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Pop:
What’s a sell-out, exactly? pg. 19
Review:
Dave Chappelle pg. 28
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Volume 6, No. 49, August 29th, 2007 On the cover: Photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher
Art Patrol 25
Lead Story 8
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Culture 20 Pop!
Scott Howard’s take
News & Opinion
25 Art Patrol
Web-tacular
Movies
13 Feedback
Your letters
All the flicks that fit
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Thursday, Aug. 30 Earnest Murphy in Concert
What: Two-time Grammy-winning tenor Earnest Murphy is one of Savannah’s musical sons, and a graduate of Armstrong Junior College. He will sing music by Mozart, Handel, Massenet, Copland, Gershwin, Sondheim and Sullivan to piano accompaniment provided by James Richardson. When: Aug. 30 at 2:30 p.m. Where: AASU’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: 927-5381.
Savannah Actor’s Theatre continues The Most Massive Woman Wins
What: A comedy/drama directed by Sasha McCurdy about a group of women who are about to undergo liposuction. The theater’s art gallery will feature photographs by Nyssa Travis. When: Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $15 general admission and $10 for seniors and students. Info: mail@savannahactorstheatre.org, www. savannahactorstheatre.org or 232-6080.
The Historic Savannah Theatre’s Return to the 50s continues
Week at a
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Freebie of the Week
2nd Annual Lei bor Day Luau
Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 1 and 2 at 3 p.m. Where: 222 Bull St. Cost: Adults $33 and 17 and under $16. Info: 233-7764.
Daffin Days Lunchtime Talk
What: Share recollections of Daffin Park over lunch with a special guest. When: Aug. 31 at 11:30 a.m. Where: Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Info: RSVP to 819-7788.
AASU Faculty Lecture Series
What: The 2007-2008 Robert L. Strozier Faculty Lecture Series will kickoff with Soups or Sparks: The Battle over Neuronal Communication, presented by David A. Lake, head of the Department of Physical Therapy. When: Aug. 31 at 12:10 p.m. Where: University Hall 156 on the AASU campus. Cost: Free and open to the public.
What: Can’t afford a Hawaiian vacation? With this event so close to home, you don’t need one! Activities will include dancing by The Children of Polynesia and live music by Brother Roy and the Parrot Head Revival Band. There also will be children’s games, hula hoop and limbo contests and lots to eat and drink. When: Sept. 2 from 4-9 p.m. Where: Memorial Park on Tybee Island. The event will be held in the gym if it rains. Cost: Free. Info: www. tybeeluau.com or 786-5444.
Black August
What: This celebration is held nationally each August. Savannah’s celebration will feature Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Kalonji Jama Changa and Ayesha Rivers, plus local and youth performers. When: Aug. 31 from 6-8 p.m. Where: The Village, 410 W. 36th St. Info: 233-8868.
Savannah Sand Gnats What: The Sand Gnats will play the Columbia Catfish in the final four games of the season. When: Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 and 2 at 7:05 p.m. and Sept. 3 at 2:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium on East Victory Drive. Cost: Box seats, $9.50, reserved $7.50 and general admission $6. Info: 351-9150.
First Saturday on the River
What: Enjoy arts and crafts, live entertainment and family fun. When: Sept. 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Where: River Street. Cost: Free.
Starland Farmers Market continues
What: Buy fresh produce and other goods. When: Sept. 1 and every Saturday through October from 9 a.m. to noon. Where: The area of the old Starland Dairy at 40th an Bull streets. Cost: Free. Info: 443-5355, maldorors@ gmail.com or www. starlandfarmersmarket.com.
Blue vs. the Gray Celebration
What: Relive the days when rock ‘n roll was born. When:
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Saturday, Sept. 1
What: To celebrate the end of the summer season, the staff at Fort Pulaski will present cannon firings, skirmish drills, Civil War soldier talks and guided fort tours. The highlight of the day will be an 1862-style baseball game between the members of the 46th New York and the 8th Georgia regiments. When: Sept. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The baseball game will begin at 11 a.m. Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, U.S. 80, 15 miles east of Savannah. Cost: $3 per person, ages 15 and under are admitted free.
Casting Call for American Girl
Little Theatre of Savannah’s Putting It Together continues
What: This is a musical revue celebrating Broadway musical theater’s foremost composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. Songs from Sondheim’s many hit musicals are put together in a way to tell a story about two couples. When: Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $20 general admission, $15 for seniors, military and students and $10 for children. Student Rush Tickets may be available for a reduced rate of $5 if unclaimed reservations and tickets are available 10 minutes before show time. Info: www.littletheatreofsavannah.org.
Savannah Mr. Gay Beach
What: Contestants will vie for the most votes in a competition benefiting the Savannah Chapter of Georgia Equality. When: Aug. 31 at 10:30 p.m. Where: Club One Show Bar, Jefferson Street. Info: Kevin Clark at 944-0996 or www.georgiaequality.org.
What: Talent Source is seeking girls of all ethnicities and body types between the ages of 4 and 11 to pose for an American Girl catalog that will be shot in this area in October. Applicants should arrive in casual clothing, wearing no makeup, and at least one parent must accompany them. No previous experience is necessary. When: Sept. 1 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Savannah Mall Center Court. Cost: Free. Info: www.talentsoucre.com.
Fort Jackson Auction and Shrimp Boil
What: Bid on dozens of items donated by area merchants. The admission price includes a shrimp and barbecue dinner, plus music and historic entertainment. When: Sept. 1 from 6-9 p.m. Where: Old Fort Jackson. Cost: General admission is $18 for adults, $12 for children and free for ages 6 and under. Coastal Heritage Society members get a discounted rate of $15 for adults and $10 for children. Info: RSVP to 651-3673.
Georgia Bulldog Tailgate Party
What: Dress in red and black, enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, salad and nachos and watch the game on a bigscreen TV. When: Sept. 1 at 6:45 p.m. Where: American Legion Post No. 135, 1108 Bull St. Cost: $5. Info: 233-9277.
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Sunday, Sept. 2
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Progressive Recreation Center, 5321 Ogeechee Rd. Info: 233-4161 or 713-1747.
Labor Day Picnic at the Roundhouse
What: This annual event is presented by the Savannah Regional Central Labor Council and the Coastal Heritage Society. It celebrates Georgia’s working heroes and showcases goods and services produced in Georgia. Live entertainment and food are available. When: Sept. 2 from noon to 4 p.m. Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum. Cost: Admission is free, although there is a charge for the food. Info: Call organizer Brett A. Hulme at 507-8037.
The PBR Show continues
What: Writers, actors and creative artists of the Savannah community will share with participatory listeners stories and music of fear and love, adventure and mystery, life and humanity and peanut butter and jelly. When: Sept. 3 and every Monday at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: Admission is $2 and peanut butter sandwiches are available for $2 each. Info: 232-6080 or mail@savannahactorstheatre.org. w
Reel Savannah presents Away From Her
What: Julie Christie stars as Fiona, a woman who is losing her memory to Alzheimer’s. The film is based on an Alice Munro story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain. When: Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. The box office will open at 6 p.m. Where: Victory Theater Stadium 9, at the corner of Victory and Skidaway. Cost: $7.
NAACP Membership Drive and Voter Registration Drive When: Sept. 3
Things you missed while you were away from Savannah…
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arlier this year, ABC was set to film a pilot episode of a show starring Alyssa Milano as a Savannah lawyer. The production was all ready to shoot, and indeed one scene with the former Charmed star was filmed downtown. But then something happened. “The company calculated their gain from state of Georgia’s tax incentive would be about $300,000 on a $4.5 million project,” says City of Savannah Tourism and Film Services Director Jay Self. “But the state of South Carolina could offer them a check for $680,000.” So the entire shoot decamped the Coastal Empire and headed for the Holy City, $380,000 richer than when they started. The catch: The script had to be changed to reflect the location. And that’s how Alyssa Milano became a Charleston lawyer. “One of the conditions to be eligible for the rebate was to call the setting ‘Charleston,’” Self says. “That’s their payoff.” Charleston is also the home of the hit new Lifetime series Army Wives, a production that came there in large part due to South Carolina’s film rebate. “That show’s working entirely out of Charleston,” says Ray Swagerty, production manager for the City of Charleston Department of Cultural Affairs. “They even established their own studio facility and built their own sets,” Swagerty says. “They converted a building that was formerly a warehouse.” Charleston’s gains are Savannah’s losses as our long feature film drought enters its seventh year. Once we were the location of such well-regarded films as Glory and Forrest Gump — not to mention that not-so-well-regarded little number called Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. But now Savannah’s resident talent and technicians are lucky to get work on a straight-to-DVD horror film like the recent indie Side Sho. Michael Shortt owns three local entertainment firms: the talent agency Talent Source, the production company Tandem Productions and the casting and location company Aardvark Production. “I started my business right before My Father, My Son in 1987 and worked non-stop until The Gift in 2000, then it was suddenly like the well had run dry,” Shortt recalls. J.R. Reynolds is a local film and video producer, owner of Videoman Productions, and one of the stars of Side Sho. “Back when Midnight shot here, The Gift, Undertow, a lot more people were willing to move down here and work on mov-
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Above, Savannah native and Hollywood producer Stratton Leopold at a recent speech at the JEA; at right, Jay Self, Savannah Tourism and Film Services director
ies,” Reynolds says. “Then there was the writer’s strike, and then 9/11, and all of a sudden we weren’t getting any films.” Stratton Leopold is a Savannah native and movie producer who’s brought films such as The General’s Daughter to shoot in town. He’s currently working on the next Star Trek film for Paramount Pictures. Leopold says that like most everything else in the movie biz, it all boils down to money. “It’s an incentive-driven business at the moment,” Leopold says. “On the back cover of these trade publications I get there are these big ads that say: ‘South Carolina: We give you cash.’” And they mean that literally. Whereas the state of Georgia offers production companies a base tax incentive of nine percent (twelve if you shoot in an economically depressed area like Fulton County), that’s in the form of a credit that can be taken off the company’s bottom line later. But South Carolina’s much more generous new 20-30 percent incentives are made all the more valuable because they’re rebates, not credits. In other words, the production company gets a big fat check soon after it wraps. “Savannah has a good reputation,” Reynolds says. “People like it here, they like walking around down here – unless it’s August (laughs). But if a small production can save even six or eight thousand dollars going somewhere else – well, that’s a large chunk of their budget.” Other regional tax incentives, all better than Georgia’s,
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“Vendors need to enter a special taxfree ID number. But usually all you have is a piece of paper saying you’re entitled to the tax break,” he explains. “So I often find myself on the phone to Atlanta when I’m out trying to buy phones, computers, and things like that that are often used in movies. I’ll be at Oglethorpe Sedaris-Conn. Savout Jnr. (8.15, 8.29).pdf Mall and have to walk of one store8/10/2007 and
go somewhere else, because someone may not be willing to just take that piece of paper and file it without charging us tax.” Shortt echoes Reynolds’s frustration. “The production incentives we do have are a big joke,” Shortt says. “In order to get the maximum credit the production needs to be located so far out in the sticks that it 3:27:11would PM be impossible to shoot a movie — no
hotels, no airports, no warehouse locations, no crew, no people.” The current incentive was passed in 2005 to much self-congratulatory fanfare by Georgia politicians, but was followed a year later by South Carolina’s devastating retort. In the most recent session of the Georgia legislature, Governor Sonny Perdue had
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Not only are Georgia’s tax incentives low on paper, because of how they’re designed they’re also ineffectual in practice. “Tax credits are worthless to production companies as they generally have little or no tax liability in that state,” Self writes in the 2006 Savannah Film Office report. “The companies sell the credits to brokers for 65-75 percent of their face value,” Self continues. “The brokers then sell them to domicile corporations such as UPS or Coca-Cola in Georgia.” Georgia also offers a sales tax exemption on certain productions, but even that’s a headache to get. “In Georgia the tax break is small, and when you do use it you have problems getting the tax break anyway,” Reynolds says.
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range from Louisiana’s whopping 25 percent credit to Florida’s 15 percent rebate to Mississippi’s 10 percent rebate. “We used to fight Canada for production projects because of the uneven exchange rate,” says Shortt. “Now the fight’s primarily with other states like South Carolina and Louisiana who’ve figured out the obvious: Money talks.” Louisiana’s huge incentive has immediately paid off for that state, and Shortt says in the zero-sum game that is the movie business that means a corresponding loss for other locations. “Within four weeks of Katrina, five movies were back at work down there. Even though the city is about 50 percent of what it was, New Orleans is the main location for a new Miami Vice-type program called K-ville which is being shot there with Cole Hauser and Anthony Anderson,” says Shortt. “I fully expect that show to do for New Orleans what Miami Vice did for that city — and it could have been us,” he says. “In a perfect world, all areas would have the same incentive packages and the deciding factor would be what it was before incentives existed: location, location, location.” While everyone we spoke to agrees that Savannah’s one of the most unique locations a production company would ever want, they also agreed that no matter how good the location, at some point financial incentives will tip the scale. Self says that these days location isn’t as important as it once was. “Movie people don’t have to get as pure a location as they used to because of technology,” he says. “They may go to a place that’s less than desirable from a production designer’s standpoint, and then use technical effects to get it closer to the location they want.” Self continues: “You can come to Savannah and get 360-degree 1850. All you need is to spread around some dirt on the street. But if they go somewhere with a hefty incentive and they’re getting $3 million back from the state — well, it doesn’t take $3 million to build the other side of a street yourself.” The bottom line, Self says, is that “locations no longer hold the monopoly on locations.”
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the opportunity to sign a bill into law that would increase the state’s base tax incentive to a much more competitive 15 percent. But Perdue vetoed the bill as part of his ongoing budget feud with fellow Republicans in the legislature. “I’m so sorry the governor vetoed it,” says Leopold. “The state of Georgia spent quite a bit of money on the Daimler plant, which is just a big field. A film incentive requires no infrastructure, no buildings, no smoke. It’s merely an incentive.” Shortt is even more direct. “What we need first and foremost is to be on a level playing field with other states. If that happens Savannah will get projects. People love coming here to work,” he says. “Until Sonny Perdue and his brain trust get this idea through their tiny little heads, we’re never going to recover.” But Savannah faces its own issues that have nothing to do with poor decisions in Atlanta — namely a talent pool that’s too small and a lack of readily available equipment. “We have an excellent location and an excellent climate — what we lack is infrastructure,” Reynolds says. “The crew that’s here is strong but there are too few of us. There’s limited housing, limited office space, and no basic equipment rental. Everything you want you have to bring in from somewhere else.” Reynolds says those problems are compounded on indie shoots. “We especially see that problem on the small end of the budget scale. These productions have to find housing, have to rent equipment. All that starts to add up until finally it becomes more cost-effective to go elsewhere.” Shortt agrees. “Savannah isn’t deep as a crew town. Everybody who works in our business, with one or two exceptions, who chooses to live here has to travel out of the area to find work. After awhile they just move there because it’s easier to keep working with backto-back jobs,” he says. According to Self, when times were good, i.e., before 2000, production companies would pay the estimated ten percent increase in labor costs required to bring in personnel that Savannah can’t provide, because they deemed our beauty and hospitality worth the extra cost. But that’s changed. As Self writes in the 2006 Film Office report, “The power has shifted from the ‘Creatives’ to the ‘Suits’. In other words, if you don’t have a large incentive, you are not considered. Many projects are now budgeted with specific incentives in mind before a director is hired.” So should Savannah invest more in infrastructure to attract the film industry? That discussion rapidly turns into a chicken-orthe-egg conundrum: Should such investment come first, or should it wait until more prospects materialize? Shortt says it’s not enough to adopt a build-it-and-they-will-come mentality. “With current incentives as ignorantly
Whereas the state of Georgia offers production companies a base tax incentive of nine percent..., that’s in the form of a credit that can be taken off the company’s bottom line later. But South Carolina’s much more generous new 20-30 percent incentives are made all the more valuable because they’re rebates, not credits. In other words, the production company gets a big fat check soon after it wraps. written and as low as they are, it would take place so it’s profitable, so that it’s not somea complete fool to build anything here,” he thing you’re going to have a number of peosays. ple working on a yearly basis that aren’t Shortt says because any public investbeing paid for.” ment would require private partnership, increased funding would be unrealistic. Savannah currently has its own film of“You cannot expect private business to fice, headed by Jay Self, which bears much make an enormous investment in facilities, of the responsibility for recruiting film and equipment and personnel if there are no onTV projects. going productions to utilize their goods and Liakakis says that’s part of the problem. services,” Shortt says. “Therefore we will not “The situation is that our film office is have a camera house, a grip house, truck not aggressive enough and not doing the and trailer rentals, because there’s no ecothings that are necessary to really entice nomic justification for them to be here.” people,” he says. Even on big Hollywood productions, Liakakis says a more comprehensive rental houses supply most of the hardware. marketing effort, highlighting the city’s loTo stay in business, their equipment has to cations and willingness to work with probe rented at least duction 75 percent of companies, the time. would pay “Most peodividends. 2006 by the numbers ple don’t realize However, • Film: Baby Blues, Molly and the Good Shepherd, how expensive Self mainSidesho, Actually Adieu, Love American Style movie equipment tains he al• TV: Hollis & Rea (pilot not picked up); Real Simple; ready spends is,” Shortt says. My Celebrity Home; Destination Wild, Tradition “A camera dolly the bulk of his Community is valued at $40time recruiting. • Commercials: Prilosec, Georgia Tourism, Georgia $70,000, a film Complicating Power, Savannah Morning News, CVB, Veterans, St. his job is the recamera packJoseph/Candler age can easily be ality that “the worth over a mil- • Local TV: Paula Deen Show, Farmer’s Almanac TV majority of the • Still photography: Lo-Jack, H&M, Lands End lion dollars.” projects we acReynolds says • Student projects: Over 50 projects, 26 requiring tively recruit permits. even the smallerare not funded. • Local expenditures: scale craft serMore than 60 Feature films $330,000 vices, like props, percent of them TV $955,000 require far too will never get Commercials $360,000 much capital to made,” he says. Still Photography $560,000 be a good investReynolds Music Video $10,000 ment here. says one area “A props the local oftruck by itself fice needs to costs over $100,000, and what’s in it costs improve is its liaison with local technieven more,” he says. “Nobody’s going to just cians. Currently, he says, there is no masgo out and buy that on their own.” ter resource or job line to consult to find out Before entering politics, Chatham about current opportunities. County Commission Chairman Pete “You have to chase down contacts yourLiakakis was active in the film industry, even self,” he says. “You have to keep calling and serving as Burt Reynolds’s personal bodyasking if there’s work. And sure enough, the guard in the ‘70s. one time you don’t call every three or four He says any significant public investment days, you’ll finally get somebody on the in trying to attract the film industry could phone and they’ll say, ‘Oh, yeah, there was easily turn into a waste of taxpayer money. something available a few days ago, but it’s “You’ve got to be careful about putting filled now.’” something like that together,” Liakakis says. The Savannah Film Office has recently “A soundstage studio here could be ideal, unveiled an internet-based production dibut you’ve got to make sure things are in rectory of local media crew and produc-
tion service companies. The idea is that local crew will enter their information at www.savannahfilm.org/myinfo and production companies can view it when they’re staffing a project. However, the directory only allows contact in one direction — company to worker — and hence still doesn’t address the concern that local workers don’t have a centralized way to pursue job opportunities on their own. As you might expect, Charleston does things differently. Ray Swagerty with that city’s Department of Cultural Affairs says Charleston doesn’t do any film recruiting at all. “My office is chiefly occupied with permits and traffic management, and making sure the residents of Charleston aren’t unnecessarily inconvenienced by any projects that come to town,” Swagerty says. Instead, all TV and movie recruiting for Charleston is done through the South Carolina Film Office, based in the state capital of Columbia. Far from being offended by that, Swagerty welcomes the division of labor. “That doesn’t bother me in the least,” he says. “I’ve come to know all those folks in Columbia, and they’re down here periodically, so I get to put a face with the name.” Swagerty says it’s not always wise for a city to take on the task of recruiting film. “Charleston doesn’t actively recruit, and one reason for that is we don’t have anybody down here with expertise to do that sort of thing,” he says. “We have people in the economic development office who are certainly good at recruiting businesses, but film’s a different animal. Somebody needs to know about the industry to be a good recruiter.” While centralization clearly works for Charleston, it’s also true that South Carolina’s a much smaller state than Georgia. And as any south Georgian will tell you, Atlanta may as well be on another planet for all it cares about anyone or anything below Fulton County. “We can’t trust the state of Georgia to favor us over the rest of the state, and they wouldn’t anyway,” Shortt says. “Atlanta needs and wants production work too. Atlanta will always take care of number one first and give us leftovers.” Shortt, who was on the Savannah Film Commission when Self was hired, says the current model is just fine. “Our original goal for the office was simple: Bring more work to Savannah. I can’t suggest that we abandon our original goal. It was sound then and still is a sound goal today,” he says. “If by some miracle we were to get equal tax incentives, we’d need our film commission more than ever,” Shortt concludes. So is anything going on in Savannah? Self says print business, i.e., photo shoots for product catalogues, is humming right along. Companies like Land’s End, H&M, Chadwick’s of Boston, Chico’s, and Boston Proper have all come down to shoot for cat-
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And now we come to the key question: Do we really want to compete for film and TV productions in such a treacherous climate? Would we be better off concentrating
on less fickle, home-grown industries? In fact, Self goes says he’s content to One player in the local economy who play a waiting game. wished to remain anonymous for this arti“South Carolina actually just decreased cle says we should take the latter course. their incentive, which we kind of pre“Should we be spending our time trydicted,” he says. “Some states are going, ing to get four or five people permanent ‘wait a second, let’s wait until things come full-time jobs here, so they’ll buy a house back down.’ My hope is that once those and contribute to the economy 365 days a numbers get back to a reasonable level, year, or should we spend our time trying to we will not be at the disadvantage we’re at get 300 people to come here three months now.” and then leave, spending their paychecks Liakakis is not enamored of that stratback in California or wherever they came egy, however. from?” the insider asks. “I understand the To which J.R. issue with the incenReynolds replies, “I tives, but the thing is guess that depends what you still need to take business you’re in. If you the lead,” he says. How the years compare sell houses or work in But Self, who’s Direct spending economic impact: also tasked with inreal estate, I guess look• 1995: $10 million ing at that longer term is creasing tourism • 1996: $10,079,000 good.” here, takes a fairly • 1997: $17,598,000 Reynolds says the betholistic approach to • 1998: $21,433,000 ter mindset is to think of the entire issue. • 1999: $13,733,000 movie workers as tourists. “A lot of people • 2000: $8,845,000 “They take up hotel want to attribute • 2001: $2,748,000 rooms, they go out to tourism growth in • 2002: $1,437,000 eat in restaurants. Those Savannah to some• 2003: $4,261,000 workers pay sales tax on thing, so they attri• 2004: $1,929,000 those purchases but don’t bute it to ‘The Book’ • 2005: $1,071,000 use the services, which and ‘The Movie,’” he is a great deal for us,” he says, referring to the says. “The movie business Midnight phenombuilds a buzz about the city and because of enon. that has a significant impact on tourism.” “That did have positive effect, but we Liakakis tends to agree. wouldn’t be at 1992 tourism numbers now “The movie business is a nonpollutif the book had never been published. ing industry. They buy a large amount of Cultural tourism and heritage tourism have supplies, they hire local people to work on grown nationally as a trend,” Self mainmovie sets, they spend a lot of money while tains. housed here in hotels, they spend money “We’ve benefited from many differon food,” he says. “The list goes on and on.” ent things. It’s like saying the only reason Perhaps surprisingly given his position, downtown is vibrant is because of SCAD. Self says we’d be better off not indulging in The truth is, Savannah was already fertile what he calls “the race to the bottom” in the ground,” he says. competition to offer tax incentives. “It’s not just tourism, it’s not just SCAD, “Some states have decided they’re OK it’s everything. All these things feed off with losing money on this. That I don’t beeach other — it’s called critical mass. We’ve lieve is sustainable,” Self says. been teetering on that line for 10 years.”
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We’ll give the last word to Savannah’s most notable film figure, Stratton Leopold. Not surprisingly, he says we’d be fools to stop trying to get movies here. “I produced a movie in Vancouver called Paycheck. While we were shooting that, there were four other movies also shooting in Vancouver, all in the $100 million range. That’s half a billion dollars in production in one medium-sized city,” Leopold says. “That means at least $160 million directly into that economy. But more importantly, there are those multipliers that economists use to show how many times a dollar turns over once it joins the economy,” he says. “The point being that there’s a reason to try and attract film.” Leopold, who also owns a popular ice cream shop on Broughton Street bearing his family name, says one important but underrated long-term impact of the movie industry is that it helps build other local, small businesses. “There’s at least one person in Savannah that has a tour company based purely on the movie business here. At least one book was published here on films and where they were shot in Savannah,” he says. “Those are examples of private enterprise that decades after the films are still generating revenue for people in the city.” Leopold concludes with a vignette from his shop showing the real-world impact of the largely fictional world of the movies. “I get people all the time coming in the shop asking, ‘Could you tell me where such-and-such film was shot? So we start talking, and I’ll show them the artist’s rendering of The Crab Shack on Tybee, where we shot The General’s Daughter,” Leopold relates. “And I explain this to them as they’re enjoying their Tutti-Frutti,” he laughs. w
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alogues recently. “It’s not big glamorous movie stars in Johnson Square, but they’re spending a bundle here,” Self says. “We have more projects per year now than we did back in the ‘90s when we had a few big movies.” Indeed, his office’s report indicates that overall film, video, and still photography spending in Savannah in 2006 was four times that of 2005. Lest we overstate Charleston’s success, it should be pointed out that they’re experiencing a similar phenomenon. “The bulk of what we do is not TV productions or motion picture,” Swagerty says. “The bulk of what we do nowadays is still photo shoots and catalogue shoots.” But Shortt, who’s holding a casting call Sept. 1 for an upcoming American Girl catalogue shoot, characterizes the print jobs here as more of “a trickle.” Self says commercials aren’t coming to Savannah like they used to. “Part of it is the changing trends in the commercial industry. Fewer are shot on location. And a lot of commercials are made using digital techniques,” says Self. “Also, commercials go where there’s lots of talent. Bud commercials are about people drinking beer, not about where they are. We don’t have the talent pool Miami has, for example,” he says. Savannah once attracted a lot of car commercials, but Self says “the American car industry is cutting back on ads as well. They’re very expensive.” Calling the current environment for commercials “a weird place right now,” Self says “With all this online advertising, and ad rates going up but individual viewership going down, there’s a lot of turbulence in the advertising world.”
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ome of you may have noticed a quiet but major change at Connect Savannah within the past week — specifically at our website. It’s still at the same URL, www.connectsavannah.com, but you’ll notice a vast substantive and aesthetic change for the better. The new site allows 24/7 updating and editing. A no-brainer, I know, but the previous site only allowed one data-dump a week. Like I said, vast change for the better. It features staff blogs, currently featured in a box at the lower right. At upper right is a dynamic web version of the popular print feature Week at a Glance. The Happenings are posted in full every week, rather than the sometimes dramatically truncated version that makes it into print. We can post Matt Brunson’s latest movie reviews as soon as he e-mails them rather than waiting until the print version comes out. You can go to Earthweek online and roll your cursor over the icons for the text. There’s an interactive crossword puzzle And so on. It’s just plain better in every possible way. And it looks good. Did I mention it looks good? While the change comes a few months later than many of us hoped, I guarantee that I speak for everyone here when I say if you’re half as happy as we are with the new site, you’re pretty darn happy! Typically any web redesign brings a torrent of negative comments from readers — most totally legitimate, others the predictable whining from the same people who are threatened by any change of any kind, for better or worse. I’m sure we’ll get both kinds of comments. While the basic template is not subject to particular debate, I’m also sure we’ll do our best to act on any feasible improvements you might suggest. Feel free to e-mail your comments to me at jim@connectsavannah.com and I’ll pass them on to where they need to go. Personally, I’ll be trying to come up with the best way to round up online all the small news items I get during the week in the form of e-mails from local organizations and activists. We can’t possibly write a story about all the items, which begin swarming my inbox on Monday morning and don’t let up until late Friday. But there are a lot of groups in town doing a lot of cool things that you should know about. Some of the items sent in are indeed newsworthy and deserving of at least some public dissemination, even if we can’t always devote as much attention to them as we’d like or as the senders would like. Maybe it’s the new website, or maybe it’s another action-packed autumn in Savannah coming up. But for whatever reason, I do be-
lieve this issue of Connect Savannah is the first one ever featuring an opinion column from each of our editorial staffers. I hope it’s the start of a trend. You’ve got this column you’re reading, Linda Sickler’s view of the recent citizen’s recycling initiative, and Jim Reed’s take on the weird crowd behavior at last week’s Dave Chappelle appearance. Yay, us. It’s funny — when you call people out in print by name, you tend to get a reaction from them. Imagine that! I got a call last week from Mary Ellen Sprague about my recent column about her bid for the District 4 city council seat, which happens to be my district. Far from being angered about the column, she was laughing as she left the message. She did gently point out that my characterization of her as an “Ardsley Park socialite” was perhaps a bit over-the-top given her day gig as a tax accountant. Her opponent Clint Murphy also sent me a good-natured e-mail about the column. So it looks like either way my next alderman is going to have a decent sense of humor, which certainly can’t hurt.
Considering the buzzworthy aspect of the topic, two things surprise me about my Lead Story this week on where Savannah’s movies have gone: 1) I’m surprised no one else in the local media has really covered the issue yet; and 2) I’m surprised I never got around to writing about it either. There was a time when Savannah took for granted its extensive role as a movie location. Like many things Savannah has taken for granted, that role is now gone. While some say it’s been replaced by an equally lucrative role as a backdrop for catalogue shoots, there’s no doubt that the local tourism industry gets a boost whenever a movie or TV show is shot here. (Not everyone thinks tourism should even be courted at all; see the letters page this issue for a contrarian viewpoint.) Some say Savannah gets no PR gain if the city’s not mentioned by name in the movie script. It seems to me this is patently untrue. Glory wasn’t about Savannah at all -- most of its historic events happened in and around Charleston -- but a lot of tourists do know the movie was shot here. In any case, I get the distinct feeling that the other shoe has yet to drop in the whole issue of why movies aren’t coming here anymore. I suspect a follow-up will be in the works soon. w Jim Morekis is editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah. E-mail him at jim@connectsavannah.com
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Editor, Editor, Your editorials have certainly changed Since I am the only one in town with a a lot in the past few weeks. The newspaper horse named Wilbur, I’d like to respond to now seems devoted to echoing the reactionthe recent letter writer that is obviously not ary (and dangerous) views of the real estate educated on the care of horses. Our tours hoods, carpetbaggers and property speculaduring this time of year start at 9 a.m. and tors who have hit town to do their damage end at noon, then again from 7-10 p.m. We and clean up before they move on. have enough horses that none of them do You should know better. This is old stuff. double shifts. And there is no “creative class.” There If you’re so concerned about the heat, still is, however, a “working class,” people what about the workers in Ellis who are struggling to exist and feed Square that have to be out in this mouths on Georgia’s ruthall day? What about the kids pracless minimum wage, giving ticing for football season in full Marx’s term “wage slavery” uniform? itor: Ed e th its just and significant I would appreciate it to ss s ro ac er Lett ters from nnah prints let does not if people would not aster meaning. These folks delet Connect Sava a g tin in of ideas. Pr inthe spectrum ment of the op serve all our attention, sume that a carriage ply our endorse edited for be ay necessarily im m rs tte Le . ein er all our focus. horse, because it is walkth d se ions expres y. The others, creing along nicely with m .co space and clarit ah nn s@connectsava E-mail: letter ative or not, will its head down, is being 32 Fax: 912.231.99 ., Suite 7, take care of themmistreated. That is what 00 E. Victory Dr 4 Snail mail: 18 3140 Savannah, GA selves. You say the they are born to do. town needs to “attract” They love their jobs and them. It’s unclear what benget very depressed if they are not efits this will bring. Surely none of the working. poor who have far from benefited from anyDon’t forget, they have been used thing lately. as farm equipment for generations. The town has already sold off much of Pulling a cart of people with a modernized, its public property to SCAD, who use the shock absorbing, full cylinder wheel cart is downtown as a campus. And Broughton nothing compared to pulling a very large Street, which should be a main street for the hoe all day in all kinds of weather. population, is the hub of what is called the If you want to know about the treatment, “tourist center.” walk up to any driver in the city and ask. Can you see how that plays out? An enKelley Tarr tire population relegated to living in whatever shabby Bantustans can be organized Treasuring Tybee while coming into the “tourist center” for Editor, low-paid and hard-earned wages in the hotel The August 22-28 issue was great! You and restaurant industry. covered one of my favorite bands (The Train This kind of set-up will indeed attract Wrecks), my favorite pizza place (Pizza a certain type of person — hardly creative Rustica), and had an interesting column — manipulative and grasping, full of enabout my favorite place in the world (Tybee ergy without intelligence, and determination Island). without scruples. And when they’re “created Robin Wright Gunn’s column was a very out,” they’ll move on to the next place that balanced piece about the many changes that wants to attract them! have occurred on Tybee. I enjoyed her remTrue creativity would consist of throwiniscences about her childhood beach vacaing out the property speculators, making tions. I agree with her that “some of those the school system teach youth to read and condos are just plain ugly.” write and do math, forcing the elected offiTybee has lost some of its quirkiness due cials to guarantee a decent minimum wage to an attempt to become “nicer” and to ac($10/hour at least), and take back the town commodate the maximum number of visifrom the cabal of thugs so everyone can get tors. Hopefully, businesses will continue to on with living. be successful, due to support from residents And never mind listening to Professional as well as visitors. Lecturers and Sleazy Sociologists. Richard However, I think it’s vital to maintain the Florida knows a lot he isn’t saying. They all unique ambience, historical treasures, and do. And if “the Creative Class” message is marine environment that everyone loves. making him a swell living and it happens Sherri Simmons to be rubbish, well, let’s not be too hard on him, he needs to eat too. But you don’t have to fall for it. You, as editor of a newspaper, owe it to everyone to stay away from cranks. It’s always clear what needs to happen. The trouble is, do we have the will? P. Rodriguez
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Citizen’s recycling initiative? So why did it look more like a candidates’ photo op?
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ne day, he’s stumping for recycling, the next John McMasters is running for mayor. Surprise, surprise! McMasters called a press conference Aug. 23 on the steps of the Bull Street Library to tell us he’d filed a Home Rule petition asking the city to collect enough signatures to put curbside recycling up for a citywide vote. Curbside recycling not only is needed, it’s way overdue. The City of Savannah should have started a curbside recycling program decades ago. So what’s wrong with this picture? Candidates are climbing onto the recycling bandwagon as if it’s the latest fashion, wrapping it around themselves in an effort to gain approval from the many residents who’ve been begging for curbside recycling for years. Various candidates for mayor and city council lined up behind McMasters so they’d appear on camera, and some even spoke. But did they really mean what they said? What’s troubling is that they stood alongside
The recycling press conference last week
real, genuine activists for the environment who unfortunately got caught up in all the political posturing. At the time of the press conference, McMasters hadn’t declared his candidacy. However, the minute he told us, “I have been to the state capital at my own expense and time to work with legal counsel to perfect my understanding of Constitutional rights,” the cat was out of the bag. McMasters needs 11,000 signatures on his petition to make it fly. It can be found online at www.savannahrecycling.org, and if it really gets the job done, it’s worth sign-
ing. But should we elect McMasters or any other candidate just because they support curbside recycling? After a few throw-away remarks about recycling, James DeLorme, candidate for alderman-at-large and a perpetual thorn in Mayor Johnson’s side, used the press conference as yet another opportunity to take pot shots at the mayor as well as at his opponent, Alderwoman Edna Jackson. District 4 alderman candidate Clint Murphy at least addressed the recycling issue, but not with any passion or zeal. Thank heavens for Stacey Kronquest, David Kyler and Paul Wolff, who also spoke that day. Kronquest, a member of the Sierra Club Coastal Group, is a true activist. Two and a half years ago, she wrote and posted an online petition (www.petitiononline. com/cleannow/petition.html) asking that the city start a curbside recycling program. That petition already has struck a chord - Kronquest has collected 3,500 signatures without any fanfare or press conferences. “There are 9,000 curbside recycling programs in this country,” she said. “Jefferson Parish, one of the most hardest-hit neighborhoods outside of New Orleans, recently
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voted to re-establish its curbside recycling program. If Jefferson Parish can do this, there’s no reason Savannah can’t do this.” Kyler, executive director of the Center for a Sustainable Coast, asked that we all take more responsibility to ensure that future generations have a world that is “every bit as livable” as the one we occupy. Wolff, Tybee City Councilman and an environmental activist, noted that every year Georgians dispose of 2.3 million tons of recyclables, worth $250 million, at a cost of $93 million. “It costs $342 million to literally throw it away,” he said. The city of Tybee Island is the only municipality in Chatham County that has curbside recycling. “I sincerely hope that Savannah joins Tybee Island and leaves the world a better place,” Wolff said. By the way, McMasters brought his pastor along to open and close the press conference with prayer. If this year’s election stunts get any stranger, we’re all going to need divine intervention. w Linda Sickler is news editor of Connect Savannah. E-mail her at linda@connectsavannah.com
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Those are the only larger units building back right now.” “A big impediment to rebuilding is the increased insurance rates,” he says. “It’s quaAnniversaries are drupled since pre-storm. A $1500 policy is good reasons to catch six grand, fifty-five-hundred, it makes it so a up with friends. With person just can’t make a payment.” Wednesday, August “I feel normal at my house,” says Chris. 29 marking the two year anniversary of “Everything is not normal on the beach. Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in the Gulf Things are looking better, but I can’t say you Coast, it was time this past weekend to would use the word normal.” check in with Chris Hathaway, 72, and Lois “I was so terribly upset over this storm Kelly, 81. The sisters live in Long Beach, and what it had done to our town. Not Mississippi, a town in the Gulfport metro so much to me,” says Lois, “I have felt so area that was slammed by the storm. blessed. I don’t dread August the 29th. I Last July we became friends when a don’t dwell on how bad it was.” team from Savannah Presbytery repainted Chris, retired from a nearby naval base, Lois and her husband’s house. About once stays busy with friends and church, and with a month since the storm, Presbytery volher part time job with a real estate magaunteers from Savannah and south Georgia zine. She continues redoing her house, some have made the ten hour drive to Long Beach leftover hurricane damage, some purely costo assist with clean up and repair. metic work. Lois gardens, sews, and will Both Lois and cook an old fashChris report that on ioned dinner of fried the whole, things in catfish, red beans, Long Beach are lookand vegetables for ing up. anyone who men“The beach is tions they’re hunopen this year,” says gry—especially Chris. “The streets of house-painting volLong Beach are still unteers. She just finbad, but they’re beished making new ginning to fix them.” drapes for the Skellie Long Beach’s family. Her daughter main street is mostly is the mayor’s secreback in business, tary, and they’re all Lois Kelly, standing, preparing lunch to family friends. with two banks, Little Ray’s restaurant, and a Georgia volunteers painting her house, How are people’s and to her husband Bill Kelly, center flooring store. spirits in Long Beach? “City Hall is still in “You never hear trailers north of town, mention of it,” says but the library is open,” says Chris. Lois. “They’ve got a place to buy groceries, The major Katrina damage to Long to go shopping you’ve got to go north. Beach occurred when a 30-foot tall storm “I think people have lived here so long ‘til surge from the Gulf of Mexico washed over this is just a way of life. We’ve been through U.S. 90 and into the first several blocks of lots of storms, you live here and you just acthe town, damaging beyond repair hundreds cept whatever is handed to you. I don’t hear of new houses, old houses, apartments, gas any moaning and groaning, maybe I’m not stations, fast food restaurants, the K-Mart, listening to it.” an elementary school, several banks, and the “I think it’s still pretty upbeat, but I think Baptist and Catholic churches. people are starting to get anxious,” says “They are just now getting the water and Skellie. “Things are getting done but you just the sewage in,” says Lois. “They had to lay don’t see it. It’s not a two year process, it’s a temporary pipes. The town is cleaned up, four or five year process, with the devastathe lots. The Waffle House has been built tion and the slow wheels that FEMA uses to back but they can’t open until they get the ride on.” water in.” After two years, out of state volunteer The numbers are complicated. In total, teams are less prevalent, but Lois and Chris 1,954 properties in the town sustained at still sees church vans from Georgia or Ohio least 50% damage, including 1,085 that were pass through. Skellie says the need for completely destroyed, according to Long skilled labor volunteers remains high—peoBeach Mayor Billy Skellie. Each property ple that can hang sheet rock and run wiring. might be a single family house, a small comThe retired Bellsouth technician had mercial shopping strip, a duplex or a large been mayor for only ten months when the apartment development on a single parcel. storm hit. Rebuilding after Katrina comIn all, 1,300 Long Beach rental units were pletely changed his mayorial to do list. lost in the storm. This in a town of 18,000 Has Skellie run any phone cable recently? people, with an estimated 6,000 housing “Bellsouth called me after the storm to see if units before the storm. I would come back. I said, ‘I’m sorry, I have One of those demolished properties was a job.’” w a 365-unit apartment complex. “They’re building those back,” says E-mail Robin at rgunnsav@bellsouth.net Skellie. “We are really excited about that.
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(1) Amy Mueller filed a lawsuit recently against Samy’s Bar and Grill in Joliet, Ill., after she willingly tried to climb onto the bar to dance in May 2006 but fell and broke her ankle. Samy’s should have had a “ladder” or other climbing aid, said Mueller’s lawyer. (2) Jeromy Jackson and his family filed a $10 million lawsuit in Morgantown, W.Va., in August against McDonald’s because there was cheese on his Quarter-Pounder, which triggered a severe allergic reaction The that required hospital treatment. the Jackson’s lawyer said the family’s order was painstakingly the clear that the burger should be cheeseless, but apparently, after being served, Jackson failed to lift the bun to check.
arrested later that day at his anger-management class. And Rev. Robert Nichols, who for several years had been teaching angermanagement classes for accused criminals in Gary, Ind., was arrested in July and charged with beating his wife.
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(1) Cheveon Ford, 21, was arrested in Pensacola, Fla., in July and charged with making false 911 calls; according to authorities, Ford’s only explanation was that he had no more minutes on his phone and knew that 911 calls were free. (2) In Rochester, N.Y., in June, Eric Kennedy, 38, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for molesting an underage girl over a three-year period, which he partly attributed to his poor eyesight, in that at times he might have mistaken the girl for her mother, with whom he was living.
Ironies
Florida state Rep. Bob Allen was a cosponsor earlier in 2007 of legislation to increase the penalty for “public lewdness and indecent exposure,” such as trolling for sex partners in public restrooms (upping the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony). The bill did not pass, which was lucky for Rep. Allen, who was arrested in July in a men’s room in Titusville when undercover officers said he entered and exited three times in the space of a few minutes, peered over a restroom stall and offered oral sex for $20. After a 25-year-old woman was accused of murdering her father and sister (and wounding her mother) in July in Sydney, Australia, authorities revealed that she had been diagnosed with a psychotic illness in 2006. However, she had been discouraged from seeking psychiatric treatment by her parents because they are Scientologists, who by doctrine reject psychiatry and psychotropic-drug treatment. Great Moments in Anger Management: Raul Ponce Jr., 20, was arrested in San Diego in April and charged with killing his teenage girlfriend by stabbing her 122 times; he was
(1) A 12-year-old girl was sentenced in Perth, Australia, in July to two months’ detention for stealing a car and leading police on a harrowing high-speed chase. According to court records, she has already been convicted of more than 60 crimes. (2) A 7year-old named Alisha told reporters in Reidsville, N.C., in August that she was just being a good daughter when she challenged the man who tried to rob her mom (a convenience store clerk). “I was pushing on him and telling him to ‘back away, back away, man.’” (Her aggressiveness foiled the robbery, but the man got away. Said Alisha, “He should be locked up by his gills and towed to the police.”)
The Benefits of Eye Damage
An estimated 50 followers of Hira Ratan Manek live in the Atlanta area, according to an August Journal-Constitution report, and regularly follow his teaching to stare directly into the sun, supposedly for energy and clarity of thought. Ophthalmologists consulted by the newspaper expressed alarm, even though Manek advises to start at 10 seconds’ time and gradually increase (to 45 minutes!) and to stare only when the sun is near the horizon.
Fine Points of the Law
(1) In July, a federal appeals court ruled that no one could challenge President Bush’s order permitting warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls into and out of the United States, unless it was a person actually eavesdropped on. However, according to law professors cited by the Los Angeles Times, anyone who could prove that would be barred under other national security laws from revealing that fact in public. (2) Pamir Safi will soon be retried in Lincoln, Neb., accused of raping a woman in 2004 (after a hung jury in the first trial), but this time, Judge Jeffre Cheuvront has prohibited prosecutors from using the terms “rape” or “sexual assault” in front of the jury because they might prejudice Safi, who claims the sex was consensual. The alleged victim said she feels humiliated to refer to the incident as mere “sex.”
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The Orient Industry Co. of Tokyo each month turns out 80 life-size, anatomically correct and finely detailed “love dolls” that retail for the equivalent of $850 to $5,500 each, for men who would rather hang out with toys than women, according to a July Reuters dispatch. The more expensive models are admirably life-like, made of silicon and with 35 movable joints. Reuters found one customer, Mr. “Ta-Bo,” who owns at least two dozen of them (each with a name), even though he claims to be seeing five real women on the side. “Sex with human girls was better,” he said, “but I hate the process of dating.” In July, a tractor-trailer overturned on Walker Road in Norridgewock, Maine, and its contents of nitrogen-concentrated chicken manure spilled onto rusted cars and the rest of the property of junk dealer Richard White. Days later, “There’s stuff still 20 feet up the tree,” he said. “It was like a tsunami wave of hot chicken (manure),” he told the Waterville Morning Sentinel. White grumbled that the truck company was slow on the cleanup, probably, he said, because his property is largely junk. “They think I’m a hick and don’t matter. But my life didn’t smell like this before.” And “I hate flies.”
Recurring Themes
Another prominent company of very large dancers is flourishing (this one in Cuba), performing with remarkable grace the forms of classical ballet, and even popular steps, despite sometimes thundering across the stage, “convey(ing) an excitement akin to a stampede,” according to a July New York Times dispatch from Havana. Like others (such as Henri Oguike’s Big Ballet in the U.K.), Danza Voluminosa is home to talented ballerinas who happen to be much too hefty (several around 300 pounds) for traditional troupes. Danza capitalizes on its bulk by offering storylines on gluttony, fat prejudice and the psychological problems of obesity.
Recent Alarming Headlines
(1) “(British National Health Service) Dentists Turn Away Patients With Bad Teeth” (a May report in London’s Daily Telegraph) (compensation is sufficient only for routine treatments). (2) “Indian Lawyers Tie Man to Tree, Beat Him” (a May Reuters report from Lucknow, India) (the man had declined to marry one lawyer’s niece). (3) “Principal Admits Throwing Excrement (at a kid)” (an April story in the Toronto Star) (said suspended principal Maria Pantalone, “I couldn’t take it anymore”). w
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• A member of the Gutter South Crew was already behind bars when robbery detectives charged him with two counts of armed robbery. Alphonso Henneghan, 19, was in jail on charges stemming from a string of robberies and attacks on local Hispanics in June and July. He was arrested July 27 for those attacks. As the investigation continued, he became a person of interest in other robberies. Detectives have linked Henneghan to the July 18 armed robbery of two Hispanic men visiting Savannah and staying at a Southside hotel. Both victims were robbed at gunpoint and Henneghan allegedly made off with their cash and wallets. Neither of the victims was injured. They recently returned to Savannah and identified Henneghan as their attacker. • An officer was called to a Mills Run Drive service station on a report of a domestic dispute. A woman at the scene told the officer her boyfriend had hit her in the mouth the evening before while they were at her residence. Bruising was visible on the inside of the woman’s upper lip, and an upper front tooth, which was false, had been knocked out. She said her boyfriend hit her because she broke up with him when she discovered he was married and living with his wife. She said she didn’t call police because she was afraid. The next day, the woman drove to the service station and called police because the man called her and told her she wasn’t to date anyone or he would harm her. She said he referred to his brother, who was said to have stabbed someone, in reference to what he’d do to her.
• An officer on routine patrol saw a car drive through a red light on Waters Avenue at Washington Avenue. The officer turned on the patrol car’s lights and the car slowed and appeared as if it was going to stop at 51st Street and Waters Avenue. Instead, the driver continued on. The officer turned on the siren but the driver still wouldn’t stop, so the officer announced himself on the PA and advised the driver to pull over. The driver waved his arm out the window in response, but still wouldn’t stop. The officer called for another unit because the driver began to move inside the front compartment of the vehicle. He finally came to a stop at his residence on East 55th Street. As soon as he pulled into the yard, he began honking his horn and moving inside the vehicle again. His family came outside, apparently angry. The officer asked the man for his driver’s license, which he said was in the house, but a check revealed the man didn’t have a driver’s license and didn’t own the car he was driving. • A woman reported that the rear windows of her van, which was parked on Packard Avenue, had been shot out. An officer looked inside the van and saw a hole through the rear seat and a hole in the passenger front seat. The round seemed to have stopped inside the front seat. The woman said she heard about 10 gun shots the previous night, but didn’t call police. The officer spoke with neighbors who all said they heard the shots but didn’t call police. One woman said she not only heard the shots, she observed a young man fleeing the scene on a bicycle. She also didn’t call police.Fifteen shell casings from a 9mm hand gun were found on Second Avenue at the lane between Packard and Paige avenues. The area was checked for a victim and area hospitals were called, but no victim was located. w
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Camel Deaths
Camel breeders in Saudi Arabia’s Dawasir Valley reported that a “mysterious disease” killed hundreds of their animals within a four-day period. The country’s agriculture ministry said that 232 camels died suddenly, but breeders claim the number is much higher. Veterinary experts in Dubai believe a toxin rather than an infectious disease most likely killed the camels. “Camel diseases are very well-known and documented, and there’s no disease that makes such sudden deaths,” Dr. Hesham Fahmi told the Gulf News. Camels are big business in Saudi Arabia, where Bedouin tribes sell them for thousands of dollars each. The animals are used for racing, and their meat is considered a delicacy.
Earthquakes
Strong aftershocks continued to rock coastal Peru, where an 8.0 magnitude temblor killed more than 500 people on Aug. 15. A massive international relief effort was launched to aid the survivors amid an emerging health and humanitarian crisis in the quake’s aftermath. • Earth movements were also felt in metropolitan Tokyo, the southern Philippines and along the Tanzania-Kenya border region.
Eruptions
An eruption of Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano killed five people and displaced more than 2,000 others, according to state media. The Ethiopian News Agency confirmed that Erta Ale, the country’s only known active volcano, forced nomads to flee lava flows in the Afar region during the previous week. The report said lava has also “polluted” and dried up rivers in the region. • Alaska’s historically most active volcano
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Tropical Cyclones
Typhoon Sepat left 33 people dead, nine missing and a trail of destruction in eastern China’s Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan provinces. Thirteen of the fatalities occurred in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, where a tornado spawned by the typhoon ripped through the city and toppled 156 houses. Sepat had earlier slammed into Taiwan as a Category 3 storm. • Hurricane Dean roared through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico as the thirdstrongest storm at landfall in the Atlantic basin since records began. Dean was a Category 5 hurricane when it moved ashore in a sparsely populated area of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
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ipsters have long argued the merits of selling records out of your trunk at dive bars versus using The Man’s money to finance and distribute subversive anti-materialist rants. The recent release of the This Is Next: Indie’s Biggest Hits Volume 1 compilation and a forthcoming Sonic Youth retrospective exclusive to Starbucks have thrown several gallons of diesel onto the eternal flame that is the selling out debate. But what once was a quaint attempt for trust fund kids to protect their indie cred by making sure their favorite bands would be forced to keep their day jobs now seems closer to the ravings of a lunatic captain hell-bent on going down with his ship. Despite a ridiculous name reminiscent of epic rightwing book titles like Bernard Goldberg’s Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve or John Stossel’s Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media, This Is Next: Indie’s Biggest Hits Volume 1 is a nondescript mixtape of perfectly reputable songs by artists that are indie either in actuality (Ted Leo, M. Ward, Deerhoof) or in spirit (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Cold War Kids). It was assembled by a consortium of independent and major boutique labels who will each share in the profits, and MTV2’s Subterranean – aka the tattered remains of 120 Minutes – will air advertisements for the disc in the coming weeks. Vice Records label manager Adam Shore said in an interview that “the focus is going to be Wal-Marts, big box stores, red states, and TV advertising – to really go beyond... We don’t really expect indie rock stores to support this record. It’s for the casual fan.” In other words, it’s targeted at kids like me who grew up in a small town where there were no college radio stations, no indie record stores and no way to experience underground music. Hopefully they’ll catch a video on MTV, buy the compilation, move to Williamsburg and spend their days collecting Volcano Suns b-sides. Sure, the idea for the whole thing is a little far-fetched, but who cares? All that can possibly come of this is some people discovering music that they wouldn’t have heard otherwise and a few cash-strapped labels making a little money in the process. M. Ward’s “Chinese Translation” and Cat Power’s “Lived In Bars” are old news for music nerds, but hearing them for the first
time may change the tastes of a kid in Wyoming or Arkansas forever. And independent labels desperately need a sales boost. Though new albums from Arcade Fire and Spoon debuted in the Billboard Top 10 this year, those successes are bright spots in an industry on the verge of collapse. Like it or not, the money that comes from mainstream exposure floats the boat for everyone. It’s pretty simple: Sigur Rós gets played on CSI: Miami, people hear the song and buy the album, their small label gets some of the profits, the profits are redirected to finance Vashti Bunyan and Animal Collective records. Everyone wins, except maybe David Caruso. So what has been the reaction of indie tastemakers? Shock and horror. Pitchfork, the extremely influential site that single-handedly launched the careers of bands like Tapes n’ Tapes and Deerhunter and whose reviews are held in the same regard as Rolling Stone’s forty years ago, gave it a big fat 0.0 out of 10 in a piece that’s basically an indictment of money. Hipsters simply cannot abide by a package modeled after the NOW! That’s What I Call Music series that’s intended for Wal-Mart sales. Don’t get me wrong; I have the utmost respect for anyone who works outside of the system. Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat has spent his life creating a business model just as revolutionary as his music, refusing any corporate involvement whatsoever. But did Sonic Youth sell out by using David Geffen’s money and Starbucks’ promotional juggernaut to get their work to the widest audience possible? Did The Clash, The Velvet Underground, The Ramones and David Bowie all sell out when they signed to a major label? Using the system to get your music out is not a sin. There is such a thing as crossing the line, though. If you want to attack some sellouts take a look at The Hives, avowed socialists who are currently doing ads for Nike. Using corporate money to fund your art is one thing, actively promoting products made by sweatshop labor is quite another. w Scott Howard is a writer, artist and allaround media gadfly. Write him at sahoward@gmail.com or scott-howard.com. To comment e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com
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First Annual P.U.R.E. Exhibition - Photographers Using Real Elements is a local cooperative devoted to celebrating the darkroom process in photography. This show features the silver gelatin photography of Kathleen Thomas, Bill Ballard, Michelle Phillips and others. Sept. 7-30 at the Starland District’s Starlander Café, 11 East 41st St. Opening reception Friday Sept. 7, 7 p.m.-until. David Fesperman -- This ‘green’ artist uses recycled beverage cans to make metal, geometric sculptures. His work is on display at next weekend’s First Saturday on the River on River Street. ‘Take the Burden’ — Solo painting exhibition by SCAD foundation studies professor Gregory Eltringham explores the everyday interaction of individuals within their allotted spaces. Aug. 27-Oct. 7 at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. ‘New Vision’ -- This summer, juvenile offenders in the Savannah Impact Program summer project were given cameras and a short tutorial in taking photos. Their visions of Savannah will be viewed for the first time at the Growing Hope Gallery Expo on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Starfish Cafe, 719 East Broad Street. Chelsea Jones -- Photography by this artist is on display at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., Sept. 1-30. Reception Thurs. Sept. 13, 6-8 p.m. ‘Tact’ -- 3D work in all media, opening reception Aug. 31, 7-9 p.m., show ends Sept. 5. At Desot-O-Row Gallery 2427 Desoto Ave.
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Group Show — The Grand Bohemian Gallery at the Mansion on Forsyth Park is currently featuring artists John Duckworth, Irene Mayo and Jean Claude Roy. Gwen Flinn and Shirley Daniell — The artists of the month at Gallery 209 are painter Gwen Flinn and jeweler Shirley Daniell. 209 E. River Street. Sue Gouse and Theresa McGraw — Painter Gouse and photographer McGraw are the artists of the month for September at the JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Gallery 440 — New works in clay by Barbara Duch. Other artists include Olivia McKinley, Tim Coy, Dicky Stone, Charlotte Dunlap, Morgan Kuhn, Frances Walter and owner Fran Thomas, at Gallery 440, 440 Bull St.
‘Recognoscere’ — Photography by Sarah Anderson and Tony Leonhardt at Dimensions Gallery, 412 MLK Jr. Blvd.
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From a whisper to a scream Iconic folk-ricker Peter Case hits town
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What’s most appealing about touring solo? Peter Case: A lot of my favorite music is that way. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved country blues artists like Lightnin’ Hopkins. To hear a song stripped down to the basic strength and truth... It’s not a real mellow thing. It goes from a whisper to a scream,
you know? I always thought my solo shows were rock shows, but instead of having to listen through a band, you can get to the lyrics much more directly. I love playing this way. It was actually what I was looking for in all the bands. There’s a very real sense of two-way communication. It can turn on a dime, and you can be very spontaneous as an artist. It puts you in touch with the worth of the songs. That’s the great thing about music. It takes you to a surprise and opens a door that you didn’t even know was there. That’s why playing solo is so great! You’ve got the ability to surprise the audience, and often, yourself.
been like that. I’m not a nostalgic. People remember me from The Plimsouls and Dave Alvin from The Blasters, but all of us have done some of our best work since then, you know? We were young.
You’ve done shows lately with John Doe of X, and both of you guys came of age in a certain time period and scene. Do you miss those days, or are you glad they’ve passed?
Peter Case: Definitely. I’ve got a blog that I’ve been doing for a long time. It gives you a chance to connect directly with folks everywhere who care about what you do. I feel like if Woody Guthrie were alive today, he’d be all over it. He’d have an incredible blog about his take on things, just like he used to write all those letters.
Peter Case: I’m really glad I was there for that. I’m still in touch with a lot of those guys — Dave Alvin, John Doe, Stan Ridgway are still great friends of mine. It’s a period I’m proud of, but at the time it was so exciting it seemed it would never end. I live in the present, not in the past. I’ve always
Has your website (www.petercase.com) had a big positive impact on your career?
What’s best about being Peter Case in 2007?
I have to be thankful for the way the road’s gone. I think maybe I’ve made my strongest album at the age of 53, or whatever I am now. I’m still on fire with music and inspired by the things that I hear. I’m still turned on by making records and have high hopes for the next one. w Peter Case plays an ALL-AGES show 8 pm Friday at The Sentient Bean. Charlotte, N.C.’s female acoustic quintet The Near Misses open. $10 cover at the door.
Peter Case: (laughs) I’m happy just to still be working, making my music and my art.
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or over 30 years, songwriter and guitarist Peter Case has been a key figure in the American power-pop, roots-music and neo-traditionalist folk and blues movements. Initially gaining a modicum of fame and a ton of cult notoriety as a member of seminal L.A. bands The Nerves (“Hanging on the Telephone”) and later The Plimsouls (“Zero Hour,” “A Million Miles Away”), he walked away from the world of distorted amps and elaborate soundchecks in 1984 and struck out on his own as a solo artist — releasing a string of beautiful albums on labels big (Geffen) and small (Yep Roc). His work is known and loved by artists from Bruce Springsteen and Joe Ely to John Prine and Bob Neuwirth (most of whom have recorded their own versions of case’s tunes), as he’s a restless musicologist who uses tradition as fuel for his seemingly undouseable creative flame. In what’s seen by many in Savannah as a small coup, local counterculture coffee house and performance venue The Sentient Bean will present Case this weekend for an intimate solo show in support of his brandnew (and highly praised) disc Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John. I caught up with Case by phone on tour in Tuscon, Az. for a chat (complete transcript at www.connectsavannah.com).
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ast Wednesday night, Savannah was treated to a rare visit by superstar standup comic Dave Chappelle. Unfortunately for Chappelle — a consummate professional and one of the most savvy and insightfully caustic comedians working today — he was treated to a shocking display of rudeness, insensitivity and narcissism on the part of the assembled crowd. One can only imagine he has already added Savannah to his mental list of cities never to return to again. The show itself was a complete sellout, and a sizable minority of the audience seemed completely oblivious to the fact that they ruined the show for everyone else around them — not to mention the artist they purportedly respected enough to shell out $47 to see — which only makes the whole ugly mess even more shameful. Approximately 2,500 Chappelle fans filled the Johnny Mercer Theater by a few minutes after 7 p.m. to the bass-heavy strains of old-school hip-hop emanating from an otherwise silent live DJ near the back of the theater’s stage. Having been one of the first 10 people in line at the Civic Center Box Office when tickets went on sale, I was thrilled at having scored myself and some friends seats in the orchestra pit approximately five feet from the lip of the stage. Logic would dictate these would be the best seats in the house. However, the first hint our experience might not be pleasant came when I saw there were no speakers aimed toward the pit. In other words, the intro music and, ultimately, Chappelle’s own microphone were directed past us, toward the back of the the-
ater. Sure enough, when he took the stage, it was infuriatingly apparent that those of us who’d made a special effort to grab good seats couldn’t hear jack. All we got was a cacophonous, echoey slap-back off the walls of this room which suffers from notoriously poor acoustics to begin with. Within the first 20 minutes of his routine, my friends and I could actually make out about 15 percent of what he was saying. The rest of it sounded like a Greyhound Bus Terminal announcer. There was no excuse for this. The soundman in question is a veteran Savannah-based engineer who’s likely worked countless times in that room over the years, and the entire situation could have been easily remedied with a simple array of four small speakers placed at regular intervals across the foot of the stage. I can’t stress enough how disappointing and frustrating it was to be mere feet from the performer, and literally have to strain to guess what he was saying. Jokes made no sense, his famous rapid-fire delivery became a jumbled and incoherent mess, and one had to hope he looked your way so you could try to read his lips. Luckily, I found two unoccupied seats about 15 rows back and my companion and I moved to where we could actually hear most of his act, but these difficulties paled in comparison to the endless — and I do mean endless — barrage of random screaming, heckling, and full-on conversations an unbelievable number of people in the mostlywhite, mostly college-age crowd somehow thought were appropriate.
“Make all the noise you want,” he said with a resigned chuckle. “I got paid b e f o r e t h e s h o w. ”
I’ve been to shows before where I was agog at the boorish and self-absorbed antics of Savannah crowds, but most everyone seems to agree this one takes the cake. Who pays $50 to show up someplace and relentlessly interrupt a show? What would make anyone think that a professional entertainer appreciates drunk and/or idiotic folks in the crowd hollering nonsensical sounds, suggestions, threats, and/or the performer’s own catchphrases at them while they’re in the middle of telling a story or making a serious point? It’s true that Chappelle’s conversational manner and moments of bemused self-reflection do conspire to make his fans feel they’re in a relaxed bull session with an unusually witty (and famous) friend. But so what? Who treats a friend like that? To his credit, Chappelle did his best to roll with the punches, as when he repeatedly referred to the seemingly unconcerned “security guards” (who did virtually nothing to stop people from walking right up to the stage and trying to hand him drinks —and business cards for their “neighborhood bar”— or ask for autographs IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOW) by calling one ineffectual guard “Andy Griffith” and attempting to whistle that TV show’s theme. But much more telling were two comments he directed square at the audience. At one point — after pleading with people to stop interrupting him — he said in a dejected tone, “I think some of you mother@#$%ers would’ve been better off staying at home watching one of my DVDs.” The second went by awfully fast, and I assume most of the braying jackasses didn’t even catch it: “Make all the noise you want,” he said with a resigned chuckle. “I got paid before the show.” w Jim Reed is music editor of Connect Savannah. To comment e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com
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A few years back, this local (mostly) instrumental combo got its start in the corner of this darkwood brew-pub on bustling Bay Street. It was a relatively inauspicious debut in a venue not particularly known for hosting live music, but the band has grown from those humble beginnings to become one of the more popular funk/soul/smooth jazz outfits around. Their current lineup of bass, drums, trumpet and electric wah guitar features a few of the most versatile and technically proficient players in the area (including Doug Povie and Bart Zipperer, both of whom are known primarily for their stints in local rock acts), and I’m told the group has been woodshedding, working up their own takes on tunes by everyone from Stevie Wonder and Grover Washington, Jr. to Sade and Santana. If you’ve never fancied yourself a jazz fan, but definitely enjoy laidback, groove-oriented live music in an informal setting, give these cats and this unpretentious nightspot a try. You may find them both a refreshing change of pace from the standard bar and band scene in Savannah. Sat., 8:30 pm, Moon River Brewing Company.
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Bloodkin
Minor legends on the Athens, Ga. scene, this Stones-y blues-rock act sound like The Black Crowes with an inspiration transfusion. Frontman Daniel Hutchens has written a handful of songs cut by Widespread Panic. Thurs., 10 pm, French Quarter Café (Statesboro).
Bottles & Cans
Trashy, swinging Delta blues-based garage-rock. Wed., 9 pm, Bay Street Blues + Thurs., 10 pm, Savannah Blues + Fri., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.
The Chuck Courtenay Band
Noteworthy local honky-tonk, country and Southern rock band. Their show marks the grand opening of a new bar/restaurant and live music venue in this fast-growing community, and finds them welcoming back their ace drummer Jesse Jordan, who’d been sidelined due to knee surgery. Wed., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (w/Bucky Bryant) + Thurs., 6 pm (solo), Stingray’s (Tybee) + Fri., 8:30 pm, Glazer’s (Richmond Hill).
Jeremy Davis & Equinox Jazz
Hard-bop combo led by a transplanted Louisiana-bred saxman. Sat., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.
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One of the most versatile area electric blues bands. Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.
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Tx.-based modern hard rockers, who often donate a small portion of their ticket sales to help U.S. veterans of current conflicts with their health care costs. With openers alt.metal act The Exies. Wed., 7 pm, Monkey Business (Hilton Head).
Fire & Rayne
Touring acoustic guitar cover duo. Fri., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s + Sat., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s (Richmond Hill).
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A female jazz vocalist with piano accompaniment— playing standards. Fri., 7 pm, Vic’s on The River.
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G.E. Perry & Strange Brew
Local blues-rock act fronted by a talented guitarist known for his slide work. Sat., 9 pm, Isaac’s on Drayton.
Ralph Sampson’s Paper Jam
Local act featuring members of popular area jam-band Turtle Folk, plus (on Friday’s gig) special opening act, up-and-coming regional organic pop/world-beat act Sol Driven Train. Wed., 9 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.) + Fri., 10 pm, Loco’s (downtown).
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THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
The Big Band Brass Bash Septet (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
The Jeff Beasley Band (9 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS
Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE JINX
Live Music TBA (11 pm)
JUKEBOX BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill) KASEY’S GOURMET GRILLE
Two Originals (9 pm)
KATHLEEN’S (Beaufort)
Eye To I (9 pm)
KEVIN BARRY’S
Carroll Brown KING’S INN
Karaoke (9 pm)
KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)
Live Jazz Music TBA (8 pm, 9:30 pm, 11 pm) LOCO’S (downtown)
Ralph Sampson’s Paper Jam, Sol Driven Train (10 pm) LUNA LOUNGE @ IL PASTICCIO
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)
LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort)
Chuck Courtenay & Bucky Bryant (7 pm)
BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR
STEAMER’S (Georgetown)
THE BREW PUB (Hilton Head)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
DaddyGrace (10 pm)
Ralph Sampson’s Paper Jam (9 pm)
#@*! Karaoke
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
Chuck Courtenay (6 pm)
Pianist Joyce Leuttich (5 pm), Bottles & Cans (9 pm)
Karaoke (7 pm)
TANTRA LOUNGE
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.) GILLEY’S (Hinesville)
HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.)
Karaoke (10 pm)
IGUANA’S (St. Simons Isl.)
Live Music TBA
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
The Bobby Ryder Quartet (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
Jeff Beasley (7 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS
Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE JINX
Rock & Roll Bingo w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (11 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S
Harry O’Donoghue KING’S INN
Karaoke (9 pm)
THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)
Open Mic Night (9:30 pm)
LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown)
Team Trivia
LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort)
Branan Logan (6:30 pm)
MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK
Pianist Frank Bright (7 pm)
MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE
Barry Johnson
MCDONOUGH’S
Karaoke
MERCURY LOUNGE
The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm)
MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB
Open Mic Night (10 pm)
MONKEY BUSINESS (Hilton Head)
Drowning Pool, The Exies (7 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB
Celtic Karaoke (9 pm)
NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)
Live Music TBA
ONE HOT MAMA’S BBQ (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (8:30 pm) PANINI’S (Beaufort)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
Live Music TBA
THE QUARTER SPORTS BAR (Tybee)
“Georgia Kyle” Shiver (10 pm) ROBIN’S NEST (Pooler)
Matthew St. John & Tim (8 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES
Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER
DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)
Dueling Pianos (8 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE
“Return To The ‘50s” (8 pm) SLUGGERS
5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)
Randy “Hatman” Smith (6 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)
Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca
TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB
Karaoke w/Michael (10 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)
Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (6 pm) VENUS DE MILO
Industry Night
THE WAREHOUSE
Thomas Claxton (7:30 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ
Karaoke (8:30 pm)
THURSDAY
BUFFALO’S CAFÉ (Hinesville)
MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS
Jude Michaels (8 pm)
TIKI HUT (Hilton Head)
MCDONOUGH’S
#@*! Karaoke (10 pm)
SwYrl (6 pm)
CHUCK’S BAR CLUB ONE
Insutrial Resurrection w/DJ Shrapnel (10 pm) CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)
Mary Davis & Co. (7:30 pm)
BARNES & NOBLE (Oglethorpe Mall)
Open Mic (8 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ
Chief (9 pm)
BAY STREET BLUES
Karaoke (9 pm)
BENNIE’S (Tybee)
Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET
Karaoke (9 pm)
Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca
TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB
Karaoke (10 pm)
TUBBY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE
Roy & The Circuit Breakers
VENUS DE MILO
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
THE WAREHOUSE
“Georgia Kyle” Shiver & Fiddlin’ Scott Holton (7 pm)
WASABI’S
Listen 2 Three (9 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ
Bloodkin (10 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)
DAIQUIRI BEACH
DAWG HOUSE GRILL DINGUS MAGEE’S
DOC’S BAR (Tybee)
DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro) THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee) HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.)
DJ KZL (10 pm)
HERCULES (Pt. Wentworth)
Live Music TBA (7:30 pm)
THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)
Perception (8 pm)
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
The Lavon Stevens Project w/Louise Spencer (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
Trae Gurley (7 pm) THE JINX
Dance Party w/DJ D-Frost & Friends (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S
Harry O’Donoghue
KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)
Jazz Jam Session w/The Alex Nguyen Group (8:30 pm) LOCOS DELI & GRILL (Southside)
Team Trivia w/Kowboi (7 pm)
LUTHER’S RARE & WELL DONE (Beaufort)
Branan Logan (6:30 pm)
MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK
Pianist Frank Bright (5 pm), Vocalist Roger Moss & Pianist Eric Jones (8 pm) MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE
Nancy Witt
MCDONOUGH’S
Karaoke
MERCURY LOUNGE
Voodoo Soup (10 pm)
MONKEY BUSINESS (Hilton Head)
The White Party w/DJ MXM (8 pm)
MOON RIVER BREWING CO.
DJ Southstar spins Top 40 (10 pm) Live Music TBA (6 pm) Live Music TBA (7 pm) Live Music TBA (7 pm) Hip-Hop Night w/DJ Maytag (10 pm) Jeff Beasley (8 pm) Live DJ Frankie-C spins Hip-hop & Electric Fusion (8 pm) Live Music TBA (10 pm)
Live Music TBA (10:30 pm) Live Music TBA (10 pm)
FRIDAY Karaoke
AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) B & B ALE HOUSE
Live Music TBA
B & D BURGERS (Southside)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
BAHAMA BOB’S (Pooler)
Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)
BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)
Live Music TBA (7 pm) BAY STREET BLUES
Karaoke (9 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ
Live Music TBA (9 pm), Live Music TBA (10:30 pm) BENNIE’S (Tybee)
Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9:30 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET
Karaoke (9 pm)
BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)
Nancy Witt BOGEY’S
J. Howard Duff (7:30 pm)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (5 pm)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
Live Music TBA
PLUM’S (Beaufort)
Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)
POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)
Live Music TBA
RAFTER’S (St. Simons Isl.)
Konichiwa
THE RAIL PUB
“Helium Karaoke” w/Wrath Nasty
RANDY WOOD’S CONCERT HALL (Bloomingdale) RETRIEVER’S (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (8 pm) Bottles & Cans (10 pm)
SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER
DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B)
SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3
DJ Nick J - ‘80s, house, breaks, D & B (10 pm) SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)
Dueling Pianos (9 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE
“Return To The ‘50s” (8 pm) SLUGGER’S
Trivia w/Charles & Mikey (10 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S
Live Music TBA (10 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
Deep Blue 3 (10 pm)
MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB
Fire & Rayne (10 pm) MULBERRY INN
The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
Live Music TBA
PLUM’S (Beaufort) Live Music TBA (10 pm) POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
RED LEG SALOON (formerly The Silver Dollar Café, Hwy 204)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
RETRIEVER’S (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head)
The Work (9 pm)
ROBIN’S NEST (Pooler)
Live Music TBA (8 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3
SAVANNAH THEATRE
AMERICAN LEGION POST #36 (Thunderbolt)
The Train Wrecks - CD Release Party (10 pm) NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)
MERCURY LOUNGE
“Georgia Kyle” Shiver (7 pm)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
MYRTLE’S BAR & GRILL (Bluffton)
Karaoke
DJ Analog Kid (10 pm)
AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (8:30 pm)
MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
AUGUST 31ST
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
SAVANNAH BLUES
BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)
TOMMY’S (Pooler)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
Thomas Claxton (7 pm)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
Michael “B-Flat” Sears & Tony Royster, Sr. (7 pm)
DJ In A Coma (11 pm)
AUGUST 30TH B & D BURGERS (Southside)
MARDIS GRAS ON BAY
CAFÉ LOCO (Tybee)
Dave Harvey & Radiola (8 pm)
AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill)
MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK
THE BRITANNIA (Wilmington Isl.)
CAFÉ LOCO (Tybee) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE
#@*! Karaoke CLUB ONE
Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor) CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR
The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)
SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)
Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm) “Return To The ‘50s” (8 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)
SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (8 pm) SORRY CHARLIE’S
Live Music TBA (8 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)
Karaoke (9 pm)
STEAMERS (Georgetown)
Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)
Randy “Hatman” Smith (7 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE
Pocket Change (9:30 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)
Live Music TBA (6 pm) TURTLE’S (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)
The One Too Many Band (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO
Live DJ
VFW CLUB (Hinesville)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
VIC’S ON THE RIVER
Claire Frazier & Peter Tavalin (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE
The Train Wrecks - CD Release Party (8 pm) WASABI’S
Live DJ Frankie-C spins Hip-hop & Electric Fusion (8 pm)
Richmond Hill)
Karaoke
WAYS STATION TAVERN (
Chief (6 pm)
WET WILLIE’S
DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee) DIMENSIONS ART GALLERY
Brittany Bosco (8 pm)
DINGUS MAGEE’S (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee)
Roy & The Circuit Breakers
DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee)
Eric Britt (3 pm), Live Music TBA (8 pm) DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)
“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
EL PICASSO (319 Main St., Garden City)
Karaoke (8 pm)
FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)
The One Too Many Band (9 pm)
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
Absylom Rising (9 pm)
FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)
Scott & Bill of Moonshine Still (9:30 pm) FRIENDLY’S TAVERN 2
#@*! Karaoke
Karaoke (9 pm) Live DJ (8 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ
Live Music TBA (6 pm) Live Music TBA (10 pm) WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (10:30 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)
Joey Manning (7 pm)
THE ALE HOUSE (Bluffton)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
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THE APEX (Statesboro)
MERCURY LOUNGE
BAYOU CAFÉ
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
Rock In The Boro w/Kenotia, Veara, 1994, Don’t Kill The Freshman (7 pm)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
Bottles & Cans (9 pm)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
David Flannery (10 pm)
AUGIE’S PUB (Richmond Hill) B & B ALE HOUSE
“Less Than Zero� w/ DJ David Rapp & Friends spinning Pure ‘80s (9 pm) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)
Live Music TBA (7 pm) BAY STREET BLUES
Karaoke (9 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ
David Harbuck (9 pm), Live Music TBA (10:30 pm) BENNY’S (Tybee)
Karaoke w/DJ Levis
BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET
Karaoke (9 pm)
BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)
The Joseph Michael Duo (6 pm) BOGEY’S
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB (Richmond Hill)
Fire & Rayne (10 pm)
MOON RIVER BREWING CO.
Eat Mo’ Music (8:30 pm) MULBERRY INN
The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB
Selom Sober (10 pm)
NORTH BEACH GRILL (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (7 pm) PANINI’S (Beaufort)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
Live Music TBA
POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee)
BERNIE’S (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
Karaoke w/DJ Levis (9 pm)
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE
Deas’ Guys (8 pm)
#@*! Karaoke
THE JINX
CHA BELLA
DJ KZL’S Kaleidoscope (10 pm)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS
DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
Live Music TBA
DJ Jason Hancock spins Progressive House (10 pm) THE CREEKSIDE CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)
Live Music TBA (10 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER INVASION LEVEL 3
Old School Dance Party w/DJ Analog Kid (10 pm) SAVANNAH JAZZ & BLUES BISTRO (Bluffton)
Karaoke
THE DAWG HOUSE GRILL
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
DC2 DESIGN (104 W. Broughton St.)
DJ Kiah (10 pm)
DEB’S PUB & GRUB
#@*! Karaoke (9 pm)
DEWEY’S DOCKSIDE (Tybee)
Larry Broussard (6 pm) DOC’S BAR (Tybee)
Roy & The Circuit Breakers
DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee)
Eric Britt (3 pm), Live Music TBA (8 pm) DOS PRIMOS (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)
“World Famousâ€? DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)
David Harbuck (7 pm)
FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)
The One Too Many Band (9 pm)
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
Absylom Rising (9 pm)
FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)
Dynamo Hum (9 pm) GILLEY’S (Hinesville)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
HANG FIRE (37 Whitaker St.)
“Heart & Soul� w/DJ Jake The Snake or Danny Boy (10 pm) THE HYATT
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
ISAAC’S ON DRAYTON
G.E. Perry & Strange Brew (9 pm)
THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
The Big Band Brass Bash Septet (8 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
Shrimp City Slim (9 pm) JEN’S & FRIENDS
Live Music TBA (10 pm) THE JINX
Karaoke (11 pm)
JUAREZ MEXICAN RESTAURANT (Waters Ave.)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)
Dueling Pianos (8:30 pm) SAVANNAH THEATRE
“Return To The ‘50s� (3 pm, 8 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (9:30 pm)
THE SEA GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
SILVER CREEK SALOON (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (8 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
STEAMERS (Georgetown)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
SUNBURY CRAB COMPANY (Sunbury)
The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love (8 pm) TANTRA LOUNGE
The Permanent Tourists (9:30 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) TUBBY’S (River St.)
Live Music TBA (6 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)
Live Music TBA (7 pm) TURTLE’S (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE (Wilmington Island)
Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DI MILO
DJ Maytag (10 pm)
VFW CLUB (Hinesville)
Live Music TBA (9 pm) VIC’S ON THE RIVER
Claire Frazier & Peter Tavalin (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE
The Train Wrecks (8 pm) WASABI’S
Live DJ Frankie-C spins Hip-hop & Electric Fusion (8 pm) WET WILLIE’S
Live DJ (8 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ
Chuck Courtenay & Bucky Bryant (1 pm), Simplified (10 pm)
KEVIN BARRY’S
WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton) WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)
Karaoke
The Savannah Actors’ Theatre: The PBR Show (8 pm)
Randy “Hatman� Smith (8 pm)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
THE FLYING FISH (7906 E. Hwy 80 by the old Williams Seafood)
Barry Johnson (6 pm)
TANTRA LOUNGE
Abebi Stafford (7 pm)
Live DJ (10:30 pm)
KEVIN BARRY’S
WET WILLIE’S
Carroll Brown
Live Music TBA (8 pm) MCDONOUGH’S
Karaoke
Karaoke (9 pm)
MALONE’S (309 W. River St.)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)
Live Music TBA
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
MCDONOUGH’S
Karaoke
TUESDAY
MERCURY LOUNGE
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
MOON RIVER BREWING CO.
SEPTEMBER 4TH
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB
BAY STREET BLUES
Irish Pub Acoustic Session (7 pm)
Live Trivia (10 pm)
NORTH BEACH GRILL
BAYOU CAFÉ (upstairs)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
Chief (9 pm)
ONE HOT MAMA’S (Bluffton)
BILLY’S PLACE (above MCDONOUGH’S)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
The Joseph Michael Duo (6 pm)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR
Live Music TBA
RED LEG SALOON
#@*! Karaoke
Karaoke w/Frank Nelson (9 pm)
Karaoke (7 pm)
BUFFALO’S CAFÉ (Hinesville)
SAVANNAH SMILES (314 Williamson St.)
DAIQUIRI BEACH
Piano-Palooza (8 pm)
BN Trivia w/Artie & Brad (10 pm)
SAVANNAH THEATRE
DEB’S PUB & GRUB
“Return To The ‘50s� (3 pm)
#@*! Karaoke (10:30 pm)
SEA DAWGS (Tybee)
DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)
Live Music TBA (1 pm)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
SLUGGER’S
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
5 Point Productions’ Karaoke (10 pm)
Voodoo Soup (9 pm)
SORRY CHARLIE’S
FRENCH QUARTER CAFÉ (Statesboro)
Live Music TBA (3 pm)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
SPANKY’S (Pooler)
HANG FIRE
Live Music TBA (8 pm)
Pub Quiz w/Rob Oldham (9:30 pm)
STINGRAY’S (Tybee)
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
Live Music TBA (6 pm)
Bob Masteller & Friends (8 pm)
TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)
JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
Live Music TBA
Diana Rogers (7 pm)
UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE
JEN’S & FRIENDS
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
THE WAREHOUSE
THE JINX
Thomas Claxton (7:30 pm)
Hip-Hop Night w/DJ D-Frost, Late Night Breakdancing & Freestyling (11 pm)
AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)
MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS
Roy & the Circuit Breakers (6 pm)
JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR
Live Music TBA (4 pm)
Mary Davis & Co. (8 pm)
STINGRAYS (Tybee)
The Big Band Brass Bash Septet (8 pm)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
MARLIN MONROE’S SURFSIDE GRILL (Tybee)
Old-Time Music Jam Session w/Joe Nelson (7 pm)
THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)
SUNDAY
Michael “B-Flat� Sears & Tony Royster, Sr. (7 pm)
SCANDALS (Tybee) THE SENTIENT BEAN COFFEEHOUSE
Live Music TBA (5 pm)
DJ Terry Thurston (10 pm)
MARDIS GRAS ON BAY
Karaoke
DJ Marty Corley (9:30 pm)
THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)
The Work (10 pm)
Pianist Eric Jones (5 pm), Jeremy Davis & The Equinox Jazz Ensemble (9 pm)
SAVANNAH NIGHTS
Absylom Rising (9 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Hilton Head)
MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK
SAVANNAH BLUES
FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE (River St.)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
SEPTEMBER 2ND
SAVANNAH ACTORS THEATRE (703-D Louisvile Rd.)
FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)
Live Jazz Music TBA (8 pm, 9:30 pm, 11 pm)
MALONE’S
Live Music TBA (11 pm)
Karaoke w/Michael (9 pm)
WILD WING CAFÉ (Bluffton)
LUTHER’S RARE AND WELL DONE (Beaufort)
RIDERS LOUNGE (Hilton Head)
EL POTRO (13051 Abercorn St.)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
LUNA LOUNGE (Il Pasticcio)
Live Piano Music TBA
Live Music TBA (7 pm)
Carroll Brown
YONG’S COUNTRY CLUB (formerly The Music Box)
PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)
DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)
WILD WING CAFÉ
LOCO’S (downtown)
Open Mic Night (7:30 pm)
DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)
Live Music TBA (10 pm)
KOKOPELLI’S JAZZ (107 W. Broughton St.)
MURPHY’S LAW IRISH PUB
DOLPHIN REEF LOUNGE @ OCEAN PLAZA (Tybee)
Live Music TBA (9 pm)
CLUB ONE
Karaoke (9 pm)
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Superbad1/2
The kids are alright in Superbad; it’s the adults who prove to be a drag. Coming from some of the same talents involved with The 40-YearOld Virgin and Knocked Up, this can’t match the impact of its predecessors, despite its best intentions to (slightly) set itself apart in the “teen sex comedy” genre. The movie begins promisingly, as longtime best friends Seth and Evan (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, both perfectly cast) hope to spend their last couple of months in high school attending cool parties and dating hot girls. With their ultra-geeky pal Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) along for the ride, the boys hope to score some alcohol to bring to a major bash. Using Fogell’s fake ID (on which he’s identified as a 25-year-old simply named McLovin), they set out across town on their holy quest, a mission that turns sour after a robbery spoils their plans and separates Fogell from his pals. Potty-mouthed but true to its milieu, Superbad hums along until two cops (played by co-writer Seth Rogen and Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader) come along to spoil the fun. Tiresome characters, they steer the picture away from its mother lode of comic material, and rather than disappear after making their mark, the pair hang around for the remainder of the film. Superbad gets back on track in the late innings, and it’s here that the movie’s true theme -- the fierce and touching bond that can establish itself between two boys suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous high school shenanigans -- becomes most pronounced. So whenever it centers on its teenage characters, Superbad is a likable coming-of-age comedy; whenever it focuses on the tedious antics of the cops, it turns into a bad SNL skit.
Resurrecting the Camp
The black hole that goes by the name of Josh Hartnett has managed to swallow up many movies, but Resurrecting the Champ is not one of them. For that, we have to thank the force of nature that goes by the name of Samuel L. Jackson. To be fair, Hartnett isn’t completely awful in the role of a sportswriter who stumbles onto a career-making -- and subsequently career-breaking -- story. But roiling emotions are clearly out of his range, and he’s shown up as a lightweight in his frequent scenes with Mr. Jackson. The latter delivers a formidable performance as a homeless man who calls himself Champ. Raspy-voiced and not all there mentally, he
reveals himself to Hartnett’s Erik Kernan as Battling Bob Satterfield, a former boxing great. Erik, stuck covering stories on high school athletics, realizes this could be his ticket to the big time, so he devotes all his energy to turning Champ’s life story into a must-read article. But suspicions eventually surface regarding Champ’s history, and Erik soon realizes that he might have made a huge mistake in choosing his subject matter. The picture’s various themes -- the union between fathers and sons, the importance of journalistic integrity, the ease with which history can be rewritten -- are handled with care, though there’s nothing particularly revelatory on view here (Shattered Glass, for instance, is a far superior film about media misconduct).
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Halloween
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Bourne Ultimatum
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Becoming Jane
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The Invasion
I suppose every generation deserves its own sociopolitical take on Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers, though The Invasion does neither the audience nor the source material any favors. Depending on one’s political bent, the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which emotionless “pod people” from outer space take over human beings, was either a warning about Communism or an indictment of McCarthyism. The 1978 version (same title) tapped into post-Watergate paranoia, also finding room to mock the rampant New Age-y philosophies of the time. And 1994’s Body Snatchers honed in on teen alienation
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Balls of Fury
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The Nanny Diaries
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while also examining the splintering of the nuclear family. So what agenda rests on The Invasion’s plate? Hard to tell, given the general muddle of the piece (much of it was refilmed after poor test screenings, and it shows). There’s some talk of eradicating humankind’s intrinsic need to destroy (and plenty of TV sets showing scenes from Iraq), but it’s unconvincing lip service. There’s a hint that this might satirize our nation’s obsession with medicating its populace, but that’s quickly dismissed. Without anything to chew on, we’re left with a straightforward thriller -- and a fairly effective one until the film self-destructs with a wretched ending that had me slapping my forehead in staggering disbelief.
Mr. Bean's Holiday
By borrowing from Jacques Tati, Jerry Lewis and silent-cinema icons like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Rowan Atkinson managed to concoct his own singularly unique comic creation in the bumbling Mr. Bean. It’s just a shame that the actor has yet to find a feature film to do his character justice. Mr. Bean’s Holiday has some amusing moments scattered throughout (check out his introduction to a seafood platter), but they’re not enough to sustain an entire picture. That the plot is completely disposable (Bean wins a trip to the south of France but has trouble reaching his destination) shouldn’t matter -- after all, the Tim Burton gem Pee-wee’s Big Adventure wasn’t about anything more than a guy looking for a bicycle -- but for a skeletal framework to properly function, the gags need to be as complex as the story is thin (for prime examples, rent Tati’s masterpieces Playtime and Mon Oncle). But inspiration runs dry long before the film reaches its Cannes-set climax, though cineasts will take pleasure in this portion’s tweaking of pretentious arthouse twaddle. Now whether the small kids who are taken to this G-rated confection view this segment with anything other than boredom remains to be seen.
The Nanny Diaries 1/2
Writer-directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the team behind 2003’s American Splendor, have now returned with an adaptation of The Nanny Diaries, the best-selling (and hotly debated) novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. As before, Berman and Pulcini attempt to embellish their tale with all manner of visual flourishes and eccentric details, but working from a blueprint that doesn’t always lend itself to such touches, the results are more heavy-handed than before. That’s not to say that this doesn’t offer several rewards of its own making, starting with the strong performances by Scarlett Johansson and Laura Linney. Johansson plays Annie Braddock, a college graduate who, wary of the demands of a career in high finance, ends up landing what she believes will be a less stressful gig as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple known as Mr. and Mrs. X (Paul Giamatti and Linney). Her young
charge, Grayer (Nicholas Art), proves difficult at first but over time softens toward Annie, who’s merely the latest in a long line of nannies. A spiritual companion to The Devil Wears Prada (Nanny preceded Prada in print by one year, and in the film, Mrs. X can be glimpsed reading the fashion industry tell-all), this offers some nicely staged sequences to help gloss over the broad characterizations.
Rush Hour 3
Thoughts of Max von Sydow have been commanding much of my time these last two weeks. First, the recent death of the legendary Ingmar Bergman brought to mind many of the director’s classics, several of which he made with von Sydow (the pair had a working relationship similar to FordWayne, Kurosawa-Mifune and Scorsese-De Niro). Then there’s the recent DVD release of Flash Gordon, with von Sydow cast as the villainous Emperor Ming. And now there’s Rush Hour 3, which casts the great Swedish actor in a supporting role (narratively, no different than the part he essayed in Minority Report). Exactly 50 years ago, Von Sydow was exploring philosophical issues of life and death in Bergman’s masterpiece The Seventh Seal; now, he’s shunted to the background to make room for the increasingly unfunny antics of Chris Tucker. If there’s a more depressing commentary to be made on the current state of cinema, I can’t imagine what it might be.
The Bourne Ultimatum
The third time’s the charm with The Bourne Ultimatum, the best in the series of films based on the popular novels by the late Robert Ludlum. Matt Damon, suitably taciturn even though he’s still too young for the role, again stars as Jason Bourne, the former CIA assassin whose continuing bout of amnesia regarding his past perpetually keeps him searching for the truth, even as his agency handlers seek to have him terminated. Taking over villainous duties from Chris Cooper and Brian Cox is David Strathairn, cast as the latest government suit hoping to protect his own nefarious interests by taking out Bourne. The reactions of Strathairn’s character to constantly being outsmarted by Bourne are priceless and provide the film with its brief flashes of humor. And adding some much needed humanity to the proceedings are Joan Allen and Julia Stiles, returning to their roles as CIA operatives of different ranks. Paul Greengrass, returning to the series after taking time off to earn a Best Director Oscar nomination for United 93, tops himself with action set pieces that prove to be more exciting than those on display in his Supremacy or Identity. One of the lengthy chase scenes is especially impressive, and makes one wonder if Damon elected to forego a straight salary in order to be paid by the kilometer.
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from nearby trees (baby Maggie’s rope has a little pacifier attached). But if there’s one area in which Hollywood remains blissfully, even blessedly, optimistic, it’s in the strength of the family unit, and as long as Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie stick together, they can lick any and all odds.
Perfectly pleasant yet also somewhat pointless, Becoming Jane comes across less as a motion picture and more as a victim of identity theft. Given the glut of exemplary films based on the works of Austen -- from the fairly faithful (Sense and Sensibility, Hairspray Pride and Prejudice) to the radically reworked (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Clueless) -- the only sound reasons to create a movie based on Jane herself would be either to suggest CARMIKE 10 some insights into 511 Stephenson Ave. • 353-8683 what turned this country girl into one of the War, Nanny Diaries, Rush most acclaimed writHour 3, Becoming Jane, Bourne ers in the English lanUltimatum, Simpsons, September guage or to provide a Dawn, Ratatouille comprehensive overview of her life and REGAL EISENHOWER times. But Becoming 1100 Eisenhower Dr. • 352-3533 Jane prefers to take a more narrow view, foMr. Bean’s Holiday, Resurrecting cusing on one small the Champ, Invasion, Superbad, period in her life (and, Stardust, Hairspray based on historical reREGAL SAVANNAH 10 cords, a spotty one at 1132 Shawnee St. • 927-7700 that) and trumping up Nanny Diaries, September Dawn, the details of her brief War, Rush Hour 3, Becoming flirtation with a dashJane, Bourne Ultimatum, No ing rogue named Tom Reservations, Simpsons Lefroy, who would later become Lord High Justice of Ireland. VICTORY SQUARE 9 Anne Hathaway, all1901 E. Victory • 355-5000 American in The Devil Resurrecting the Champ, Wears Prada and Halloween, Stardust, Bourne Brokeback Mountain, Ultimatum, Superbad, Becoming adopts a British acJane, Balls of Fury, Nanny Diaries, cent (shades of Renee Rush Hour 3, War Zellweger tackling Bridget Jones) and makes for a lively Jane WYNNSONG 11 (even if, physically, 1150 Shawnee St. • 920-1227 she more resembles Superbad, Resurrecting the Austen’s contemporary, Champ, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Lady Caroline Lamb).
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The Simpsons Movie 1/2
Crafting a motion picture from a current television series that’s been around for nearly two decades is a dicey proposition, but The Simpsons Movie fills the larger dimensions of the theater screen quite nicely. Running the length of four combined episodes, this flick takes Homer’s weekly display of idiocy to a new level, as his bumbling disrespect for the environment leads to Springfield being blocked off from the rest of the world by a giant dome, with the town’s destruction the ultimate goal of the overzealous head of the Environmental Protection Agency (voiced by Albert Brooks, billed in the credits as “A. Brooks”). Knowing that Homer is the culprit, the town’s residents soon come a-calling with torches in hand and nooses hanging
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One of this summer’s few out-and-out delights, smoothing out but never compromising the issues that made John Waters’ original film such a quirky delight. An ode to being different, Hairspray stars delightful newcomer Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager who won’t let her pleasantly plump figure get in the way of following her dream in 1960s Baltimore. The movie’s first and foremost a musical, and director Adam Shankman does a commendable job of filming the songand-dance routines in a manner that accentuates the total skills involved (the noticeable lack of rapid MTV-style cuts is greatly appreciated). The weakest cast link is, perhaps surprisingly, John Travolta, who may have enjoyed returning to his movie musical roots (Saturday Night Fever, Grease) but nevertheless fails to adequately fill the large shoes of the late Divine.
Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix
Those who like their Potter black will find much to appreciate in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth and moodiest of the J.K. Rowling adaptations to date. Chris Columbus’ first two entries -- both underrated -- focused mainly on fun and games, with the subsequent installments helmed by Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell taking on decidedly darker dimensions. The level of malevolence is raised even further here, thanks to the taut direction by unknown David Yates and a forceful performance by series lead Daniel Radcliffe. w
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Project Hot Seat Stop global warming with Greenpeace. Call 704-7472 for information. 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 Area Young Republicans Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528 or visit www.savannahyr.com. Savannah Branch NAACP For information, call 233-4161. Savannah for Obama is a grassroots organization that is interested in raising local awareness for presidential candidate Barack Obama. The group meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 109 W. Victory Dr. at the corner of Victory and Barnard Street. For information, contact b_frigo@hotmail.com or 748-7114. Savannah Republican Club Meets every second Tuesday of the month. Call 927-7170. .Skidaway Island Democrats Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.
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History Theatre will hold ongoing auditions for its production Let My People Go, a spirited musical and history of slavery in Savannah. The ensemble cast requires eight actors-singers -- two black males ages 40-60 and 20-30, two black women ages 40-60 and 14-20, two white males ages 30-40, and two boys, one white, one black, ages 7-10. Script and sheet music will be provided -- don’t prepare an audition piece. Auditions are by appointment. Call 786-6384. Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre will audition actors (men ages 18-60) for the roles of a high-strung French chef, overzealous LA self-help con man, beatnik poet and East Indian prince for performances of Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire? Private shows for convention groups, public shows at a local restaurant. Cast members are paid per performance. Ten-minute auditions will be held Sept. 1 and 8 from 5:30-7 p.m. by appointment only at the Savqannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cold reading from the script. Call Tom Coleman III at 898-9021.
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An Evening of Jazz for Adult Literacy Ben Tucker and Huxsie Scott will headline an evening of jazz Sunday, Sept. 9 from 5-7:30 p.m. at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront hotel to benefit the Adult and Community Education program at Royce Learning Center. Tickets are $50, which includes a wuie and cocktail buffet and silent auction. Call 354-4047 for reservations. Champagne Author Reception for Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep, will ber presented Oct. 3. A talk/reading will be held at 4 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Madison Square, followed by a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the adjacent Green-Meldrim House. Tickets are $25 with proceeds benefitting the Backus Children’s Hospital. Checks can be made out to The One Hundred. Put “Jennifer Egan Event” in the memo line, plus your name, and mail to: Marie Kraft, 11 Gray Heron Rd., Savannah, 31411, or Anne Schafer, 4 Modena Rd., Savannah, 31411. Cooking for Charity Chefs Matt Cohen and Scott Gordon of the New South Cafe, 2601 Skidaway Rd., will host four fundraisers on the last Monday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. On Sept. 24, barbecue will be prepared and served to benefit Senior Citizens, Inc. On Oct. 29, stuffed quail will be prepared and served to benefit the USO. The cost is $100 per person, which includes a cooking lesson and a VIP lunch. Visit www.thenewsouthcafe. com or RSVP to Scott West at 443-0977. Cruise for Critters Spend an afternoon on the water to benefit homeless pets on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 25 p.m. The cost is $30 per person, which includes hors d-oeuvres, beverages and a T-shirt. The event is sponsored by Coastal Pet Rescue. Call 351-4151 or visit coastalpetrescue.org. Donate Old Cell Phones United Way’s Hands On Savannah is seeking used cell phones to raise funds for projects and programs. Donate at the United Way offices at 428 Bull St. or call 651-7725 for bulk pick-up. Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis will be held Sept. 8 at 8:30 a.m. at Grayson Stadium. To get involved, call 1-800-4764483 or visit www.cff.org/great_strides. I Sold It on eBay for Coastal Pet Rescue I Sold It on eBay is accepting items on behalf of Coastal Pet Rescue. Donors may bring any item valued at more than $40 to the I Sold It On eBay store located next to TJ Maxx in Savannah Centre. The item will be listed and proceeds will go directly to Coastal Pet Rescue. Call 351-4151 or 353-
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7633 or visit www.coastalpetrescue.org or www.isolditsavannah.com. Pillow Pals Hands On Savannah is conducting a drive through September for Backus Children’s Hospital to collect pillow cases filled with special gifts for children being treated. The list includes toddler toys, action figures, board games, craft kits, model kits, coloring books and crayons, infant toys, videos, puzzles, stickers, books and more. Pillow cases should be marked to show whether they are intended for a boy or girl and the age of the child. Donations can be dropped off at the United Way, 428 Bull St. Large numbers of donations can be picked up by calling 651-7725. Recycle, Reduce and Reuse for Coastal Pet Rescue Coastal Pet Rescue is asking area businesses to collect ink and toner cartridges at their offices. This fund-raiser will help with regular vet care for rescued pets. Contact Becky Soprych at 351-4151 or becky@ coastalpetrescue.org to arrange for cartridge pickup. Ronald McDonald House An open house will be held at the Ronald McDonald House, the home away from home for families of hospitalized children, every second and fourth Monday from 45 p.m. through Dec. 24. Take a tour, ask questions, have a bite to eat. The house is located at 4710 Waters Ave. on the campus of Memorial Hospital. St. Vincent’s Tour of Homes and Tea Tickets are available now for this annual tour that is sposnored by St. Joseph’s/ Candler. It will be held Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $35, which includes the tour and the tea. To purchase tickets, visit www.svatourofhomes.com or call 8197780. Tickets also are available at all Bank of Savannah locations, at E. Shaver Bookseller, 326 Bull St., and at Saints & Shamrocks, 309 Bull St. On the day of the tour, tickets can be purchased at Walsh Hall at Lincoln and Harris streets. School Supply Drive The St. Joseph’s/Candler Angels of Mercy are collecting school supplies for the Danny’s Brown Box and Gail Jones’s Backpack for Every Child drive. Through Sept. 11, all donations are welcome, including composition books, paper, crayons, pencils, pens, rulers and backpacks, which must be clear or mesh to meet school policies. Take donations to the main entrance lobbies of St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd., and Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St., or to East Bay Inn, 225 E. Bay St. White Bluff UMC Cookbook The Eve Circle at White Bluff United Methodist Church has compiled Eve’s Tasty
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Chatham County Democratic Party meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. at 109 W. Victory Dr. Call Karen Arms at 897-1300 or David Bonorato at 9217039 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 Rakhsheim Wright at 604-7319 or chathamcountyyds@ yahoo.com. 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 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. For information on times and location, visit www.DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.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 the first and third Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Chinatown Buffet, 307 Highway 80 in Garden City. Purchase of a meal gets you in. Call 308-3934 or visit http://www.nodebts.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 Heather Holloway 3524032 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org.
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700 Kitchen Cooking School will offer hands-on educational/entertaining cooking classes at the Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. Upcoming classes are: Searing and Sauteing, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., $75; Autumn Afternoon Tea, Sept. 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., $90; Autumn Harvest Supper, Sept. 1 from 3-6 p.m., $90; French Desserts, Sept. 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., $90; and Flavor Dynamics, Sept. 5 from 3-6 p.m, $90. Call 238-5158 or visit http:// www.700kitchen.com. AARP Senior Drivers Safety Program Classes will be held: Sept. 6 and 7 from 1-5 p.m. at The Marshes at Skidaway, call Chuck at 598-1011; Sept. 18 and 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smart Senior at Candler, call 352-4405; and Sept. 13 and 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Generation One, call 350-7587; Oct. 11 and 12 from 1-5 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church, Call Chuck at 598-1011; Nov. 8 and 9 from 1-5 p.m., call Church at 598-1011. Instructors are needed to teach this program in Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties. For information, call Chuck at 598-1011. The Art School Classes are offered throughout the school year for 6-8 year olds, 9-12 year olds, teens and adults. The Art of Photography for ages 9-12 is a new offering this year. Tuition includes professional art supplies. Art Bodies, a weekly adult figure studio, will be held Wednesdays from Sept. 5 through Oct. 10, 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $60 for the six-week course. Adult art classes are held Mondays from 9:30 a.m. to noon and Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. Beginners are welcome. The Art School is located at 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd., No. B-2. For information, call Lind Hollingsworth at 9211151. Beading Classes Learn jewelry-making techniques at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659.
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Brush with Clay Classes in Raku, brush work, relief work, surface decoration, figurative and more in clay with individual attention are offered at CarosArt Studio by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Costs $100 for 6 classes, or $30 per class. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-7393 to register. 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. 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. Harnessing the Law of Attraction will be presented by Janet Gray, a nationally licensed professional counselor, on Thursday, Aug. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. She has used these principals to heal herself and succeed in life and is 25 years cancer and debt free. Admission is free. There will be a special guest presentation by Tony Piazza. 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. GED/adult literacy education is being offered Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m.
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and noting “Flower Seminar” and send it to St. Paul’s., Attn: B. King, 1802 Abercorn St. Savannah, 31401. Call Brandi King at 2725946 or email bbking190@bellsouth.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. Quarterly Leadership Development Institute The City of Savannah’s Community Planning and Development Department will hold this program Sept. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. The training is free. There will be a session for teens and youth. Call 6516520 to register. 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. Sewing Lessons Fabrika at 140 Abercorn St. is taking deposits for fall adult classes in: Beginner Sewing: Using a Pattern -- Skirt or Totebag;
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Here’s how you can tell if you have a bad psychotherapist or counselor,” says my friend Laura. “She or he buys into all your BS, never questions your delusions, and builds your self-esteem even if that makes you into an a**hole.” I agree with Laura’s assessment, which is why I’m going to spend our short time together today calling you on your BS, prodding you to get introspective about your delusions, and not pumping up the parts of your ego that really should be melted down. Next week maybe we’ll get back to gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes, but right now you’ll benefit from some tough love. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This will be an excellent time to read five books simultaneously, snack constantly on delicacies while avoiding heavy meals, climb a tree with an adventurous friend and make careful yet wild love right there, refuse to practice any form of meditation that doesn’t involve laughing, buy ten cheap alarm clocks and smash them with a hammer out in the middle of a meadow, pretend to be a feral teenager who’s allergic to civilization, and throw invisible stones at any god, angel, or genie who won’t help you get the love you want. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): American poet William Stafford, winner of the National Book Award in 1963, wrote a poem every morning for 40 years. “I keep following the hidden river of my life,” he said. “And I don’t have any sense of its coming to a crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.” I’d like to nominate Stafford to be your honorary role model, Gemini. Here’s your assignment: Every morning for the next 20 days, carry out a brief ritual (no more than a few minutes long) that feeds your lust for life and engenders a blessing for yourself or someone you care about. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your assignment in the coming week is simple but tricky: Take devalued ideas or trivial objects or demeaning words, and
Intro to Kids’ Clothing; and Drafting Your Own Skirt or Totebag. Group classes start in September. Private lessons are available. Visit www.fabrikasavannah.com or call 2361122. Space Available for Teachers Got students/clients? Space is available for teachers/instructors at reasonable rates. Call Tony at 655-4591 or dawgfan81@juno.com. Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program This 12-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance. Call Jennifer Lucas at 234-0525. 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. Volunteer 101 A 30-minute course that covers issues to help volunteers get started is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at
United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www. HandsOnSavannah.org. Workshop for Aspiring Thespians Nika Hinton will lead a free scene workshop in monthly sessions at Unitarian Universalist Church, Phillippa’s Place. Enter on Macon Street. Participants can work on scenes from great and near-great plays, musicals and film and improvisation sketches. Works will be recorded on video tape. Childcare will be provided upon request. To register, call 234-0980.
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transform them into things that are fun, interesting, or useful. Here are some precedents to inspire you: what the punk movement did when it made safety pins into earrings; what gays did when they mutated the insulting term “queer” into a word of power; what the resourceful TV hero MacGyver did when he put powdered make-up into a confetti cannon and shot it at evil CIA operatives, temporarily blinding them and allowing him to escape. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s a perfect time to work more intensely on cultivating a healthy relationship between money and your soul. For inspiration, read this wise counsel, articulated by Margaret Young and quoted in Julia Cameron’s *The Artist’s Way.* “Many people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren’t worth doing,” wrote novelist William Gaddis. That’s important for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’ll receive a flood of invitations, but only some of them will be intimately related to the unique work you’re here on Earth to do. Those few may be so amazingly useful, though, that they could dramatically change your life for the better. Please say no to all the others so you can attend to the good stuff with your heart on fire and your mind as fluid as a mountain stream. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you ever heard of the First Law of Holes? It says that if you get in a hole, you should stop digging. Please obey that law in the coming week, Libra. Once you realize there’s no other place to go but down if you continue your course of action, nothing -- not even your pride -- should keep you committed to that course. Now here’s the Second Law of Holes: If you are able to scramble up out of the hole
before it gets too deep, you should then spend some time filling it in so that you don’t fall into it if you come back that way later in the dark. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most intelligent people realize that global warming is underway. This awakening is good, but I’m worried that it may be diverting attention from a more profound crisis: the Mass Extinction Event that’s killing off animal and plant species at a pace unmatched since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The possibility of there being future draughts, rising ocean levels, and crazy weather is daunting, but the more devastating fact is that Earth’s precious eco-diversity is dying *now* -- not just from global warming, but also from pollution and a host of other mischief caused by humans. What does this have to do with your horoscope, I mean besides it being a call to expand your understanding of our planet’s environmental crisis? The scenario I’ve described is a metaphor for your personal life. What important issue might you be obsessing on in a way that blinds you to an even more all-encompassing issue? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The largest rubber duck race in history took place last year on Ireland’s River Liffey, with 150,000 yellow vinyl contestants vying to cross the finish line first. It was a charity event to raise money for sick children. I mention this, Sagittarius, because if anyone could organize an adventure that would top that extravaganza, it would be you in your current state. You’re at the peak of your power to marshal the forces of playfulness in a holy cause. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Last November, Major League Baseball announced that New York Mets’ pitcher Guillermo Mota had tested positive for steroids and would therefore be suspended for 50 games at the beginning of the new season. A month later, the Mets signed Mota to a new, two-year $5 million contract, despite knowing that his recent accomplishments on the baseball field had almost certainly been inflated
by the steroids’ boost. I foresee a comparable scenario unfolding in your life, Capricorn. You’ll be rewarded in the wake of a penalty or limitation that was imposed on you, and the gain will outstrip the loss. It may even be the case that the good thing coming your way will be related to or aided by the “bad” thing you did.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I’m interested in the boundaries where things change into other things,” writes Orene, one of my MySpace friends. Those boundaries should be your primary hang-out in the coming weeks, Aquarius. They are where all the most interesting action will be, as well as the teachings you need most. Would you like some foreshadowing about what things will be changing into other things? Pay close attention to your dreams for clues, and muse on this list: goodbyes that morph into awakenings; banishments that become pilgrimages; adversaries who transform into allies; decay that alchemizes into splendor; and serpent energy that turns into spiritual fire. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While snorkeling in the ocean off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, I had a conversation with a dolphin. She gave me clarity concerning a question I’ve been wondering about. I asked her, “What can Pisceans do to make sure their overflowing emotions don’t cause the kind of chaos that undermines their ability to get things done?” I swear the dolphin answered me telepathically, because even though I couldn’t understand the hubbub of shrieks and clicks she unleashed in response to my inquiry, my mind was suddenly filled with the following thoughts: Pisceans must love their oceanic emotions unconditionally . . . must see their endless inundation as a privilege and a blessing . . . must learn to surf the endless tidal wave not with a fearful sense of being a victim but with an exhilarated gratitude for the primal power of the adventure. w
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Intro to Sea Kayaking Savannah Canoe and Kayak offers an introductory class on sea kayaking every Saturday. The $95 cost includes kayak, gear and lunch. An intermediate class is available on Sundays. Reservations are required. Call 341-9502 or visit www.savannahcanoeandkayak.com. Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life. Beginner’s and experienced practitioners welcome. Ongoing weekly sessions will begin Monday, Sept. 10 from 6-7:30 p.m. at 313 E. Harris St. Call Cindy Beach, Buddhist nun, at 429-7265 or cindy@alwaysoptions. com. National Cathedral Flower Guild Seminar St. Paul the Apostle Episcopal church will sponsor this seminar on Sept. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon at the church, located at 34th and Abercorn streets. Learn how to prepare, arrange and display flowers for use in liturgy. Flower-related raffle items and door prizes will be given. The cost is $40, which includes a light lunch. Proceeds will benefit the church’s Capital Campaign. Tickets are available online at www.stpaulsavannah. org, or mail a check payable to “St. Paul’s”
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Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Hip-Hop with Bonnie Kaar meets Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Contact Sue Braddy at 8972100. Argentine Tango Practice and Lesson 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 held Saturday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The basic lesson will be the Foxtrot, followed by the social dance from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for non-members. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960 or 655-4985. Basic Ballroom Class will be given by the Moon River Dancers Saturday, Sept. 1 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Broad YMCA, 1110 May St. The cost is $3. Beginners and singles are welome. Call 9619960 or 655-4985. 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.. Flamenco Enthusiasts 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. Gretchen Greene School of Dance is accepting registration for fall classes in tap, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics, jazz and hip-hop for ages 3 and up. A Mommy & Me dance class for children 18 months through 3 years and their parents is offered Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. for six weeks, starting Aug. 29. Adult tap classes are held Tuesday from 7:30-8:15 for beginners and Monday from 7:15-8 p.m. for intermediate. Call 897-4235 or email ggsod.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. Master Class with Sayat Asatryan and Olga Tchekakova, formerly of the Bolshoi Ballet, will be held Aug. 17 at the STUDIO, 2805b Roger Lacey Ave. Children’s class for ages 7-9 will be held 4-5 p.m. and will cost $20 and the intermediate-advanced class will be from 5-7 p.m. at a cost of $30. Call 695-9149 to register. Mommy and Me Dance Class Little dancers ages 18 months to 3 years get an introduction to dance and creative movement. Classes are Tuesdays from 10:3011:15 a.m. at the Gretchen Greene School of Dance, located on Wilmington Island. Call 897-4235 or visit www.ggsod.com. Savannah Shag Club Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Doubles Lounge in the Holiday Inn Midtown and Fridays at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive.
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. Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com. The STUDIO Adult Beginner Ballet Class is being offered. The STUDIO also is accepting new students 5 and up for the new season. Contact Veronica at 695-9149. The STUDIO is located at 2805 Roger Lacey Ave. just off the intersection of Skidaway and Victory. Call Veronica at 695-9149 or visit ww.thestudiosav.com. Youth Dance Program The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.
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Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training will be offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:306:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 8-9 a.m. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and will be required to sign a waiver form before participating. All classes are free. Call 652-6780 or 965-9629. 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. Dog Yoga The Yoga Room will hold a dog yoga class every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-A-Life. Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www. thesavannahyogaroom.com. Energy Share every first and third Friday of the month at a new integrated healing center located at 72nd and Sanders streets. Call Kylene at 713-3879. Fountain of Youth Tibetan rites taught free every Tuesday and Friday at 7:30 a.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes are held Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Yoga Center, 25 E. 40th St. Infants must be 6 weeks to 6 months, pre-crawling. The cost is $13 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. The instructor is Betsy Boyd Strong. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 441-6653 or visit www. savannahyoga.com.
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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 The Complete Woman A Christian women’s conference sponsored by Women of the Word will be held Sept. 14-16 at the Savannah Civic Center. Presenters will include June Evans, Dee Baxter, Barbara Benton, Robbyn Evans and Phyllis Ellis. The Savannah Mass Choir, directed by E. Larry McDuffie, will be featured guests. Registration is ongoing now. Call 828-669-8411 or visit www.cbu.org. 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. Energy Share Circle at Dovestar Experience the power of healing energy through reiki, alchemical body work, shamaballa and yoga bodywork every Friday at 7 p.m. Free. 11911 Middleground Rd. Call 920-0801. Handbell Choir Anyone interested in starting/leading or joining/participating in a handbell choir can contact the Rev. Arlene Meyer at 355-4704. Unity of Savannah at 2320 Sunset Blvd. has the bells and a few interested people without a leader. Visit www.unityofsavannah.org. Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life. Beginner’s and experienced practitioners
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Moms in Motion A pre and post-natal exercise program is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing. The cost is $30 per month. Call 819-6463. National Gymnastics Day Whitemarsh Island YMCA will host a free gymnastics open house on Saturday, Aug. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Appropriate for children 2 and up. Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp All fitness levels welcome. M, W, Th, F at 6 a.m. at Forsyth Park. Meet at the statue on Park Avenue. Also meets at 7:30 a.m. at Daffin Park at the circle near the playground. $150 for unlimited classes, $15 for a single class. To register, call Jennifer at 224-0406 or visit www.structurefitness.net. Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Pre-register by calling 819-6463. Savannah Yoga Center Through Aug. 31, the schedule will be: Monday, 9–10:15 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Kristianne, 10:30–11:45 am Level 1&2 Flow Yoga with Will, 12-1:15 p.m.Yoga Lunch Flow-Food for Body&Soul w/ Kate and 6:00-7:15 pm Gentle Yoga Flow w/ Heather; Tuesday, 9:30-10:30 am Community Flow Yoga w/ Amanda for $6, 6-7:30 pm hot Yoga Flow All levels w/ Kate; Wednesday, 7:30-9:00 am Sunrise Yoga All Levels w/ Will, 10:30-11:45 am Mommy and Baby Yoga w/ Betsy, 12:15-1:15 pm Restorative Yoga Hour w/ Amanda and 6-7:30 pm Yoga Basics w/ Kate; Thursday, 9:30 –10:45 am Yoga Flow Level 1&2 w/ Amanda and 6:00 -7:30 pm Dynamic Flow Yoga All Levels w/ Kelley; Friday, 7:30-8:45 am Community Flow Yoga w/ Kelley for $9, 10–11:15 am Dynamic Flow All Levels w/ Kristianne, 12-1:15 pm Iyengar Yoga All Levels w/ Laura (Iyengar Yoga w/ Laurathru end of June) and 12-1 pm Community Iyengar Influenced Yoga w/ Lynne for $6 (Community Iyengar Influenced Yoga begins Fri, July 6th); Saturday, 11 am to 12:30 pm All Levels Yoga Flow w/ Kelley; Sunday, 5-6:15 pm Mellow Yoga Flow All Levels w/ Heather, 6:30 -7:15 pm Community Meditation $6 w/ Heather (100% of proceeds go to the Children’s Advocacy Center.) Drop-ins are welcome. The Savannah Yoga Center is located at 45 E. 40th St. Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-
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Single family, 3BD, 2BA, for sale by owner! Professionally designed and heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement and the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. Open floor plan--approx. 1750 sq. feet. .4 acre on marsh. Beautiful gardens and koi pond. Short walk to beach. $497,000. www.seemylisting.com #08112. 912-398-9807
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Large private 1 BR furnished apartment. Lincoln & 34th St. Includes Utilities, Cable , TV.$235/wk w/ $250 deposit, $846 monthly. Call 231-9464 to see it. Lovely Downtown Apartment 2 bedrooms & 2 baths. Featuring hard wood floors, ceiling fan, central heat and air, washer, and dryer. Off street parking.
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Room for Rent Large Victorian very nicely furnished. Near library. 8 blocks south of Forsyth Park. Fireplace, mini kitchen, phone, cable TV, internet, washer/dryer, utilities, and off street parking. 150/week or 540/ month. call 7 days a week at 231-9464
Room for Rent Newly furnished and painted room for rent. Includes: 1/2 bath, tv, refrigerator,microwave, cable, internet, and utilities. $160/wk or $576/mo. contact:912-231-9464
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Roommate Wanted COMFORTABLE ROOMS in Downtown Savannah. Cable, Washer/Dryer, Hi-Speed Internet, Secure Parking, Furnished/Unfurnished. Short/Long term, $150-$175/week (+$100 deposit). Call 912-659-7168 or visit: www.Habicorp.org.
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Fender Bender? Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks
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Boats & Accessories 1997 SEADOO GSI w/trailer. Excellent condition! Garage kept, 51 hrs, flush kit and battery tender. $3,500. Call 912-682-0384, 9-5 ONLY!
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