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Lively Dark Age

The Goliards shed light on medieval music page 22

Children’s

Book Fest page 6

Chili cookoff page 16

Amen!

Theatre @SSU page 17

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WEDNESDAYS

Karaoke Night plus $4 Van Gogh Martini Madness

THIRSTY THURSDAY

Courtenay Brothers Band • $2 Vodkas TOTT 15 Music Interview 20 Art Patrol 18

News

Lead Story

24 Connect Recommends

Children’s Book Festival

10 Letter from the Editor Goodbye and good riddance

Concerts of Note

25 Soundboard

Who’s playing and where around town

11 Jane Fishman

They can’t say we never tried, Angie

Film

12 Blotter

31 Local Film

13 News of the Weird

32 Holiday Film Preview

14 Earthweek

34 Now Showing

Psychotronic Film Festival

From SPD reports

Santa’s got a movie for you

Strange but true

All the flicks that fit

The week on your planet

The 411

15 Talk of the Town

It’s all in the visuals

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Culture

Week at a Glance

Our best bets for cool stuff to do

16 Cuisine

14 Weather

17 Theatre

39 Happenings

18 Art Patrol

43 Free Will Astrology

News from the sky

Chili cookoff The Amen Corner at Savannah State

All the stuff, all the time

Rob Breszny’s look at your stars

Exhibitions and openings

Classifieds

Vibes

20 Music Interview

45 Crossword Puzzle

22 Music Interview

44 Sudoku Puzzle

23 Music Menu

48 Classifieds

Mental Fun

Savannah Sinfonietta

Back to the Middle Ages with the Goliards

It’s all the rage

Rick & Ginger from 6-9pm Later - Live Music with Joystick

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE College Football All Day! Duke @ GEORGIA TECH

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THUR , nov 16 The Savannah Sinfonietta

What: The works of Samuel Barber will be presented.

When: Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, and Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. at the JEA. Cost: $30, $25 and $20. Students $10. Info: 352-3377

SSU Opens The Amen Corner

What: Savannah State’s visual and performing arts program will present this play by James Baldwin.

When: Nov. 16, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. Where: SSU Kennedy Fine Arts Auditorium.

Cost: $5 ($2 students).

SCAD Opens The Witches’ Macbeth

What: The performing arts department presents Ellie Pyle’s adaptaion of Shakespeare’s tragedy from the three witches’ point of view. When: Nov. 16-18 at 8 p.m. Where: Afifi Amphitheater, 324 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cost: Free. Info: 525-6644.

Week at a Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Freebie of the

Week

Savannah Children’s Book Festival

What: Dozens of children’s book authors and illustrators will present their books, the Savannah Storytellers will present their annual Tellebration event, and the Mad Science group will present an interactive show. Entertainment, crafts, food vendors, costumed characters, a teen scene and a book sale tent. When: Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Forsyth Park. Info: 652-3661 or www.liveoakpl.org.

Sand Gnats Chili Bowl Cook-Off

What: Stroll around the field and sample competitors’ best chili and listen to music by the Train Wrecks.

When: Nov. 18 from noon to 5 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium,, 1401 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Advance tickets are $5 and are available at the Sand Gnats ticket office and Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. On the day of the event, admission will be $7. Info: 351-9150.

The Goliards Present Triste Plaisir

What: A program of melancholy love songs and instrumental dances from Renaissance Europe. When: Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Trinity United Methodist Church. Cost: $10 at the door.

Hilton Head Symphony in Concert

What: This concert will be presented by the Savannah Concert Association. When: Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $35, $25 and $12.50.

Info: 525-5050.

What: Celebrate the seasonal return of the Northern Right Whale to Georgia with this program that features interactive discussions and films about toothed and baleen whales. Children’s crafts and activities will be ongoing throughout the day. When: Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: The Tybee Island Marine Science Center.

Cost: Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children, free for members and children under 3. Info: 786-5715 or info@tybeemsc.org.

An Afternoon of Music, Poetry, Dance, Art and International Food

What: This even will be presented by SGI-USA, an American Buddhist movement for world peace. When: Nov. 19 at 1:30 p.m. Where: Frank G. Murray Community Center on Whitemarsh Island. Info: 232-9121.

The Massing of the Colors

The Two of Us!

Tierra Tango What: International tango star and winner of the 2005 World Music Award Katie Viqueira will perform a song and dance show. When: Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Armstrong Center ballroom.

Cost: Free. Info: 651-6417.

‘Buy Dry Land’ Program

What: Georgia Water Coalition and Georgia Watch team up to educate consumers and elected officials about the dangers of flooding through a new campaign. When: Sat., Nov. 18, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., lunch provide. Where: Bamboo Farms. I-95 Exit 94 and turn right. Right at Gateway Boulevard and next left at Canebreak Rd. 1/4 mile to gate and take a left. Cost: Free.

Info: 921-5460.

Tea for Tutus

What: Savannah Danse Theatre will present its annual fundraiser. Meet the characters from the upcoming performance of The Nutcracker in Savannah over a cream tea. When: Nov. 18 . The first seating is at 10 a.m. and the second seating is at 11 a.m. Where: The Tea Room, 7 E. Broughton St. Cost: $15 per person. Info: 898-0361.

Great Day of Thanksgiving

What: Old Savannah City Mission serves smoked turkey dinners to homeless and friends of the homeless. Over 600 volunteers will participate again this year. When: Sat., Nov. 18.

Where: Forsyth Park. Cost: Free. Info: 232-1979.

What: Alan and Lita Blake perform at this Coastal Jazz Association monthly concert. When: Nov. 19 at 5 p.m.

Where: Cobblestone Conch House, 225 W. River St. Cost: $10 for non-members.

Conversations

What: A collaboration between the Teddy Adams Quartet and the Spitfire Poetry Group will highlight the long history between music and spoken word. When: Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St.

MON, nov 20 Psychotronic Films Presents Deadly Prey

What: An action film that rips off both The Most Dangerous Game and Rambo: First Blood. When: Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean. Cost: $6. Info: 232-447

WED, nov 22 Psychotronic Films Presents Adisaya Piravi

What: You may already have seen a clip from this film on YouTube. It shows a midget known as “Indian Superstar” dancing to hip-hop music played on a boom box.

When: Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean. Cost: $6. Info: 232-4447. w

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Psychotronic Films Presents Tears of the Black Tiger

Sat, nov 18

A Whale of a Day

What: The Military Order of the World Wars brings all of the active duty, veterans and patriotic youth groups together to present their colors. When: Nov. 19 at 4 p.m. Where: Southside Baptist Church, 5502 Skidaway Rd. just south of DeRenne. Info: 598-0082.

Fri, nov 17 What: Mixes classic American Wild West plot line with Asian themes of betrayal, loyalty and honor.

When: Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean.Cost: $6. Info: 232-4447.

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by Jim Morekis

Throwin’ the book at ‘em

Savannah Children’s Book Festival set for this weekend at Forsyth Park One of the great local sleeper success stories, the Savannah Children’s Book Festival has come from an unlikely (for Savannah) premise -- books, kids, outdoors, no booze -- to be one of the most popular events of the fall season.

“It gets bigger and bigger every year,” says Susan Lee, spokesperson for the Live Oak Public Libraries, which organizes the annual festival in Forsyth Park.

“I think it’s successful because we have a good combination of things. It’s not just authors reading books -- it’s storytellers, it’s hands-on activities, it’s performers, it’s illustrators,” she says.

“We have something for all ages -- pre-K kids, the little tiny ones, ones who can’t read, all the way up to SCAD students and artists,” Lee says. “We get a lot of people who just like art and want to meet and watch professional artists. Just because they do children’s books doesn’t mean it’s not art.”

The event’s spiritual center will be the Writer’s Circle, focusing on local wordsmiths.

“They’ll all be arranged around the Fountain, literally in a circle surrounding it,” Lee says.

The Festival will be chock-a-block with children’s activities, with a new touch.

“We’ll have little book, kind of like a passport, that we’ll give out,” Lee says. “The kids can then go to different stands and put stickers on their passport for each activity they do.”

Lee says another reason for the Festival’s popularity comes down to location.

“Even if you’re just walking your dog in the park, you’ll find something that catches your attention. There’s a lot of good food too,” she adds, referring to the many vendors that are on hand, including the ubiquitous free Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

The Book Festival’s success has led at least one local event to consolidate with the larger offering.

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” says Bess Chappas, who with the Savannah Storytellers has organized the Tellabration event for the past 12

years at about this time.

This year, however, Chappas decided to put on Tellabration as part of the Book Festival.

“Tellabration is such a great event, and we certainly didn’t want to overshadow them,” Lee says. “But the two events are a perfect match, and we knew it would blend so well.”

One of the featured children’s book authors onhand for the Festival is Andy Runton, creator and illustrator of the popular “Owly” series, which features the wordless exploits of a friendly vegetarian owl.

Following is our short interview with Runton: Connect Savannah: How did you get involved with the Savannah Children’s Book Festival?

Andy Runton: My publisher gave me a call and said the Festival called him looking for suggestions. They’d gotten his name to try and find some new artists and he suggested me.

Connect Savannah: Graphic novels aren’t normally considered fertile ground for childrens literature. How did you get involved with publishing for the younger set?

Andy Runton: It just kind of came about.

I’ve always loved comics, but I never seemed to be able to do the things I loved. I’m not a violent person and I wasn’t that interested in action sequences. I would never draw that stuff. I prefer to draw simple things -- nice stories with happy endings. I never thought I could do comics, they didn’t seem a good fit.

So I was trying to get into the business and stumbled upon Topshelf Productions. I really liked the stuff they were doing -- really personal stories that had a lot of heart. It was different in a way I’d never seen before. I thought, I might be able to do something like this.

I never thought anybody would like Owly.

He’s just a little vegetarian owl trying to make friends.

Connect Savannah: Why Owly?

Andy Runton

Andy Runton: It’s just my story, wrapped up in a little owl. It’s very personal. I really wrote it for me, I never wrote it to try and get a huge crowd. I used to be a graphic designer for Motorola, working on the user interface for phones.

Connect Savannah: Funny you mention that, because that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the comic. The icons you use would look right at home in a user’s manual of some type.

moved to Georgia suddenly I was surrounded by songbirds. Really it spurred a lot of interest in outdoors. Suddenly I had seasons.

Connect Savannah: People who haven’t been to Georgia don’t realize what a huge state, physically, this is.

Andy Runton: Very much so. There’s a lot of trees and that’s where everybody lives.

I just visited my brother in Arizona and came back and went ah, home. Everything is green again.

Andy Runton: Yeah, I used a lot of icons in that job. That’s what I used to do for the Connect Savannah: Specifically phones, that was the what kinds of thing will you be world I came from. I involved in while you’re here? used to do icons that were happy or cute or Andy Runton: I’ll be doing funny, and people there demonstrations, a Q&A, an would say, this is way too interactive drawing thing with cartoony, this needs to Owly. Kind of interacting and be more businesslike, a signing books, doing sketches. little more concrete, not I’m already really impressed so fanciful. So I sort of with how everybody’s been decided, well, this is not The beloved Owly character handling the Festival down for me. there, the organization and everything. I’ve never been to SaConnect Savannah: Why vannah before. do you think people relate to Owly?

Connect Savannah: You’ve lived in Atlanta all this time and never been to Savannah?

Andy Runton: People relate to Owly because he’s this predator by nature, but he chooses to be kind and nice and make the Andy Runton: I know. It’s terrible I’ve never world a better place. That’s rare these days. been there before. But I’m really looking forFor me he’s sort of based on all the stuff I ward to it. w loved as a kid, wrapped it up into this little owl.

The Savannah Children’s Book Festival will Another reason people like it is they can be held Saturday, Nov. 18, from 10 a.m. to sense I enjoy it. There’s a certain amount of 4 p.m. at Forsyth Park. Featured authors for purity that comes with that. Other than that this third annual event are Alyssa CapucilI really have no idea. He’s just a little owl and li; Katie Davis; Jan Spivey Gilchrist; Lucia it’s just me.

Gonzalez; Julia Gorton; Ella Jenkins; Daniel Kirk; Elaine Landau; Ralph Masiello; Andy Connect Savannah: Interesting that Owly is Runton; Antonio Sacre; Eleanora Tate; and in the graphic novel format, which generally Deborah Wiles. trades in violence a lot.

This year’s schedule also includes a variety of local authors and illustrators who will gather around the fountain with their books. This Andy Runton: Yeah, it tends to go hand in hand a lot of times. Even the stuff I loved “Writers’ Circle” includes: Phyllis Tildes; Bess when I was starting to write, they kind of Chappas; Nancie Clark; Polly Wylly Cooper solved most problems with violence. That and Emmeline King Cooper; Nancy Raines wasn’t what I wanted Owly to be about -- it’s Day; “Magic Marc” Dunston; Argentina not about fighting bad guys.

Grader; Delores Nevils; Bettye Stroud; AuWith Owly any conflict is based on misdilee Taylor ; Chris Blaine; Christopher Auer; understandings, normal kinds of things, Sara Banks; Peter and Sandy Loose; Robert which are then solved by being kind and Cooper; Mary Cunningham; Susanne Aviles; understanding. It doesn’t end with a horrible Ami Blackford; Doug Paul; Anna Burgard; mean punchline.

Dove McHargue; Tim Banks; and Erin Bennett Banks .

Connect Savannah: How long have you lived The Savannah Storytellers will present their in Atlanta? annual Tellebration event.

Also on the schedule will be professional storyteller J’miah Nabawi, Iti Sahai and Dana Andy Runton: I moved here right before high school, so that would be since 1988.

Taylor-Nabawi, and the “Mad Science” I’m originally from Jacksonville, Fla. Atlanta group’s interactive show. was very critical, and Georgia in general, to The Friends of Music return to provide live Owly becoming who he is. In Florida there’s music. a tendency not to be a lot of wildlife. When I

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Story II

by Jim Morekis

In the spirit of this year’s Savannah Children’s Book Festival, here are a few reviews of some books we’ve received at the Connect office lately.

Hey, Bug Doctor! The Scoop on Insects in Georgia’s Homes and Gardens

In Balanchine’s Company: A Dancer’s Memoir

by Barbara Milberg Fisher Wesleyan University Press As it happens, the author of this delightfully wry memoir, former New York City Ballet principal dancer Barbara Fisher, will do a reading/signing at The Book Lady on Liberty Street Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.

There’s something of a cottage industry in ballet books these days, with competing schools of thought over whether the undeniable impact of pioneering choreographer George Balanchine was good or bad for the art form.

Was he a badly-needed breath of fresh air bucking a complacent status quo, or an immature and irresponsible radical?

This book, thankfully, attempts to answer neither of those questions, but rather is a charming and enlightening chronicle of her years spent under the tutelage of the cranky

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by Jim Howell University of Georgia Press What do we love about the South?

Let us count the things: Warm sun, soft voices, college football, CocaCola... and big-ass flying cockroaches?

Yes, Virginia, there is a one-stop shop for all your answers to all your creepy-crawly questions, and it’s called Hey, Bug Doctor! This entertaining, accessible and highly informative book is an ideal gift idea for the science-minded person, young or old, in your family.

Arranged in two major sections, Lawn and Garden Insects and Household Insects, Bug Doctor then drills down into a comprehensive look within each category. For example, the Lawn & Garden category contains insects as commonly known as the Fire Ant down to Spittle Bugs (a subsection entitled “Frothy Masses in Your Grasses”).

You’ll learn a lot from this book, which is written specifically for the layman. For example, I knew that Daddy Long Legs could shed a leg to distract an enemy. But I didn’t know that the lost leg never grows back. (I also didn’t know that they’re not spiders at all, despite having eight legs, but actually closer to ticks and mites.)

wunderkind.

A Russian born under the name Georgi Balanchivadze, the choregrapher was something of an odd man out in the arts during his heyday in the ‘50s -- a devoted antiCommunist who thought “union” was synonymous with “lazy.”

But what Fisher makes clear is the context in which this took place. During the Cold War, communism was a much greater perceived threat than today, one which Balanchine had first-person experience with.

After successfully defecting to America in the late ‘20s, Balanchine not only brought his Old World sensibilities with him but a fervent desire for a phoenix -- perhaps the Firebird of his hero Stravinksy’s imagining?

-- to rise upon the ashes of a war-weary and rapidly-changing world.

Ballet was the instrument of this new order, and Balanchine merely its messenger.

Right or wrong, Balanchine -- like Stravinsky -- led an impassioned life, one worth studying through books like Ms. Fisher’s.

Southern Cooking

by Mrs. S.R. Dull University of Georgia Press Now, this is a cookbook, and one completely meriting the oft-overused tag “classic.” No fancy talk, no meandering memoirs, no fusion of styles, just recipe after recipe, page after page, of the comfort food you know and love as well as more obscure items from the apparently vast repertoire of traditional Southern cuisine.

The author/compiler of this wonderful tome, Henrietta Stanley Dull, was born during the Civil War and lived a long and peaceful life well into the middle of the 20th century. Along the way she penned a popular food column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I mean “history” literally. Southern Cooking isn’t just a cookbook, though that is certainly Mrs. Dull’s primary purpose with it.

The book is also a chronicle of an era. These simple recipes speak clearly in the universal language of food of an era gone by, of a time when people did things with a purpose.

I would stack the following conscise yet lyrical excerpt from “Oyster Filling for Patties and Timbales” against any overhyped Food Channel show: Clean and boil the brains and blanch them in cold water to make them firm. Cut into small pieces about as large as the end of a thumb, using scissors.

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Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry

Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, With Food

by Jonathan Reynolds Random House Jonathan Reynolds is a particular type of conservative I have little patience for: the academic bigcity type who works in a field dominated by liberals but who still insists on boasting loudly about his rightwing politics.

Journalism is one field that attracts such contrarians, and the theatre is another.

Reynolds has the distinctly sado-masochistic honor of being active in both those largely liberal professions.

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by David H. Rousseau and Dow Harris Schiffer Another situation where you’ve got prose chapters followed by related recipes, only in this case it’s imaginative vignettes from Savannah history followed by drink recipes. Appropriate enough.

The fictional chapters that make up the vast bulk of the book -- all inspired by real-life situations as diverse as George Washington’s visit to Savannah and a day in the life of Joe Odom during the Sweet Georgia Brown days -- are well-written and funny, if a little long for my tastes.

Serious local scholars will be disappointed at the comparative lack of historical depth in the tales, but for the casual reader or tourist I’d say this is a book well worth having.

The illustrations, by Julie Collins Rousseau, are wonderful and unique and full of character; my only complaint about them is that there aren’t enough.

Following the historic vignettes is a brief section of local watering holes with ratings.

While I take issue with absolutely nothing in the section, it seems curiously skimpy, considering the vast wealth of bars in this town.

I understand the author’s stated intent not to list places which might be likely to close down, but really -- it’s all turning to dust one day anyway. Might as well go for it now. w

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by Mel Watkins Vintage I ordinarily don’t care for revisionist texts, but there’s something about this biography of Lincoln Perry, black vaudevillian, that I appreciate.

While it’s become conventional wisdom that Perry’s “Stepin Fetchit” character was an insulting and patronizing portrayal of African-Americans that was forced on him by a racist society, this book essentially says the opposite.

The best clue is in a 1971 quote from Perry himself shortly before his death: “...when all the Negroes was goin’ around straightenin’ their hair and bleaching theirself trying to be white and thought improvement was white, in them days I was provin’ to the world that black was beautiful.”

Mel Watkins’ book builds on this central concept -- that far from trading on a stereotypical formula, Lincoln Perry was a groundbreaking black comedian in his own right, working from a position of strength and artistic integrity, no matter how backward his work might seem from a 21st century perspective.

It seems like way too modern a sensibility to lay at the feet of a performer from the segregated ‘30s, nearly a century ago. But Watkins builds the case effectively, taking us back to the real world of black vaudeville and contrasting Perry’s performances with his contemporaries.

Overall, this is a remarkable (and remarkably underreported) slice of Americana and an important work of entertainment journalism and African-American studies.

A food critic with the New York Times as well as a quasi-successful playwright and screenwriter, Reynolds uses a tried-and-true formula in this cookbook/memoir: Each chapter tells a tale from his personal life and is followed by an appropriate recipe.

The device is OK in and of itself, but its success depends on the execution. And it’s in the execution that Reynolds falls short.

Specifically, neither his life story nor his recipes are compelling enough to hold our attention.

As for politics, like most conservatives of his type he’s more interested in tweaking the liberals that surround him than in actual principles. For example, in chapter after chapter Reynolds tells us of his gradual alarm at the recklessness of Bush’s foreign policy. But the final time the book mentions politics is when Reynolds is arguing with his liberal wife over whom to vote for, eventually concluding that she “went to her voting booth, and I went to mine,” thus belying the conclusions we’re falsely led to believe he had arrived at.

So what’s his point? I read the book and I still couldn’t tell you. But then again, I guess having one’s cake and eating it too isn’t the worst thing in a cookbook.

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from the Editor

by Jim Morekis

Goodbye to you

A few things I won’t miss now that the elections are over looks like Americans -- except for those in Georgia, apparently -- have decided that one-party rule isn’t so great after all.

You’d think the experience of Cuba, China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union would have told us the same thing and saved everyone the trouble, but better late than never, I guess.

In any case, the Peach State stubbornly defied the natural trend and is now the most reliably Republican state other than Utah.

We’re the new Texas!

But history shows us this is pretty typical.

Remember, Georgia is the state that seceded from the Union and then threatened to secede from the Confederacy. I like to think it’s part of our charm. Or something.

Anyway, I wanted to take a moment to say “good riddanceâ€? to a few things now that the elections are in the history books: • Jack Kingston on TV: First, credit where it’s due: Congratulations to Jack for another Harlem Globetrotters-style win.

But it’s a bittersweet victory -- for the first time since 1994 he’s in the minority, and will now be on the receiving end of the same manure he’s gleefully shoved down Democrats’ throats for the past 12 years.

I commend Kingston for doing liberal TV shows and posting YouTube videos and having a blog and all those hip things he’s been pressing Republicans to do more of.

But, lord, how tired I became over the years of turning on my TV only to see Kingston arrogantly trash-talking the opposition in that familiar nasal drawl.

The week before the election Kingston appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,� spewing the usual lame talking points

that sounded so fresh in, say, 1996. His performance became so painfully over the top that Kingston himself started laughing. “Look at you -- you don’t even believe your own bullshit,� Maher said, pointing at Kingston’s guilty grin. Jack didn’t deny it.

That one was in good fun, but Kingston’s interviews on other shows defending the handling of the Foley scandal were flat-out disturbing. They seemed to display a man who -- like the party to which he belongs -had quite simply lost his moral compass.

During one appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball,â€? Kingston reiterated over and over (the transcript shows three times) that Republicans couldn’t possibly have known about Foley’s perversions because they otherwise would have gotten someone else to run for his “safe seatâ€? -- the clear implication being that if Foley’s seat wasn’t “safeâ€? then Republicans might have been justified in covering up his pedophilia. Oy. Kingston’s currently gunning for a GOP leadership spot, so we’re not done with seeing him in front of the cameras. But hopefully being in the minority will mean a little less face time for Jack. Frankly I think a while in the wilderness will do him good. • Georgia Democrats: Fork. Done.

The once-proud state Democratic Party has been reduced to a vestigial appendage on the Republican host body. It plays no policy role, and the only real service it provides is to give African-Americans access to fair representation. Not a small thing, but certainly a far cry from the party of Talmadge, Carter and Rousakis.

Campaign rhetoric aside, the truth is that white Republican power brokers in the legislature and black Democratic leaders across the state are in total agreement on most business issues (more jobs, less regulation) and most social issues (no on gay marriage,

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yes on school prayer). The two sides have quietly cemented a mutually beneficial relationship based on two shared goals: Increasing development at all costs and keeping white liberals out of power.

Sonny Perdue’s easy reelection is the final piece of the puzzle, the complete ascension of the Chamber of Commerce template of a pay-to-play, Abramoff-style government of lobbyists for which the only color that matters is the color green.

Perdue’s particular political genius has been to wisely steer clear of the “flagger�

Confederate weirdos and instead build a big Republican tent wide enough to contain all the faith-based initiatives, paved-over wetlands and sweetheart tax credits you can shake an endangered cypress tree at. • Max Burns: As we go press, an extremely close race between Burns and Democratic incumbent John Barrow is likely to have resulted in another loss for Burns, recount or no.

Nothing personal against Burns, but are Republicans really crazy enough to run the same guy in 2008 who lost his seat in 2004 and then failed to win it back in 2006?

Is the Pope German?

Folks, Max Burns has been bitten by the political bug and the prognosis is not good. I think he’d like nothing better than to roll up his sleeves and once again bask in the media attention, campaign donations and Air Force One visits on the taxpayer dime that he’s accustomed to being thrown his way every two years. It’s his job now, his profession.

It’s what he does.

Good gosh, Republicans, please spare us another chapter in this blood feud if you can. Of course you’ll mount a challenge in ‘08 -- looks like Eric Johnson will have to redistrict Barrow yet again, eh? -- but please pick a fresh face next time.

• ‘Values Voters:’ Stupidest phrase of all time. Everyone votes according to their values. That’s what voting means.

In any case, polls show that one out of three white evangelicals backed Democratic candidates last week. With that in mind, and with conservative states like South Dakota (which overturned an abortion ban) and Arizona (which overturned a gay marriage ban) turning out to not be so conservative after all, it’s time to acknowledge that the phrase “values voterâ€? is not only insulting to those of us who are not conservatives but still vote according to our values, but also very patronizing to conservatives who weigh plenty of other factors when casting their ballots. • Sad-sack environmentalists: I love my tree-hugger friends and am glad to see them anytime. But I have to say that the past six years they’ve been a real drag to be around.

They’ve all had the same look -- the haunted, shell-shocked, slightly vacant expression of someone who’s just been told they have a terminal illness. For them, Republican one-party rule in D.C. meant their whole world was falling apart. Literally falling apart, as in “planet, poof, gone.�

Luckily the sorcerer’s spell has been broken, and while there are still so many environmental problems to deal with -- hello, global warming, anyone? -- at least your friendly neighborhood enviros now know they can find a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill in a position to actually do something.

And maybe now they’ll stop sending us all those damn fundraising letters. w Jim Morekis is editor in chief of Connect Savannah. To comment, e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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They can’t say we never tried

My evening with the controversial Angela Davis and switching to philosophy. After graduating magna cum laude and becoming a Phi Beta Kappa she got a masters from the University of California and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Frankfort.

How could all this happen? she asked rhetorically. Because when she begged to go to a playground from which she was excluded because of her race she had a mother who would say, over and over again, “This is not the way things are supposed to be.”

Because she had a mother, she said, who taught her about future possibilities, a mother who gave her the tools of critical thinking, who taught her the importance of imagination.

Activists, she said, must imagine the world without racism or xenophobia.

“But it’s not enough to imagine while the world crumbles around us,” she said.

Imagining a world without war and xenophobia, she said, is only the first step. After that people need to work for transformation.

She was particularly mindful of the assault on immigrants and the plan to build a 700-mile fence at the border with Mexico.

The fence, she said, is “not so much to secure borders but to make us think that the people to the south of us are the enemy.”

Referencing Condoleeza Rice, the Secretary of State who was born ten years after Davis and who also spent her early years in Birmingham, she urged people to think about the community not the individual.

“Individual victories do not necessarily count as collective victories,” she said. “Condoleeza did not win a victory for women or women of color.”

As a professor with the History of Consciousness department at the University of California and the director of the feminist studies program, Davis’ focus these days is on what she calls the prison-industrial complex. With 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States - “the largest proportion of people in any country” - she questions the profits people are making from the prisons, what people are taught while incarcerated and how much good is being done.

“Take Mumia Abu Jamal, for instance,” a black journalist who has been on death row in Philadelphia for 25 years.

“In France there are streets named after him,” she said. “Last year the mayor named him an honorary citizen of Paris, the first since Picasso. Try imagining that.”

After all these years, Davis, speaking in a thoughtful, soft and resolute manner, has somehow managed to maintain her commitment to social justice.

That alone was worth seeing. w

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With all the personalities we see on David Letterman, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, all the writers and politicians we hear on National Public Radio, all the intellectuals and behind-thescenes people we read about on the web, in the newspaper and in weekly magazines, it’s easy to think we’re close to knowing everything that’s happening in the world, right?

I mean granted, we’re human, we’re busy, we’re bombarded with information and at the end of the day we can’t know everything that’s going on, but between word of mouth, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation and maybe some esoteric but energetic blogs , we think we have a shot at being in touch.

Then out of the blue (or the ‘70’s) someone like Angela Davis pops up big as life and right away we know that Shakespeare is right: “There is more in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Maybe it’s the coast I’m living on - east.

Maybe it’s her own selectivity about who she allows to interview her or where she’s going to appear. Maybe it’s the subjects that concern her - peace and justice - and what pathetically little cache they carry today.

Or maybe it’s me. Maybe I should just say straight out: Angela Davis has not been on my radar screen. At least not until the other night when I joined a crowd of 500 people who wanted to hear what this longterm political activist and intellectual had to say, this woman who was once on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, once associated with the Black Panther Party, the Communist Party and Stokely Carmichael, who was in and out of jail, serving time on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, who was then tried and acquitted of the crimes.

I wanted to see what someone born in 1944 and for whom the Rolling Stones and John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote songs (“Sweet Black Angel” and “Angela,” respectively) looks like.

No problem there. She looks fabulous.

Wearing a black, fitted, conservative three-piece pant suit with respectable black dress-up shoes, lipstick, gold hoop earrings and a gold chain, she still has that space between her teeth. She’s still got that fire in her eyes. She’s still got that springy coif, albeit a little grayer, with which so many people have associated her.

She’s no fly-by-night, no lightweight.

From an upbringing in a segregated Birmingham, Ala., Davis got a scholarship to Brandeis University in Massachusetts, where she was one of three black students.

Majoring in French, she spent her junior year in France before returning to the States

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from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

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There have been several reports of youths transported to local hospitals with symptoms and reactions common to an overdose of the over-the-counter medicine. CNT has asked that all pharmacies in the area help prevent further incidents by removing the medication from the aisle shelving to a secure place behind the counter.

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• An officer responded to a 58th Street address in reference to an unruly juvenile. Upon arrival, the officer learned the youth had just left his home, so the officer spoke with the boy’s father. The man said his son has gone back to smoking marijuana. The father said he has tried to talk to his son about his abuse of marijuana, but the son refuses to listen. He said his son is continuously skipping classes and whole days at school. He said when he talks to his son about these problems, the boy becomes verbally abusive and tells his father there is nothing he can do about his behavior. He said his son intentionally causes arguments. When he’s not smoking marijuana, his son is calm and will listen to reason, the man said. He said his son has had criminal trespass charges filed against him. The man was given a case report number and advised to let a case worker assigned to his son know what occurred.

Later, officers returned to the same address in reference to a possible altercation between the father and son. Upon the officer’s arrival the father said he told his son to stay out of his closet and not to wear any more of his clothes to school. The man removed the son’s television set from his room to punish him, but the boy then turned up the stereo so loud it shook the walls. The man said that when he asked his son to turn the music down, the boy just stared at him.

At that point, the father unplugged the stereo, but as soon as he left the room, his son plugged it back in and turned the volume up. The man said he went back to his son’s room and asked him to turn the music down or turn it off. When the son again refused, the father unplugged the stereo and told his son to leave it off. He said this time, his son got up into his face, and said he had to grab his son to prevent him from hitting him. He said his son resisted and began fighting back.

The father called his son’s mother and asked her to pick the boy up until he could cool off. Attempts by a police officer to speak with the son were met with silence as he refused to acknowledge the presence of officers.

• A Lewis Drive resident told police she and her children returned to their residence, at which point her husband began arguing with her.

She said he demanded the keys to her car, but she refused to give them to him. At that point, the man attacked her, dragging her a short distance down the sidewalk near the front door of their residence.

The woman said she began to scream for help. A neighbor came out to see what was wrong, and the man snatched the keys and took off with them.

• The driver of a cab appeared nervous after an officer stopped him, and his passenger appeared even more nervous.

The officer was driving south on Price Street in a marked patrol car when he observed a cab making an improper left turn into the far right lane. The driver then changed lanes from right to left without signaling. At a red light, the cab was sitting in the left lane, but the driver made a right turn on the red light. The officer also noticed the cab didn’t have a tag light. The officer stopped the cab on Henry Street at Abercorn. He noticed furtive movements by both the driver and the passenger.

The driver was advised about the reason for the stop. The passenger asked if he could pay the cab driver for the cab ride and then leave. The cab driver was cited for several traffic violations. His passenger was arrested for possession.

• An officer was called to East Duffy Street in reference to a call about three men loitering. Upon arrival, the officer saw three men sitting on the porch of a house. One of the men told the officer that the three of them were there “to visit.”

The suspect was asked to give his name, date of birth, social security number and home address. When he responded, he spoke in a very low voice and gave the wrong date of birth. He was placed in detention and told the penalties for giving false information to the police. w

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Compelling Explanations

his farm but that when it wouldn’t move, he hit it with an ax, at which point it turned Citing a “code of honor” acquired durinto his brother (according to an Associated ing 26 years in the Air Force, retired pilot Press report).

Ralph Paul, 54, decided in March that he Charles Henson was convicted of atwould not pay for the $15.99 Shrimp and tempted murder in Bristol, England, in Scallop Verdura at Angellino’s restaurant in October, but insisted he couldn’t have done Palm Harbor, Fla., because it contained only it. His ex-wife said he had stuffed his latexfive small shrimp and five scallops. After gloved hand down her throat, knowing that he complained unsuccessfully and she had a latex allergy that would be fatal walked out, the restaurant sent sherwithin minutes. Henson said that was iff ’s deputies after him, and he impossible because, according to the was charged with misdemeancouple’s “contract” setting out their or fraud. Paul insisted to a St. Shrimp can sadomasochism, bondage and domiPetersburg Times reporter that not be nation rules, “section four” states very he couldn’t look himself in the jumbo clearly that “the master does not mirror if he had paid, or even have a right to kill the slave.” negotiated a settlement, so he

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Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley told The Washington Post in August that his brilliant performance in a December game (three touchdowns against Dallas to get to the NFL playoffs) was also the very reason that his own fantasy football team was knocked from the playoffs, in that “Chris Cooley” plays for one of his opponents.

Anthony Mesa failed a drug test in September because, he said, he was medically unable to urinate into a cup under supervision, and he was remanded to a judge in Deland, Fla., to reconsider his house-arrest-only sentence. Mesa’s crime was that in August 2005, he spiked a Mountain Dew bottle at a grocery store with his own urine as a prank.

Irony in Houston: In September, when a squad car in Houston signaled Richard Ramos, 35, to pull over, he sped away, having heard in the news of the police department’s new, no-chase policy for minor traffic violations. However, the pursuing officers were actually Harris County sheriff ’s deputies, who are free to chase, and they quickly caught him. Also in September, Houstonian Michael Kubosh deliberately ran a red light in a traffic-camera intersection for the pur-

Hypersexual Pereira, Colombia

In a movement that grew from several women to more than 100 by mid-October, girlfriends in Pereira, Colombia, went on a sex-strike to urge their boyfriends away from the drug-gang life. Pereira is the same city where the sensational nightly TV soap opera “Sin Tetas (No Hay Paraiso)” originates, which is the story of a flat-chested young woman who constantly schemes to raise money for breast-augmentation surgery, which she views as the only way to the good life. (In one storyline, she fails at prostitution, in that she cannot attract customers because of her flat chest.)

Creme de la Weird

Terence Michael Dean, 37, was arrested in September in Cool, Calif., after a homeowner arrived from a weekend away and found that Dean had commandeered his house and set up various confusing rituals.

Dean (who ran from the house clothed only in a sheet) had turned on all faucets, placed packages of meat in the sink and bathtub, built a shrine of Buddha on a bongo drum, left a trail of potting soil from a walkway to the drum, left three plant stands in the garage holding teddy bears, unearthed about 100 houseplants in the yard, and left a cup of water containing a piece of paper reading “I love Cherry.”

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photos in his campaign are minus his two adopted children, whom he has ostracized for, respectively, being gay and giving birth out of wedlock. (2) The election board of St. Louis County, Mo., acknowledged in October that an unnamed election judge had cast two absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 election but defended the man, saying he was old and probably just forgot that he had already voted. (3) Bill Crozier, running for Oklahoma state school superintendent, proposed in October that schools protect pupils from armed intruders by making desks out of thick, used textbooks to stop bullets and that new textbooks come with Kevlar covers.

Sex ‘n’ Politics: (1) Korinne Barnes, 29, a single mother of three running for the North Kingstown (R.I.) School Committee, was finally persuaded in September to remove her MySpace.com personal listing in which she described herself as “smart, sexy, fun” and a “voluptuous chocolate sister with a big booty.” (2) By contrast, Loretta Nall, 32, the Libertarian Party write-in candidate for governor of Alabama, remains unembarrassed by her sexiness, telling reporters that she hoped that voters attracted by her cleavage would listen to her campaign platform.

She offers a T-shirt to supporters reading, “More of these boobs and (referring to pictures of her opponents) less of these boobs.”

Undignified Deaths

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: A 50-yearold driver was killed in the Western Australian outback in October when a kangaroo was hit by another vehicle and came crashing through the man’s windshield. And in October, a 32-year-old inmate at North Carolina’s Caledonia Prison Farm drowned when, riding horseback on a work detail, he was thrown into a pond when a bull charged his horse and scared him. w

Can’t Possibly Be True: (1) Randall Terry, a veteran anti-abortion activist pushing a family-values campaign for the Florida state senate, acknowledged that his own family’s

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hired a $500-an-hour New York lawyer and, in a one-day trial in October before a restive jury, he was acquitted.

Oh So Clever: The top administrator of Minnesota’s Freeborn County said in October that he would relinquish his personalized license plates after state officials threatened to investigate several complaints about them. Administrator Ron Gabrielsen said his FOAD1 plate stood for “Freedom Offers Americans Democracy” (No. 1 priority) (instead of what some understood to be “(word omitted) Off And Die”) and his HMFICFC stood for “Helping Minnesota Farmers Increase Crops in Freeborn County” (instead of what some understood to be “Head Mother (word omitted) In Charge of Freeborn County”).

The Problem Is Goats: (1) A traffic officer in eastern Ontario, who ticketed a speeding motorist from Switzerland in September, said the driver blamed it on the lack of goats.

He told the officer that he felt liberated to drive fast because, unlike in his country, there were no goats wandering onto the highway. (2) Authorities in the Nigerian village of Isseluku arrested a man for killing his brother in September, but the man insisted that he had only tried to move a goat from

pose of challenging the system in court, but two Houston police officers personally witnessed the violation and wrote him a regular ticket (which overrides the camera’s $75 violation with a ticket of up to $200).

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Orangutan Deaths

A leading wildlife conservationist in 3.8 Borneo says that about 1,000 orangutans are believed to have perished this year due to drought and 4.5 illegal wildfires on the island.

“Orangutans are starving.

5.3 They are sick, and many of those we are treating were injured after being attacked by machetes,” said Willie Smits of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. He added that many of the surviving primates of the species are suffering from respiratory distress caused by the pall of Week Ending November 10, 2006 smoke. The haze has also resulted in a health crisis research program critics say is merely disamong the human populaguised commercial whaling. The catch was tions of Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. only a little more than half of the 60 minke Smits added that the fires have deprived the whales authorized to be killed. The shortfall orangutans of food, forcing them to was mainly blamed on bad weather. encroach into human settlements, where they have come under attack for damaging Ocean Ice Alert crops.

An iceberg warning was issued for the Southern Ocean to the Whaling south of New Zealand as some of An official in Iceland said his an estimated 100 chunks of country might reconsider its Antarctic ice came closer to New decision to resume commercial Zealand than any others for the past 75 whaling if no market for the years. “We were surprised by the number of whale meat can be found. them and by how far north they were,” said Whaling commissioner Stefan Asmundsson Royal New Zealand Air Force Capt. Andy compared whaling to the car industry.

Nielsen, who found the icebergs while flying “When you don’t have buyers for your cars, on a routine fishing patrol. He added that you halt production,” he told reporters. The the largest iceberg is 1.25 miles long and decision to resume commercial whaling, towers 400 feet above the ocean surface. announced in mid-October, has sparked National Institute of Water and Atmospheric condemnation from conservationists as well Research oceanographer Mike Williams said as several governments. the icebergs were likely part of a larger • The International Whaling Commission chunk of ice that broke off the Ronne Ice announced that Japan has caught 35 whales Shelf six years ago. off the coast of Hokkaido Island under a

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A relatively mild tremor in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region damaged more than 5,500 houses, including 1,353 that received serious damage. There were no reports of significant injuries from the magnitude 4.2 quake.

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Spice it up

Folks who love chili -- and that would probably be you -- will want to be at Grayson Stadium for the first-ever Chili Bowl Cook-Off, set for Saturday, Nov. 18 from noon to 5 p.m. Not only will there be chili, hot dogs, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.

“We’re really trying to keep Grayson Stadium and the Sand Gnats fresh in everyone’s minds during the winter months,” says Katie Stocz of the Sand Gnats. “We want to utilize the stadium for events in the off-season.”

Chili-cooking teams will gather early in the morning to prepare their best chili recipes. A lucky panel of judges will then judge the entries.

When the gates open, the public will be invited in. Everyone will be given a bowl and a spoon, and given the chance to sample all the contestant’s entries.

“We chose a chili cook-off because we wanted to hold an event later in the year,” Stocz says. “It does get colder here, and we wanted to spice it up a bit.”

Entrants are certainly excited. “It’s been very well received,” Stocz says. “But there is still room for competitors. I’ve extended the deadline into next week.”

If you want to enter, there is a $50 entry fee and you must cook 10 gallons (yes, gallons) of chili. For information, call 351-9150

or e-mail Stocz at katies@sandgnats.com.

Want to attend just to enjoy the chili?

Advance tickets are $5, or get in at the gate the day of the cook-off for $7.

“We’ve been doing advance ticket sales,” Stocz says. “The Train Wrecks will be performing and there will be fun activities for people to do. There will be a chili peppereating contest and a chili-eating contest.”

The cook-off contestants will be placed around the ball field. “People will walk onto the field, wander around and sample chili,” Stocz says. “People can sit and listen to the music and eat chili. It’s something different for Savannah.”

Participants can even feel good about having fun. A portion of the day’s proceeds will go to America’s Second Harvest of the Coastal Empire.

“This will be held the weekend before Thanksgiving, so it seemed like an appropriate time to have a cook-off,” Stocz says. “Second Harvest is a great organization. We’ve enjoyed working with them.”

Contestants will start at the crack of dawn. “The cookers can come as early as 5 a.m. ,” Stocz says.

“They can cook here or, if they’re from a restaurant, they can cook at the restaurant the morning of the cook-off. If they do that, they will have to bring the chili here by 10

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a.m.”

The judging will begin at 10:30 a.m. “It will be a five-judge panel,” Stocz says. “First prize is $500 cash, and $250 is second prize.

There will be a People’s Choice trophy and an award for best-decorated booth.”

Believe it or not, there is a national chili cook-off. While the event in Savannah won’t be a qualifying event for the national competition, the same rules will apply.

“The chili will be judged in five categories,” Stocz says. “This isn’t a qualifying chili bowl, it’s just a local fun event.”

The entrants will be scored on 1. aroma, 2. consistency, 3. color, 4. taste, and 5. aftertaste of their chili.

Love chili but don’t want to miss your football games? That’s been taken care of, too. “We will have big-screen TVs here,” says Stocz, who is herself a big football fan.

“We don’t want anyone to miss their football games.”

Many restaurants and businesses are bringing teams to the cook-off. Not surprisingly, Chili’s restaurant was one of the first to sign up. “We’ve had a relationship with the Sand Gnats for a few years now,” says Mike Fuller of Chili’s.

“We’ve sold food at the games, and last year we were a marketing partner with them,” Fuller says. “And it is kind of right up

our alley, considering we are Chili’s.”

Fuller has already been planning strategy for the event. “We’ll probably have a small team of three or four,” he says.

The timing of the cook-off is a bit awkward. “It being on a Saturday makes it difficult for us because the restaurant is busy on Saturday,” Fuller says.

“We already have a recipe we’re going to use,” he says. “It’s not one we use at the restaurant.

“Our chili at the restaurant must satisfy everyone,” Fuller says. “For the cook-off, we want to try to pigeonhole certain chili fans.”

One thing has not been decided, however. “We’re not sure yet whether we’ll cook it at the restaurant or if we’ll cook it at the stadium,” Fuller says. “We’re still kicking that around.”

Fuller hopes the event becomes an annual competition. “I think it will be great,” he says. “We’re very excited about the cook-off.”

Who will win? Only the crystal ball knows. But Fuller thinks his team has an edge on the competition.

“Since we are Chili’s, we’d like to think we know chili,” he says. “That in itself ought to be enough.” w The Chili Bowl Cook-Off is Saturday, Nov. 18 from noon to 5 p.m. at Grayson Stadium.

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ing her church,” McCarty says.

Although James Baldwin is The play recreates the church experience, considered one of America’s greatest novelright down to the music. But it’s not just ists and essayists, not many people know he about religion. also was a playwright.

“It’s also about family relationships,” His first play, The Amen Corner, adMcCarty says. “The dresses the theme of father is really trying role church plays in the to reconcile with his African-American famson. Margaret has ily. It also looks at the a sister who is like effects of prejudice, and a second mother to the complex relationDavid, and she’s a ship between religion rock for Margaret.” and earthly love.

Written during Students in the vithe 1950s and first sual and performing performed in 1965, arts program at SavanThe Amen Corner is nah State University are still relevant today. bringing Baldwin’s play “Every day, we see to life. Joan McCarty, someone falling from assistant professor in a position of power, the College of Liberal Ki’Andra Myers and Stephanie whether it’s church or Arts and Social Sciences, is Bowling rehearse a scene politics,” McCarty says. the play’s co-director.

“So many people are “In some ways, the play familiar with these kinds of fights and disis semi-autobiographical,” McCarty says. agreements that go on in churches.”

“James Baldwin was a boy preacher. If you The cast is made up of theater majors look at his famous novel Go Tell It On The and one theater minor at SSU. “We wanted Mountain, the character of the young boy is the students to experience many different Baldwin.” kinds of genres in theater,” McCarty says.

Baldwin’s early life also influenced The “We’re going to focus on pieces that will Amen Corner. “He only wrote two plays, The educate and give our young people the opBlues for Mr. Charlie and The Amen Corner,” portunity to get a workout,” McCarty says.

McCarty says. “He wanted to put to stage “We sat down and said, ‘What would be a some of his experiences in the Pentecostal good piece to better educate the students?’

(Sanctified) Church.”

I’ve directed The Amen Corner a number of The Amen Corner is about a gathering of times and been in it a couple of times.” people who have started their own “corner” Baldwin achieved considerable success church in Harlem. “They haven’t even gradwith The Amen Corner. “This play went to uated to a storefront,” McCarty says.

Broadway,” McCarty says. “Twice, actually.

The main character is Margaret, who “There are eight main characters and a lives in an apartment with her son, David, choir -- all together, about 14 people in the and sister, Odessa. She has taken upon hercast,” she says. “The students are loving it. self the leadership of the group and is the “In some ways, it’s close to their own church’s minister. experiences,” McCarty says. “Many are “Of course, there’s a church fight,” Mcmembers of Baptist churches and sanctified Carty says. “Some of the congregation want churches.”

Margaret to leave the church because she’s The students also are enjoying portrayvery strict. Members aren’t allowed to read ing the people presented in the play. “The the funny papers. One member wants to characters Baldwin weaves are so strong earn a living driving a liquor truck and she and vibrant,” McCarty says. “The students won’t allow it. And there’s always one person are having a great time with it. So are Gary who thinks they will be a better pastor.” and I.” But church problems aren’t Margaret’s In the end, Margaret has learned an only woes. “Margaret is running away from important lesson. “She thinks she is such a things in her past,” McCarty says. good Christian, but by the end of the play, “Her husband was a jazz musician and a begins to understand that she really isn’t,” sinner,” she says. “He appears in Act 1 and McCarty says. ‘‘As she says, ‘To love the Lord makes it clear he never abandoned her and is to love all His children -- all of them, evtheir son. She abandoned him.” ery one -- and suffer with them and rejoice By the end of Act 1, Margaret is going with them and never count the cost!’’’ w on a trip to Philadelphia to help another church. “While she’s gone, the church fight Savannah State University will present The begins,” McCarty says.

Amen Corner Nov. 16, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m.

“Her son decides he doesn’t want to be in and Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. in the Kennedy Fine the church, he wants to be a musician. She Arts Auditorium. Admission is $5 for the gencomes back to all these fights and then finds eral public and $2 for students. out her husband is dying.”

Margaret is in dire straits. “She’s about to lose everything she has to hold onto, includ-

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Lipan/City: Une Experience Humaine -Original artwork by Gabriel Bata, accompanied by live African drumming. Nov. 15-21 at DesotORow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. between Whitaker and Bull Streets.

Reception Fri., Nov. 17 at 7 p.m.

‘Savannah Squared’ -- The Gallery presents a peek into Savannah’s scenery through the looking glass of 13 artists.

Nov. 23-Dec. 31, 20 Jefferson Street, Center Court City Market.

100 Under 200 -- Chroma Gallery hosts this show of One hundred small works under $200 by Chroma artists Nov. 19-Dec. 24. Reception Sunday, Nov. 19 3-6 p.m.

Free at Chroma Gallery, 31 Barnard St. ‘Quick’ -- Embroidered fabrics from Jennifer Jenkins and Erin Riche through Nov.30 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception Thursday, Nov. 16, 6-8 p.m.

2CarGarage Gallery to open -- Bringing new works by nationally recognized artists to the Savannah art scene beginning December 7. Opening reception 6-9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 7, at 30 W. Broughton Street, Suite 205.

Sally Clark -- Hospice Savannah will showcase new work by Sally Clark through Dec. 31 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

Frank Stewart -- Stewart is the principle photographer for the Savannah Music Festival and Lincoln Center in New York.

Recent color photos as well as a number of images from his black and white series “Hotel Windows.” Show runs thru Nov. 30 at Horne & Thistle Gallery, 424 E Oglethorpe Ave. Reception Nov. 11, 5-8 p.m. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

‘Creeks, Coves and Sounds’ -- New exhibition of the paintins of M.L. Kolbe and Tom Sadler at Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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‘Holidays, Hope & Warmth’ -- Union Mission’s Growing Hope Artisans’ Cooperative presents cooperative member holiday card designs, hand-crocheted Afghans and text discussing the issue of providing “warmth” to people impacted by homelessness during the winter and holiday months. On exhibit through November at the Starfish Cafe, 719 E. Broad St. ‘Ghana: A Photo Documentary’ -- The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs exhibits photographer Carrie Brown works at Gallery S. P. A. C. E. (Savannah’s Place for Art, Culture and Education) Nov. 10 through Dec. 15. Brown is currently a documentary photographer for Cross-Cultural Solutions in Ghana, West Africa. The exhibition will include works from her journey through towns along the western coast of Ghana, as well as works from her Ghanaian students. Admission is free. Gallery S.P.A.C.E. is at 9 West Henry Street in Savannah. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Reception Fri., Nov. 10, from 6-8 p.m.

Whitney Gallery Artist of the Month -- During November new works by June Stratton and Adela Holmes are being showcased at the Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St.

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Todd Nemanic -- Work in stone, wood, ceramics and canvas by this SCAD language professor. At the Los Robles Center for Arts and Humanities at 101 E. 34th St. Private showings are scheduled throughout November by calling Robert Crockett at 234-5952 for appointments.

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JEA Artist of the Month -- The Art Show at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St., beginning Nov. 1 features works of Cynthia Fraula-Hahn, an artist, arts activist and art historian based in Winchester, Va., and Savannah.

Jepson Center for the Arts – Exhibits “Lemon Wheels” by Penelope Moore is part of include: “Helen Levitt: Photographs the ‘100 Under 200’ show at Chroma from the Permanent Collection”; ‘A Closer Look: selections from Four Churches and a Synagogue’; ‘Turnthe Walter O. Evans Collection of African ings in Native Wood’ -- Photography by American Art; and “Myrtle Jones: A TribTim Coy and woodturning by Dicky Stone ute.” 207 W. York St. Call 790-8800. through Dec. 30 at Gallery 440, 440 Bull St.

All works for sale. A portion of proceeds benefits Chatham Savannah Citizen Advocacy, Inc. ‘Islam in Belief and Practice’ -- Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum through Dec. 31. Free admission for the Museum, which is in the Rosenwald Building on South-

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The Barber is in Savannah Sinfonietta seeks to build on early positive reviews with ambitious concert series

For the past several months, local fans of fine art music have been awash in opportunities to see and hear it played live.

Between visits by the Jacksonville, Atlanta and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Hilton Head Symphony (who’ll perform Mahler’s “Resurrection” with the help of the Savannah Choral Society this Saturday night at the Lucas Theatre), and the newly-formed Southern Georgia Symphony, there are now a surfeit of classical options to choose from.

That wealth of musical riches has not deterred one new group from throwing their hat into the ring, however, and by all accounts, it seems the Savannah Sinfonietta is doing an impressive job of holding their own in a crowded marketplace.

Compared to the Statesboro-based Southern Georgia Symphony, which mixes professional players with standout students from Georgia Southern University’s orchestral program, the Savannah Sinfonietta is a smaller, all-pro outfit that sees itself as a logical (and more manageable) substitute for the defunct Savannah Symphony Orchestra, which shut down ignominiously amid crippling debt roughly half a decade ago.

So far, the Sinfonietta’s game plan —which combines a smaller orchestra with multiple performances in more intimate venues than the old Symphony’s home of the 2,600-seat Johnny Mercer Theatre— seems to be working. They are receiving high marks from local classical music enthusiasts, and their reasonable ticket prices seem to be starting to attract a wider variety of audience members than has been the norm in this area.

In advance of their upcoming trio of concerts based around the work of composer Samuel Barber (including an early piece for string quartet that would later become the basis for his famed Adagio for Strings), Connect spoke to the Sinfonietta’s Executive Artistic Director William Keith for an inside view on the rapid growth and evolution of this promising new organization.

Connect Savannah: When we first spoke a few months back, you said your goal was to become “a flexible, full-service group that can serve niche-markets, and bring a variety of

Heidi Hammer classical music to a variety of neighborhoods.”

Are you achieving those goals?

William Keith: I’m pretty comfortable that we’ve been achieving that part of our mission since launching the season several months ago. To date we’ve already programmed over a dozen orchestra and chamber music performances that have encompassed the Historic District, The Landings, Midtown Savannah and the City of Richmond Hill.

I think our level of artistry as been superb.

There’s a strong sense of ensemble with this group — a lot of shared experience that comes across musically.

Connect Savannah: How many people will make up the Sinfonietta for these shows?

William Keith: For the Barber series we’ll have a chamber orchestra of around twentyfive. Probably four or five of those will be new players we’re adding to the core group to meet specific instrumentation requirements for these pieces.

Connect Savannah: You estimated this group could reach the same number of listeners as the old Savannah Symphony, while incurring operating costs less than 20 percent of what that (reportedly) bloated organization had to deal with. Has this proven accurate?

William Keith: Partially. From an operating expense standpoint, yes. We are right on budget for our projected hard cost, and have a very accurate gauge of what we’ll need to sustain this professional, per-service orchestra. Audience growth has been a little

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lighter than hoped, but it’s growing concert by concert. I’m comfortable that as the season progresses we’ll continue to reconnect to our supporters across the region. Plus, to some degree, even though we have artistic connections to the old symphony, we are still “new” and must find a “new audience” like any other group.

Connect Savannah: Why Samuel Barber (and these particular works)?

Connect Savannah: How much actual rehearsal time has been spent on these shows?

William Keith: Generally, we will have three 2 1/2 hour rehearsals leading into a concert series. These are professionals who come well prepared, so the focus becomes to artistically arrange the ensemble.

Connect Savannah: Have you yourself, or any of these principal players ever performed any of these pieces publicly before?

William Keith: Gosh, that’s a good question.

Without polling the players I would imagine that some have played Knoxville 1915 and possibly the String Quartet. I can almost guarantee this will be the first time any of us gets a shot at Cave of the Heart, which is the original 1945 ballet setting for Martha Graham’s Library of Congress Series, or the Canzonetta for Oboe and String. Interestingly, when we ordered Cave of the Heart, the publisher actually had to print a new copy because there are only two other copies in the world - one being performed in England, the other on the West Coast.

Connect Savannah: What is it about Barber’s work that stand out most to you?

William Keith: He has a simply brilliant ability to come up with thematic jewels, paired with a somewhat unique approach to score voicing. The end result is a signature, individualist neo-romantic style — when com-

pared to some of his 20th century peers who were either pulled toward neo-classicalism or fell under the tall musical shadow of Aaron Copland.

Connect Savannah: This show will see three performances over a four-day period: First at Trinity United Methodist; next at Skidaway Island Presbyterian; and finally at the Jewish Education Alliance. Will the performances change to “fit” the rooms?

William Keith: A little, but not a lot. Each space has its own idiosyncrasies from a staging perspective and also aurally, but that’s just how this approach of taking the concert to the audience works. It’s been nice to play in different spaces and to adjust each presentation for the best result.

Connect Savannah: Does one pay more for a seat that is closer to the musicians?

William Keith: Generally, our tickets go from $30 down to $20, with students for $10.

We price the first four rows slightly higher, in recognition of the benefit of proximity to the players. Still, I think $30 or $25 to hear Knoxville when you are sitting fifteen feet from the soloist is amazing. Try that in Atlanta or Jacksonville and let me know what it costs. (laughs) Connect Savannah: Considering that other regional symphonies are actively booking shows in Savannah, are you worried about oversaturating the market, and “burning people out” on classical music?

William Keith: I don’t think that’s likely in our case. True, we’re exploring a lot of venues right out of the gate. However, that’s to find what works, what doesn’t, and where our concertgoers will connect most to us. I can’t help but believe that Savannah will support its own resident orchestra. I feel we have the flexibility and the opportunity to try some different things. We’ll make adjustments as to where, when and how much we play until we find our niche as part of this community’s greater artistic needs. I would offer that if your readers feel it’s important for this city to have its own resident orchestra, then there’s probably no better time than now for those patrons and lovers of the arts to come out and support what we’re creating in their midst. w

The Savannah Sinfonietta presents: Samuel Barber, A Modern Romantic, featuring his: Cave of The Heart Canzonetta for Obe & Strings; String Quartet in B minor; and Knoxville, 1915 — Thursday, 7:30 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church, Friday, 7:30 pm at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, and Sunday, 3 pm, at the Jewish Education Alliance. Tickets range from $10 to $30, and are on sale now. For more info, call 352-3377, or check www.savannahorchestra.org.

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William Keith: Barber is an amazing 20th century American composer who I believe stands toe-to-toe with Aaron Copland artistically. The interesting thing about Barber is his music has an almost organic quality to it. You notice the incredibly beautiful and powerful music, but it’s much more mystical and veiled as to where some of these wonderful elements came from. I’ve tried to pull selections from across his life as a composer; the String Quartet in B Minor — his student composition that Adagio for Strings was developed from; Cave of the Heart, his commission for Martha Graham that was later developed in the Medea Suite; The Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings, which was his deathbed composition and Knoxville 1915 for Soprano and Orchestra, in which he takes the prose of American poet James Agee and melds it into a tremendously beautiful and haunting ode to childhood memories lost.

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Really Old-Time music!

New local ensemble focuses on ancient classical works Speaking with John Hillenbrand is a bit like entering another world.

That’s because the musician, who plays the vielle (a fiddle from the Renaissance period), seems to feel most comfortable dwelling in the far distant past.

This is not a condemnation by any means. In fact, it’s a testament to the devotion he has for so-called Early Music: European classical compositions written and debuted hundreds of years ago — some even dating back to before the year 1400.

The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods of Western music all fall under this general heading, but for those deeply into such things (such as Hillenbrand), the farther back one goes, the more enchanting the genre becomes. And the more mysterious.

That’s primarily because, without the advent of standardized methods of record keeping or musical notation, it is essentially impossible for anyone who wishes to perform ancient works of this sort to know exactly what their composers meant for the

Tina Zenker Williams pieces to sound like.

“Those of us who study this music tend to be a bit eccentric,” admits Hillenbrand with a chuckle. “That’s because it does require serious effort. You can’t just go to a music store and ask for some Medieval sheet music. You have to reinterpret everything and in many cases write it yourself. By hand!

That’s the fun and the challenge.

“Because so little remains and so few notations exist, it becomes more like playing jazz instead of most classical music where all

the instructions are right there on the page and you just do what you’re told.”

For the debut Savannah appearance of Hillenbrand’s early music group The Goliards, Hillenbrand and company will use his own personally-penned scores, which he wrote out methodically in longhand.

“In Medieval music you start with a facsimile of the notations as they exist today, but usually all you have to go on is a single line with no rhythmic indications,” he explains. “All the notes are of seemingly equal value, and it requires a lot of tweaking.”

Still, no one will ever be able to measure how close he —or any scholarly musicologist for that matter— have come to authentically reproducing this music, despite the fact that his group insists on using such periodaccurate instruments as the lute in order to stay true to the spirit of the work.

“People around the world get into fairly ferocious arguments over such things,” Hillenbrand confides in a tone that makes it easy to imagine he’s taken part in a few such long-distance brouhahas himself. “The fact that they’re over fairly minor issues just makes the arguments all the more intense.

(Laughs) You know how it is: the stakes can seem much higher in penny-ante poker games than when people are playing for really large sums of money.”

A fine art painter who first formed The Goliards in 1998 while living in the Atlanta area, Hillenbrand now resides in Savannah, and decided to get back into playing music professionally after putting that part of his

life on hold to care for his ailing parents.

He has studied Early Music in the U.S. and abroad, and says it took him around a year to find the right combination of locals. The sole remaining member of the original Goliards lineup, he says finding the right vocalist was a real turning point.

“A good musician is a precious thing, but a good singer is even more precious. When someone is singing, that’s usually who the audience is focusing on.”

Soprano and private voice instructor Tina Zenker Williams —who among other notable engagements has performed Handel’s Messiah with the Savannah Symphony and Rutter’s Requiem with the Savannah Choral Society— lends her talent to this upcoming program’s hour of melancholy love songs (the show will also include instrumental dance tunes).

While Hillenbrand says he’s certain no one else in the area is focusing on this particular style of classical music with as much “monomania” as himself, he is still optimistic that folks will be curious enough to come and see what it’s all about.

“The problem with this style of music isn’t getting people to like it. That’s easy. It’s getting them out to hear it. It’s infectious, and in many cases, if you’re of European ancestry, it somehow speaks to you on a primal level. It’s oddly familiar.” w

The Goliards perform at 7:30 pm Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church on Telfair Square. Admission $10 at the door.

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S.C. Americana/power-pop band that rocks like The Bottle Rockets crossed with late-period ‘Placemats. Openers The Liabilities hail from Macon and feature former Hank Vegas members. Think Social D. with a jones for John Prine instead of Johnny Cash. Fri., 11 pm, The Jinx.

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band

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Unplugged set of pop covers and originals from key members of local rock band Liquid Ginger. Fri., 6 pm, Wild Wing Café.

“Savannah Sound Sampler”

Free local indie-rock showcase with the Pumpkins-esque I Am Sound, plus the erratic, punk-inspired No Comply. Tues., 7 pm, Oglethorpe House (Oglethorpe Ave. & Barnard St.) - ALL-AGES.

The Robbie Ducey Band

Seven Gates To Elsewhere

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‘Georgia Kyle’ Shiver

South Ga.-based modern blues guitarist and singer. Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Funky soul-jazz quintet featuring bad-ass wah-wah guitar and lead trumpet. Fri., 9:30 pm, Luna Lounge @ Il Pasticcio.

Equinox Jazz Quartet

Local hard-bop combo led by a transplanted Louisiana saxman. Thurs., 8 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

The Flight Out

Challenging, atmospheric modern rock.

Also appearing, Modern Society and upand-coming Athens power-poppers The Empties. Fri., 7 pm, Creole Red.

From Exile, Zoroaster

A double whammy of bludgeoning, bottom-heavy modern sludge metal from Hotlanta. Sat., 11 pm, The Jinx.

The Georgia Fire Band

Regional act doing Southern and classic rock covers. Fri., 8 pm, The Warehouse.

The Hitmen

Local electric blues cover trio. Mon., 10

Bluesey, soulful, vaguely psychedelic local rock band. Fri., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law. “Gypsy” guitarist/songwriter playing blues, folk and country styles. Wed., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Thurs., 10 pm, Shamrocks (Wilmington Isl.) + Fri., 7 pm, AJ’s Dockside (Tybee) + Sat., 10 pm (w/Fiddlin’ Scott Holton), Café Loco (Tybee).

The Train Wrecks

Increasingly popular local roadhouse roots-rock quartet. Thurs., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law + Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Tues., (hosts Open Mic), Wild Wing Café.

Venus Falling

High-energy blend of post-punk, synthpop, new wave and noise that seems geared to the Goth dance crowd. DJ Shrapnel also spins his standard Industrial Resurrection mix. Thurs., 10 pm, Club One.

Greg Williams

Prolific blues-rock and pop guitarist/ songwriter with several acclaimed indie CDs. Thurs., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Fri., 8 pm, One Hot Mama’s (Bluffton). w

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‘Conversations’ with The Teddy Adams’ Quartet & The Spitfire Poetry Group

This first-ever collaboration between local jazz trombonist and champion Adams and the pioneering spoken word organization known as Spitfire is designed to celebrate the long and shared history of the art forms. It’s a symbiotic relationship that runs through the literary rhythms of the late James Baldwin, through Beats like Corso, Ginsberg and Burroughs, as well as the standup commentary of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. And that doesn’t even take into consideration such hip wordsmiths as Lord Buckley, Brother Theodore and Ken “Word Jazz” Nordine.

Visual artists will also take part in this family-oriented event which Spitfire spokesman Renazance calls “easily the most innovative and creative collaborations I’ve ever been a part of.” For more info, go to: www.spitfirepoetrygroup.com. Sun., 7 pm, Coastal Georgia Center (Behind the Visitors Center on MLK, Jr. Blvd.) - ALL-AGES.

Drum & Bass w/Cyanide & Atlantic Connection

Here’s another major DnB showcase courtesy of locals Symbiotek Productions.

This time out, featured artists include Daniel Pollard (aka Cyanide), who was raised — and began his musical career— in Savannah.

This will be his first visit back from Philly since making a name for himself in the U.S. DnB community via his group Quadrant, who saw their work released on the estab-

The Weavers

lished Renegade Hardware label. Making his local debut will be N.C.’s Nathan Hayes, aka Atlantic Connection, a solo artist who previously gained notoriety under the handle Basic Operations. That production group and touring DJ act became one of the biggest draws in America, but now Hayes is getting back to his roots with a renewed interest in laid-back, chillout vibes. This is a great opportunity to help revitalize Savannah’s fledgling DnB scene. Sat., 10 pm, Savannah Down Under Invasion Level 3.

Entropy

This hard-grooving Athens-based combo racked up hometown accolades right from the start, and now, they’re branching out.

Recently named Best R&B/Soul/Funk Band in Atlanta by Creative Loafing, their modern update on classic James Brown and George Clinton dance music is both welcome and in the pocket. This is their first local date in quite a while, and precedes the release of their new CD by just a few weeks. Get on the good foot! Sat., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub.

The Barry Greene Trio

A world-class jazz guitarist (just ask fellow world-class axeman Pat Martino) whose work bears the unmistakable influence of such 6-string greats as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and George Benson, Greene’s worked with such heavyweights as Russell Malone and Danny Gottleib. In addition to authoring instructional books for Mel Bay, he’s an Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar at the University of North Florida.

Talent of this caliber in a 60-seat room for 5

bucks is a treat and a half. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

Sinister Moustache

This aggressively peculiar instrumental art-metal outfit has been one of the area’s best-kept musical secrets for years now, and some say they’re the ones that work hardest to keep things that way. They never fail to create unpredictable, prog-friendly epics that sounds like Dick Dale getting facefrigged in Darediablo’s rehearsal space while listening to My Life In The Bush of Ghosts. Sat., 9 pm, Guitar Bar.

These United States, Paleo

I won’t spoil this with too much blather: two great low-fi ultra-indie acts, both with vaguely Village Green Preservation Society raincoats on. Dig early Donovan? Dig Luna? Dig M. Ward? Dig hushed minimalist daydream pop and whispered vocals?

Dig. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

‘Work o’ The Weavers’

The Savannah Folk Music Society presents this heartfelt two-act tribute concert mixing the music of iconic, blacklisted folkies The Weavers with an historical narrative that tells the story of this quintessential American acoustic folk group (which spearheaded the ‘50s and ‘60s U.S. folk revival).

It’s endorsed and praised for its authenticity by former Weavers members! Tickets $12 at the door with discounts for SFMS and congregation members, students and children under 13. Fri., 8 pm, Temple Mickve Israel (35 E. Gordon St.). w

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The infamous Plan 9 From Outer Connect Savannah: When did you first disSpace was one. Anything from Troma Entercover psychotronic films? tainment would be considered psychotronic.

The Psychotronic Film Festival is returnJim Reed: I’ve been watching and collecting ing to The Sentient Bean with a treasure little-known cult films for decades now. trove of film that is weird, obscure, interesting, different. Founded by psychotronic film Connect Savannah: I understand you show buff and collector Jim Reed -- whose day gig films at The Sentient Bean. Why did you deis music editor of Connect Savannah -- this cided to start doing this? festival offers a something odd for everyone.

Screenings will be held at 8 p.m., with Jim Reed: A few years back, when The Bean seating beginning at 7:30 p.m. All seats will expanded to include a large space devoted cost $6, which includes not only the movie, to live music and spoken word shows, I saw but a raffle ticket for hundreds of dollars in the potential for it to be used as a screenprizes that will be given away at each screening room as well. The owners and staff have ing. Tickets go on sale at The Bean on the been encouraging and supportive ever since. morning of the day they are to be shown.

I started the series and the annual festival This year’s offerings include El Toro, a because I was disappointed spiritual-orithat Savannah lacked a dediented psychecated art-house theater. delic Western on Nov. 13; Hands Connect Savannah: Describe on a Hard Body, the typical psychotronic fan. a documentary about an unusual Jim Reed: Witty, intelligent contest, on Nov. yet approachable, stronger 15; Tears of the than they appear, filled with Black Tiger, a ennui, secretly sensitive, preWild West plot ternaturally jaded. Oh, wait line with Asian a minute. That’s the typical themes, on Nov. psychotronic film curator.

17; the action film Deadly Prey Tear of the Black Tiger Connect Savannah: Tell me on Nov. 20; Adiabout the lineup for this year’s saya Piravi from festival.

India on Nov. 22; and Farewell Friend, a caper film with Alain Delon and Charles BronJim Reed: We have a little something for son, on Nov. 24. everyone. We have a tremendously enterRecently, Connect Savannah caught up taining award-winning documentary called with Reed for a quick interview. (Which Hands On A Hard Body, which I just learned wasn’t difficult, since he “works” here.)

Robert Altman is basing his next narrative feature on. We also continue in our tradiConnect Savannah: Just what is a “psychotrotion of showing laughably awful films with nic” film?

Deadly Prey, a terrible -- and terribly funny -- low-budget rip-off of the first Rambo film Jim Reed: “Psychotronic” is a term that was that has to be seen to be believed. coined in the early ‘80s by an avid cult film buff who needed a memorable way to cateConnect Savannah: Are there some highlights gorize a wide variety of unusual or just plain you’re especially looking forward to? bizarre films that cut across standard genre lines. He started a magazine -- and eventuJim Reed: Many of these films I had to book ally wrote a well-received reference guide on reputation alone, sight unseen, so I’ll -- celebrating these marginalized classics watch them for the first time with an audiand turkeys, and since then, “psychotronic,” ence. I’m most looking forward to the “lost” which was taken from the title of an obscure 1968 French crime caper Farewell Friend, indie sci-fi movie, has become synonymous starring Alain Delon and a young Charles with oddball cinema.

Bronson, and Adisaya Pirava, an Indian movie that has gained international notoriConnect Savannah: What is it about psyety from a popular clip on YouTube featurchotronic films that intrigues you? ing a half-naked midget break-dancing to bad hip-hop music on a boom-box. w Jim Reed: I have great reverence for any motion picture which seems designed to apThe Psychotronic Film Festival takes place peal to only a small segment of the public, nightly at The Sentient Bean, 13 Park Ave., as opposed to most movies which are made through Nov. 24. to attract as many people and make as much money as humanly possible.

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Casino Royale isn’t just the 21st film in the James Bond series; it’s also the first, in that it’s taking the whole franchise back to the beginning and showing how Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) initially became a British spy with a “licence to kill”... Fast Food Nation is director Richard Linklater’s fictionalized take on the nonfiction bestseller by Eric Schlosser, with Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Maria Full of Grace Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno as three people all involved in one way or another with a hamburger chain whose product might be contaminated with cow manure... After providing the voice of a mouse in Flushed Away, Hugh Jackman turns to lending his vocals to the part of a flightless fowl in Happy Feet, an animated yarn about a tap-dancing penguin (Elijah Wood). Other cast luminaries include Nicole Kidman, Robin Williams and the late Steve Irwin (a.k.a. the Crocodile Hunter)... The trailer for Let’s Go to Prison includes a Brokeback Mountain gag, which provides a glimpse at what to expect from this comedy about an innocent guy (Will Arnett) who winds up behind bars.

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It’s that time of year again, when commercial crowd pleasers and Oscar hopefuls all jockey for position at your friendly neighborhood multiplex. Which means it’s also time for us to trot out our year-end look at what the studios have lined up to carry us through the end of the year (and, in the case of the limited releases, into the new year).

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In the comedy Deck the Halls, a suburbanite (Danny DeVito) decides to decorate his house with an obscene amount of Christmas lights, much to the dismay of his neighbor (Matthew Broderick)...

Deja Vu stars Denzel Washington as an ATF agent who’s forced to rely on the title sensation to help him solve a mystery... Writerdirector Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind) and his cast of regulars (including Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey and Fred Willard) return with For Your Consideration, a comedy about a group of actors who learn that their latest film is generating Oscar buzz... Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) directs Hugh Jackman and recent Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) in The Fountain, an ambitious sci-fi tale that spans centuries as it relates the story of a man’s love for his ailing wife and his eventual discovery of the Fountain of Youth... Nicole Kidman stars as legendary

Bobby Brown? Bobby Seale? Bobby Goldsboro? None of the above. Instead, Bobby centers on Robert Kennedy and that fateful night when he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The writerdirector is Emilio Estevez (you read that right), who managed to assemble an all-star cast whose members include Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, ex-flame Demi Moore and, yes, dad Martin Sheen.

DECEMBER 1:

The tale of Mary (Whale Rider Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes) and the birth of Jesus are recounted in The Nativity Story, directed by Thirteen’s Catherine Hardwicke... The first film from Fox Atomic, the new specialty branch with an eye on the youth dollar, will be Turistas, a Hostel-like tale about a group of American campers terrorized in a Brazilian jungle... Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid have both bailed, so Kal Penn, who played a supporting role in 2002’s Van Wilder, rises to leading man status in Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, in which his character heads to Oxford.

DECEMBER 8:

On those occasions when he wasn’t busy engaging in drunk driving or anti-Semitic rants, Mel Gibson was busy directing Apocalypto, a subtitled period epic about conflicts among Mayan warriors...

The latest large-scale yarn from director Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Glory) is Blood Diamond, in which three people (Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly) in Sierra Leone find themselves coming to blows with the ruthless companies raping the land for diamonds... The Holiday, from writer-director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give), finds two women -- an American (Cameron Diaz) and a Brit (Kate Winslet) -- temporarily swapping houses, which in turn introduces prospective new boyfriends (Jude Law and Jack Black, respectively) into their lives... Several kids find themselves stranded in an airport during the Christmas season in Unaccompanied Minors.

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In the tradition of Dragonslayer and Dragonheart comes Eragon, an adaptation of the best-selling book about a young lad (Edward Speleers) who teams up with a dragon to stop an evil king (John Malkovich)... Three soldiers (Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, 50 Cent) serving in Iraq deal with issues during and after their tours of duty in Home of the Brave... A struggling salesman (Will Smith) trying to support his son (played by Willâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own kid, Jaden Smith) worries about losing both his job and his home in The Pursuit of Happyness.

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Robert DeNiro directs and costars in The Good Shepherd, a complex Cold War thriller about a spy (Matt Damon) involved with the CIA during its formative years... The comedy Night at the Museum focuses on a third-shift watchman (Ben Stiller) who learns that the creatures on display have a habit of coming alive after the sun goes down... Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the boxing ring, along comes Rocky Balboa, the sixth installment in the 30-year-old series about a boxer (60-year-old Sylvester Stallone) who repeatedly goes the distance... We Are Marshall tells the true story of a college -- and, in particular, one of its coaches (Matthew McConaughey) -- that tries to cope after a plane crash kills most of the members of its football team.

DECEMBER 25:

A remake of the 1974 cult favorite, Black Christmas centers on a sorority house whose members are being bloodily dispatched one-by-one by a serial killer... Dreamgirls, the screen version of the Broadway smash, is loosely based on the real-life story of Diana Ross and the Supremes, with Beyonce Knowles as the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead singer, Anika Noni Rose and American Idol loser Jennifer Hudson as the backups, Jamie Foxx as their sly manager and Eddie Murphy as a popular R&B singer.

Anthony Minghella directs his former stars Jude Law (Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) in Breaking and Entering, in which an architect begins an affair with the mother of the boy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been ransacking his office...

Candy stars Heath Ledger as a heroin-addicted writer who falls for an art student (Abbie Cornish, presently in A Good Year)... Set in a bleak and barren future when women can no longer get pregnant, Children of Men stars Clive Owen and Julianne Moore as two activists who try to protect a young woman (Claire-Hope Ashitey) who learns that she is miraculously carrying a child inside her...

DOA: Dead or Alive, based on the popular video game, rips off the plot of Enter the Dragon with its storyline of several martial arts experts who are invited to compete in a secret tournament being held on a remote island... The story of Edie Sedgwick (played by Siennna Miller), one of the superstars â&#x20AC;&#x153;createdâ&#x20AC;? by Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), is related in Factory Girl... Not to be confused with The Good Shepherd (see Dec. 22 above), Steven Soderberghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Good German stars George Clooney as an American journalist who gets involved in a labyrinthine mystery in postWorld War II Berlin; Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire costar... Eight British lads cope with various distractions -- including the groping hands of one of their teachers (Richard Griffiths) -- in the stage-to-screen saga The History Boys... RenĂŠ Zellweger essays the title character in Miss Potter, a fanciful look at Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter; Ewan McGregor lends support... A crafty teacher (Judi Dench) takes advantage of the fact that a married peer (Cate Blanchett) has engaged in an affair with an underage student in the drama Notes On a Scandal... Based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel (and filmed before in 1934 with Greta Garbo), The Painted Veil centers on the tumultuous marriage between a workaholic doctor (Edward Norton) and his unfaithful wife (Naomi Watts) in 1920s China... The innovative Guillermo del Toro (Mimic, The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Backbone) is behind the Spanish import Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labyrinth, in which a young girl (Ivana Baquero) discovers a fantasy world next to her house that may or may not exist only in her imagination... Director Tom Tykwer (of Run, Lola, Run fame) serves up Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, about a man (Ben Whishaw) who resorts to killing as he tracks down the perfect fragrance; Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman head the supporting cast... Peter Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole has been Oscar-nominated seven times without ever winning, so expect a huge award push for Venus, in which the septuagenarian plays an ailing actor who strikes up a relationship with a teenage girl (Jodie Whittaker)...

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seems capable of shedding any tears among this frosty lot). Blair figures that a public statement by the royal family (at least) and a public funeral (at most) would help the nation heal, but Elizabeth and her clan refuse, little aware that their decision will stir genuine contempt among the commoners on the streets. Ironically, it’s the progressive Blair, a leader determined to carry his nation forward into the 21st century, who might be the only one who can prevent the century-old monarchy from becoming extinct. Mirren’s performance is a thing of beauty. She initially makes Elizabeth as impenetrable as Fort Knox, yet as the movie moves forward, there are cracks in her demeanor that allow us to see that this woman is finally coming to terms with just how of touch with her subjects she might be. Credit also goes to Michael Sheen, who admirably keeps pace with Mirren. Sheen captures and amplifies the hopefulness that defined Tony Blair before he became George W. Bush’s lapdog, and his charismatic turn slyly keeps us guessing how much of the character’s humanist actions regarding the whole Diana affair springs from genuine concern and how much is triggered by political ambition.

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Whether or not one agrees with a character’s declaration that the royal family is comprised of “freeloading, emotionally retarded nutters,” it’s fascinating to watch these upper-crust Brits play out their own sordid soap opera in The Queen, a wicked -- and wickedly good -- show that takes a highly dubious premise and somehow turns it into one of the year’s best films. Director Stephen Frears, whose last picture, the shameless Mrs. Henderson Presents, is the sort of claptrap that he’s far too talented to be handling, and writer Peter Morgan, who co-scripted The Last King of Scotland, have performed cinematic alchemy with this sharp and swift yarn. Set mostly in the days following the death of Diana back in 1997, it focuses on the royal family’s reaction to the tragedy as well as the efforts of a newly elected prime minister to take control of the situation. Because Frears’ direction is nimble and Morgan’s script clever and resourceful, The Queen never bogs down in any potentially problematic areas. The film begins with the landslide victory of Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) as the new prime minister and his initial meeting with Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren), who clearly has little regard for this populist politician. It picks up again a few months later, when the residents of Buckingham Palace are awoken out of their royal slumber by the news that the former princess was killed in an automobile accident in Paris while fleeing from pesky paparazzi. Because Diana is no longer

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All info current as of the Monday prior to our going to press. past efforts, Babel is a gloom-and-doom dissection of society, whipping between various characters and their interconnected storylines. Certainly, this is the duo’s most ambitious undertaking, yet for all its scattered strengths, it’s also the least satisfying, hampered by a structure that feels schematic rather than organic. I have no doubt that Inarritu and Arriaga were sincere as they set about tackling the Big Issues in this latest film, but in this instance, their reach exceeds their grasp. Their main topic here is the lack of communication that exists between people. In one plot strand, a Moroccan goat herder (Mustapha Rachidi) buys a used rifle and gives it to his two sons with the order to shoot any jackals that threaten the herd.

In a second storyline, an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) on vacation are plunged into a nightmare when the wife is accidentally shot by one of the aforementioned young boys, who was merely trying to gauge the distance a bullet can travel. In another, the American couple’s two children are hauled over the U.S.-Mexico border by their nanny (Adriana Barraza), whose decision to attend her son’s wedding looks ill-informed once she experiences difficulty crossing back

to our side. And in the final story, a deaf teenage girl (Rinko Kikuchi) in Tokyo grows increasingly frustrated as she’s unable to find any male who’s willing to provide her with love and compassion. The Tokyo storyline is the best one in the film, and it further benefits from the best performance (Kikuchi is smashing as the lonely teen). And while it initially seems to be the most removed from the other three sagas, it’s eventually revealed that the action of a supporting player in this section weighs heavily in the Moroccan chapters.

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Stranger Than Fiction has been promoted as offering a different kind of Will Ferrell just as The Truman Show was pushed as offering a different kind of Jim Carrey and PunchDrunk Love was sold as offering a different kind of Adam Sandler. What this means in all instances, of course, is that the comedian is toning down the patented schtick a bit -- not exactly the same as tackling a role that’s equal parts Hamlet, Willy Loman and Stanley Kowalski. Still, Carrey and Sandler both passed the test, and so does Ferrell. The actor’s obnoxious characters have always distracted us from the fact that he’s blessed with deep, soulful eyes, and this physical attribute here lends the proper degree of puppy dog demeanor to his role as Harold Crick, an IRS agent whose dull life is marked by rigid routine. The twist follows that Harold, in addition to living his own life, also inadvertently becomes the lead character in a book being written by reclusive author Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson, doing distracted well), and soon Harold begins to hear Kay’s voice in his head as she uncannily narrates all the minute details of his life. For help, Harold turns to a literature professor (a very funny Dustin Hoffman) who might be able to help him track down the source of the voice and ascertain whether he’s trapped in a comedy, in which case a happy ending is just around the corner, or a tragedy, in which case death will come knocking. Despite the innovative premise, the script by Zach Helm never matches the existential, mind-bending depths of, say, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or I Heart Huckabees.

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Originally conceived as a character on HBO’s Da Ali G Show, Borat Sagdiyev is a Kazakh journalist who comes to America to make a documentary. There’s your plot.

Yet what makes Borat different is that creator-star Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays the insensitive and language-mangling journalist, never breaks character, interviewing scores of ordinary Americans who genuinely believe that they’re being questioned by a foreign reporter for a nonfiction piece that would presumably remain confined to the backwaters of a country on the other side of the globe. This naiveté and belief in anonymity allow the participants to open up more freely to Borat, often garnering controversial results. And therein lies the dilemma. If Bocontinued on page 36

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rat is staged in any way, then it’s a hot-andcold “mockumentary” that pales next to the Christopher Guest titles (Best In Show, A Mighty Wind); despite many uproarious moments, it stretches its one-joke concept to the breaking point, and after about an hour, you’ll be satisfied. And indeed, there are a handful of sequences that feel staged: the Pamela Anderson interlude, for example, or a bit involving a flailing horse. Yet the filmmakers have loudly and repeatedly insisted that everything outside of Borat and his manager (played by Ken Davitian) is authentic in the picture: the situations, the interviewees, and the reactions of ordinary folks to Borat’s outrageous antics.

If that’s the case, then Borat is borderline genius, an inspired piece of guerilla filmmaking that’s able to gauge the real pulse of America and unearth some unpleasant (if hardly surprising) truths. The movie uses fictional bigotry (Borat’s) to reveal the real-life prejudices that blot the U.S. landscape, and, in that regard, it emerges as an unexpected piece of sociopolitical muckraking. Cohen is fearless in his confrontations with various citizens across our land, whether he’s telling a crowd of rodeo yahoos that he supports our War on Terror and longs for the day when Bush will “drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq,” or when he hands a dinner hostess a napkin containing his bodily refuse because he doesn’t grasp the functionality of the toilet and the principles of indoor plumbing. Borat is often convulsively, savagely funny (once seen, it’s impossible to block out the nude wrestling match), but beneath the scatology and mockery rests a knowingness about the manner in which societal prejudices can be hidden, diverted and even encouraged. In that regard, this is one smart movie.

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Moviegoers who condemn Shortbus as porn might want to take a look at A Good Year, which offers a different form of hedonistic pleasure. Set (and shot) in the south of France, it’s unabashed erotica for wanna-be world travelers, offering one orgasmic vision after another of the provincial countryside and its attendant vineyards, chateaus and lusty locals. Based on Peter Mayle’s novel, A Good Year marks a reunion between the Gladiator team of director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe. It’s slight stuff -- a throwback to the sort of yuppie-finds-his-soul flicks

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that ran rampant in the 1990s -- yet it’s not without its modest pleasures. Crowe plays Max Skinner, a ruthless London trader who lives only to make money -- lots of money.

But when Max learns that his Uncle Henry (Albert Finney) has passed away at his chateau in Provence, he’s forced to take a short leave of absence in order to handle the paperwork. Matters become even more complicated with the sudden presence of two women: a young American (Abbie Cornish) who might be Uncle Henry’s illegitimate daughter and thus entitled to the estate, and a local restaurant owner (Marion Cotillard) who catches Max’s eye. Scott, used to overseeing weighty projects, tries to pump up this slender tale into something more meaningful: His tactic of choice is to bully us into always feeling something, which leads to an astonishing amount of clumsy comedy and overreaching sentiment. Crowe, on the same wavelength as his director, responds by oozing charm in every scene, a decision that makes it all the more difficult to accept the fact that his character is initially supposed to be a heartless profiteer.

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It’s a textbook Faustian example of selling one’s soul to the devil. Great Britain’s Aardman Animation, the studio behind the delightful Wallace & Gromit films, has always ignored the American modus operandi of churning out loud and obnoxious toon flicks by sticking to its vedy British guns and producing works that relied on clay animation rather than CGI and clarity instead of chaos.

After beginning its partnership with Hollywood’s DreamWorks studio, Aardman stuck to its guns with the charming Chicken Run. Flushed Away, however, reveals that the devil is starting to collect his due. The story of a pet mouse who gets flushed down the toilet and ends up in an underground city populated by rats, frogs, slugs and other critters, the film exhibits the frenzied pace and overbearing characterizations that have become standard in U.S.-born-and-bred animated features. The voice casting (Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, for starters) rests somewhere between Pixar inspiration and everybody else’s laziness, but the story is strictly perfunctory -- and further hampered by the sort of puerile gags that have come to define Yankee toon flicks (lots of blows to the crotch in this one).

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The Prestige, co-written and directed by the immensely talented Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Memento), is the third of this year’s releases centering around magicians (following Woody Allen’s Scoop and the Edward Norton sleeper hit The Illusionist), and it’s far and away the best. Teaming with his brother Jonathan to adapt Christopher Priest’s novel, Chris Nolan has crafted a dense and multilayered drama that explores his usual recurrent themes while simultaneously serving up a cracking good mystery yarn. Set in turn-of-the-century London, The Prestige casts Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, two aspiring magicians working under the tutelage of master showman Cutter (Michael Caine). Almost right from the start, it’s established that Angier is the more charismatic of the pair: gentle, romantic and extroverted enough to know how to grab an audience’s attention. The brooding Borden, by comparison, is more inwardly directed, and his devotion to his craft suggests that he’s willing to get his hands dirty and sacrifice anything to realize his dream of becoming a master magician. The movie isn’t simplistic enough to pit a “good” magician (Angier) against an “evil” one (Borden); instead, it recognizes the duality of each man’s nature, a theme that eventually expands to a startling degree.

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fighting forces during World War II manages the tricky feat of honoring the past while also subtly deflating the attendant mythology that over time attaches itself like a barnacle to a ship side. Working from a script

by William Broyles Jr. and Crash Oscar winner Paul Haggis (adapting James Bradley’s book), Eastwood focuses on the events surrounding the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945. The movie details how this single act, captured in a historic photograph, became a rallying point around which the continued on page 38

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Heaven help us, this is one godawful movie. A grotesque adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir, Running With Scissors is alternately grating and boring, as deadly a combo as one could imagine sitting through for two unendurable hours.

Young Joseph Cross plays the Augusten surrogate, a teenage lad saddled with a lunatic mother (Annette Bening) who’s convinced that she’s going to strike it rich as a writer some day. Once his parents divorce, Augusten is sent to live with Mom’s eccentric psychiatrist (Brian Cox) and his equally outthere brood: wife (Jill Clayburgh), daughters (Evan Rachel Wood and Gwyneth Paltrow) and adopted son (Joseph Fiennes). Writerdirector Ryan Murphy displays no feeling for or understanding of these characters, and, as a result, their colorful behavior comes across as repellant rather than ingratiating. The cast labors mightily, but most of the performers are either mishandled or miscast. The primary exception is Alec Baldwin, whose understated work as Augusten’s alcoholic father, paired with his memorable supporting turns in other recent films (The Cooler, The Aviator, The Departed), suggests that directors ought to consider going back to handing him larger roles.

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military was able to energize an American nation weary of war. Publicity tours were staged with the active participation of the three surviving men who helped hoist the flag: sensitive Doc Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), outgoing Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and anguished Ira Hayes (Adam Beach).

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At this point in his illustrious career, it’s hard to imagine Martin Scorsese accepting another filmmaker’s hand-me-downs. Yet in essence, that’s what’s taking place with The Departed, which isn’t an original screen story but rather a remake of a 2002 Hong Kong

film titled Infernal Affairs. Working from a script by William Monahan, Scorsese has made a picture that’s more in line with such past mob morality tales as GoodFellas and Mean Streets than with his recent spate of ambitious (and Oscar-lunging) period epics like The Aviator and Gangs of New York. But while The Departed is a strong film, it’s by no means a match for any of those aforementioned titles. Set in Boston, this new take casts Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, the crime lord with the foresight to make sure that one of his protégées, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), is in a position to rise through the ranks of the Massachusetts State Police Department. Colin is assigned to the special unit tasked with investigating Costello, an outfit run by the animated Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin). Ellerby trusts Colin, little suspecting that his right-hand man is actually the informant. Meanwhile, down the hall, the paternal Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and the blunt Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) are just as determined as Ellerby to nail Costello. To that end, they assign Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) to get his hands dirty enough to convince Costello that he’s a bona fide criminal and worth adding to his band of outlaws. The violence and vulgarity are pitched at operatic levels, and even taking the milieu into consideration, they occasionally verge on overkill. w

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Private business or individual– We will charge $5 per week per entry, payable up front by check or credit card. This goes for art classes, yoga classes, workshops, seminars, etc. that do not meet the above criteria. We retain the right to option to place your happening in the appropriate category. Send Happenings and/or payment to: Connect Savannah, 1800 E. Victory Drive, Suite 7, Savannah GA, 31404. Fax to 912-231-9932.E-mail: linda@connectsavannah.com. We reserve the right to edit or cut non-paid listings because of space limitations.

Activism & Politics AMBUCS

is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of people with disabilities Volunteers meet every first and third Monday at 7 p.m. at Fire Mountain Restaurant on Stephenson Ave. Call Kevin Sheehan at 691-2934 or send email to kshe62@aol.com..

Chatham County Democratic Committee

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

Chatham County Young Democrats

Call Cory at 508-3335 or send email to c@ depthllc.com.

Chatham County Young Republicans

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

Coastal Democrats

Call 352-0470 or 484-3222.

Drinking Liberally

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

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

League of Women Voters

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

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

National Council of Negro Women

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

Planned Parenthood

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

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. Make reservations by noon on the Monday preceding the meeting by calling 598-1883.

Savannah Branch NAACP

For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah Republican Club

Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

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

Skidaway Island Democrats

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

Auditions Call for Voices

The 4th Annual AASU Community Christmas Sing will be held Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. To participate, call 921-7413 to arrange to pick up your music, attend at least one rehearsal in November and attend the dress rehearsal and concert on Dec. 3. The first rehearsal will be held Monday, Nov. 20 and the second will be held Thursday, Nov. 30. Both will be held from 7-9 p.m. in Fine Arts Hall Room 202. The dress rehearsal will be held Sunday, Dec. 3 from 2 -5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Hall Auditoirum. Call 927-5325 or visit www. finearst.armstrong.edu.

Benefits

9th Annual Day of Thanksgiving

Old Savannah Mission will serve smoked turkey dinners to the homeless and friends of the homeless on Saturday, Nov. 18. To volunteer, call Angela at 232-1979.

American Red Cross Auction

Southeastern Auto Auciton and local car dealers will hold a car auction to benefit the American Red Cross on Thursday, Nov. 16 from 7-9 p.m. at 1712 Dean Forest Rd. Call 651-5300.

Gift Wrap Center

The Greenbriar Children’s Center will hold its holiday gift wrap center in Savannah Mall through Dec. 24 from noon to 8 p.m.

Sunday through Saturday. To volunteer, call 234-3431.

Give for the Gulf

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

The Hidden Treasure

A book of photography taken at Tybee Island by Dr. Gustave “Stavie” Kreh is being sold with proceeds going to the Chatham

Academy at Royce Center for Children and the Marine Science Center of Tybee Island. The book costs $29.95 and may be purchased online at www.tybeetreasure.com and in area gift shops.

Call Tony Pizzo or Wendy Melton at 2321511.

Union Mission’s Growing Hope Artisans Cooperative will showcase member holiday card designs, hand-crocheted afghans and comments by people impacted by homelessness during the winter and holiday months. The exhibit will be shown at the Starfish Cafe during the month of November. Call Teri, 238-2777, Ext. 103.

A one-day class will be held Saturday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Senior Citizen Center, 3025 Bull St. Call Patty Keaton at 236-0363.

Holidays, Hope and Warmth

Santa’s Little Orphans’ Tree

Through Dec. 29, Coastal Pet Rescue will join paws with the Helen Woodward Animal Center, the Iams Co. and more than 2,100 pet adoption cetners to raise awareness of the joys of owning shelter-adopted pets.

Local businesses will host Christmas trees with ornaments of pets for adoption along with a wish list of items they want. Pick up an ornament, go shopping and return the ornament and gifts or monetary donations back to the business. Adopt a pet during the two-month campaign and receive a free pet portrait and other giveaways. Call 351-4151 or www.coastalpetrescue.org.

Tea for Tutus

Savannah Danse Theatre will present its annual fundraiser Saturday, Nov. 18. Meet the characters from The Nutcracker in Savannah over a cream tea. The first seating is at 10 a.m. and the second seating is at 11 a.m. at The Tea Room, 7 E. Broughton St. The cost is $15 per person. Reservations preferred as seating is limited and this event sells out early. Call 898-0361 for reservations or make checks payable to Savannah Danse Theatre and mail to: Sophie Amick, Box 30978, Savannah, 31410.

Tybee Turtle Tour

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

Victory Celebration Luncheon

The United Way of the Coastal Empire will hold this luncheon Thursday, Nov. 16 at 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center.

Call for Entries

Fourth Grade Maritime Essay Contest

The Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum is sponsoring an essay contest which is open to all fourth graders in Chatham County. The subject is the voyage of the S.S. Savannah.

Classes & Workshops AARP Senior Driver Class

Adult Education

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

The Art School

Class offerings include children’s art classes, with afterschool art instruction for ages 6 through teens. Ages 6-8 attend one hour a week for $55 per month. Ages 9 through teens attend one and a half hours per week for $70 per month. Tuition includes supplies. Classes also are available for adults and advanced teens 16 and up Mondays 7-9 p.m. and Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. to noon, with students working in the medium of their choice. Weekly figure drawing sessions are held Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $60 for six-week sessions or $15 drop in. Artists bring their own materals. Preregistration and pre-payment are required.

Figure drawing weekends will be held Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 1-2.

The cost is $35 per day. The Art School is located at 74 W. Montgomery Cross Rd., No. B-2. Call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151 or visit www.TheArtSchool-Sav.com.

Art Studio Sessions

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

Baby sign classes

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

Brush with Clay

Classes in clay hand-building, open studio, intermediate drawing and painting are offered at CarosArt Studio in Windsor Forest. Very small clases with lots of extra attention by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Classes are held Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon and Mondays from 68 p.m. Inquire about other days. The cost is $100 per six weeks of instruction. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-5465 to register.

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Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish?

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

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Savannah State’s Behavioral Analysis Student Association will present this symposium on Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. in the King-Frazier Student Center ballroom. It is free and open to the public.

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

Fall Visual Arts Classes

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

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

First Steps parent education program

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

Free Tax School

Earn extra income after taking this course.

Flexible schedules, convenient location.

The class is free, but there is a small fee for books. Call 352-3862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

Get Published

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

Guided Imagery

Change your life with guided imagery.

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

Highest Praise School of the Arts

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

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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. Healthy Personal Relationships will be presented Thursday, Nov. 9 from 2-3:30 p.m.

Introducing the Work of Byron Katie If you have problems, issues with family members that happen again and again, a technique developed by Byron Katie can

provide a framework to solve problems.

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

Kicklighter Academy

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

Kirtan/Chanting Workshop

The Savannah Yoga Center will host this workshop with kirtan musician Girish on Nov. 10 from 6-9 p.m. at Epworth Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. This is a 3-hour chanting immersion. The cost is $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Visit www. savannahyoga.com and click on “Events” or call Kelley Boyd at 441-6653 or send e-mail to kelley@savannahyoga.com.

Life Challenge Consulting

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

Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

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

Multi-media Presentation on the Effects of Culture

will be given Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. at the I.B.A.R. office, 2250 E. Victory Dr., Suite 105. Call Jessica Auner at 927-2643 or send e-mail to jesse@ibaronline.com.

Photo Safari

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

Call 660-6994 or fbrab@comcast.net.

Puppet Shows

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

Racism Symposium

will be held Thursday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Center, 11935 Abercorn St. A 50-minute video will be presented, followed by a onehour discussion.

Savannah Art Association Workshops

Paper Sculpture with Ila Scholla will be presented Dec. 2. The cost is $65 for nonmembers and $50 for members. 10-day advance registration is required. Call 9255465.

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

Sixth District Crime Meeting

Alderman Tony Thomas and new Police Chief Michael Berkow and other city officials and staff will attend a Wiltshire

the 411|Happenings area neighborhood crime meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 7-9 p.m. at the Largo Tibet Elementary School on Tibet Avenue at Largo Drive. Call 507-1011.

TimeShop for Kids

Children ages 8-12 can travel back in time to World War II in the English town of Letchworth by participating in TimeShop: Wartime England. It is planned for Feb. 3 and 4 at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. For children who register before Dec. 15, the cost is $25. After Dec. 15, the cost will be $30, if space is available. Call 536-2719 or visit www.timeshopkids.com.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

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

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

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

Daughters of Destiny

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

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

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

English Style Table Soccer

The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast will be held Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 8 a.m. at the Hilton Savannah DeSoto.

Cost is $20 for members and $30 for guests.

Call Ann McLaughlin at 644-6406 or amclaughlin@savannahchamber.com.

Historic Savannah Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association

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AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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

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

Bike Night with Mikie

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

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

Blackbeard’s Scuba Club

Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977.

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

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

Civil Air Patrol

is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road.

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

Clean Coast

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

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

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is the area’s first social club for single and

married adults who do not have children.

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will meet Thursday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. at The Exchange on Waters Avenue. Howard Spiva of the Spiva Law Group will speak on financial management. The meeting is open to the public. The cost is the price of the meal. Call 660-8257 for reservations.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. between Park Avenue and Duffy Street. Call 236-8546.

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

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Meet new friends and enjoy a welcome break. Hear guest speakers on topics relevant to mothering, along with discussion time, creative activities and more, because mothering matters. Call for the location, date and time of the next meeting. MOPS is for all mothers with children from birth to kindergarten. Child care is provided. Visit www.mops.org or call 898-4344. continued on page 42

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Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church 50 Diamond Causeway

Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 PM Jewish Educational Alliance 5111 Abercorn Street

Tickets $30-$25-$20 ($10 for students)

For tickets, visit savannahsinfonietta.org, call 800-514-3849, 9 am–5 pm, M–F, and 10 am–6 pm Sat, or purchase at the door prior to the concert.

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activities. For information on No Kidding! visit www.nokidding.net or send e-mail to luluette@prodigy.net.

21 W. Bay St. 447-0943. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

Tybee Performing Arts Society

will be held Thursday, Nov. 16 from 5:307:30 p.m. at River Oaks. Cost is $5 for members and $15 for guests. Call Susan Smith at 544-6434 or ssmith@savannahchamber.com.

has a dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club, Hunter Army Airfield. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Urban Professionals

offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@aol.com.

The Young Professionals of Savannah

November Business Connection

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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

Savannah Browns Backers

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

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

Savannah Kennel Club

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

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

St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 6:25 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Call 234-3336.

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

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

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

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

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

Savannah Art Association

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

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co.,

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

Savannah Fencing Club

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

Savannah Jaycees

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

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

Savannah Kennel Club

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

656-2410.

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

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

Savannah Newcomers Club

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

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

Savannah Ski Club

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

Savannah Toastmasters

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

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Dance

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.

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.

Salsa Dance Lessons

Adult Ballet Classes

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

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

Adult Jazz and Tap Classes

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

Both classes consist of a jazz portion and a tap dance portion. The instructor is Travis Dodd. For information, call 897-4235 or visit ggsod.com.

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, Nov. 18 at the Islands Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The basic lesson is at 7 p.m. and the social dance is from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for non-members.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960.

Breffni Academy of Irish Dance

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

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Salsa classes for beginners are offered every Friday from 6-7 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance Studio, 2212 Lincoln St. You do not need a partner. Call 898-2296 or send e-mail to irdelatoru@ yahoo.com.

The Savannah Shag Club

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

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

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

Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

The Studio

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

Wheelchair Ballroom Dance

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

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

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Call Daniel Beam, LLC at 912-844-9897

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Fitness

A balanced life

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

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

Gentle Yoga

Evening classes offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:45 p.m. and lunch

the 411|Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): Recently uncovered evidence

(http:// tinyurl.com/gz865) seems to confirm the argument that Christopher Columbus was a cruel, stupid tyrant who paved the way for the genocide of Native Americans.

But that’s not the part of his story I want to bring to your attention right now, Aries. Rather, I’d like you to meditate on the wisdom of the bumper sticker I just saw: “Columbus did not know where he was going. When he got back, he didn’t know where he had been. But he had a great adventure. And he did it all on borrowed money. There’s hope for all of us.” Given your current astrological omens, there’s substantial hope for you to pull off a feat comparable to the one the bumper sticker describes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Love Doctor: Please

send a divine slap upside the head to the clueless guy I’m in a half-assed relationship with. He’s GOT to wake up to the fact that it’s high time to let someone, namely me, shower him with love. I mean, all the magic’s in place. With just a flick of his attitude, he could materialize me whipping up gourmet Cajun cuisine in his new kitchen-- not to mention spicing up every other room in his house. Love Doctor, please cast a spell to get him in alignment with cosmic necessity. - Overripe Taurus.”

Dear Overripe: I appreciate the ability you Bulls have right now to envision the best and brightest possibilities for your relationships. However, it’s crucial that you give everyone the freedom to bumble along, even if it means that for now they’ll be out of sync with the wonders you can imagine.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The last few drops remaining in your chalice will soon evaporate. Your luxurious indoor swimming pool (you know, the one in your fantasies) has barely enough water left in it to give a water bug traction. And you haven’t reached out your arms and cupped your hands in a gesture of feisty anticipation for far too long. So what are you going to do about it all,

classes Monday from noon to 1 p.m. $12 per evening class, $10 per lunchtime class. $75 for an eight-week session. Classes at The Yoga Loft at Womancare, 800 E. 70th St. Call Lisa at 398-2588.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

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

The Jewish Education Alliance

Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am. Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 3558111.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club

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

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

Nia Movement Classes

are offered at the Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St. on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:15-8:15 p.m. The cost is $12

for walk-ins or $105 for a 10-class punch card.

Call 236-2131 or 350-2467 or visit www.holistic. memorialhealth.com.

Pilates Classes

are offered at the St. 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.

Pregnancy Yoga

A special four-week session will be held before the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7:15 p.m. in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mother-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery.

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

Savannah Yoga Center

Classes offered seven days a week.

Community Easy Flow Yoga is offered three times a week at a cost of $5 per session.

For other classes, the drop-in rate is $13, the student drop-in rate is $11 with ID and active duty military/dependents rate is $9.

The schedule is: Monday, Dynamic Flow Yoga all levels from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and All Levels Flow Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Tuesday, Community Flow Yoga from 10-11:15 a.m.; Wednesday, All Levels Flow Yoga from

10-11:30 a.m. and Yoga Basics from 6-7:15 p.m.; Thursday, Level I/II Flow Yoga from 10-11:15 a.m. and Hot Yoga all levels from 6-7:15 p.m.; Friday, Dynamic Flow Yoga all levels from 10-11:15 a.m.; Saturday, All Levels Flow Yoga from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; and Sunday, Community Flow Yoga from 5-6 p.m. Located at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton Street. Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-6653, email kelley@savannahyoga. com or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

Tai Chi Classes

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

Water aerobics at the JEA

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

Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

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by Rob Brezsny Gemini? Here’s what I suggest: FILL ‘ER UP! (P.S. The gas tank of the flying car you sometimes take for a spin in your dreams is also on empty.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Pay close attention to how your immediate past impacts the present. Just as the food you ate in the previous two days plays a large role in determining your physical energy today, your current mood has been shaped by the psychic environment you’ve been creating for yourself recently. Here’s the really cool thing: You always have a choice. You can decide to fuel yourself with unhealthy food, mediocre fantasies, and petty emotions, or you can scrupulously insist on highclass, first-rate stuff that will make you feel good.

in Wales in 1917. Two English cartographers arrive in a small town to evaluate whether the local peak is really high enough to be officially defined as a mountain. To the villagers’ consternation, their beloved landmark is found to be less than the regulation 1,000 feet--a mere hill--and that prompts them to take action. With painstaking determination, they haul buckets of dirt from their gardens all the way to the top, hoping to raise it high enough to exceed the standard. This scenario is comparable to a challenge I hope you’ll take on, Libra.

Please do whatever’s necessary to ensure your hill is actually a mountain.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You were standing in the

Kirn explores the tension between security and passion.

We all yearn to feel safe, he says, and yet we also need to express our native wildness, which is crucial in giving us a visceral sense of being ourselves. If we put too much emphasis on being careful, we squelch our primal urge for unpredictability and lose touch with our need to play. According to my analysis of the omens, Leo, you’re at the end of a phase when caution and self-preservation have made sense. Don’t wait too much longer before you put your ass on the line in search of too much fun.

doorway with your crooked smile as big and wild as the morning light. I was spellbound-- lost all memory of who I’d been before that moment. You were as shockingly real as the perfect giant spider web stretched across my front porch when I left my house today. Did I hallucinate what you said as you murmured into your cell phone? Or did you really say, “I’m looking for someone who’ll teach me how to live forever as we make love with exploding hearts”? That was too sweet and fierce to bear. So here’s my loving complaint, which is also my bragging promise: I want you so much I want to be you. I adore you with such painful lucidity that I think I could learn how to find you in every bird’s cry, every cloud’s flow, every changing face.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Delaware Gap National

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A storm has been stirring

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book *Thumbsucker,* Walter

Recreation Area in Pennsylvania has an outhouse that cost $333,000 to build. It’s a two-hole beauty with a roof constructed from slate mined in Vermont, porch railings built out of Indiana limestone, and an indestructible cobblestone foundation. This is your symbol of power for the coming week, Virgo. May it inspire you to devote elegant, sumptuous attention to one of your most basic needs.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The film *The Englishman Who Went Up The Hill But Came Down A Mountain* is set

up your inner world. Tune into it now. Feel its blustering squall. Bow down to its pummeling howl. Let your awe and amazement rise as you contemplate how much power it has had to disturb you. Feel gratitude for all the ways it has forced you to become tougher and cagier.

Now imagine that the storm is beginning to dissipate.

Sense it slowly but surely losing its force, spending its last fury. Soon it will have evolved into a misty drizzle.

Tomorrow morning, I bet you will awaken filled with the relaxed clarity that comes after having great sex.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It was so much easier when I was cruel,” mourns Elvis Costello in his song “When I Was Cruel.” Writing about the aching protectiveness she feels toward her precious son Sam in her book *Operating Instructions,* Anne Lamott expresses a related gripe: “I feel that he has completely ruined my life, because I just didn’t used to care all that much.” A similar predicament may soon visit you, Capricorn. Thanks to several close encounters with other people’s pain, you may swell up with compassion and empathy. Will you get soft and weak like Costello and Lamott? According to my reading of the omens, you won’t. On the contrary, I think you’ll become stronger and smarter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Goose bumps and burning

sensations coursed through me as I meditated on your upcoming adventures. From what I can tell, your rambles will be both spooky and fulfilling. They’ll knock you on your ass and lift your spirits, sometimes at the same time. They’ll give you almost more blessings than you can handle, even as they invite you to take on responsibilities that will give you the chance to be a hero. Are you ready to have your certainties challenged in the most useful ways possible?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A cat doesn’t usually catch

a mouse on its first pounce. On average, the kill takes three pounces. I hope this fun fact inspires you to avoid the temptation to prematurely retire from your hunt. It’s true that the treasure you’re pursuing has eluded you beyond the time you thought you would have gotten it.

It’s also true that the frustration you’re feeling threatens to dilute the intense concentration you need to complete the quest. But now that you’ve read my exhortation, maybe you’ll see that you’re closer to capturing the prize than you realize; maybe you’ll marshal your energy and prime yourself to pounce as many more times as it’ll take. w

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5:45-7 p.m.; Integral Yoga on Wednesdays from 5:45-7 p.m.; Hot Yoga on Fridays from 5:45-7 p.m., Amrit Yoga on Saturdays from 10-11:15 a.m. All classes are $12 for walk-ins, $70 for unlimited monthly classes or $105 for a 10-class punch card.

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

Food and Beverage

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

Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

Yoga For Round Bodies

The Yoga Room

Monday Level I and II 6:30-8 p.m., Mommy and Me Yoga 4-5 p.m. Tuesday Level II and III from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday Level Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 10-11:30 a.m. and Level Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;and IIâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday Power Yoga from 6:307:30 p.m. Friday Level Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;from 6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday Power Yoga from 9-10 a.m. Sunday Vinyasa from 10:30 to noon and Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. Private sessions are available. Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom. com or call 898-0361.

Yogalates Classes

are offered by St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Center for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions. Call 819-6463.

Gourmet Sunday Brunch

will be offered at the Red Door on Johnny Mercer Boulevard on Wilmington Island.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday through Saturday from 6-11 p.m. Call 897-4489 for reservations.

Gay & Lesbian

First City Network Board Meeting First City Network Community Center and Library

The FCN Community Center & Library is open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visitors are welcome to check out gay/lesbian books and obtain information on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gay Savannahâ&#x20AC;? businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

First City Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workforce project offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

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

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

Savannah Pride, Inc.

will hold an election meeting on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in the FCN office building, 307 E. Harris St, second floor. Anyone who

is interested in joining the Savannah Pride board of directors should come to this meeting before 8 p.m. to be nominated for a position. For info, call Patrick Mobley at 224-3238.

Abercorn St. Screenings, flu shots and more will be available. Call 1-800-669-8387 or 355-8111.

Community HealthCare Center

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

Standout

is First Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gay youth support group.

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

Call 657-1966.

What Makes A Family

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

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Be Stress Free

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

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

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

Breast Cancer Awareness Holiday Tree will be lighted on Nov. 16 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Wine and cheese will be served. RSVP to Ginger Benton at 819-7008.

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Dual Recovery Anonymous

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

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

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

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

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

Flu Vaccine

This monthly cancer survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; walk is free and open to all survivors and their loved ones. Call DeDe Cargill at 398-6654.

Case Management Program

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler will offer flu vaccine to the general public, 18 years of age or older, on Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital.

The cost is $25 cash or checks - no credit or check cards will be accepted. Medicare assignment will be accepted. Call 355-8456.

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is the title of a seminar that will be held Nov. 16 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the African-Amercan Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn. Call 447-6605.

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

Connect, discuss, meditate and share energy with live-minded individuals in this free, inspirational circle of healing at the Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St. Call 236-2131.

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc.

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

Community Health and Education Fair

will be held Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings are conducted at three locations within St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center.

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

Free skin cancer screening

will be offered Nov. 18 at the Southside YMCA from 9:30 a.m. to noon. To register, call 8193368.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session

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

Georgia Cares Medicare Part D Assistance

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

Got a drug problem? Need help?

Great American Smokeout

St. Joseph’s/Candler and the Pulmonary Center of Care will sponsor activities on Thursday, Nov. 16 to help employees and the public stop smoking. Educators will be at the cafeteria of Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St., and St. Joseph’s Hopsital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

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

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

Lose Weight

like Mark Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. The Alpha Institute, 927-3432.

Mammograms

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

Mammograms will be performed Nov. 16 at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Pembroke. For an appointment, call 6532897.

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

Memorial Health CPR training

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

Memorial Health group meditation sessions

are offered free to the public every Tuesday from 5:30-6 p.m. on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine.

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

Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture

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

Memorial Health SET Focus Group

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

The Midwife Group of Coastal Georgia

will hold a free tour and information at the Family Health and Birth Center, 119 Chimney Rd., Rincon on Nov. 19 from 2-3 p.m. and 4-5 p.m. The Midwife Group offers a free program to women at any stage of pregnancy that includes free information on pregnancy, birth and parenting, an opportunity to talk to other pregnant women and information on a certified nurse midwifeassisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital. Call 826-4155 or send e-mail to birthcenter@alltel.net.

Natural Family Planning Class

will be offered by the Savannah Catholic Diocese on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $75 per couple for materials, an introductory class and several followup classes. To register, call 819-3368.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

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

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

The Quit Line

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

Stop Smoking

Researchers at the University of Iowa combined 600 studies covering 72,000 people and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. Call the Alpha Institute. 927-3432.

Super 2 Access Clinic

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

Update on Lung Cancer

Surgeon Robert E. Jones will present this presentation on Nov. 16 from noon to 1 p.m. in University Hall, Room 156, at AASU as part of the Great American Smokeout.

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Across

1 “Saturn Devouring His Son” painter 5 Only character who appeared in every episode of “Star Trek” 10 13th or 15th 14 Fixated on neatness, say 15 Kama ___ 16 Slight taste 17 Step #1 of cool trick 19 Pot foundation 20 Computer addresses, for short 21 Old intoxicating elixirs 23 Big brother of the SAT 24 Beginning of Step #2 of trick 28 “It’s ___-brainer” 29 AFL’s labor partner 30 “Now I remember!”

31 ___ Bora (Afghan mountain area) 33 Early gangsta rap collective...

35 ...and the Dr. in the group 36 Middle of Step #2 42 How-___ (guides) 43 DiFranco with the 2005 album “Knuckle Down” 44 Marty Feldman, in “Young Frankenstein” 45 Oak starter 48 Hummus, for one 50 Miracle ___ 51 End of Step #2 56 Regret 57 Poe’s middle name 58 Nugget content, in Nicaragua 59 Magazine with an annual Style Awards 61 Step #3 of trick 65 Half a kids’ game 66 “What did ___ do to you?”

67 Cat weapon 68 Head of the Seine?

69 Gothamites, in headlines 70 In ___ (at heart)

Down

1 Gangster’s sidearm 2 Get ___ roll 3 Japanese dish on skewers 4 Beth preceder 5 Leaky tire sound 6 Disses 7 Others, in Oaxaca 8 PMS problem 9 Electric piano brand 10 James on guitar 11 Boat to a boat 12 It gets the largest compartment in a TV dinner 13 Noble horses 18 “Hey, wait ___!”

22 Make some noise in bed 24 Bulb unit 25 “___ pronounce you...”

26 Sixty-___ (engages in a sex act) 27 Will’s Spartan Cheerleaders skit partner 32 ___Zeneca (pharmaceutical group) 34 Org. mentioned on toothpaste boxes 35 508, to Ovid 37 Toy dump truck maker 38 Command given to one of Santa’s reindeer 39 Appetizers with chow yuk 40 NPR newscaster Raum 41 Plummet 45 Like lowered heart rates 46 Grand ___ Dam 47 Folded dish 49 “No ___!”

52 Like Keebler’s cookie makers 53 Scary road at night 54 Artless 55 Cessation of hostilities 60 Barely make do, with “out” 62 ___-ONE (rapper who guested on R.E.M.’s “Radio Song”) 63 Word after mustard or natural 64 Ram’s ma’am

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

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5371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross.org.

Nature & Enviro

Adopt A Wetland Chemical Workshop The University of Georgia Marine Extension Service will present a hands-on education program to promote wetland conservation through volunteer monitoring. It will be held Nov. 21 from 5-7 p.m. at the Shellfish Lab on Skidaway Island. To register, call Ellie Covington at 598-2348 or e-mail ellieluv@uga.edu.

Buy Dry Land

The Georgia Water Coalition and Georgia Watch will team up to educate consumers and elected officals about the dangers of flooding through a campaign that will kick off Saturday, Nov. 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Georgia Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens. Lunch will be provided. Call 9215460.

Center for a Sustainable Coast

will host Dr. Peter Verity, who will present Human Impacts on Water Quality, Food Webs & Implications for the Future of Georgia’s Estuaries on Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens. Call 638-3612.

Dolphin Project of Georgia

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

TheDolphinProject.org.

Fall Canoe Excursions

on the Altamaha River will be held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 18 and 19 at Fort King George Historic Site. The overnight trip is $50 per person. Call 912-437-4770.

Ogeechee Audubon

Members and friends will meet Sunday, Nov. 19 at 8:30 a.m. at the Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive entrance to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge to observe ducks and more.

Call Tim Miller at 748-5449.

events, sea turtle monitoring, outreach programs, gift shop and office duties. Call 7865917 or visit www.tbeemsc.org.

Pets & Animals St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 6 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Time changes with season. Call for time change. Call 234-3336.

Santa’s Little Orphans’ Tree

Through Dec. 29, Coastal Pet Rescue will join paws with the Helen Woodward Animal Center, the Iams Co. and more than 2,100 pet adoption cetners to raise awareness of

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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

Volunteers needed for Tybee Marine Center

Tybee Marine Science Center is looking for volunteers interested in supporting educational programs. Help is needed with touch tank presentations, animal care, special

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

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

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Take a walk on the wild side

at the Oatland Island Education Center.

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

All purebred dog owners are invited to participate. There will be classes for puppies and adult dogs, as well as Rally and Obedience participants. There also will be classes for junior handlers -- children 8 and older who are learning how to exhibit their dogs at dog shows. Free and open to the public. Call 238-3170.

the joys of owning shelter-adopted pets.

Local businesses will host Christmas trees with ornaments of pets for adoption along with a wish list of items they want. Pick up an ornament, go shopping and return the ornament and gifts or monetary donations back to the business. Adopt a pet during the two-month campaign and receive a free pet portrait and other giveaways. Call 351-4151 or www.coastalpetrescue.org.

Savannah Kennel Club

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

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

Savannah Kennel Club Sanctioned Match

As part of the preparation for its bit dog show, the kennel club will hold this event.

Pets

A new website has been launched to help people reclaim lost pets. It is located at www. thepetrescue.com.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

The Garden Guide of the Lower South

The release of the third edition of this guide, put together by the Trustees Garden Club of Savannah, is available in stores or it can be ordered by mail for $24.50. Checks should be made payable to Trustees Garden Club and mailed to Box 24215, Savannah, 314054215. Include your complete name and

address with your order. All procedds go to the club’s beautification and restoration projects.

Tea time at Ola’s

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

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline

The Service of Compline, ”Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ Church Savannah (Episcopal), located on Johnson Square. The choir, made up of singers from churches around the city, sings in the darkened nave of Christ Church by candlelight. Compline, the last of the monastic prayer services before retiring, is a service in which one is invited to meditate and reflect on the day or week past and then enter into the little death of sleep to rise with hope and thanksgiving for the days ahead.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

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

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.

Free Spiritual Classes

Through Nov. 19, Revelation: The Road to Overcoming will be presented Sunday mornings from 9:45-10:45 a.m. Both classes will be presented in the Fellowship Hall at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Meditation Group

Go within, access intuition and inner peace.

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

Nicodemus by Night

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

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

Would Jesus’ teaching require anything less today?

Peace and Reconciliation Projects

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers) will present Mike Boehm who will show slides and discuss current peace and reconciliation projects in Vietnam, especially My Lai, on Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 225 W. President St. on Telfair Square. Free and open to the public. Call 341-0696.

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Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group

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

Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caregiverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group

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

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

Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 4297265 for sitting instruction.

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA)

Unity of Savannah

A church of unconditional love and acceptance. Sunday service is at 11 a.m. Youth church and childcare also are at 11 a.m.

2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study

at the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

Sports & Games Savannah Area Tennis

will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a highenergy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at 961-9862 or 507-9862 or send email to ctcsavannahga@prodigy.net.

Savannah Disc Golf Club

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

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

Savannah Shamrock Rugby Club

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

Support Groups

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

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

Al Anon Family Groups

Wildwood United Methodist â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Church

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

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invites you to its morning worship at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday followed by Sunday morning worship fellowship at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 10:45 a.m. Wildwood

The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected

by Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease or other dementiacausing illnesses and meets the first Monday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111 of the Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway.

Visit www.alzga.org or call 920-2231.

Amputee Support Group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Backus Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Support Group for Parents

who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity Meets once a week. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Backus Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Support Group for Parents of Children with Bleeding Disorders

meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Health. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group

for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

Better Breathers support group

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Tina Nelson at 819-7340 or Cindy Balkstra at 819-8032.

Bipolar Support Group

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

Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline

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

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

Cancer support group

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

Caring for Us

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

Celiac Support Group

for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 5072592.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

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

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

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

Compassionate Friends Support Group

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195.

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

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

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Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church On Nov. 19, the service will be Giving Thanks. Services begin Sunday at 10 a.m. at 707 Harmon St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. UUBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious education curriculum for ages 4-15 is Creating Our Peaceable Kingdom. For information, call 233-6284 or e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

Affirming the worth and dignity of each person.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Nov. 19, the Rev. Susan Lamb will speak from the topic, Toto, Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Back in Kansas Again. The service will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. in the Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 2340980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast. net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

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10 West 40th Street Beautifully renovated 2 BR, 1BA lower half of duplex in the Starland District. Features include formal LR, with a large front porch, formal DR, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, bathroom and kitchen with ceramic tile floors, separate laundry room and private courtyard. C H/A, total electric and paid security system. Pet-friendly. AVAILABLE DECEMBER 15, 2006. $935/mo.

320 East Victory Drive Over 2,000 sq. ft. of spacious living, 3 BR, 2 Bath apartment with fireplace in formal LR room, formal DR, a sun room that can be used as an office, studio or 4th BR, large kitchen with stove & refrigerator, breakfast nook w/butler’s pantry, central H/A, W/D connections, shared courtyard and parking in the rear, Pet-friendly. $1,100/mo.

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104 BINNACLE is a contemporary ranch in Battery Point. It is in perfect move-in condition with a large screenedin porch in the back. Very private and has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, cathedral ceilings, beautiful fireplace in living room. Call for a private appointment! $173,500.

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1132 East Anderson St. Large home on a double lot, with most of the outside work complete.

Inside needs TLC, but many of the original features, and fireplaces are in tact. Price to sell at 199900. As owner completes more of the work, price will go up! Call Rhondda for private showing at Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800 1947 MIDTOWN CHARM $135,000. 3BR/1BA, double carport, hardwoods, park and tennis. Move-in ready, open floorplan. GREAT NEIGHBORS! 100% Financing available. Seller will pay 3% closing. Call 912-897-9001 or 856-7050.

501 EAST CHARLTON Carriage house with 3 fireplaces, laundry room with washer/dryer, totally restored with heart pine floors, high ceilings and rents for $1350/month! Great investment or home. $169,900. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

529 E. GWINNETT ST. Historic District and reduced to $156,900/each! Large one bedroom cottages with fantastic bathroom, porch and granite counters in the kitchen, bath overlook the pool, which is part of the condo association. Dues are $100 a month! relax by the pool at your new home, or rent as a vacation rental. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty, 912-507-9800.

616 & 618 PRICE STREET Newly constructed 2 story 1890’s townhomes.

3BD, 2 1/2 BA, eat-in kitchen w/granite c-tops, new appliances & laundry areas. New bath & lighting fixtures, gas fireplaces, hardwood floors through out.

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8 SILVER AVE: Tybee Island Totally furnished condo with 2 bedrooms/2 baths, and less than 1/2 block to the ocean. Walk to the pier, back river, and stores, restaurants. Queen, king and 2 sleeper sofas, plus large porch. $365,000. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty, 912-507-9800.

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234-4406 This immaculate brick home in a great neighborhood close to everything features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room/dining room combo, Galley kitchen w/breakfast area, all kitchen appliances remain. den with fireplace, patio, shed, privacy fenced yard, sprinkler system with shallow well.

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Serene Marsh view in quiet community. Brilliantly updated one level living. 3-bedroom/2-bath, 1330 sq.ft. w/open floor plan, new roof, new deck and more.

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NEWLY RENOVATED Affordable Bungalow, Downtown Savannah! Beautifully done! This is 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Features include: Original hardwood floors; Stainless steel appliances; Stackable washer and dr yer; Track lighting; Vaulted ceiling; Custom cabinets; Corian countertops; Tiled bathroom; Jacuzzi tub; Electrical system; Plumbing; HVAC; Storage; Deck; Fenced rear yard; Off-street parking and More!!! There’s not many homes with a large fenced yard Downtown! Must see! Please call for an appointment! 912-495-9211.

PARKSIDE CHARMER: Fu l l y renovated single family home.

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3rd bedroom can easily be used as a large family room. A large workshop in rear with electric and plumbing. Could be converted to studio or rental unit. Newly refinished hardwood flooring and new ceramic tile in kitchen.

Fireplace in livingroom. Offstreet parking. 1305 East 52nd Street. Call for appt. 355-3356 or 912-484-7511.

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

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402½ EaST 40Th STREET 2 BR w/bonus room, 1 BA, living room, furnished kitchen with gas stove. Available mid-December. $600/mo.

622 WEST vicTORY dRivE 3 BR, 2 BA home, living room, dining room, heart pine floors, eat-in kitchen, gas stove, electric water heater, stack washer/dryer, fenced backyard, 2 off-street parking spaces. $1,200/mo.

107 WEST libERTY STREET #6 1 BR, 1 BA apartment, fresh paint, living room, wood floors, kitchen, great location. $700/mo.

705 WhiTaKER apaRTmEnT g Studio apartment off Forsyth Park, kitchen, 1 BA, CHA, great location.

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WATERFRONT condo on Southside Savannah overlooks lovely wooded marshes and deep water. Sit on your back deck for views of the River and community dock. Security gate, community pool, and fitness center, all within walking distance from your second floor paradise.

All windows offer breathtaking views of nature's coastal beauty. Last 3 BR waterfront left in this complex. Don't miss it at 210,000. H-4617 $210,000.

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

1011 jEffERSOn STREET 2 BR, 2 BA, fireplace, living room, kitchen with dining room. W/D, 1 off-street parking space. $875/mo.

401 nORTh cROmWEll #R8 2 BR, 2 BA condo, located in the Commons, living room, Furnished kitchen, Screened porch, community pool. $875/mo.

306 WEST paRK avEnuE lOWER apaRTmEnT 2 BR, 1 BA, living room/dining room combo, W/D, CHA, high ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace. Available mid November. $900/mo.

Looking for a perfect little key west cottage? Ready for renovations and bright colors. Easy walk to the beach. Front faces natural marsh and large back entertainment deck. Outdoor shed houses the sand toys! Seller is a Licensed Real Estate Agent in the State of Georgia – Lic. # AC127150. H-4543; Reduced to $327,000.

548 EaST mcdOnOugh STREET Parlor apartment. 2 BR, 2-1/2 BA townhome, 1 off-street parking space, living room, dining room, kitchen with dishwasher, wet bar off kitchen, W/D, CHA. Available January. $1,100/mo.

614 EaST duffY STREET 2 BR, 2 BA apt. Living room, kitchen, CHA. $875/mo.

219 EaST 49Th STREET 2 BR, 1 BA home, living room, dining room, Sunroom, Yard. $1,100/mo.

Enjoy a peaceful afternoon on the wraparound porch of this beautiful country lot. This 3 bedroom 2 bath is over 1300 square feet, with over 3/4 of an acre surrounded by many mature trees.

This home includes new paint, new flooring, a new metal roof, and new HVAC. Call LaTrelle Pevey at 658-7777 and come enjoy it yourself today! H-4627 $89,900

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405 EaST 61ST STREET 2 BR, 1 BA house. living room, dining room, kitchen wth appliances, sunroom, central heat and air, backyard with deck and storage shed.

Available mid-December. $800/mo.

813 EaST 37Th STREET (lOWER) 1 BR, 1 BA with claw tub, kitchen with electiric stove, living room, stacked washer dryer, shared yard.

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3 East 65th Street Large 2 BR, 1 BA apartment with a separate dining room, hardwood floors, central H/A, total electric, W/D connections and off street parking. Close to Montgomery Hall and Habersham Village.

Pet-friendly. $650/mo.

53 East 66th Street Very spacious 2BR, 2BA apartment, den w/fireplace, eat-in kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher, W/D connections, hardwood floors, central H/A, plenty of storage space, ADT Security System ready, small shared backyard and off-street parking. Pet-friendly. AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2006 $975/mo.

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898-1600 RENTALS 740 Washington Ave. 3BR/2B duplex. Large rooms. Lots of storage. Washer/dryer included. Offstreet parking. $1,150 mo.No pets.

2 Cornus Dr. Small house in Isle of Hope. 2 BR/1B. Living/dining room. Kitchen & den. Washer/dryer connections.

Carport. $950 mo. includes lawn maintenance.

2814 2nd (Thunderbolt) 3BR/ 1B. 1 blk to water. Garage.

Fenced. $1,150 mo.

3208 Robertson. (Thunderbolt) NEW home 1 block from waterfront. 3BR/2.5B. Huge kitchen. Large master suite. 2 covered porches. $1,550. mo 633 E. 46th Street (Ardsley Park 46th & Harmon) Huge 2 BR/2B duplex. Living room with fireplace. Sunroom. Large dining room. Breakdfast room.

New kitchen appliances. Pets negotiable. $1,100 mo.

620 E. 53rd Street (Ardsley Park 53rd & Harmon) 4 plex.

2BR/1B. Living room. Separate dining area. Offstreet parking. $775 mo. No dogs.

THE ST. LAWRENCE Jazz Era Condos in heart of the Victorian District. Spacious 3bedroom, 1450 sq.ft. beautifully updated w/new kitchens, stainless appliances & new decking; preserving their historic appeal w/fantastic original details. Huge porches add gracious outdoor living space! 304/306 East Waldburg. From $275,000. Jessica Kell y, M o p p e r- St a p e n R e a l to r s 912-441-9101.

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Don’t Stress! We buy “as is”!

(No bank inspections needed) Quick, Fair Offers. Fast Closings. Avoid Foreclosure.

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912-429-9600 (We are not Realtors) LOTS ON EAST GWINNETT from $125,000 - $150,000! Build a duplex or several cottages and share the pool! Call Rhondda for details, 912-507-9800.

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RESTAURANT FOR SALE Southside Asian Restaurant in a busy shopping center. Good for investment or owner operator. Selling price below listed inventory. Be your own boss. $65,000. Tom Colasanto, 912-272-6557.

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

Call 912-429-9600.

25 EAST 34th STREET: Totally restored large Victorian home with porches, decks and loads of fireplaces. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and huge rooms! $1690/month. Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

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319 EAST HUNTINGDON LANEfurnished and all utilities included! Month to month lease for $1500/month. Parking space included, cable T V, and all you need are your clothes. Walk to stores, restaurants, Forsyth Park!

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

SALES Short walk to waterfront.

3208 Robertson. New home in Thunderbolt (Robertson & Falligant) 1 block to waterfront (Intracoastal Waterway) 3BR/2 ½ B. Huge kitchen.

Sep. dining. Nice master suite.

Bamboo floors. Ceramic tile.

Covered porches. Listed below appraised value at $289,900.

WARRANTY! Seller will pay 3 months mortgage, if closed

by December 1st!

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9 17TH PLACE- Tybee Island, 1/2 block to ocean, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, all utilities included, furnished and cute as a button.

Walk to stores, back river, etc.

Rents off season for $600/week, $1350/month. In season rents for $925/week . Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912-507-9800.

BRAND NEW HOME, available now! 2 bedrooms, single family detached, central heat/air, dishwasher, fenced yard, pets OK w/additional deposit.

Southside location, 101 Mendel at Whitfield. $850/month.

Security deposit & credit check required. 912-844-4693.

CARRIAGE HOUSE Apartments, Ardsley Park Area. $725. Month, utilities included. Call 441-1999 or 692-0570 CARRIAGE HOUSE Apartments, Ardsley Park Area. $650. Month, utilities included. Call 441-1999 or 692-0570 Close to GSU 3BR/2bath, large backyard, laundry room, appliances, carport, storage house. $900/month.

912-481-0565

Quiet Neighborhood 3BR/2Bath, appliances, laundry room, deck, backyard. $825/month plus deposit.

912-481-0565

GREENBRIAR TRAIL

114 Greenbriar Trail. 3bd/2ba.

Swimming pool, single family $950/month. Call 618-0603 or 489-2831 ask for Mike.

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

Call 912-429-9600.

Scottonian Inc. is new manage875 ment company ready to take care of your rental needs. We manage residential and commercial property, and have many tenants waiting! Call Rhondda at Rent to own mobile home 912 507-9800 - a licensed realtor $3000. down $600. hundred a in the State of Georgia, or call month Call 912-323-3110 Gina at 912 657-0796.

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Townhomes/Condos for Rent

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

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

STONELAKE TOWNHOME 3BR/2BA, combo living/dining room, upgraded kitchen/appliances, laundry room, private patio overlooking green space. $995. Call 912-351-0993.

HOME FOR RENT in Batter y Pointe on Whitemarsh Island. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, $925/monthl y . C a l l 9 1 2 - 5 9 6 - 8 5 8 5 o r WILMINGTON ISLAND Condo 238-1120. for Rent: In gated community. 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, screened porch, all amenities. $850/month. Call 912-272-0874.

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Room for Rent

LARGE VICTORIAN near library.

Walk-in closet, fireplace, mini kitchen, phone, cable, internet, w/d utilities, nicely furnished. $140/wk, $504/mo. Seven days.

Call 912-231-9464.

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1994 GMC SUBURBAN: Custom paint (burgundy & grey), Heat, A/C, leather seats, 3rd row seat, wood grain, keyless entry, custom wheels, tinted windows. Engine & transmission well main319 East Waldburg St.- Great lo- t a i n e d , $ 4 , 0 0 0 . C a l l cation near Forsyth Park, SCAD, 912-507-2461. & Kroger. Newly renovated duplex, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, LR, Large kitchen, washer/dr yer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, 2 F/P, Large back Porch, courtyard, and Offstreet parking.

Looking for a fresh and effective $1275.00 Contact: way to attract holiday shoppers 912-220-1020, fvenetico@hotto your business? The 2006 mail.com 2212 WHITAKER STREET 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, washer/dryer, dishwasher, central heat/air, porches. Ver y nice $950/month. Call 912-667-2928.

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ARDSLEY PARK AREA One large bedroom apartment with separate kitchen, hardwood floors & carport. Quiet neighborhood. No pets. $590.

770-309-8171.

10 Lake Dr. Custom built 4BR/ 3B on large spring fed lake on Talahi Island (Quarterman dr of HYWY 80 E). Separate living & dining . Den. Large eat –in kitchen. Covered porch.

Listed at $399,900. OWNER WILL CONSIDER FINANCING 1/2!

912-898-1600 or 912-508-2001 jblynes@comcast.net

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2814 2nd. Renovated 3BR bungalow in Thunderbolt (1 block off Victory Dr) . Completely fenced. Carport & garage. 1 blk to waterfront. $175,000. WARRANTY!

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F U R N I S H E D A PA R T M E N T w/utilities. Lincoln Street carriage house with hardwood/tile floors throughout. Complete kitchen w/nook. Off-street parking. $845/month, $235/week, $250/deposit. Call 912-231-9464.

HISTORIC DISTRICT: Corner of Jones & Jefferson St. Upscale neighborhood. Bright and clean.

2 bedrooms. Full kitchen, washe r / d r y e r, c e n t r a l h e a t / a i r.

Available now. $1,100/month.

No pets or smoking. Contact Jeff @ 912-236-2458 or jrkenney@hotmail.com.

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Lincoln Park Condos 224-228 East Park Avenue. 8 new condos locaton the NW corner Lincoln and Park.

2 ed Parkersburg Court – Isle of of Hope Full appliance packages, Great brick home on hugerefinished corner lot.wood Less floors, than video systems, off-street one milesurveillance to beautiful security Bluff Drive and Marina. and much more. starting at 3 parking, bed/2 bath with Mexican tilePrices and hardwoods. $129,900. Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 Handpainted kitchen floor, brick patio and many/ Nick Bentz / Chris updates.

New 843-368-0265 updates! $283,000 withSmyth $1,000912704-3800. design allowance. Call Linda Bray 912.507.8500.

8 West 37th Street, Unit A Habersham Manor 201 W. Broughton St., #204 Award-winning condo in renovated bldg on 1701-1707 Habersham Street. Four new condos in Ultra-luxurious loft in The J.D.Weed Building.

314 East 58th Street 418 East 62 nd Street 311 Columbus Drive feet, this 2 bed / 2 the corner of 37th & Whitaker.

This large a gorgeous, renovated Victorian building . Large over 1500 square This Ardsley Park bungalow has just recently been reno- WithCharming Priced sell! Investment property with 2 Bedroom 1 Bath bathrooms, Bungalow condo has 4 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms, heartfronttoporches, private courtyards, upscale kitchbath loft offers state-of-the-art with new bamboo and limestone floors throughout. two houses, corner lot, detached garage,systems,vated in Midtown.

Oakwith hardwood floors, branda of-pine floors, blt-in closets, fully-equipped ens, refinished wood floors, security offa gourmet kitchen granite counters, Home has 3 bedrooms / 2 baths with limestone shower and more. $210,000.

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GilesPricing 912- starting new bathroom, beechwood kitchen floors, cabikitchen, laundry room, large front porch, street parking and much at sound system, refinished heart-of-pine in master, all new appliances, updated kitchen, pool with 220-1667 / Alexander netry.

Just oneand block from Habersham gated off-street parking, security system, $290,000.

Alexander Grikitis Grikitis 912-220912-220-1700 / Nick exposed brick walls, top of the line fixtures all new pumps and filters, and much more. Must see to 1700 Shopping Village shops loft andisRestaurants. and much more. Approx. 1717 sq ft. Priced Bentz 843-368-0265 / Chris Smyth 912-704-3800.

This incredible a must see! believe! Priced to sell below appraised value. Owner throughout.

1132 Roy sq. feet. $220,000.

Call Catherine at $400,000. Roy Hill 912-844-4000 / Nick $624,900.

Hill 912-844-4000/John Giles is licensed real estate agent in GA. $248,000 Alexander Harrison for more details.

912-856-5582.

Bentz 843-368-0265 912-220-1667.

Grikitis 912-220-1700 / John Giles 912-220-1667.

Henry Place Condominums 654-656 East Henry Street, a new condo 317 West Street conversion.Waldburg Four 2 bed / 1 bathroom condos Gorgeous Victorian homeStreet. with many on beautiful East Henry Largebeautifront ful upgrades.

Just 3 blocks from Forsyth Park porches, off-street parking, updated kitchens .

1,926 sq.ft.

Home features 4 bedrooms /2 and baths, hardwood/tile/carpet floors, launbaths, Italianand marble tilesquare flooring,feet neweach. extedry rooms, overand 1200 rior paint, 10’ ceilings, throughPricing starting at Victorian $199,900.details Alexander out, and much more. $350,000 Catherine Grikitis 912-220-1700 / Nick Call Bentz 843Harrison for details at 912-856-5582.

368-0265 / John Giles 912-220-1667.

216 West Park Condos ~ www.216west.com new condos 817Five Abercorn Street in a gorgeously renovated historic Bloomquist building on Park Avenue. Completely Fabulous construction feaupdated kitchens stainless fixtures, turing Christina Sharfwith Interior Design. stainless appliances, Shaker-style cabinets, Magnificent features include Honduran baths with marble granite countertops & pine, white cultured marble, large terrace, marble and floors.

Hardwood floorsHave throughout. courtyard, much, much more. to – 2035 $695,000 square feet. starting at see1500 to believe!

CallPricing for details. $325,000.Grikitis Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 / Alexander 912-220-1700 / John John Giles 912-220-1667.

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Jefferson Row 302 Street Lorch Street, Unit 203. Two-year 3311 Bull old condo justduplex blks from Forsyth Remarkable Ardsley located on Park. floor condo with cornerSecond lot. 1678 sq.ft.spacious with 3 bedrooms/2 livinginclude area, hardwoods, baths. open Features new HVAC tile, and full appliance pkg, tiled bath, Corian® water heaters, hardwood floors, fenced yard, counters, separate storage and secure off-street parking, and more.

Includes lot parking.

Price $234,000.

1-yr next togated property.

Seller to at pay 2% of clospaid $350,000 HOA fees Alexander Roy Hill 912-844-4000 ing costs.

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Cash Cows. Fixer-Uppers. Rehabs.

321 W. 39th St. $169,000. Rehab.

Duplex. 3700 sq ft

2302 Montgomery St. $124,900.

Rehab. Commercial or Residential.

508 Amaranth St. $115,000.

Commercial near SCAD Campus.

The Tondee Condominiums 1730 East 37th Street West York Lane#5. Beautiful condo in the Historic TondeeLoft!

Condominium.

1 bedroom/1 High Voltage Create your own utopia bath, fullyou appliance pkg, countertops, when purchase thisgranite fabulous raw space. tile bathroom, high ceilings, intercom access, Each unit will include 2 off-street parking separate storage room, and off-street parking. spaces and the rest of the finishes are up to Priced $175,000.

Roy Hill 912-844-4000. you. atCall for details.

Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 / John Giles 912-220-1667

Jefferson Commons 2 out of 6 newly renovated condos on the corner 216 West Park of Anderson andAvenue Jefferson Streets. 1402 & 1410 State-of-the-art historic condominium Jefferson Street. These gorgeous condos community. have spiThree units with 2 and 3 bedroom floor ral staircases, fully-equipped kitchens spacious with granplans.

Conveniently located near all downtown ite counters, separate laundry rooms, 4 fireplaces, Savannah has toand offer.

Unitssystems. include Pricing stainlessstartapplidesigner lighting security package, John plasma granite countertops, ingance at $179,900.

GilesT.V., 912-220-1667 / Roy Hill and surveillance 912-844-4000. systems. Priced from $280,000 $300,000. Call Alexander Grikitis at 912-220-1700 or John Giles at 912-220-1667 for more details.

The Coastal Real Estate 315 E. Group, LibertyLLC Street 315 E. Liberty Savannah, GA Street 31401 Savannah, GA 31401

514 Amaranth St. $95,000. Great Income Park Place on Park Avenue Potential.

302 Place East Park Avenue, Unit B. One condo remains Bolton in Park on Park Avenue Row – A New Condominium Community thiscondos fabulously 1870s building. One 1208 E. new 37th construction St. $109,900.1Fixer-Upper.

Two outrestored, of four historic left. One Seven fabulous bedroom / 1 bed / one one bath bath condounits with located refinished gorMotivated Seller, bring all offers. bedroom/ in hardwoods, an bath condominiums.

827-1,045 sq.ft.

Many fine geous kitchen andclose bath,toand rear decks. to pay historic building Forsyth Park Seller , appointments and amenities, including off-street 1.5 years fees and $3000 towards closing costs. pricingpool. available.

SCAD andHOA shopping.

Recently renovated parking Wholesale and community Please go by to to $172,900.

Hill / John Contact Chris Smyth Call or Alex inReduced 2005. $174,000 each.Roy Call for912-844-4000 more see construction progress. forGrikitis, marketing Giles 912-220-1667.

(877)Priced 513-2264 details.

Roy Hill 912-844-4000 package toll and free, details. to sell from $240,000 - $310,000. Roy Hill 912-844-4000 / John Giles 912-220-1667

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Bolton Row – READY FOR MOVE-IN! 305 East Bolton Street. Only 3 condos Jefferson Commons remain! New two bedroom/one bath conBe the first to own one of these six -&2 beddos with off-street parking, pool, many room, 2 bath condos in the heart of & the$3000 upscale finishes. 1-yr paid HOA fees Historic District.

Conveniently located close to paid towards buyer’s closing costs. Located SCAD.toFeatures fireplaces, spiral stair case, close Forsyth4Park, SCAD & shopping. granite counter topsRoy andHill stainless steel appli$240,000-$310,000.

912-844-4000. ances. Gated, off street parking. $196,000 each John Giles 912.220.1667 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700.

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