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Vo l u m e 6 • N u m b e r 1 5 • Ja n . 3 - Ja n . 9 • S a va n n a h ’s N e w s , A r t s , & E n t e r t a i n m e n t We e k l y • w w w. c o n n e c t s a va n n a h . c o m

Change your life,

change the world Savannahians who set an example for us all in the past year

Soul Man James Brown, R.I.P. page 15

Best & Worst The year in film page 26

Growth

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How much is too Psyche Origami’s much? underground hip-hop

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Contents

On the cover: photos by Robin Wright Gunn

Volume 6, No.15 , January 3, 2007

Art Patrol 24

Film: Best & Worst 26

Recommends 18

Vibes (continued)

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Lead Story

9

Jane Fishman

20 Soundboard

Leading by example

Who’s playing and where

Film

Some good news?

10 Free Speech

26 Best & Worst

11 FWD

29 Now Showing

2006 pantheon

Coastal growth run amok

All the flicks that fit

Interesting e-mails we got

The 411

12 News of the Weird

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Strange but true

13 Blotter

Week at a Glance

Our best bets for cool stuff to do

From SPD reports

14 Weather

The week on your planet

32 Happenings

14 Earthweek

News from the sky All the stuff, all the time

Culture

33 Free Will Astrology

24 Art Patrol

Rob Breszny’s look at your stars

Exhibitions and openings

Classifieds

Vibes

35 Sudoku Puzzle

15 Music Opinion

James Brown, R.I.P. 16 Music Menu Gigs a la carte 18 Connect Recommends

Concerts of Note

It’s all the rage

39 Crossword Puzzle Mental Fun

41 Classifieds

They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

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fri, Jan 5 World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions

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of the Week Savannah’s Cultural Hub: An Open House at S.P.A.C.E.

sat, jan 6 Bring One for the Chipper

What: Help protect the environment and get a free seedling. The city’s Keep Savannah Beautiful program will sponsor a program to recycle Christmas trees. Bring in your undecorated Christmas tree and trade it in for a tree seedling. The Chipper program involves hundreds of Georgia communities and thousands of volunteers. Since its inception in 1991, the program has collected more than 4 million trees and provided more than 1 million seedlings to participants.

The mulch from the trees has been used for playgrounds, local government beautification projects and individual yards. When: Jan. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Home Depot at Abercorn Extension, Victory Drive or Pooler; or the Dean Forest, Wilmington Island or Bacon Park landfills. Info: Nathaniel Glover at 651-6948.

Ducks on Holiday

What: This is the time of year when coastal Georgia plays host to thousands of ducks escaping frozen rivers and lakes. Join a Wilderness Southeast naturalist guide to get acquainted with some of the 15 different species of diving and dabbling ducks that hang out at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. When: Jan. 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Meet at the Laurel Hill Entrance to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge on South Carolina Highway 170. Cost: $10. Info: Reservations are required. Call 897-5108.

What: Established by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs, S.P.A.C.E. has become an arts education hub. This open house is being sponsored to show the public what happens at S.P.A.C.E. View the current gallery exhibition, Beyond Hestia: Five Women Potters, which showcases works created by instructors and students in the ceramics program. Learn about arts camps and classes offered for adults, teens and children. Tour the studios, where instructors will demonstrate their chosen mediums, ranging from jewelry to stained glass. The Black Box Theatre will be open for information about upcoming productions. Registration will be open for winter quarter art classes and art will be available for sale. There will be complimentary refreshments. When: Saturday, Jan. 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: 9 W. Henry St. Cost: Free. Info: 651-6417 or www.savannahga.gov/arts.

Savannah Concert Association Presents Hong Xu

What: Hong Xu is a 21-year-old Chinese pianist who was a finalist in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. He returned to the island last season as an emergency replacement, performing the daunting Third Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff to great acclaim. When: Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: Tickets are $35, $25 and $12.50. A limited number of $2 tickets are available for music teachers and students. Info: 525-5050.

Sun, jan 7 Winter Movie Fest continues

What: Snuggle up for a cozy afternoon for films with exciting

Mon, Jan 8 Pianist David Watkins in Concert

What: David Watkins is director of keyboard studies at Kennesaw State University. He will present a guest artist recital with a program that will include music by Bach, Mozart and Rachmaninoff. When: Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: $5. Info: 927-5381 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

Tue, jan 9 A Musical Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What: This event will feature the Savannah Jazz Orchestra, led by Teddy Adams and Randall Reese, and the Savannah Arts Academy Skyelite Jazz Band under the direction of Michael Hutchinson. There will be a dessert reception at intermission. When: Jan. 9 at 7 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: Free. Info: www.coastaljazz.org.

Wed, Jan 10 Psychotronic Film Society Presents Punishment Island

What: This haunting film is a lost classic of Japanese film. Made in 1966, it tells the story of a young man who is seeking revenge against a guard who tormented him. He returns to an island where he was imprisoned in reform school, but his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman. When: Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5. Info: 232-4447. w

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What: This is the 37th anniversary presentation of the “Dancing White Stallions.” For the past 425 years, Lipizzaner horses have been trained to do an equine ballet that is preserved today as an equestrian work of art.When: Jan. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center. Cost: $22.50. Info: 651-6556 or www.etix.com.

Week at a Glance

and interesting facts about the creatures that live in the world’s oceans and along the coast of Georgia. To warm up those chilled bones, warm drinks and treats will be served. When: Every Sunday in January and February at 1 p.m. Where: Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand, Tybee Island. Cost: $5, which includes admission to the aquarium. Info: 786-5917 or info@ tybeemsc.org.

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Change your life, change the world Savannahians who set an example for us all in the past year

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The early days of each year hold the promise of a fresh start, yet many of us find ourselves making the same New Year’s resolutions every January.

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Learn a foreign language. Whatever.

We hope that this will be the year we finally drop those extra ten pounds or take the time to listen to those audio lessons in French. Those January pledges are about making life changes, but December after December many of us find our lives are nearly the same as they were when the year began.

The three stories that follow showcase four Savannahians who have taken “change your life” to a new level during the past year. All have jumped into new projects with gusto, making big changes in their lives to meet needs for other people, mostly strangers.

Their stories differ but have a common theme: Change your life and you can change the world.

Linda Edwards and Nicole Gale-Evans

Pickin’ Up the Pieces after Katrina When Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August 2005, Linda Edwards was six months into her new life as a stay-at-home mom with her elevenmonth-old son and seventh grade daughter, after a ten-year career as an administrator in Savannah’s federal court.

Sixteen months later, her life at home with the kids includes a component that is rare in most families—recruiting volunteers, collecting donated building materials, coordinating fundraising, and leading relief trips from Savannah to Pearlington, Mississippi, as the volunteer Administrative Director of Pickin’ Up the Pieces, a Savannah non-profit relief organization founded by her husband Michael Edwards in the first weeks after the storm, returning from a hastily organized solo trip to deliver water, diapers and other basic supplies.

“He drove as far as he could,” says Linda. “On the drive back he decided it needed to be continued. That’s when he formed Pickin’ Up the Pieces.”

While Pickin’ Up the Pieces is a team effort for the Edwards, Linda has handled most of the heavy lifting of planning and implementing various projects, volunteering about 30 hours per week on the organization’s projects.

“I’ve been to Mississippi eight or nine times now. I’ve lost track,” says Linda.

Since September 2005 the non-profit has distributed $70,000 worth of school supplies, clothes, food, holiday gifts, Clockwise from top: Pickin’ Up The Pieces volunteers and construction materials, and has in Pearlington, Mississippi (Nicole Gale-Evans is in sent 175 people in fourteen rebuildthe second row on the left and Linda Edwards is in ing teams--many for multiple trips--to the second row center); Linda Edwards; Nicole Gale- tary school and saw the books and mud the tiny town of Pearlington, perched all over the floor—I thought, if that ever Evans meets her ‘secret angel’ in Pearlington while on the Mississippi-Louisiana border happened in Savannah, that could be Elvis and Santa look on and eight miles inland from the Gulf my school.” of Mexico.

“There were kids down there that “It’s a little group of houses out in a I thought were extraordinary,” says she is much younger than the typical relief very rural area,” she says. “It was probNicole, “to go through what they have and worker, and has homework, youth group, ably a week before anyone realized they were still be happy. That got me to go back again. and a busy middle school social schedule to there and needed help, to get any meaningEach time there was a feeling or a thought juggle, yet Nicole’s family is supportive of ful relief after the storm.” that kept me motivated. her commitment to the cause. It helps that Official and unofficial partners with “The people seem to be so appreciashe is Linda Edwards’ daughter.

Pickin’ Up the Pieces include Armstrong tive and grateful, and in such great spirits,” “My first trip was in Thanksgiving 2005,” Atlantic State University, Charles Ellis Monshe says. “If you were to meet them on the says the Oglethorpe Academy eighth grader. tessori Academy, Temple Mickve Israel, streets you wouldn’t think they had a care in “When I got there it was worse than I could and Asbury Memorial United Methodist the world.” possibly imagine… different from seeing it Church, where the Edwards’ are members.

The positive attitudes of the people of on TV.” Nicole Gale-Evans is a volunteer who’s Pearlington belie the slow progress of re“When I went to the Pearlington elemenmade several trips to Pearlington. At age 13,

building. “The need still exists.” says Linda. c “There is more space in my dining room “ than in those FEMA trailers. There are o families of three, four and five living in u them.” t “I can only imagine what it can be like, i living there day in day out, and not being h able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. t Waiting for their number. Is today going to be the day that someone says ‘We can help a you?’ That’s where they are.” s “Because of the magnitude [of destrucM tion] there are a lot of people totally depenc dent on others coming to their aid.” t “Pickin’ Up the Pieces has changed i Pearlington,” says Nicole. “They weren’t “ getting a lot of help. If we hadn’t gone there l it may still be in the same state of devastah tion that we found it.”

“It’s brought a lot of people from across h the country and the world together to help e rebuild an area of the country that was abc solutely devastated,” says Linda. v “Not only are we helping a community that is ten hours away, we hope that we are i helping our community.” “ “I think that with this opportunity I’ve J been able to overcome some of my weakc nesses,” says Nicole. “I’ve become more t giving. It’s given me the experience of 5 learning how to serve. i “It gives us something to share and talk r about that nobody else knows,” she says.

“If my mom is talking about something a I can say ‘I was there. I know what she is h talking about. g “There are people who want to volw unteer and something gets in the way or t they’re not sure about it. I wish they would i go for it. I think once they go down there it p will be a life-changing experience.” w u c To volunteer or donate to Pickin’ Up the Pieces contact: e P.O. Box 9634 a Savannah, GA 31412 e Telephone: 912.429.4220 d mail@pickinupthepieces.org o website: www.pickinupthepieces.org i o To comment, e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com d n w a

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What does the study of Shakespeare’s tragedies, the Savannah civil rights movement, and the origins of Middle Eastern society have to do with changing the world?

Just about everything, according to Roger Smith, Director of Community Outreach at Senior Citizens, Inc. “I believe the humanities can change the world,” says Smith.

“When we study the great thinkers of the past it holds up a mirror of us to humankind. Our best potenRoger Smith in the newly renovated Learning tial and our worst potential. LookCenter at Senior Citizens Inc. ing at eons of human behavior can help us to become better humans pearing in a cameo role on the hit TV show to each other.”

Desperate Housewives, will make her firstSmith has spent most of his career as ever visit to Savannah to present “The Agea champion for the humanities--as a high less Life of the Mind.” school teacher and developing programs for “Her husband [actor Hal Holbrook] was Massie Heritage Center and Georgia Historivery desirous that she come to Savannah and cal Society. He’s bringing that experience that she perform in this particular theater,” to his latest role, spearheading The Learnsays Smith. “She wrote ‘because it is Savaning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc., the new nah and because it is this theater I will come.’ “college campus-style center for lifelong “I don’t think we are getting a canned learning” opening in January at the agency’s event,” Smith adds. “She has asked us a lot headquarters in Ardsley Park neighborhood. of questions about the center, the event, the Smith’s new project is a life change for city. She has gotten what amounts to a papal him. “I’ve never worked in a social servicdispensation from ‘Desperate Housewives’ to es environment before. I’ll be given a crash come here for this appearance.” course on what it’s like to provide social serEight institutional partners in The Learnvices to a community.” ing Center range from Georgia Public The Learning Center is the most visBroadcasting to Savannah State University to ible offering to date from Senior Citizen’s Georgia Historical Society, Smith’s employer “NORC” project, funded by a grant from the for the past six years. GHS executive director Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta that foTodd Groce is teaching the American Civil cuses on neighborhoods in which a higherWar course. “I thought GHS would probthan-average percentage of people older than ably do something but I never dreamed that 55 are choosing to live. Historic Ardsley Park they would commit to two nine-week classes in Savannah’s midtown is one of these “natuand that Todd would take the first shift,” says rally occurring retirement communities.”

Smith. “That was extremely gratifying.”

While much of the NORC project is Courses have a “loose age minimum about identifying seniors in need of meals, of 55,” says Smith. “If someone wants to home repair, transportation and the like, the come who is under 55 I’m not going to forgrant asked Senior Citizens, Inc. to “listen to bid them, as long as they are not displacing what the seniors in that community tell you someone who is 55 or over. they want,” says Smith, whose job description “I’m proud that this organization serves includes management of the entire NORC such a wide cross section of the community,” project. “And what the seniors of Ardsley told says Smith. There is nothing elite about this us they wanted was a nearby, rigorous, loworganization. Whatever I can do to broaden cost educational outlet.” the spectrum of people served by Senior CitiIn the first term for the Learning Center, zens, I am pleased to be doing that.” w eight nine-week courses in literature, history, and foreign policy will be taught by experiClasses for Winter Term begin January 10. enced instructors, most holding masters and Contact Roger Smith at The Learning Center doctorate degrees. All courses will be held at Senior Citizens, Inc. 236-0363 on Wednesdays during the daytime, responding to another identified need for educational “The Ageless Life of the Mind” A Visit With options that do not require nighttime travel.

Dixie Carter: Monday, Jan 22. 7:00 p.m. at “We’re trying to reach a demographic that The Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street. doesn’t necessarily think of themselves as Free admission. needing our services. People who would not want to go to a traditional senior center. They To comment, e-mail us at are actively plugged into the community.” letters@connectsavannah.com To kick off the opening of The Learning Center, Senior Citizens is bringing actress Dixie Carter to the Lucas Theatre on January continued on page 22. The 67-year-old actress, currently ap-

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Elena Santamaria

Sunday, January 7, 2007 - 11:00am “The Duration of all Existence” Rev. Joan Kahn-Schneider Speaker

jority of non-English speaking patients at Memorial are native Spanish-speaking. VietMedical Translator, namese and Chinese speaking patients are Breast Cancer Survivor frequent, along with Japanese and Russian.

The Spanish speaking patient load is large For hundreds of Memorial Health paenough that in the first twelve months of the tients and their families this past year, Elena on site translator program, two other translaSantamaria made a lifetors in addition to Santamaria and-death impact. Yet worked regularly with MemoSantamaria is not a docrial patients, typically making tor, a nurse, or a medical a dozen or more patient visits technician. each day.

As coordinator of Santamaria’s goal is to ofInterpretation Services fer on-site translators in the for Memorial, Santamaother four most common ria provides patients who foreign languages, and to don’t speak English with provide medical translation the ability to communitraining to the many Memocate vital medical inforrial staff members who speak mation to doctors, family other languages fluently. members and staff.

“I got a letter recently Within weeks of being from a doctor stating that hired in August 2005 in the Elena Santamaria and when I was there with the patient relations departMemorial Health’s digital patient and physician that ment, Santamaria realized mammography machine he didn’t know there was a that Memorial’s translalanguage barrier.” Santamation toolkit was low in an ria and the other trained important component—the translators encourage patient and doctor to personal touch. As a native of Cuba who maintain eye contact with each other when immigrated to the U.S. at age 5, Santamaspeaking, rather than looking at the interria understands the isolation that results preter. “The doctor can communicate a lot from living in a place where the language is with gestures,” says Santamaria. unfamiliar.

“In one critical case, a young MexiBut it was Santamaria’s own life-changing can woman went into a coma. The doctor experience as a breast cancer survivor that called me to say that we had to tell the family helped her to identify the need for on-site we needed to talk about disconnecting life translators. Eight years ago a mammogram support and donating her organs. It would detected a lump that led to a mastectomy, have been very difficult for something like breast reconstruction, and chemotherapy. that to use the telephones. I feel that by beShe’s been cancer free for seven years. ing present we were able to let them know “When I see a patient, I have been there,” that their sister was able to continue living says Santamaria. “I have a lot of compassion through donating her organs,” she says. for them, especially cancer patients,” she says.

Santamaria is a champion for early cancer “Many times I share with them that I am detection, particularly in the Latino commua survivor. When they say to me ‘You look nity. She has collaborated with the American healthy,’ that right there gives them inspiraCancer Society and local Latino organization that they can conquer this and continue tions to conduct outreach activities targeting with their life.”

Spanish-speaking women.

Memorial Health has long had a system “I am here to tell you that mammograms in place to provide translation by telephone save lives,” she says. “I didn’t have any sympin over 160 languages. Using “the blue teletoms. I felt great. I could not feel my lump, phones,” special phones with two receivers it was too deep, but it was detected on a that set up three-way conversations with a mammogram.”

New York-based interpreter service, patients Santamaria shares her story in B.O.O.B.S. and doctors are able to exchange informaA Bunch Of Outrageous Breast-cancer Surtion in an adequate, if impersonal manner. vivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope & But many situations that arise at the hospital Healing, which was written by ten members are only partially resolved by the “blue teleof Santamaria’s breast cancer support group. phone” method.

“We are a new breed of cancer survivors.

Santamaria recalls a Spanish-speaking When a woman had cancer 20 years ago you older woman who had a medical emergency did everything the doctor said and you didn’t while passing through Savannah alone on her talk about it. Now you ask questions. We emway to Florida. The ambulance called ahead power ourselves. We are like the quarterback. that translation services were needed. “I met We have a wonderful team of doctors but we her in the emergency room,” says Santamaria. take charge of our own health,” she says.

“It was good for the patient. She felt at ease “My struggles with it gave me insight. knowing that someone knows her language.”

I found another person inside me. If you Medical translation is a unique field. Even want to do something and you are kind of those fluent in foreign languages often find afraid, go for it. You can be an inspiration to their medical vocabularies to be limited or so many people and we need that. We need non-existent. Santamaria is trained and certipeople to inspire us to make a better world.” w fied as a Spanish-language medical interpreter and an instructor for other translators.

To comment, e-mail us at According to Santamaria, the vast maletters@connectsavannah.com

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Good news in small doses

- Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid - continues to stretch our minds and lead the way.

And finally from a newly energized and reinvigorated Al Gore (who likes to refer to himself as “the man who used to be the future president of the United States�), someone who could have crawled into a dark and distant hole but instead reemerged with the very viewable, very timely film, An Inconvenient Truth.

But for my money the biggest story of the year was not the nailing of the Enron CEO but the simple and beautiful plan of a Bangladeshi banker and economist, Muhammad Yunus.

Yunus, whom few of us ever heard of, developed the radical idea that poor people know more about managing their money than rich people.

Following this out-of-the-box notion, which refuted all conventional banking procedures or thinking, Yunus opened his own bank and started giving out tiny, tiny loans to the poorest Bangladeshi, mostly women, for self-employment.

To qualify for a loan from his Grameen Bank, a villager could not own more than one half acre of land. With little collateral to go on, the loans were given in mutual trust.

And here’s the amazing thing. On Jon Stewart’s show -- of course -- I heard Yunus say that most borrowers, previously marginalized, ignored, discounted, disregarded and disrespected, paid the loans back.

From the PBS website I learned that in 1974 Yunus started teaching economics in southern Bangladesh in the midst of a terrible famine in which thousands were starving to death. Depressed by the inadequacy of the elaborate and elegant economic theories that were supposed to cure societal problems, this academic and intellectual scholar “began to dread his own lectures. “’Nothing in the economic theories I taught reflected the life around me,� he said. “How could I go on telling my students make-believe stories in the name of economics? I needed to run away from these theories and from my textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person’s existence.�

Since then Grameen Bank has provided $4.7 billion to 4.4 million families in rural Bangladesh. Today, 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate similar micro-credit programs.

For this, described in, Banker to the Poor, co-authored by Yunus and Alan Jolis, Yunus received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

One good idea. One brave person. Sometimes that’s all it takes. But I wonder how much ink, how much coverage, this man received.

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I know bad news trumps good news any time, any day.

Paying $50,000 to a reputable search team for a new police chief and then not reading the fine print on numerous sexual lawsuits against the candidate?

This is good reading. Important reading.

And unbelievably stupid, dimwitted and insulting to elected officials, innocent taxpayers and most of all Savannah’s city manager who made the final decision to, first, wine and dine to the nth degree the candidate in question, and, second, to tender a presumably generous offer to the guy.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I mean, like, we wouldn’t notice or something?

How about firing the chief financial officer -- a woman of relatively short-term duration -- from a major hospital and letting the chief executive officer -- a man who knows where the bones are buried but who should assume full responsibility for everything at the institution -- off the hook?

And then, going one further, blaming indigents and foreigners and increased crime numbers for the deficit numbers posted by the hospital?

This is good stuff about an institution that’s never been shy about blowing its own horn - and spending millions to do so. And probably, if the truth be told, we can assumed it’s only the tip of the iceberg, right?

Then there’s the Florida representative caught with his pants down who, desperate for some good press spin, drops back to blame alcoholism, then predatory priests from decades past for his indiscriminate, inappropriate behavior in Congress.

Bring it on! Talk about a story with legs.

Who would have thunk?

Then there’s a president, handed a sound thumping at the polls vis a vis Iraq, who has the nerve to turn around and start talking about increasing our troop support in Baghdad. Give me a break!

Important and trashy all at the same time.

The good news about all this gloomy and dispiriting news from 2006 is that we’re starting to broaden our ability to learn what’s going on in the world. Not from the usual dribbles and drabbles and spin-oriented press releases that pass as news in mainstream newspapers. Not through the talking heads of mouthpiece television robots.

But from new media sources and accessible outlets like truthdig.com, commondreams.org, dailykos.com, from iconoclasts such as Jon Stewart and Robert Colbert, from articulate crusaders and writers like Amy Goodman who is not going away anytime soon, from columnists Robert Sheer, Tony Norman, Molly Ivins, from past presidents like Jimmy Carter who with his book

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by David A. Kyler

Million man marsh

Coastal growth is steady, but the negative impact is compounding Despite the topic’s treatment in various articles about coastal Georgia’s growth, population projections done for the Coastal Regional Development Center by Georgia Tech say nothing new – we’re growing at almost 20% a decade, meaning a near doubling every 35 years.

In our State of Georgia’s Coast Report, the Center for a Sustainable Coast projected a population of about one million by 2030 for the 11 counties in the coastal region as defined by DNR (6 coastal, 5 interior), somewhat higher than the 844,000 predicted by Georgia Tech This compares with a population of 538,469 reported in the 2000 Census Report.

But the projection’s accuracy is not the point. Consider that a given amount of population currently results in more land clearing and environmental disturbance than in the past – larger homes, bigger lots, fewer people per household, etc. National studies show as much as twice as much land is being used per capita than in previous periods.

This not only means more removal of trees

and other native plants, but also increased habitat destruction, erosion, pavement, stormwater runoff, and contamination of marshes, streams, and freshwater wetlands.

Another factor, which is especially true on the coast but often overlooked, is that new development tends to be in less suitable areas, since the best land (highest, driest, and least environmentally critical) was taken first. That means more flooding, loss of valuable wildlife habitat, and still further contamination of waterways, marshes, and other wetlands.

Bottom line: To expect even proportional environmental impact will require more (and better) regulatory work due to the disproportionately adverse effects of ongoing growth.

Recent decisions by the DNR board that weaken protection of natural resources do not offer much hope that our leadership’s learning-curve, or their motives, are up to this challenge.

Three examples are particularly relevant.

In December 2004 the DNR Board voted to eliminate all buffer requirements for headwater streams, and offered no followup monitoring to determine the consequences for water quality. As a result it is almost certain that after heavy rains more pollutants

are entering our already contaminated rivers and streams.

Earlier, the same board cut by half the buffer requirements on trout streams, which subsequent scientific analysis by UGA field researchers found to be correlated with an 80% drop in trout population. Now, despite a landmark case still being decided by the Court of Appeals, the DNR board is advancing new rules for the Marsh Act that, if adopted, will weaken protection of this vital area of coastal Georgia that is essential to fish productivity and thousands of coastal jobs.

This background leads to two fundamental questions: (1) Can we tolerate even a doubling of environmental impact with a doubling of coastal population without losing substantial quality of life? Answer: Not if we want functional marshes, rivers, and fish habitat.

(2) Who will pay for the added enforcement and field monitoring needed – at all levels, from local to state and federal?

Though developers should pay their fair share, for political reasons it is doubtful that they will-- even though the added costs would be marginal and could be passed on to consumers.

Likewise, consider that DNR’s portion

of the state budget plummeted by more than 30% during the last decade when state population grew by almost as much. Is this the “new math� of Georgia politics? If so, it is setting a reckless course for our future and we should go back to arithmetic and common sense.

Due to both political motives and the narrow, short-term economic interests that tend to dominate them, the indicators are not promising. Until our leaders – elected and appointed – are willing to concede the truth of this reality and honorably deal with it, how can Georgia responsibly prepare for a future that is both prosperous and environmentally sustainable?

Instead, political concessions continue to be made for an elite few who game the system to take their money and run. After all, they must reason, if everyone who matters can fly to Montana to catch a trout, why worry?

But if all of our citizens are to be fairly considered – including future generations – Georgia deserves better. w David Kyler is executive director of the Center for a Sustainable Coast at www.sustainablecoast.org

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Re: Statement of Governor Perdue Regarding the Passing of James Brown Governor Sonny Perdue issued the following statement today regarding the passing of Georgia musical legend James Brown: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary and I join the people of Georgia and our nation in mourning the loss of James Brown. The Godfather of Soul brought a unique energy and enthusiasm to his work, which is evidenced by the great outpouring of love his fans are showing in New York and here in Georgia.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;James Brown was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1983, and he continued to inspire and excite musicians and music lovers until he passed this Christmas. We are grateful that he shared his passion with us and we offer our deepest condolences to his family and friends.â&#x20AC;? -- received 12/28 from the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Press Office Re: Environment Georgia : Help us reach 5,000 (National issue, going to Nancy Pelosi) In just a few short weeks, the 110th Congress will convene, and hopefully move our nation toward a new energy future. Representative Nancy Pelosi has named energy as a top priority of the new congress, with plans to invest in clean, renewable energy sources with money that has for years gone to handouts to Big Oil. This type of investment is the key to our new energy future. We will be delivering our Stop Handouts to Big Oil petition soon.

Can you help us reach our goal of 5,000 signatures? If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t signed the petition yet, please do so now. If you have, please forward this message on to 5 friends and ask them to get involved. To sign the petition,

click on the link below or copy and paste it into your web browser: https://www.environmentgeorgia.org/action/clean-energy/oil-handouts?id4=ES -received 12/28 from Victor Mereski Re: Trust Fund for John Wayne Allen The men and women of the SavannahChatham Metropolitan Police Department have set up a trust fund for the daughter of Patrolman John Wayne Allen. Donations can be made at any Darby Bank and Trust location. Just let any teller know that you wish to donate to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elizabeth Hoover Fund.â&#x20AC;? Elizabeth Hoover is the mother of Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-month-old daughter, Makayla...

John died on Wednesday, December 20, in a motor vehicle accident while riding his motor on Abercorn Street while off-duty.

He served as a patrol officer in SCMPDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Central Precinct for more than a year. He was 23 years-old. -- received 12/21 from Sgt. Mike Wilson Re: Savannah Yoga Center hosts YOGA FEST 2007 (Saturday, January 13, 2007) - SYC is offering FREE YOGA classes all day to celebrate you, the yoga community of Savannah!

This is one of their ways of saying thank you for a prosperous year in 2006 and they are looking forward to serving you in 2007!

They will offer a Yoga Fest quarterly in 2007.

Also on Jan 13th only they will be offering a 10% discount on all 8, 12, and 20 class cards, this day only!...

Savannah Yoga Center at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 east 40th and Drayton Street opened their doors in February 2003 and are celebrating three years of support from the Savannah Community as well as visitors to Savannah.

If there are any additional questions contact Kelley J. Boyd, SYC director at 912.441.6653 or via e-mail at kelley@savannahyoga.com. -- received 12/29 from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;adwesterfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Re: DIXIE is coming!

Senior Citizens, Inc. Proudly Presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ageless Life of the Mindâ&#x20AC;? - A Visit with Dixie Carter Monday, January 22 at 7:00 p.m.

Lucas Theater, 32 Abercorn Street, Savannah This event marks the official launch of The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. The Learning Center offers courses and lecture programs for seniors in the Savannah area, and the Winter term starts on January 10, 2007.

The Dixie Carter event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. - please arrive early to ensure seating.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss President Gerald Ford. Those who consider me a White-hating one-dimensional caricature will be surprised but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on them.

As I said this morning on the Bill Edwards radio show, ironically guest hosted by local right wing warlock & political consultant Dave Simons (with an op-ed piece in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jim Crow Gazette â&#x20AC;&#x153;Savannah Morning Newsâ&#x20AC;?), Ford represented the kind of moderate, consensus-building Republican who is a dying breed these days.

Republicans like him, Bob Dole, Mark Hatfield, John Chafee and brothers like Art Fletcher, the father of Affirmative Action, helped guide this nation after World War II and civil rights upheaval with a basic decency lacking in many of their more conservative peers.

As a child during the Watergate years, Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even demeanor and class spoke volumes for his kind of Republican. I see those same traits in the current Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, the 41st President of the United States.

Too bad todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GOP doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resemble President Ford much. -- received 12/27 from Nadra Enzi

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Latest Religious Messages

by Chuck Shepherd

Checking a boy just before his bar mitzvah, Orthodox rabbis in Sydney, Australia, found that his rabbi-supervised circumcision had not quite been “complete” and ruled that it must be done again because, officially, the boy was not a Jew. The boy’s mother objected and instead found a Progressive synagogue for the bar mitzvah (although the Orthodox rabbi, Moshe Gutnick, said she is “fooling the child” into believing he is A Jewish). new Islamic Blues: (1) Ginnah year?

Muhammad, 42, who was suing a rental car company in Hamtramck, Mich., in October, refused to remove her veil (which covered all but her eyes) on the witness stand, and consequently, the judge refused to accept her testimony and dismissed the lawsuit. He said judges must evaluate witnesses’ credibility, which the veil prevented. (2) According to an October dispatch from Bangkok appearing in Melbourne’s newspaper The Age, some Muslim teenagers are mixing Coca-Cola, codeine and the native kratom leaf to get high. “Muslims cannot drink alcohol,” said one, but if you get “drunk” on that mixture, “(it) is not a sin.”

Ruth Bell Graham, the frail wife of evangelist Billy Graham, has split with her elder son Franklin by rejecting as her burial place Franklin’s planned memorial library for Billy near Charlotte, N.C. (in favor of her mountaintop retreat west of there). According to a December Washington Post report, Ruth’s long-time friend, the crime writer Patricia Cornwell, told Ruth that the largely bookless “library” is “truly tacky,” featuring for example a mechanical cow that greets visitors, and straw on the floor to resemble the barn of Billy’s youth. Franklin’s thinking is that the memorial should draw a new generation of worshipers and donors, including kids who would be attracted by the farm motif.

Christmas Mania (continued)

Melody Howell of Richburg, N.C., expanded her collection of full-sized, designerdecorated Christmas trees this year to 52, all placed inside her 2,500-square-foot home.

(Said Howell’s adult daughter, “My mom is over the top. (E)verything she does is over the top.”

Bungee Baby Nick Fennelly, 31, was rushing his inlabor girlfriend, Sharon Taylor, into the parking lot at Calderdale Royal Hospital in West Yorkshire, England, just as their baby’s head started to appear, and, in a corridor inside, little Ashleigh shot out of her mother so quickly that Fennelly couldn’t grab her in time.

She hit the floor, skidded, and then came back on the umbilical cord, according to a December report in the Halifax Courier.

Except for a bruise, Ashleigh is fine.

Fine Points of the Law

(1) In November, Arkansas’ outgoing Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife, who have been happily married for 32 years, nonetheless set up a wedding registry at two department stores because it was apparently the easiest way for them to receive going-away gifts. Arkansas law prohibits gifts to public officials of more than $100, with a few exceptions, such as wedding gifts. (2) In October, Judge Robert Armstrong of Riverside, Calif., dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman solely because a state statute makes criminal only a person who “lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof,” which to Judge Armstrong clearly limited the law to males. (The prosecutor quickly filed an appeal.)

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Va., and also the father of Scott, who played on the age-12-to-14 Raptors, who were fighting for a playoff spot in October when Hinkle fired their two coaches for violating his order to play Scott only on defense. (The coaches used him successfully on offense for one game.) The Raptors, to support the coaches, voted to disband the team even though they had made the playoffs, but Hinkle wouldn’t change his mind.

Five star cheerleaders at McKinney North High School near Dallas apparently had the run of the place over the last year, often immune from school rules thanks to the aggressiveness of their parents and the timidity of school officials, according to an independent report to the school board (disclosed in December by The Dallas Morning News).

The “Fab Five” walked out of classes, ignored teachers, dressed salaciously and posed for scandalous photos on the Internet, and whenever sanctions were suggested, parents rose in anger at comparative unfairness toward their particular daughters. One staff member said the girls acted like they hadn’t “been punished properly since the seventh grade.”

District officials are reviewing the report.

Least Competent Criminals

(1) Morgan Conatser, 29, was arrested a short time after making his way awkwardly out to the parking lot of the Guitars and Cadillacs store in De Queen, Ark., in November, with a guitar stuffed inside his clothes. The manager initially stopped Conatser, recovered the guitar, and let him go, but decided to call the sheriff ’s office when he realized Conatser had probably also hidden a wireless sound system in his pants. (2) Derek Pierson Jr., 21, was arrested in Shreveport, La., in November after allegedly attempting to rob a convenience store. He was an easy collar, as he had somehow not noticed that among the customers waiting in line at the cash register was uniformed police officer L.J. Scott, of the armed robbery task force.

Recurring Themes

(1) In an incident likely to be repeated as Americans get larger, the body of a 600-

pound man who was cremated at the Garner Funeral Home in Salt Lake City in October started a grease fire when leaking body fluids overheated the conventional oven. (2) John Leonard Young, 46, pleaded guilty in October to the now-familiar charge of using the Internet to lure an underage girl for sex, but the backstory was unusual. Though Young had bought her a plane ticket to Seattle, she decided to buy her own ticket but mistakenly booked “Washington, D.C.” When she arrived there all alone, she sought help from authorities, and Young’s plot unraveled.

Country Livin’ Is the Life for Me! (1) Jeffrey Turpin, 41, was arrested in August in Wytheville, Va., for malicious wounding of a woman after chasing her across two farms on a tractor. According to a witness, when the woman fell, Turpin dropped the tractor’s bucket to the ground and rolled it over her, breaking her leg. (2) Three women were arrested in Columbus, Ga., in September and charged with forcing a pregnant teenager to drink turpentine, which the three (and several other family members) had heard would induce an abortion.

Cultural Diversity

About a dozen Asian women living in Seattle flock to Bigelow Street every September, for hours at a time, to gather fallen chestnuts to take home and boil, according to a report in The Seattle Times. The residents of the upscale homes say they’ve come to accept the ladies, some elderly, who thoroughly search yards for hours and make themselves at home on the properties (including relieving themselves in the shrubbery) while waiting for the next batch to fall.

After the aircraft maintenance staff of Turkish Airlines finished up a repair job ahead of schedule in December, they celebrated by sacrificing a camel at Istanbul airport, with hundreds of pounds of meat distributed to workers. (The government of Turkey, which is working hard to be accepted into the European Union, might have preferred the sacrifice be done elsewhere.) w

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from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

Hentz

• The foreman of a construction site called police after he saw three men stealing wire. The man told police that he was taking a nap in his truck. He awoke to see the three men cutting and removing wire from the construction site. When the men noticed the foreman, he started talking to them so they wouldn’t get suspicious. He took down their tag number and called police.

He told the officers that the men had a magnetic sticker on their truck that named a utility company. He said that made him suspicious because employees of that utility company weren’t likely to come on a construction site and take someone else’s supplies. An officer ran the tag number to

Garrett

get the name of the owner of the truck. The foreman said his company would prosecute.

• While on routine patrol, officers heard someone screaming for help. They observed a man chasing a second man down Abercorn Street. The first man advised them that he had warned the suspect several times not to come onto his property. He said he has called police in the past because the suspect had stolen from his business. On this occasion, when the man confronted the suspect, the suspect punched him in the face and then attempted to flee. The victim began to pursue the suspect and they were observed by police. The suspect was very upset and refused to speak with the officers. The victim was given a case report number and advised on warrant procedures. He said he didn’t need medical treatment.

• A man called police from a Victory Drive shopping center and reported that his grocery cart had struck an unoccupied car.

When an officer arrived, the man told him he had left the cart at the edge of a parking lot next to the store’s entrance. He said he went back inside the store, and when he came out, two people told him the cart had rolled across the parking lot and struck a car that was parked in the spot closest to the grocery store. The man looked and saw the cart resting against the rear, driver’s side door. When he went to look further, he saw that the cart had caused two small dents on the car’s door and called police. The officer then spoke with the two witnesses. They said they saw the man leave the shopping cart at the store’s entrance. The next time they saw it, it was rolling across the parking lot towards the car. By the time they noticed the cart, it was too far away for them to stop it from hitting the car.

The owner of the car was located inside the grocery. He asked that a report be filed so he could notify his insurance company.

The man who left the cart told the car’s owner to call him to let him know what the repairs will cost. w

All cases from recent Savannah/Chatham Police Department incident reports.

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Two men were arrested after being caught with fraudulent payroll checks totaling more than $10,000. Ulysses Hentz, Jr., 28, and Sornie Garrett, 18, both of Memphis, Tenn., were charged with first and second degree forgery, fraudulent attempt to execute fictitious checks, conspiracy to commit a crime, obstruction by fleeing and obstruction by giving a false name and address to police.

Islands precinct officers responded to a call of check forgery at the Publix Supermarket, located at 155 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

When they arrived, the two suspects were seen running from the store headed north.

After a brief foot chase, Advance Patrol Officer Shannon Pagano apprehended both suspects in a nearby parking lot. Police found in their possession more than $10,000 worth of fraudulent payroll checks from Man Power Unlimited Temporary Services and several different forms of identification. The payroll checks were created on a computer.

Further investigation by financial crimes detectives revealed the pair has been targeting grocery stores in the Wilmington Island area since December 11, cashing checks totaling more than $2,000. The other two targeted stores are the Kroger on Johnny Mercer Boulevard and the Piggly Wiggly on Highway 80.

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Behemoth Capture

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Japanese researchers 3.5 caught and filmed a giant squid near the surface of the 3.5 4.1 North Pacific in possibly a first-ever glimpse of an elusive creature that has 4.3 captured the imagination of sailors and fishermen for centuries. Scientists from Japan’s National Science Museum videotaped the capture of a relatively small female of the species that measured about 22 feet in length. “We believe this is the first time anyone has successfully filmed a giant Week Ending December 29, 2006 squid that was alive,” said researcher Tsunemi Kuvoted unanimously to designate the manatee bodera. The legendary giant squid is the as a threatened species rather than endanworld’s largest invertebrate. It can grow to be gered, saying the animal’s population is on 60 feet in length and has long been cloaked the rebound. in mystery because it lives at such depths that it is usually seen dead, washed up on Rift Valley Fever the coast or in pieces found in the digestive A rare viral disease that usually systems of whales or very large sharks. affects only cattle has killed 23

Manatee Deaths

Florida wildlife officials reported that the state’s endangered manatees died at a near-record pace during 2006, mainly due to the algae bloom known as red tide. “What threw us over the edge is there was a red tide event in the Everglades,” said state marine biologist Ken Arrison. Out of the 392 recorded deaths of the marine mammals as of Dec. 8, boat collisions had killed 82 while 49 deaths were attributed to red tide. Scientists have warned the manatee population is expected to drop 50 percent over the next five decades because of habitat loss, boat collisions and red tide. But in February, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

people in parts of northeast Kenya and southern Somalia during December. Kenyan medical experts confirmed that the disease is Rift Valley fever, and the government immediately banned the transport and slaughter of livestock to help contain the outbreak. Rift Valley fever, which causes victims to vomit blood or bleed to death, passes from livestock to humans through mosquito bites or the handling of contaminated animal fluids.

Cyclone Season

Two people were killed when powerful Cyclone Bondo hit the northern coast of Madagascar.

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The U.S. government has proposed adding polar bears to its list of endangered species due to threats to the 7.0 4.0 animals’ habitat from global warming. The U.S. proposal came after a lawsuit was filed 5.9 5.2 by the Center for Biological 5.8 Bondo Diversity, the Natural +1080 Resources Defense Council Mandora, and Greenpeace that claims W. Australia the government has failed to respond quickly enough to the polar bears’ plight. H. Dale Hall, head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said at a news conference that the Bush administration now agrees with the conservation in the country since January 2005, when 17 groups’ assertions that the polar bear people were confirmed killed and 139 others population could fall by more than 30 were reported missing in the wake of percent within 45 years due to “the warming Cyclone Ernest. The western Indian Ocean of the climate.” is entering into its usual cyclone season, which will last through March.

Sleepless Winters

Earthquakes

A magnitude 7.0 temblor off the southern tip of Taiwan killed 2 people as it collapsed buildings and sparked fires. The seismic slip also ruptured undesea cables, disrupting telecommunications across Asia.

• A cluster of 820 mild earthquakes jolted El Salvador within four days, damaging more than 1,500 homes.

• Earth movements were also felt in California’s southern desert resorts, the San Francisco Bay Area, Scotland, northwest India, India’s Andaman Islands and Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province and Sulawesi Island.

Rain Gauge

Scientists in Spain say bears have stopped hibernating in the country’s northern mountains in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.

Naturalists from Spain’s Brown Bear Foundation say that many of the 130 bears in Spain’s northern cordillera — which have a slightly different genetic composition than bear populations elsewhere in the world — have remained active throughout recent winters. The group told the El Pais newspaper that the change is affecting female bears with young cubs, which are now able to find enough nuts, acorns, chestnuts and berries on the mountainsides to survive through winter. They said male bears in the region are now hibernating for only a short period of time. w

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by Jim Reed

In J.B.’s death, a new reason for the season emerged: that of a narcissistic, paranoid, unstable drug abuser at the nadir of his professional career.

James would eventually emerge from a too-harsh South Carolina prison sentence with a renewed vigor and sense of purpose, but in many real ways he would battle the demons of drugs and family violence off and on for years to come.

I saw that interview when it aired live, and viewing it now, some two decades later, never fails to generate as much sincere sympathy in me as it does unchecked laughter at the absurdity of the situation.

When I received a text message at 8 am the next morning from a fellow musician and funk aficionado which read simply, “R.I.P. James Brown,” I was —surprisingly— not hit with a wave of sadness. How could it be, I wondered, that the passing of someone who had meant so very much to me throughout my entire life could fail to bring a tear to my eye?

I noticed the same reaction in others as news of his death spread. Most everyone I came in contact with seemed disappointed or resigned, but no one seemed truly shocked, or inconsolable. Truth be told, I actually started to feel a little giddy and uplifted as the day went on!

It soon dawned on me that I was experiencing a reawakening of faith.

As a devout Jewish atheist (trust me,

there’s a lot more of us out there than you might think) born and raised in a small Appalachian Mountain town, Jesus never really did much for me.

Besides the fact that most of the images you’ll find of J.C. make him look like a gay, Norwegian hippie, I simply couldn’t relate to his bag. He was too perfect. Too glowing.

I needed a fragile, fallible human to find inspiration in. A person capable of amazing bursts of creativity and kindness, but one who also bargained with salvation.

I found that in Dylan, and I found that in Cash, and I found that in Brown.

Make no mistake. I don’t have blinders on. JB was no saint. He beat his wives. He lied incessantly (perhaps most importantly to himself). And he embraced ludicrous double standards, such as bragging in his autobiography about how savvy and wealthy a businessman he was, only to complain that the IRS had no right to make him pay back taxes, since as a poor black in the South he did not have access to the same math education as whites.

But he was Soul Brother No. 1. His example —no matter how tarnished by later events— led countless men and women of all races (but especially African American) to take pride in themselves and reach for the skies, instead of settling for limitations imposed on them by society at large and those who would stand to profit from their subser-

vience and beat-down complacency.

Who exactly fills that role today?

That’s what I thought.

A close friend said for years that JB’s death would be one of the most significant events in American popular culture (and even more so in the Southeast). Assuming the certainty of a public funeral, he swore he’d charter a private bus so several dozen devoted Savannah fans could travel to the services in a celebration of Brown’s legacy.

True to his word, he acted on this within hours of the news. It’s one of my great shames that a previous engagement prevented me from attending the service in Augusta. I would have moved heaven and earth to be there and pay my respects to someone who was much, much more to me than simply a phenomenal musical innovator and catalyst for positive social change in this country (and the world).

“I find the religiosity and the philosophy in the music,” Dylan remarked a few years back, when asked what faith he currently adhered to. “I believe the songs.”

The only good thing to come out of all this is from now on, some of us will have a more justifiable reason to hang lights, send cards, give gifts and bake cookies.

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It was taped off CNN around 1986. In it, Sonya Friedman tried to interview soul singer James Brown via satellite regarding his then-recent arrest for spousal abuse. Throughout the uncomfortably bizarre segment, the superstar (in neckerchief, leather gloves and the largest pair of sunglasses ever manufactured on this planet) cackled, mugged and flirted with the stupefied host.

He refused to answer questions about his legal troubles, and instead sang couplets from his hits. He belted out a rapid stream of non-sequiturs and demanded to know where CNN founder Ted Turner was hiding. He also told Sonya that he was “single and ready to mingle.”

This was the first direct glimpse many of us had of a great man nearing collapse.

Brown was clearly under the influence of strong psychotropic drugs, and in fact, it was later revealed that he’d often used PCP during that time. Before long, his decades of artistic accomplishments, charitable work, civil rights advocacy and sincere efforts to keep kids in school and —ironically— off drugs would be overshadowed by the tabloid profile which

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A Nickel Bag of Funk

Noteworthy local R & B/funk/soul cover act playing sexy, danceable hits and obscurities from the ‘60s forward. Fri., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

BC & The Rock Mob

Rock, and blues covers and originals, fronted by local guitarist Buddy Corns.

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Deep Blue 3

Rock solid local electric blues trio. Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Eat Mo’ Music

Local, funky, guitar and trumpet-based instrumental soul-jazz quartet. Fri., 9:30 pm, Tantra Lounge.

Swinging, laid-back arrangements of oldtime rock & roll covers, blues standards, and originals from a local singer/guitarist backed by a cast of veteran local players. Thurs., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Mon., 7:30 pm, Murphy’s Law (solo).

Handgun Sonata

Young Charlestonbased pop-punk/emo quintet that contains 100% of the Recommended Daily Allowance of whiny pining, screaming blather and way-too-busy drumming. Sat., 10:30 pm, Guitar Bar.

Bottles & Cans

Energetic and unpredictable Delta-style electric blues and psychedelic garage-rock combo (with occasional detours into oldschool country and the odd reggae number) led by singing guitarist Ray Lundy. Sat., 8 pm, The Warehouse + Sun., 8 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Chuck & Bucky

Acoustic guitar duo playing and singing country, rock and pop hits. Wed., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (Sandfly).

Thomas Claxton

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a musical family. Thurs., 10 pm, Wild Wing Café + Sun. 1 pm, City Market Ctyd. (duo show).

Intense singing acoustic guitarist offering classic and modern rock covers and originals from a forthcoming DIY CD. Wed. & Sun., 7 pm, The Warehouse + Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Bayou Café.

Allison Cornell

This singer/songwriter boasts a Masters from Julliard, but paid her dues backing up such iconic artists as Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Tracy Chapman, Angelo Badalamenti and Shania Twain. Her own work veers from jazzy pop to contemporary folk, plus a healthy dose of sequenced, world music-inspired dance club electronica. She plays keyboard, guitar, viola and violin, and is a bewitching chanteuse.

Tues., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Courtenay Brothers Band

Modern and classic country, Southern rock and party tunes from a well-liked group led by singing, guitar-playing siblings from

Eat Mo’ Music

1st Friday For Folk Music

Family oriented (smoke and alcohol free) acoustic coffeehouse-style showcase of national, regional and local talent. This month’s installment includes “Gainesville, Fl.’s Joni Mitchell,” Marce, a native of Colombia, who’s been composing and performing original material on keyboard and guitar from the age of 9. Also appearing: the duo of Rebecca Hall (guitar) and Ken Anderson (bass and harmonica), who’ve earned raves from Sing Out! Magazine and Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn for their uncannily retro-sounding originals and “eerie vocal perfection”; and local multi-instrumentalist duo Bob & Judy Williams, co-founders of the Savannah Folk Music Society, who now perform under the name Cynergy. Free to all ages, with a suggested donation to the SFMS of $2. Refreshments will be available.

Fri., 7:30 pm, Wesley Mon. United Methodist (429 Abercorn St.) - ALL-AGES.

The Frantic Rabbit

Increasingly regular event combining both a spoken word Open Mic and Poetry Slam. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

High Velocity

Classic and Southern rock, plus modern country covers, from a well-known group of seasoned local players. Fri. & Sat., 9 pm, The Red Leg Saloon (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204).

iNDEED

According to this Charleston 4-piece, their music is “a declaration of love, hate, forgiveness, closure, and rapture that cannot be ignored or labeled.” Indeed. Local melodic rockers The Land Of The Blind open. Fri., 9 pm, Guitar Bar.

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5 pm, Dolphin Reef Lounge (Tybee) + Fri. Sat., Doc’s Bar (Tybee).

Traditional Irish Music Jam

The Psycho Devilles

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Jon Doe

Local funk cover band (think P-Funk, Rufus, etc...) that makes up for what they might lack in finesse with an over-the-top, energetic stage presence and infectious, hard-partying vibe. Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

Led by a percussionist with 3 decades of professional experience, this up-and-coming regional combo (piano, bass, trumpet, percussion) plays Latin and jazz standards (think Tito Puenté, Antonio Carlos Jobim, etc...), plus originals. Lugo’s background includes work with everyone from Jaco Pastorious to Ruben Blades. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Down under.

Modern Skirts

Seven Gates To Elsewhere

Hard-working local act drawing on psychedelic British blues and soul from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, as well as eclectic modern rock. At times, it seems they’re still trying to decide just what sort of band they’d like to be, but their devotion to pushing their own limitations is laudable. Fri., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.).

Silver Lining

Local jazz trio (originals & covers) with female vocals. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Randy “Hatman” Smith

Acoustic guitarist playing beach, boogie and blues tunes to sequenced backing. Wed.,

A handful of talented pickers, fiddlers, whistlers, etc., kick back weekly and make acoustic Celtic music in this pub near City Market. Amateurs and newcomers welcome.

Sun., 7:30 pm, Murphy’s Law Irish Pub.

Voodoo Soup

Entertaining, jam-oriented cover band that boats some of the most agile players around, and a propensity to flat out smoke through extended versions of well-known soul/funk/rock/R & B numbers from decades past. Sun., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Robert Willis

Solo acoustic rock, pop and country covers. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Stingray’s (Tybee).

Jimmy Wolling & Friends

Progressive bluegrass and traditional country outfit led by a famed local banjoist.

Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Jason Z (Zeigler)

Local singer/songwriter (and former member of Bobcat Collins) influenced by the more pleading side of Green Day and Mxpx. Also appearing: Adam Glendye, a young Christian worship leader and songwriter who pens unambiguous acoustic guitar-driven praise music. Sat., 9 pm, Metro Coffee House - ALL-AGES. w

Currently one of Athens’ hottest original bands, this intriguing group relies on clever pop hooks and adventurous vocal arrangements rather than screaming guitars. Several major mags are heaping praise upon them, and they seem well on their way to serious national acclaim. Fri., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law.

Harry O’Donoghue

Beloved acoustic Irish troubadour (and host of the popular GPB radio show The Green Island) who’s been a favorite at this longtime pub on River St. for 2 decades.

Mon. -Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

The Dave Pfeiffer Quartet

“Erotic jazz” combo from Statesboro led by young drummer Pfeiffer, and featuring guitarist Andres Garcia. Fri., 9:30 pm, Luna Lounge @ Il Pasticcio.

The Prodigal Sunz

This spin-off from local club act The Train Wrecks finds that group’s rhythm section of bassist Eric Dunn and drummer/ guitarist Markus Kuhlmann joined by The Savannah Soul Project’s guitarist Justin Boykin for an all-cover set featuring tunes

by Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and Marvin Gaye, as well as soul grooves and diversions into acid jazz territory. Thurs., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law Irish Pub.

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David Lugo & Latin Jazz Motion

Atlanta rockabilly act that’s gigged with Unknown Hinson, Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, Deke Dickerson and Big Sandy, among others. Not as nuts as The Rev. Horton Heat, but plenty hopped-up in their own way.

Raleigh’s Hearts & Daggers open with a set of dusty, outlaw country that sounds like Social D playing cowboy songs through Fender Champs. Fri., 11 pm, The Jinx.

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Theo Croker

Jazz is in this buzzworthy trumpeter’s blood. The grandson of horn legend Doc Cheatham, he found his own bag early on, and while still in college (he graduates from Oberlin Conservatory in May), he’s already attracted attention as both a player and composer/arranger. He’s been featured at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall alongside such luminaries as Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath and Benny Powell, and guested with Nicholas Payton at the 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest. No less than the great Donald Byrd calls him a “phenomenal instrumentalist who will redirect the flow of today’s New Jazz.” Wynton Marsalis adds, “The future looks bright for Croker.” I’d agree.

For this 2-night stand, he’ll showcase original material from his soon-to-be-released debut CD. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

Dynamite Club

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Unhinged Asian-inspired punk chaos masquerading as NYC noise-jazz experimentalism or merely an excuse for a whackedout nutjob to run around in his underwear wrestling members his bandmate (and any audience members who stray too close to the BVD fiasco? Who cares? Their sets are rather short, but then again, they expend more energy in a half-hour than most bands do in a whole night. Sat., 11 pm, The Jinx.

Curtis Eller

A bizarre mix of mountain music, silent movie kitsch and the “old, weird America,” this slyly anachronistic songwriter and selfproclaimed “angriest yodelling banjo player in NYC,” started in the biz as an acrobat and juggler, but now writes tunes about such

untapped subjects as snake handling, performing elephants and Jesus. This return to Savannah features his compatriots Al Duvall and Singing Sadie. Fri., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL-AGES.

Musical Salute to Dr. King

This is the 9th year that the Coastal Jazz Association has celebrated the life and enduring legacy of this civil rights leader through music. The bill includes the Savannah Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Teddy Adams and Randall Reese, as well as the Savannah Arts Academy’s Skyelite Jazz Band under the direction of Michael Hutchinson. It’s a great opportunity to see and hear some of the finest veteran and upand-coming musicians our city has to offer, courtesy of the JEA, the Savannah Jewish Federation, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Observation Day Association and the City of Savannah Leisure Services’ Department. A dessert reception will be held during intermission, and best of all, the whole thing is completely free! Tues., 7 pm, The Jewish Education Alliance (5111 Abercorn St.) -ALL-AGES.

Psyche Origami

A shining star on the underground hiphop scene, this Atlanta trio (4 turntables and a microphone) describes themselves as “head change” agents and call their lyrical flow is “2 parts Native Tongue/1 part Carl Sagan.”

Their instantly accessible jazz-infused conscious raps have won them coveted opening slots for obvious choices like Talib Kweli and the not-so-obvious indie-rock gods They Might Be Giants. They’ve also provided

background music for Cartoon Network’s popular Adult Swim block. Pick up on it.

Tues., 11 pm, The Jinx.

Shrimp City Slim

This Charleston singer/guitarist and his band have been playing smooth, danceable “Coastal Blues” for years now to great acclaim in the region. His take on the genre includes elements of Southern boogie, beach and shag grooves and Delta blues. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Wright & Van Etten

Good, good, good. Corbi Wright offers hushed, contemplative acoustic guitar-based “anti-folk” (whatever the hell that means anymore) that’s both naive and extremely nuanced at the same time. The beyond intimate nature of the emotions displayed and the manner in which it is dispatched practically begs for rapt attention and silent contemplation on the part of the audience. Close your eyes and meet her halfway. Plus, if you’re on your best behavior, she just might lull you with a Loren Mazzacane Connors tune.

Friend and collaborator Sharon Van Etten’s dreamy, Brit-folk-infused (think solo Syd or Nick Drake) oblique odes to warm impermanence, a la just-left-Roxy-era Eno or PJ Harvey on Tuinals. Local acoustic artists Joe Nelson and the duo of Jeff & Martha open.

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LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown)- Live Music TBA(10 pm) LUNA LOUNGE @ IL PASTICCIO- The Dave Pfeiffer Quartet (9:30 pm) MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK- Pianist TBA (5 pm), A Nickel Bag Of Funk (9 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS- Live Music TBA (8 pm) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- Jimmy Wolling & Friends (10 pm) METRO COFFEE HOUSE- Lauren Hemard (8 pm) MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB- Live Music TBA (10 pm) MULBERRY INN- The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB- Modern Skirts (10 pm) ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)- Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204)- High Velocity (9 pm) RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head)- Live Music TBA (11 pm)

SAVANNAH BLUES- Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH CIVIC CENTER- The Royal Lipizzaner Stallions (7:30 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER- David Lugo & Latin Jazz Motion (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3- DJ Analog Kid (10 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES- Dueling Pianos (8 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (8 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN- Curtis Eller’s American Circus (8 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)- Karaoke (9 pm) STEAMERS (Georgetown)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)- Robert Willis (7 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE (formerly The Monkey Bar)- Eat Mo’ Music (9:30 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) TURTLE’S (Statesboro)- Listen 2 Three (10 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO- DJ Maybe, DJ Aerochron & Friends (9 pm) VFW CLUB (Hinesville)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) VIC’S ON THE RIVER- Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE- Bottles & Cans (8 pm) WAYS STATION TAVERN (Richmond Hill)- Karaoke (9 pm) WESLEY MON. UNITED METHODIST (429 Abercorn St.)- 1st Friday For Folk Music (7:30 pm) WET WILLIE’S- Live DJ (8 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ- Live Music TBA (10 pm) YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)Live Music TBA (9 pm)

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AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Joey Manning (7 pm) AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ- Thomas Claxton (9 pm), BC & The Rock Mob (10:30 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Karaoke BENNY’S (Tybee)- Karaoke w/DJ Levis BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Karaoke (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)- The Eddie Wilson Trio THE BRITANNIA (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- #@*! Karaoke CHUCK’S BAR- #@*! Karaoke CITY MARKET COURTYARD- Live Music TBA (2 pm) CLUB ONE- DJ Jason Hancock spins Progressive House (10 pm) THE CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DC2 DESIGN (104 W. Broughton St.)- DJ Kiah (10 pm) DEB’S PUB & GRUB- #@*! Karaoke (9 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Randy “Hatman” Smith DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- The Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)- Jon Doe (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside)- Live Music TBA (10 pm) 514 WEST (514 MLK, Jr. Blvd.)- Kim Polote w/David & Alisha Duckworth (7 pm) FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)- Mary Hannah (9 pm) GILLEY’S (Hinesville)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) GUITAR BAR- Black Momma, Handgun Sonata (10 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)- Live Music TBA THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (10 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Shrimp City Slim (9 pm) THE JINX- Dynamite Club (11 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S- Tom O’Carroll KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)- Theo

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AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Joey Manning (7 pm) AQUA STAR RESTAURANT (THE WESTIN)- Ben Tucker & Bob Alberti (11:30 am) AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler)- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ - Chief (9 pm) BELFORD’S - Live Music TBA (6 pm) BERNIE’S (Tybee)- Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9 pm) BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S) - Diana Rogers CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- #@*! Karaoke CHA BELLA- Live Music TBA (10 pm) CITY MARKET COURTYARD- The Courtenay Brothers (1 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island)- Live Music TBA DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) EL POTRO (13051 Abercorn St.)- Karaoke w/Michael (9 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- The Christy Alan Band (8 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (Southside)- Live Music TBA (3 pm) THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)- Buddy Corns (7 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Jeff Beasley (7 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S- Tom O’Carroll MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK- Live Music TBA (11 am) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke

MERCURY LOUNGE- Voodoo Soup (10 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO.- Live Music TBA (7 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB- Live Trad. Irish Music Jam (7:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204)- Karaoke w/Frank Nelson (9 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES- Krazy Karaoke (8 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (3 pm) SEA DAWGS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (1 pm) SLUGGERS- 5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm) SPANKY’S (Pooler)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Live Music TBA UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE- Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE- Thomas Claxton (7 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ- Live Music TBA (5 pm)

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‘Upcycle of Waste’ -- As recycling is a significant and important part of society today, one Savannah College of Art and Design student has made a difference by transforming Savannah landfill and dumpster debris into art. M.F.A. candidate Chris Burton presents “Upcycle of Waste,” his furniture design thesis exhibition that fea-

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‘Now with Kung Fu Grip’ -- Work by Michael Scoggins, Jan. 4–31 at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 East Liberty St. Reception: Jan. 12, 5–7 p.m.

‘Home is where the Art is’ -- Gouache paintings and sewn paper collages by Darla Elam Jan. 3– Feb. 28 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, at Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Drive. Reception, Thursday, January 11 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Gallery.

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by Matt Brunson

Don’t look back in anger

The best and worst of the 2006 film season

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If it weren’t for the confetti, the champagne and the off-key choruses of “Auld Lang Syne,” it’d be pretty hard to tell where one year ended and the next began -- at least as far as the movies are concerned.

The first two months of any calendar year are generally when studios release their tax write-offs, but recent times suggest that some companies have figured out that even this dead time of year can sustain one or two moneymakers.

The summer is when the heavily hyped, ultra-pricey blockbusters are usually uncorked, but studio suits have lately taking to jumping the gun and letting these behemoths out during all manner of months.

And while we can pretty much expect to see the Oscar contenders packed into the last few weeks of December, there are always those occasions when award-bait titles arrive early and arrive often (three of last year’s Best Picture nominees were released before December, with eventual winner Crash having initially hit theaters the previous May).

So maybe that’s why there’s a sameness to the past few annual movie seasons. None

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have stood out as a time of exemplary cinema, nor have any made their mark as particularly wretched stretches of time-wasting film fare.

That’s not meant as praise or criticism, just an observation that we seem to always be getting a standard mix of movies that inspire cheers, jeers or simply shrugs.

Out of the 154 motion pictures I screened over the course of the past 12 months, I saw enough that excited and engaged me -- and made me remember why I love this job. Coming up with the top eight films for my 10 Best list was easy; choosing among four worthy titles for those final two slots was painful.

So even though they head my 10 Honorable Mentions, I’d like to pay extra tribute to Todd Field’s Little Children, an alternately tough and tender drama starring Kate Winslet, and Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, which is merely the best James Bond flick in at least a quarter-century. And now, on with the show.

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THE 10 BEST

1. UNITED 93 (Paul Greengrass).

The best picture of 2006. It’s hard to imagine a less sensationalized 9/11 film than British writer-director Paul Greengrass’ superb docudrama focusing on the morning when all hell broke loose in the US -- and specifically zooming in on the tragic yet inspiring saga of the one hijacked plane which did not reach its intended target. Greengrass repeatedly refuses to take the bait of making a picture that can be tagged as exploitive, propagandistic or too political. Yet his restraint can only shelter us for so long: Ultimately, there’s no defense against our own humanity. Forget all that nonsense about whether it’s “too soon” for a motion picture to tackle this open wound of a subject. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and its vitality in civilization demands that it be allowed to take root according to its own schedule. In the case of United 93, it’s an important film that cries out to be seen now.

2. A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION t (Robert Altman). l Robert Altman’s best film in over a de- a cade -- a delightful adaptation of Garrison i Keillor’s long-running radio show -- man- a ages at once to be a joyous celebration of m life and a glorious primer on raucous show w biz shenanigans. Mostly, though, it’s a pen- s sive meditation on death -- how it hovers m around us, how it haunts us, and how it can inform our every move. The fact that Alt- E man passed away a few months after the film’s release adds a grace note of finality to E this bittersweet exploration of Americana c and the arts. b 3. THE QUEEN (Stephen Frears). l Even those generally bored to tears by t anything having to do with Great Britain’s L royal family (raising my hand here) will en- J joy this majestic entertainment that centers f on the monarchy’s stiff-upper-lip reaction a to the death of Diana back in 1997. Helen o Mirren (as Queen Elizabeth II) and Michael u Sheen (as Prime Minister Tony Blair) both T

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centers on a little girl who escapes the horrors of the everyday world by retreating into a fantasy realm that may or may not only exist in her mind. This is a mesmerizing movie that demands multiple viewings.

7. THE DESCENT (Neil Marshall).

Gory horror flicks are as ubiquitous as Republican scandals, but good ones are a rare commodity indeed. That makes the very existence of The Descent a minor miracle in itself: One of the best horror films in many a moon, this British import, centering on a spelunking expedition in the Appalachian mountains, offers genuinely menacing monsters, dashes of intriguing psychological subtext, and six memorable women whose messy dilemmas allow them to alternate between heroines and villains, survivors and victims, wallflowers and warriors.

8. DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Amy Berg).

This proved to be a choice year for documentaries, as evidenced by the presence of five nonfiction titles in my Top 20. The best of this banner crop is this deeply disturbing piece about Oliver O’Grady, a priest who over the course of three decades sexually molested countless children throughout the state of California. Amy Berg’s movie is as ambitious as any I’ve seen this year: Not satisfied to merely expose this monster, she also goes after the Catholic Church superiors (some still in power) who covered up O’Grady’s crimes. Clearly, even eternal damnation isn’t punishment enough for some people.

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9. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris).

A Sundance hit that later emerged as an unlikely summertime sleeper, Little Miss Sunshine is at its best when screenwriter Michael Arndt sets his sights on that American grotesquerie known as the children’s beauty pageant. Yet even the more familiar aspects of the tale -- dysfunctional family, road trip woes -- seem fresh thanks to Arndt’s clever way with words and the efforts of an excellent ensemble cast.

10. SHORTBUS (John Cameron Mitchell).

New Yorkers grapple with common issues involving intimacy, yet what makes this “feel-good” frolic unusual for an American movie is that it isn’t frightened of sex, it doesn’t reduce the act to insensitive frat boy gyrations, and it doesn’t employ it as a bludgeoning weapon. Shortbus isn’t physically stimulating so much as it’s mentally and emotionally arousing -- it considers the brain and the heart the true erogenous zones, and it morphs from a celebration of sex into a celebration of those most inalienable of American rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Next 10 (Honorable Mentions): Little Children; Casino Royale; The Prestige; Children of Men; An Inconvenient Truth; CSA: Confederate States of America; Willie

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Francis Must Die Again; Wordplay; Shut Up & Sing; V For Vendetta Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland; Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking; Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Matt Damon, The Departed and The Good Shepherd; Toby Jones, Infamous Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen; Sook-Yin Lee, Shortbus; Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby; Judi Dench, Notes On a Scandal; Natalie Portman, V For Vendetta Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen; Ray Winstone, The Proposition; Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children; Sergi Lopez, Pan’s Labyrinth; Simon McBurney, Friends With Money and The Last King of Scotland Best Supporting Actress: Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada; Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel; Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration; Cate Blanchett, Notes On a Scandal and The Good German Overrated: Apocalypto; Babel; Happy Feet; Over the Hedge; World Trade Center Underrated: The Good Shepherd; Hard Candy; The Holiday; Infamous; The Last Kiss Disappointments: American Dreamz; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Nacho Libre; Night Watch (Nochno Dozor); The Notorious Bettie Page continued on page 28

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deserve Oscars for their astute characterizations in this exquisite film that deftly avoids dreary sensationalism every step of the way.

4. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Jason Reitman).

Offering more laughs per square minute than any other film this year (including Talladega Nights and Borat), this lacerating adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s 1994 novel is blessed with a smart premise, killer quips and a marvelous supporting cast. Its primary asset, though, is lead Aaron Eckhart, whose terrific turn as the tobacco industry’s shrewd spokesman should pave the way for more juicy roles.

5. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (Clint Eastwood).

Flags of Our Fathers, the first of Clint Eastwood’s two 2006 releases about the crucial World War II skirmish, wasn’t bad, but it’s Letters from Iwo Jima that’s clearly the masterwork. Whereas Flags told the tale from the American point of view, Letters puts us in the trenches with the Japanese, in effect humanizing them as frightened and conflicted men whose hopes and worries were no different than those of anybody trapped in a war beyond their understanding.

6. PAN’S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro).

Deep, dark and disturbing, Guillermo del Toro’s fractured fairy tale is decidedly not one for the kids. Set amidst the fascism of 1944 Spain, this wildly imaginative film

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1. YOU, ME & DUPREE Hollywood’s favorite character type of late -- the immature man-child who refuses to grow up -- could be found in a wide range of 2006 releases, including Failure to Launch and The Break-Up. Nowhere, though, was he more irritating than in this unwatchable comedy about an obnoxious house guest (Owen Wilson) whose presence threatens to destroy the marriage of the two dolts (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) who invited him in the first place.

2. ALL THE KING’S MEN Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s perverse take on Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel is an unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing, and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period and no clear delineation of its central themes. As Willie Stark, the boisterous Huey Long stand-in, Sean Penn delivers one of the worst performances of his high-profile career.

3. TRUST THE MAN Which man? Certainly not David Duchovny or Billy Crudup, who signed up to play loathsome New Yorkers putting their significant others (Julianne Moore and Maggie Gyllenhaal) through the emotional wringer with their juvenile antics. And certainly not writer-director Bart Freundlich (a.k.a. Mr. Julianne Moore), who’s given us a Big Apple production that’s rotten to its core.

4. BASIC INSTINCT 2 Sharon Stone can still pleasantly surprise us -- her poignant turn in the otherwise negligible Bobby represents that film’s finest acting -- but in this wretched sequel to the 1992 smash Basic Instinct, she’s simply awful, replacing the sexy insouciance from the first film with a beady stare that would seem more appropriate coming from a dead codfish than a calculating nympho adept at playing twisted mind games. In short, this movie’s about as erotic as the dry heaves.

5. THE SHAGGY DOG Disney robs its own cemetery again with this updated melding of 1959’s The Shaggy Dog and 1976’s The Shaggy D.A.; here, a lawyer periodically turns into a canine after being bitten by a 300-year-old sheepdog.

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Allen lifting his leg while using a urinal - which, come to think of it, is where this film’s negative belongs.

6. MAN OF THE YEAR Which year is never made clear, since the arsenal of moldy jokes employed by an increasingly tired -- and tiresome -- Robin Williams (as a comedian who runs for president) seem to predate even the vaudeville era. Apparently, director Barry Levinson knew the laughs weren’t there, as the second hour inexplicably turns into a tepid thriller involving Diebold-style voting machines.

7. THE WILD The glut of animated features this year included the good (Cars, Monster House), the bad (The Ant Bully, Over the Hedge) and the downright ugly. The Wild is a glaring example of the latter, a toxic Madagascar wanna-be featuring the most loathsome cartoon character (Eddie Izzard’s Nigel the koala) to disgrace the screen since Martin Short’s insufferable robot B.E.N. in Treasure Planet.

8. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS A godawful adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir about growing up surrounded by loonies, this surreal eyesore is alternately grating and boring, as deadly a combo as one could imagine sitting through for two unendurable hours. Most of the big-name performers (Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, among others) are either mishandled or miscast.

9. DECK THE HALLS Christmas With the Kranks may forever reign as the worst picture of the 21st century (I’ll get back to you in the year 2100 to confirm), but there’s still plenty of room in the Hall of Shame for this Yuletide stinker. It’s yet one more holiday hack job that champions cynicism and mean-spiritedness before tacking on a phony redemptive ending meant to fool us into believing that we actually sat through something of value.

10. ERAGON Derivative movies can be fun when packaged right (see Independence Day), but this fantasy yarn is so threadbare beyond its plagiaristic tendencies that there’s no joy to be found anywhere. George Lucas should sue.

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Jennifer Hudson couldn’t even make it to the top on American Idol -- what could she possibly bring to the big screen? If Dreamgirls is any indication, plenty. Delivering a knockout performance that all but dares the Academy to ignore her for a Best Supporting Actress nomination, Hudson is a revelation in the role of Effie, the lead singer for the R&B outfit the Dreamettes who’s relegated to backup vocals once savvy yet sleazy manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx) decides that the noticeably thinner Deena (Beyonce Knowles) would better help the Supremeslike group hit it big (the third member, wellplayed by Anika Noni Rose, is content to remain in backup mode). On the narrative

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Anyone who’s seen the trailer knows that the movie has only two things on its mind: 1) Win Will Smith an Oscar and 2) drive up Kleenex profits by unleashing a flood of sobworthy moments. Whether it succeeds in achieving either goal remains to be seen, but 1) Will Smith does indeed turn in a strong performance (though hardly the year’s best) and 2) the picture is skilled enough to generate some genuine pathos to go along with the more calculated melodramatics. This is based on the true story of Chris Gardner, a failed salesman in the 1980s who tries to raise his son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) even as he descends further into poverty. Chris can’t turn around without something bad happening to him -- it’s not enough that he’s struck by a car; he has to then lose one of his shoes in the accident and limp to work with one foot clothed only in a sock. How much of this is factual is unclear -- it’s anybody’s guess whether screenwriter Steven Conrad is laying it on this thick for audience members or whether God had indeed laid it on this thick for the real Chris Gardner -- but the moving and sincere work by Will and his real-life son Jaden (a confidant and relaxed actor) cuts through all pretensions (even the instant happy ending) and allows The Pursuit of Happyness to earn at least some of its tears. level, this adaptation of the Broadway smash is only too happy to wallow in its show biz clichés, content to let other ingredients (the music, the acting) carry it along. Yet Lewis is so powerful that the film suffers whenever we’re left with just Beyonce or Foxx. Luckily, Eddie Murphy is on hand providing some prickly tension as fading star James “Early” Thunder, while writer-director Bill Condon stages the musical numbers for maximum impact. But it’s Hudson who owns Dreamgirls; her delivery of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” is worth a standing ovation -- or at least a recount on American Idol -all by itself.

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This is the new live-action treatment of E.B. White’s beloved children’s book, but there’s already been a dazzling screen version of this tale. No, I don’t mean the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated take, best remembered today for Paul Lynde’s appropriately snarky work as Templeton the rat. Instead, I refer to the 1995 feature Babe. OK, so it wasn’t based on White’s book, but with its story centering around a cute little pig learning about farm life, it shares the same sense of magic and wonderment: As with the book Charlotte’s Web, the movie Babe convinced us that we were witnessing a classic come

to life right before our very eyes. This new screen version of Charlotte’s Web is mostly faithful to its source material (though some expected -- and tiresome -- flatulence gags have been added), but because Gary Winick’s direction rarely rises above the level of competent, and because Babe has already perfected the talking-animal feat via its Oscar-winning effects, the end result is pleasant but not much more than that. As the voice of Charlotte, the spider who befriends Wilbur the pig and plots to save him from the slaughterhouse, Julia Roberts is suitably soothing, while Steve Buscemi provides the proper measure of ego and arrogance as Templeton. The supporting voice actors, including Oprah Winfrey as a goose and horse whisperer Robert Redford as a horse, tend to get lost in the occasional frenzy of the tale, which on screen works better in the more mature passages (e.g. Charlotte explaining the cycle of life to Wilbur) than those focusing on slapdash antics.

We Are Marshall 1/2

In most respects, We Are Marshall traffics in the same kind of predictable underdog uplift championed in The Rookie, Miracle and oh-so-many-others. But real life provided a tragic twist, and that’s what makes the otherwise rote We Are Marshall a cut above the norm. Set in 1970, the picture centers on what transpires in a sports-crazed town in West Virginia after nearly all the members of the Marshall University football team (as well as several coaches and fans) are killed in a place crash. After much hemming and hawing while trying to figure out the right thing to do, it’s decided that the sports program will be resurrected from the ashes as a way of honoring the fallen players.

Cue the entrance of Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughney), an outsider who arrives in town to serve as the new squad’s head coach -- and also to help community members move on with their own lives. Except for Anthony Mackie as the team captain, the actors portraying the players are a nondescript lot, meaning the emphasis is shifted to the adult characters. And it’s these seasoned actors (among them David Strathairn and Ian McShane) who best punch across the heavy burden that threatens to crush the spirit of this town. We Are Marshall is never as emocontinued on page 30

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the Central Intelligence Agency, this is an unlikely candidate to enjoy a wide release during Christmas week. It’s methodical in its style and intelligent in its execution, which in some circles will translate as dull, slowmoving and impenetrable -- hardly words anyone wants to hear during the hustle and bustle of the cheery Yuletide season. Yet patient viewers will find much to appreciate in this chilly yet absorbing drama, which takes the cherished ideal of patriotism and turns it on its head. On the heels of The Departed, Matt Damon delivers another bold performance that seeks no audience empathy -- here, he’s cast as Edward Wilson, whose role as one of the founders of the CIA finds him over the course of several decades having to contend with all manner of Cold War shenanigans, including the presence of a mole within his own agency. Directed with a fine attention to detail by Robert De Niro (who also appears in a key supporting role), The Good Shepherd repeatedly runs the risk of losing viewers with its flashback-laden structure drafted by scripter Eric Roth. But the strength of the film rests in its clear-eyed vision of Edward Wilson, whose fierce devotion to his country in turn strips him of his humanity and reduces him to a suspicious and paranoid cypher, an American too busy fighting unseen enemies to enjoy the freedoms and privileges that his nation provides for him.

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tionally draining as this material requires, but it gives it the old college try and comes close to succeeding.

Rocky Balboa 

Critics generally haven’t been kind to Sylvester Stallone, but even the crustiest of reviewers might feel a protective twinge when faced with the spectacle that is Rocky Balboa. Stallone’s career has been over for years, yet here’s the big lug, now 60, returning to the role that made him a star three decades ago. That there’s now a sixth Rocky movie, coming 16 years after Rocky V, is perhaps the ultimate in both money-grubbing and star groveling, yet because Stallone so obviously loves this great character he created, it’s hard to get worked up in a fury of righteous indignation. My only regret is that Rocky Balboa isn’t a better film. It has some nice touches, particularly in the way it draws upon memories of previous installments, and Stallone is never more human as an actor than when he’s essaying this role.

But the movie spends too much time in idle and not enough in overdrive, and what should be the central storyline -- Rocky comes out of retirement to fight an undefeated champion (Antonio Tarver) half his age -- only takes shape once the picture’s nearly over.

Night At the Museum 

This film plays with fire by employing the services of three overexposed actors -- Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Robin Williams (only Will Ferrell is missing) -- and potentially allowing them to run rampant through an overstuffed fantasy yarn. Mercifully, though, Stiller is muted, Williams is similarly restrained, and Wilson... well, Wilson is still pretty annoying (two out of three ain’t bad). Stiller plays Larry Daley, the new night watchman at a museum where the exhibits come to life after the venue closes for the day. The benevolent Teddy Roosevelt (Williams) is helpful to have around, but Larry has his hands full evading Attila the Hun, dealing with a mischievous monkey, and set-

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tling squabbles between a miniature cowboy (Wilson) and an equally diminutive Roman commander (Steve Coogan). A clever premise (adapted from a children’s book) is hampered by lackluster scripting and directing, though Ricky Gervais provides some choice comic moments as the supercilious museum head. If nothing else, this should command the attention of kids who have grown tired of having their pictures taken with Santa.

Eragon 

The movie is based on the wildly popular book written by Christopher Paolini when he was a mere lad of 15. It was a huge success among most, though not all, teen readers (my 15-year-old daughter, herself

weaned on fantasy, thought it was tripe), and if the movie is faithful to its source material, then the lawsuit-happy George Lucas corporation has grounds to sue for plagiarism.

Let’s see, a naive farmboy decides to take on an evil empire (more so after his harmless uncle is murdered by soldiers seeking the boy) with the help of a wisdom-spouting mentor and a devil-may-care maverick. Oh, and he also has to rescue a beautiful princess from the clutches of an evil ruler and his supernaturally endowed enforcer.

Babel 1/2

An award winner at Cannes and an early favorite for Oscar enshrinement, Babel arrives courtesy of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga, the same team that previously gave us 21 Grams and Amores Perros. Like their past efforts, Babel is a gloom-and-doom dissection of society, whipping between various characters and their interconnected storylines.

I have no doubt that Inarritu and Arriaga were sincere as they set about tackling the Big Issues in this latest film, but in this instance, their reach exceeds their grasp. Their main topic here is the lack of communication that exists between people, a concept already beautifully deconstructed by Robert Altman in his 1993 gem Short Cuts. But whereas Altman focused exclusively on Los Angelenos, Inarritu and Arriaga go global, employing the butterfly effect to show how the consequences of a specific action can be felt around the world. In one plot strand, a Moroccan goat herder (Mustapha Rachidi) buys a used rifle and gives it to his two sons with the order to shoot any jackals that threaten the herd. In a second storyline, an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) on vacation are plunged into a nightmare when the wife is accidentally shot. In another, the American couple’s two children are hauled over the U.S.-Mexico border by their nanny (Adriana Barraza).

And in the final story, a deaf teenage girl (Rinko Kikuchi) in Tokyo grows increasingly frustrated as she’s unable to find any male who’s willing to provide her with love and compassion. The Tokyo interludes register the most strongly largely because they seem the least driven by obvious ideology -- the issues in the other segments, among them border disputes, Middle Eastern ten-

sions and gun control, are handled in ways that feel overly familiar, perhaps because we’ve seen them tackled more adroitly in two other multistory flicks, Traffic and Syriana. There’s a lot to chew over in Babel. But because it’s overstuffed, it also means that there’s a lot not worth swallowing.

Apocalypto 

Flush from making gazillions from The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson used his clout to create a film that under any other circumstances would have been laughed right out of the studio boardroom: a lengthy, subtitled period epic about the Mayan civilization. For a while, it does offer something fresh. Gibson, working from a script he co-wrote with Farhad Safinia, takes us back in time to the waning period of the Mayan civilization, in a small village in which the peaceful inhabitants spend their time hunting for food, absorbing advice from their elders, and playing practical jokes on one another. Chief among the pranksters is Jaguar Paw (an impressive debut

by Native American artist and actor Rudy Youngblood), the proud son of one of the village leaders, Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead). The serenity of the village is forever shattered on the morning that a far more bloodthirsty band of Mayan warriors -- ones aligned with the ruling class residing in an actual city -- descend upon the jungle dwellers, raping the women, abandoning the children, and dragging the men back to their city to be served up as either slaves or human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw manages to hide his pregnant wife (Dalia Hernandez) and young son (Carlos Emilio Baez) before being captured himself, and he vows to return to them no matter what it takes. Considering that the Mayan civilization is justly celebrated for its innovations and complexities, it’s puzzling how simplistic these cultural representatives prove to be. Surely, Gibson will allow the story to expand and deepen during the second half? Don’t count on it. It turns out that Gibson isn’t interested in educating either us or himself; instead, Apocalypto degenerates into a straightforward action flick. Worse, the switch to pure action also allows Gibson to indulge in his by-now predictable sadism.

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The latest from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott is movie porn for the electronic media set. Set in New Orleans, the film opens with an explosion aboard a ferry that kills over 500 people. Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington), an ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agent, is summoned to lead the investigation, and he quickly realizes that the key to the mystery rests with the beautiful – and deceased – Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), whose charred body was found in the same vicinity as those of the ferry victims.

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Casino Royale ranks among the best Bond films produced over the past 44 years.

It easily swats aside the Pierce Brosnan Bond flicks, while new star Daniel Craig vies with Timothy Dalton for second place as the screen’s best 007 (it’s doubtful Sean Connery will ever relinquish the gold). Basically, this new film wipes away the previous 20 installments by going back to when James Bond was first promoted by M (Judi Dench, the only holdover from the Brosnan years) to the level of a double-oh agent with a license to kill. Bond’s first mission of import is to enter a poker tournament being held in Montenegro’s Casino Royale, where he’s to prevent Eurotrash villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a personal financier of the world’s terrorist organizations, from emerging victorious and collecting the sizable pot. Aiding him in his assignment is Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), a treasury agent who proves to be Bond’s match in the verbal sparring department. The character of Vesper Lynd -- one of the sharpest women in the Bond oeuvre -- is just one of the many pleasing touches on view in this slam-bang chapter. Casino Royale is so successful in its determination to jump-start the series by any means necessary that it tampers with winning formulas left and right. When a

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wood’s latest progressive cause seems to be protesting the crimes against humanity being perpetually carried out on the African continent, which is fine when the films are so gripping that one would like to believe they can be used as agents of change (see The Constant Gardener and Hotel Rwanda).

But like Catch a Fire, the recent apartheid drama starring Derek Luke and Tim Robbins, Blood Diamond comes across as a public service announcement more than a motion picture experience. The message (repeated during the end credits) is that consumers should take care not to buy “conflict diamonds,” baubles obtained by mercenaries using slave labor, then smuggled out of war torn countries. The movie’s lofty intentions are hamstrung by having to coexist uneasily with a trio of stock characters. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio in a strong performance, even if his South African accent doesn’t convince for one second) is a devil-may-care opportunist who belatedly discovers he has a heart of gold as large as the diamond he spends the entire movie seeking. Solomon Vandy (magnetic Djimon Hounsou, once again typecast as the noble and suffering black man whose fate seems controlled by the whites surrounding him) is a fisherman brutalized and forced into mining the diamond fields. And Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly, working overtime to add sparks to a thin character) is an American journalist who sounds like an Information Please almanac every time she opens her mouth.

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Writer-director Nancy Meyers, whose previous hit was the similarly sharp Something’s Gotta Give, clearly writes from a privileged perch: Her characters tend to be perversely rich, impeccably groomed and fabulously good-looking. Yet because she has the ability to imbue these high-andmighty figures with flaws and doubts and in the process make them recognizably human, it’s always easy to warm up to her players. Workaholic Amanda (Cameron Diaz), who cuts movie trailers for a living in LA, and mopey Iris (Kate Winslet), who writes for a London newspaper and lives out in the countryside, are both unlucky in love and seeking to get away from the heartbreak of their daily lives. Simultaneously coming across a “home exchange” website, both women realize that they’d be happiest spending the Christmas season far from their troubles. Therefore, Amanda heads to Iris’ quaint English cottage while Iris ends up at Amanda’s luxurious mansion. Initially, men are the farthest commodities from both women’s minds, but a pair of guys do enter the scene. For Amanda, that means Iris’ brother Graham (Jude Law), who initially appears to be a womanizer looking for an easy score. And for Iris, it means Miles (Jack Black), a film composer blessed with a quick wit but burdened with a beautiful but unappreciative girlfriend (Shannyn Sossamon).

How could the tale of perfect, pretty people Diaz and Law possibly compete with the plot strand involving the far more quirky Winslet and Black? Fortunately, both sides of the celluloid coin are equally entertaining.

Diaz displays her comic chops as a frosty career woman who thaws under the gaze of a good man, while Law provides his character with an unexpected puppy-dog demeanor that softens those eyes that have been used to predatory effect in past titles like Closer and Alfie. Winslet, meanwhile, continues to shine no matter what the role -- though in both this and the recent Little Children, she’s been cast as the frumpier of the two leading ladies (in Children, it’s Jennifer Connelly playing the other woman), which is almost risible given her luminescent beauty. As for Black, he was an interesting choice to play the vulnerable composer, and he contributes some of the film’s funniest moments.

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is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of people with disabilities Volunteers meet every first and third Monday at 7 p.m. at Fire Mountain Restaurant on Stephenson Ave. Call Ann Johnson at 897-4818.

Chatham County Democratic Committee

meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. Call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 2345969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www. chathamdems.com.

Chatham County Democratic Women For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Chatham County Young Democrats

is dedicated to getting young people ages 14 to 39 active in governmental affairs and to encourage their involvement at all levels of the Democratic party. Contact Rahsheim Wright at 604-7319 or chathamcountyyds@ yahoo.com or visit www.georgiayds.org.

Chatham County Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyr.com or call Brad Morrison at 596-4810.

Coastal Democrats

Contact Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or R1999MHAR@aol.com..

Drinking Liberally

meets at The Caledonian at the corner of Abercorn and 41st streets, just north of Victory Drive. Promoting democracy one pint at a time -- share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, left-leaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. For information, visit www.

DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

Indy Media Film Night

View films produced by independent journalists, media activists and organizations the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Presented free of charge by Fear No Arts Media. Visit www.fearnoarts.com for film listings and dates or e-mail fearnoarts@ gmail.com.

League of Women Voters

meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. Membership is open to anyone 18 and older.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets each Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. Call 3083934 or visit http://www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

National Council of Negro Women

meets the first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.

Planned Parenthood

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Heather Holloway at 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Volunteers are needed for Planned Parenthood, and will meet the second Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean. For information about volunteering, call Megan Burgoyne at 3524052 or megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Savannah Area Republican Women

meet the first Wednesday of every month at the Johnny Harris Restaurant Banquet Room on Victory Drive. The social starts at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is at noon. The cost is $13 at the door. Make reservations by noon on the Monday preceding the meeting by calling 598-1883.

Savannah Branch NAACP

For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah Republican Club

Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

Savannah Area Young Republicans Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528.

Skidaway Island Democrats

Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.

Auditions

Armstrong Atlantic Youth Orchestra

The Armstrong Atlantic State University and the Savannah Friends of Music will conduct auditions for the spring semester of the Armstrong Atlantic Youth Orchestra on Saturday, Jan. 6 and Tuesday, Jan. 9 at AASU. Auditions are held by appointment only. Students who are interested should call Lorraine Jones at 236-2560 to schedule an audition time. The AAYO will meet Tuesdays from 6:30-9 p.m. at AASU beginning Jan. 9 and ending in May. The membership fee is $85 per semester, but family discounts and scholarships are available.

Cultural Arts Theatre’s Little Women

Auditions will be held Jan. 8 and 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the Black Box at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W Henry St. The production calls for males and females, ages 11 through 50, with an emphasis on young women ages 11 through 22. Be prepared to do cold readings from the script. Call-backs will be held Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m. The play will be presented Feb. 23, 24 and 25 and May 2, 3 and 4. Call 651-6783 or visit www.savannahga.gov/arts.

Savannah Children’s Choir

has two seats available for boys only between the ages of 2nd and 7th grade. Auditions will be held Saturday, Jan. 13 at 9 a.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn

St.., corner of Abercorn and 34th streets.

Rehearsals will be held Sundays from 2-4 p.m., beginning Jan. 14. Full auditions for both boys and girls take place in August.

Call 412-2833 or visit www.savannahchoir. org.

Benefits & Fund Raisers

2007 Southside Fire/EMS Calendars

The Southside Fire/EMS have released their 2007 calendar and a first-ever Girls of the SSFD/EMS poster. The calendar sells for $10 and the posters are $5. The money is raised to benefit victims of fires. Last year, the department donated more than $11.400 to the Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation. Call 354-1011.

Give for the Gulf

is a year-long, comprehensive Armstrong Atlantic State University initiative that will raise funds and provide community services for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. Visit www.armstrong.edu/katrina.

The Hidden Treasure

A book of photography taken at Tybee Island by Dr. Gustave “Stavie” Kreh is being sold with proceeds going to the Chatham Academy at Royce Center for Children and the Marine Science Center of Tybee Island. The book costs $29.95 and may be purchased online at www.tybeetreasure.com and in area gift shops.

Sweetheart Dance

The Alee Shrine Center will hold a Sweetheart Dance with the Fantastic Shakers to benefit the Shriners Hospital for Children on Friday, Jan. 19. The doors will open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. The Alee Shrine Center is located at Skidaway Road and Eisenberg Drive. Call Robert at 790-6961 or Michael at 790-6902.

Tybee Turtle Tour

This program is sposnored by the Tybee Arts Association to raise money to help save turtles through ecological education in a public art forum. Fifty fiberglass statues of sea turtles have been placed around Tybee Island and vicinity, and volunteers are being sought to decorate them. Organizational meetings are being held Wednesdays at 7pm, at the old school behind the new gym on Tybee. Visit www.TybeeTurtleTour.org. The tour will be active through autumn, 2007.

Call for Entries

American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest

Orations must be based on some phase of the U.S. Constitution and give emphasis to a citizen’s duties and obligations. Entrants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and a high school student. Winners will receive scholarships and prizes in the area contest and will then advance to the

department contest. Winners at that level will advance to the national contest. Call Jeb Newton at 233-9277 or a local American Legion Post or visit www.legion.org.

Savannah 5 by 5 Art Show

The Red Kite Studio is calling for work of any medium that is 5 inches by 5 inches. All work will be received as a donation to the American Diabetes Association. Blank canvases are available for $5. All entries must be received by Jan. 19 and will be featured Jan. 26 through Feb. 10. An opening party will held Jan. 26 at 5:05 p.m. Call Creative Approach at 234-7991 or contact Joshua Dunbar at joshdunbar@yahoo.com.

Call for Nominations Buy Local Savannah Awards

One business and one individual will be honored for their active support and involvement of the Buy Local organization.

Nominations must be received by Jan. 19 and can be e-mailed to Madeleine@buylocalsavannah.com or faxed to 603-907-6184.

Classes, Camps & Workshops

6th Annual Specialty Programs Expo

Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools will hold an open enrollment for specialty programs Saturday, Jan. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Savannah Mall. The deadline for applications is Feb. 16 at noon. Open houses will be held Jan. 8 and 31. Visit www.sccpss. com or call 201-4170.

AARP Drivers Safety Program

A two-day class will be held Thursday and Friday, Jan. 11 and 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Generation One. Call 350-7587.

Adult Education

The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers, 1601 Drayton St., offers tutoring Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711.

American Civil War Course Offered

The Georgia Historical Society and Senior Citizens, Inc. are partnering to offer a nineweek course on the American Civil War. It will be taught by Dr. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the GHS. Two books will be used in conjunction with the course: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz and Drown with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War by James McPherson.

The course will meet on Wednesdays from 9:30-10:30 am. beginning Jan. 10 at Senior Citizen, Inc. 3025 Bull St. The cost is $25.

The Senior Citizen Learning Center is for people 55 and older, although younger studetns will be admitted on a space-available basis. Call 236-0363, Ext. 113 or visit www. georgiahistory.com..

the 411|Happenings The Art School

Class offerings include children’s art classes, with afterschool art instruction for ages 6 through teens. Ages 6-8 attend one hour a week for $55 per month. Ages 9 through teens attend one and a half hours per week for $70 per month. Tuition includes supplies. Classes also are available for adults and advanced teens 16 and up Mondays 7-9 p.m. and Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. to noon, with students working in the medium of their choice. Weekly figure drawing sessions are held Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $60 for six-week sessions or $15 drop in. Artists bring their own materals. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required. The Art School is located at 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd., No. B-2. Call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151 or visit www.TheArtSchool-Sav. com.

Art Studio Sessions

Baby sign classes

Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 8-14 months and their parents. The cost is $50, which includes materials. To register, call 355-4601.

Brush with Clay Classes in clay hand-building, open studio, intermediate drawing and painting are offered at CarosArt Studio

in Windsor Forest. Very small clases with lots of extra attention by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Classes are held Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon and Mondays from 6-8 p.m. Inquire about other days. The cost is $100 per six weeks of instruction. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-5465 to register.

Change for the Better Psych-K Workshop Do you have one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake? Put an end to selfsabotage and depression. Start achieving your life’s goals. Release negative, limiting beliefs and replace them with positive, supportive beliefs at the subconscious level to effect positive results in your life. Learn a technique through hands-on practice that you can apply to many areas of your life, for the rest of your life, such as relationships, productivity, prosperity, health, grief and more. Workshops will be held Saturday, Jan. 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

To register, viist http://home.hiwaay.net/ ~north/ or call Jeanne Northington, LPC, at 256-767-3081 or 205-248-9779. Local contact is Marguerite Berrigan at 247-6484 or visit www.psych-k.com.

Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish?

Come to the mesa de espanol the second Thursday and last Friday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For information, send e-mail to cafecontigo@gmail.com.

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Davenport House Docent Training is conducted every February, July and October. Call 236-8097 or send email to jcredle@savbusiness.net.

Fall Visual Arts Classes

The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is now registering students for its fall visual arts classes. Day and evening classes are offered in ceramics, painting, portfolio preparation, jewelry making and stained glass for children, teens and adults. All classes are held at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St.Call 651-4248 or visit www. savannahga.gov/arts.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register.

First Steps parent education program

This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. Call 8196910.

Free Photojournalism Workshops are offered by Morning Star’s Women’s Independence Network. Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-7:30 p.m. or Sundays from 2:30-5 p.m. beginning in January at the Jewish Educational Alliance. Advance registration is required. Classes are open to high school seniors, college and postcollege age people and are intended for those with a career interest. Call 9279922 or visit www.morningstararts.org.

Free Tax School

Earn extra income after taking this course. Flexible schedules, convenient location. The class is free, but there is a small fee for books. Call 352-3862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

Get Published

Coaching and editing services by Christopher Scott, published author and long-time writing teacher. One-on-one coaching, manuscript editing for fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction and memoirs. Call 398-1727 or send e-mail to cscott613@comcast.net for details and rates.

Guided Imagery

Change your life with guided imagery.

Read about it in Oprah magazine, January 2006. Ditch anxiety, manage deadlines, lose weight, recovery from surgery. Call the Alpha Institute, 927-3432.

Highest Praise School of the Arts

of Overcoming by Faith is offering vocal, piano and dance classes that are open to anyone from Pre-K to adult. Visit overcomingbyfaith.org or call 927-8601.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

Free classes will be offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Some classes are on-going.

Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. The Community Computer Lab is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. On Thursday, Jan. 4 from 2-3:30 p.m., The Art of Saying No will be offered. continued on page 34

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Six-week sessions on Tuesday evenngs or Wednesday mornings are offered at the Remshart Row Gallery and Studio on West Jones Street. Small groups. Oils, acrylics and pastels. Help and encouragement in creating successful artwork. Prior experience is helpful but not necessary. Tuition is $125. To register, call 234-5737.

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International Baccalaureate Program Open House

will be held Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. at Sol C. Johnson High School for students and partents interested in applying for admission to the IB program for the 2007-08 school year.

Students currently in the 8th, 9th or 10th grades may apply. Call Jason Buelterman at 303-6400 or buelterman@hotmail.com.

Introducing the Work of Byron Katie

If you have problems, issues with family members that happen again and again, a technique developed by Byron Katie can provide a framework to solve problems.

Workshops that introduce the process of “inquiry,” also known as “The Work,” are offered to the public free of charge and include a 35-minute video presentation The Work of Byron Katie and an individualized sample “Inquiry.” For an appointment, call Ursula Sterling at 598-8233 or send e-mail to sterling@bellsouth.net.

Kicklighter Academy

has immediate openings in its preschool for typically developing children from 6 weeks through 5 years of age. Call 355-7633 to schedule a tour.

Life Challenge Consulting

When would now be a great time to engage yourself in life-changing strategies. Career; stress reduction; spirituality. Free initial halfhour consultation. Call Cindy Beach, M.S., at 429-7265.

Masterpiece Series

Nationally known landscape architect Mary Palmer Dargan will discuss Healing Gardens: Inspirational Techniques for Designing Gardens for Your Home Landscape, on Thursday, Jan. 18 at noon at The Chatham Club. This is part of the Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty’s Masterpiece Series. For information, call 234-3323.

Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

Meditation and contemplation instruction provided as it applies to recovery and maintenance. Classes are held on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. or 7:30-8:30 p.m. Class fee is $12. 313 E. Harris St. For information, call Cindy Beach, M.S., 429-7265.

Photo Safari

with photographer Frank Barevich is an ongoing class offered in conjunction with the Savannah Art Association. Take photos in downtown and learn how to compose a photograph and shoot for the best effect.

Call 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

Puppet Shows

are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler AfricanAmerican Health Information & Resource Center for schools, day cares, libraries, churches, community events and fairs. Call 447-6605.

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

offers a variety of business classes. The center is at 801 E. Gwinnett St. Call 6523582.

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes

Be bilingual. The center is located at 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Call 272-4579 or 308-3561. e-mail savannahlatina@yahoo. com or visit www.savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

TimeShop for Kids

Children ages 8-12 can travel back in time to World War II in the English town of

Letchworth by participating in TimeShop: Wartime England. It is planned for Feb. 3 and 4 at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. The cost is $30. Space is limited.

Call 536-2719 or visit www.timeshopkids. com.

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.

Clubs & Organizations

AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

This is an official student club of Armstrong Atlantic State University that accepts non-students as associate members. It is devoted to the exploration and enjoyment of the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

Activities include book discussions, movie screenings, role playing game sessions, board and card games, guest speakers, episode marathons and armor demonstrations. Provides guest speakers to educators upon request. Call Michael at 220-8129, send e-mail to lightmagus@yahoo.com or mccauln1981@hotmail.com. or visit http:// aasuscifi.proboards105.com/index.cgi.

Bike Night with Mikie

is held every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at The Red Zone Bar and Grill in Richmond Hill.

Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items.

Blackbeard’s Scuba Club

will meet Friday, Jan. 5 at Tony Roma’s, 7 E. Bay St. Seating will begin at 7 p.m., the meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. and the presentation will be at 8 p.m. The guest speaker will be Greg McFall, research coordinator of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, who will present underwater photography on The Gray’s Reef You’ve Never Seen. Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

A special little club for special little dogs and their owners meets one Saturday each month at 10:30 a.m. For information, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ ChiSavannah/.

Civil Air Patrol

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.

Visit www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

Clean Coast

meets monthly on the first Monday at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Check www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

Visit www.cbtc.org for meeting 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. 728-5989.

Code Pink

is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. Meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Queenies To Go Go, 1611 Habersham St. Contact mimi.thegoddessfactory@gmail. com or visit http://fearnoarts.com.

Daughters of Destiny

An ongoing seminar for women who want to make changes in their lives through spirituality and positive reinforcement meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Daughters of Destiny House, 12 E. 41st St. Facilitated by Miriam Center. Call 663-0894.

Discussion Group for Unsung Heroes You may not require recognition but someone else may want to know your story and it could make a difference in your life.

Discussion groups or meetings will be set up. For info, send e-mail to unsung-heros@ hotmail.com.

ESP Enhancement

A bi-weekly group will explore exercises and readings designed to enhance ESP. Offered free of charge. Call 224-2120

English Style Table Soccer

Savannah Subbuteo Club. Call 667-7204 or visit http://savannahsubbuteo.tripod.com.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

meets 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. Call 236-8546.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 184 in Thunderbolt. Call 786-4508.

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Meet new friends and enjoy a welcome break. Hear guest speakers on topics relevant to mothering, along with discussion time, creative activities and more, because mothering matters. Call for the location, date and time of the next meeting. MOPS is for all mothers with children from birth to kindergarten. Child care is provided. Visit www.mops.org or call 898-4344.

No Kidding!

is the area’s first social club for single and married adults who do not have children.

Meet other non-parents at events and activities. For information on No Kidding! visit www.nokidding.net or send e-mail to luluette@prodigy.net.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at Books-AMillion and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m. Call 692-0382, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 4 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. (Time changes with the season.) Call 234-3336.

Savannah Browns Backers

This is an official fan club recognized by the Cleveland Browns NFL football team.

Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at McDonough’s on the corner of Drayton and McDonough streets. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at

Savannah Kennel Club

meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue.

Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier.

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Spiva Law Group, 12020 Abercorn St. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This nondenominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance.

Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 6550994.

Savannah Art Association

meets the second Thursday of the month from 6-8 p.m. Call 232-7731.

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. 447-0943. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

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. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Savannah Fencing Club

offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some 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 savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Jaycees

for young professionals ages 21 to 39 is a Junior Chamber of Commerce that focuses on friendship, career development and community involvement. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is included and there is no charge for guests.

Call 961-9913 or visit www.savannahjaycees. com.

Savannah Kennel Club

meets the fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. from September through May at the Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier.

656-2410.

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would

the 411|Happenings be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Savannah Newcomers Club

is open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends. Call 351-3171.

Savannah Ski Club

The purpose of the club is to bring all snow skiers/boarders in the Lowcountry area together, Membership is $30 for a single and $45 for a family. Call 713-7655 or e-mail SavhSkiClub@bellsouth.net.

Savannah Toastmasters

helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 352-1935.

Tybee Performing Arts Society

Urban Professionals

meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

the 411|Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming year will be a

favorable time for you to prostrate yourself in prayer on mountaintops, to grunt ferocious promises into the night wind while standing on rooftops, to dance yourself into an ecstatic state and then meditate on your life’s bottomless questions, and to make love with funky spiritual grace while flying on a plane. Catch my drift, Aries? Doing anything that combines heights and depths will put you in alignment with cosmic rhythms.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s possible you’ll live for 150

years. Scientific studies on how to outwit the aging process are generating increasingly compelling data, and so is psychospiritual research into the attitudes and emotions that encourage longevity. The coming year will be prime time for you to make yourself aware of these explorations, and to adjust your lifestyle accordingly. Here are two places to start your investigation: (1) the article “I’m Going to Live Forever” at http://tinyurl. com/6w4wh; (2) the book *FantasticVoyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever,* by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman at http://tinyurl.com/nv35y.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. The next meeting will be Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356.

The Young Professionals of Savannah For information, contact Jacob Cottingham at Jacob@thesouthmag.com.

Dance

Adult Ballet Classes

at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun.

All levels and body types welcome. $12 per class or $90 for eight classes. Beginner Adult Ballet is held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Intermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:307:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thrusdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. A variety of youth classes (ages 3 to teen) are available. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Adult Jazz and Tap Classes

The Gretchen Greene School of Dance is offering ongoing adult classes. There are two levels, Beginner and Intermediate, which both meet on Wednesdays. The intermediate program is from 6:30-8 p.m. and the beginner program is from 8-9 p.m.

Both classes consist of a jazz portion and a

Learn the dance while having fun Sundays from 1:30-3:30 at the Doris Martine Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. $2 per person.

Call 925-7416.

Ballroom Dance Party

will be presented by the Moon River Dancers on Saturday, Jan. 20. The basic lesson starts at 7 p.m. and the social dance from from 8-10:30 p.m. at the Islands Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The cost is $10 for non-members.

Beginners and singles are welcome.

Refreshments will be provided. Call 9619960.

Basic Ballroom Class

will be given by the Moon River Dancers on Saturday, Jan. 6 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Broad YMCA, 1110 May St. The cost is $3.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960.

Breffni Academy of Irish Dance

has opened a location in Richmond Hill and is accepting students. The academy is located at Life Moves Dance Studio, 10747 Ford Ave. For information, call Michael or Nicola O’Hara at 305-756-8243 or send email to Dance@BreffniAcademy.com. Visit www.IrishDanceClasses.com.

Dance or learn flamenco in Savannah with the Flamenco Cooperative. Meetings are held on Saturdays from 1 to 2:30 or 3 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance. Any level welcome. If you would like to dance, accompany or sing, contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com.

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome.

Call Mahogany B. at 272-8329.

The Savannah Shag Club

Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 927-9439.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors d’ouerves. There is no cover charge.

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wear them even once, nor will you sneak into your old high school at night and spray-paint obscenities on the walls. In the coming year, you might, on the other hand, get a tattoo of the glyph for infinity. You may obtain a ceremonial sword and use it in a ritual to symbolically cut away a certain dead-end fantasy you’ve been clinging to even though it’s no damn good for you. You could also go on a quest to satisfy your oldest curiosity, and learn a lot about how to control your emotions without repressing them.

friend Angelina Jolie. They’ll balk at that, and the deal will fall through. But then you’ll write a movie script based on your fantasy of the experience you might have had if you had actually done the deal, and you’ll sell the script to a producer who gets Angelina Jolie to be one of the stars. And if that exact scenario doesn’t happen as prophesied, Libra, I bet you’ll have a comparable adventure or two that will revolve around the power of your imagination, your determination to hold out for exactly what you want, and a rich harvest of poetic justice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): From a metaphorical perspective,

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On the first Monday of every

Leo, the 2006 chapter of your life story could have been titled “Asleep in the Garden.” Beautiful fertility and fertile beauty have surrounded you, but you’ve been more aware of them in your dreams and subconscious mind than in your conscious waking life. I expect that to change in 2007. That’s why I’m envisioning a new chapter that’ll be called “Awake in the Garden.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Patriarch Bartholomew, the

Branwyn defines “obstacle illusion” as “something that looks like it will be a huge problem, but turns out not to be.” This is your theme for early 2007, Gemini. You may imagine you’ll have to face a lot of resistance to your dreams, when in fact you won’t. You might even gear up for confrontations that don’t actually need to take place. Ironically, though, the willpower and tenacity you summon while expecting to face difficulties could prove valuable. So maybe it’s fine if at first you don’t realize that the obstacles are illusions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that you won’t punch

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that sometime in the

out Paris Hilton in a bar in 2007. Nor will you buy your own Lear jet, train to be a Shaolin Kung Fu monk, or get a clip-on nose ring. Leather chaps? I bet you won’t

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leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, has a flock of 300 million. Unlike most other religious leaders, he crusades for the preservation of the environment. “To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin,”he says. “For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation; for humans to contaminate the Earth’s waters, land, air, and life with poisonous substances: These are sins.”

The astrological omens suggest that he’ll be a good role model for you in 2007, Virgo. You’ll generate lush personal dividends if you intensify your intention to live in harmony with nature and invoke a spiritual zeal as you defend your planet against its despoilers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): *Jargon Watch* author Gareth

tap dance portion. The instructor is Travis Dodd. For information, call 897-4235 or visit ggsod.com.

coming year two rich attorneys will offer you $20,000 if you’ll deliver a cursed diamond to their shaman in Brazil for exorcism. But you will demand that they not only give you the money, but also introduce you to their good

month, a vision of the Virgin Mary appears on the back porch of Audrey Hoff ’s house in Miami. Even if you usually have no interest in curiosities like this, Scorpio, I predict that in 2007 you’ll be involved in a comparable phenomenon. It won’t necessarily feature the Virgin Mary, but will be in alignment with your particular belief system. So if you’re a Buddhist, you may have dreams of the Buddha visiting your bedroom. If you’re a gay Republican, you might have vivid waking visions of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan making holy love in a log cabin. If you’re an atheist, you could have a series of spectacular epiphanies that prove to you with ever-more certainty that there is no God.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If 2006 sometimes felt like

the Year of Perpetual PMS (even for you men), 2007 will quickly make you forget any bloated, edgy feelings that may still linger. The coming months may in fact feel like the Year of Perpetual Ovulation (even for you men). I bet you’ll often feel horny not just for sexual adventures, but for other kinds of intimate exchanges that make you smarter and wilder.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your power animal in 2007 will be the hare, whose front legs are shorter than its back legs, allowing it to run uphill with exceptional speed. What this means, Capricorn, is that while you will have more ascents to make than usual in the

coming months, you will also be well-equipped to carry them out with efficiency and power. The steep challenges you face might feel daunting to anyone else, but your heightened ability to conquer them will often inspire you to approach them with relish.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some people imagine that the

Aquarian Age, if it ever kicks in, will be an airy-fairy affair, rife with crystal healings and dolphin channeling.

We’ll be surrounded by neo- hippie do-gooders who spread sentimental love. But that’s all wrong. The real Aquarian Age will bring a revolution in our political and economic structures, fueled by the Internet and other technologies. There’ll be intelligent machines with whom we’ll develop complex relationships. Sexual identities will mutate and expand, leading to at least seven distinct genders, and there’ll be a host of new ways to experience erotic pleasure. Advances in anti-aging research, nanotechnology, and genetic manipulation will mutate many ideas about what it means to be human.

You are by no means obligated to be on the front lines of this revolution, Aquarius. But if you do feel inclined to hang out there, 2007 will be the most adventurous year of your life so far.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Picture the Grand Canyon,”

says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. “Every hundred years, a child comes by and throws a mustard seed into it. In the time it takes to fill the hole in the earth with mustard seeds, one mahakalpa will have passed. To perfect the virtuous heart--the joy of integrity--takes a thousand mahakalpas.” If that’s true, Pisces, then you’ve still got a lot of work to do. However, the planets are aligned in such a way as to suggest you could make unusually great progress toward the goal of perfecting the virtuous heart in 2007. For best results, meditate often on the phrase “the joy of integrity.” Get very familiar with the pleasurable emotion that comes from acting with impeccability. And try out this idea from Gandhi: Integrity is the royal road to your inner freedom. w

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The Studio

Gentle Yoga

Ongoing classes include Hip Hop/Funk on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Adult Beginner Ballet on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. There are a variety of advanced classes daily. The Studio is located at 2805 Roger Lacey Ave. just off the intersection of Skidaway and Victory. Call 695-9149 or 356-8383 or visit ww.thestudiosav.com.

Evening classes offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:45 p.m. and lunch classes Monday from noon to 1 p.m. $12 per evening class, $10 per lunchtime class. $75 for an eight-week session. Classes at The Yoga Loft at Womancare, 800 E. 70th St. Call Lisa at 398-2588.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

Wheelchair Ballroom Dance

Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:3011:30 a.m. and Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Dropin rate is $10, $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome. Look on the web at www.jadelotustaichi.com.

The Moon River Dancers now offer ballroom dance classes for people who are disabled. Classes are held the fourth Saturday of the month from 2-4:30 p.m. at the Delaware Center, 1815 Lincoln St. For information, call Charleen Harden at 3087307 or send e-mail to cwh0869@yahoo. com.

The Jewish Education Alliance

Youth Dance Program

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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.

Film & Video

2007 Savannah Film Festival Passes on Sale

The 2007 Savannah Film Festival will run Oct. 27 through Nov. 3. Passes range in price from $150 to $750 and are available now.

Call the Trustees Theater Box at 525-5050 or visit www.scadboxoffice.com.

Fitness

A balanced life

Student massage is offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $30 to $40 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt. com.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes

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.

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing

by certified nutritional consultants. Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays 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 Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at 6:15 am. Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 3558111.

Kundalini Yoga Classes will be offered by Veronica Nance beginning Jan. 8. They will be held consecutive Mondays from 6-7:15 p.m. at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704. The cost is $80 for the entire session.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nia Movement Classes are offered at the Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St. on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:15-8:15 p.m. The cost is $12 for walk-ins or $105 for a 10-class punch card. Call 236-2131 or 350-2467 or visit www.holistic.memorialhealth.com.

Pilates Classes

are offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 819-6463.

Pregnancy Yoga

A special four-week session will be held before the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7:15 p.m.

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in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mother-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery.

The instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $48 for once a week or $80 for twice a week for the 4-week session. Call 596-0584 or send email to ann@aikyayoga.com.

available. Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom. com or call 898-0361.

Three new classes will be offered in 2007.

Drop-ins are welcome. The new schedule is: Monday, 9-10:30 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Sally; and 6-7:15 pm Yoga Basics w/ Heather. On Tuesday, 6-7:30 pm Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Brent. On Wednesday, 6-7:30 pm Hot Yoga All Levels w/ Katie. On Thursday, 4:15-5:15 pm Teen Yoga w/ Heather (Ages 13+); and 6-7:15 pm All Levels Flow w/ Kelley. On Friday, 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:15 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Sally; and 5:45-7 pm, Mellow Flow Yoga w/ Kate. On Saturday, 10-10:45 am Meditation w/ Amanda (suggested donation is $5. 100% of proceeds go to local charity); amd 11-12:15 pm All Levels Flow Yoga w/ Kelley.

On Sunday, 5-6 pm Community Flow Yoga w/ Amanda (cost is $5). The Savannah Yoga Center is located at 45 E. 40th St. Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-6653, email kelley@savannahyoga.com or visit www. savannahyoga.com.

Gay & Lesbian

Savannah Yoga Center

Tai Chi Classes

are offered Mondays and Fridays 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.

Water aerobics at the JEA

The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393. classes taught by Debra Whalen R.Y.T. are offered Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. $10 drop-in fee.

Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

Yoga at Memorial Health

The Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St., offers Gentle Kripalu Yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-11:15 a.m.; Hatha Yoga on Mondays from 5:45-7 p.m.; Integral Yoga on Wednesdays from 5:45-7 p.m.; Hot Yoga on Fridays from 5:45-7 p.m., Amrit Yoga on Saturdays from 10-11:15 a.m. All classes are $12 for walk-ins, $70 for unlimited monthly classes or $105 for a 10-class punch card.

Call 236-2131 or 350-2467 or visit www. holistic.memorialhealth.com. Free Guided Meditation is offered Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. and free Open Meditation is offered Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

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Explore yoga postures for the fuller figure while experiencing stress relief and the healing power of yoga. Six-week session is $70. Classes at The Yoga Loft at Womancare, 800 E. 70th St. Call Lisa at 398-2588.

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Saturday Power Yoga from 9-10 a.m. Sunday Vinyasa from 10:30 to noon and Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. Private sessions are

Yogalates Classes

are offered by St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Center 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.

First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org.

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969.

Georgia Equality Savannah

is the local chapter of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

Savannah Pride, Inc.

meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St. Everyone is encouraged to attend, for without the GLBT community, there wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a need for Pride. Call Patrick Mobley at 224-3238.

Savannah Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winter Down Under

This Australian extravaganza will be held Jan. 14 from 6-9 p.m. at Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar on River Street with an open bar and finger foods. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and are on sale at Urban Cargo at 135 Bull St., Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar at 305 W. River St. or by calling Patrick Mobley at 224-3238.

Proceeds will go to benefit Georgia Equality, Savannah Chapter, and Savannah Pride, Inc.

Standout

is First Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

What Makes A Family

is a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611.

Health

Be Stress Free

Learn to go within, find balance -- access clarity, inner wisdom and peace. This free meditation group meets every first Saturday from noon to 9-10 a.m. at 6205 Abercorn St., No. 203.

Arrive by 11:55 a.m. and go to the front door.

To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@comcast.net or call 247-4263.

Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Sleep?

Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sleep or stay asleep?â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Hypnosis and guided imagery works. Call 927-3432 for more information.

Case Management Program

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St., will sponsor a client assessment and referral service that assists individuals in obtaining health care and medical assistance, indigent services, housing and other social services. Call 4476605 or 232-2003.

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end to self-sabotage and depression.

Start achieving your life’s goals. Release negative, limiting beliefs and replace them with positive, supportive beliefs at the subconscious level to effect positive results in your life. Learn a technique through hands-on practice that you can apply to many areas of your life, for the rest of your life, such as relationships, productivity, prosperity, health, grief and more. Workshops will be held Saturday, Jan. 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. To register, viist http://home.hiwaay.net/~north/ or call Jeanne Northington, LPC, at 256-7673081 or 205-248-9779. Local contact is Marguerite Berrigan at 247-6484 or visit www.psych-k.com.

Circle of Healing

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Community Blood Drives

Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc.

offers free blood pressure checks Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1900 Abercorn St. Call 232-6624.

Community HealthCare Center

is a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for uninsured individuals who work or live in Chatham County and do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. All patients receive free examinations, medicine through the patient assistance program and free lab work. Women receive free pap tests and mammograms. Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify for services. Located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5, Medical Center.

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.

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

This monthly cancer survivors’ walk is free and open to all survivors and their loved ones. Call DeDe Cargill at 398-6654.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings are conducted at three locations within St. Joseph’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. Joseph’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.

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Free hearing & speech screening

Every Thursday morning from 9 a.m.-12 noon at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session

Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium with Dr. John Angstadt and other staff members, who discuss obesity and the surgical process. Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Georgia Cares Medicare Part D Assistance

The toll-free hotline is 1-800-669-8387.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/ AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 231-8727. is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler and Emory.

Patients can receive pre and post-operative care at the clinic rather than travel to Atlanta. Call Karen Traver, R.N. Transplant Coordinator, at 819-8350.

La Leche League of Savannah Call Phoebe at 897-9261.

Lose Weight

like Mark 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. The Alpha Institute, 927-3432.

Maintain Your Brain is a seminar that will be presented Jan. 4 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605.

Mammograms

St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. SJ/C accepts most insurance plans. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

Mammograms will be performed Jan. 4 at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group of the Islands. For an appointment, call 8981122. Mammograms will be performed Jan. 9 and 23 at St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Rincon. Call 354-9357 for appointments. Mammograms will be performed Jan. 17 at St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Pembroke, 159 W. Railroad St. For an appointment, call 653-2897.

Memorial Health blood pressure check are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 3507587.

Memorial Health CPR training

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www. memorialhealth.com.

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St. Joseph’s/Candler and the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive on Friday, Dec. 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds. St.

-- prepare for the silent treatment.

Across

1 Startled silence 5 It gets you backstage 9 Styling stuff 12 Cookie that turns 100 in 2012 13 Oedipus’s father (and murder victim) 14 Memorial Day weekend race, to fans 15 Guy whose job it is to rotate tiny bugs?

17 Kind of boots 18 Counting Crows frontman Adam 19 What a circle with a cross underneath symbolizes 20 Gasoline measurements 23 Lunar features 25 Wisconsin wacko 26 The yellow one, in kid vid 27 It’s between Norway and Pakistan in the U.N. 28 Dryer materials 29 It moves when blinking 32 Wagon wheel groove 33 Subject at Wildebeest Elementary School?

35 Bother 36 Sound from a leaking tire 37 Support for the arts?

38 Site of 1993 accords 39 Like crime dramas, often 41 Stiller role in two movies 43 Cure-all 45 Puts more water in the squirt gun 46 Refrain sung with barnyard noises 47 Fresh alternative 49 Leave off 50 The act of grinding your teeth while thinking about comedian Martin?

54 Branch home 55 Good looks sources 56 Andy Taylor’s kid 57 Poll response 58 Low numero 59 Sommelier’s choices

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1 Word after road or blanket 2 Cremains vessel 3 Black, White, or Andaman 4 “Sweeet!”

5 “1 Night in ___” (noted unauthorized sex video) 6 ___ It Cool News 7 Shipping shortcut 8 Borat’s home country was once one: abbr.

9 City of little magical creatures near the Arctic Circle?

10 Painter Degas 11 Movie reviewer Jeffrey 13 Enticing sort 14 “___ Man” (1993 rap hit by Positive K) 16 Get the guitar ready 19 “America’s Most Wanted” host John 20 Junkyard emanations 21 “The Stranger” novelist 22 Geologist’s explanation?

24 “Invasion of Your Privacy” glam-rock band 26 British sailor, in slang 28 Want bad 30 Let the motor run 31 Opportunities, in metaphor 33 Company with TV ads of irritated cavemen 34 G-Funk rapper ___ Dogg 38 Figure in a 1992 “SNL” controversy 40 Blues-rocker Bonnie 41 Hats with tassels: var.

42 Couturier Cassini 43 Flower that’s a traditional symbol of China 44 Singer/songwriter Mann 45 Wanders aimlessly 48 Russo of 2005’s “Yours, Mine and Ours” 50 USMC rank 51 “___ Escape” (1999 PlayStation game) 52 Game designer Meier 53 “I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song)

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Memorial Health group meditation sessions

way to stop smoking. Call the Alpha Institute. 927-3432.

Memorial Health heart risk assessment

Super 2 Access (After Cancer Cure Evaluation Strategy and Support) is a clinic for children and adolescents who completed cancer treatment at least two years ago. For information, call Pam at 658-2215 or Donna at 667-8943.

are offered free to the public every Tuesday from 5:30-6 p.m. on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine. is held once a month at FitnessOne. The appointment takes about 40 minutes and the cost is $50. Call Midge at 350-4042.

Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture

This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:15-7:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

Memorial Health SET Focus Group

This is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents/ caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. Call Donna at 350-5616 or Saundra at 350-3396.

Narcotics Anonymous

When at the end of the road you find that you no longer can function with or without drugs, there’s a simple, spiritual, non-religious program known as Narcotics Anonymous. Tired of drugs? Want to stop?

Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-2647154.

Psych-K Workshop

Put an end to self-sabotage and depression.

Release negative, limiting beliefs and replace them with positive, supportive beliefs at the subconcious level. Learn a technique through hands-on practice that you can apply to many areas of your life. Sessions will be held Jan. 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Jan. 21 from 9-10:30 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavanah.org.

The Quit Line

a toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for all Georgia residents 18 or older and concerned parents of adolescents who are using tobacco. Call 1-877-270-STOP or visit www. unitegeorgia.com.

Restless Leg Syndrome: Myths and Truths

is a free seminar that will be presented by Dr. Jason S. Speir on Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. To make a reservation, call 819-3368.

Smoke Stoppers

A group-facilitated smoking cessation program will hold an orientation class Jan. 8 at 6 p.m. in the second floor conference room at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. Seven classes will be held over three weeks. The cost is $100. Call 819-6718.

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United Way’s 2-1-1 Program

The mission of this 2-1-1 service center is to provide a streamlined process of receiving health and human service information, as well as providing the opportunity to donate goods and volunteer services. Services include help with debt management, childcare, food pantries, health care and many other problems facing residents of Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Bryan and Glynn counties. Call 2-1-1 (Cell phones must dial 651-7730.) or visit www.uwce.org.

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors

The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for instructors. Call 6515371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross.org.

Nature & Environment Ducks on Holiday

This is the time of year when coastal Georgia plays host to thousands of ducks escaping frozen rivers and lakes. Join a Wilderness Southeast naturalist guide on Saturday, Jan. 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or Sunday, Jan. 28 from 2-4 p.m. to get acquainted with some of the 15 different species of diving and dabbling ducks that hang out at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge on South Carolina Highway 170.

Meet at the Laurel Hill entrance to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. The cost is $10 per person, with a limit of 15 people.

Reservations are required. Call 897-5108.

Dolphin Project of Georgia

Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research which will take place one weekend during the months of January, April, July and October. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit www.

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Take a walk on the wild side

at the Oatland Island Education Center.

The “Native Animal Nature Trail” features a variety of live animals and landscapes and winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats. Located 5 miles east of downtown off the Islands Expressway. M-F:9 a.m.-4 p.m. and most Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person for everyone over 4. 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Visit the center to discover the Georgia coast. The exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures. Beach Discovery Walks are offered Fridays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. Call 786-5917 for information about current programs. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children 3-16. The center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesdays when it is open 9 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers needed for Tybee Marine Center

Tybee Marine Science Center is looking for volunteers interested in supporting educational programs. Help is needed with touch tank presentations, animal care, special events, sea turtle monitoring, outreach programs, gift shop and office duties. Call 7865917 or visit www.tbeemsc.org.

Pets & Animals St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 4 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Time changes with season. Call for time change. Call 234-3336.

Savannah Kennel Club

meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue.

Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier.

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

The Garden Guide of the Lower South

The release of the third edition of this guide, put together by the Trustees Garden Club of Savannah, is available in stores or it can be ordered by mail for $24.50. Checks should be made payable to Trustees Garden Club and mailed to Box 24215, Savannah, 314054215. Include your complete name and address with your order. All procedds go to the club’s beautification and restoration projects.

Seth Material Book Discussion Group

If you’ve read these concepts and would like to discuss them with others, call 224-2120.

The group will meet Mondays at 6 p.m. for 8 weeks. There is no cost.

Tea time at Ola’s

is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660.

Warriors of Christian Poetics

Calling all Christian poets, rappers and singers for a Christian poetry troupe. God is looking for dedicated soldiers in order to evangelize the name and flow of Jesus Christ. If you have a strong desire to serve God through the poetic arts, call 912-4504827. God is calling, but have you been chosen?

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline

The Service of Compline, ”Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ

Church Savannah (Episcopal), located on Johnson Square.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Peggy Lynn’s Country Cooking, 3718 Ogeechee Rd. Call 964-4297.

Christmas Eve Communion Service

will be held Dec. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church. Call 9255924.

Ekklesia, The Church

Do church in a casual and relaxed setting on Saturday nights. Fellowship begins at 6 p.m., praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. in the BSU building on Abercorn between the Publix Shopping Center and the Armstrong campus. Call 596-4077.

Meditation Group

Go within, access intuition and inner peace.

This free meditation group meets every first Saturday day from 9-10 a.m. at 6205 Abercorn St., No. 203. Arrive by 11:55 a.m. and go to the front door. To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@comcast.net or call 247-4263.

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus was a religious leader who came to Jesus by night looking for a way out of the darkness.

He received revolutionary understanding that compelled him to forsake everything to become a disciple. Jesus was considered a heretic for his ra dical teachings that people should give up their own possessions and care for one another instead of themselves.

Would Jesus’ teaching require anything less today?

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 247-4903.

Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group

meets Sundays from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square. Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m.

Sitting and walking meditation and Dharma talk or reading. All practices are welcome.

Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction.

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA) SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Thank You God, for Onions

is a children’s book written by Savannah Christian Church NextGEN Spiritual Growth Pastor Mark Tenniswood. It is for children ages 4-8 and costs $15. The books are available at The Source bookstore at the church.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church

Services begin Sunday at 10 a.m. at 707 Harmon St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. UUBC’s religious education curriculum for ages 4-15 is Creating Our Peaceable Kingdom. For information, call 233-6284 or e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Jan. 7, the Rev. Joan KahnSchneider will speak from the topic The Duration of All Existence, a discussion on our relationship with time. The service will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. in the Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast. net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

Unity of Savannah

will present The Dynamic Laws of Prayer for six consecutive Sundays beginning Jan. 7.

Sessions will be held from 9:15-10:45 a.m.

The book by Catherine Ponders is required reading and can be purchased at Unity Bookstore. A church of unconditional love and acceptance. Sunday service is at 11 a.m.

Youth church and childcare also are at 11 a.m. 2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Calling all Christian poets, rappers and singers for a Christian poetry troupe. God is looking for dedicated soldiers in order to evangelize the name and flow of Jesus Christ. If you have a strong desire to serve God through the poetic arts, call 912-4504827. God is calling, but have you been chosen?

Wildwood United Methodist Church invites you to its morning worship at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday followed by Sunday morning worship fellowship at 10:30 a.m.

Woodlawn United Methodist Church Sunday school is at 9:45, worship at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. 2502 Highway 80, Garden City.

Women’s Bible Study

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

Sports & Games Lacrosse Team Forming

If you are between the ages of 15 and 50 and have the desire to play one of the fastest games on two feet, this is for you. Call 9204568 and ask for John Baer, a former All American Goalie in 1976, an Australian World team selectee in 1982 and a winning coach for nearly 28 years. Some fees will be needed for uniforms and other expenses.

Savannah Area Tennis

will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adults’ Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a high-energy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at 961-9862 or 507-9862 or send e-mail to ctcsavannahga@prodigy.net.

Savannah Disc Golf Club

holds an Open Doubles Tournament at 1 p.m. each Saturday at Tom Triplett Park on U.S. 80 between Dean Forest Road and Interstate 95. New players are welcome.

Teams are chosen by luck of the draw. Entry is $5. For information, visit savannahdiscgolf.com.

Savannah Shamrock Rugby Club

is always looking for new players, no experience necessary. Open practice every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Forsyth Park. Call 663-7415 or visit www. savannahrugby.com.

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027.

Al Anon Family Groups

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 5989860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah. freeservers.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous

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Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group

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of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195.

Fibromyalgia support group

John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a bipolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m.

meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250.

This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com.

First Line

meets Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, 225 W. President St. in the third floor New Beginnings Room. Enter on President Street through the left-hand set of glass doors between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Arrive early, as the entry doors are locked promptly at 5:30 p.m. For information, e-mail DAsavannah@yahoo.com.

will meet every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and every Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Candler Hospital Medical Library Conference Room.

Call 659-2669.

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Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline

The Bulloch County Sexual Assault Task Force has announced a new 24 hour/7 day a week hotline staffed by trained volunteers to aid victims of rape, incest and sexual molestation. The number is 912-531-1771.

CASA Support Group

This support group is for parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCSâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care, or who have been given custody of a family memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s child who has been involved with DFCS and/or has been in foster care. The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

Cancer support group

meets every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon in the board room located on the first floor of St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. 819-2475.

Caring for Us

is a support group for caregivers of ill or injured family members or loved ones. Call Kimberlee Mitchell at 350-3399.

Celiac Support Group

for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 507-2592.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633.

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 3551221.

Compassionate Friends Support Group

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

Debtors Anonymous

Depressive/Manic support group

Open to persons diagnosed with depression.

Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 920-0153 or 927-2064

Diabetes support group

meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at Memorial Health in Conference Room A. Call Robin at 350-3843.

Domestic violence community support group

SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Building at 325 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

Domestic Violence Hotline

The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence, have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-80033-HAVEN

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

Expression Session

will be held Jan. 9 from 6-7 p.m. at the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. The program is open to anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis and their support person or persons and features drawing and painting facilitated by Elisabeth Edge, LPN. Call 819-5723.

Crossword Answers

meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 8196743. is an after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

Food Addicts Anonymous

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center

a program of Hospice Savannah, offers the free counseling services for anyone dealing with loss. Call 355-2289.

HIV/AIDS:living with HIV/AIDS? My Brothaz Homeis a support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House

provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, followup care and parent-child activities funded

by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families.

Please call 236-5310 for information.

Huntington Disease Support Group

meets the last Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital, second floor, Room 2. Call Sandra at 9640455.

Keeping hope alive while living with cancer

meets the fourth Monday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Services Conference Room at the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial Health. Call 350-7845.

Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999.

Lowcountry Huntingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease Group Call Sandra at 964-0455 or visit www.

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Lung Cancer Support Group

is for families who are going through lung cancer treatment and survivors of lung cancer. It meets monthly at Summit Cancer Care. Call Patty Thornton at 350-9385.

Lupus Encouragement Group

A support group that is open to patients with lupus, their family members and friends. 447-6605.

Memorial Health Cancer Challenges Support Group Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Memorial Diabetes Support Group

meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Error Prevention Conference Room. A variety of guests discuss ways to improve health. Call Glenda at 350-3690.

Memorial Health Hemophilia Support Group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Memorial Health Pancreatic Cancer Support Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Call Jennifer Currin at 350-3988.

Memorial Health POPPS! Group

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Memorial Health PRIDEâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Bleeding Disorders Support Group Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

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Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

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is a support group open to anyone who has an ostomy and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Each month, the group focuses on a specific topic related to blood-related cancers and also discusses ways to improve quality of life. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Living without Violence

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1217 E. 67TH STREET Restored Midtown Bungalow $154,000. 2 BR, 1 BA complete renovation, including appliances & W/D, wood floors, front porch, back terrace, nice yard on 3 lots. Call Pam Ensley, The Coastal Real Estate Group, LLC 912-507-1006 2 DECEMBER AUCTIONS (3% agent protected) *1/9 - 1234 E. Park Avenue Start Bid $57K. *1/16 - TBD / *1/23 - TBD Go to SRE123.com, click on “Auctions” GEORGETOWN 37 Beaver Run Dr. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, livingroom, dining room, fireplace, eat-in kitchen with new appliances. New paint & carpet, hardwood floors, large covered patio. Ted Akins, Prime Properties.

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TALAHI ISLAND-7 West Coquena Circle. Lovely 2600 sqft. custom home on large culdesac lot.

3 bedrooms/2.5 bath plus bonus and 2-car garage. Mature landscaping. $379,000. By appointment 912-429-9600.

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Other types of policies may protect you from future events, and you must continue to pay the premiums for as long as you want that protection. Title insurance is (usually) a one-time purchase that actually protects you against losses arising from hazards from the past.

Why is it so important to own clear title to a property? Last year, the biggest issue that title insurers covered was obtaining releases or pay-offs for liens that were discovered during a title search (like unpaid prior mortgages, taxes, child support, etc.) You wouldn’t want to buy a home, and then have creditors show up and say, “Sorry, but the previous owner owes us and this house was the collateral.”

If you question the cost of title insurance, keep in mind that many companies often search records back fifty years or more to discover and correct problems, often without even involving the homebuyer.

Be sure to ask the real estate agent any questions you have about title insurance or other fees included at closing. A little knowledge can go a long way.

ALL NEW TOWN HOMES Ashley Park Town Homes, close to downtown & parkway. 19 units available.

2 or 3 bedroom & 2 ½ bath.

Private entry & parking.

Only $150,000-$175,000.

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525 EaST hEnRY STREET 5 BR 3-1/2 BA home, large kitchen, living room, dining room, fenced yard, W/D, fresh paint. $1,800/mo.

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303 EaST hEnRY STREET apaRTmEnT b uppER 2 bedrooms + bonus room. 1 bath, 2 off-street parking spaces, washer dryer connection, eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors, dishwasher, living room bay window. $850/mo.

313 EaST hEnRY STREET 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, furnished kitchen, washer/dryer, off-street parking. $650/mo.

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Great investment or starter home.

Spacious living/dining area with ample kitchen counter space and cooking areas.

Home has a separate laundry room and a carport with built in shed/storage. Call LaTrelle at 658-7777 to view this well priced home. H-4633 $115,000

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Homes for Rent 1, 2 and 3 BEDROOM All with Central heat/air Go to www.SRE123.com or call 1-800-311-9525 ext. 2

Available for sale as partial or entire floors!

Unparalleled expansive city views. For pricing, appointments and complete details of the Drayton Tower...

Call Dicky Mopper 912.663.5500

Perfect for first time homeowner or downsizing couple. Approx. 1600 sq. ft. on .82 acre. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths; dining room/living room combo and eat in kitchen. Master bath has double vanities and whirlpool bath with separate shower. Two car carport is attached to home. Call LaTrelle for your showing of this adorable home place at 658-7777. H-4625 $103,000

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912.238.0874 Beautiful country lot. This 3 bbdrm/2 bath is over 1300 sq. ft, with over 3/4 of an acre surrounded by many mature trees.

Home includes new paint, new flooring, new metal roof, and new HVAC. Let your worries melt away in this affordable home priced at only $89,900. Call LaTrelle Pevey at 658-7777 and come enjoy it yourself today! H-4627

“I know all the dirt in Greater Savannah, Every Square Foot of it!”

Swim / Tennis Community. 3 bedroom 2 bath with bonus. Over 2500 sq. ft. Great Room has fireplace. Sitting area in master. Eat in Kitchen with separate formal dining room. Traditional brick with side entry garage. View our video at www.

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305 EAST BOLTON #202 871 sqft, 2BR/1BA, brand new construction. Community pool, off-street parking, upscale finishes & appliances, laundry room, private storage. $1700/month. Contact Alex, 912-220-1700.

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Adams Pevey.

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Luxurious 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath condo. Secure garage p a r k i n g, e l evato r, ce nt ra l courtyard, washer/dryer. Close t o e v e r y t h i n g ! Av a i l a b l e 01/01/07. $1,700/month. No pets. Call Monica at 912-547-0688 or mrama1@hotmail.com.

MIDTOWN 2 bedrooms, 1 Bath plus Sunroom. Renovated, central heat/air. $695 monthly.

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Victorian District One bedroom apartment. Hardwood floors, fireplace, central heat/air, washer/dryer, water included. Secured yard. $550/month Call 233-5246 leave message.

Roommate Wanted

$500/$600 ROOMS AVAILABLE in 2, beautiful Victorians. Utilities, cable, internet, W/D included.

Shared common room, kitchen and baths. Quiet neighborhoods, parking, great roommates. Great for SCAD students. Call (510) 520-1041.

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Central heat/air, Full kitchen, Washer/dryer connections, Offstreet parking, Privacy fence.

Available Now. $995/month. No pets. Call 912-213-6444.

3BR, 1-1/2 Bath. Great location.

Near Oglethorpe Mall, Candler & 895 Memorial Hospitals. Central H&A, gas stove, dishwasher, disposal.

Room for Rent Carport, utility room w/washer & dryer hookups & workbench.

4 ROOM APARTMENT Fenced yard. Security lights.

Small pets allowed. Available w/private entrance on 37th & n o w . $ 8 2 5 w / d e p o s i t . W h i t a k e r. N i c e l y f u r n i s h e d w/utilities, washer/dryer, phone, 912-352-8405. cable & TV. Off-street parking.

617 EAST 49th Street: 3BR, 2BA, $195/weekly or $699/monthly, LR, DR, Kitchen, W/D, Hardwood $210/deposit. Call 912-231-9464. floors, CHA. $900/month. Call LARGE VICTORIAN near library.

912-354-6400.

Walk-in closet, fireplace, mini kitchen, phone, cable, internet, WHY RENT WHEN YOU w/d utilities, nicely furnished.

CAN BUY? $140/wk, $504/mo. Seven days. $150,000 as low as Call 912-231-9464. $748/month. Call Paul on 912-257-9500.

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117 LINCOLN STREET Fully furnished, 2BR/1BA, washer/dryer, full kitchen, $2000/month. Contact Alex, 912-220-1700.

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1601 EAST 59th STREET: 3-bedrooms, 2-baths, fully renovated brick house w/garage. Near Midtown & hospital. $950/month.

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Unique 4 bed/ 3 bath home. 4th bdrm. is upstairs bonus with bath and closet. Private yard backs up to protected land that cannot be built on. Quiet southern mornings on the screened in porch that has doors off Master bedroom sitting area and off the kitchen.

Community pool available to cool off in. Call LaTrelle for your viewing of this lovely home at 658-7777 $227,900 H-4663

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REDUCED! Estate sized lot in gorgeous gated community. In ground pool with lighted decking and stereo sound is ideal for entertaining. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, separate Dining Room and a Bonus. Trees frame the front and back yards for privacy. View our video at www.VideoHomeGuide. com/145palmettodrive.htm <http:// w w w. v i d e o h o m e g u i d e . c o m / 145palmettodrive.htm> For your personal viewing of this lovely home with so many extras call LaTrelle at 912-658-7777. H-4610 $349,500.

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1904 WHITAKER STREET: 3 bedroom apartment for rent. Security system, off street parking, hardwood floors, CHA, washe r / d r y e r, f e n c e d b a c k y a r d , $ 9 7 5 / m o n t h . Pe t s a l l o we d.

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201 WEST 42nd STREET: 2BR, 1BA, completely remodeled, washer/dryer hookups. Deposit/Lease required. $575/month.

Downtown Savannah Properties, Inc. 912-447-0401

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