPA,” says Oglesby. “A lot of times, those their age,” says Oglesby. “Guys with silver to being disappointed,” says Oglesby. kids with the 1.0 GPA were some of the hair on their heads trying to talk to kids “They’re used to someone telling them, ‘I’ll smartest kids in school, but they’d have is different than when you’re coming to be there for you,’ and then they disappear. disciplinary actions, they’d be acting out. someone who just got out of high school.”

We don’t want to have that same relationWhen you say there and talked to them, In Savannah, there are four chapters of ship with any of our mentors. If they’re you’d figure out this kid has a lot more the Collegiate 100: one at Savannah State, going to have a mentor, then we want them going on than probably anybody at the one at the Armstrong campus of Georgia to be consistent.” school knows. A lot of times, people get the Southern, and two at the Statesboro camTo achieve consistency, the group misconception that all the kids we deal pus of Georgia Southern, including the mentors through an organized curwith are bad kids. Some of the kids have only female Collegiate 100.

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Black Men of Savannah also offer the Wall Street Club, Court’s in Session, the Youth Leadership Academy, and summer camps.

But with school out of session and physical events at a standstill, the organization has been doing virtual mentoring sessions, called Saturday Real Talk Sessions, which is typically part of the Youth Leadership Academy.

At a recent session, Ahmaud Arbery was brought up, and the kids were emotional.

“We talked to them about it and provided support to them, and we told them we’d be talking about it again,” says Oglesby. “Before we could have our next session, we had the George Floyd incident, and these kids were on fire.”

As a way to help the kids get their frustration out, 100 Black Men of Savannah began the Express Yourself Contest, where the kids were invited to create art in any form.

“We were going to have a session specifically about the protests and the death, and then we decided to delay it a bit,” remembers Oglesby. “We had a separate meeting with our mentors to make sure we were all on the same page, and in the meantime, let’s let these kids vent and share their feelings so when we have our session, we know where they stand and what their thought processes are.”

The many entries for the contest were thoughtful and impressive, and it serves to highlight why the 100 Black Men of Savannah is such an important group for, and positive influence on, our youth.

“It’s important no matter what’s going on in the world. Our kids are our future,” says Oglesby. “We want these kids to have the best life they can. Our goal is always to ensure that every kid is doing their best.” CS For more information, visit 100blackmensav.org.

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LAST October, Cody Shelley came across a Facebook post that’d change her life.

“There was chatter about rescue pages that animal control was super full, and rescues across the board were pulling as many dogs as possible, and they needed foster homes,” remembers Shelley.

With three dogs already, Shelley agreed to take in Twyla, a copper-colored girl that was in the care of Renegade Paws Rescue.

On Halloween night, as Shelly and her wife Chela Gutierrez were giving out candy, Renegade’s director Jennifer Taylor came by the house with Twyla.

Taylor gave Shelley some supplies and offered her a T-shirt.

“I was like, ‘I’m not really a T-shirt person,’” confides Shelley, “but they had Pride shirts from when they had gone to Savannah Pride, and that was a ‘ding ding ding!’ for me that I liked these people.”

Since October, Shelley has fostered 11 dogs and finds the experience gratifying.

Remarkably, Shelley has been with Renegade since nearly the beginning: the rescue recently celebrated their first year in operation.

In Renegade Paws Rescue’s first year, they saved over 400 dogs from local shelters, an impressive output from the allvolunteer team.

There’s a big need for rescues in Savannah, and founders Taylor and Shelby Westberry recognize and appreciate the work their peers do.

“There’s a lot of rescues around here, and we’re well aware of that, but the idea

and neuters for people that may not be able to afford it, as well as a homeless outreach program that helps them prepare for the came to us because we just wanted somehurricane season—a big problem. thing that was more inclusive. We wanted “When they have to get on a bus and to make sure we were giving the best care they want to take their beloved pet with and full care,” says Westberry, the media them, they have to have shots,” explains and PR director. “We cover heartworm Taylor. “So right before hurricane season, treatments for our dogs, and we make sure we make sure that the homeless people every single one of our dogs has everything who we currently serve, their pets are up that they need, from healthcare to behavto date.” ior care, before and after they’re adopted.”

Taylor herself is in the homeless camps A motivating factor for Westberry was a making sure that every pet’s needs previous fostering experience that wasn’t are being met, whether it’s food or flea quite as inclusive. treatment.

“I had a really hard time fostering out For Shelley, that attitude of helping the one of my dogs that was a heartwormless fortunate was a definite plus. positive dog, and having to tell the adopter “I got matched up with Renegade very that we as an organization were not going randomly and coincidentally, and it’s a to cover that and they’d be on the hook for really good fit for me because they focus thousands of dollars’ worth of treatment,” really hard on inclusion and equipping remembers Westberry. “It often, because people to succeed with their new pets,” of that, becomes a death sentence for a lot says Shelley. “It really takes a patchwork of dogs in this area, because it is such a of agencies to address the overall need, financial burden.” and for me, the vibe and fit of Renegade in Taylor, the director of Renegade, is that picture is really aligned with my own just as passionate about inclusivity in the personal [values]. Not that any of the othrescue. ers are opposed to my personal beliefs, “I think we need to include people of dif- but Renegade has education, community ferent socioeconomic backgrounds, of dif- support, outreach to the homeless—all ferent races,” adds Taylor. “We want to be those are things that are important to me the rescue that includes everyone in what regardless of animals, so doing it in an aniwe do, as well as reach out to our commumal context is a very gratifying way to be nity. That was a big thing for us. We wanted involved.” to be able to go into the communities and While Renegade is already working hard provide education and support for some of on reaching a broad swath of the commuour communities that love their pets, but nity, they have plans to expand that care. can’t afford to keep them. We wanted to “One of our major long-term goals is to be able to do those things as well as care really expand our community care profor the dogs we were pulling from these gram,” says Westberry. “We want to get shelters.” out into the less fortunate communities Part of Renegade’s services include a and set up shot clinics and hand out spay/ community program that provides spays neuter vouchers and be able to provide

education. A lot of what we see as a lack of pet care is actually just a lack of education. Everybody wants to take good care of their pets and be part of something, but not everybody knows how.”

Westberry and Taylor acknowledge how intimidating it can be to ask for help in taking care of your pets. They strive to keep shame out of that interaction by helping people learn about proper pet care.

Renegade is run by volunteers and financially relies on fundraisers and donations, which are not as easy to come by in the middle of a pandemic.

“People are not as touched to donate online,” says Westberry.

Taylor points out that Renegade pays for the veterinary care that they provide, which is not always affordable or easy to predict.

“We’ve had all kinds of weird stuff,” she says. “We’ve had amputations, we’ve had eye removals. We just had a puppy with a huge abscess from some kind of bite and they had to go in and remove half of her neck, and then we had to send her to wound care rehab for that.”

Even still, everyone at Renegade Paws Rescue is passionate about their work and takes pride in helping dogs find their right match.

“It’s a big deal for us that our dogs are in homes,” says Westberry. “We need them to be in a home and learn manners and crate training and housebreaking before we send them off to live in their forever homes.” CS Visit renegadepawsrescue.org for more.

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SPD seeks missing teen

The Savannah Police Department is asking for the public’s help locating a missing 13-year-old.

Aleia Tolbert was last seen around 10 p.m. June 18 in the 11500 block of Abercorn Street. She was wearing a white shirt, blue capris and leopard-print Crocs. She is described as being approximately 5-foot tall and weighing 150 lbs. She is known to frequent the area around the Oglethorpe Mall and the 1100 block of W. 40th Street.

Anyone who sees her is asked to call 911.

Anyone with information on her possible whereabouts should contact the Special Victims Unit at (912) 651-6742.

Man injured in scooter collision

Savannah Police’s Traffic Investigation Unit is investigating a June 15 collision that resulted in serious injuries to a 35-year-old Savannah man traveling by scooter.

Around 8:20 a.m. a Honda Odyssey, driven by Katrina Parker, 59, of Savannah,

Missing teen Aleia Tolbert

was traveling on Commercial Drive when the passenger side of her vehicle was struck by a scooter in the intersection at Hodgson Memorial Drive. “It appears that the driver of the scooter, Richard Hall, disregarded the traffic light, resulting in the crash. Hall was thrown from the scooter and suffered serious injuries,” police say.

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Foundation. The two donated alarms will be outfitted in SPD cruisers for K9s Sam and Oscar.

“This is an essential item for the department in ensuring the safety of our K9s,” said Sgt. Eric Dukarski, of the SPD K9 Unit. “It’s that extra bit of security we have in ensuring that our K9s are safe in the vehicle in the Georgia heat, which can become deadly in a matter of minutes. This provides peace of mind for our officers in protecting their four-legged partners.”

Prior to receiving the alarms, the K-9

Unit had outdated systems that only worked within certain distances; however, the Ace K9 Heat Alarm System includes extra features that increase safety measures. The handler is able to monitor the vehicle’s temperature on his cell phone through an app. The temperature monitoring system sends out S.O.S. text, as well as, calls the handlers, canine sergeant, and dispatchers if the temperature inside the vehicle gets to a temperature that is still safe, yet approaching unsafe conditions.

The system actives a horn honk, siren, light bar activation and rolls down both back windows and the fan is activated.

The systems are valued at $1,200 each.

The Georgia Police K9 Foundation is an all-volunteer 501(c)3 non-profit that raises awareness in the state of the contributions made by police K9s. The foundation provides equipment to law enforcement agencies that include bullet-proof vests, heat alarms and Narcan kits. It also provides retirement support, which includes food and medical care, for retired K9s when needed.

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NEWS & OPINION NEWS OF THE WEIRD The Boston Typewriter Orchestra has been performing its unique brand of music throughout New England since 2004 and will now be releasing its first vinyl album later this summer. Self-proclaimed conductor Tim Devin and a group of friends founded the ensemble as a joke, reports Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and after premiering at Boston’s Art Beat Festival, the idea took off. Using vintage machines to rhythmically clack, roll, spin and bang out “music,” the typist-musicians say different models produce different sounds.

“A Smith-Corona Galaxy 12 has a power space function that makes a nice metallic clang sound,” explained Brendan Emmett Quigley.

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• In Oakland, California’s Grand Lake neighborhood, Gerald the turkey has been an institution for some time, regularly queueing up with carpool riders near Morcom Rose Garden. But lately, Gerald has grown grumpy and started attacking park visitors, reports KGO, prompting complaints to Oakland Animal Services. “I swear I was getting flashbacks to the velociraptor scenes in ‘Jurassic Park’ as he was ‘cooing’ at me, sizing me up,” one said. Others said Gerald charged them, clawing and pecking as they tried to run. In response, the city closed the rose garden at the end of May and asked people not to feed Gerald or any other wildlife, as it “may have contributed to the male turkey becoming more aggressive,” the parks department said.

Animal control officers are also trying to “train him to revert to natural behaviors,” but have had limited success keeping him socially distanced from humans.

• Kalua, an infamous alcoholic monkey in Kanpur, India, has been sentenced to live out his days in isolation, Gulf News reported. The animal once belonged to a local occultist who would give him alcohol. After the owner died, Kalua couldn’t get his fix and became aggressive, sinking his teeth into more than 250 people, one of who died of his wound. The Kanpur zoo took Kalua in, trying to acclimate him to captivity and other monkeys, but zoo workers are throwing in the towel. “It has been three years since he was brought here,” said zoo doctor Mohd Nasir. “He will remain in captivity all his life.”

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• In April, following the cancellation of basketball madness, a Twitter account called March Madness of Flags was launched “for the love of vexillology,” pitting banners from all over the world against one another in a fearsome bracket to determine which was the “coolest flag.”

During the final four, held over the weekend of June 13-14, the St. Louis (Missouri) flag beat out Stuttgart’s entry, then went

on to clinch the championship in a commanding 625-49 victory over the standard from Yaroslavl Oblast, a Russian federal district north of Moscow. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the city’s flag, a relative newcomer, was designed by Yale University art history professor Theodore Sizer and adopted in 1964 for the city’s bicentennial.

• For those missing travel abroad, Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, is offering 90 people the opportunity to tour the airport and “pretend to go abroad.” On July 2, 4 and 7, participants can spend a halfday going through immigration, boarding an airplane, and then getting off the plane and re-entering the country through immigration. “People who didn’t have the opportunity to take international flights at Songshan (can) use this chance to experience and learn more about the boarding process and relevant service facilities,” Chih-ching Wang, deputy director of the airport, told CNN Travel. Tour customers will also get to take home “exclusive mysterious gifts.”

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Seniors from Glens Falls High School near Tulsa, Oklahoma, pulled a classic prank on what would have been the last day of their high school career: On June 12, they hung a large sign from the school saying, “For Sale! Vacant Since March,” along with some of the school’s attributes, such as “2 full size gyms” and “swimming pool.” But Principal Tammy Silvernell could hardly be mad: Attached to the back of the sign was a letter from students she characterized as “the most polite pranksters ever,” according to The Daily Gazette.

“This was all in good fun,” the letter read.

“We hope to have made you laugh and miss us a little more ... thank you all for an amazing four years at GFHS!” The students also offered to remove the sign and included a phone number to call.

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The Associated Press reported that an unnamed man in Vienna, Austria, was hit with a 500 euro ($565) fine for “offending public decency” when he broke wind following an encounter with police on June 5. Authorities said that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go,’” but after behaving “provocatively and uncooperatively,” the man rose from a bench and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent. And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

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The future of Barrelhouse South looks bright in the new normal Owner Chris Clarke talks uncertainty, reopening, and more

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THROUGHOUT the pandemic, we’ve made it a point to check in with venues owners from around the city to see how they’ve been navigating the uncertainty and anxiety of being effectively shut down.

Some venues have started experimenting with shows again, especially those that have been able to open since they also serve as a restaurant.

One venue that continues to operate as a restaurant and bar, but has chosen not to start doing shows, is Barrelhouse South.

It’s an unusual time to be writing about Barrelhouse South because we typically cover the regular shows they had on their calendar (in fact, we covered their shows in virtually every issue in some way or another), but now there’s nothing. And there are no plans to book bands again for the foreseeable future.

“Barrelhouse opens at 11 a.m. every day for lunch, and we serve food all night. That classified us as a restaurant, so we were able to open at the end of April. We held off 12 for the first week or two, though, because I

didn’t want to be the first to open. I wanted to see what others were doing,” Clarke tells Connect.

“Nobody in Savannah really took the leap in the beginning, but Pooler seemed to open right away. I went out there to see what they were doing, and then thought I’d open for takeout and drinks during that first weekend in May. We just had a tremendous response. We had tons of support. Every regular we’ve ever had was there 30 minutes before we opened.”

Opening day was a complete success from an attendance perspective, and people were extremely grateful to be back in their beloved bar.

“I must’ve gotten thanked, conservatively, 50 times,” he says.

Clarke stresses that there was a “huge outpouring of support from the community,” but he didn’t approach things in a lax way. He’d already been completely educated on the guidelines and regulations in place for businesses to safely reopen, and made it a point to take every necessary precaution.

“I spent a lot of time talking to the Georgia Restaurant Association, and they told me what people in Atlanta and other cities were doing,” he says.

It wasn’t seamless, though. Clarke says it was “really challenging” to keep people apart.

“We had all the protocols and x’d out the floors like you see in Walmart, etc.,” he says. “But it was really challenging that first night.” Clarke says even Savannah police, who visited the restaurant on the first night, weren’t as familiar with the classifications that allowed them to operate as he’d been—especially given his very careful and thoughtful approach.

“I had done a lot of research, and I knew the governor had given out those 39 steps for re-opening,” he says.

After the challenging first day in terms of keeping people distanced, Clarke says he got up early and went to Home Depot to get some wood. He built physical barricades to separate people in the bar and create zones, and also put a table on the stage to further space things out.

“From that minute on, we decided we were going to seat people like a restaurant,” he says.

That learning experience proved successful, and they’ve had great luck ever since as far as getting people to abide by social distancing guidelines while still enjoying their time at Barrelhouse.

As for live music, Clarke says it’s going to be a while until he considers booking again because of the complicated logistics involved with both getting a band in the venue and getting an audience to follow guidelines.

“Even though it’s what Barrelhouse has been built on from day one, it’s not a thought right now until this is completely behind us. Because it directly encourages what we’re trying to prevent. It’s in direct contrast to what we need to do to be safe and smart,” Clarke says.

Despite some roadblocks initially, reopening Barrelhouse has been a positive experience for Clarke and his employees.

“I’ve owned bars for 10 years, and this has been some of my favorite atmosphere I’ve ever had in any of my experiences,” he says.

Is that, perhaps, because people are appreciating things like going to a restaurant and bar a lot more now? Was it something they took for granted before the pandemic?

“Absolutely,” Clarke says. “They’re appreciating it more. It’s been really positive. There’s just much more of a camaraderie than I’ve ever seen before.” CS

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Head Games have been waiting for an audience like you Foreigner tribute comes to Coach’s Corner on June 27

BY SEAN KELLY

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albums,” Edwards says. “1977, ‘78, and ‘79 were such big years for music. There was such a big stronghold for arena-type rock.

We do a lot of that stuff—we do an entire two-hour show of stuff that people remember and love.”

Edwards and Head Games singer Downey Poteat played together in a band years ago, but got together with the idea of doing a classic rock tribute.

Having Foreigner in common as an influence, they started talking and were initially concerned they wouldn’t have enough well-known material for a twohour performance. Those concerns were quickly put to rest.

“As we started pulling up their albums again and looking at their catalog, we went, ‘Oh my gosh! I forgot they had this many hit songs,’” the guitarist recalls. Since the wheels started turning and Head Games began, the band has headlined festivals and clubs everywhere from Virginia Beach to Ohio and of course all over the South.

Paying tribute to a band like Foreigner makes it easy to see just why they’ve been such a staple on rock radio for decades.

Every song is an earworm, whether you like it or not, and it’s hard not to love at least a few of the hits.

That’s part of the Foreigner legacy, at least from Edwards’ perspective as a

longtime fan and someone who plays the music for a living.

“Mick knew how to craft hooks, and when he found Lou Gramm, Lou’s voice fit what he was looking for,” he says.

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HEAD GAMES IS a tribute to the great rock and roll band Foreigner, who have so many hits that you really can’t fit any deep cuts into a normal set list no matter how hard you try.

In fact, turn on a rock radio station right now and there’s always about a 70 percent chance you’ll hear a Foreigner song playing.

Head Games knows this, and has made it their mission to spread the gospel of the band across the Southeast. In that sense, they really are jukebox heroes.

The jukebox was unplugged for a brief period, however, when the coronavirus pandemic caused the live music industry to effectively come to a complete stop.

While it’s mostly still on pause, some venues have begun to reopen and test the waters with socially distant shows. Coach’s Corner is one of those venues, and Head Games is ready to face the new normal.

“Like everybody, we had the rug pulled from underneath us, so the very last weekend of February was our last show. Our March jobs were dropped—you name it.

We had festivals cancel on us,” guitarist/ vocalist Gary Edwards tells Connect.

“The sad part is, it’s really impacted entertainers and music venues. Just like Coach’s Corner, so many of these venues and festivals rely on crowds to pay their bills.”

The upcoming Coach’s Corner gig, taking place on Sat., June 27, will be the band’s first since February. They’ve been together for quite a few years now, touring regularly up and down the East Coast playing the songs of Mick Jones and Lou Gramm.

“We’re all a little older, so we grew up with really the first big four [Foreigner]

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Review: Reptilian American’s Panzram, Pt. 1

BY SEAN KELLY

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Reptilian American - Panzram, Pt. 1 Former Savannahian A.M. Rodriguez steps forward with a new project, Reptilian American, and it’s something special.

Music and art are important during times of darkness and crisis—especially if that music is loud in spirit and sends a ferocious message. Panzram, Pt. 1 does just that, and more.

The album is Rodriguez’s first under the Reptilian American banner and is a complete shift away from the music he’s made before. This is a brutal exploration of hardcore punk that tells the story of notorious serial killer Carl Pazram. It’s an intense collection of music that is not for the faint of heart, by any means. Rodriguez manages to encompass the pure darkness and evil of Pazram’s crimes while also putting them into enough historical context to grasp just what was done and who the man was who did it. Don’t get it twisted—there

is no glorification or romanticization here, as you might see on a television show or in a movie. This is an investigation and an exploration that encompasses many layers of a very disturbing and dark moment in time.

This also has the scent of a highly political protest work in its own way, perhaps due to the fact that Rodriguez is donating 100 percent of the proceeds to organizations that support lasting criminal reform.

Rodriguez explains in a very detailed essay that the album is, in part, a commentary on the beyond-broken prison system in America, and both themes are tied together within the music.

Musically, Panzram reminds me of the great New Jersey punk band Titus Andronicus, with the vocals presented in a highly off-kilter and strained manner.

It’s a very specific way of presenting punk music, because it’s not a Keith Morrisesque hardcore punk delivery or a Henry Rollins ferocity. It’s a voice on the edge of destruction, that literally sounds like it’s in physical pain. That’s a very, very good thing for this music, though.

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There’s something brutal and honest about approaching a vocal that way, but especially when the music isn’t necessarily fast and pummeling like hardcore. It has more of a modern hardcore leaning to it, but it’s not at the level of heaviness that you’d find in a death metal band or another form of extreme music.

In fact, a song like “Torture/Agony”— which might be perceived as one of the heaviest and sonically deepest songs on the record and could technically be the closest the album gets to relating to anything extreme—is layered with guitars that aren’t just heavy for the sake of being

heavy. There are chorus-y guitars as well, and a very diverse soundscape.

Some of the songs are incredibly short, and none of them last longer than 90 seconds. But by the end you feel like you’ve heard a calculated, highly conceptualized life’s work. It feels like an hour of music, but it’s not, It’s intellectually and emotionally pummeling, and honestly a little exhausting, but those are incredibly good qualities for a record like this to have. Take “Education,” for example. It’s a challenging piece from a musical perspective, but in 17 seconds it makes itself known as a true standout. You’d be hard pressed to find another 17-second song that accomplishes that.

All-in-all, this is a challenging and really compelling work that punk fans should hear. It’s a record that is thematically heavy and not easy to listen to from a perspective of subject matter, as it takes place entirely from Panzram’s perspective. But as is the case with all good art, it makes you think, makes you uncomfortable, and most importantly makes you feel.

Panzram, Part. 1 is available at reptilianamerican.bandcamp.com

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Despite challenges, Bananas set to open season

BY JIM MOREKIS

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WITH MANY other local businesses grappling with how and when to reopen — some having to close again almost immediately due to reinfection — the Savannah Bananas deal with the same challenges.

The beloved college summer league team is set to play their season opener July 1 at Historic Grayson Stadium, the first game of a truncated season with expanded COVID-19 protocol.

But in a dilemma that’s becoming more and more common, they aren’t immune from continued coronavirus worries.

A former employee, Trevor Trout, charges that the team covered up positive tests of nearly a dozen office staff. Trout quit his job as Director of Entertainment, citing discomfort with the way he says the team handled the situation as well as with safety concerns.

The team counters that as soon as the test results were known the first week of June, the employees went into quarantine and every staff member has to get a negative test before they’re allowed near the

facilities.

“The players weren’t allowed to even show up without negative tests, and they’ve been tested numerous times since showing up,” says Bananas President Jared Orton. “All game day employees are being tested numerous times.”

Orton says the team has left no stone unturned in their effort to make the fans’ experience as safe as possible.

“Our big advantage is that we’re an open-air park. The Health Department has said that’s a big thing we’ve got going for us,” Orton says.

Orton says the team is going far beyond the often-vague state guidelines for sports events and facilities, including close cooperation with the Health Department, and some contact tracing.

As far as the fan experience in the stadium, that will obviously be different in key ways from previous seasons.

“We’re reducing capacity by 50 percent, but not reducing staff by anywhere near that much. On the ticket-taking and usher side, there is virtually no staff reduction,” Orton says.

There have been some staff reductions on the food service side, simply because of

fewer customers and even more of a move toward self-service.

Half-capacity for Grayson Stadium means about 2,000 people. The team will enforce social-distancing rules, with at least six feet between parties seated in the stands.

“We’re going to have lots of signage basically saying, here’s our role, and here’s your role,” Orton says.

What about the debate that has shaped up to be the biggest cultural touchstone of our time? Mask or No Mask?

“That was the biggest sticking point in discussions. How do you enforce it? Do you kick someone out for pulling their mask down to eat a hot dog?” muses Orton.

“Once you go down that rabbit hole and say it’s mandatory, then you become the mask police and have to enforce it no matter what. And you see how many difficult situations come up.”

In the end, the Bananas decided to basically do the same thing Whole Foods has been doing for quite awhile.

“They’re offering hand sanitizer and a complimentary mask for whoever wants one, and that’s what we’re going to do as well.”

The six-foot rule, however, is different, Orton says. “We can enforce that. We can and will make that mandatory.”

Temps will be taken before coming into the stadium.

“All fans entering Historic Grayson Stadium will have their temperature checked prior to entering. Fans who show a temperature of 100.4F or greater will be asked to rest for fifteen minutes and tested again.

Any fan who maintains a temperature of 100.4F or greater will be asked to return home and to contact a medical provider or the Department of Public Health,” says an explainer posted by the team.

Speaking of the team, what is the protocol for the players?

“The way we’re looking at it is, they’re learning new habits,” Orton says. “These guys will all have to employ some form of this protocol when they go back to their college campuses in the fall anyway.”

In this case, the new habits will involve a constant round of COVID-19 tests prior to arrival and again upon arrival in Savannah, with symptom screenings each day and a mask requirement when not actively playing or warming up.

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Originally, the COVID-shortened 2020 season for the Coastal Plain League — the league the Bananas play in, along with “rivals” like the Macon Bacon and the Gastonia Grizzlies, the latter also owned by Bananas owner Jesse Cole — was going to feature all league teams.

But while the Coastal Plain League operates outside the NCAA structure, they are affected by in-state coronavirus protocols.

With different states having different reopening rules, it became clear that the only practical way forward was a roundrobin style season down to just four teams: The Savannah Bananas, the Macon Bacon,

the Lexington County (SC) Blowfish, and the Catawba Valley (SC) Stars.

Other Coastal Plain League teams in North Carolina and Virginia opted to cancel their entire seasons due to the stricter reopening protocols in those states.

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Telfair Museums announce reopening schedule, new promotions The museum has extended a number of exhibitions impacted by the closure, including the major exhibition Collecting Impressionism: Telfair’s Modern Vision.

Earlier in the month, the Telfair announced it has added three new members to its Board of Trustees: Chuck Chewning, Lori Judge, and C.B. Richardson; and two new exofficio trustees: Patricia James and Nicole Blackwood.

Chewning has more than 30 years of experience in luxury residential, Bri Salley hospitality, and preservation interior design. He runs his own design business, Charles H Chewning Interiors, based in Atlanta, with an additional presence in Savannah.

Judge operates Judge Realty, which she opened in 2005, with a personal and professional commitment to community involvement, lifestyle, and environmental integrity. She is one of Savannah’s only

certified EcoBrokers.

Richardson is a managing director and the global chief compliance officer of banking, capital markets, and advisory, research, control group, and personal trading and outside activities for Citigroup.

James, president of the Telfair Academy Guild, worked in information technology, most recently with New York University Langone Medical Center.

Blackwood, chair of the Friends of the Owens-Thomas House, is a professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

They join a board that includes executive officers Dale Critz Jr., chairman, Swann Seiler, chair-elect, Ted Moore, treasurer, Jan Dorman, secretary, Bob Faircloth, vice chair and acting director, Josh Keller, vice chair, Tom Reilly, vice chair, Jay Neely III, legal counsel, and Ted Kleisner, immediate past chair; trustees Kelly Bouchillon, Malcolm Butler, Leda Chong, Meredith Dulany, Brent Harlander, Catherine Johnston, Ann Levett, Leslie Littlejohn, Kendall McCurry, Wilson Morris, Dave Neises, Rebecca Ogden, David Paddison, Kimberly Smith, Huguenin Thomas III, Vincent West, and Susan Willetts; honorary trustees Dale Critz Sr., Lila Critz, Richard Eckburg, Alice Jepson, Bob Jepson, Carolyn Luck McElveen, Ann Miller, Frida Moore Sinkler, Kenneth Sirlin, Cathy Solomons, and Helen Steward; and ex-officio trustees Nancy Boyd, Julia Butler, Cyreia Sandlin, and Philip Starks.

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TELFAIR Museums will reopen its three sites—the Telfair Academy, the OwensThomas House & Slave Quarters, and the Jepson Center for the Arts—beginning Friday, June 26, after being closed since midMarch due to the pandemic.

“This is a major step toward restarting the cultural and tourism industry in Southeast Georgia,” says Bob Faircloth, Telfair’s new acting director.

“Our museums have a more than $9 million annual economic impact here in Savannah, we’re the city’s largest employer and provider of programming in the cultural arts sector, and we’re excited to get back to sharing the rich and important experience of art and history with Savannah residents and tourists.”

Also, this week the Telfair announces that two employees were promoted to key positions.

Calli Laundré has been named Telfair’s new development manager. Previously, Laundré was membership program manager. She joined the museum in 2015.

Bri Salley has been named Telfair’s new marketing and communications manager.

Previously, Salley was digital communications coordinator. She joined the museum in 2019.

In addition to leading their departments, Laundré and Salley will serve on the museum’s senior leadership team and play significant roles in shaping Telfair’s vision for its three sites in downtown Savannah.

The museums have implemented a number of new health initiatives for visitors and staff, “including social distancing, regular deep cleanings, hand sanitizer, plexiglass, face masks, and reducedcontact admissions procedures,” a spokesperson says.

The Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, a National Historic Landmark, “will have family-sized tour groups and a new audio component to help ensure the safety of guests on the 200-year-old property.”

The museums, which have a single $20 admission fee, will be open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursdays-Mondays. During the initial reopening phase, they will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

To celebrate the museums’ reopening, there will be a Free Family Weekend from Friday, July 17-Sunday, July 19, with free admission to all Savannah and Chatham County residents in partnership with the City of Savannah.

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Farris with his panels for ‘Breakout!’. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TELFAIR MUSEUMS.

brown paper bags and cardboard boxes to supplement the idea. “Breakout!” ended up being that project that brought the idea to life in a larger format.

“As artists usually do, I hoard them,” Farris laughs. “I’m happy I was able to use them, get them out of my studio and my house for this project. You never know if you’re really going to do it. I’m glad I was able to use them on a large-scale artwork.”

Farris drew on his graphic style as well as his knowledge of color theory to make for the new elementary school on Broad pieces that were bold and bright.

Street—so the size of the windows wasn’t a “A lot of my work, you’ll see those very challenge for him at all. bright colors, and these works in the win“I really enjoy working larger because dows, I used more analogous colors,” says I feel more free; I can express myself a lot Farris. “By doing that, it actually makes more than working on a smaller piece,” the work seem brighter.” says Farris.

Farris’ influences include Andy Warhol, Prior to the work for “Breakout!,” Farris’ Roy Lichtenstein, and Romare Bearden, studio work was verging into the figuraand that influence is clear from the work he tive, a fairly new venture for the artist. produces. He’s an avid user of the Ben Day “The work I was doing in my studio had dots, a popular technique in comic illustraa figurative element to it, kind of a graphic tion, and they make their way to the work element, but then also talked about hisin the windows. toric things that African-Americans were Farris also collages together pieces of going through,” says Farris. found materials to create something larger.

One of those things is the brown bag “It was also influenced by people that test, which Farris learned about from his I saw in my own life, so as I collaged the grandmother. faces together, what I do is I collect differ“If your skin is lighter than a brown ent magazines and pictures, so I’ll take an paper bag, then you can pass in white soci- eye from a certain picture, then maybe a ety and you’re considered more beautinose from myself, and collage them and ful than if you’re darker,” says Farris. “It make them into an original person,” he seems to affect women more, I think, than explains. “A lot of people ask me, ‘Who men, but it does affect us all.” are the people in the pictures?’ The larger Another racist test Farris shared is the people are collages, but as you look deeper fan test, which involves blowing a fan on a into the painting, you might see a historic person’s hair. roundhouse and Broughton Street. I really “If your hair blew, then you were conwanted to pay tribute to the past, present sidered more beautiful,” Farris shares, and future of Savannah.” “and if your hair didn’t blow, you had more Dunn loves that the work has lots of Afrocentric hair, and you would not be as entry points for people to appreciate it. beautiful.”

“I think Amiri’s work is really layered Farris wanted to pay artistic homage and complex, and there are so many entry to those outdated ideals, so he collected points for it,” says Dunn. “You can enter it

Amiri Geuka Farris breaks out with Jepson Center window installation

BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

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THE WINDOWS on the Barnard Street side of the Jepson Center demand a certain kind of attention.

Nearly eight feet tall, they tower over the people on the sidewalk and can be seen from far away, occupying a commanding presence.

It’s only fitting that the current occupants of these stately windows are bright figures asking people on the sidewalks to listen and pay attention.

“With everything that’s going on, when I was working on the artwork, that’s what just kept coming into my mind: make the figures look like they’re communicating, saying, ‘Hey, we need to do this,’ and push those strong messages out there,” says artist Amiri Geuka Farris.

“Breakout!” is this year’s iteration of the Telfair’s Boxed In/Break Out project, which annually puts out a call for local artists to create a site-specific installation.

Farris was chosen for this year’s project.

Farris has plenty of experience working big—he’s done murals for the Starland Mural Project and the Savannah Chil20 dren’s Museum, as well as a 50-foot mural

from seeing that he’s using reclaimed and recycled materials and addressing global concerns of environmentalism, or you can enter it from a place of representation and diversity that he is interested in representing all people, Black and brown faces and showing that power and representation within an institution. You can enter it from a graphic beauty as well; the colors are really beautiful and he’s using these graphic forms hearkening back to other artists, as well as that historical narrative element.”

Moreover, “Breakout!” is a highly accessible piece of art that is visible and available to everyone. Dunn notes that it’s a difficult project to photograph because of the windows’ reflection, so it’s better experienced and understood if seen in person.

“This is a space for you,” says Dunn.

“I think it’s using the architecture of the Jepson Center in a nice way, too, because it’s such a space that invites the outside in through the large use of windows.”

As Farris’ “Breakout!” invites visitors to the Jepson Center’s windows, the three Telfair museums will welcome visitors back into their physical spaces on June 26.

The museums closed to the public midMarch due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the shutdown saw the sudden departure of executive director Robin Nicholson.

Now, Bob Faircloth is the acting director.

As the museum works its way back to a regular schedule, “Breakout!” will be available for everyone to see.

“I hope people would go by the museum and take a look at the works,” says Farris.

“Everyone that’s seen it says, ‘Oh, I saw the picture of it and the pictures were really cool,’ but then the actual work, they get a whole different feeling from seeing that.” CS “Breakout!” is on display on the Barnard Street side of the Jepson Center, 207 W. York St., through 2021.

CULTURE VISUAL ARTS

QUESTIONS

WITH

Tatiana Cabral Smith

“TIMES SQUARED” --A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

2. Has racism and a lack of

representation affected your practice?

INITIALLY, Tatiana Cabral Smith’s jewYeah, definitely. I’m very intentional elry class through the City of Savannah about who I use for my images. I want it was intended to be a fun remedy for her to be diverse and I want all people to be anxiety. Instead, it turned represented. I feel like I still into a lucrative business have a long way to go with and a way for Cabral Smith that, but I do that because to give back.

I didn’t always have that For about four years, experience, and I know a lot Cabral Smith has been of people didn’t either. creating the sleek, modern I just want people to look jewelry she wanted to at magazines or websites wear but couldn’t find. She and say, “Hey, she looks like donates 15% of each sale to me.” That’s really powerful.

Wachuge, Ethiopia, after a I’ve been hearing more service trip with Tapestry brands have a conversation Church inspired her. and that’s a really good start.

Born in the Bronx, It should be, “Let’s include Tatiana Cabral Smith. PHOTO Cabral Smith lived in a black vendor, let’s include

BY MELODY JOY CO. central Florida before a Latinx person.” Now moving to Savannah ten years ago. She’s of that people are being looked at through a Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, and microscope more publicly and being called she’s passionate about representation and out about things. Hopefully that’s more of making sure everyone is seen. a regular, everyday conversation.

We spoke with Cabral Smith last week.

How did you begin making jewelry?

What was it like growing up in the I took a class because I have anxiety, so I Bronx? needed a coping thing. My friend Katie was It was beautiful and community driven, like, “Hey, I take this class. Do you want to lots of different cultures and languages come?” That was four or five years ago. It all the time. I come from an immigrant was probably the best thing I’ve ever done family: my family is Dominican and for myself because I really enjoyed it and Puerto Rican. I’m just a second generation had fun. My teacher was so encouraging.

American on my mom’s side, first on my I started helping fundraise for Ethiopia dad’s. It was really important to me to with the stuff I made. I had just gotten back grow up in a community filled with other from Ethiopia. We helped fund building immigrant families. In my community I a high school in a village that didn’t have had representation, but on TV, growing up, one, so we went to help the community on that wasn’t a thing. That’s why I’m really this project. In creating my brand, 15% of passionate about that stuff. every sale goes to [Wachuge] village.

[Moving to Florida] was the biggest I like simple stuff that is made with good culture shock. I literally could not sleep materials because I have really sensitive because it was so quiet. I definitely faced skin and I wanted to find affordable more overt racism, too: people telling us, minimal, classic pieces, but I had a really “Go back to where you came from.” People hard time finding it. I’d say what I wanted, said that to my mom as a kid in New York, and my jewelry teacher was like, “You can but more so in Florida. Somebody spraymake that, I’ll teach you how to do it.” painted our house, “Go back to Mexico,” What’s your creative process? and I was like, we’re not even Mexican, they don’t even know!

It’s different all the time. Sometimes I’m I surround myself with a diverse group of friends, so I feel safe with the people I just playing around with something I have surround myself with. In the professional left over because I try to use everything I world, I definitely see some of that: it’s have. I’ve actually had a dream of a design, more indirect and systemic. and I woke up and had to make it. It just

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1 Account execs 5 Common writing 10 Melting period 14 Tabriz’s country 15 Patty and Selma’s brother-in-law 16 Saintly symbol 17 Credit for a newspaper story on a Magritte work?

19 Musk who named one of his kids X AE A-XII 20 Topics during a job interview 21 Robotic “Doctor Who” nemesis 22 Rush singer Geddy 23 City’s outer fringe 25 CXV x X 28 Nervous 31 Confirm, as a password 34 Cumulonimbus, for one 36 Carrie Fisher 6-Down 38 Device with earbuds 39 Rolling Stone co-founder Wenner 40 One of the Rat Pack 41 “Quién ___?” (“Who knows?” en español) 42 Common interest gps.

43 Mid-month Roman date 44 “Ready to do this!”

45 Lynx cousin 47 American-born queen of Jordan 49 Part of DOS or GPS 50 Positive responses 52 One of 30, for short?

54 ___ cum laude

56 Markey, Merkley, or Murkowski, e.g.

62 Bunches 63 Off-road cycling lane?

64 Drummer Krupa 65 Company that had a breakout with Breakout 66 Prefix meaning “eight” 67 Like some coffee 68 Insinuate 69 Aussie hoppers

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1 Clothing mishaps 2 French composer Satie 3 Big ___ (David Ortiz’s nickname) 4 Fishhook attachment 5 Gym class, for short 6 Thespian’s objective 7 Leave out 8 “That makes no ___!”

9 Before, palindromically 10 2011 Oscar winner for Best Picture 11 Oates’s attempt to go solo?

12 Ubiquitous lotion ingredient 13 Policy maven 18 Run, as dyes 21 Like library books, eventually 24 Inner vision?

25 Dead-end service gig, slangily 26 Mild cigar 27 Stretchy thing from the past?

29 Pleased 30 Nearly alphabetically last country 32 New Orleans sandwich, informally 33 Idyllic spots 35 Like some dryer sheets or detergent 37 “___ Excited” (Pointer Sisters song) 40 Webmaster’s concern 44 Literary twist of sorts 46 Proud ___ peacock 48 The slightest degree 51 Luxury hotel accommodations 53 Visible gas 54 “We Three Kings” kings 55 “Match Game” host Baldwin 57 Card game with no cards below seven 58 Doris Day lyric repeated after “Que” 59 Food truck fare 60 Actress Miranda 61 Greek letters that look like P’s 63 Reusable grocery item

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depends, I guess, on where I’m at mentally and what I have available to me.

I have a lot to learn. I have a really simple studio setup right now in my house, so collecting more tools that make it easier to make fun designs or to work on fun things I haven’t been able to do. But I want to learn more before I start spending money!

5. How do you style the photo shoots?

I love to collaborate with people. I have a lot of friends who are creative, so we’ll do a shoot together. I like to do art direction working on those things: guiding the image, styling the model, the clothing.

I used to have fashion shows with my

family as a kid. I’d dress my whole family and make them model. Somewhere there’s a video where my aunt is like, “This fashion show is brought to you by Tatiana Cabral!”

[Styling] just starts with the piece and whatever it’s related to. For example, my mom has natural curly hair, so I have the “Rizo” earring which means “curl” in Spanish. I wanted someone who looked

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

In addition to being a magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from prestigious Princeton University.

Later he taught at prestigious Caltech. But his approach to education had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” he advised his students. I think his strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks, which will be a favorable time to gather valuable information and polish your existing aptitudes.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune your relationship with money. In the hope of encouraging that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent and loving as you use the money you acquire.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Acker-

man asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you Cancerians now have the potential to be *exceptional* shape-shifters and magical reinventors. What new amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add to your character?

What will the Future You be like?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then complain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned? Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, because I want to encourage you not to stick your fingers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s important to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest distance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In accordance with upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.” That will open you up to the full range of miraculous phenomena that are potentially available in the coming weeks.

For inspiration, read this passage by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things.

Not only sudden great fortune wafting in on a new wind. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

When Libras become authoritative

like my mom to model the earring. I met someone who’s also Dominican and has these beautiful spiral curls, so I had her wear them and carry a basket of plantains.

It’s just embracing the vibe of whatever the piece is and trying to showcase that. CS Follow Tatiana on Instagram at @tatianacabralsmithjewelry.

BY ROB BREZSNY

beautyandtruth@freewillastrology.com

enough to wield clout in their own sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities to listen well and ask good questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents, dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favorable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity. You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

There is only one kind of erotic intimacy between consenting adults that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that is physically impossible to perform. Everything else is potentially vitalizing and holy. No one knows this better than you Scorpios.

You’re the champions of exotic pleasure; the connoisseurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curious delight and extraordinary exultation. And from an astrological perspective, the coming weeks will be a time when these aspects of your character could be especially vivid. But wait a minute. What about the pandemic? What about social-distancing? What about being cautious in seeking intimate connection? If anyone can work around these constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your tribe. Use your imagination!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

When he was 22 years old, Sagittarianborn Werner Heisenberg received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from a German university—even though he got a grade of C on his final exams. Nine years later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his pioneering work on quantum mechanics. What happened in between? One key development: He was mentored by physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also garnered Nobel Prizes. Another factor in his success was his association with other brilliant colleagues working in his field. I hope this story inspires you Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic

teachers and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The planetary omens are favorable for such an eventuality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

You Capricorns aren’t renowned for causing controversy. For the most part you’re skillful at managing your reputation and keeping it orderly. But there may soon be a departure from this norm. A bit of a hubbub could arise in regards to the impressions you’re making and the effects you’re generating. I’m reminded of Capricorn author J. D. Salinger, whose book *Catcher in the Rye* was for a time widely taught in American schools but also widely banned because of its allegedly controversial elements. These days the book is regarded as a beloved classic, and I suspect you will weather your commotion with similar panache.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Novelist Tom Robbins articulated a vision of what it means to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness.” I’m hoping you will make that formula your keynote in the coming weeks. The time is right for you to summon extra amounts of fortitude, determination, and audacity. What new possibilities are you ready to flesh out in ways that might prod you to revise your beliefs and welcome transformation and expand your awareness?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920—almost five centuries later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved.

I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine creations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honor, enhancement, or reward coming your way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it.

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