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n o i s s i n c o e p r P wea Local doctors spearhead use of targeted ‘smart drugs’ to fight cancer

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Volume 4, No. 28, April 6, 2005 On the Cover: A Summit worker with a new cancer-fighting smart drug

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Fighting cancer the smart way

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Savannah Reads With Ernest J. Gaines

2005 MAXXIS Georgia Cup Savannah Omnium

What: Author Ernest J. Gaines will present a lecture.

Members of the community are invited to read and discuss his award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying, which was written by Gaines in 1993. It tells the story of a black man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and a teacher who is persuaded to counsel him as he awaits execution. When: April 7 at 7 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Free, but tickets are required. As we went to press, AASU indicated the event is currently sold out. Call: Beth Howells at 927-5218.

What: Round Two of the MAXXIS Georgia Cup bicycle race will be hotly contested in Savannah. The Criterium course is a 1.75K route around Forsyth Park. The long 600 meter straightaways will see some of the fastest speeds of the series. There will be several racing divisions, plus a youth race for ages 10 and under at 1 p.m. When: April 9 and 10. Call: Visit www.georgiacup.com.

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Little Theatre, Inc. of Savannah Presents Death of a Salesman What: This is a production of playwright Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Death of a Salesman. When: April 7 and 9 at 8 p.m. and April 10 at 3 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $15 adults and $10 seniors and students. Call: 355-8111, Ext. 255, 429-2637 and 220-1255.

Reel Savannah Presents Bad Education What: This 2004 Spanish film by Pedro Almodovar is both a melodrama and film noir. as well as a rapturous and intimate drama starring Gael Garcia Bernal in three different roles. In Spanish with English subtitles. When: April 7 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre.

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Saturday, April 9 Sand Gnats Season-Opener with Free Sammy Kershaw Concert What: The Savannah Sand Gnats begin their season. Following the game, there will be a free concert with country star Sammy Kershaw. When: April 9 at 5:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium on Victory Drive. Call: 351-9150 for ticket information or visit www.sandgnats.com.

What: This delightful ballet tells the classic fairy tale through dance. When: April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and April 10 at 3 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: Call: 525-5050.

Sunday, April 10 Book signing for Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community What: Authors Tom Kohler and Susan Earl sign copies of their new book chronicling the life and times of Savannah’s Waddie Welcome. When: April 10, 3-5 p.m. Where: Diaspora Market Place, 510 MLK Jr. Blvd. Cost: Free.. Call: 232-2626.

Monday, April 11 SSU Annual Poetry Festival What: Savannah State University’s Department of Liberal Arts will celebration National Poetry Month with its annual poetry festival. All poets in the SSU community are invited to share through work through readings throughout the day. When: April 11 from 10 Call: Catherine a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: University Village Recreation Room. Cost: Free.C Rogers, assistant professor of English, at 303-1623 to schedule a reading time.

Tuesday, April 12 Spring Student Art Exhibit & Senior Exit Show What: A showcase of visual art by students at Savannah Arts Academy. When: April 12 from 6-7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Arts Academy Art Gallery. Cost: Free.

Election Reform Meeting What: Your help is needed to build the local and national momentum necessary to implement ”recount-friendly” voting machines with paper printouts and open-source code, which have been designed by Open Voting Consortium. These machines would replace the unverifiable touch-screen systems which caused the controversies during the 2004 presidential election. When: April 12 at 7 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Call: Contact Mark at letpeacebeginwithme@riseup.net or visit openvotingconsortium.org

Lecture by Cokie Roberts What: ABC political analyst, syndicated columnist and best-selling author Cokie Roberts will present a Gilmer Lecture on her book, Founding Mothers. When: April 12 at 7 p.m. Where: The Lucas Theatre. Cost: Free.

AASU Singers and University Chorale in Concert What: The Armstrong Atlantic State University Singers and University Chorale will perform. When: April 12 at 7:30 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: $5.

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What: Christopher Hampton’s play inspired the films Dangerous LIaisons and Cruel Intentions. Mature content, so audience discretion is advised. When: April 7-9 and 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. and April 10 at 3 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Jenkins Black Box Theater. Cost: $8. Call: 927-5381 weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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What: Some of Savannah’s most eligible people will be up for bid along with fun date packages. There also will Gaines be a silent auction with numerous items. All money is used locally to support Learning for Life, a Boy Scout subsidiary program. When: April 7 at 7 p.m. Where: Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. Cost: $10. Tickets are available at Coastal Empire Counsel, Boy Scouts of America, at 11900 Abercorn St. Call: 927-7272.

What: Join dancers from the upcoming Savannah Danse Theatre production of The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe. When: April 9 at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

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Local doctors spearhead use of targeted ‘smart drugs’ to fight cancer

AT THE AGE OF 58, John Allen is battling advanced colorectal cancer.

But Allen is by no means ready to give up hope. A new type of treatment called Erbitux is killing the cancer cells in his body.

“I went to the doctor in the last part of May,” Allen says. “I had lost my appetite and didn’t know what was wrong.”

Allen began to lose weight -- a lot of weight.

“I was down to 127 pounds, down from 175 pounds,” he says.

Diagnostic surgery was performed and the cancer was discovered. It had already metastasized, or spread, to his liver. Allen’s oncologist, Dr. Mark Taylor, says his other doctors had little hope to save his life.

The cancer was so bad that for a time, hospice care was considered rather than treatment. “They told me I had it in four places,” Allen says.

Instead, Taylor enrolled Allen in a clinical trial at Summit Cancer Care. “He’s still living, first of all,” Taylor says. “The site of the tumor has shrunk, and over time as we scan it, it has gotten even smaller and smaller. He has lived a normal life during treatment. He took a trip way across state and began taking advantage of life.”

Allen is a carpenter by trade. “I’m not able to work yet,” he says. “Going back to work depends on how I get.”

At one time, Allen would not have had a future to consider. But thanks to Erbitux and other targeted treatments with “smart” drugs, there are more care options available to patients today.

Metastatic disease isn’t considered curable, but can sometimes be brought into remission and treated as a chronic disease rather than a fatal one. “As long as it’s in remission, the patient is living with cancer instead of dying of it,” Taylor says.

Smart drugs are more precise in targeting cancer cells, meaning treatment is not just more effective, it results in fewer side effects. Some of the treatments are taken by mouth, while others are given intravenously or in conjunction with chemotherapy.

Erbitux, which is the brand name for cetuximab, makes cancer cells go haywire, blocking tumor growth. “It’s the Martha Stewart drug,” Allen says.

Erbitux was developed by ImClone System Inc., which gained notoriety when Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government in a case stemming from the sale of nearly 4,000 ImClone shares in 2001.

Although targeted treatments are not as hard on the body as standard multidisciplinary treatment (which can involve surgery, chemotherapy and radiation) there are side effects. “It affected me at first,” Allen says.

“When I took it, it made me sick.”

But those symptoms can be treated and generally don’t last beyond the first part of the treatment. Recovering from chemotherapy takes at least a year.

“Standard chemotherapy doesn’t know the difference between cancer cells and normal cells,” Taylor says. “It attacks all cells. When

Top, working with one of the drugs in a clinical trial; middle, clinical pharmacist Kenneth Jackson at work; and bottom, oncologist Dr. Mark Taylor

there are side effects, you hope the chemotherapy does more damage to the cancer than the body.”

That’s why patients on chemo lose their hair.

Their blood counts also fall, and they can develop a number of side effects, including mouth sores and stomach problems.

Different types of cancer respond to different smart drugs. “They’re engineered to specifically attack cancer cells -- Gleevec for leukemia, Herceptin for breast cancer,” Taylor says.

“They’re very disease specific. Compared to standard chemo, there are much fewer side effects.”

Most targeted treatments are available only in large cities at major medical research centers.

But patients can receive treatment locally at both Memorial Health University Medical Center and St. Joseph’s/Candler Health Systems through Summit Cancer Care.

Taylor not only is an oncologist at Summer Cancer Care, he is the local principle investigator for the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida.

“We have dozens and dozens of trials open,” Taylor says. “That’s one reason we do what we do. Patients don’t have to go all the way to Emory in Atlanta to receive treatment.”

Dr. Harvey C. Lebos also is an oncologist at Summit Cancer Care and is the local principle investigator for the Southeast Cancer Control Consortium. The consortium sponsors National Cancer Institute approved trials to bring state-ofthe-art cancer care to the community.

As a principal investigator, Lebos speaks to local community groups and meets with other medical specialists to inform them of clinical trials that are available at Summit Cancer Care.

“Our goal has always been to give our patients access to the same clinical trials that they would find at large research institutions,” Lebos says.

Summit Cancer Care was founded in 1977 as the first practice dedicated to oncology and hematology in Southeast Georgia. In addition to its Savannah office, Summit serves patients at its offices in Statesboro, Vidalia and Rincon.

Summit was a guiding force behind the establishment of the cancer programs at Memorial Health and St. Joseph’s Candler, and its six physicians continue to staff those programs.

They also go to hospitals throughout the region, including the East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro and the Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia.

Both prevention and treatment clinical research trials are conducted at Summit.

Prevention trials concentrate on patients who are predisposed to certain types of cancer, but who have not been diagnosed with cancer.

Treatment trials are for patients who have been diagnosed with cancer and currently are undergoing treatment. Trials involve both new drugs and standard drugs, which are used in a new way to evaluate their effectiveness.

Some trials are conducted to compare one treatment to another to see which works better with fewer side effects. Trials also are used to evaluate quality of life issues, including not only length of life, but whether a treatment can keep the patient disease-free longer.

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through an earlier phase that has deterreceptor -- on the surface of cancer cells. mined it is not harmful. By Phase Three, Erbitux, which is also referred to as a the drug is being tested to see if if is monoclonal antibody, has been approved more effective than current treatment. in the treatment of colon cancer and is The clinical trials that are being conbeing evaluated in trials at Summit for ducted at Summit Cancer Care are prohead and neck, pancreatic and vided through programs that are esophageal cancer treatment. extensions of the National Cancer Tarceva, an oral medication, is already Institute. “Most of these drugs are already on the market for treatment of advanced on the market, but their use is being non-small cell lung cancer. At Summit, it looked at in other diseases,” says Lynn is being given to newly diagnosed Davis, Summit’s research coordinator. patients, as well.

Herceptin, which is already on the “There’s a study for its effectiveness in market for treatment of metastatic breast treating renal cancer, but it’s on hold,” cancer, is being evaluated at Summit for Davis says. its effectiveness in adjuvant treatment of Trials of Irissa are being conducted to breast cancer. Adjuvant treatment is given see if it is effective in patients with early to women with early stage breast cancer lung cancer that has been removed by to keep the cancer from reoccurring. surgery to keep the cancer from coming “We’re looking at the advantages of back. Mylotarg is being used in the Herceptin for women whose cancer was treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

HER2 positive,” Davis says. “We’re colSome of the newer drugs being tested lecting data.” still have numbers instead of names.

Herceptin works only against breast Patients who participate in clinical cancers that make too much of the trials receive the benefit not only of the HER2/neu, or HER2, latest developments in protein. These treatment, they also cancers are called receive first-rate care “HER2 positive,” and by experts in the field. about one of every “This may be one four breast cancers is more treatment option HER2 positive. for them,” Davis says.

Gleevec also is “In certain settings, being evaluated at this is the only way Summit. “It’s marthey can get the drug. keted for chronic It’s an opportunity myeloid leukemia,” they otherwise Davis says. “We’re wouldn’t have.” looking at its effecIn some clinical tiveness is treating trials, the drugs are advanced lung free, although patients cancer,” are responsible for Trials also are medical care during being conducted to treatment. determine the effec“Many insurance tiveness of Gleevec companies have on GIST, or agreed to allow Gastrointestinal patients to participate Stromal Tumors. in clinical trials,” Summit’s meditation garden and fish pond “It’s being used Davis says. in settings where “You don’t know the disease has reoccurred,” Davis says. who will do well and who won’t,” she says.

Its effectiveness on Merkel cell car“NCI will continue to provide the drug as cinoma, in which malignant cells are long as it is needed, as long as the found on or just beneath the skin and in patient is improving.” hair follicles, also is being tested.

Patients in studies also are watched Avastin is an angiogenesis inhibitor. more closely for a longer period of time.

Cancer cells need blood in order to grow, “We have people we’ve been following 12 and angiogenesis inhibitors block years out from treatment,” Davis says. chemical signals from tumors that stim“More people have become interested ulate the growth of new blood vessels in clinical trials,” she says. “The NCI a supplying blood to tumors. couple of years ago wanted to make the Already approved for treatment of colpublic more aware of clinical trials. People orectal cancer that has spread to other are calling and looking for clinics that parparts of the body, Avastin is being evalticipate in trials.” uated in clinical trials to see if it will affect For more information on cancer and other types of cancers, including breast clinical trials, Davis recommends the cancer.

NCI’s website at www.cancer.gov or the “Avastin is on the market for colorectal toll-free number, 1-800-4-CANCER. cancer,” Davis says. “We’re looking at its In addition to the benefits to themeffectiveness in treating gastric cancer. selves, patients also benefit society by We did have an Avastin trial for lung helping advance knowledge about cancer cancer, but it’s now closed.” treatments. The current approach to Erbitux interferes in the growth of cancer management most often consists tumors by targeting a natural protein of surgery, radiation therapy and called EGFT -- epidermal growth factor chemotherapy. While these treatments

have been proven to kill cancer cells, they also harm healthy, normal cells, sometimes throughout the entire body.

Some types of smart drugs target only cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone.

Others may effect healthy cells, but not as drastically as chemotherapy, so the healthy cells recover more quickly.

Targeted therapy also offers hope to patients whose cancer keeps coming back after standard treatment. Studies have shown that smart drugs often shrink the tumors in these patients, offering them a longer time of disease-free living, and in some cases, remission.

For some patients, the results of targeted treatments have been dramatic.

“Since the development of Gleevec, there have been some patients who have been put into long-term remission,” Taylor says. “Before, the only cure was to have a bone marrow transplant.”

While the use of targeted drugs shows exciting promise, there also is good news in the fact that major advances have been made in standard treatments such as chemo to make them work better with fewer side effects.

There also are advances in treating side effects when they do occur. “One of

the biggest is that we can reverse the anemia that occurs with chemotherapy,” Taylor says. “Chemotherapy is safer because we can boost the white counts.”

Research is resulting in other promising treatments, including vaccine treatments.

“The idea behind it is to take a sample of a tumor and develop immune system cells that would be put back in the body to seek out the tumor elsewhere and attack it,” Taylor says.

So far, statistics don’t reflect that cancer survival rates have improved. But Taylor points out that it might take five to 10 years to accurately reflect the results he is seeing in his patients.

“Ten years ago, the survival rate for metastatic colon cancer was eight to 10 months, average,” Taylor says. “Now we’re pushing two to two and a half years. It may not seem like much, but you can do a lot of two years.” ◗

For more information about Summit Cancer Care, visit summitcancercare.com or call the 24hour information line at 877-HOPE-999.

Some examples of targeted treatments • Iressa (gefitinib) and Tarceva (erlotinib) are oral medications used to treat patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. They act as small molecule EGFR inhibitors, and are being studied in multiple clinical cancer trials, including breast and colorectal cancer trials.Iressa has FDA approval as a third line treatment, while Tarceva is approved for second line.

• Erbitux (cetuximab) is an antibody type of inhibitor that binds EGFR, disturbing cell cycle progression and tumor growth. It is used to treat colorectal cancer, and has shown promise in treatment of pancreatic, prostate, breast, head and neck and ovarian cancers. Currently, it is approved by the FDA for people who have progressed on campitizar.

• Herceptin (trastuzumab) targets cancer cells that make too much HER-2, a protein found on the surface of cancer cells. It is used to treat breast cancer, including metastatic disease in which the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. The FDA has limited its use to women whose breast cancer is HER positive and is metastatic.

• Avastin (bevacizumab) targets VFGF -- vascular endothelial growth factor -a signaling protein that leads to vascular growth, or the development of new blood vessels. It is used to treat advanced colorectal cancer patients, and is being used in trials for breast, pancreatic and renal cell/kidney cancer. The FDA has approved it as a first-line treatment for colon cancer.

• Velcade (bortezomib) is a proteasome inhibitor that disrupts cancer cells and prompts them to die. It is used to treat multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, and is being evaluated for its effect on prostate, colorectal and lung cancer, as well as other hematologic cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. In Georgia, Velcade is used as a third-line treatment for multiple myeloma.

• Rituxan (rituximab), Bexxar (tositumomab) and Zevalin (ibritumomab) target a protein found on the surface of normal and cancerous B-cells, and are used to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Rituxan has been approved by the FDA. • Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) targets a protein in leukemia cells, killing them.

It has been approved by the FDA to treat chronic myeloid leukemia.

• Xinlay (atrasentan) is a new, experimental drug that is awaiting FDA approval for treatment of advanced prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and does not respond to hormonal treatment. ◗

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Crumrine, wearing blue Keds, bought the property some 40 years ago -- before The Landings, before Weatherwood, before the Truman gouged through the trees, the creeks, the open land.

“It’s a high wind, isn’t it?” she said.

“When you stand here, you can hear the soughing of the pine trees.”

Soughing? I asked.

“It’s poetic. It means the wind through the pine needles,” she explained. “Looks like winter’s over.

Once the pecan trees leaf out, the cold’s past. Those trees are plagued with mistletoe. Mistletoe won’t move in on a healthy tree. They were old 40 years ago.”

Crumrine learned about nature from her father, a railroad mechanic (“but he hated it; he was a gardener. I’d go ahead of him and turn the potato vines so he could cut the weeds”). She continues to learn about nature by reading.

“But I read novels when growing up,” she said. “I’d wait for daddy to pick me up in front of the library after I got out of the 38th Street school.”

She was raised in the Ogeechee area. Every fall they’d go chinquapin hunting (“It’s kin to the chestnut, has the same burr”).

“Look at that peacock,” she said as he hopped on her picnic table. “He knows he’s beautiful. Isn’t that the most beautiful blue ever invented? He thinks my front deck is a parade ground. When he sits on the fence, his tails barely touch the ground. But I can’t stand the white feathered peacock. I’d like to lock him up so he can’t breathe.”

She got her first peacock when he wandered up from the woods. Then one Christmas, “the boys and girls who kept their horses here” bought her a hen. At one time she had 25.

Once a county sheriff complained, “Ms. Crumrine, your peacocks are stopping traffic on Ferguson Avenue.”

For the next 30 minutes, Ms. Crumrine showed me her double flowering peach trees, a variety of Indian spinach growing in her quonset hut/greenhouse with leaves bigger than my hand, the sprigs of her golden raintree that has pink seed pods and yellow blooms, the 15-year-old Valencia orange tree, her Lacy Lucy English peas, her herb garden of oregano, sage and thyme grown in the ends of drain pipes so she doesn’t have to bend down.

But then she was off to get groceries. She and her grandchildren were going to make Challah, a traditional Jewish egg bread, she read about once.

Before I could even find a peacock feather, the man-from-Bradley returned with a new and sturdy key. With several pieces of 2-by-4 under my tires, I gunned the motor and emerged from the muck.

Let the day begin. ◗

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I KNEW THE KEY TO MY TRUCK was looking a little wavy and could probably snap in two any minute. But I’ve always believed, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Mistake No. 1.

(Mistake No. 1A: If your steering wheel locks, twisting the key as hard as you can does not help.)

And another thing. Common sense says never load manure into a truck while parked in a bog of muck after the heaviest rain in a year. But life’s a gamble. It’s spring; I need the stuff. I’ve driven in snow; I know what to do.

Mistake No. 2. At least it wasn’t 6 degrees.

And because bad things happen in three’s, how could I be surprised when, after calling Bradley Lock and Key to come and get the two parts of the key to make it whole again (Hey, the man is not named Houdini Bradley for nothing), we return to my car to find both front doors locked. In their excitement, the two enclosed dogs stepped on the buttons.

One window was open slightly but not enough for my hefty arm to bend through -- or the even heftier arm of the man-from-Bradley. But like an angel from above, Twyla Royal, the trim and agreeable owner of Victory Feed and Seed, had just pulled up to feed her two horses, Velvet and Jessie, the Primarinbaby she rescued from Canada.

We opened the car, relieved the broken key could be retrieved from the ignition. Victory No. 1.

Then everyone left -- the man-fromBradley; the other woman feeding her horse, and Twyla, but not before trying three times to pull my truck.

All alone. On 20 acres of pasture, gardens, barns, chickens, piles of manure and five or six pieces of earthmoving equipment poised to work on the Truman Parkway. Before when we visited to get manure for our gardens we heard the sound of guns from the Forest City Gun Club; now it’s the sound of trucks grinding in reverse.

All alone. With two agitated dogs, one blind pony, one billy goat named Charlotte sitting on a scrap of tin, six horses, five peacocks (crying what sounds like “help, help, help, help”) and a pesky and slightly disturbing wind that wouldn’t quit.

All alone. Except for Jean Crumrine, 87, owner of the property, the stables, the pastures and one of the best gardens in town.

Crumrine appeared suddenly, squeezing through the fence, her glasses dangling from a shirt button -not around her neck (“they get in my way weeding the other way”) -- asking if I happen to see her grandchildren to say she’d gone off to get groceries.

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No crisis yet, but...

Forum discusses future of Social Security, discusses options

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the Social Security clock is running, and the sound it’s making is boom-boom-boom — the sound of the Baby Boomer generation heading toward retirement age.

Last Monday, at a forum sponsored

by Coastal Democrats, two economists and an AARP lobbyist discussed the current state of the 70-year-old federal retirement insurance program as well as projections on its fate. They also evaluated some of the proposals being discussed in Washington for slowing down that clock.

All three experts were quick to discount the Social Security situation as a crisis (a description that circulated in the media earlier this year following President Bush’s state of the union address), but all three labeled it another way.

“It is a problem but it’s not a crisis,” said Kathy Floyd, Associate State Director of Advocacy for the AARP in Georgia. AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization for people age 50 and over, with 35 million members nationally, according to their website.

“Social Security does have a problem, and the Baby Boom is the name of that problem,” said Dr. John Brown, Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern University.

At the forum, Brown’s role was to provide an overview of the existing Social Security system and its projected future if it continues operating as it does today.

Dr. Michael Reksulak, Brown’s colleague from Georgia Southern’s School of Economic Development, presented a synopsis and analysis of “The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security,” by Michael Tanner, a 2004 policy paper of the libertarian think tank The Cato Institute.

Floyd provided a critique of the Cato proposal and described AARP’s positions on Social Security reform.

In 1935, Social Security was established as what Brown called a “pay as you go” insurance program, intended to bring elderly Americans out of poverty.

“In 1935, only one third of people over 65 could support themselves,” said Brown. “Another one fifth received public assistance. The remaining 50 percent had to rely on being supported by family members or others. Prior to Social Security, the elderly were the poorest segment of the American populace.”

Since it began, the Social Security fund has run at a surplus; collecting more revenue than is being paid in benefits. The surplus is held in a “trust fund” consisting of Treasury bill investments, which generate about 6 percent interest. As the T-bills mature, they are routinely reinvested. Although the trust fund has grown modestly over the years,

the amount of the annual overage has steadily declined.

That’s where the Baby Boomers-Americans born between 1946 and 1964-come in. Brown noted that the oldest of this generation will begin retiring in five years.

As they begin to collect Social Security benefits, the number of retirees will eventually exceed the number of workers paying into the system.

Thanks to the Baby Boomers, in 2017 (give or take three years according to the panel) for the first time ever, the fund will no longer be collecting enough in taxes to pay the benefits it owes.

Dr. Reksulak, an Assistant Professor of Economics who specializes in public finance and public policy, says that the existing trust fund will allow Social Security to continue at the 2017 benefit level until approximately 2041, if you believe the Social Securities Trustees report; or until 2052, if you believe the Congressional Budget Office.

After that, most projections show that in order for the fund to continue to operate as “pay as you go” at the current benefit level, something will have to change. If nothing changes, benefits will need to be reduced.

The Cato Plan, its derivations in Washington, and the AARP reforms are all being proposed as mechanisms that will prevent the Social Security fund from going into deficit mode, i.e. the point at which Social Security fund’s expenses (benefits paid to retired workers) will exceed its revenues (taxes collected from current workers.)

In his remarks, Reksalek said that according to the Cato Institute, payroll taxes will have to increase by 18-50 percent when the trust fund is depleted, unless changes are made to the plan.

The fundamental premise of Cato’s “6.2 Percent Solution” would allow individuals a choice: continue to participate in the traditional program or opt “to divert their half (6.2 percentage points) of the payroll tax to individually owned, privately invested accounts” according to handouts by Dr. Reksulak.

The Cato plan is widely regarded as the basis for a Social Security proposal President Bush outlined in his state of the union address in February.

Said Reksulak, “There’s no such thing right now as a Bush plan” for Social Security, but noted that the Cato Institute proposal has “a lot of influence” in the current administration.

Will the 6.2 percent solution or its imitators correct the problem of the Social

Security fund exhausting its reserves and running at a deficit? Not according to this panel of experts.

None of the panelists think that allowing individuals the option of investing a portion of their contributions to Social Security into private accounts would help close the gap between the revenue line and the expense line on the Social Security graph.

“The administration has admitted that private accounts don’t solve the problem,” said Kathy Floyd, the AARP lobbyist.

The AARP has suggestions to close the funding gap. They support raising the wage base for Social Security contributions from the current maximum of $90,000 to $140,000, phased in over ten years.

When completely phased in, this strategy alone “would lower Social Security’s projected shortfall by 43 percent” according to Congressional testimony in January by AARP Vice President Douglas Holbrook.

Another AARP reform plank, diversifying the reserve, sounds like privatization at a collective instead of individual level. In his January testimony to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Holbrook recommended that some of the Social Security reserve be invested in “a broad index fund that could yield higher returns” than the 6 percent interest earned by Treasury bills.

While all three panelists agreed that the next 15 years will be a critical time for Social Security, each also cautioned against placing too much stock in projections being made for the long term.

Projected dates for the fund returning to solvency range from 2050 to infinity, according to comments by Floyd and by hand outs she supplied from the Washington Post.

“When Congress looks at a new program they look at [its cost over] a ten-year time frame,” she said. “A lot of the costs are shoved into the later years.”

Yet the Cato report identifies 2050 as the break even date” for their proposal.

“The 75-year projections are chancy.

They do not represent the truth with a capital T,” said Brown. “A whole string of factors will affect the ability of the fund to pay benefits. That projection is probably better described as science fiction rather than science.”

Brown concurred with several audience members that other federal programs vital to so many were in more pressing need of attention, especially Medicare, which he noted will be exhausted in about ten years.

“If Social Security is a hand grenade, then that’s the Hiroshima bomb waiting to go off.” ◗

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More St. Patrick’s incidents • Six men living on Ferguson Avenue told police they were having problems with another man. The suspect called them on the phone, then walked into their residence without permission and began threatening them. All six said the man told them, ”I have a cap for each of you,” ”I have all your numbers” and other similar threats. The suspect was arrested and charged with simple assault.

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• A security guard at an apartment complex on West Montgomery Cross Road heard loud voices in the parking lot. He saw a man and woman arguing inside a parked car. Before he could reach the car, the man struck the woman. A second car pulled up and a man got out and started fighting with the first man. He also started breaking the man’s car windows. Both were intoxicated. They were arrested. ◗

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• Two men were taken into custody on East River Street after they started fighting in front of a bar. One pushed a woman, causing her to fall on her back.

No one was injured. Both men were arrested.

Gwinnett and May streets. Both the driver and passenger were found in possession of open containers of alcohol.

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An upward trend in atmospheric carbon dioxide has brought the level of the greenhouse gas to a new high, according to U.S. researchers. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, regarded as one of the most reliable for climate research, measured 278 parts per million of CO2. “The most striking thing about the data is that we’ve seen an increase in carbon dioxide levels every single year since 1958,” laboratory director Dr. Pieter Tans told the BBC. While the rise slowed somewhat during the past year, the overall growth rate during the past decade has been about twice as fast as in the 1960s.

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Earthquakes Two small islands off Sumatra’s southwest coast were wrecked by a magnitude 8.7 temblor that may have killed as many as 1,000 people. A major international relief effort was launched as some scientists predicted that yet another great earthquake could occur in the same region at any time. Survivors on the islands of Nias and Simeulue were forced to battle a rash of ensuing fires by hand because firefighting equipment was destroyed by the temblor.

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Mexico’s Volcano of Fire, which straddles the border of Jalisco and Colima states, continued to spew lava while sending plumes of ash high into the atmosphere.

The ongoing eruption ignited forest fires on the mountain’s slopes but posed no danger to nearby communities.

• Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano is flowing into the ocean at five separate points on the Big Island. Vulcanologists say that the volume of lava being expelled by the mountain has increased to about three times the average since January. Rangers at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park said a large section of newly hardened lava suddenly collapsed into the ocean, causing a 100foot circle of water to boil for several hours.

Bunny Hunt Shooters from across New Zealand lined up in Central Otago over the Easter weekend to participate in an annual event to reduce the local rabbit population. More than 500 hunters competed in the 14th annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt, with $3,000 (NZ) going to those who bag the greatest number of bunnies between Friday morning and Saturday afternoon. Organizers estimated there was a record kill of 20,000 rabbits during the contest, which is said to be necessary to cull the grass-eating hoppers so fields remain lush for sheep and cattle grazing. ◗

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Homophobia in the News Defensive back Randall Gay wore a New England Patriots jersey as a member of this year’s Super Bowlwinning team, but when one of his former college professors tried to order a personalized jersey in tribute to Gay in mid-February, she was turned down. The National Football League’s official online merchandiser, NFLshop.com, refused to imprint “Gay” on the back of a Patriots jersey because it was a “naughty” word, one of 1,159 the shop has banned. (Two weeks later, after the Web site Outsports.com picked up the story, the word was removed from the list.)

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In December, Bill DiPasquale unexpectedly came out of a two-week coma at Massachusetts General Hospital, five minutes after a friend whispered him a message from their boss, who had said, “You tell him to wake up, get out of bed, and get his ass back to work.”

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Ford owns two homes, lives part-time in one with his ex-wife and their three children (with another on the way), and lives part-time in the other with an exgirlfriend and their two children. Hence, he said, he should have lesser payments to a third woman, who is the mother of his 10-year-old daughter.

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Recurring Themes The police report column in the March 16 Newton (Mass.) Tab newspaper listed a “hate crime” committed by someone who apparently left the familiar Nazi symbol on the dirty window of an SUV. The police report read: “On the rear hatch someone with their finger traced out ‘wash me’ and below that was a swatz sticker symbol.” (The officer is not the only one unclear on Nazi history.

In 1994, News of the Weird reported that a murder defendant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., had asked a judge for permission to wear a Ku Klux Klan robe in court and to be addressed by the “honorable and respected name of Hi Hitler.”)

Below the Fold Apparently important to actor Robert Blake’s acquittal on a murder charge in March was the lack of credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses, including an alleged methamphetamine abuser who once thought his house was surrounded by large, horned animals and “people dressed like sagebrush or Joshua trees.”

To testify that drug users are unreliable witnesses, the defense presented a UCLA psychopharmacologist who revealed that in the course of his own drug use 25 years ago, he had once crawled into a cage of monkeys that were smoking crack cocaine. ◗

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In 1992, News of the Weird reported that artist Janine Antoni carved huge blocks of chocolate and lard using her teeth, but at New York City’s “LMAKprojects” gallery in February, artist Emily Katrencik gnawed sections of the drywall separating the gallery’s exhibition space from the director’s office, for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. Katrencik said she concentrates on thinking of “the things in the wall that are good for me, like calcium and iron.”

But, she said, “I prefer cast concrete because it has a more metallic flavor.”

The mother of all of those recreationroom paintings of dogs playing poker is the series of nine originals by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge in 1903, sponsored by a Minnesota advertising company, and in February, two of those masterpieces were sold by the Doyle New York auction house for a total of $590,400.

Explaining the high price, Doyle’s director of paintings pointed out that the auction coincided with both New York’s Westminster Dog Show and the recent popularity of televised poker.

room. And Norwegian Arild Nicolaysen told reporters in February, after arriving at his mountain cabin for the weekend, that the in-ground swimming pool was missing (steel lining, plastic liner, filter, hoses and pipes). And in March, police in Lindale, Texas, arrested two men who they said had taken a house apart, brick by brick, board by board, over a threemonth period and sold the materials for drugs.

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Public Servants in Action: (1) New Hampshire state Rep. Christopher Doyle, 26, was arrested in March and charged with slapping elections supervisor Gail Webster, 61, to the floor on election night after learning that he had lost his race for town selectman in Windham. (2) Shirley Martin, a member of the school board in West Orange, Texas, was convicted in February of disorderly conduct for threats against colleague Beth Wheeler. At a meeting, Martin had continued speaking after her colleagues had ruled her out of order, and subsequently Martin angrily told Wheeler, “I’m going to stomp a mud hole in your ass.”

Despite state funding problems in health care and other areas, New York’s Department of Transportation completed a $3.3 million beautification project in January in which intricately decorated “flora and fauna” designs of bronze were inlaid in two 2,400-square-foot granite wall coverings whose purpose was merely to decorate an underpass below New York City’s Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. According to the New York Sun, the walls are beside an off-ramp that’s across a pedestrian-unfriendly street from a Burger King, and the site was selected primarily because it is at the intersection of the jurisdictions of three community boards (thus making possible a seemingly always-desirable joint petition for funds).

The St. Petersburg Times, profiling retired pro basketball player Matt Geiger in February, described his $13 million, 28,000-square-foot, custom-built suburban mansion (whose 40 satelliteequipped TV sets include 18 wired together so he can play video games with his high school friends) and mentioned his 27 exotic animals that roam the grounds, earning him an unspecified “tax break” (although he told the Times he loves animals and would have them anyway).

According to a February Cox News Service dispatch from Mexico City, the government nearly killed its export market for the fabled mezcal, a liquor (similar to tequila) traditionally sold with a worm floating in the bottle.

Bureaucrats had recently proposed to ban the worm because of its high fat content, even though as much as 70 percent of mezcal sales are based on the worm (with alleged sexual or hallucinatory powers), but changed their minds.

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AN UPCOMING THEATER PRO DUCTION will double as a tribute to one of America’s greatest playwrights.

The Little Theatre, Inc. of Savannah is presenting Death of a Salesman April 7, 9 and 10 at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Written by Arthur Miller in 1949, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama later that year. Miller died Feb. 10 of congestive heart failure at the age of 89. It would be easy to assume that the staging of his masterpiece is a result of his death, but director Toby Thelin says it is sheer coincidence.

“I’ve had people ask me if we planned that,” he says. “It’s kind of strange that we started rehearsals the week after it happened (Miller’s death).”

Eileen Janson is a member of the Little Theatre, Inc. board of directors.

“We had the season set last July,” she says. “We tried to create diversity in our season.

“We just finished a very successful production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Janson says.

“Death of a Salesman is a change of direction. We were auditioning people for it before Joseph was finished.”

Coming up next will be a major musical production.

“Li’l Abner will be presented the first week in August,” Janson says.

“We’ve done all our shows at the JEA, but Li’l Abner will require a larger venue.

We’ll probably do it at the Armstrong Atlantic Fine Arts Auditorium.”

Janson notes that the Little Theatre is the oldest theater company in Savannah.

“We’re in our 54th season,” she says.

Thelin is a graduate of New York University and has worked in theater in New York City and for several regional theaters. “I was working at the Manhattan Theater Club in the 1990s when Arthur Miller came out of retirement and wrote a couple of plays for the Manhattan Theater Club,” he says He wasn’t in great health at the time. I

never had the honor of having a conversation with him, but his voice and presence were always there. It was a neat experience.”

Death of a Salesman is seen as an attack on the American dream of success through economic enterprise. It centers on Willy Loman, who once was known throughout New England as a great salesman.

Over time, Willy’s life seems to have slipped out of control. His family is dysfunctional, and when Willy is fired from his sales job, he is pushed over the edge. The story is told in present day scenes that show the extent of Willy’s turmoil, and flashbacks that present clues about how his downfall began.

The production stars Philip Webber as Willy Loman; Susan Patrice as his wife, Linda Loman; Patrick Saxon as his older son, Biff Loman; and Joshua Stafford as Happy Loman, as the

younger son. The role of Willy’s former sales rival, Charley, is played by Larry Plapinger.

Others in the cast are Thomas Mokwa as Bernard, Karen Mowka as The Woman, Bonnie Terrell as Jenny, Dawn Peterson as Miss Forsythe, Kristi Snyder as Letta, Russell Jones as Ben and Brandon Lee as Howard Wagner.

In addition to directing the play, Thelin also plays Stanley.

One of the most influential plays of the 20th century, Death of a Salesman today is often required reading in high school literature classes.

“This is an opportunity to see classic American theater, a Pulitzer Prizewinning play on stage,” Thelin says. “To see if come to life in front of you can give you a greater understanding of the play. Plays were meant to be seen, not read.” ◗

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“IT WAS THAT GUY with the blue shirt, Then there are times when guests think he’s the killer!” that other audience members are actors, “No, the lady with the lace parasol, she like when an overly affectionate couple did it!” was mistaken for part of the show. North “She’s not even one of the actors!” relates one such case of mistaken identity.

Questions abound as the cast of Jack “I wasn’t always one of the actors. In North’s Murder Afloat sail off on the the beginning I was the coordinator. Every mystery theatre’s fifteenth season. The night someone would joke that one of my play is set -- literally set -- on a boat actors fell overboard, and I would laugh cruising the Savannah River, with the and think nothing of it,” North says. actors portaying anything from therapy “Well, one night an actor came up and groups to told me that members of a someone really family reunion, had fallen overanything that board, not pushes the from the boat, bounds of but from River ordinary without Street. So, we completely turned the breaking them. boat around, “I’ve seen put on the mystery theatre search light, done, and made an they’ve got the announcement corny old, rich that the show The cast of this season’s Murder Afloat widow with a fur was stopping stole and a cigafor the moment, rette holder,” says North. “It wasn’t realand picked the guy up,” he says. “Guests istic though, it was so over the top. My thought the show was still on and that he goal was to create normal characters, the was part of it! They kept coming up and everyday believable Joes.” asking questions the whole night. People Take last year’s scenario, for instance. even wrote down that he was the killer.”

The actors played tourists who thought Unlike traditional theatre with a stage they had gotten onto a casino boat. and wings where one can retire, these “An argument will start between two actors are always acting, even in the actors, and other people will think it’s just bathroom where guests sometimes follow two guests,” explains North,”and they’ll try them to make sure a scene won’t unfold. to back away, but we won’t let them, we Also, the audience is allowed to ask queskeep them involved.” tions during the play, and proper prepaThe hour and a half long cruise boards ration is needed for that. at the Hyatt on River Street and sets off “We try to cover each character’s backwith the murder having not been comground, especially a couples’,” says North. mitted yet. Typically the ice is broken “ But no matter how much we ask ourwithin fifteen minutes, with the actors selves, there’s always a question we don’t revealed, and the mystery takes hold. cover, so there’s a lot of improvisation The audience has paper and pencils to required.” take notes as scenes are played out. An Another tricky thing is that the whole announcement is made by the captain, cast occasionally must all be in the same saying that the boat is heading back so scene. “Communication really plays in at that the police can investigate the murder. this point, making sure that all of the The audience is urged to solve the case by actors are together,” says North. the time they dock.

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ONCE UPON A time, fledgling rock bands scrimped and saved to finance their own demos in the hopes that by sending those tapes (my, how times have changed) out to a blue million record executives, perhaps one would see fit to fly out to wherever they lived, sit in on a rehearsal or two, check them out in front of their hometown fans, and maybe – just maybe – offer them a deal.

But that was then and this is now.

With the industry in full-on hair-tearing mode, and more and more determined artists using the tools of the digital revolution to cheaply and easily record, master, replicate and distribute their material, such business models are steadily becoming a thing of the past.

Will Robinson knows this truism all too well. As drummer and backing vocalist for the Middle Georgia jam band Moonshine Still, he’s seen the landscape of his chosen field go through a number of transitions since the group’s current lineup finalized itself a half-decade ago.

And, while his band is far too concerned with high-fidelity to cobble together a home-made album on some inexpensive computer equipment in their practice room (as so many others are apt to do these days), he’s certainly not interested in wasting any precious time courting big labels who may (or more likely, may not) be able to do things for his band that they can’t do on their own.

To that end, he and his five hardtouring bandmates have recently tracked an extremely professional-sounding album in one of Atlanta’s most esteemed recording studios with a Grammy Awardwinning producer. That’s a major leap for any independent group – especially one with no plans to hook up with a major.

“We’re not looking for a label,” explains Robinson. “We’d rather just do it all ourselves, you know?”

Lucky for them that someone else not only understood their resolve to keep things as close to their vest as possible – but had the means to help.

“Robert Hannon actually produced and mixed the whole album,” Robinson explains. “But Paul Diaz made the whole thing happen.”

The Grammy-winning Hannon is riding a wave of notoriety and respect for his work on the international smash Speaker Boxxx/Love Below by Outkast’s André 3000 and Big Boi. Diaz is the owner of Tree Sound, one of Atlanta’s nicest and most in-demand recording complexes.

“Paul approached us and helped out on the recording costs since he owns the place, and we pay him out of our sales on the back end,” says the

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That means the group has to bust their collective ass to move as many of these babies as possible, as quickly as possible. But – given the fact that Moonshine Still play an average of 175 shows a year in venues ranging from fried chicken and pizza joints to outdoor festivals -- that’ll be a challenge, but not a serious problem.

Their ever-growing grassroots following is drawn to the band not only for their infectious grooves (which draw comparisons not only to Phish and Widespread Panic, but to fellow buzz bands like The Gamble Brothers and Savannah’s own Perpetual Groove – with whom they often share bills), but to the refreshingly unpretentious vibe that shines through in their songs.

Chalk that up to what Robinson says is a solid working relationship built on mutual trust, immense respect, a shared goal, the close bonds that come from touring (and sleeping) in a modified 1988 schoolbus. And the occasional brawl.

“Yeah... we’ve had a few fistfights,” he admits with a chuckle.

“But, usually when someone’s fighting, someone else is finding it extremely funny. (laughs) We’ve just learned to put the music first and let everything else follow. We keep ourselves in check that way. We’re pushing for an ego-less product. At least that’s my goal.”

Until that day comes, the band keeps criss-crossing the country, billing themselves as playing “Macon Georgia Music.”

And what does that mean, exactly?

“Well, to me, Georgia music is all about soul,” Robinson opines. “All this talent comes outta here. James Brown, Sam and Dave, Percy Sledge, to Little Richard and Otis Redding... I don’t know why that is. It’s a mystery to me. There’s a weight here, obviously. That’s the best way I can describe it.” ◗

Moonshine Still (with special guest Cecil “P-Nut” Daniels) plays Locos Deli & Pub on Saturday night.

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Eric Culberson Blues Band

Liquid Ginger

Young, experimental alt.rock act utilizing synths, samplers, percussion and even a saw. Sat., The Jinx.

Savannah’s bes t-known electric bluesman fronts this tight unit, drawing on songs from his two acclaimed indie CDs, plus innumerable Uptown blues standards in the style of such gunslingers as Albert Collins, Freddie King and Buddy Guy. Tues. (hosts Open Mic) - Wed., Mercury Lounge + Thurs., JJ Cagney’s

Well-liked female-fronted modern rock (think No Doubt or Avril Lavigne) whose members live in Savannah and Atlanta. Fri. - Sat., 9:30 pm, The Oyster Bar (Wilmington Island).

Argyle In-your-face alt.rock that incorporates jam-band improvisation, punk energy and reggae and dub grooves – plus exultant vocal harmonies. Sat., JJ Cagney’s.

The Back River Ramblers Regional acoustic trio of Dobby Simmons, Daryl Wise, and “Georgia Kyle” Shiver – offering country, folk and blues-inspired tunes. Thurs., 7:30 pm, Fannie’s On The Beach (Tybee) + Sat., 10 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Justin Beckler Terrific and talented Atlanta rocker, whose self-produced debut is a minor DIY masterpiece of lush and brainy indie pop, recalling everyone from Daniel Lanois to The The. Fri., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Eat Mo’ Music Funky, dance-oriented instrumental jazz quintet (trumpet, electric bass and guitar, drums, and trombone) whose members all have day jobs as music educators. Fri. Sat., Il Pasticcio.

The 8-Tracks Eclectic local cover band made up of moonlighting members of several high-profile original rock groups such as GAM, Superhorse and Hot Pink Interior. They offer rarely-heard country, rock and soul tunes from the ‘50s to the present. Fri. - Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Parking For Sparrows New jazz/funk fusion act with playing originals informed by both rock and blues. They utilize alto sax, dual guitars, piano, bass and drums. This is a benefit for the Flannery O’Connor House. With opening act The David Keller & Jackson Evans Duo. Wed., 7 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Meika Pauley Return engagement for this young songwriter and guitarist who’s often likened to Sarah McLachlan. Fri., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Bucky Pizzarelli & Howard Paul See Connect Recommends. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

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Local, raw-boned electric blues combo featuring a hardhitting rhythm section, and occasionally abetted by a mouth-harpist. Thurs., Savannah Blues + Fri. - Sat., Sundown (Hilton Head).

Beloved acoustic troubadour who’s been playing Celtic and contemporary favorites at this River Street pub for years. Sun. - Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

Thomas Claxton High-energy acoustic guitarist and singer known for larger-than-life takes on classic and modern rock covers.

Wed., 6:30 pm, Pogy’s (Richmond Hill) + Thurs., 7 pm, Bernie’s On River Street + Mon., 10 pm, Daiquiri Depot (Pooler).

Chris Cook's Pimp & Ho Ball This bawdy annual costume party has been denounced as offensive and playing to ugly stereotypes. Such an appraisal seems to ignore the fact that above and beyond all that, it’s just plain silly. Lots of honkies duded up in Huggy Bear threads patting each other on the back for being risqué, while DJ Analog Kid spins funk, disco and “nasty” dance tunes. Thurs., Fusion/The Monkey Bar.

Chuck Courtenay & Bucky Bryant One half of The Courtenay Brothers joins with his old friend (and mentor) Bryant, a mainstay on the Low Country cover scene for decades. Together, they make a powerful duo, with accomplished vocal harmonies and a good sense of dynamics. Wed., 7 pm, The Island Grill (Pt. Wentworth) + Sat., Mary’s Seafood & Steaks (Chuck solo).

Erutrevo Athens-based quintet that cites Wire, Silver Apple, Liars and Gang of Four as influences. Their twin lead guitars slightly recall the interlocking mayhem of Television, but their meandering passages and declamatory vocals reek of spacey, mid-80s art-rock. Intriguing. Sat., The Jinx.

Gods of Mars Hellacious stoner-metal band that throws down some serious Black Sabbath riffing and syncopated breakdowns (complete with overdriven guitar squeals that sound like Leslie West’s stomach grumbling. There’s also a hint of Southern twang and sly, knowing humor in their tunes that lets you know they’re serious about not being too awfully serious. Good stuff, and oh so loud. Sat., The Jinx.

High Velocity Hard-working Southern rock group made up of veteran area players, some of whom will be recognized for their time in the now-defunct Bounty Hunter. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Silver Dollar Bar & Grill (Hwy 204).

The Kickass See Connect Recommends. Fri., The Jinx.

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Real-life siblings from a musical family who boast a large and varied repertoire of laid-back country, rock and pop hits. They switch between acoustic and electric formats, and often use sequenced backing to flesh out their arrangements. Thurs., 7 pm, Tubby’s (Thunderbolt).

Local acoustic guitarist known for breathy vocals, and passionate, first-person ballads. Her set acts as a closer for the release party of local author Rigel Crockett’s new book Fair Wind and Plenty of It: A Modern-Day Tall-Ship Adventure. Wed., 8 pm, Ships Of The Sea Museum (41 MLK, Jr., Blvd.).

Psyche Origami When it comes to innovative local hip-hop and rap venues, you can forget the traditionally black-oriented clubs. While they bring in a handful of big-name artists each year for word-of-mouth concerts, they mostly stick to proven radio success stories or thugs-of-the-month. This punk and alternative rock room is increasingly becoming known as the place to catch edgy, experimental rap that’s big in the file sharing world, but virtually unknown to folks who let Savannah radio dictate their taste. This Atlanta trio (2 DJs and a mouthpiece) are blurring the line between the underground and commercial genres. They’ve opened for Talib Kweli and Nappy Roots. Tues., The Jinx.

Rock The Cure Festival See Connect Recommends. Wed., 5 pm - 9 pm, City Market Courtyard + 9 pm - until, various Downtown venues.

Gail Thurmond Light and jazzy takes on piano standards, show tunes and torch songs. Gail’s a beloved Savannah fixture who’s been playing this cozy basement lounge for over a decade.

Tues. - Sun., Planter’s Tavern (beneath The Pink House).

Too Blue Newly-reformed electric blues act featuring guitarist and singer Jeff Beasley. They recently lost a dynamic harpplaying vocalist, but gained second guitarist and singer Ray Lundy (also of Bottles & Cans). Fri. - Sat., Sundown (Hilton Head).

The Greg Williams Band Excellent original roadhouse rock, blues and soul combo boasting a powerfully talented songwriting frontman. They’re fluid enough to stretch out and jam if need be, yet still mindful of song structure.

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This new monthly event (hosted by local tunesmith and chanteuse Lauren Lapointe) aims to create a community of singer/songwriters and attract more high-quality touring artists to our Bill Justice area.

Lapointe will play a set, along with locals Jason Bible (whose faux-hoary blues and folkie shtick owes a great deal to both Dylan and Springsteen’s Guthrie fixations) and Melanie Mirande, a familiar face at Savannah Folk Music Society gatherings. This singing guitarist is said to be an acolyte of both the great Joan Baez and the even greater Pete Seeger.

Arkansas’ Bill Justice headlines. Last year, he was nominated for Singer/Songwriter of The Year by the Northwest Arkansas Music Awards (NAMA). A specialty carpenter whose work took him around the country for decades, he’s been playing music since his teens, and gained a strong following in St. Simons Island during a late-90s stint in that funky beach community. This show is open to ALL-AGES, and is free with a suggested donation for the performers.

Thurs., 7:30 pm, The Sentient Bean.

This band’s name is a classic example of truth in advertising. Just back from a successful Japanese tour, this jaw-droppingly empathetic power trio (with the emphasis on power), they’re one of the finest examples of over-the-top, highendurance instrumental prog-rock I’ve ever come across. Imagine a leaner, meaner version of mid-’70s King Crimson (on a crystal meth binge) playing a winnertakes all game of “top that!” with Primus.

That comes pretty close. Oh yeah, their debut CD is called Death Metal Is For Pussies.

Run, don’t walk to The Kickass this gig.

Fri., The Jinx.

Pizzarelli & Paul The list of big bands and vocalists with whom Bucky Pizzarelli has performed and recorded reads like a veritable “who's who” of jazz. A towering presence in the studio and on the touring circuit since the 1950’s, many know him through his extended stint as a member of Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show Orchestra.

A phenomenal electric rhythm guitarist who plays a custom-made 7-string model (allowing him to play a bass line to his own solos), he’s worked with Benny Goodman, led his own trio and cut duos

with Zoot Sims and Stephane Grappelli – as well as earning respect as a solid classical guitarist along the way.

For this rare supper club engagement, he’ll be joined by Howard Paul, who’s one of the finest jazz guitarists in our part of the country. He plays a 7-string instrument as well, and regularly accompanies A-list players such as Bucky and Jimmy Bruno. This should be a wonderful display of virtuosity. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

Rock The Cure Festival Last week’s cover story explained the impetus behind Rock The Cure 2005, but in case you missed it – this ambitious effort finds 7 different Downtown venues (all within easy walking distance of City Market) joining forces to raise money for the American Diabetes Association.

The idea is simple – after 4 hours of free, ALL-AGES entertainment in City Market’s Courtyard, the party heads into the clubs, where – for the unbelievably low cost of only $5, one can purchase a wristband providing unlimited access to all the nightspots for that night. Each club has a wide variety of local and regional artists scheduled, with all door proceeds (as well as a small portion of drink sales) going to the ADA. A complete listing of participating acts and advance ticket outlets can be found at www.rockthecure.com, but here are a few of the more notable gigs to consider:

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Savannah Blues features 2 of their favorite blues and R & B-oriented bands, locals The Hitmen (led by guitarist Brett “Hitman” Bernard) and Athens’ hardhitting jam act, The Park Bench Trio.

Finnegan’s Wake (formerly known as O’Connell’s Irish Pub) welcomes Atlanta’s popular retro rockabilly combo Cigar Store Indians, and a solo set of gritty Americana by native son Dodd Ferrelle.

Ibiza Nightlife is Passafire offering 2 local tribute bands – one celeRed Head) and the brating Led Zeppelin (R Monkey Man), other The Rolling Stones (M plus original modern rockers Hazel Virtue.

JJ Cagney’s on River Street has a double whammy of Argyle and Phantom Wingo (formerly The No Exit Band), while their kindred spirits at Locos showcase the organic hip-hop of Passafire and PGroove frontman Brock Butler.

Finally, The Jinx holds down the alt.rock fort with a triple bill of The 8Tracks, Hot Pink Interior and Savannah’s All-star garage band Superhorse, in their first gig since playing in the St. Pat’s Parade. Let’s make this one a smashing success!

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Capitol Years, The High Strung Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta Backstreet Boys - Earthlink Live, Atlanta Garbage, The Dead 60’s - Tabernacle, Atlanta Tiger! Tiger!, The Kills, Scout Niblett The EARL, Atlanta The Derek Trucks Band - Georgia Theatre, Athens Little River Band - Centre Stage @ The Plex, North Charleston Blackfoot - Heritage Motorcycle Rally, North Charleston Honestly, Pause For Effect, Stroke 9 Headliners @ Banana Joe’s, Columbia Edwin McCain Band, David Ryan Harris The Cinema, Orangeburg, SC Jerry Seinfeld - Township Auditorium, Columbia Gov’t Mule, The John Popper Project, DJ Logic - Grady Cole Center, Charlotte ◗

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Tony Furtado - Atlanta Room @ Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta Sean Costello - Blind Willie’s, Atlanta Kaki King, Leslie Helpert - Red Light Café, Atlanta The Carbonas, The Booze, The Bamboo Kids - The EARL, Atlanta Iron & Wine, Horses - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Dark Star Orchestra - Georgia Theatre, Athens “Champions On Ice” - Augusta-Rich.

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The Close, Horses - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta “ V i r g i n C o l l e g e M e g a T o u r ” w/Cake, Gomez, Robbers On High Street, Vonyse - Emory University, Atlanta Moby, Buck 65 - Tabernacle, Atlanta OK Go, Second Shift, The Californias - The EARL, Atlanta Blue Merle, Glen Phillips (of Toad The Wet Sprocket) Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Amy Ray - 40 Watt Club, Athens Wynton Marsalis University Of South Carolina, Aiken, SC “m tvU Campus Invasion” w/Muse, Razorlight Halton Arena, Charlotte Southern Culture On The Skids - Jack Rabbits, Jacksonville OK Go - Jack Rabbits, Jacksonville

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Frontiers - A Tribute To Journey Andrews Upstairs, Atlanta Blueground Undergrass, Vassar Clements - Dogwood Festival, Atlanta Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas - Fox Theatre, Atlanta Reckless Kelly, Jim Bianco, Hayes Carll Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta Lenny Kravitz, Nikka Costa - Tabernacle, Atlanta Chevelle - The Ritz, Atlanta Black Oak Arkansas (Jim Dandy) Heritage Festival, Charleston Tift Merritt - Music Farm, Charleston John Prine - North Charleston Performing Arts Center Tishamingo - The Windjammer, Isle of Palms, SC Jordan Knight - The Last Call, Augusta Aaron Tippin - Clay County Fair, Green Cove Springs, FL “mtvU Campus Invasion” w/Muse, Razorlight - Freebird Live, Jacksonville Southern Culture On The Skids - Market Street Pub, Gainesville, FL

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'A Group Show by Select Female Artists' -- Work by Juliana Peloso, Monica Cook, Susan Laney, Stacie Albano, Tatiana Veneruso, Mary Ann Blackstone, Vessela Valtcheva through April 27 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception: Thursday April 7, 6-8 p.m.

‘Entelechy’ -- SCAD presents this exhibition featuring work by students in the interactive design and game development department, through April 22, in Byte Café in Montgomery Hall, 3515 Montgomery St. Reception Thursday, April 7, 5–7 p.m.

‘Emily Bucy's Super Awesome Amazing Printmaking Expedition’ -- Runs April 814 at Desotorow Gallery between Bull and Whitaker on 41st Street. Reception Friday, April 8 from 7-9 p.m.

‘Perception & Reflection’ -Featuring the works of Savannah artists Grace Rohland, Ron Schaffer & Jerry Luke. April 8-May 27 at Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 West Henry Street.

Reception April 8, 6-8 p.m.

SCAD Open Studio Night -- Saturday, April 9, 5-8 p.m., at Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St. Exhibition of varied work as well as a chance to view students at work in their studios. Free and open to the public.

Drain launch party -- www.drainmag.com will launch of its fourth issue, “Lost In Translation.” To coincide with this, there will be a corresponding exhibition of international video, ‘t(here)’ at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday April 9 at Current Space, 220 West Lower Factor’s Walk.

‘A Fine Dividing Line: Folk Art, Fine Art’ -- A double at the Hurn includes “Purvis Young: A 30 Year Retrospective” and “Ricardo Manuel Diaz: Reality Out of Grayness.” The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art is at 1015 Whitaker St.

the work of international students, now through April 15 at La Galerie Bleue in Montgomery Hall, 3515 Montgomery St. Women’s History Month Exhibit -- Show at the Sentient Bean through April 10.

‘Scenes of Savannah: Works in Oil and Watercolor by Muriel Bono -- New works feature scenes of historic and coastal Savannah and Gallery 209 Artists of the Work by Vessela Valtcheva is in Lowcountry. At the Month -a group show at Gallery Alvida Art Gallery on Espresso Abercorn one block Bluffton painter Lynda Potter south of Eisenhower in and Tybee Island potter Jane Upchurch Centre.

Freyermuth are featured at Gallery 209, 209 E. River St. throughout Rebecca Kahrs Willis -- Hospice April.

Savannah showcases new paintings by Kevin Starr -- 11 large photos based in this acclaimed watercolorist through April 30 at the Hospice Savannah Art fashion and narrative interpretations, at Gallery, at Hospice House, 1352 the Sapphire Grill near City Market Eisenhower Drive. ◗ through May 30.

‘On the Bias’ -- Show “seeks to subvert fiber art stereotypes.” Through April 30 at Starland Center of Contemporary Art, 2428 Bull St.

‘Far From Home’ -- SCAD presents the ninth annual juried exhibition featuring

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MSNBC, Fox Sports and The Discovery Channel, is available to some customers of Sprint PCS and Cingular Wireless.

This has generated mixed feelings among analysts and consumers, who are impressed by live TV on a phone but find that the technology has a way to go with its sometimes jerky, low-resolution images.

“I think as a replacement for broadcast TV we’re a long way away,” said Kris Rinne, chief technology officer of Cingular Wireless. She said video on phones has many business applications, such as for real estate and insurance agents who need to send or receive video in the field.

While fledgling video services grabbed the spotlight, for new phone handsets “it’s all about music right now,” said Avi Greengart, who researches mobile devices for Current Analysis. He said the popularity of Apple’s iPod has made digital music players a technology consumers will accept in a phone.

These “cellular music decks” from several manufacturers focus on more than just musical ring tones, said Eddie Tapiero, an analyst with Strategy Analytics. Some current handsets use flash memory cards, but future devices will have hard drives that can store hundreds or thousands of songs downloaded from a computer or over the new higher-speed cellular networks.

Wireless carriers prefer the latter option, he said, since transferring songs to a phone from a PC circumvents their networks and the potential to profit from the downloads.

Tapiero also said that the cost of many smart phones, which incorporate PDA features including e-mail, is dropping to about $150, a more reasonable price for most consumers.

MapQuest, a division of AOL, announced new traffic and GPS location features for some carriers using its mobile service. Full-fledged GPS navigation with a cellular handset typically requires an external GPS device that links to a phone through a wired or wireless connection.

Eventually better screens, faster networks and more powerful handsets with built-in GPS will mean phone navigation will be everywhere, said Austin Klahn, MapQuest’s chief technology officer.

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IT’S A CELL PHONE. No, wait, it’s an MP3 player and a multi-megapixel camera. Maybe it’s a navigation system or a Web-surfing, game-playing TV that fits in a pocket. It’s all true with the latest wireless phones displayed at the recent CTIA Wireless 2005, the industry’s annual convention.

Across a vast show floor spanning more than 15 football fields, wireless carriers and technology firms were talking about more than talking.

“The mobile lifestyle is having access to my applications, my data, my content when I am not connected to my PC,” said Himesh Bhise, general manager of America Online’s mobile division.

The number of U.S. wireless service subscribers grew 13.7 percent last year to more than 180 million. While about 86 percent of those subscribers used their phones only for voice calls, that’s changing as carriers offer more services and faster networks, said Kirk Parsons, analyst with J.D. Power and Associates.

“Two years ago the idea of taking a picture with your phone was novel,” Parsons said. “Now it’s pretty common.”

Sharing and printing those pictures was a big theme at the show, which had a dedicated “wireless imaging pavilion” and several corporate announcements.

AOL, the online unit of Time Warner Inc., the world’s biggest media company, rolled out a service that lets people send pictures to cell phones using instant messaging and receive photos in return.

Imaging giant Eastman Kodak Co., whose chief executive gave a keynote address, demonstrated a cell phone cradle for one of its photo printers, which typically connects directly to a Kodak camera.

The biggest buzz is about handset video made possible by a new generation of higher-speed networks.

Verizon announced a new series of “mobisodes,” one-minute video clips made for cell phones, based on “The Simple Life: Interns” TV series.

Downloading the clips costs $1 each plus the $15 monthly subscription to the company’s V Cast video service.

MobiTV, which provides streams of live TV broadcasts to cell phones, cut a deal with Major League Baseball to send video of games to handsets. The service, which already offers channels including

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that they should hunt for sensible business investments instead. What neither boy knows is that the loot is actually stolen, and that the thief (Christopher Fulford) is determined to recover it at all costs. Forget the tepid Robots: Parents who actually care about quality entertainment should take their kids to see this instead.

The problem with Woody Allen these days isn’t that he’s run out of ideas; the problem is that he’s running out of ways in which to frame these ideas in compelling contexts. Melinda and Melinda starts with a typically inspired concept: Two playwrights (Wallace Shawn and When director Larry Pine) Robert Rodriguez discussing first decided to whether life is bring the graphic inherently novels by Frank tragic or Miller to the big comic both screen, he chose to hear an lift many of the anecdote images and accominvolving a panying dialogue young woman exactly as they Melinda and Melinda named appeared on the page, Melinda. The with scarcely any changes in the angles playwright who specializes in tragedies or lighting that defined these individual envisions the story as a downer in which panels. By remaining so faithful to Melinda is a distraught, suicidal woman Miller’s vision, Rodriguez has bridged who’s perpetually on the receiving end the gap between cinema and comics of life’s hard knocks, while the playmore explicitly than any filmmaker before wright known for comedies views it as a him, in essence leveling the playing field sparkling tale in which Melinda’s an and not allowing fans of either medium endearing free spirit involved in frothy to establish a foothold of superiority. In romantic entanglements. The plastic fact, Rodriguez felt that Miller’s contribububble that surrounds Woody Allen tions were so important to the finished movies is still as firm as ever: His stories motion picture, he insisted the artist continue to take place in a hermetically receive a co-directing credit — and then sealed New York in which money is no resigned from the Directors Guild of object and everyone talks like a America when the organization wouldn’t philosopher, and that’s part of their conallow it. In the manner of Quentin tinuing appeal. But his instincts clearly Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, the movie is a aren’t as sharp as before, since the circuitous affair in which the disparate comic half isn’t especially funny and the storylines — all taking place in Basin City tragic half isn’t especially heartbreaking.

(Sin City for short) — occasionally overlap Overall, the movie’s a pleasant piffle, but and characters in one vignette might it’s the dual performance by Radha appear briefly in another segment. “The Mitchell (as both Melindas) rather than Hard Goodbye” finds a misshapen Allen’s script that distinguishes it. As the Mickey Rourke cast as Marv, a homely Allen surrogate, Will Ferrell isn’t bad, thug who’s determined to locate the man benefiting from the screenplay’s few who killed his “angel,” a beautiful blonde zingers. hooker named Goldie (Jaime King). “The

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Perhaps Danny Boyle, the director of such hard-R fare as Trainspotting and the zombie flick 28 Days Later, wanted to prove that he’s as adept as anyone else at making a film the whole family can enjoy, and so he took it upon himself to crank up the volume on the picture’s more fanciful aspects. Yet to his credit — as well as that of screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (24 Hour Party People) — Millions is always careful to maintain its balance between reality and fantasy.

Seven-year-old Damian (Alex Etel), still coping with the death of his mother, receives regular visits from history’s honored saints (Francis, Peter, etc.), so when a bag of cash lands in his lap, he figures it came straight from God and he should dole it out to the poor. But his older brother Anthony (Lewis McGibbon) has a firmer grasp on the advantages of wealth and tries to convince his sibling

Big Fat Kill” finds Closer’s Oscar nominee Clive Owen playing Dwight, a taciturn ex-con who decides to help an army of prostitutes cover up the murder of an abusive cop (Benicio Del Toro).

And “That Yellow Bastard” centers on the attempts of an honest cop named Hartigan (Bruce Willis) to keep a young stripper named Nancy (Jessica Alba) out of the clutches of a serial rapist and murderer (Nick Stahl) who’s supposedly untouchable because he’s the son of Sin City’s most powerful politician (Powers Boothe). I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the amount of violence exhibited in Sin City. The gore quotient is over the top, and had the movie been shot in color, it most likely would have received an NC17 rating. The glee with which Rodriguez films the sadism may be off-putting, but the joy with which he pays tribute to both the comic form and film noir is positively infectious.

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Visually, the film is yet another triumph for computer programmers, as their blood, sweat and bytes have enabled them to create a wondrous landscape that’s a joy to behold. But whenever any of the metallic characters that populate this world open their mouths, it’s like listening to rusty bolts across a chalkboard.

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Yet one more lazy sequel to a great film, Be Cool is a major disappointment that fails to capture the essence of what made Get Shorty such a memorable experience. In adapting the Elmore Leonard novel, director Barry Sonenfeld and scripter Scott Frank knew that the key to success rested in the capable hands of John Travolta, whose work as shylock-turned-movie-producer Chili Palmer remains a career best. Travolta owned that picture, yet he received more than adequate support from Sonenfeld’s playful direction, Frank’s characterdriven screenplay and a stellar supporting cast that included Danny DeVito.

Alas, F. Gary Gray (the tepid remake of The Italian Job) is no Sonenfeld, Peter Steinfeld (Analyze That) is no Frank, and a promising cast is largely left to flounder in the middle of a movie that never provides a compelling argument for its own existence. ◗

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Director Stanley Kramer’s 1967 Christmas release Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner cast Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as a liberal couple whose values are put to the test when their daughter (Katherine Houghton) announces that she intends to marry a black doctor (Sidney Poitier). The new Guess Who is actually an improvement over its fauxclassic predecessor: It’s funnier, more relaxed and better paced. Applying role reversal to the original template, Guess Who stars Bernie Mac as Percy Jones, a bank loan officer who’s on the verge of throwing a 25th wedding anniversary party with his wife Marilyn (Judith Scott) when he learns that his lovely daughter Theresa (Zoe Saldana) is coming home with her new boyfriend in tow. As Percy states at one point, he’s expecting his child to bring home a Denzel Washington; instead, she drags in some punk’d white boy named Simon Green (Ashton Kutcher). For all its attention to the racial divide, Guess Who isn’t as interested in being the new Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as it is in taking its place as the next Meet the Parents.

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The original Ring (itself a remake of the popular Japanese flick Ringu) established that the only way the demonic girl Samara could work her evil on the world was through the playing of the aforementioned videotape. In this sequel, reporter Rachel Keller (returning star Naomi Watts) destroys the object at the outset, so scripter Ehren Kruger decided that he might as well make up new rules as he scribbled along, thus rendering this sequel not only illogical but inconsequential as well.

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The 2000 box office hit Miss Congeniality, in which a sting operation forced unkempt FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) to pose as an beauty pageant contestant, wasn’t much of a movie, but at least it benefited from the presence of unflappable Michael Caine, who stole the show as the fashion consultant hired to transform Gracie from a tomboy into a glamour queen. But Caine isn’t around for this follow-up, and his presence is sorely missed — unless you think Regis Philbin is a worthy substitute (I don’t). Miss Congeniality 2 is a textbook example of formula filmmaking at its most dim-witted level. When Gracie’s superior (Ernie Hudson) comments that Gracie will be the most famous celebrity in Vegas, we use the half-second pause that follows to predict that the punchline will involve Wayne Newton. Voila: “Unless Wayne Newton’s in town!” Equally witless are the characters, starting with the offensive inclusion of a gay stylist named Joel (Diedrich Bader). Joel is the typical homosexual caricature found in bad mainstream movies, a swishy guy who tingles at the thought of getting zapped in the genitals by a taser gun and who’s equally excited at the suggestion of being sent to prison so he can get anally raped on a regular basis. Reliable Regina King (last seen as one of Ray Charles’ conquests in Ray) does what she can with the role of the mad black woman (this one sans diary) who becomes Gracie’s partner, while the fine actor Treat Williams, more often than not illused by Hollywood, is wasted in the role of a humorless FBI chief.

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Shopping lists I JUDGE WINE LISTS HARSHLY. Most of the time there are too many chardonnays, not enough Rieslings, few stellar inexpensive wines by the glass, no descriptions, and not much passion in the selections. No list is perfect, but getting around the fluff is an art.

Beware the "house wine." Often, this is fancy-named rotgut making a scandalous profit for the restaurant. To avoid the trap, get the goods: if the house wine equals "chardonnay," ask what brand and assess from there.

Buy smart. When the whole table wants wine, consider the value of a bottle instead of several individual glasses. Finding a wine that complements each entree may be daunting, but if you can’t, who cares? Drink what you like — happiness will follow.

Assess the organization. Is the list organized by region? By varietal? By weight? "Weighted" lists are also called "progressive," meaning the wines are ranked from lightest to heaviest in flavor.

A good comparison is milk: skim is light, two percent is medium, and four percent is heaviest. Think of how each type of milk feels in your mouth and you'll understand what "weight" means with wine.

Weighted lists normally feature descriptions as well, so their usefulness is tenfold. Listing only the wine names begs the question: "How the hell do I know what that wine tastes like?"

Region-based wine lists are the most difficult to navigate, because they require knowledge of what grape grows where. This is especially annoying when restaurants list "Bordeaux" or "Burgundy" — most people don’t know these are merlot/cabernet blends and pinot noirs/chardonnays, respectively, but if these wines were listed under the weighted system, consumers could make more informed decisions.

Same for varietal organization, although people are becoming more educated about different grapes’ tastes and styles.

Don't shy away from the lowestpriced offerings. There's a psychology associated with listing the cheaper wines first. The restaurateur expects you won't

How to make the most of a restaurant wine list order the least expensive for fear of looking cheap, and counts on your choice of the third or fourth selection.

It's a game‌ don't play.

The wine is normally already marked up 300 percent, so if you like the cheapest wine, then do some reverse psychology and save the bucks.

When flustered, seek help. If your server is a clueless plate carrier, ask the manager or owner for advice. More than likely, these enthusiastic individuals see the value in helping you.

Don't be shy about asking questions like "I'm having chicken parmigiana, what should I drink with that?" or "My price range is $30 to $40, what can you recommend in the chardonnay area?" or "I'm not a fan of cabernet, but I like a big wine, is there something on the wine list like that?"

If there's no help in sight, or if the atmosphere is so intimidating your palms start to sweat, go for equal weight with your food. If the food is light in flavor, then choose a light-bodied wine (for instance, sauvignon blanc with fish), and the opposite for heavier dishes (heavier syrah with spicy red meat).

Keep in mind that sparkling wine goes with practically everything. And if there's no brand you recognize, just order a grape type that you normally enjoy and explore. â——

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Activism & Politics Amnesty International

Chatham County Democratic Committee

Coastal Democrats

Fellowship of Reconciliation The oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Food Not Bombs Feed the hungry and the homeless Sundays at noon in Franklin Square as part of a worldwide effort to encourage kindness in the place of violence. Cooking starts around 10 a.m. at The Blue House, 410 W. Duffy St. To volunteer, call 233-4461.

Foster Grandparent Program Earth Day The Foster Grandparents Program of EOA is celebrating Earth Day by saving empty printer cartridges and used cell phones from disposal in landfills across the country.

Used cartridges and cell phones can be refurbished for reuse. Drop off cartridges and cell phones at 618 W. Anderson St. For more information, call Debbie W. Walker at 238-2960, Ext. 126.

League of Women Voters The Savannah-Chatham chapter meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. The league is a statewide, non-partisan, non-profit, multi-issue organization that encourages citizen participation in government and takes action on public policy issues. membership is open to any citizen at least 18 years old.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County Whatever happened to your Liberty?

Regular weekly meetings are held Mondays at 9 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 7804 Abercorn in Oglethorpe Mall. Call 3083934 or visit www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

A chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. Call Jolee at 925-2710 or Dianna at 898-1080.

Savannah Peace Coalition

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Savannah Republican Club Meets every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Call 927-7170.

Sierra Club Regular meetings held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the illegality of the war in Iraq. Contact Richard DiPirro at 441-7167 for more information.

Auditions Lowcountry Ensemble Company is looking for actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, poets and those who want to be. The Lowcountry Ensemble Company is in the process of creating, developing and maintaining a company of actors. For information, call 220-1014 or send e-mail to negroensemble@comcast.net.

SCAD 24 Hour Plays Call for Participants Ghlei, SCAD’s student theater organization, will produce an evening of 24 Hour Plays on Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. at the Mondanaro Theatre, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. In the course of 24 hours, plays will be written produced, designed, acted and directed.

The production is free and open to the public, and theater practitioners in all fields are being sought to create the event.

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will meet Monday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Ave. Rep. Tom Bordeaux will be the guest speaker.

The public is invited. For information, call Maxine Harris at 352-0470.

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meets on the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. For information, call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 234-5969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www.chathamdems.org.

Come join us for a free-flowing discussion of spiritual, political and social issues on Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St., on the corner of Lincoln and Gwinnett, next to Kroger. During the 1960s and 70s, rap sessions (times when people got together and discussed what was on theri minds) were going on at college campuses all over the U.S. Has today’s generation become totally leveled or do we have something to say? Don’t let your human voice be silenced.

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Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday, directors and stage managers must be available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday and actors must be available 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday. To sign up, send e-mail to ghlei@scad.edu with your desired position in the subject line.

Actors must be able to provide a headshot and resume by April 9 at 8 p.m.

Call for Entries Chatham County Chamber seeks musicians The Chatham County Chamber Group is seeking classically trained musicians. Call 234-0949 or send e-mail to oboefish@yahoo.com.

Benefits & Fundraisers Civic Services Benefit for Janice Gantt

St. Pius Offers Free Tax Filing

Janice Gantt of Remax Savannah is facing her fourth recurrence of cancer. There will be a fund raiser April 8 and 9 at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church with an entertaining show and silent auction. Funds raised will assist Janice with a chance to go to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute in New York. For tickets or items to donate for the auction, call 844-4204 or 233-4351.

The St. Pius Family Resource Center at 705 E. Anderson St. will prepare income tax forms 1040 EZ and 1040 A for a family whose household income is $40,000 or less.

All forms will be sent electronically to the IRS. Bring W2 forms, social security cards and picture ID. Forms will be prepared April 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Boston Butt Sale Boston Butts and barbecue lunches by Gerald’s Chuckwagon will be on sale Friday, April 8 beginning at 10 a.m. outside the Red & White in Habersham Village. Whole butts are $20, lunches are $7, which includes 2 sides and a roll. All proceeds will benefit the American Diabetes Association. Pre-order by calling 961-3253. There will be music, prizes and you can meet ”the pig” mascot for the Kiss a Pig campaign.

Benefits & Fundraisers 7th Annual Tybee Island Sea Kayak Race The Tybee Island Marine Science Center is seeking sponsors for the race, which will be held Saturday, May 7 at AJ’s Dockside on the Back River. Funds raised will go to the marine science center. There are two levels of sponsorship. For $100, individuals, families or businesses will be recognized on the t-shirt and plaque. A donation of $500 will allow businesses to participate in the Race Across the River. For information, call Debbie at 786-5910.

Notre Dame Club Golf Tournament On April 8, the Notre Dame Club of Savannah will sponsor a golf tournament for the benefit of St. Mary’s Home. All proceeds will go to St. Mary’s Home through the Summer Service Project. Lunch, golf, carts and prizes will be included in the entry fee of $75 per player or $300 for a team of 4.

Call Leo Story at 691-2772 or John Powers at 484-3023.

Paddling for Healthy Hearts Tour This fundraiser was begun by members of the Savannah/Chatham County Southeast Affiliate of the American Heart Association to raise funds and awareness. It is based on long-distance sea-kayak trips along the Atlantic coast. To follow the progress or make a donation, visit www.heartpaddle.org. r 713-8778.

St. Frances Cabrini Catholic School at 11500 Middleground Rd. will holds it Spring Festival and Crafts Sale on Saturday, April 23 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For crafters, space and table rental is $30. Space only is $25. Call 925-6249 by April 11 to reserve a space.

White Elephant Yard Sale to benefit the Wildwood United Methodist Church Special Projects Fund will be held Saturday, April 9 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 4912 Garrard Ave., east of the south end of Chatham Parkway.

Classes & Workshops 2005 Cultural Arts Touring Theatre iprovides children’s theater to share literary classics through live stage performances by appointment through May 6. For the first, time, workshops also will be available at the black box theater at Cultural Affairs, 9 W. Henry St. A study guide is provided including wide-ranging pre-show and postperformance activities. The production is appropriate for grades K through 8.

Maximum group size is limited to 200 students. The cost is $2 per child with a minimum of $200 per performance. For information or reservations, call Lawrence or Regina at 651-6782.

AARP 55 Alive This two-day, four-hours each day class focuses on refreshing driving skills, reviews the rules of the road and identifies areas where changes take place as we age. The cost is $10 per person. Upon completion, most insurance carriers may deduct up to 10 percent on certain parts of an insurance policy for a period of three years. Classes will be held April 13 and 14 from 6-10 p.m. at Generation One. Call 350-7587.

Adult Art Classes are held at The Art School on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Beginners are welcome. For information, call Lind Hollingworth at The Art School, 921-1151.

Adult Education The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers in collaboration with Royce Learning Centers and Hope House of Savannah offers tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711 or stop by the center at 1601 Drayton St. to register.

Adult Figure Studio is held every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at The Art School, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroads, No. B-2. A variety of models and extended poses are available to artists who would like to pursue figure work. The cost is divided among participants, averaging $50 per 5 weeks. Call 921-1151 for more information.

Adults Back to College The Office of Adult Academic Services at Armstrong Atlantic State University will host an ABC (Adults Back to College) information session on April 2 from 10 a.m. to noon in Room 227 of AASU’s Victor Hall.

The session is for prospective studetns who are interested in earning a college degree.

Call 961-3163.

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Baby sign classes Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents.

Communicate with your baby before you knew it was possible. Classes are offered in four-week sessions every month. Times vary.

The cost is $50, which includes materials.

To register, call 355-4601.

tance. Each rider is equipped with a TGB 49.5cc scooter and helmet. The class is three hours in length, consisting of classroom, field and on-road instruction.

Classes meet on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or Sundays from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $40. To register, call 232-5513 or visit Coastal Scooters at 418 W. Broughton St.

Computer Classes Basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Works offered at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Bull and 31st streets.

Classes meet for two hours, one day a week

for six weeks. Cost is $20 for the session and $20 for the text book. Pre-registration is required. Call 355-0219.

Creativity Workshops Workshops for people who wish to live more creatively in their personal and professional lives are being offered at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. Artists Way is a 12-week program that will begin on Tuesday, April 19. Morning classes are 10 a.m. to noon or evening classes from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The cost is $250, which includes art materials,, a journal

and snacks. Walking in this World, a 12week class that will begin Wednesay, April 20 from 4:30-6:30 p.m., costs $250, which includes art materials, journal and snacks.

Call 236-3660.

Drawing Inspiration From the Masters Free drawing classes for teens, adults and seniors are offered by the Savannah Art Association through a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Leisure Services Bureau. Classes are held

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Babysitters training class St. Joseph’s/Candler Childhood Injury Prevention Program offers a class for boys and girls 11-15 who want to become babysitters. The cost is $35, which includes lunch and a training manual, plus certification on completion of the class.

Registration and pre-payment are required.

819-8583.

Basic computer class

Beginners quilting classes

Boating Course

Building a Home The UBuildIt office in Savannah invites you to attend a free seminar to help you learn more about building your very own dream house. Call 236-1211.

Career Achievement Program St. Mary’s Community Center, an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, is offering a program to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants learn through a computer software program, small group and individual tutoring and study books. Participants can choose their hours between Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Chatham County Aquatic Center offers swimming lessons for all ages.

Classes are held Mondays and Wednesdays for ages 3 to 5 and 6 to 8. Adults and ages 9 to 12 meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. A variety of times are offered. Call 351-6556.

Coastal Carolina Writers Retreat will be held May 20-22 at Palm Key, S.C. Authors, editors, agents and publicists are scheduled to appear. The fees is $175.

Space is limited to 100 attendees. For information, contact Vicky Hunnings at 843-6815332 or islanderv@aol.com; or Dawn Josephson at 843-785-3770 or dawn@cameopublications.com.

Coastal Scooters Classes Coastal Scooters is conducting classes that focus on road skills, safety and the proper maintenance of scooters. Classes are limited in size to provide personal assis-

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Tybee Light Power Squadron will conduct its Boat Smart Course on April 9 and 16. This class teaches participants how to safely operate a boat, seamanship, state and federal reguations, and much more. The class will be held at the Memorial Hospital Medical Center Education Room A, 4700 Waters Ave. beginning at 9 a.m. Graduates qualify for discounts with most boat insurance companies. Cost is $30 for one or two family members. Pre-registration is required. Call 351-4148.

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are held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. Register by calling 447--5711 or stop by the center.

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Saturdays through October from 9 a.m. to noon at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s’ Fine Arts Hall. This program offers a solid foundational art education to members of the community at no cost. For information, call 897-5612 or 598-8217.

givers, health care professionals and those with other neurological or cognitive disorders. Call 965-0455 or visit www.lowcountryhd.com.

Memorial Health positive parenting class The cost is $10 per person and is most beneficial to parents of children less than 4 years. To register, call 350-9335.

Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. is offering several classes and workshops.

The list includes sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

Mindful meditation classes will be held on Mondays from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and on Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. at the Integrated Behavioral Center, 1121 Cornell Ave. The cost is $10 per session. Call 3554987.

The Economic Opportunity Authority is offering free computer classes for beginners in Computer Basics Level One plus the study guide program software for the Georgia High School Graduation Test.

Call Gloria Ferguson at 238-2960, Ext. 153.

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This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. To find out how you can help, call 819-6910.

Free Coaching Session and Assessment Free session for personal, career and professional development. Call Executive Leadership Coaching, 443-9860, or send email to Vicki@excellentcoach.com.

Free computer classes St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605 for times, days and registration information.

Space is limited.

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is a four-week education course offered by Memorial Health and designed for the family expecting twins, triplets or more. Call Barbara at 350-3129 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

Parent and Teen Driving Course The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driver’s course the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Day School, 4625 Waters Ave. Call 651-6653 or send e-mail to ccamire@savannahga.gov and request a registration form. The course is designed for 14-16 year olds and their parents. Advance registration is required.

Parenting the preschooler is a course offered by Telfair Women’s Hospital at Candler. Call at 819-3368 or visit www.sjchs.org.

is a Wisdom & Gathering Session that will be held April 12 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. To make a reservation, call 447-6605.

Pottery Classes will begin April 26 at The Dragonfly Studio.

Call 786-4731 or send e-mail to dragonflytybee@aol.com.

Savannah Art Association Life Drawing

The Live Oak Public Library offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

Lowcountry Huntington’s Disease Group will sponsor a program on Estate Planning and Special Needs Trusts on April 26 at 6 p.m. at Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. in the Heart &Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Speakers will be Brian Orr, an investment expert; Mike Kemp, a banking expert; and attorney Russ Simpson. The three will discuss financial considerations that are of interest to individuals and families who are dealing with a disability. The discussion will include wills, estates and special trusts to insure the disabled person will be financially cared for in a situation where the primary caregiver is no longer able to do so. The progran is free and open to Huntington’s Disease families and care-

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

Classes include microscope labs, squid dissection, guided beach walks and tours of the Science Center. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium presents outreach programs that are interactive, with live animals, costumes and fun activities. Contact Stephanie Edgecombe at 598-2335 for reservations. "Turtle Tales" is a 60-minute outreach program that combines science and art for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. Call Edith Schmidt at 598-2447.

Clubs & Organizations AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club On Thursdays, the club sponsors role playing with Dungeons and Dragons, Modern D29, Witchcraft, magic the gathering and other role playing games. Anyone interested in playing is free to join. The club meets at 7:30 p.m. at the AASU Compass Point Club House. For information, call Antonio at 713-1470 or at Catscandance2@aol.com.

ABATE (American Bikers Active Toward Education) District 11 meets the 2nd Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Silver Dollar Saloon on Hwy. 204 and Old River Rd. Please call for more info. 233-9800.

Alternative Video/Film Enthusiastst Join others who enjoy alternative movies.

Viewings will be held in private homes which includes social time as well as viewing a movie. Call Don at 655-0482 or send e-mail to savdeca@aol.com.

Drawing sessions will be held the first three Tuesdays of every month from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Savannah Art Association (located in City Market upstairs over Belford's). The model is clothed. Bring your own drawing supplies. $10 per session for members.

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meets monthly on the third Thursday at 6 p.m. Call 605-4471 for details.

at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes.

Ten Star All Star Basketball Camp Applications are now being evaluated for this summer camp that is by invitation only.

Boys and girls ages 10 to 19 are eligible to apply. Past participants have included Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Grant Hill and more. Players from 50 states and 17 foreign countries attended the 2004 camp. For a free brochure, call 704-3730873.

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is part of a regional and global church network. The group meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at 12 Drake Dr. Call Frank Spencer at 352-2323 or visit the Web site at www.bannerofthenations.com.

Beach Historic Neighborhood Association Bipolar Support Group John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a biopolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m.

Bridge club meets at the JEA 1511 Abercorn, ACBL certified duplicate bridge game every Wednesday at 1 p.m.

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Chihuahua Meetup of Savannah

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A special little club for special little dogs and their owners meets the first Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. For information, visit http://chihuahua.meetup.com/65/

For those interested in gaining confidence in public speaking. Meets Tuesday evenings, 7pm at 6206 Waters Ave, Rivers Edge Retirement Community. 355-5450

Civil Air Patrol

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is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road, immediately behind Sitel Corp. and Signature Flight Support. For information, check the web site at www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

Learn how to play the game that will soon replace Chess as the intellectual strategy game par excellence., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Books-A-Million on Abercorn. Call Greg at 232-7549.

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

Objectivist Society of Savannah

sponsors a bicycle ride every Saturday. Visit www.cbtc.org for a ride schedule and more information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubby’s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. Visitors are welcome. 728-5989.

Coastal Georgia Volkswagen Club

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Friends of Oatland

Friends of the Library meet the first Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Bull Street Library. Call 652-3655.

Georgia Christian Singles Memberships start at $25 and remain active until marriage. See website or call for local chapters. 1-800-869-2500.

Gold Wing Road Riders Association promotes education, safety and fun to motorcycle riders. Call Julian at 920-2700 or John at 858-5414 or visit chaptere2.tripod.com.

Goth Night Savannah A place to connect with fellow individuals who are interested in the music and art of the Gothic subcultures. We welcome musicians, bands, DJs, filmmakers, performance troupes, writers, clothiers, artists and artisans. Visit www.Goth-NightSavannah.com.

Harley Owners Group HOG meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Perkins Restaurant, I-95 & Hwy 204. Call 925-5349.

Historic Savannah Chapter of the ABWA will hold its monthly meeting April 14 at 6 p.m. at The Exchange on Waters. The focus will be on plans for the upcoming women’s conference. Cost is the price of the meal.

Call 233-2838.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association holds its board meetings on the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. between Park Avenue and Duffy Street.

These meetings are open to the public. For information, call 236-8546.

at 2202 Norwood Ave. sponsors bingo every Tuesday and Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.

There is a $700 jackpot. is a group dedicated to the philosophy of Ayn Rand meets biweekly at the Lion’s Den Lounge. Call Brian at 234-2484 or ww.savannahobjectivists.org.

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Oglethorpe Business & Professional Women’s Club meets for lunch the second Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3619 or visit www.obpw.org.

Philo Cafe Philosophical sessions taking on a different topic each time at Barnes & Noble every Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Call 659-2930 or 443-9267.

Postage stamp meeting and auction The Savannah Stamp Club meeting and stamp auction is held the second Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Grace United Methodist Church, 6412 Waters Ave. Call 354-8870.

Progressive Guys’ Discussion Group An opportunity for men to discuss books, music, film and cultural issues in an intellectually stimulating and non-judgmental environment. Meets the third Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffee House.

231-8841.

Reiki Share If you are a reiki practitioner, join us to share its healing energies with others. Meets the first Monday of the month from 7-9 p.m. at Moondance Center. 236-9003. www.moondancecenter.com.

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Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at Media Play at 11701 Abercorn and the third Tuesday at, 7920 Abercorn St., at 7 p.m. Call 692-0382, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

Salon for Women Seeking Change ”How untidy my shell has become! Blurred with moss, knobby with barnacles, its shape is hardly recognizable any more. Surely, it had a shape once. It has a shape still in my mind. What is the shape of my life?” -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh. If these words resonate with you and you are a woman of ”a certain age” on her own, join us for lively discussion, laughter and fun. Call 236-8581.

Savannah Art Association s currently accepting applications for membership in our historic organization. We offer affordable art workshops, social activities and a chance for you to display your art in a downtown gallery. Drop by the gallery at 309 W. St. Julian St. above Belford’s in City Market or call 356-0249. The association will conduct a photo safari on March 26 at 3

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Board of Directors meets every third Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; general membership meeting follows at 7 p.m. at the Oatland Island Educational Center. Call Serena Nasworthy at 897-3060.

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The Savannah Brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; League Meets the first Wednesday of every month at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. 447-0943. For more details, call 447-0943 or visit our web site at http://www.savannahcommunity.com/so/SBL.

Savannah Chapter of the Sons of Italy The Order of the Sons of Italy is forming a lodge in Savannah. This is the oldest and largest national organization that celebrates Italian/American hertiage for men and women. Call Dennis Piasio at 1-888-6742937.

Savannah Chess Club meets Monday at Books-A-Million from 7 to 11 p.m. Bring your chess sets. Call 631-0338 or send e-mail to geocities/savannahchessclub.com.

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Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States has a dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club, Hunter Army Airfield. The Navy League is a non-profit civilian organization that supports the men and women of our sea services and educates the public about the importance of sea power. For information, call John Findeis at 748-7020.

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Savannah Express Network Chapter of American Business Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association meets the first Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Golf Club on East President Street. RSVP to Laura McLaren at 236-6750, Ext. 14, or 898-9362.

Savannah Fencing Club offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $30. All equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencingclub@hotmail.com.

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Savannah Ghost and Mystic Meetup Meeting once a month inside a haunted historic house, this is a townhall for psychics, metaphysicians, tarot readers, mediums, remote viewers, pagans, Wiccans, vampyres

and those interested in ghosts and parapsychology. Free to join. For information, visit http://www,ghosts.meetup.com/18/ or send e-mail to sscott191@comcast.net.

Savannah Italian Club is dedicated to discussing and preserving the heritage of Italians and ItalianAmericans. Meetings are the first Tuesday at 2717 Livingston Ave. Call Melissa Sanso at 441-0030.

Savannah Lions Club meets the second and fourth Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Savannah Golf Club. For information, call 355-6033.

Savannah Macintosh Users Group (SMUG) Group for Macintosh computer and software users meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. See www.savannahmug.org.

Savannah Newcomers Club is open to all residents who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. The club hosts a monthly luncheon and program on the third Wednesday of each month at various area restaurants. In addition, the Newcomers sponsor tours, activities and events to help new residents in the area learn about their community and provide a forum in which to make new friendships. If you are interested in attending a luncheon or would like more information, call 3513171.

Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Society is dedicated to the preservation of the canal and its natural and historical features.

Dinner meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Restaurant, 65 W. Fairmont Ave. Volunteer Saturdays are the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Savannah-Ogeechee Museum & Nature Center at 681 Fort Argyle Rd. (Highway 204) 2.3 miles west of Interstate 95. 748-8068.

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Tybee Beautification Association

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meets the second Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

With the exception of the June and December meetings, the association meets at the Tybee Community Center.

Adult Beginning Ballet, Mondays at 10 a.m.

Stretch/placement Thursdays at 6 p.m. 5501 Abercorn St. Call 691-2900.

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meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the old Tybee school All interested, please attend or send e-mail to ried793@netscape.com.

Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. The club will celebrate its 17th birthday on Saturday, April 16 at the Elks Lodge on Wilshire Blvd. The Band of Oz will be the featured entertainment. Hors d’oeuvres will be served from 7-8 p.m. The band starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 for members and $25 for nonmembers. Call 927-9439.

are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for 8 sessions. 819-6463.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary club meets every Thursday from 7:30-8:30 am at the First City Club in downtown Savannah.

233-1600.

Savannah Toastmasters ihelps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment. Give speeches, evaluate and lead meetings on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 352-1935.

The Sign-ative bridges the gap between the deaf, hard-ofhearing and hearing communities. Call 9650077 or send e-mail to thesignative@deafcafe.com.

Single People in Christian Education (SPICE)

is a civic organization catering to youth and community service projects that meets every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Restaurant. Call Linda Lee at 695-7733.

An exchange of ideas, thoughts and opinions on spiritual topics the last Friday from 7-8:30 p.m. in Moondance Center. 2369003 or www.moondancecenter.com.

Subbuteo Table Soccer meets monthly for tournaments and practice matches. Visit www.savannahsubbuteo.com.

Telfair Academy Guild Jim Battin, Telfair’s Director of Development and Marketing, and Harry DeLorme, Senior Curator of Education, will guide TAG members on a walking tour of the new Jepson Center on Monday, April 11 at 3:30 p.m. For information, call 598-7447.

Women In Need Of Wine and Spirits is sponsoring a Holiday Open House for women who love to socialize. The group meets once a month at a different restaurant or bar. Call 220-1117.

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free swing dance lessons are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered the third and fourth Mondays. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

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Dance Adult Ballet Classes at Islands Dance Academy. All levels welcome, including beginners. Challenging, rewarding and fun. $10 per class. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 115 Charlotte Rd. on Whitemarsh Island. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Ballroom Dance Party will be held Saturday, April 16 at the Islands Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. This is the USA Dance Club’s ”Bring a Friend” membership drive. Basic lesson starts at 7 p.m. and the social dance is from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for non-members. Beginners and singles are welcome. Refreshments provided. Call Lora Wong at 925-7416.

Belly Dance Classes will be held Wednesday nights with beginners from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and advanced beginners from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoons with beginners from 2-3 p.m. and advanced from 3-5 p.m. Small classes, lots of individual attention, mirrored studio on East 53rd St. Cost is $10 per class. Call Layla at 354-5808.

meeets the first two Mondays of the month from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. A new swing dance club is forming. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or www.shagbeachbop.com.

Youth Dance Program The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes.

Call 233-1951.

Fitness A balanced life Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com.

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Integral Arts Center at 301 E. 38th St. offers Yoga, Pilates and Ayurveda classes seven days a week.

Private lessons are available. Sunrise Flow Yoga is offered Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 a..m. Iyengar Novice is Monday at 5:25 p.m. All Level is Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m., Wednesday from noon to 1:15 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Iyengar Level I and II is Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m. and Sunday from 4-5:30 p.m. Restorative Yoga is Friday from 6-7:30 p.m. Yogalates is Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Mat PIlates is Monday at 6:30 p.m. The Klein Technique is Friday at 10:30 a.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. An Ayurveda class with Haeyoung Grace Kandl will be offered April 21 from 6-8 p.m. The class is free for returning students and costs $18 for new students. Private sessions are available. Call Darlene at 447-9642.

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Yoga/Pilates/personal training are available from Bobbie Kraft, 238-1785, e-mail address bwill01@bellsouth.net. Eight classes of yoga/Pilates is $80, four classes is $45 or drop-ins are $12 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

Personal training is $50 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

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is a program at Portman’s Music for people who were musicians as kids, but went on to pursue other types of careers. The cost is $95, which includes two hours of instruction each week for four weeks. The latest gear will be provided. Call 354-1500.

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This group is interdenominational and there are no dues or fees. The group discusses education and plans and hosts social events and functions for singles throughout each month. Meets Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church, Room 22.

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Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

Tai Chi Classes

Classes are offered Saturdays from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Drop-in rate is $10 adults and $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome.

Call Jeff at 352-7057 or send e-mail to jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com

are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30 or eight sessions are $50. Call 819-6463.

The Jewish Education Alliance

The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393.

will offer the following health and fitness classes: Yoga- Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Friday’s for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am.

Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 355-8111.

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Ladies Living Smart fitness club provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

Lose Weight like Marc Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Pre-register by calling 8196463.

Water aerobics at the JEA Yoga The City of Savannah, Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department, offers a yoga class on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Center, 414 Briarcliff Circle. The fee is $10 per month for ages 14 and over. Call 921-2105 or 651-3650.

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Flight to Europe Wine Dinner at Massetti’s

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Massetti’s Real Italian Restaurant will hold a wine dinner on April 14 that will encompass wines and foods from five different countries -- France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany. Stan Ray, owner of the Savannah Wine Shop, will be the guest speaker. For reservations, call 232-0092.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

First City Network Community Center and Library

is the local chapter of Georgia's largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

Girls eat and socialize. Meets the 3rd Saturday of each month. 236-CITY.

Lesbian Therapy Group Share your thoughts, feelings and concerns in a safe, confidential environment that is facilitated by a licensed therapist the second and fourth Friday at 7 p.m. Spaces are limited. Call 352-2611.

Savannah Gay Business Guild meets the second Tuesday at 7 p.m. to offer a networking service of gay and gay friendly businesses, organizations and individuals.

For information, contact Kevyn Withers at kevyn@kevynwithers.com.

Hatha Flow Level I Thursday from 10-11:30 a.m. and Friday 6-7:30 p.m., Hatha Flow Level II Tuesday 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday 56:30 p.m., Open Flow Monday from 6:30-8 p.m., Power Yoga Saturday 9-10 a.m. and Thursday 6:30-7:30 p.m., Mommy and Me Yora on Monday 4-5 p.m. and Wednesday 46 p.m. and Baby and Mommy Yoga -- call for the schedule. 115 Charlotte Rd., Whitemarsh Center. Drop-ins $12 or $75 for eight classes Call 898-0361.

The FCN Community Center & Library is open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visitors are welcome to check out gay/lesbian books and obtain information on “Gay Savannah” businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

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offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

Call 236-2489 or send e-mail to bwooten@comcast.net.

Yogalates Classes

is First City’s gay youth support group.

Meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the FCN Headquarters, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor.

Call 657-1966.

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meets Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at AMF Victory Lanes, 2055 E. Victory Dr. 354-5710.

is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 3522611.

are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions.

Call 819-6463.

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Gay AA Meeting meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 233-4255.

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An organization of GLBT Democrats promoting gay-friendly policies within the local Democratic party and working to elect gayfriendly Democrats to public office. Call 2399545.

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Health Cancer Prevention is the title of a Wisdom & Gathering Session that will be held April 7 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. To make a reservation, call 447-6605.

Community HealthCare Center provides free health care for those patients who live in Chatham County, are under 65, who do not have primary medical coverage, and who do not exceed certain financial thresholds. The Center is located at 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451.

Dual Recovery Anonymous This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@netscape.com for information.

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Mammograms St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Mammograms will be performed April 11 and 25 at Candler Hospital. Call 819-6800 for an appointment.

Mammograms will be performed April 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Long County Health Department at Ludowici. Call 912545-2107 for an appointment.

are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 3507587.

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A Union Mission Inc. program that provides HIV/AIDS education and outreach through the use of free workshops, seminars and peer education. Free needleless testing is provided. Services are free to churches, clubs and shelters. Contact DaVena Jordan at 231-0123 or send e-mail to djordan@unionmission.org.

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The Midwife Group/Family Health & Birth Center is offering a free program to women at any stage of pregnancy that includes free information on pregnancy, birth and parenting, an opportunity to talk to other pregnant women and informaiton on a certified nurse midwife-assisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital. Call 8264155.

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Information, education, encouragement and support are available free of charge to all women who are interested in breastfeeding through monthly meetings and over the tele-

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is held once a month at FitnessOne. The appointment takes about 40 minutes and the cost is $50. Call Midge at 350-4042.

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Researchers at the University of Iowa combined 600 studies covering 72,000 people and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. For more info, call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

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Pain treatment, cellulite reduction, long established business. Specials for women or couples. Gift certificates available. Call 8561534.

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are conducted at three locations within St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

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Call the LLL of Savannah Help Line at 8979261. All series meetings are held in the Candler Professional Building, 5354 Reynolds St, Room 508A.

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Readings & Signings Hannah Savannah’s Favorite Tales The third edition to The Hannah Savannah Series for Children by Pamela Munson Steadman is now available in bookstores and gift shops. The author will be signing books at various places around Savannah

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Hannah Savannah book signing Local author Pamela Munson Steadman will appear at Charlotte’s Corner at Liberty and Bull streets in downtown Savannah on April 9 at 12:30 p.m. to sign her latest children’s book, Hannah Savannah’s Favorite Tales.

This is the third book in the children’s series. A hurricane is due to hit Savannah and Hannah and family are very much into telling their favorite stories while the electricity is out. Come by and meet Clip and Clop, the talking shoes from Amsterdam.

Did you know the elephant once had a very pug nose? The author is a professional storyteller, and has lived and told her tales in four states, as well as in England and Singapore.

The Islands book group

Inspirational book club

Lunch bunch book group

Wesley Community Centers offers weekly book discussions of life situations and complexities every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at 1601 Drayton St. All women and teen-aged girls are invited to attend. Stop by the center or call 447-5711.

An open book discussion the fourth Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

Participants can talk about any book.

discusses thought-provoking literature with a different theme monthly the second Monday at 7 p.m. at the Islands Branch Library, 125 Wilmington Island Rd. 897-6233.

Moondance Center Book Club Explore and discuss a new spiritually based book each month the third Monday of the month from 7-8 p.m. in Moondance Center.

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Saturn in Cancer squares1 Thereus@ conjunct2 Venus in Aries conjunct2 the New Aries Moon/Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2005. A dutiful approach to streamlining immense complexity has now led to the end of a project whose focus has caused tunnel vision amongst those who have participated in it. Therefore, those anticipating relief & praise for a job well-done will endure shock at the panic of individuals intent

on pushing through their agenda, in total, as fast as impossible. What such policy makers must explain to such adrenaline addicts will not assuage anybody’s stress, “This is only a proposal & a plan – the implementation is likely to take at least three years.” Real world!

LEO - Undeclared enemies are in big

the political sentiments of vulgar underachievers in your local area. Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon denote that you already know how complex societal problems now create difficult obstacles as you prepare to educate children, to acquire property & to enjoy a better, more wholesome life.

Don’t complicate these worries by exposing the innocent to ignorant rabble.

trouble. Under the current influence of Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon, they now desperately try to impel you into overreacting so that you undermine yourself legally. Anticipate others’ craven perfidy so that you will not be caught unaware.

SCORPIO - In E.L. Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate, Abbadabba Berman, the brains behind an early 20th century New York City bookie operation, used knowledge of numerology to tilt the results so as to favor the book. Now that associates have rigged up a similar scheme, Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon encourage you to recall the violent end that Berman suffered to discourage you from “easy money.” Honor only the honest dollar.

AQUARIUS - A complex, unwieldy presentation is preferable to a terse, breezy one under the current influence of Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon.

Interrogators committed to “dumbing down” that which requires intelligence will now question you aggressively & stupidly.

Put yourself in a position where you can assert, “It is difficult to explain rocket science to a pit bull.”

GEMINI - Most likely, the aggressive maneuvers against you by your enemies have not been approved by their bosses.

Therefore, Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon implore you not to panic. Enemies hope to manipulate your darkest fears in order to induce you to make a false move. Ignore them – simply follow the program. Keep a cool head.

CANCER - You are scared not so much

VIRGO - A notorious local public incident involving aggressive young men now impels distraught local women to take direct political action. However, Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon suggest that more can be accomplished by exerting greater control over the family within the home & amongst neighbors locally – particularly in the suburbs, where teenagers rely upon cars for their freedom.

LIBRA - Although your legal strategy to uproot corruption in the workplace is very

@ Thereus, a centaur planet that traverses the orbit of Saturn, was discovered in August 2001 & named in June 2003. Thereus was a centaur who hunted bears which, upon capture, he carried home alive.

1 A Square is a disharmonious 90 degree aspect between or amongst planets transiting signs of like modality (modalities being Cardinal – Aries, Cancer, Libra,

SAGITTARIUS - Women & children in your family who challenge your authority get themselves into big trouble under the current influence of Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon if they disobey your rules involving alcohol, sex, smoking or allowing strangers into your home. Therefore, be ready to catch them in the act so that no lasting damage occurs.

PISCES - If you are intent on upsetting your bosses’ apple cart at work under the current influence of Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon, then you can easily do so. However, all the apples may not only fall directly on top of you, but some apples may also be thrown directly at you – precisely because everybody already knew, despite your best efforts, which side you chose right from the very beginning. ◗

Capricorn; Fixed – Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius; & Mutable – Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces).

2 A Conjunction is a harmonious aspect wherein two or more planets meet as they transit the same sign.

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divorce, business lawsuit or contest to a will, then Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon advise you strongly to watch what you say. Under pressure, you sometimes tend to act like you’re in a situation comedy; such misbehavior can be damning. Don’t speak & act flippantly – consequences can be dark & irrevocable.

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because your bosses’ unreasonable demands instill fear in you but because you yourself are now prone to fear. For that reason, Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon remind you that your plans, through complex & fragile, are under your control; how people try to manipulate your emotions is beyond your control. Therefore, stick to your plans.

CAPRICORN - If you are involved in a

involving education, travel & business expansion, Saturn, Thereus, Venus & the New Aries Moon demand that you put your initiative firmly under the rule of unperturbed emotional peace at home.

You are already hyperactive; don’t exacerbate this propensity by stirring up dark, volatile emotions amongst your family.

ARIES - To achieve long-term goals

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Sales/ Service MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Madison River Communications Hinesville, Georgia Company that acquires and operates local telephone companies in the Southeast and Midwest seeks Marketing and Communications Coordinator.

Responsible for media placement and management; production management of all marketing pieces including print ads, brochures, retail center advertising, direct mail, outdoor, radio spots and others: writing and publishing customer communications in various forms including news releases, customer letters and newsletters, broadcast email, and bill messages. Some travel may be required. Requires bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations or related field and minimum five years experience in marketing communications. Requires excellent oral and written communications skills, attention to detail, and superior project management skills.

Design experience and skills also a strong plus.

Must demonstrate passion for excellence in all work. Competitive wages, a bonus program, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and life insurance plus 401-K profit sharing. Qualified candidates please mail, fax or email resume and salary requirements by April 15: Nicole Landon PO Box 585 Hinesville, GA 31310 or landonn@madisonriver.net

Madison River Communications Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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Two very loving and perfectly behaved Lab mixes.

They grew up together and are great with kids and other pets. They mind all commands. 6 and 7 years old. Prefer to be adopted together.

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Miscellaneous Items For Sale

Drum Set Drum set, must see! 3tone "glitter" Ludwig 4 piece. Great Sound! $550.Call Jay @ 308.0156

BEDROOM SET Cherr y & chrome, 5 piece set. All NEW. Still in boxes. Sacrifice. $550. Call 912-966-9937

$130 Queen Mattress and box spring set. NEW in plastic. 912964-1494

Complete Bedroom Set Gorgeous Sleigh bed with dresser and mirror.

Chest and nightstand.

Brand NEW, Still in boxes. Retail $2,000. Must Go at $850. Can Deliver.

912-313-2303

PILLOW TOP MATTRESS A Brand NEW deluxe queen mattress and box spring set with warranty. Sill NEW in original factory bag. Sell $150.

912-965-9652

MATTRESS Full size plush set with box spring, new in plastic. Sell, $120.

Can deliver.

Call 912-964-1494.

FURNITURE Elegant hand-carved cherry 4 poster bedroom set. Dresser w/tri view mirror, chest and nightstand, All wood, NEW. Still in boxes. List $4500. Sacrifice $1500.

Can deliver.

912-966-9937

9 PIECE DINING ROOM Still NEW in original boxes. List $5k, Selling for $1000. Can deliver.

912-964-1494

SLEIGH BED Cherry-Solid-headboard and footboard with side rails. All Brand NEW. Still in its original box, never opened. Sell $275.

Call 912-313-2303

KING SIZE-PILLOW MATTRESS SET King Mattress & springs, still in factory bags, new with warranty.

Can deliver. Sacrifice $225. 912-965-9652

MATTRESS SALE ALL SIZES STARTING @ $150 MEMORY FOAM $399 Compare to TempurPedic @ 1/4 the Price 604-8523

MEMORY FOAM Visco memor y foam mattress and box spring set. Still NEW & in plastic as seen on T V. Suggested list $1724.

Sacrifice $500.

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Cars

Fender Bender?

Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks

355-5932

2001 FORD TAURUS Air Conditioning, Power Steering, Power Windows, Power Door Locks, Tilt Wheel, Cruise, Excellent Condition, 58,400 Miles. $6500 OBO. Call 695-7733

Boats/ Accessories 1985 SCARAB 21 foot, 1999 350 mag & bravo 1, under warranty till 404. $11,900. Call Alan 657-3386.

1984 27’ SEA RAY Sundancer. 350 engine $5000 OBO. 912-6875700

Lawn Care AFFORDABLE LAWN care. Call for estimate, 844-4308 Chuck.*

Pressure Cleaning AFFORDABLE PRESSURE washing. Houses, decks, pools, driveways, etc. Call Chuck for an estimate 844-4308.*

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WE BUY HOUSES Need repairs? Vacant?

Has’t sold yet? Liens, divorce, etc. Let us help, call today. We are NOT agents. Quick offers.

Quick closing. Call 3510500.

Cozy 3 Bedrooms, 1 1/2 Bath Bungalow with Hardwood Floors throughout. Separate Living Room and Dining Room with Large Kitchen. Detached Garage, cute garden with Pond and Picket fence in back. $210,000. For more information Call Dianne Kessler@663-2417

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Eastside

HOUSES FOR SALE TYBEE ISLAND 401 JONES ST 3 BEDROOM 1 BATH & 401 4th ST. 2 BEDROOM 1BATH 450K INQUIRIES AND OFFERS CAN BE MADE AT: CDURDEN484 @AOL.COM

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742 East 39th Street Live in this 2 BR flat with multiple FP, sep.

LR/DR, spacious rooms, and front porch, and open your dream business in the 1000 square feet of unfinished commercial space w/ CH/A below.

Large side garden and off street parking. Listed at just 129,000.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

122 Westminister $130,000 Adorable 3BR/2B Ranch style home. Perfect for 1st time home buyer/investor. Stove, refrigerator & dishwaser incl. Privacy fence, fireplace. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737 1298 Lee Road $122,500 Spacious 3BR/2B mobile home on 6.47 acres. Great locationwith easy access to Statesboro, Pooler or Savannah. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

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150 Hood Loop Rd $69,000 Come to the Country! 3 bedrooms, 2 bath mobile home on 1.79 acres. Lots of room to roam and play. All appliances included with private well and fenced yard area. Great schools and low taxes!

Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

Need repairs? Vacant?

Has’t sold yet? Liens, divorce, etc. Let us help, call today. We are NOT agents. Quick offers.

Quick closing.

Call 351-0500.

333 Archer Road $99,700 Great home for first time home buyers! This 3BR/2B home on over ? acre tract. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

SUPER TYPE Make your classified ad stand out for only $2.00 extra a week. Sell it fast with a bold headline in Super Type!

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1601 E 59 St Fully restored brick ranch home with beautiful finishes throughout.

With three bedrooms, two very attractive bathrooms, new systems throughout, and ceramic tile in the living room and kitchen, this home allows for low maintenance living at $145,000.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

Connect Savannah has an opening for a bright, motivated person with skills in the graphic arts, to begin in April. The position involves all stages of newspaper production, including editorial/ad creation and layout to producing imposed, print ready PDFs for press.

The ideal candidate will have : The ability to work under pressure • A keen eye for detail and proofing Familiarity with software used in graphic design The ability to juggle several projects at the same time Some design skills • Excellent communication skills The ability to learn quickly and think on your feet is more important than knowledge of any particular software. Overtime will sometimes be required. Benefits are included.

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 references to:

Fax: 231-9932 Email (PDF FORMAT ONLY): artdirector@connectsavannah.com Snail Mail : Brandon Blatcher 1800 East Victory Drive, Suite #5 Savannah, GA 31404

NO PHONE CALLS/DROP-INS/ QUERY EMAILS. FULL TIME STUDENTS NEED NOT APPLY.

SERVICE YOU DESERVE PEOPLE YOU TRUST Dianne Kessler Broker/Owner GRI, ABR 912-351-9737 31 Deertrail Lane-$79,000 Liberty County Peace & quiet, 3BR/2B split floor plan in Woodland Lake Resort. Separate dining room, great room w/fireplace. Cedar siding home. Resort offers private fishing ponds, pool & playground. Come & Relax!

Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

122 Westminister Drive-$130,000 Adorable 3BR/2B Ranch style home. Perfect for 1st time home buyer/investor. Stove, refrigerator & dishwasher incl. Privacy fence, fireplace. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

SUPER TYPE Make your classified ad stand out for only $2.00 extra a week. Sell it fast with a bold headline in Super Type!

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333 Archer Road-$99,700 Great home for first time home buyers! This 3BR/2B home on over ? acre tract. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

Call Tri county GMAC Real Estate 912-351-9737

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1319 E 42nd St. This cute 3 bedroom/1 bath bungalow sits on a quiet block in a fantastic eastside location.

This concrete block home has a small front porch, living room with fireplace and wood floors.The central heat and air, stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer are all only two years old. A new roof and fresh paint is being added now. Just $85,000.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

1030 W. 38th St Quiet little Westside community, sandwiched between Ogeechee Rd & Laurel Grove Cemetary. Cute house, quite small, needs complete rehab.

Owner would consider financing. Call for details! $25,950.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

9 Gerald Drive $74,000 Good starter home with great access to the Truman Parkway and new Walmart Super Center.

Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

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Has’t sold yet? Liens, divorce, etc. Let us help, call today. We are NOT agents. Quick offers.

Quick closing. Call 3510500.

305 W Duffy St. New condo conversion. Gracious entrance foyer to three residential units with 1 BR each. Separate street entrance to commercial unit with attached living space.

High ceilings, multiple fireplaces, w/d, dishwasher, hardwood floors, ch /a, private porch and off-street parking. Priced from $135,900.00.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

556 Zettler Loop $60,000 This is a great buy! Remodeled mobile home with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, large back deck with a big yard on a spacious 1.8 acre lot.

Equipped with its own septic and deep water well system. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

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COFFEE BLUFF 114 Oak Pointe Trail 3-bedrooms, 2-fullbaths, open floor plan, Great room w/Cathedral ceiling, fireplace, Master w/trey ceiling/walk-in closet, vaulted breakfast room, 2-car garage, sprinkler system, too many extras to list! $156,900.

912-927-1673.

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1316 Seiler Ave. This adorable two bedroom, one bath Eastside bungalow has been completely renovated with new central heat and air, refinished wood floors, fresh paint, and historic details throughout. Includes of f street parking and a fully equipped kitchen. Experience the charm of historic Savannah while enjoying carefree living.

Only $120,000.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty

9 East Goldfinch Court $139,900 This 3BR/2B Low Country home has a Great room with cathedral ceilings and a fireplace, separate Dining room and a one car garage. Fenced in back yard. Quiet cul-de-sac in Georgetown. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate @ 351-9737

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There are always plenty of questions to ask before selling your home, but if you’re planning to try to sell on your own, here are the most important questions to start with.

How will you price your home? It takes detailed research and knowledge of market trends to arrive at a fair price.

You don’t want to cheat yourself out of receiving the full value of your home, but you don’t want to overprice and drive away serious buyers who will compare your home’s value against similar ones on the market. A Comparative Market Analysis conducted by a professional agent is your best bet for formulating the perfect asking price.

Once you’ve priced your home, how will you attract those buyers? It takes more than ads, “For Sale By Owner” signs, and open houses to promote your home to the right prospects. The best exposure will come from the Multiple Listing Service, where all realty professionals will find it, and alert their ready-and-waiting throng of buyers. But without representation, you won’t have access to it.

Once you’ve got an offer, will you be able to handle all the paperwork to insure legally binding contracts and a smooth closing? Consider legal documentation, inspection reports, appraisals, bank financing and so much more.

One last question: Doesn’t it make sense to let a professional handle your real estate transaction?

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Should I Refinance?

By Patty Rietkovich, E.O. Home builders Association of Greater Savannah

Interest rates are lower today than they have been in nearly 20 years.

What is the interest rate you are paying on your existing loan? Is it worth it to refinance, or is now the time to build your dream home?

Whether you should refinance your mortgage depends on a variety of factors. You probably should not refinance if your current loan is less than two percentage points higher than the rate at which you could obtain a new loan. You also need to consider how long you intend to stay in your current home. If you plan to move during the next couple years, you may not be able to recoup the cost of the various fees your lender will charge for the new loan.

The U.S. Federal Reserve Board says that refinancing can be a good idea for homeowners who: have an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) and want a fixed-rate loan (knowing exactly what the mortgage payment will be for the life of the loan); want to convert to an ARM with a lower interest rate and/or more protective features (such as a better rate or payment cap); want to build up equity by converting to a loan with a shorter term; want to draw on the equity built up in their house to get cash for a major purchase or for their children’s education.

If you choose to refinance, you will have to pay many of the same fees you paid when you obtained your original loan. For instance, your lender will ask for an application fee, which covers the cost of processing the application and verifying that your credit is still good. This fee usually runs about one percent of the loan amount. Likewise, you will have to have your home reappraised so that your lender will know how much it has changed in value. If the appraised value has increased substantially, you may have a greater amount of equity to tap.

A title search will have to be done so that the lender will know that nobody has established a claim to your property since the original search was done. Often, you can save a considerable amount of money if you hire the same firm that did the original search. When all the application documents have been processed and all the searches and checks are complete, you can then go to closing, which will be similar to the closing on your original loan. Generally, the lender will charge a fee to cover the cost of the fee charged by the attorney who oversees the closing ceremony and makes sure that all of the necessary documents are properly signed.

The largest single cost of a refinance is likely to be discount points. These generally run from one to three percent of the loan amount and are imposed by the lender to raise the yield on the loan. For a simple refinance that does not involve any home improvement, these points are not entirely tax deductible in the year you refinance. Instead, you must deduct them evenly over the life of the loan.

If you are considering refinancing, shop carefully, because costs may vary significantly from lender to lender or from area to area. And before you make a final decision to refinance, consider the option of building your dream home at today’s low interest rates. Be sure to check out the professional builders in your area and the option of building your dream home.

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L I N G S continued from page 41 0 Cypress Bay Loop $84,000 Bryan County Beautifully wooded 12.6 acre tract. Easily accessible to Ft. Stewart, Pembroke and Savannah. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737 126 Oak Street $156,000 1999 28x70 Redman mobile home situated on 7.9 acres. Beautifully wooded lot. Pond approved for 3 acres/less. Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737 150 Hood Loop Rd $69,000 Come to the Country!

3BR/2B MBhome on 1.79 acres. Lots of room to rom and play.

All appliances included w/private well and fenced yard area.

Great schools and low taxes! Call TriCounty GMAC Real Estate at 351-9737

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Historic District Bargain 317 East Huntingdon Lane .

Great 2 BR 1.5 BA town house in downtown Savannah at a great price!

Wood and tile floors down, with carpet up, a large living area with brick fireplace, enormous eat-in kitchen, and location, location, location. Needs some cosmetic updating, but a good solid home in the hottest area of town! $165,000.00. Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

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105 West Congress Street Suite C. Third floor unit in Congress Street condominium is zoned BC-1 and ready for your home or office.

Restored in 2000, it is light and bright with wood floors, decorative ceilings, and exposed brick, and located just steps from City Market. $215,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

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Move in Now!!!

This 3 bedroom 2 bath home is located in Beautiful Bridgewater.

It sits on an oversized lot and backs up to woods. Call Amber to view this awesome home. $159,300.00 Amber Skaggs Remax Crossroads 748-8141 656-3029

105 West Congress Street Suite A. Basement unit in new commercial condo conversion offers exposed brick walls, decorative ceilings, secure entry, and location, location, location!

Priced to sell and cheaper than rent!

Only $119,000.00.

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105 West Congress Street Suite B. Second floor unit in unique commercial condominium.

Features hardwood floors, high decorative ceilings,

Midtown/Eastside: 2136 Texas Ave. A- 1 bed, 1 bath, living room, eat-in kitchen,gas/water/sewer includedNO PETS- $495.00-KEY 623 Seiler Ave.- 2 bed, 1 bath, very nice brick homeNO PETS-$600.00 410 E. Hall Street- Luxury apartment in the Historic District,large single master suite, fireplace, hardwood floors, two-car garage and off-street parking, courtyard, some pets OK-$1,100.00 available 2/15/05-KEY 416 East Hall Street- Very nice 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in Historic District, off street parking, courtyard, some pets OK$700.00-KEY 418 East Hall Street- Very nice 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in Historic District, off street parking, courtyard, some pets OK$700.00-KEY 1332 N.E. 36th Street.- 3 bed, 1 bath, very nice fenced yard, carport, some pets OK--$750.00 14 Little Country Place- 2 bed, 2 bath, central H/A, large yard, on quiet cul de sac-$650.00-APPT. 220 East 53rd Street- 3 bed, 2 bath, large fenced yard, very large attic for storage- Available 2/01/05- $1,025.00-KEY

Thunderbolt: Spacious brick home located on 8.59 acres near Rincon. Home features formal living and dining, fireplace, huge laundry room, 2 fish ponds, deck on back of house, with over 2100 square ft.

Call LaTrelle 658-7777.

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4122 $245,000.

2612 Whatley Ave.-Unit 10-Mariner’s Square Apartments- 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, hwd floors, fireplace, bonus room- pets OK $1,000.00-KEY 2814 Whatley Ave.- 3 bed, 2 bath Key West style cottage, large family room, open kitchen- some pets OK. avail 4/10/05 $1,100.00-APPT.

Islands: Commons on Cromwell Apt D-6- 2 bed, 2 bath- back unit w/ wooded view- new carpet, paint, tile, appliances$900.00- KEY 218 Hampshire Road-3 bed, 2 bath in Wilmington Park Subdivision- 2 car garage, pets OK-$1,400.00-KEY 5 Sea Palm Circle-4 bed, 2 bath, fireplace, garage, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK-$1,200.00-KEY 5 Sea Palm Cove-3 bed, 2 bath, 2-car garage, fireplace, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK- $1,250.00-KEY 13 Ropemaker Court- over 2,000 sq ft, two-story home in Battery Point- 4 bed, 2 bath, huge living room, fenced backyard, pets OK- Available 3/1/05 $1,150.00-APPT. (S.M.) 105 Regal Court-3 bed, 2 bath in St. Andrews Place on Wilmington Island, garage, fireplace, privacy fence, some pets OK-$1,200.00

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7 Mallor y’s Cour t Fabulous 3 BR 2.5 BA Georgetown home awaits you.

Open and spacious, this home of fers Pergo flooring, LR/DR combo, finished bonus with separate HVAC, 2 car garage and a large fenced lot. Priced to sell at $175,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

COUNTRY! Rustic 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home nestled on 5.62 acres near Rincon and Sprinfield. Cedar Siding, Fireplace, Front Porch, Private Backyard and much more to enjoy. Call 658-7777 ask for LaTrelle. ERA Adams Pevey Realty 8262550 H-4027 $235,000.

127 Palmetto Bay Rd.-3 bed, 2 bath in Palmetto Cove, large family room w/ fireplace, 2-car garage-$1,200.00-KEY 305 Redan-3 bed, 2 bath home in Battery Point,two story with fireplace, 2-car garage, large private backyard, avail 4/15/05pets OK-$1,000.00-KEY 221 Bull River Bluff-2 bed, 2 bath condo on river-side of Bull River Plantation,new paint, floor covering, screen porch facing pool, all amenities, some pets OK-$1,000.00-APPT.

Westside: 21 Stonelake Circle- OFF 17- 2 bed, 2 bath (master has whirlpool) 1250 + sq ft home built in 2003 overlooking lagoon$950.00-KEY

Southside: 12502 Apache Ave. Unit #23- The River House at Bell’s Landing- Incredible 3 bed, 2.5 bath upstairs-downstairs townhouse, huge master suite, fireplace-NO PETS-$1,250.00- APP

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savannahgarealtor.com New construction in Bridgewater to be completed end of February, 2005. Four bedrooms, 2 baths, a family room, a formal living room, a formal dining room, a bonus room, $209,050.00 Buy now and pick colors.

Amber Skaggs Remax Crossroads 748-8141 656-3029 New Construction in Bridgewater 4 Bedrooms, 2Baths, a formal dining room, and great room. Will be completed in January, 2005. Buy now and pick inside colors. $196,075

2 Oyster Catcher Lane-3 bed, 2 bath in Battery Point, large family room, storage building-$950.00-KEY

9 Delmar Circle- 2 bed, 1 bath off Wilshire Blvd, quiet neighborhood, very nice fenced backyard, some pets OK- $850.00-KEY

Country feel, City Convenience! 3 bdr/2ba m 3.55 acres, stocked fish pond, wrap around porch & deck, Corian kitchen, dual fuel range, pine tongue and grove, 20’ ceiling, stone fireplace. Call LaTrelle today 6587777 ERA Adams Pevey Realty 826-2550, H-4136, $287,900

129 Red Fox- 3 bed, 2 bath home in Georgetown, fireplace, twocar garage, some pets OK- $1,250.00-KEY PETS: There is a $500 non-refundable deposit for up to two pets on all properties allowing pets.

SECURITY DEPOSITS: Same as one month’s rent.

234-4406 107 WEST LIBERTY STREET #3 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, kitchen, living, hardwood floors, no pets, short term lease available. $575/mo.

119 EAST 40TH STREET 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment, kitchen, washer/dryer connections, hardwood floors, porch, shared fenced backyard. $800/mo.

517 EAST LIBERTY LANE 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, washer and dryer, hardwood floors, shared courtyard.

Available Mid June. $750/mo.

12 WEST TAYLOR STREET APT#2A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment near Monterey Square, Kitchen, Living room. $800/mo.

1106 DRAYTON STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment adjacent to Forsyth Park, hardwood floors, window air conditioning. $650.mo.

2006 WHITTAKER STREET 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath apartment, gas fireplace, hardwood floors, ample closet space, deck and porches, off-street parking. $1800/mo.

1312 LINCOLN STREET 3 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment, living room, alarm system. $850/mo.

17 EAST 37TH STREET UNIT#1 Renovated Immaculate 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo, new carpet, kitchen with gas stove, stack washer and dryer, built-in microwave, off-street reserved gated, parking space. $725/mo.

214 A WEST PARK AVENUE 1 bedroom, 1 bath with clawfoot tub, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, washer and dryer shared. No pets. $600/mo.

303D WEST GWINNETT STREET 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, high ceilings, central heat and air, enclosed deck, shared yard. No cats. Available May 1st. $725/mo.

3602 MONTGOMERY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex, central heat and air, washer and dryer connections, all new appliances, carpet with off street parking. $750/mo.

421 EAST ANDERSON STREET UNIT A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen, central heat and air, washer and dryer. $525/mo.

614 EAST DUFFY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo, kitchen with nice amenities, living room, washer and dryer, fenced yard, 1 off street parking space. $875/mo.

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544 E. Harris Street $474,000. Under Contract. Historic District with 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. Hardy board exterior, 3 fireplaces, decks, porches, state of the art kitchen with top of the line appliances, 3 stor y too many extras to mention!!!

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629 Seiler Avenue. $115,000 for a cute bungelow that is totally redone! Beadboard thru out and the kitchen is cute as pie.

2 bedrooms with a spiral staircase to the basement.

Washer/dryer and all appliances are included.

New central heat/air, electric and plumbing. Bring offers! 115,000 Rhonddan@comcast.net Mopper Stapen Realty 912 507-9800.

6 Leehall Drive Southern Woods at Rice Mill for under $300K! This new home offers 4 BR 2.5 BA, LR, DR, and Family room with fireplace, deck, fenced yard 2 car garage and a bonus room.

The same model sells for $320K but owner is anxious!$299,900.00.

Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

DSL, exposed brick walls and more.

Class A office space at an affordable price. $199,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

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605 Maupas Avenue: 4 bedroom home with 2 baths. Included are 4 fireplaces and 4 enclosed porches! Just painted and floors are redone. Ready to move in on a great street in Baldwin Park. $277,000 Rhonddane @comcast.net Mopper Stapen Realty 912 507-9800

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327 Columbus Dr. This immaculate 4,000 sp. ft. home features 4BR/3.5BA, foyer into huge sep. LR/DR, gorgeous kit., den, upstairs office/dressing room w/2 huge cedarlined floor-to-ceiling closets, MBR upstairs for suite or apt. w/additional LR & kit. 2CG, hdwd floors, great corner lot w/great offstreet parking! $335,000.

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Great wrap around porch and gorgeous heart pine wood floors throughout. Wonderful lot on lagoon with great view! $429,900

121 Runner Rd Like new home on deepwater! Savannah model floorplan with 3 br/2ba, great room with tray ceilings, kitchen w/bkfst area, gorgeous views from master bedroom brkfst area, living and back deck of marsh to your private floating dock! $379,900

514-516 E. Bolton Street Quiet, Quality Quadplex Looking for an investment in the historic district? This 4000sf Victorian offers strong rental income, original features like wood floors and mantels, plus a buildable side lot!

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17 E. Jones Street Perfection on Jones Street Stunning 1850 home on one of the loveliest blocks in the historic district. Nearly 5000sf of fers five rentable units, including a separate carriage house, all in move-in condition.

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17 East 33rd Street Commercial/ Residential For Lease STARLAND DESIGN DISTRICT Beautifully renovated 2BR/1BA Formal dining room, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen w/ceramic tile floors.

Seperate laundry room and private courtyard.

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103 John Wesley Way Emerald Pointe Subdivision This enchanting low country home in gated community features 4br/2.5 ba, living room w/ fireplace, open kitchen w/island, formal dining, & study.

Great wrap around porch and gorgeous heart pine wood floors throughout. Wonderful lot on lagoon with great view! $429,900

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Splendor on Forsyth One of the most beautiful homes in the historic district! With almost 9000sf, including 2 income units, this would make a gorgeous inn/B&B. Period details to die for! Listed at $2,150,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Mopper-Stapen, Realtors, (912) 7043545/238-0874, katherine @mopper-stapen.com

DEEPWATER LOT with floating dock for sale by owner in desirable Isle of Hope subdivision. Level lot (approximately 120’ x 110’ buildable) on the Herb River with underground utilities, including city water & sewer.

Incredible views and walking distance to Bluff Drive/ICW. The perfect spot for your dream home! 132 Cardinal Rd. $325K Owner/Agent.

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New and Beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bath. 2nd floor unit; all appliances, W/D, 1400 sq.ft. grand wrap-around porches. 2 private decks; classic National Historic Registry Bldg. $895/mo. 301 E. 40th.

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